Chamber's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1 |
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William Shakespeare . Shakespeare , the greatest poet and dramatist not merely of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras , but of any age or country , was born nearly six years after the accession of Queen Elizabeth .
William Shakespeare . Shakespeare , the greatest poet and dramatist not merely of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras , but of any age or country , was born nearly six years after the accession of Queen Elizabeth .
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“ Mr W. H. , ' whom Thorpe made the patron of the original edition of Shakespeare's sonnets in 1609 ... of ' Mr W. H. ' with the influential young man to whom many of the sonnets were anonymously addressed by Shakespeare .
“ Mr W. H. , ' whom Thorpe made the patron of the original edition of Shakespeare's sonnets in 1609 ... of ' Mr W. H. ' with the influential young man to whom many of the sonnets were anonymously addressed by Shakespeare .
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tified with Shakespearean parts , and for the last hundred years every actor or actress of ambition in Germany ... that in every quarter of the globe to which civilised life has penetrated Shakespeare's power is now recognised .
tified with Shakespearean parts , and for the last hundred years every actor or actress of ambition in Germany ... that in every quarter of the globe to which civilised life has penetrated Shakespeare's power is now recognised .
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| Title | Chamber's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1 Chamber's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, John Liddell Geddie |
| Author | Robert Chambers |
| Editor | David Patrick |
| Published | 1922 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 2 Sep 2010 |
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