WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

POET, DRAMATIST, AND MAN

•The Co

POET, DRAMATIST, AND MAN

BY

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE

"

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

NEW EDITION

WITH A NEW PREFACE

New York

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.

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith

Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

To

MY MOTHER

and

To the Memory of

MY FATHER