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Shakespeare, William

A man who needs no introduction. But who got one from Ben Jonson in the First Folio, which revealed precisely nothing about the man himself. As Mark Twain memorably put it: 'So far as anybody knows and can prove, he never wrote a letter to anybody in his life. So far as any one knows, he received only one letter during his life.' We know next to nothing about Shakespeare the man. It is a gaping hole in the middle of English literature.
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1910 The Site of the Globe Playhouse of ShakespeareLondon: 1910A very scarce illustrated first edition of this work on the Globe Theatre by William Martin with maps of the site.
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1921 England in the Eighteenth Century Essays in Verse O F Christie ShakespeareLondon: 1921An historical work on the Eighteenth Century, in verse.
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1910 Shakespeare's Birthplace CatalogueStratford-Upon-Avon: 1910An illustrated first edition of this catalogue documenting the works and antiquities on exhibition in Shakespeare's Birthplace.
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1897 Madden Diary Of Master William Silence Study Shakespeare Elizabethan SportLondon: 1897The first edition of 'The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare and of Elizabethan Sport' by the Right Hon. D. H. Madden. With illustrated head and tail pieces.