English Minstrelsy: Being a Selection of Fugitive Poetry from the Best English Authors, with Some Original Pieces (1810)

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Kessinger Publishing, 2009 - Literary Collections - 292 pages
1888. Written by the Scottish-born educator and author, William Shakespeare Portrayed by Himself is counted among Waters' other works which include Intellectual Pursuits, Life of William Cobbett, John Selden and his Table-Talk, Flasher of Wit and Humor, and a capital edition of Cobbett's English Grammar, all of which have passed through several editions. Partial Contents: The Universal Interest in the Personality of the Poet-What the Writer Intends to Show; The Argument Stated-The Historical Data of the Play; The Argument Continued and Fortified-How Genius Gets an Education; The Prince and the Poet Compared; Another View of the Poet in the Prince; Look Here Upon This Picture, and Then On This ; The Merry Meeting-The Deer-Stealing Adventure; Turning Past Evils to Advantages; The Incidents of Shakespeare's Life-His Conversation-His Works; The Known Traits of the Poet Compared with Those of the Prince; Scene with the Chief-Justice; The Stage as a Profession in Shakespeare's Time; Shakespeare's Career in London; Shakespeare's Learning; Contemporary References to Shakespeare; The Sources of the Play; Mr. Donnelly and his Cryptogram; The Cipher; Some Important Considerations Touching the Baconian Theory; and Ben Jonson, Bacon, and Shakespeare.

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About the author (2009)

Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on August 15, 1771. He began his literary career by writing metrical tales. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake made him the most popular poet of his day. Sixty-five hundred copies of The Lay of the Last Minstrel were sold in the first three years, a record sale for poetry. His other poems include The Vision of Don Roderick, Rokeby, and The Lord of the Isles. He then abandoned poetry for prose. In 1814, he anonymously published a historical novel, Waverly, or, Sixty Years Since, the first of the series known as the Waverley novels. He wrote 23 novels anonymously during the next 13 years. The first master of historical fiction, he wrote novels that are historical in background rather than in character: A fictitious person always holds the foreground. In their historical sequence, the Waverley novels range in setting from the year 1090, the time of the First Crusade, to 1700, the period covered in St. Roman's Well (1824), set in a Scottish watering place. His other works include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, and The Bride of Lammermoor. He died on September 21, 1832.

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