[156] Cf. Metrik, ii. §§ 136–46.
[157] Cf. on this subject the essays and treatises by T. Mommsen, Abbott, Furnivall, Ingram, Hertzberg, Fleay, A.J. Ellis (On Early English Pronunciation, iii), &c. (quoted Metrik, ii, p. 259); besides G. König, Der Vers in Shakspere’s Dramen, Strassburg, Trübner, 1888, 8^o (Quellen und Forschungen, 61); Der Couplet-Reim in Shakspere’s Dramen (Dissertation), von J. Heuser, Marburg, 1893, 8; H. Krumm, Die Verwendung des Reims in dem Blankverse des englischen Dramas zur Zeit Shaksperes, Kiel, 1889; H. Conrad, Metrische Untersuchungen zur Feststellung der Abfassungszeit von Shakspere’s Dramen (Shakespeare-Jahrbuch, xxx. 318–353); William Shakespeare, Prosody and Text, by B. A. P. van Dam and C. Stoffel, Leyden, 1900, 8^o; Chapters on English Printing Prosody, and Pronunciation (1550–1700), by B.A.P. van Dam and C. Stoffel, Heidelberg, 1902 (Anglistische Forschungen, ix).
[158] I. 1587–1592; II. 1593–1600; III. 1600–1606; IV. 1606–1613; according to Dowden.
[159] Cf. Furnivall, p. xxviii.
[160] Cf. Mayor, Chapters on English Metre, pp. 174–7.
[161] Cf. Metrik, ii, § 154.
[162] Cf. Metrik, ii, § 161.
[163] Cf. N. Delius, Die Prosa in Shakespeares Dramen (Jahrbuch d. deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, v. 227–73).
[164] Cf. the Halle dissertations by Hannemann (on Ford, Oxford, 1889); Penner (on Peele, Braunschweig, 1890); Knaut (on Greene, 1890); Schulz (on Middleton, 1892); Elste (on Chapman, 1892); Kupka (on Th. Dekker, 1893); Meiners (on Webster, 1893); Clages (on Thomson and Young, 1892); and the criticism of some of them by Boyle, Engl. Studien, xix. 274–9.
[165] IV. i, p. 66, cf. Engl. Studien, v, p. 76.