The Student's Shakespeare: Thirty-Seven Plays, Analyzed and Topically Arranged for the Use of Clergymen, Lawyers, Students, Etc (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Student's Shakespeare: Thirty-Seven Plays, Analyzed and Topically Arranged for the Use of Clergymen, Lawyers, Students, Etc

In presenting this book to the public I feel impelled to state somewhat specific ally the object I had in view in its compilation. I do not lay claim to superhuman disinterestedness. Iago's advice to Roderigo, put money in thy purse. Is by no means in my opinion a soul-damning heresy; I should only be too glad if this vent ure enabled me to act upon the wily Venetian's advice with unaccustomed frequency. But if the hope of pecuniary gain had been the controlling motive the book to which the labor of so many years has been devoted would never have been put in type.

The book was begun as an aid in lecturing to a college class on English literature. Its growth, and its obviously increasing value as it grew, suggested that it might perhaps be as useful to others as I had found it to be to myself.

I make no claim to being a critic of the great author whose words I have so often rolled as a sweet morsel under my. Tongue; nor do I make any pretension to be able to determine ea: cathedra any questions of texts, or the value of various read ings. In no sense do I aspire to belong to the illustrious guild of Shakespearean scholars. Antony's friend Ventidius never spoke more wisely than when he said.

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