WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

POET, DRAMATIST, AND MAN

POET, DRAMATIST, AND MAN

BY

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE

AUTHOR OF “MY STUDY FIRE,”. UNDER THE TREES AND

ELSEWHERE," " THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT," ETC.

NEW EDITION

WITH A NEW PREFACE

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & Co., LTD.

1903

All rights reserved

COPYRIGHT, 1900,

BY THE OUTLOOK COMPANY.

COPYRIGHT, 1900,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

This edition set up
First set up and electrotyped October, 1900.
July, 1902.

Reprinted October, 1902; September, 1903.

To

MY MOTHER

and

To the Memory of

MY FATHER