WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

POET, DRAMATIST, AND MAN

•The

POET, DRAMATIST, AND MAN

BY

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE

AUTHOR OF MY STUDY FIRE," 64 UNDER THE TREES AND
ELSEWHERE," "THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT," ETC.

NEW EDITION

WITH A NEW PREFACE

New Bork

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & Co., LTD.

1903

All rights reserved

COPYRIGHT, 1900,

BY THE OUTLOOK COMPANY.

COPYRIGHT, 1900,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

First set up and electrotyped October, 1900. This edition set up
July, 1902.
Reprinted October, 1902; September, 1903.

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Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

To

MY MOTHER

and

To the Memory of

MY FATHER