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                          WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

                     _PLAYER, POET, AND PLAYMAKER_




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[Illustration: W. Heydemann, Sc.

EDWARD ALLEYN.]




                          A CHRONICLE HISTORY

                                 OF THE

                             LIFE AND