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Excerpt from Life Portraits of William Shakspeare a History of the Various Representations of the Poet: With an Examination Into Their Authenticity "We know," wrote Plutarch, "even the nurse of Alcibiades, that she was of Lacedaemon, and that her name was Amycla; we know, also, that Zophyrus was his schoolmaster, the one being recorded by Antisthenes, the other by Plato." Alcibiades, the very embodiment of prominent and brilliant success, has naturally been more fortunate - or, it may be, less happy - than Shakspeare, who was the incarnation of observant, but retired and unobserved, poetic thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."