8228 5530 26595 FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Preface The following lectures are the result of occasional readings of Shakespeare extending through sixty years. The author is not at all a Shakespearean scholar. He has not given attention to discussions of the text nor taken much interest in special interpretations of peculiar passages. He has not even made himself familiar with all the minor characters of the different plays, but he has taken an almost life-long interest in the great passages, and in the acute, deft, liquid' expressions scattered through the poet's compositions. He has also taken an interest in the man himself, sought to form an idea of his personality. The lectures are a collection and arrangement of notes and impressions dating from various readings on widely separated occasions. 191939 |