The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Vol. 1 of 20: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-Notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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This edition has been undertaken, and the plan of it shaped, with a special view to meeting what is believed to be a general want, and what has indeed been repeatedly urged as such within the last few years. It has been said, and, I think, justly said, that a need is widely felt of an edition of Shakespeare, with such and so much of explana tory comment as may suffice for the state of those unlearned but sane-thoughted and earnest readers who have, or wish to have, their tastes raised and set to a higher and heartier kind of mental feeding than the literary smoke and chaff Of the time. I have known many bright and upward-looking minds, - minds honestly craving to drink from the higher and purer springs of intellectual power and beauty, - who were frank to own that it was a sin and a shame not to love Shakespeare, but who could hardly, if at all, make that love come free and natural to them.

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