litt, Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1817; new ed. by Bohn, with the Lectures on Age of Elizabeth, 1870); E. Dowden, Shakspere: his Mind and Art (American ed. 1881); H. N. Hudson, Life, Art, and Characters of Shakespeare (revised ed. 1882); R. G. White, Shakespeare's Scholar (1854) and Studies in Shakespeare (1886); J. Weiss, Wit, Humour, and Shakespeare (1876); D. J. Snider, System of Shakespeare's Dramas (1877); Lady Martin, Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters (1884); L. Lewes, Women of Shakespeare (1895); Mrs. F. A. Kemble, Notes on Shakespeare's Plays (1882); R. G. Moulton, Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist (3d ed. 1893); B. E. Warner, English History in the Plays of Shakespeare (1894); B. Wendell, William Shakespeare (1895); A. C. Swinburne, Study of Shakespeare (1880); T. P. Courtenay, Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakespeare (1840); J. W. Hales, Essays and Notes on Shakespeare (1892); B. Ten Brink, Five Lectures on Shakespeare (1895); G. G. Gervinus, Shakespeare Commentaries, translated by F. E. Bunnett (new ed. 1875); H. Ulrici, Shakespeare's Dramatic Art, translated by L. D. Schmitz (1876); H. Corson, Introduction of Study to Shakespeare (1899); T. R. Lounsbury, Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist (1902); L. A. Sherman, What is Shakespeare? (1902). MISCELLANEA. -R. Farmer, Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare (2d ed. 1767; several times re printed); L. M. Griffiths, Evenings with Shakespere (1889; very useful in Shakespeare reading-clubs); Charles and Mary Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare (many editions; one with notes by W. J. Rolfe, 2 vols., 1890); Mary Cowden-Clarke, Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines (best ed. 5 vols., 1891); C. M. Ingleby et al., Shakespeare's Centurie of Prayse (references to Shakespeare between 1591 and 1693; 2d ed. 1879, published by New Shakspere Society); M. R. Silsby, Tributes to Shakespeare (1892); W. Andrews, Bygone Warwickshire (1893); W. Black, Judith Shakespeare (1884; a novel, but a careful study of the scene and the times); J. Bennett, Master Skylark (1897); Imogen Clark, Will Shakespeare's Little Lad (1897); C. E. Phelps, Falstaff and Equity (1901); J. A. Symonds, The Predecessors of Shakespeare (new ed. 1900); E. J. Dunning, Genesis of Shakespeare's Art (1897); J. J. Jusserand, The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare (1890), and Shakespeare in France under the Ancien Régime (1899); F. G. Fleay, Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559–1642 (1891); W. H. Fleming, How to Study Shakespeare (2 vols. 1898, 1899), and Shakespeare's Plots (1902). For the "Collier controversy " concerning the emendations which J. P. Collier asserted that he had found in a copy of the second (1632) folio, see A. Dyce's Strictures on Collier's New Edition of Shakespeare (1858); N. E. S. A. Hamilton's Enquiry into the Genuineness of the Ms. Corrections in Collier's Shakespeare (1860); S. W. Singer's The Text of Shakespeare Vindicated, etc. (1853); and C. M. Ingleby's Complete View of the Shakespearian Controversy (1861). For the Baconian theory of the authorship of the plays and poems, see W. H. Wyman's Bibliography of the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy (1884), and supplements to the same in the magazine Shakespeariana. The most important work on the Baconian side is N. Holmes's Authorship of Shakespeare (3d ed. 2 vols., 1886; sufficiently answered by J. Spedding's letter to the author, printed in the appendix, pp. 612-618); and on the other side Mrs. C. C. Stopes's The Bacon-Shakspere Question Answered (2d ed. 1889); Charles Allen's Notes on the Bacon-Shakespeare Question (1900; valuable also for its discussion of Shakespeare's legal attainments); Miss E. Marriott's Bacon or Shakespeare? (1899). BIBLIOGRAPHIES. For these see Lowndes's Library Manual (Bohn's ed.); Franz Thimm's Shakespeariana (1864 and 1871); the Encyclopedia Britannica (9th ed.); and the British Museum Catalogue, the Shakespeariana of which (3680 titles) was published separately in 1897. The Catalogue of the Barton Collection (Boston Public Library) will also be found particularly useful. THE END. |