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Was Shakespeare a lawyer? : Being a selection of passages from "Measure for measure" and "All's well that ends well": which point to the conclusion that their author must have been a practical lawyer; and in which many obscurities are made clear, and some apparent corruptions in the text are attempted to be restored by an application of a knowledge of English law

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1871.
Call number: 498571
Creator: Terrell, Hull(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 22 cm
Associated organizations: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer,; Witherby & Co.,; Francis Bacon Library,
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