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SHAKESPEARE

AND

HIS BIRTH-PLACE:

CONTAINING

A BIOGRAPHY OF THE POET, AND A GUIDE TO STRATFORD-

UPON-AVON AND ITS VICINITY.

E MILITARY SERVICE INSTITUTION,

PRESENTED BY

THE

Triumph, my Britain! Thou hast one to show,
To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.
He was not of an age, but for all time.

BEN JONDOK


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NOT TO BE REMOVED FROM ROOMS,
OF THE GOED STATES.

:
T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW;

EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK.

MDCCCLIX.

SND
1859

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 561 466

:
ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.
R 1912

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER IV.

PUBLIC LIFE-TILL WELL KNOWN AS A DRAMATIST. 1586-1591.

Shakespeare goes to London-Shakespeare's boys-Probable foun-

dation of the story-He enters Blackfriars Theatre-Style of the

olden theatres-Greene's Groatsworth of Wit-Shakespeare a

Fac-totum-His dramas in relation to pre-existing materials-

Homer the last of a race of bards—Chettle's apology for Greene 41

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