The Praise of Shakespeare: An English Anthology

by Unknown

THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON, 1897

“Shakespeare’s Friend speaks.”

To sing the nation’s song, or do the deed

That crowns with richer light the motherland,

Or lend her strength of arm in hour of need,

When fangs of foes shine fierce on every hand,

Is joy to him whose joy is working well—

Is goal and guerdon too, though never fame

Should find a thrill of music in his name;

Yea, goal and guerdon too, though Scorn should aim

Her arrows at his soul’s high citadel.

But if the fates withhold the joy from me

To do the deed that widens England’s day,

Or join that song of Freedom’s jubilee

Begun when England started on her way—

Withhold from me the hero’s glorious power

To strike with song or sword for her, the mother,

And give that sacred guerdon to another,

Him will I hail as my more noble brother—

Him will I love for his diviner dower.

Enough for me who have our Shakespeare’s love

To see a poet win the poet’s goal,

For Will is he; enough and far above

All other prizes to make rich my soul.

“Christmas at the Mermaid.” The Coming of Love, and Other Poems, 1898 [1897].

JUDGE WILLIS, 1902
(b. 1835)

“Examination of Edward Blount, one of the printers and publishers of the Shakespeare folio of 1623.”

Did you never hear that Shakespeare the actor, whom you knew, had nothing to do with the pieces published under his name?

I never did.

Did you never hear that the name “Shakespeare,” that is, with the “e” after the “k,” was assumed to cover and conceal the writings of a very great, distinguished man?

I never did.

Would you be surprised to hear that Lord Bacon—

The reporter says that as soon as this word escaped from Counsel’s lips, the whole Court was convulsed with laughter, in which the jury joined.

To save appearances, the learned Judge retired into his private room, as he said, in order to fetch his copy of “Venus and Adonis.” His laughter was heard in the hall.

“We noticed,” says the reporter, “that Mr. Jonson never smiled. He seemed deeply moved, and exclaimed, ‘What next? And next?’”

On the return of the Judge, the laughter had not quite subsided, and the usher cried “Order, Order.”

The Judge, on again taking his seat, said to the Counsel for the defence, “I am sorry, sir, your question should have been so received, but you must remember the spectators

are human, and that the jury and myself are not free from infirmity. We are, however, quite impartial.”

The Counsel resumed.

Now that this indecent laughter is over, tell me, sir, do you not know that Lord Bacon was the author of the plays contained in the folio volume?

I do not know it, and never until now have I heard a doubt cast upon the authorship of Shakespeare.

Did you never have any communication from Lord Bacon in respect of the publishing the folio volume?

Never. I never received a paper of any kind from him, nor did I communicate any portion of the manuscript to him.

Did not Mr. Benjamin Jonson bring you the manuscripts, or some of them, from which you printed?

“My lord, my lord!” said Jonson.

“Pray be quiet, Mr. Jonson, you will have your turn directly,” said the Judge.

He did not, nor did he touch any sheet of them. As I have told you, I never communicated with him until I spoke to him about writing some lines for the portrait.

Did not Mr. Jonson write the Dedication or Preface?

He wrote neither. Heminge and Condell wrote the Dedication, and the Address to the Readers they composed in consultation with myself.

Did you not receive money from some one in order to induce you to print the folio?

I did not. I looked to the sale, and the sale only, to recoup myself and my co-adventurers.

Re-examined.—I myself never touched the manuscripts, nor added a line to them. After they were in my

possession, Heminge and Condell never, to my knowledge, altered the manuscripts, nor did any one else.

I could, if necessary, have written a Dedication and the Address to the Readers. I wrote a work entitled “A Hospital for Incurable Fools.” I hope some day such hospital will be founded.

The Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy; A Report of The Trial of an Issue in Westminster Hall, 20 June 1627. Read in the Inner Temple Hall, Thursday, May the 29th, 1902, by William Willis, Treasurer of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, pp. 15-16.

This extract is taken from an account of an imaginary suit in connection with the administration of Shakespeare’s estate, to determine whether the testator was the author of the plays published under the name of William Shakespeare in the folio volume of 1623.

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The Dictionary of National Biography states that Edward Blount (fl. 1588-1632), the stationer, has been credited on doubtful grounds with the authorship of the very curious Hospitall of Incvrable Fooles: Erected in English, as neer the first Italian Modell and platforme as the vnskilful hand of an ignorant Architect could deuise. Printed by Edm. Bollifant for Edward Blount, 1600.

TO MY VERY GOOD FRIEND, MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

It’s not because I know that you

Are really what the World has found you,

That I collect and tell anew

The tributes that have gathered round you.

Not moved to tread the lofty ways

Of those great souls who turned their powers,

As duty-bounden, to your praise,

Weave I this little wreath of flowers.

You have, I know, a “myriad mind,”

A “honey tongue” to tell a story;

You left poor “panting Time” behind,

(See Johnson) in the race for glory—

’Tis true. But when all’s said and done,

With thought and rhetoric impassioned,

You’ve been, and are, a Friend to one

Whose mind is not supremely fashioned.

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INDEX

• Addison, Joseph. Cato, [18], [23].
  • Compared with Shakespeare, [18].
  • His contemporary fame, [22].
  • Lines to. By William Somervile, and by John Hughes, [23].
  • The Spectator (No. 45), [278];
  • (No. 592), [84].
  • Voltaire’s opinion of, [18].
• Akenside, Mark. An Inscription, [105].
  • The Remonstrance of Shakespeare, [284].
• Among My Books. By James Russell Lowell, [174], [266].
• Appreciations, with an Essay on Style. By Walter Pater, [193].
• Argalus and Parthenia. By Francis Quarles. Possible allusion to Shakespeare in, [5 n.]
• Armstrong, John. Of the Versification of English Tragedy, [100].
  • Of the Dramatic Unities, [100].
• Arnold, Matthew. Essays in Criticism, [195].
  • Heine’s Grave, [265].
  • His Sonnet on Shakespeare, [29], [169].
  • His edition of Wordsworth’s Poems, [195].
• Art of English Poetry. By Edward Bysshe, [26 n.]
• At the Mermaid. By Robert Browning, [31].
• Autumn Vision, An. By A. C. Swinburne, [201].
• B., A. Covent Garden Drollery, [69].
• Bab Ballads. By W. S. Gilbert, [318].
• Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam, [145].
  • Compared with Shakespeare, [168], [316].
  • His supposed authorship of Shakespeare’s Works, [v], [326].
• Bancroft, Thomas. To Shakespeare, from Two Bookes of Epigrammes and Epitaphs, [57].
• Barnfield, Richard. A Remembrance of some English Poets, from Poems in Divers Humors, [36].
• Basse, William. On Mr. William Shakespeare, [40].
• Battaile of Agincourt, The. By Michael Drayton, [48].
• Baynes, Thomas Spencer. Article on “Shakespeare” in Encyclopædia Britannica, [207].
• Beaumont, Francis, [40], [42], [80].
• Beddoes, T. L. Lines written in Switzerland, [258].
• Betterton, Thomas, seen by Samuel Pepys as Macbeth, [63].
• Bickerstaff, Isaac. Queen Mab, [299].
• Biographia Literaria. By S. T. Coleridge, [130], [232].
• Blackmore, Sir Richard. His Creation, Johnson’s criticism of, [21].
• Blind, Mathilde. Shakespeare, from Shakespeare Sonnets, [213].
• Blount, Edward, [326-8].
• Blue-stocking Revels. By Leigh Hunt, [247].
• Boileau and Pope, [292].
• Boston, Shakespeare Jubilee at, 1824. Prize Ode by Charles Sprague, [142].
• Boswell, James, the elder. Life of Dr. Johnson, [94], [107].
• Boswell, James, the younger. His edition of Shakespeare’s Works, [20].
• Bowle, John. Miscellaneous Pieces of Ancient English Poetry, [26 n.]
• Bowles, William Lisle. Monody on the Death of Dr. Warton, [228].
  • On Shakespeare, from Sonnets, with other Poems, [124].
• Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery, [148].
• Braybrooke, Lord. Samuel Pepys’ Diary and Correspondence, [62].
• Brooke, Stopford A. Life and Letters of Frederick William Robertson, [164].
• Browne, Felicia Dorothea, afterwards Mrs. Hemans. England and Spain, [229].
  • Shakespeare, [128].
• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. A Vision of Poets, [252].
• Browning, Robert. At the Mermaid, [31].
  • Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, [255].
  • The Names, [204].
• Burlington, Lord, [225].
• Butler, Samuel. The Court Burlesqu’d. Possible allusion to Shakespeare in, [5].
• Byron, Lord. Letter to Murray, [239].
• Bysshe, Edward. Art of English Poetry, [26 n.]
• Caius Marius, a Tragedy. Otway’s Prologue to, [72].
• Canons of Criticism. By Thomas Edwards, [281], [303], [304 n.]
• Capell, Edward. His edition of Shakespeare’s Works, [20], [107], [303], [304 n.]
  • Johnson’s criticism of, [304 n.]
• Caractacus. By William Mason, [101].
• Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism, [249].
  • Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, [242], [249].
  • Essay on Corn Law Rhymes in Edinburgh Review, [158].
  • Goethe, [242].
  • The Hero as Poet, from On Heroes and Hero Worship, [157].
  • Shooting Niagara: and After? [264].
• Catalogue of Printed Books collected by Frederick Locker-Lampson, [198].
• Characteristics of English Poets. By William Minto, [189].
• Charge to the Poets, A. By William Whitehead, [109].
• Charles I. His influence on literature, [12].
  • His knowledge of Shakespeare, [7].
• Charles II. His influence on literature, [12].
• Chartism. By Thomas Carlyle, [249].
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, [40], [42].
• Christmas at the Mermaid. By Theodore Watts-Dunton, [325].
• Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. By Robert Browning, [255].
• Churchill, Charles. The Rosciad, [108].
• Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare. By W. S. Landor, [30].
• Coleridge, Hartley. To Shakespeare, [148].
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, [ix].
  • His achievement as an æsthetic critic, [28].
  • Biographia Literaria, [130], [232].
  • His general dislike of “Selections,” [131].
  • His influence on the poetry of the nineteenth century, [27].
  • Letters, [246].
  • Literary Remains, [28], [131].
  • His notes on The Tempest, [132 n.]
  • Outline of an Introductory Lecture on Shakespeare, [232].
  • Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton, [232].
  • Table Talk, [240], [243], [246].
• Collier, John Payne, [162].
• Collins, William. Verses addressed to Sir Thomas Hanmer, [92].
• Colman, George, [224].
  • Prose on several Occasions, [224].
  • His translation of Terence, [224].
• Combe, William. The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, [308].
• Coming of Love, The. By Theodore Watts-Dunton, [325].
• Condell, Henrie, and John Heminge. To the Great Variety of Readers, from the Shakespeare First Folio, [46].
• Conduct of Life. By Ralph Waldo Emerson, [251].
• Congreve, William, [12], [114].
• Conjectures on Original Composition. By Edward Young, [104], [224].
• Connoisseur, The. Its attitude towards Shakespeare, [21].
• Cook, A. S. Leigh Hunt’s Imagination and Fancy, [250].
• Court Burlesqu’d, The. By Samuel Butler. Possible allusion to Shakespeare in, [5 n.]
• Covent Garden Drollery. Collected by A. B., [69].
• Covent Garden Theatre, Dr. Syntax in the pit of, [308].
• Creation, The. By Sir Richard Blackmore, [21].
• Crowne, John. Prologue to Henry the Sixth, [220].
• Cunningham, Peter. Letters of Horace Walpole, [99], [226], [305].
• Cymbeline, [148].
• Daniel, George. Vindication of Poesie, [58].
• D’Avenant, Sir William, [53].
  • His adaptations of Shakespeare’s Plays, [10].
  • Ode. In Remembrance of Master William Shakespeare, from Madagascar, [54].
  • His version of The Tempest, [67].
• Davies, John. “To our English Terence, Mr. Will Shakespeare,” from The Scourge of Folly, [38].
• Dennis, John. An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespeare, [82].
• De Quincey, Thomas. His article on “Pope” in the Encyclopædia Britannica, [248].
  • His article on “Shakespeare” in the Encyclopædia Britannica, [150], [248].
  • His criticism of Pope’s Preface, [87 n.]
  • His misinterpretation of the allusion to Shakespeare in Milton’s Eikonoklastes, [8].
  • On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth, [30], [152 n.]
  • Schlosser’s Literary History, [254].
• Dialogues of the Dead. By Lord Lyttelton, [292].
• Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, [62].
• Dibdin, J. B. Letter to, from Charles Lamb, [313].
• Digges, Leonard. To the Memory of the deceased Author, Maister W. Shakespeare: from the Shakespeare First Folio, [47].
• Dodsley, J. His Collection of Poems by Several Hands, [26 n.], [123].
• Dowden, Edward. Shakespeare, his Mind and Art, [28], [190], [267].
• Dramatic Poesie, An Essay. By John Dryden, [67].
• Dramatic Poetry, An Essay on. By a Person of Honour, [74].
• Dramatic Race, The, [298].
• Dramatic Unities, Of the. By John Armstrong, [100].
• Drayton, Michael. To my most dearly-beloved friend Henery Reynolds, from The Battaile of Agincourt, [48].
• Dryden, John, [3], [10], [114].
  • His contemporary fame, [22].
  • Defence of the Epilogue, [68].
  • The first skilled critic of Shakespeare, [11].
  • His influence on eighteenth century literature, [13].
  • Of Dramatic Poesie, [66].
  • Prologue to The Tempest, [66].
  • Prologue to Troilus and Cressida, [67].
• Dyce, Alexander, [162].
• Dyer, George. Poetics, [231].
• Earth’s Holocaust. By Nathaniel Hawthorne, [314].
• Edinburgh Review. Article by Carlyle in, [158].
  • Articles by Jeffrey in, [133], [230].
  • Articles by Macaulay in, [160], [245].
• Edwards, Thomas, [303], [304 n.]
  • Canons of Criticism, [281].
• Edwin and Emma. By David Mallet, [24].
• Eikonoklastes. By John Milton. Allusion to Shakespeare in, [7].
• Elegie on the Death of the famous Writer and Actor, Mr. William Shakespeare, from Shakespeare’s Poems, [55].
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Conduct of Life, [262].
  • Representative Men, [162], [251].
  • Shakespeare, or the Poet, [162].
• Encyclopædia Britannica, [150], [208], [248].
• England and Spain. By Felicia Dorothea Hemans, [229].
• Enthusiast, The. By Joseph Warton, [91].
• Epigrammes and Epitaphs. By Thomas Bancroft, [57].
• Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut and Newest Fashion. By John Weever, [37].
• Epigrams. By Samuel Sheppard, [59].
• Epigrams of Art, Life, and Nature. By William Watson, [270].
• Epitaph on a Tombstone of Shakespeare, [223].
• Essays, Critical and Imaginative. By John Wilson, [140].
• Essays in Criticism. By Matthew Arnold, [195].
• Euphrosyne. By Richard Graves, [225].
• Falstaff, [308].
• Farmer, Richard, [304] and [n.]
  • Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare, [224].
• Fennell’s Shakespeare Repository, [40].
• Fenton, Elijah. An Epistle to Mr. Southerne, [80].
• Ferney: An Epistle to Monsr. De Voltaire. By George Keate, [112].
• Fielding, Henry. A Journey from this World to the Next, [279].
• First Folio Edition of Shakespeare’s Works, [6], [42], [45], [46], [47].
• Five Books of Song. By Richard Watson Gilder, [212].
• Fletcher, John, compared with Shakespeare, [66], [80], [92].
  • His “solecism of speech,” [68].
• Forman, H. Buxton. Works of John Keats, [138].
• Fors Clavigera. By John Ruskin, [273].
• Freeman, Thomas. To Master W. Shakespeare, from Runne, and a Great Caste, [39].
• Froude, James Anthony. Short Studies on Great Subjects, [167].
• Fuller, Thomas. The History of the Worthies of England, [61].
• Furnivall, Dr. Frederick James. The Leopold Shakspere, [192].
  • Some 300 Fresh Allusions to Shakspere from 1594 to 1694, [viii], [5].
• Fuseli, John Henry, [148].
• Garden Inscriptions. By William Thomson, [110].
• Garrick, David, [144].
  • His criticism of Johnson’s praise of Shakespeare, [94].
  • Epistle to. By Robert Lloyd, [106].
  • Shakespeare’s debt to, [106].
  • His connection with the Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford-on-Avon, [25].
  • His Shakespeare temple at Hampton, [26], [306-7].
  • Verses addressed to, [25].
  • Warwickshire: A Song, from Shakespeare’s Garland, [113].
• Gastrell, Rev. Dr. F., and Shakespeare’s mulberry tree, [10], [185].
• Genius and Writings on Shakespeare, An Essay on the. By John Dennis, [82].
• Genius of Shakespeare, To the. By James Hogg, [146].
• Gentleman’s Magazine, [223], [301].
• Gilbert, William Schwenck. An Unfortunate Likeness, from More Bab Ballads, [318].
• Gilder, Richard Watson. The Twenty-third of April, from Five Books of Song, [212].
• Goethe, Carlyle’s Essay on, [242].
  • Compared with Shakespeare, [158], [159].
• Goethe reviewed after Sixty Years. By J. R. Seeley, [272].
• Goldsmith, Oliver. A Reverie at the Boar’s Head Inn, [291].
• Graves, Richard. On Erecting a Monument to Shakespeare, from Euphrosyne, [225].
• Gray, Thomas. The Progress of Poesy, [102].
• Guardian, The. Its attitude towards Shakespeare, [20].
• Guesses at Truth. By Julius Charles Hare, [145].
• Hales, John. Quoted in Rowe’s edition of Shakespeare’s Works, [53].
• Hallam, Henry. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, [155].
• Hamilton, William. A Soliloquy in Imitation of Hamlet, [24].
• Hamlet, [323].
  • Early æsthetic criticism of, [27].
• Hanmer, Sir Thomas. His edition of Shakespeare’s Works, [16], [93].
  • Verses addressed to. By William Collins, [92].
• Hare, Julius Charles. Guesses at Truth, [145].
• Hawkins, Sir John, [303], [304 n.]
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Earth’s Holocaust, from Mosses from an Old Manse, [314].
  • Our Old Home, [175].
  • On visiting Shakespeare’s house, [175].
• Hayley, William. A Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter [George Romney], [120].
• Hazlitt, William, [ix], [28].
  • Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, Jeffrey’s review of, [134].
  • On Dryden and Pope, [136].
  • Lectures on the English Poets, [135-7], [189], [234].
  • Round Table, The, [137].
  • On Shakespeare and Milton, [135], [234].
  • Table Talk, [237].
• Headley, Henry. Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, [26 n.]
• Heine’s Grave. By Matthew Arnold, [265].
• Hemans, Felicia Dorothea. England and Spain, [229].
  • Shakespeare, [128].
• Heminge, John, and Henrie Condell. To the great Variety of Readers, from the Shakespeare First Folio, [46].
• Henry V. Performance of, witnessed by Samuel Pepys, [62].
• Henry VI., part I. John Crowne’s adaptation of, [220].
• Heroes and Hero Worship, On. By Thomas Carlyle, [157].
• Higden, Henry. The Wary Widdow, or Sir Noisy Parrat, [75].
• History of England. By David Hume, [97].
• Hogg, James. To the Genius of Shakespeare, from Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd, [146].
• Holland, Hugh. Upon the Lines and Life of the Famous Scenick Poet, Master William Shakespeare, from the Shakespeare First Folio, [45].
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Poet at the Breakfast Table, [323].
  • Shakespeare Tercentennial Celebration, from Songs of Many Seasons, [177].
• Hood, Thomas. The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, [241].
• Hospitall of Incurable Fooles, [328] and [n.]
• Hughes, John. Verses to Mr. Addison, [23].
• Hugo, Victor. Shakespeare, [10], [28].
  • On Shakespeare’s posthumous fame, [10].
• Hume, David. History of England, [97].
• Hunt, Leigh. Associations with Shakespeare from Table Talk, [166].
  • Blue-Stocking Revels, [247].
  • Thoughts on the Avon, [233].
  • What is Poetry? from Imagination and Fancy, [250].
• Hymn to the Moon. By D. M. Moir, [257].
• Hymn to the Nymph of Bristol. By William Whitehead, [24].
• Idea of a University, The. By John Henry Newman, [171].
• Idea of Comedy, On the. By George Meredith, [191].
• Imaginary Conversations. By Walter Savage Landor, [253], [316].
• Imagination and Fancy. By Leigh Hunt, [247].
• Imitations of Horace. By Alexander Pope, [221].
• Immortal Memory of Shakespeare, To the, [116].
• I. M. S. On Worthy Master Shakespeare and his Poems, from the Shakespeare Second Folio, [50].
  • Coleridge’s conjecture as to the identity of, [7], [52 n.]
• Ingleby, Dr. Shakespeare’s Centurie of Prayse, [vii], [4].
• Inscription, An. By Mark Akenside, [105].
• In Shakespeare’s Walk. By William Thompson, [110].
• Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries. By Henry Hallam, [155].
• James I. His influence on literature, [12], [13].
• Jeffrey, Francis, Lord, [230].
  • His article on Hazlitt’s Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays in the Edinburgh Review, [133].
• Jennens, Charles, [303], [304 n.]
• Johnson, Dr. Samuel, his attitude towards Shakespeare, [16].
  • His criticism of Capell’s Preface, [107].
  • His edition of Shakespeare’s Works, [17-18], [111].
  • His edition of British Poets, [21-22].
  • The effect of his judgment on contemporary thought, [19-20].
  • His indictment and defence of Shakespeare, [17-18].
  • His connection with the Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford-on-Avon, [25].
  • His Life. By James Boswell, [94], [107].
  • His position as a literary censor, [14].
  • His Prologue at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, 1747, [94].
  • The Rambler, [111].
• Jonson, Ben, [74].
  • Compared with Shakespeare, [15], [53], [66], [69], [80], [92], [98], [104].
  • To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, from the Shakespeare First Folio, [42].
• Johnstone, ——. The Table Talker, [156].
• Journey from this World to the Next, A. By Henry Fielding, [279].
• Keate, George, Ferney: an Epistle to Monsr. De Voltaire, [112].
• Keats, John. Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, [236].
  • Notes on Troilus and Cressida, [138].
  • Sonnet on sitting down to read “King Lear” once again, [138].
• Kemble, Frances Anne. To Shakespeare, [183].
• Kid, Thomas, [43].
• King Lear, [145], [148], [214].
  • Nahum Tate’s “borrowings” from, [10].
  • Sonnet on sitting down to read it once again. By John Keats, [138].
• Knight, Charles. His history of opinion respecting Shakespeare, [vii].
  • Studies of Shakespeare, [vii].
• Lamb, Charles, [ix].
  • Epilogue to an amateur performance of “Richard II.,” [144].
  • Letter to J. B. Dibdin, [313].
  • Letter to Samuel Rogers on portraits of Shakespeare, [148].
  • Works. Edited by E. V. Lucas, [144], [148], [313].
• Landor, Walter Savage.
  • Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare, [30].
  • Imaginary Conversations, [253], [316].
  • On Shakespeare, [253].
  • Comparison between Shakespeare and Bacon, [316].
  • Shakespeare and Milton, from The lost Fruit off an old Tree, [170].
• Lansdowne, Lord, Epistle to. By Edward Young, [83].
• Learning of Shakespeare, Essay on the. By Richard Farmer, [224].
• Lectures on the English Poets. By William Hazlitt, [135-7].
• Lee, Sidney, and the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, [v].
  • Life of William Shakespeare, [215].
  • Shakespeare in Oral Tradition, [5].
• Leopold Shakspere, The. Edited by F. J. Furnivall, [192].
• Library of Old Authors. By James Russell Lowell, [173].
• Lily, William, [43].
• Lincoln, Abraham, [261].
• Lines written among the Euganean Hills. By P. B. Shelley, [235].
• Lines written in Switzerland. By T. L. Beddoes, [258].
• Literary Amusements. By Daniel Webb, [227].
• Lloyd, David. State Worthies, [13].
• Lloyd, Robert. The Progress of Envy, [288].
  • Shakespeare, an Epistle to Mr. Garrick, [25], [106].
• Locker-Lampson, Frederick. His copy of the 1602 Quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor, [198].
• London Cuckolds, The. By Edward Ravenscroft. A performance of, criticised by Steele, [76].
• Lost Fruit off an old Tree, The. By Walter Savage Landor, [170].
• Love’s Labour’s Lost, [194].
  • Dryden’s criticism of, [68].
• Lowell, James Russell. Among My Books, [174], [266].
  • Library of Old Authors, [173].
  • On Shakespeare’s “artistic discretion” and the “impersonality” of his writings, [174].
• Lucas, E. V. Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, [144], [148], [313].
• Lusiad, The. By William Julius Mickle, [119].
• Lyrical Ballads. By Wordsworth and Coleridge, [27].
• Lyttelton, George, Lord. Dialogues of the Dead, [292].
• Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Lord. The Souls of Books, [259].
• Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord, [295].
  • Essay on The Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay in the Edinburgh Review, [160].
• Macbeth, [145].
  • D’Avenant’s adaptation of, [10].
  • De Quincey on the knocking at the gate in, [30].
  • Performance of, described by Addison, [278].
  • Performances of, witnessed by Samuel Pepys, [62], [63].
• Mackay, Charles. Mist, from Under Green Leaves, [260].
• Madagascar. By Sir William D’Avenant, [54].
• Malone, Edmund. His edition of Shakespeare’s Works, [20].
• Mallet, David. Edwin and Emma, [24].
  • Of Verbal Criticism, [103].
• Mann, Sir Horace. Letter to, from Horace Walpole, [226].
• Marlowe, Christopher, [43].
• Mason, William. Caractacus, [101].
• Massey, Gerald. The Secret Drama of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, [209].
• Masson, David. Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and other Essays, [168].
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FOOTNOTES:

[vii:1] This volume bore the title, Studies of Shakspere: introductory volume, containing A History of Opinion on the Writings of Shakspere; with the Chronology of his Plays. The book in this form seems now to be difficult of access. No copy of it is in the British Museum Library. I acquired a copy for a few pence many years ago.

[5:1] I can myself add nothing but suggestions of possible borrowings from Shakespearean diction. In the poem, The Court Burlesqu’d, printed in Samuel Butler’s Remains, the lines—

“This, by a rat behind the curtain

Has been o’erheard, some say for certain,”

may be reminiscent of the scene in Hamlet in which Polonius is killed; and in Quarles’ Argalus and Parthenia, the expression “to gild perfection,” which occurs in the 21st line of the first book, seems to echo the passage in King John, “to gild refined gold, to paint the lily,” etc.

[10:1] In 1756.

[19:1] Johnson several times expresses himself in a like spirit in his Rambler:

“It may be doubtful whether from all his successors more maxims of theoretical knowledge, or more rules of practical prudence, can be collected than he alone has given to his country.”—Works, v. 131.

“He that has read Shakespeare with attention will, perhaps, find little new in the crowded world.”—Ib. 434.

“Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play, from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators. When his fancy is on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation.”—Ib. 152.

[26:1] A word may be said here of the eighteenth century anthologists. Collections of poems were numerous. That by Dodsley, with its supplement prepared by Pearch, contains nothing by Shakespeare, nor indeed does Nichols’ collection, which claimed to include no poem that had been printed in the volumes issued by Dodsley or Pearch. A collection by Thomas Tomkins, entitled Poems on Various Subjects: selected to enforce the Practice of Virtue, and with a View to comprise in One Volume the Beauties of English Poetry (1787), goes no farther back than Milton; and the well-known anthology, Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, with remarks by Henry Headley, contains such names as Drayton, Warner, Drummond, Raleigh, Surrey, Carew, Wyat, and Browne, but Shakespeare finds no place. He does not, in fact, enter regularly collections of this kind until the beginning of the nineteenth century—the period of “Elegant Extracts.” But he is quoted frequently enough in Edward Bysshe’s Art of English Poetry (1724); and John Bowle, in his Miscellaneous Pieces of Ancient English Poetry (1765), selects from King John.

[28:1] Literary Remains (1836), vol. ii. p. 63.

[185:1] The last line in the earlier version—that printed in the Academy—has “tailor’s” for “Starveling’s.” Rossetti made the alteration from fear of offending sensitive members of the tailoring profession.

[232:1] Coleridge says that he borrowed this phrase from a Greek monk, who applied it to a Patriarch of Constantinople.

[234:1] “These remarks,” Hazlitt adds, “are strictly applicable only to the impassioned parts of Shakespeare’s language, which flowed from the warmth and originality of his imagination, and were his own. The language used for prose conversation and ordinary business is sometimes technical, and involved in the affectation of the time.”

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