• ISBN13: 9788126927401
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: July 22, 2018
• Pages: 372
• Original Price: INR 995.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 485 grams

Shakespeare, by general suffrage, is the greatest name in literature.
There can be no extravagance in saying that to all who speak the English language his genius has made the world better worth living in, and life a nobler and divines thing. And even among those who do not “speak the tongue that Shakespeare spoke”, large numbers are studying the English language mainly for the purpose of being at home with him.
How he came to be what he was, and to do what he did, are questions that can never cease to be interesting, wherever his works are known, and men’s powers of thought in any fair measure developed. But Providence has left a veil, or rather a cloud, about his history, so that these questions are not likely to be satisfactorily answered.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible.

Henry Norman Hudson (1814-86), American scholar and Episcopal divine, had published a number of books on Shakespeare including Lectures on Shakespeare (1848), Shakespeare, his Life, Art, and Characters (1883). He edited the Harvard and the University edition of Shakespeare.
He also served as Chaplain in the Civil War and was professor at Boston University, and for a time editor of the Churchman.
Israel Gollancz (1863-1930), a scholar of early English literature and of Shakespeare, was professor of Eng-lish Language and Literature at King’s College, London, from 1903 to 1930. He was a founder member and the first secretary (1902-30) of Royal National Theatre in London, and was the Director of the Early English Text Society.
C.H. Herford (1853-1931), an English literary scholar and critic, was professor at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1887 to 1901, and professor of English Literature at Victoria University of Man-chester from 1901 to 1921. He is remembered for his biography and edition of the works of Ben Jonson in 11 Volumes.