Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Reading of Shakespeare
Almost every English-speaking man with liter ary tastes has had, at some time in his life, a bout with Shakespeare, since this dramatist represents the highest object of his literary curiosity, and it may also be affirmed that one who possesses any virility of mind is made stronger by the study of Shakespeare; our strenuous chief magistrate, it is said, is fond of Shakespeare, and reads him for refreshment while stretched before the fire in his Montana log cabin. The subject itself of Shake speare aids us in our reading by its very magni tude.
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