Excerpt from Shakespeare: The Man: An Attempt to Find Traces of the Dramatist's Personal Character in His Dramas

An attempt to find traces of the personal character of Shakespeare under the dramatist is, it need hardly be said, a different thing from an interpretation of Shakespeare's art. In making it the writer does not trespass on the ground occupied by Coleridge, Gervinus, Dowden, and Hiram Corson.

An apology may seem necessary for quoting in full some well-known pas sages of Shakespeare; but the writer does not feel sure that "in these most brisk and giddy-paced times," when a tidal-wave of popular and sensational fiction is flowing, familiarity with Shakespeare is so common as it was in former days.

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