“The Man, Shakespeare - And his Tragic Life Story” is a 1909 work by Frank Harris that explores the character of Shakespeare by analysing that of his most notable characters. This fascinating volume offers a unique insight into the world-famous playwright, constituting a must-read for fans of Shakespeare's timeless work. Contents include: “Hamlet: Romeo—Jaques”, “Hamlet—Macbeth”, “Duke Vincentio—Posthumous”, “Shakespeare's Men Of Action: The Bastard, Arthur, And King Richard II”, “Shakespeare's Men Of Action (continued) Hot-Spur, Henry V., Richard III”, “Shakespeare's Men Of Action (Concluded): King Henry VI And Richard III”, “Shakespeare As Lyric Poet: “Twelfth Night”, etc. Frank Harris (1855–1931) was an Irish-American novelist, editor, journalist, publisher, and short story writer who had acquaintances with many famous people of his day. Other notable works by this author include: “Confessional” (1930), “The Yellow Ticket And Other Stories” (1914), and “Contemporary Portraits” (1915–1923). This classic work is being republished now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with an introductory biography of the author.

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In 'The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story' author Frank Harris traces the story of William Shakespeare through his plays, showing how the playwright painted himself in twenty different characters at different stages of his life. Harris argues that Shakespeare is more interesting than other great writers because he painted himself as a young and inexperienced artist, in his eventful maturity, and in his decline. Harris claims that previous commentators have missed the man and his story, and instead idealized him, and thus in this book, he seeks to use scientific methods to recreate Shakespeare, highlighting both his virtues and vices, and ultimately making him clearer to readers.

Excerpt from The Man Shakespeare: And His Tragic Life-Story His book has grown out of a series of articles contributed to The Saturday Review some ten or twelve years ago. As they appeared they were talked of and criticized in the usual way; a minority Of readers thought the stuff interest ing; many held that my View Of Shakespeare was purely arbitrary; others said I had used a concord ance to such purpose that out of the mass Of words I had managed, by virtue of some unknown formula, to re-create the character Of the man. The truth is much simpler: I read Shakespeare's plays in boyhood, chiefly for the stories; every few years later I was fain to re-read them; for as I grew I always found new beauties in them which I had formerly missed, and again and again I was lured back by tantalizing hints and suggestions Of a certain unity underlying the diversity of char acters. These suggestions gradually became more definite till at length, out Of the myriad voices in the plays, I began to hear more and more insistent the accents Of one voice, and out of the crowd Of faces, began to distinguish more and more clearly the features of the writer; for all the world like some lovelorn girl, who, gazing with her soul in her eyes, finds in the witch's cauldron the face Of the beloved. 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.