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Excerpt from The Personal Shakespeare, Vol. 3 of 15: With an Introduction; Titus Andronicus, Sonnets, Poems Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime. He was the typical Renaissance lord, taking his pleasure in the arts, his pastime in fine emotions, not too deep; lavish of gifts, and asking of his favourites only that they should immortalise his name and his culture in talents which he envied, but might not share. The early poems, Venus and A donis and Lucrece - dedicated to the same patron - were his only works published with Shakespeare's knowledge and consent, and in his lifetime passed through more editions than any of his plays. Venus and Adonis went into seven editions between 1594 and 1602, and Lucrece into five in twenty years. There was only one contemporary edition of the Sonnets, and this, quite unauthorised and with certain spurious additions, was published in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe, who prefaced the volume with an introduction couched in the most bombastic phrases of the day. An examination into the customs then prevailing in the publishing trade seems to prove that the Mr. W. Who is here grandiloquently mentioned, was none other than a stationer's assistant, William Hall, a collector of promising manuscripts in an age when authors had no rights in their work. It was usual to denote humble and obscure people by their initials, which would be recognised by personal friends; and thus by a cryptic reading of William Hall as William Herbert' - the onlie begetter, or rather the smart pirater, of these sonnets, arose the Pem broke theory already alluded to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.

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• Full title: The Personal Shakespeare, Vol. 3 of 15
• Subtitle: With an Introduction; Titus Andronicus, Sonnets, Poems (Classic Reprint)
• Author: William Shakespeare
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 378
• EAN: 9781334649639
• ISBN: 1334649634
• ID: 15622962
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 506 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. December 2016

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