Jess adams biography of william shakespeare

by Joseph Quincy Adams, Professor of English in Cornell University. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1923.

Jess adams biography of william shakespeare

8vo. xvii+544 pp, $7.50.

PROFESSOR Adams has done far more than merely give a new turn to an old subject. Of recent years there has been plenty of light on Shakespeare, his associates, his theatre, and his plays, but the divergent rays have been badly in need of focusing.

Professor Adams offers an accurate and well-polished lens. Though Shakespeare was ‘for all time,’ he was also peculiarly a product of his own age, and it is Professor Adams’s special virtue that he places the man and the dramatist against the lively background of the seething period in which he wrote, making him a part of it and explaining his work through his surroundings.

There have been important additions to our knowledge of Shakespeare himself in the last few years, while our knowledge of the theatre in which he lived and worked has grown enormously.

Professor Wallace has unearthed facts and do