Arguments: Preceding each play is an analysis of the play called the "argument," written in an interesting story-telling way.
Study Methods: A complete method of study on each play, consisting of study questions and suggestions,—the idea being to furnish a complete college course of Shakespearian study.
Life of Shakespeare by Dr. Israel Gollancz, with critical essays by Bagehot, Stephen and other distinguished Shakespearian scholars and critics. This life relates all that the world really knows about Shakespeare.
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