Over 6,000 lines of favourable criticism of this book have appeared
in the Press of this country since publication.
A FEW EXTRACTS
“By far the most original, suggestive, and brilliantly conceived writing on Shakespeare that our times have known, or are likely to know.”—The Nation.
“Nobody who cares for fine literature, however indifferent he may be to Mr. Harris’s main thesis, should pass this book by. As a thesis we call it a brilliant and fascinating tour de force. As a book concerned with the greatest poetry we assign to it critical merit of the first order. In both aspects we predict for it a permanent importance.”—The Saturday Review.
“This work appears to us the most original and, in some ways, the most illuminating criticism of Shakespeare that has ever been written.”—The Westminster Gazette.
“Mr. Harris has written a book with which all students of the Shakespeare mystery will have to deal; he has opened a line of study that was practically unknown.”—The Outlook.
“It must have been Tolstoi who inspired Mr. Frank Harris to write this brilliant, this amazingly ingenious book on Shakespeare.... This is a splendid, even a magnetic book written with a magnetic inspiration.”—The Observer.
“A very remarkable contribution to our knowledge about Shakespeare.”—W. L. Courtney in the Daily Telegraph.
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