Excerpt from A Life of William Shakespeare More than five years have passed since the appearance, amid the stress of war, of the last edition of this work. It is of good omen that the interval, which has brought back peace, has witnessed at home and abroad a development beyond pre-war limits of Shakespeare's vogue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.