IT is due to the reader of a new work on a subject already so often handled as the Life of Shakespeare to tell him the reasons for which I have thought it worth

Excerpt from A Chronicle History of the Life and Work of William Shakespeare: Player, Poet, and Playmaker At the theatre door or was employed in any other equin

This book traces the formation and impact of the New Shakspere Society, created in 1873, which dedicated itself to solving the mysteries of Shakespeare’s auth