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to use them as pawns, in the
high-staked and risky game, he
was playing for his church.

The largest collection of work
on one special subject is the
Shakesperiana, (books and pamphlets
together more than 2,000 items).
Ideal lives of our Poet, evolved
from the writers inner
consciousness, or from the imigary of
the Sonnets -- a surprising fecundity
of suggestion in amending the text
of the early quarto & the first folio
editions of the plays - much criticism,
varying from cantankerous carping
to fulsome eulogy -- analysis, running
the gamut from transcendental
idealism to the most prosaic
realism -- many vols of pictorial
illustration, with much literary

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