Testimony of the Sonnets
as to the Authorship
 of the Shakespearean 
Plays and Poems
 
By Jesse Johnson
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G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1899
Copyright, 1899
BY
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
 
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
 
DEDICATED TO
  ALBERT E. LAMB

  PARTNER AND FRIEND FOR TWENTY YEARS
  OF THE ROYAL LINE OF LOYAL GENTLEMEN
CONTENTS
 
PAGE
Introductory
        Scope and effect of the discussion
1-5
Chapter I
        The Sonnets contain a message from their author; they portray his real        emotions,
 and are to be read and interpreted literally
7-18
Chapter II
        They indicate that the friend or patron of the poet was a young man, and        of about
 the age of Shakespeare; and that their author was past middle        life, and considerably
 older than Shakespeare
19-48
Chapter III
        Direct statements showing that the Sonnets were not written by their accredited
        author—were not written by Shakespeare
49-58
Chapter IV
        The known facts of Shakespeare's history reveal a character entirely inconsistent
        with, and radically different from, the revelations of the Sonnets as        to the
 character of their author
59-72
Chapter V
        The general scope and effect of the Sonnets inconsistent with the theory        that
 they were written by Shakespeare
73-96
Chapter VI
        The results of the discussion summarized
97-99
Appendix100
 
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INTRODUCTORY
The Shakespearean Sonnets are not a single or connected work like anordinary play or poem. Their composition apparently extended over aconsiderable time, which may be fairly estimated as not less than fouryears. Read literally they seem to portray thoughts, modes orexperiences fairly assignable to such a period. Though variable andsometimes light and airy in their movement, t                        
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