The work consists of nine essays under the following titles:
| I.— | Shakespeare and his Esthetic Critics. |
| II.— | Much Ado about Sonnets. |
| III.— | Whose Sonnets? |
| IV.— | Something touching the Lord Hamlet. |
| V.— | Sir William D’Avenant and the First Shakespearean Revival. |
| VI.— | Law and Medicine in the Plays. |
| VII.— | Queen Elizabeth’s Share in the Merry Wives Of Windsor. |
| VIII.— | The Growth and Vicissitudes of a Shakespearean Play. |
| IX.— | Have we a Shakespeare among us? |
Mr. Morgan’s line of Shakespeare study being out of the beaten track of commentary and comment, and his “The Shakespearean Myth” or “William Shakespeare and Circumstantial Evidence,” having attracted unusual attention, as well in England as in the United States and Germany—in which last-named countries two editions have been exhausted—the publishers feel that a new volume from the same pen, and embodying the results of five years of further and riper study from Mr. Morgan’s own standpoint, but with better lights, will be welcomed with interest by students of Shakespeare.
Messrs. BENJAMIN & BELL beg to announce that by special arrangement with the author, they have secured the American Market on the FOURTH EDITION, Revised and greatly enlarged, of
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