CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
| PART II. continued. | |
| SHAKSPEARE IN LONDON. | |
| CHAP. V. | |
| Dedications of Shakspeare's Venus and Adonis, and Rape of Lucrece, tothe Earl of Southampton—Biographical Sketch of the Earl—Critique onthe Poems of Shakspeare. | Page [1] |
| CHAP. VI. | |
| On the Dress and Modes of Living, and the Manners and Customs of theInhabitants of the Metropolis, during the Age of Shakspeare. | [87] |
| CHAP. VII. | |
| On the Diversions of the Metropolis, and the Court—The Stage; itsUsages and Economy. | [168] |
| CHAP. VIII. | |
| A Brief View of Dramatic Poetry, from the Birth of Shakspeare to thePeriod of his Commencement as a Writer for the Stage, about the Year1590; with Critical Notices of the Dramatic Poets who flourished duringthat Interval. | [227] |
| CHAP. IX. | |
| Period of Shakspeare's Commencement as a Dramatic Poet—ChronologicalArrangement of his genuine Plays—Observations on Pericles; on theComedy of Errors; on Love's Labour's Lost; on Henry the Sixth,Part the First; on Henry the Sixth, Part the Second; and on A Midsummer-Night'sDream—Dissertation on the Fairy Mythology, andon the Modifications which it received from the Genius of Shakspeare. | [256] |
| CHAP. X. | |
| Observations on Romeo and Juliet; on the Taming of the Shrew; onThe Two Gentlemen of Verona; on King Richard the Third; onKing Richard the Second; on King Henry the Fourth, Parts Firstand Second; on The Merchant of Venice; and on Hamlet—Dissertationon the Agency of Spirits and Apparitions, and on the Ghost inHamlet. | [356] |
| CHAP. XI. | |
| Observations on King John; on All's Well that Ends Well; on KingHenry the Fifth; on Much Ado about Nothing; on As You LikeIt; on Merry Wives of Windsor; on Troilus and Cressida; onHenry the Eighth; on Timon of Athens; on Measure for Measure;on King Lear; on Cymbeline; on Macbeth—Dissertation on thePopular Belief in Witchcraft during the Age of Shakspeare, and onhis Management of this Superstition in the Tragedy of Macbeth. | [419] |
| CHAP. XII. | |
| Observations on Julius Cæsar; on Antony and Cleopatra; on Coriolanus;on The Winter's Tale; on The Tempest—Dissertation on theGeneral Belief of the Times in the Art of Magic, and on Shakspeare'sManagement of this Superstition as exhibited in The Tempest—Observationson Othello; on Twelfth Night, and on the Plays ascribedto Shakspeare—Summary of Shakspeare's Dramatic Character. | [490] |
| CHAP. XIII. | |
| A Brief View of Dramatic Poetry, and its Cultivators, during Shakspeare'sConnection with the Stage. | [556] |
| CHAP. XIV. | |
| The Biography of Shakspeare continued to the Close of his Residence inLondon. | [581] |
| PART III. | |
| SHAKSPEARE IN RETIREMENT. | |
| CHAP. I. | |
| Anecdotes relative to Shakspeare during his Retirement at Stratford. | [603] |
| CHAP. II. | |
| The Death of Shakspeare—Observations on his Will—On the Dispositionand Moral Character of Shakspeare—On the Monument erected to hisMemory, and on the Engraving of him prefixed to the first Folio Editionof his Plays—Conclusion. | [611] |
| Appendix. | [625] |
SHAKSPEARE AND HIS TIMES.