Shakespeare Problem Restated
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780766142626
Subjects: Shakespeare studies & criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Shakespeare
First sentence: MR. SIDNEY LEE, in a letter published in The Times of 8th January, 1902, delivers himself as follows concerning the Stratford Player whom, following the literary usage, he calls William Shakespeare, but whom for the sake of convenience, I prefer to designate as William Shakspere, as he himself appears to have written the name: "Patient investigation which has been in progress for more than two hundred years has brought together a mass of biographical detail which far exceeds that accessible in the case of any poet contemporary with Shakespeare."