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[Foreword] This book celebrates the glory of Shakespeare.
[Author's Preface] If the splendors of the Folger Shakespeare Library furnish the occasion for this book, they also comprise much of its substance.
[Prologue] Shakespeare lives.
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.... Thus in Shakespeare's "Tragedy of King Richard the Second" does the dying Gaunt apostrophize England in the accents of enraptured patriotism.
[Epilogue] A remarkable thing happens on the way to the Forum in "Julius Caesar."
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
[Foreword] Finally, as project director, I must stress that this book could not have been produced without the encouragement and generous assistance afforded by National Endowment for the Humanities and the three corporate sponsors: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Exxon Corporation, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
[Author's Preface] Readers are now invited to participate in that age by embarking on their own voyage of discovery, a voyage made possible by the treasures of the Folger exhibited in the pages that follow.
Let Ben Jonson, who contributed to it the noblest commemorative poem in the language, have the last word: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give.