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Title: The Facts About Shakespeare

Author: William Allan Nielson
Ashley Horace Thorndike

Release Date: August 8, 2007 [EBook #22281]

Language: English

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[Illustration: The Shakespeare Monument in the Parish Church,
Stratford-on-Avon.]

THE FACTS ABOUT
SHAKESPEARE

BY

WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON, PH.D.
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

AND

ASHLEY HORACE THORNDIKE, PH.D., L.H.D.
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

[Illustration]

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1927

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1913,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1913. Reprinted April,
1914; July, 1915; May, November, 1916; January, 1918; February,
September, 1920; September, 1921; March, 1922; February, December, 1923;
October, 1924; June, 1926; January, December, 1927.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY
THE BERWICK & SMITH CO.

Transcriber's Notes:

Unique page headings have been retained, marked as [Page Heading:],
and positioned at the first available paragraph break of the page or
the preceding page.

Many spelling inconsistencies exist due to the historical period of
the quoted sources. These, in addition to the original punctuation,
have been retained.

Obvious typesetting errors have been corrected and noted in the
Transcriber's Endnotes at the end of the text.

Some index entries have been re-sequenced to allow for clarity of
sub-entries. These changes are recorded in the Transcriber's
Endnotes along with a copy of the original text.

The following non-standard characters have been represented as
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