Publisher's Synopsis
Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Kaufer konnen in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1912 edition. Auszug: ...have possessed a few good books. There would have been no set lessons, no regular work. This, it may be inferred from Shakespeare's writings, he did not have, but there would have been what is often more valuable, education and culture imparted in friendly intercourse, in companionship with a scholar knowing books and men, and taught through suffering, --in other words, an inspiration that fired the imagination rather than an acquaintance with the dry details of knowledge, which often checks to some degree or bruises the spirit of genius. And this training through friendly companionship, in mystery, and in danger, would be far more fruitful than schooling carried on under hard, unsympathetic, or unappreciative masters. Therefore, when conjectures are many as to where Shakespeare may have been educated, how he was not educated, why he could not have known all that he did know, and who may have written his plays for him, it is well enough to hazard this suggestion as to what may have been one of the early sources of his culture. Certain facts are known: that priests of that day were well educated; that during Shakespeare's youth, when the practices of the Catholic religion were forbidden they were, nevertheless, carried on in many places near Stratford; that therefore there must have been at least one priest in that vicinity most of the time. And there is a presumption that the poet's father was of the old religion, since there is record of repeated fines imposed on him for non-attendance at church once a month as required; no doubt he at least knew of the presence of the priest, possibly he was in communication with him, and it may be that he favored his son's acquaintance with him. The idea..."
