Subject (Topic): Brit tracts--1803 - Yale University Library Search Results

Creator:: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Published / Created:: [1803?]
Call Number:: BrSides Folio 2000 4
Image Count:: 2
Abstract:: A series of patriotic quotations from Shakespeare, followed by a prose address urging resistance to Napoleon's intended invasion of England.
Description:: Imperfect: mutilated, some text supplied in ms. notes.
Publisher:: Luke Hansard, printer, Great Turnstile, Lincoln's-Inn Fields, London,
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain--History--1789-1820
Subject (Name):: Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821
Subject (Topic):: Brit tracts--1803 and Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Shakespeare's ghost! Our immortal bard, who was as good an Englishman as a poet, whose breast glowed as much with enthusiastic love of his country, as his fancy with poetic fire, addresses his countrymen in the following animated strain ...