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Excerpt from Selected Notes Upon Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest Having abandoned the critical and philological study of the text of Shakespeare in favour of a more exclusive attention to the Biography of the Poet, and the history of the early English stage, I was perplexed what course to adopt respecting a large quantity of new materials belonging to the former class, which had accumulated by old-book reading since the completion of my l...

Excerpt from Curiosities of Modern Shaksperian Criticism The judgment of contemporary criticism, with respect to the merits of works of learning and research, has scarcely a perceptible influence on the opinions of those for whom they are chiefly designed, and its effect even on the general reader is of a very ephemeral character, for whenever a work possesses valuable information peculiar to itself, there is a certainty that it will be appre...

Excerpt from Memoranda on the Midsummer Night's Dream: A. D. 1879 and A. D. 1855 Stowe's notice of the "fair harvest" in August is inconsistent with Titania's description. Let us hope that the following new evidence derived from Spenser may be considered to be of a more decisive character. It is this. There seems to be a certainty that Shakespeare, in the composition of the Midsummer Night's Dream, had in one place a recollection of the sixt...

Excerpt from The Works of John Marston, Vol. 2 of 3: Reprinted From the Original Editions, With Notes, and Some Account of His Life and Writings I Have ever more endevoured to know my selfe, than to be knowne of others, and rather to be unpartially beloved of all, than factiously to bee admired of a few, yet so powerfully have I been enticed with the delights of poetry, and (I must ingeniously confesse) above better desert so unfortunate in t...

Excerpt from The Works of John Marston, Vol. 1 of 3: Reprinted From the Original Editions, With Notes, and Some Account of His Life and Writings Mary, daughter of the Rev. William Wilkes, Chaplain to James I., and Rector of St. Martin's, co. Wilts. Now Wood, in a notice of Wilkes, says that the latter died at Barford St. Martin, in Wiltshire, of which he was rector, leaving a daughter named Mary, who was married to John Marston of the city of...

Excerpt from A Calendar of the Shakespearean Rarities, 1887: Drawings and Engravings Preserved at Hollingbury Copse, Near BrightonFor nearly half a century I have been an ardent Shakespearean collector, being most likely the only survivor of the little band who attended the sale of the library of George Chalmers somewhere about the year 1840. But foralong time, attempt ing too much in several directions with insufficient means, and harassed, m...

Excerpt from The Remarks of M. Karl Simrock: On the Plots of Shakespeare's Plays III. Historical, including inquiries into the sources of the plots, local and contemporary illustra tion of realities (not words), costume, and all that relates to history, geography, chronology, &c., About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction o...

Excerpt from The Voiage and Grabaile, of Sir John Maundevile, Kt: Which Treateth of the Way to Hierusalem, And of Marvayles of Inde, With Other Ilands and Countryes, With an Introduction, Additional Notes, and GlossaryThis Edition agrees with the Latin and French mss., and appears to be the genuine Work of the Author, who says, that be translated it out of Latin into French, and out of French into English whereas all other printed Editions are...

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Excerpt from A Catalogue of a Small Portion of the Engravings and Drawings Illustrative of the Life of Shakespeare Although this selection has reference solely to my own requirements, there are included in it a. Sufficient number of interesting objects to justify a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important h...

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Excerpt from Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare, Vol. 1 Stage. This biographical indifference continued for many years, and long before the season arrived for a real curiosity to be taken m the subject, the records from which alone a satisfactory memoir could have been constructed had disappeared. At the time of Shake speare's decease, non-political correspondence was rarely preserved, elaborate diaries were not the fashion, and no one, exce...

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