Edward Walter Smithson
Published: 2015-07-06
Total Pages: 164
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Excerpt from Shakespeare Bacon, an Essay The biographical evidence concerning Shakespeare may be roughly divided into two - classes internal, and external or circumstantial. The latter class again may be divided into two sub-classes, one to embrace all evidence that seems either equivocal or positively misleading, the other to include such evidence only as tends to disclose the true author. To the former of these sub-classes belong title-pages, entries in the Stationers' Register and so forth. That these are not to be trusted will hardly be disputed by anyone who is aware of the spurious credentials of A Yorkshire Tragedy, for example, or The London Prodigal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.