{"id":"01KG8B0AC1SHWQWHN7655A1K21","cid":"bafkreih2m6w4onuchu7coljbunlutrl42qvdwokiryljouofwq6ndzldou","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreieerjheexrae6ewjjstsmxaulrqii4h5wsr34gllfuh47uysppepm","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0152.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806505249-tlc8i2qfy7d","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0152.jpg","page_number":152,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":407668,"text":"146 Notes\nspeare, 1889), \"Shakespeare adopted verse as the general tenor of\nhis language, and therefore expressed much in verse that is within\nthe capabilities of prose ; in other words, his verse constantly en-\ncroaches upon the domain of prose, but his prose can never be said\nto encroach upon the domain of verse.\" If in rare instances we\nthink we find exceptions to this latter statement, and prose actually\nseems to usurp the place of verse, I believe that careful study of the\npassage will prove the supposed exception to be apparent rather\nthan real.\nSome Books for Teachers and Students. — A few out of the\nmany books that might be commended to the teacher and the criti-\ncal student are the following: Halliwell-Phillipps's Outlines of the\nLife of Shakespeare (7th ed, 1 887) ; Sidney Lee's Life of Shake-\nspeare (1898; for ordinary students the abridged ed. of 1899 is\npreferable) ; Schmidt's Shakespeare Lexicon (3d ed. 1902) ; Lit-\ntledale's ed. of Dyce's Glossary (1902) ; Bartlett's Concordance to\nShakespeare (1895) ; Abbott's Shakespearian Grammar (1873) ;\nFurness's \" New Variorum \" ed. of the plays (encyclopaedic and\nexhaustive) ; Dowden's Shakspere : His Mind and Art (American\ned. 1881) ; Hudson's Life^ Art, and Characters of Shakespeare\n(revised ed. 1882) ; Mrs. Jameson's Characteristics of Women\n(several eds. ; some with the title Shakespeare Heroines^ \\ Ten\nBrink's Five Lectures on Shakespeare (1895); Boas's Shakespeare\nand LJis Predecessors (1895); Dyer's Folk-lore of Shakespeare\n(American ed. 1884); Gervinus's Shakespeare Co?nmentaries (Bun-\nnett's translation, 1875); \"Wordsworth's Shakespeare's Knowledge\nof the Bible (3d ed. 1880); Elson's Shakespeare in Music (1901);\nRolfe's Life of Shakespeare (1904).\nSome of the above books will be useful to all readers who are\ninterested in special subjects or in general criticism of Shakespeare.\nAmong those which are better suited to the needs of ordinary\nreaders and students, the following may be mentioned : Mabie's\nWilliam Shakespeare, Poet, Dramatist, and Man (1900); Dow-\nden's Shakspere Primer (1877; small but invaluable); Rolfe's\nof 1","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:05.249Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1084},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4N3KNPAGDJAVRPVWBA4","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:06.369Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:12.297Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}