ARTHUR ACHESON
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AUTHOR OF "SHAKESPEARE AND THE RIVAL POET" "MISTRESS DAVENANT, THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS", ETC.
NEW YORK BRENTANO'S 1920
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TO MY SONS ARTHUR MURRAY ACHESON AND ALEXANDER G. ACHESON I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME
"The purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure."
Hamlet, Act III. Scene ii.