Folk-lore of Shakespeare
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| Author: | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer | ISBN: | 1230000279080 |
| Publisher: | True North | Publication: | November 9, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer |
| ISBN: | 1230000279080 |
| Publisher: | True North |
| Publication: | November 9, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
It would be difficult to overestimate the value which must be attached to the plays of Shakespeare in connection with the social life of the Elizabethan age. Possessed of a rich treasury of knowledge of a most varied kind, much of which he may be said to have picked up almost intuitively, he embellished his writings with a choice store of illustrations descriptive of the period in which he lived.
It would be difficult to overestimate the value which must be attached to the plays of Shakespeare in connection with the social life of the Elizabethan age. Possessed of a rich treasury of knowledge of a most varied kind, much of which he may be said to have picked up almost intuitively, he embellished his writings with a choice store of illustrations descriptive of the period in which he lived.
