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Shakespeare

Robert Green Ingersoll

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. . .But when I stood beside the grave and read the ignorant words, the explanation I have given flashed upon me.





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IT has been said that Shakespeare was hardly mentioned by his contemporaries, and that he was substantially unknown. This is a mistake. In 1600 a book was published called "England's Parnassus" and it contained ninety extracts from Shakespeare. In the same year was published the "Garden of the Muses" containing several pieces from Shakespeare, Chapman, Marston and Ben Johnson. "England's Helicon" was printed in the same year, and contained poems from Spenser, Greene, Harvey and Shakespeare.

In 1600 a play was acted at Cambridge, in which Shakespeare was alluded to as follows: "Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare who puts them all down." John Weaver published a book of poems in 1595, in which there was a sonnet to Shakespeare. In 1598 Richard Bamfield wrote a poem to Shakespeare. Francis Meres, "clergyman, m. . . Read More

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