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Shakespeare lived in a period of change. In religion, politics, literature, and commerce, in the habits of daily living, in the world of ideas, his lifetime witnessed continual change and movement. When Elizabeth came to the throne, six years before he was born, England was still largely Catholic, as it had been for nine centuries; when she died England was Protestant, and by the date of Shakespeare's death it was well on the way to becoming Puritan. The Protestant Reformation had worked nearly its full course of revolution in ideas, habits, and beliefs. The authority of the church had been replaced by that of the. | The Facts About Shakespeare by 1 CHAPTER PAGE CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX The Facts About Shakespeare by William Allan Nielson and Ashley Horace Thorndike This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Facts About Shakespeare The Facts About Shakespeare by 2 Author William Allan Nielson Ashley Horace Thorndike Release Date August 8 2007 EBook 22281 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FACTS ABOUT SHAKESPEARE Produced by Juliet Sutherland Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Illustration The Shakespeare Monument in the Parish Church Stratford-on-Avon. THE FACTS ABOUT SHAKESPEARE BY WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON . PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND ASHLEY HORACE THORNDIKE . . PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Illustration New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1927 All rights reserved COPYRIGHT 1913 BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published November 1913. Reprinted April 1914 July 1915 May November 1916 January 1918 February September 1920 September 1921 March 1922 February December 1923 October 1924 June 1926 January December 1927. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE BERWICK SMITH CO. Transcriber s Notes Unique page headings have been retained marked as Page Heading and positioned at the first available paragraph break of the page or the preceding page. Many spelling inconsistencies exist due to the historical period of the quoted sources. These in addition to the original punctuation have been retained. Obvious typesetting errors