[7] Edmond Malone, The plays and poems of William Shakespeare, London (1790), I, 154. Difficult as it is to believe that so careful a scholar as Malone could have made this error, it is none the less true that he observed the omission of the passage on "pleasant Willy" and stated that Rowe had obviously altered his opinion by 1714.
[8] Beverley Warner, Famous introductions to Shakespeare's plays, New York (1906), p. 6.
[9] Gerald E. Bentley, Shakespeare and Jonson, Chicago (1945). Vol. I.
[10] D. Nichol Smith, Eighteenth century essays on Shakespeare, Glasgow (1903), pp. xiv-xv.
The writer wishes to express his appreciation of a Research Grant from the University of Minnesota for the summer of 1948, during which this introduction was written.
—Samuel Holt Monk
University of Minnesota
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