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Excerpt from Was William Shakespere a Gentleman? Some Questions in Shakspere's Biography Determined
Not distort or manipulate that evidence, or disregard any of it, in accordance with precon ceived theories or prejudices. Certainly, considering all that William Shakspere means to humanity, the historian who undertakes to write the record of his life should report him and his cause aright. Instead of this, however, we find that, owing to ignorance of the meagre evidence at our command or to a fail ure to appreciate the importance of that evidence and, to a considerable extent, to carelessness and slavish following of preceding writers, the name and memory of William Shakspere - the greatest artist in the tide of time - have been most unjustly vilified and calumniated almost beyond belief by those whose glory it should have been to exalt them. Were one to undertake the depressing task of looking for the man Shakspere in most of his biographies he would find there the record of one born in poverty.
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