CONTENTS.

PART I. Preratory Essay: Explanatory of the Plan of the Work, and containing an Inquiry into the Merits of Shakspeare's Principal Editors, Commentators, and Critics . . 3

PART II.

Memorials of Shakspeare; or Sketches of his Character and Genius.

On the Characteristics of Shakspeare.-Coleridge. 73

On the Universality of the Genius of Shakspeare, and on his Irregularities in relation to Dramatic Unity.-Campbell. 87

On the Genius of Shakspeare, and on his Four Dramas, Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, and Lear.-BLACKWOOD's EDINBURGH Magazine. . . . . . . 93

On the Character and Feelings of Shakspeare.- Frederick' SCHLEGEL. . . . . . . . 105

On the Influence of Shakspeare over the Human Mind.RETROSPECTIVE Review. . . . . . . 110

On Shakspeare, and on the Character of his Tragedies.MADAME DE STAEL Holstein. . . . . . 113

On Shakspeare, and on the Character of his Comedies.GREGORY. . . . . . . . . 128

On the Fame and Acquirements of Shakspeare. -AUGUSTUS WILLIAM SCHLEGEL. . . . . . . 131

• MEMORIALS :

OF

SH A KS PEARE;

OR,

SKETCHES OF

HIS CHARACTER AND GENIUS,

BY VARIOUS WRITERS,

NOW FIRST COLLECTED :

WITH

A PREFATORY AND CONCLUDING ESSAY,

AND NOTES,

BY NATHAN DRAKE, M.D. H.A.L.

AUTHOR OF SHAKSPEARE AND HIS TIMES,”

FORMING A VALUABLE ACCOMPANIMENT TO

EVERY EDITION OF THE POET.

LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1828.

PRINTED BY A. J. VALPY, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET, LONDON.