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Shakespeare's Lost Years in London,
by Arthur Acheson
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1586-1592, by Arthur Acheson 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 www.gutenberg.net
Title: Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
Author: Arthur Acheson
Release Date: February 3, 2008 [EBook #24500]
Language: English
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SHAKESPEARE'S LOST YEARS IN LONDON
1586-1592
SHAKESPEARE'S LOST YEARS IN LONDON
1586-1592
Giving new light on the pre-Sonnet period; showing the inception of relations between Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton and displaying
JOHN FLORIO
AS
SIR JOHN FALSTAFF
BY
ARTHUR ACHESON
AUTHOR OF "SHAKESPEARE AND THE RIVAL POET" "MISTRESS DAVENANT, THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS", ETC.
NEW YORK BRENTANO'S 1920
All rights reserved
TO MY SONS
ARTHUR MURRAY ACHESON
AND
ALEXANDER G. ACHESON
I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME
"The purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere