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William Shakespeare: A Critical Study

Georg Brandes

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"Ham. Do the boys carry it away?

"Ros. Ay, that they do, my lord; Hercules and his load too."[2]

The number of players in a company was not great—not more, as a rule, than eight or ten; never, probably, above twelve. The players were of different grades. The lowest were the so-called hirelings, who received wages from the others and were in some sense their servants. They appeared as supernumeraries or in small speaking parts, and had nothing to do with the management[Pg 107] of the t. . . Read More

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One of the most influential studies of Shakespeare by a non-English critic, this was written originally in Danish; it dates from about two decades after the books by Dowden and Swinburne which I read a couple years ago. While he mentions both, he seems to be very much influenced by Dowden's book; th