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Title: Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems

Author: Jesse Johnson

Release Date: June 10, 2009 [EBook #29089]

Language: English

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Testimony of the Sonnets
as to the Authorship
of the Shakespearean
Plays and Poems

By Jesse Johnson

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON

The Knickerbocker Press

1899

Copyright, 1899

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

DEDICATED TO
ALBERT E. LAMB

PARTNER AND FRIEND FOR TWENTY YEARS
OF THE ROYAL LINE OF LOYAL GENTLEMEN

CONTENTS

Introductory
Scope and effect of the discussion 1-5

Chapter I
The Sonnets contain a message from their author; they
portray his real emotions, and are to be read and
interpreted literally 7-18

Chapter II
They indicate that the friend or patron of the poet was a
young man, and of about the age of Shakespeare;
and that their author was past middle life, and considerably
older than Shakespeare 19-48

Chapter III
Direct statements showing that the Sonnets were not
written by their accredited author--were not written
by Shakespeare 49-58

Chapter IV
The known facts of Shakespeare's history reveal a character
entirely inconsistent with, and radically different
from, the revelations of the Sonnets as to the character
of their author 59-72

Chapter V
The general scope and effect of the Sonnets inconsistent
with the theory that they were written by Shakespeare 73-96

Chapter VI
The results of the discussion summariz