. Home school of American literature: . himselfsomewhat of the works ofearlier playwrights, and in hishistorical plays made large useof the chroniclers, from whom he took not merely the historical outlines, but pageafter page of their very words, only throwing into dramatic form the continuousnarrative of his authorities. Scene after scene in Macbeth is to be found inthe Chronicles of Holinshed, themselves a translation from the Latin of HectorBoece, which had been published only a few years ; and some of the most dramaticscenes in Richard III. are reproductions from The Union of the Two Noble
. Home school of American literature: . himselfsomewhat of the works ofearlier playwrights, and in hishistorical plays made large useof the chroniclers, from whom he took not merely the historical outlines, but pageafter page of their very words, only throwing into dramatic form the continuousnarrative of his authorities. Scene after scene in Macbeth is to be found inthe Chronicles of Holinshed, themselves a translation from the Latin of HectorBoece, which had been published only a few years ; and some of the most dramaticscenes in Richard III. are reproductions from The Union of the Two Nobleand Illustr Families of Lancastre and Yorke, by Edward Hall. The dates of the production of the dramas are mainly conjectural ; althoughit is pretty well setried that Pericles, Prince of Tyre, was one of the earliest,and The Tempest one of the latest; that Romeo and Juliet was an earlyplay and Cymbelinea late one. Twelve plays at least, and doubtless severalmore, had been produced before Shakespeare reached his thirty-fourth year. His. Fountain and Clock Tower Erected by Geo. W. Childs atStratford-on-Avon. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 553 greatest works are of later date. Hamlet was certainly produced as early as1604, and Macbeth previous to 1610. About a dozen of the plays of Shakespeare seem to have been printed duringhis lifetime, probably not by his procurement The entire plays were first putforth in a folio volume in 1623, seven years after his death. It has a preface anddedication by his fellow-players, Heminge and Condell, and was undoubtedlyprinted from the stage copies, which could hardly have failed to have been sanc-tioned by Shakespeare. Aside from his dramas, Shakespeare would rank with Spenser and Milton as animaginative poet. His one hundred and fifty-four sonnets, some of which wereprobably among his earliest productions, are sometimes imagined to express hisdeepest personal feelings, and to reveal, in great measure, the story of his life ; butas Shakespeare wrote to pl
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