THE MAN SHAKESPEARE
FRANK HARRIS∗
I DE DICA TE THIS BOOK TO MY FRIE ND, ERNES T BECKE TT (NOW
LORD GRIMTHORPE ),
A MAN OF MOS T E XCELLENT DIFFERE NCES, WHO UNITES TO A GE -
NIUS FOR
PRACTICAL THINGS A PASSIONA TE SYMPATHY FOR A LL HIGH EN -
DEAVOUR IN
LITE RA TURE AND ART
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
BOOK I
SHAKESPEARE PAINTE D BY HIMSELF
CHAP TE R
I. Hamlet: Romeo-Jaques
II. Hamlet -Macbeth
III. Duke Vincentio-Posthumus
IV. Shakespeare’s Men of Action: the Bastard,
Arthur, and King Richard II
V. Shakespeare’s Men of Action (¡i¿continued¡/i¿): Hotspur,
Prince Henry, and Henry V
VI. Shakespeare’s Men of Action (ﾡiconcludedﾡ/i): King
Henry VI. and Richard III
VII. Shakespeare as Lyric Poet: ”Twelfth Night”
VIII. Shakespeare’s Humour: ”Falstaff”
BOOK II
I. Shakespeare’s early attempts to portray himself
and his wife: Biron, Adriana, Valentine
II. Shakespeare as Antonio the Merchant
III. Shakespeare’s Love-story: the Sonnets: Part I
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IV. Shakespeare’s Love-story: the Sonnets: Part II
V. Shakespeare’s Love-story: the Sonnets: Part III
VI. The First-fruit of the Tree of Knowledge: Brutus
VII. Dramas of Revenge and Jealousy: Hamlet
VIII. Dramas of Revenge and Jealousy: Othello
IX. Dramas of Lust: Part I: Troilus and Cressida
X. Dramas of Lust: Part II: Antony and Cleopatra
XI. The drama of Madness: Lear
XII. The Drama of Despair: Timon of Athens
XIII. The Latest Works: All Copies: ”Winter’s Tale”; ”Cymbeline”; ”The
Tempest”
XIV. Shakespeare’s Life: Part I
XV. Shakespeare’s Life: Part II
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INTRODUCTION
This book has grown out of a series of articles contributed to ”The
Saturday Review” some ten or twelve years ago. As they appeared they
were talked of and criticized in the usual way; a minority of readers
thought ”the stuff” interesting; many held that my view of Shakespeare
was purely arbitrary; others said I had used a concordance to such
purpose that out of the mass of words I had managed, by virtue of some
unknown formula, to re-create the character of the man.
