Shakespeare's Bones (Dodo Press)
Publisher: Dodo Press
Published: June 22, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781406534245
Subjects: Biography: general; Literary; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Biography / Autobiography
First sentence: The sentiment which affects survivors in the disposition of their dead, and which is, in one regard, a superstition, is, in another, a creditable outcome of our common humanity: namely, the desire to honour the memory of departed worth, and to guard the "hallowed reliques" by the erection of a shrine, both as a visible mark of respect for the dead, and as a place of resort for those pilgrims who may come to pay him tribute.