Shakespeare and His Fellows: An Attempt to Decipher, the Man and His Nature (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

D. H. Madden

9780267487356: Shakespeare and His Fellows: An Attempt to Decipher, the Man and His Nature (Classic Reprint)

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It was by following in the footsteps Of the master that Boswell won the first place among his disciples. No occasion was too light, no word too trivial, no sport too insignificant to be recorded by him, and so it came to pass that Johnson, in the words of Macaulay, 'is better known to us than any other man in history.' In Shakespeare's time biographies were not written, and the instinct to which we owe the modern interview was as yet undeveloped. We have no contemporary account of Shakespeare such as Boswell wrote of Johnson, and Lockhart of Scott. But there were among his fellows and contemporaries men greater than Boswell or Lockhart, who, with Others of lesser account, wrote and spoke of Shakespeare many things which aid us in attaining to some understanding of the nature and character of a man who was well known to them.

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