Excerpt from Studies in Shakespeare Most of those who have asked this advice are, I am inclined to think, very young, as indeed some of them say they are and a large proportion are plainly girls just beginning to feel their way in literature, and they ask, in the words of one of them, How shall I begin? And which plays shall I read first, so as to be sure to like them and their author? Such uncertainty, I must confess, does not promise any genuine, strong taste for Shakespeare. Boys are of slower mental growth than girls, especially upon the poetical and sentimental Side; but no boy who is a born Shake speare-lover needs to ask such a question as that at sixteen. He has then already stepped in too far to pick his way or to turn back. 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.