The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Vol. 8 PDF Download

Author: Sindey Lee
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ISBN: 9781330646014
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Excerpt from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Vol. 8: The Winter's Tale After a performance at one of the Southwark theatres, in the spring of 1611, a strange looking fellow, the strangest perhaps of all that were there, - shaggy bearded and shaggy haired, a man of queer learning and queer ignorance, a real doctor of Cambridge and an averred quack of London, a frequent inmate of the royal prisons, and the trusted adviser of the fairest ladies at court, - went home, took his book of memornda, and wrote as follows: "In the Winter Talle at the Glob, 1611, the 15 Maye, Wednesday. - Observe ther how Lyontes, the Kinge of Cicillia, was overcom with jelosy of his wife with the Kinge of Bohemia.... Remember also how he sent to the orakell of Apollo..." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.