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PUBLIC LIBRARY
Concerning Shakespeare.

| the tolger Shakespeare Library the
Public Library offers the following list
of books as suggestive of the Shake
spearean literature which may be bor-
! rowed from the Public Library for
home use, The library also has sets of
Shakespeare's works, single volumes of
his plays and single volumes of his
| complete works, as we'll as books on
various phases of his art such as char
| aeter delineation, sources etc, and on
the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy.
Why Read Shakespeare?
The Genius of Shakespeare, by G. B.
Harrison. 1927. YD.S7lha.
In the compass of very small book
this treatment of Shakespeare is amaz-
ingly comprehensive. without at all
, having the flavor of scholarly text. -
| An Introduction to the Reading of
| Shakespeare, by F. S. Boas. 1927
YD.ST1bo.
| Mr.. Boas' Introduction appears
likely TO render wide service in in
forming readers quickly yet soundly
| and awakening them to the pleasure of
really watchful reading of Shake
speare's text with its endless wealth of
| almost concealed significances"
Why. Janet Should Read Shakespeare,
by Norman Hapgood. 1929.
YD.S7lhap.
NO lover of Shakespeare should
forego the pleasure of reading Norman
Hapgood's new book; it is a most de-
leetable banquet most enthusiastically
served. His enthusiasm for the Swan
OF avon Is delightful and unlimited and
infectious, and his knowledge of the
vast Shakespearean literature seems
hardly less adequate than his knowledge
| OF the plays themselves" Edwin Sea-
yer.
leonoclastes, or the Future of Shake
Speare, by Hubert Grifith. 1927.
YD.S71gr
Mr.. Griffith hopes to see in the fu-
ture thsater not so much devoted to
playing Shakespeare as to plavine
Shakespeare WE'LL" the ideal method
oelng In modern dress, with all the
parts well cast"
Shakespeare the Man.
Life of William Shakespeare, by ]. O.
Adams. 1928, YD,Sead.
A LIE by the director of research of
the Folger Shakespearean Library.
Prol Adams excellent biography shows
scnolarship and imagination, reinforcing
ana clarifying each other. Under his
hands the poet ceases to be a mystery,
divine accident, and takes on the
proportions and contours of a familiar
tal."-Robert Hillyer.
A Life of William Shakespeare. by Sid
ney Lee. 1903. YD.S9 lie.
This famous volume still stands as
the sanest, most readable, and most
useful OF all the biographies"
A Life of William Shakespeare. by Will
liam Rolfe. 1901. YD.S9ro.
One of the foremost Shakespearean
scholars has written full length por-
trait to supplement the mass of critical
material with which he has sought to
explain the poet to modern readers.
Shakespeare as Playwright, by
Brander Matthews. 1918. YD.-
S89m
IL is no exaggeration to say that by
reading this volume ones appreciation
OF Shakespeare, in the theater or in the
library, will be measurably increased"
William Shakespeare, by George Brandes
1924. YD D.S71br
The noted Danish scholar and critic
interprets Shakespeare.
Shakespeare Personally, by David Mas
son. 1914. YD S9mb
Prof. Mason invariably seeks the
human aspect Of the man and his work
and he says much that Is new and
shrewd In his commentary upon the
plays and the poems"
William Shakespeare by John Mase-
field. 1911. YD.S7lma
HIS sketch is pleasantly vivacious
and decided in its opinions, including
stirring appeal for the proper ap-
probation and acting of Shakespeare
The Man Shakespeare, and His Tragic
Life Story, by Frank Harris. 1909.
DS9haf
AN analytic study of Shakespeare
the man in which the author finds the
full length portrait of the great dram
atist in each Of 20 dramas"
Shakespeare, Actor-Poet, by C. L. De
Chambrun. 1927. YDS9cg.
BY using documents contemporary
with ShakeSpeare's life the author has
sought to ''call up the personality and
surroundings of william Shakespeare,
actor poet and gentleman, more vera
eiously, and at the same time more
yividly than has been done hitherto.
The shakespearian Stage.
shakespeare's Theater, by A. H. Thorn
dixie. 1916. YDS89th.
THE author is himself one of our
best known students of the Elizabethan
drama. Despite all that has been
written on these subjects, it seems to us
that Prof. Thorndike has
given us the truest picture We have of
the conditions under which Shakespeare
and his fellows composed their plays, of
the characteristics of the histrionie art
of the age, and the distinctive qualities
and outlook of the audiences they ad-
dressed.
The Organization and Personnel of the
Shakespearean Company, by T. W.
Baldwin 1927. YD,S89b,
A very complete study of the COM
pany of actors and playwrights with
whom Shakespeare worked.
Burbage and Shakespeares Stage by
Mrs. c, @. Slopes. 1918. YD,S89st,
The story of the career of Shake
speares manager and the players
poets stage where there was none who
better served his day and generation In
raising their moral tone, their mental
status and their esthetic sense than
Burbage's deserving man. William
Shakespeare.
Shakespeare for Amateur Dram
atists.
Shakespeare for Community Players by
Roy Mitchell 1919 YD.S89mi.
Suggestions on acting and stage d.
recting and full illustrations covering
every phase of the text round out the
volume as one of the most helpful of
the many recent contributions to what
may be termed the practical literature
of community drama"
A Book for Shakespeare Plays and
Pageants, by o, L. Hatcher. 1915,
YD .Ss9h.
Aside from its immediate use, 1t Is
a delightful and valuable collection Of
all sorts of Shakespearean miscellany,
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