SHAKESPEARE:

HIS

LIFE, ART, AND CHARACTERS.

WITH

AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH
OF THE DRAMA IN ENGLAND.

FOURTH EDITION, REVISED.

BY

THE REV. H. N. HUDSON, LL.D.

VOLUME I.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY GINN & COMPANY.

1888.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872,
BY HENRY N. HUDSON,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

J. S. CUSHING & Co., PRINTERS, 101 PEARL STREET, Boston.

TO

MR. JOSEPH BURNETT,

OF SOUTHBOROUGH, MASS.

SIR:

The Memories of a Friendship running, I believe, without interruption through a period of more than five-and-twenty years, prompt the inscribing of these volumes to you.

BOSTON, January 1, 1872

H. N. HUDSON.