Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7 . an about town. He belonged to nochurch, nor to any political party, and sustained no recorded relations with thescholars, soldiers, or statesmen of his time. The two volumes of poems, ? Venus and Adonis, and Lucrece, were pub-lished respectively in 1593 and 1594, and the Sonnets in 1609. The dramaswere acted between 1587 and 1612, and are grouped by critics in four periods ofintellectual growth and development. They are of unequal excellence. Som
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7 . an about town. He belonged to nochurch, nor to any political party, and sustained no recorded relations with thescholars, soldiers, or statesmen of his time. The two volumes of poems, ? Venus and Adonis, and Lucrece, were pub-lished respectively in 1593 and 1594, and the Sonnets in 1609. The dramaswere acted between 1587 and 1612, and are grouped by critics in four periods ofintellectual growth and development. They are of unequal excellence. Someare mere versions and adaptations. The plots and stories are generally of the worst are unspeakably bad, but the best, with their subtle and im-perious command of language, stately and splendid imagery, careless opulenceof incident, learning, and illustration, wit, wisdom, humor, and philosophy, in-sight into the complex abysses of human passion, familiarity with the secretmotives of human conduct, and profound meditation upon the most sombre prob-lems of human destiny, mark the highest elevation yet reached by the human CD z< UI UJUJ o <£.O LlJI-(/3UJ < hia:< < I to WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 47 No edition of the plays was collected during Shakespeares lifetime, noruntil seven years after his death. His heirs and executors made no claim tosupervision nor ownership. He took no apparent interest in them, nor corrected,nor revised them for publication. He left no indication by which the genuinecould be discerned from the spurious, and was apparently indifferent to literaryreputation. Unlike many of his great contemporaries in that luminous epoch,there was little of the Bohemian in Shakespeare. He attended strictly to busi-ness, and grew in prosperity as he increased in fame. Marlowe, Massinger, Ford,Decker, Middleton, Webster, and others of his associates led precarious and ir-regular lives as hack-writers for the stage, but Shakespeare
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