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Excerpt from Memoranda on the Tragedy of Hamlet The following pages contain merely a few straggling memoranda on the tragedy of Hamlet selected from a large number of notes made chiefly in years gone by, and now issued in the hope that they include suggestions which may be useful to future editors or critics. Had I consulted my own reputation, or now cared much for the slender credit attached to works on Shakespearean criticism, it would have...

Excerpt from Rambles in Western Cornwall by the Footsteps of the Giants: With Notes on the Celtic Remains of the Land's End District and the Islands of Scilly I had never opened that singular and valuable folio volume, - Borlase's Antiquities of Cornwall, first published in 1754, and again, with a few additons, in 1769, - without feeling a curiosity and desire to examine the original monuments therein described, and to pay a visit to a land w...

Excerpt from Memoranda: On All's Well That Ends Well, the Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, and on Titus Andronicus The main incidents of the serious portion of the present comedy were originally related in the Decameron of Boccaccio, in the ninth novel of the third day, a story which was known to Shakespeare through the medium of an English translation, first published in William Painter's Palace of Pleasure, in the year 1566,...

Excerpt from A Hand-List of the Drawings and Engravings Illustrative of the Life of Shakespeare, Preserved at Hollingbury Copse, Near Brighton It is very difficult to meet with pictorial illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare that belong to even a small antiquity. With the ex ception of two or three found in periodicals, and which are sufficiently common, any of the kind which were executed more than seventy years ago are of exceedingly rar...

Excerpt from Memoranda on Love's Labour's Lost, King John, Othello, and on Romeo and Juliet The composition and structure of Love's Labour's Lost unquestionably lead to a supposition that the main incidents were taken from some old romantic story not yet discovered, and that the tale, whenever it may be found, will probably have been rightly conjectured to belong to the cycle of the lighter romances of chivalry. Douce is of opinion it was bor...

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 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...

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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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