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Chapter I
Scattered here and there through the stacks of unpublished manuscript which constitute this formidable Autobiography and Diary of mine, cer…
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Chapter Ii
When I was a Sunday-school scholar something more than sixty years ago, I became interested in Satan, and wanted to find out all I could ab…
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Chapter Iii
How curious and interesting is the parallel as far as poverty of biographical details is concerned between Satan and Shakespeare. It is won…
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Facts
He was born on the 23d of April, 1564. Of good farmer-class parents who could not read, could not write, could not sign their names. At Str…
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Chapter Iv--Conjectures
The historians "suppose" that Shakespeare attended the Free School in Stratford from the time he was seven years old till he was thirteen.…
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CHAPTER V--"We May Assume"
In the Assuming trade three separate and independent cults are transacting business. Two of these cults are known as the Shakespearites and…
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Chapter Vi
When Shakespeare died, in 1616, great literary productions attributed to him as author had been before the London world and in high favor f…
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Chapter Vii
If I had under my superintendence a controversy appointed to decide whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare or not, I believe I would place b…
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CHAPTER VIII--Shakespeare as a Lawyer {2}
The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare supply ample evidence that their author not only had a very extensive and accurate knowledge of law, but…
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Chapter Ix
Did Francis Bacon write Shakespeare's Works? Nobody knows. We cannot say we know a thing when that thing has not been proved. Know is too s…
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CHAPTER X--The Rest of the Equipment
The author of the Plays was equipped, beyond every other man of his time, with wisdom, erudition, imagination, capaciousness of mind, grace…
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Chapter Xi
Am I trying to convince anybody that Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare's Works? Ah, now, what do you take me for? Would I be so soft as…
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CHAPTER XII--Irreverence
One of the most trying defects which I find in these these what shall I call them? for I will not apply injurious epithets to them, the way…
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Chapter Xiii
Isn't it odd, when you think of it: that you may list all the celebrated Englishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen of modern times, clear back to…