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Title: Home school of American literature:
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Birdsall, William Wilfred, 1854-1909, (from old catalog) comp. and ed Jones, Rufus Matthew, 1863- (from old catalog) joint comp. and ed
Subjects: American literature English literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Elliott publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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forty-five dollars for malt sold anddelivered to him. He died somewhat sud-denly, in 1616, of a fever,and was buried in the parishchurch,where a contemporarybust of him still exists, whichmust be regarded as the best-authenticated likeness of thepoet. His wife survived himseven years. His only son.Ham net, died at the age ottwelve; his two daughters,Susanna and Judith, bothmarried, and one of them hadthree sons, but they all diedwithout issue, so that a quar-ter of a century after his deaththere was no living descendantof Shakespeare. Shakespeare must earlyhave won a high place in theesteem of the most accom-plished noblemen of QueenElizabeths court, for as earlyas 1594 he dedicated hispoem, the Rape of Lucrece, to the Earl of Southampton, in terms whichdemonstrate the existence of mutual respect of a high degree between the authorand his patron. It is said that Southampton once presented Shakespeare with asum of money equivalent to twenty-five thousand dollars in our day, but of this
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Actor and Author.David Garrick and the Bust of Shakespeare. 552 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. there is no conclusive evidence. It is certain, however, that the noble earl wasglad to serve the popular writer and player, and that he was the means of procur-ing for William Kempe, William Shakespeare, and Richarde Burbage, servauntesto the Lord Chamberleyne, an invitation to present before the Court twoeseverall comedies or enterludes, for which they received twenty pounds. That Shakespeare had written more or less before he went up to London isaltogether probable; that Venus and Adonis was the first fruits of his inven-tion in any other sense than that of being the first to be printed, is not probable.That he was certainly employed as playwright or adapter of dramas for the stagebefore this time is unquestionable, and it is most likely that as a poet he hadattracted the notice of the author of the Faerie Queene, who was his senior by eleven years. The productive literarylife of Shakespeare, as fa

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