Author(s): Denton J Snider

Biography - Memoir

Excerpt from A Biography of William Shakespeare: Set Forth as His Life Drama One of the most familiar passages in all Shakespeare, memorized by every declaiming schoolboy, and kept ever fresh by quotation in the mind of the adult, is the following: All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players, They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts - What gives to these lines such enduring vitality is not simply the fact stated, which is trite enough, but the biographic touch, which throbs through them and makes them quiver with a kind of personal avowal. Thus the poet hints his general world-view, undoubtedly derived from his particular calling, since he was an actor as well as a writer. 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.