Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from What We Really Know About Shakespeare
A few years since a gentleman of some scholarly reputation was asked to deliver an address, on Shakespeare's birthday, before a Shakespeare club of which I had long been a member. He spoke before two or three hundred people. He represented Shakespeare as "vilely born," - the son of a butcher, apprenticed to a butcher, without education, a pot-house brawler, loafing about with poachers, after an enforced early marriage, he was obliged to fly from his native town. He then proceeded to glorify that Divine Spark of Genius, given to its possessor without regard to his deserts, which had set this pot-house brawler above all mortal men. What was my amazement to find that among his audience no one beside myself was prepared to question any of these statements.
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