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Stratford-on-Avon

From the Earliest Times to the Death of Shakespeare

Sidney Lee author Edward Hull illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:17th May '12

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This illustrated 1890 work draws on archival material to provide a history of Stratford up to the time of Shakespeare's death.

Sir Sidney Lee (1859–1926) was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare, who in 1898 wrote a highly regarded account of the poet's life. This illustrated work of 1890 draws on archival material to provide a history of the town of Stratford up to the time of Shakespeare's death.Sir Sidney Lee (1859–1926) was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare, but is also remembered as the 'sub-editor' recruited by Sir Leslie Stephen when he was embarking on the project of the Dictionary of National Biography, and whose editorial and organisational skills were vital in keeping the publication programme close to its planned schedule. His own contributions to the Dictionary included an account of the life of Queen Victoria and (in Volume 51, 1897) William Shakespeare. This study of Stratford-on-Avon was first published in 1885, and the greatly enlarged version, reissued here, in 1890. (In 1898 Lee produced his biography of Shakespeare (also reissued in this series), regarded for much of the twentieth century as the most reliable account of Shakespeare's life.) This illustrated work draws on the archival material then available to provide a history of the town of Stratford up to the time of Shakespeare's death.

ISBN: 9781108048187

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm

Weight: 410g

322 pages