Excerpt from Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: An Exposition of Their Similarities of Thought and Expression; Preceded by a View of Emblem-Literature Down to A. D. 1616
Few only are the remarks absolutely needed by way of introduction to a work which within itself sufficiently explains and carries out a new method of illustration for the dramas of Shakespeare. As author, I commenced this volume because of various observations which, while reading several of the early Emblem writers, I had mad...