ShakespeareAn illustrated biography of the great Elizabethan playwright and poet, set against the background of the historic time in which he lived. |
Contents
An Epistle to the Great Variety of Readers | 6 |
The Theatre | 19 |
An Upstart Crow | 36 |
Copyright | |
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