THIS STAR OF ENGLAND
"William Shakes-speare"
Man of the Renaissance
by Dorothy and Charlton Ogburn
(Originally published by Coward-McCann, Inc., New York 1952.
Reprinted with the express permission of Charlton Ogburn, Jr.)

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