Shakespeare Commentaries (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Shakespeare Commentaries<br><br>IT IS a disgrace to England that even now 258 years after Shak spere'' s death the study of him has been so narrow and the criticism however good so devoted to the mere text and its illustration and to studies of single plays that no book by an Englishman exists which deals in any worthy manner with Shakspere as a whole which tracks the rise and growth of his genius from the boyish romanticism or the Sharp youngmanishness of his early plays to the magnificence the splendoui the divine intuition which mark his ablest works. The profound and. Generous Commentaries of Gervinus - an honour to a German to have written a pleasure to an Englishman to read - is still the only book known to me that comes near the true treatment and the dignity of its subject 01 can be put into the hands of the student who Wants to know the mind of Shakspeie.''<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.