6–13335.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 82. Mr. ’07. ✠ | |
| + | Ind. 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 30w. |
Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford. Text of Shakespeare; its history from the publication of the quartos and folios down to and including the publication of the editions of Pope and Theobald. **$2. Scribner.
6–36417.
The third instalment of Prof. Lounsbury’s work on “Shakespearean wars.” “An elaborate account of an eighteenth-century literary controversy, of which the protagonists were Alexander Pope, author of ‘Dunciad,’ and the Shakesperean scholar, Lewis Theobald, the original hero of that famous and infamous poem.” (Forum.)
“Dr. Lounsbury, with a learning, a penetration and a scholarly thoroughness beyond all praise, has added to his already invaluable Shakespearean labours by attacking the thorny subject of Pope, Theobald, and the text of Shakespeare; has cleared the tangled brake and disclosed matters which had been long forgotten.”
| + + | Acad. 71: 605. D. 15, ’06. 880w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 241. D. ’06. |
“His style is heavy, and he writes at unnecessary length, labouring points that have long been pretty clear to those who know anything about the subject.”