Read The Henry Irving Shakespeare. Volume 4: King Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and Twelfth Night. Cambridge Library Collection. Literary Studies - William Shakespeare | ePub Online

Henry Irving, the influential and controversial Victorian actor, was closely involved in the publication of this distinctive Shakespeare edition. As an actor, his concern was largely with the intellectual project of seeing each play as a unified work, rather than with producing strong emotional effects in the audience. In the words of his obituary in The Times, he appealed