Excerpt from The Shakespere Marriage Picture: With Critical Observations, Reflections, Historical Memoranda, Correspondence, Literary Notices, &C., &C., &C Athenians of old, ever seeking some new thing for the gratification of their curiosity, their self-love, their vanity, their love of knowledge, or their boundless ambition in the realm of imagination and fact. Shakespere has dealt with the minute and the mighty, the insignificant and'the infinite, the mean and the majestic, the beautiful and the base, the simple and the sublime, the trifling and the important, the wisdom and the folly, the joy and the sorrow, the love and the hate, the jealousy and the malevolence, the extravagant and the matter - of - fact, the fantastic and the horrible, the ideal and the real, behind the curtain that conceals the arcana of this wonderful world of man - a mighty maze but not without a plan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.