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The book was produced at the moment when controversy with regard to the
internal evidence of composition in the writings attributed to
Shakespeare was raging high, and the amusing appendices were added at the
last moment that they might infuriate the pedants of the New Shakespeare
Society. They amply fulfilled that amiable purpose.
EDMUND GOSSE
September 1918
CONTENTS
A STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE
I. FIRST PERIOD: LYRIC AND FANTASTIC
II. SECOND PERIOD: COMIC AND HISTORIC
III. THIRD PERIOD: TRAGIC AND ROMANTIC
APPENDIX
I. NOTE ON THE HISTORICAL PLAY OF KING EDWARD III.
II. REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS ON THIS FIRST ANNIVERSARY SESSION OF THE
NEWEST SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY
III. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS


A STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE.

I.

The greatest poet of our age has drawn a parallel of elaborate eloquence
between Shakespeare and the sea; and the likeness holds good in many
points of less significance than those which have been set down by the
master-hand.


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