SHAKESPEARE:

HIS

LIFE, ART, AND CHARACTERS

WITH

AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH
OF THE DRAMA IN ENGLAND.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by

HENRY N. HUDSON

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

829.1

IN MEMORIAM

Evan L. Reese

The Athenæum Press

GINN AND COMPANY. PRO-
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The Memories of a Friendship running, I believe, without interrup

tion through a period of more than five-and-twenty years, prompt the inscribing of these volumes to you.

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