Sidney Lee

Shakespeare, William, A Life of, by Sidney Lee (1898). The purpose of the writer has been to provide a book which "shall supply within a brief compass an exhaustive and well-arranged statement of the facts of Shakespeare's career, achievement, and reputation, that shall reduce conjecture to the smallest dimensions consistent with coherence, and shall give verifiable references to all the original sources of information.

A Life of William Shakespeare is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

A Life of William Shakespeare is a classic Shakespeare biography by Sidney Lee. I cannot promise my readers any startling revelations in this Shakespeare biography. But my researches have enabled me to remove some ambiguities which puzzled my predecessors, and to throw light on one or two topics that have hitherto obscured the course of Shakespeare's life and career.

Originally published in 1911, this book presents the content of the Leslie Stephen Lecture for that year, which was delivered by Sir Sidney Lee at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in biographical writing and its development.