Category: British Literature
HE thirty-seven plays called, collectively, "Shakespeare," are a phenomenon, not only in English letters, but in human experience. The literature of the country to which they belong, had, up to the date of their appearance, failed to furnish, and has been utterly powerless sin...
HE thirty-seven plays called, collectively, "Shakespeare," are a phenomenon, not only in English letters, but in human experience. The literature of the country to which they be...
2. PART II. THE APPEAL TO HISTORY.UT, having taken the liberty of doubting whether--as matter of record--one William Shakespeare, of Stratford town, in England, sometime part-proprietor of the Globe and Blackfri...
3. Scene 1, Arthur says to Hubert:This may be mere coincidence, but the dramas are crowded with such coincidences, and for that, if for that only, are marvelous. In either case, according to the Shakespereans, w...
4. scene ii). "Why two days? The time of the entire action ofthe Tempest is only three hours. What was to be the employment of Ariel during two days? To make the winds and seas favorable during the voyage." (Dowden's Shakespeare's Mind an...
5. PART III. THE JONSONIAN TESTIMONY.This is all there is of Jonson's labored verses, of which very few Shakespeareans care to quote more than isolated passages of a line or two each. But taking them either as a wh...
6. PART IV. EXTRA SHAKESPEAREAN THEORIES: THE DELIA BACON THEORY.HERE is a legal maxim to the effect that he who destroys should be able to build up. The anti-Shakespeareans have not neglected to observe it. The days when William Shakespeare...
7. PART V. THE BACONIAN THEORY.HE English Renaissance Drama seems naturally to group itself into two grand divisions: the Elizabethan drama and--Shakespeare. There is nothing in the first which surprises: whi...
8. Scene 9.=Punctuation is a fruitful source of misunderstanding between an author and his printer. Very few authors punctuate their manuscript as they would wish to see it in the print, an...
9. Part II., ch. vi., p. 32, note.)A selection of his poems, edited by Lamb, is printed in Bohn's Standard Library. But by far the most careful account of Greene's career, as connected with "William Shakespeare,...
10. PART VI. THE NEW THEORY--THE SONNETS--CONCLUSION.F a matter so indifferent as the number of pebbles in Demosthenes' mouth when he practiced oratory on the beach, no effort of credulity can be predicated. But when a proposition...
11. PART VI.--THE NEW THEORY, {290}A play called "Duke Humphrey," attributedto Shakespeare, was amongst the dramatic manuscripts destroyed by the carelessness of Warburton's servant, in the early part of the last century, as appears by the list preserve...
12. chapter iv.That a rustic butcher-lad should, while holding horses at the door of a city theater, produce as "the first heir of his invention"--the very first thing he turned his pen to--so...
13. Part III.It was only by just such circumstantial evidence as has been grouped in these papers (such as the {295}Elizabethan orthography and philology--the use of Roman instead of Arabic...