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of Plutarch's Lives, and here we have
in a massive volume the edition of
1631. Shakespeare has "gone over to
the majority" before this book leaves
the press, yet, as the first fine folio
issues are the same - page for page,
line for line, word for word, letter
for letter - except that with each succeeding
issue additional lives are tacked on
at the end of the vol - we have the satisfaction
of looking on the page exactly as
Shakespere looked at it on his table,
while he was converting whole paragraphs of the
strong nervous prose of North, into
the magic poetry of his own blank
verse, converting it for with surprisingly few verbal
alterations.

The Shkr. collection includes reprints
of many of the sources from which the
plots of the dramas may have been
drawn, and of the jest books he quotes, but

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