Tragedies poems
HOSE who wish to see Shakespeare and in their historical I setting will not neglect the evidence provided by the references his contemporaries make to the man and his plays. Among these references the Preliminary matter to the First Folio edition of the plays, given to the public by his colleagues in 1623, must be regarded as specially important. These references stand in a context that must be allowed for the men who wrote the dedication to the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery and the address "To the great Variety of Readers" were actors who had long been associated with the drama-tist; Ben Jonson and the scholars who contributed the lines in praise of Shakespeare's genius were naturally admirers and students of his work. We are, therefore, hearing what may be regarded as a partial judgment. There is however a tone in their pronouncements that speaks for their sincerity; and the close connection of some of the contributors with the man himself, as well as the literary and scholarly
standing of others, entit
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