The Personal Shakespeare, Vol. 12 of 15: Cymbeline; The Winter's Tale; The Tempest; King Henry the Eighth (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Personal Shakespeare, Vol. 12 of 15: Cymbeline; The Winter's Tale; The Tempest; King Henry the Eighth<br/><br/>Not until the Elizabethans - the audiences he had created, the men who had worked with him and acted on the same boards - had passed away, and the crowning tribute had been paid him by his fellow-actors, Kominge and Condell, in the publication of the First Folio of 162 3, that the tide of favour turned against him, and a change came over the scholars' estimate of his genius. Voltaire described Shakespeare as a writer of monstrous farces called tragedies, and his poetry as the fruit of the imagination of an intoxicated.<br/><br/>About the Publisher<br/><br/>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br/><br/>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.