| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 253. Mr. 2. 540w. |
“In style, this volume is delightfully clear and entertaining, despite some rather painful ‘longueurs.’ Professor Lounsbury wears his learning lightly, and the reader, therefore, feels no burden.” Charles H. A. Wager.
| + + | Dial. 42: 39. Ja. 16, ’07. 1510w. |
“He has rendered a new critical edition of the ‘Dunciad’ and a revising of Pope’s biography necessary, and a fuller life of Theobald desirable—despite the fulness and excellence of his own treatment of the great commentator’s career; and, all the while, he has been steadily nearing the goal he originally set himself of tracing the history of the works and fame of William Shakespeare.” W. P. Trent.
| + + | Forum. 38: 373. Ja. ’07. 1150w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 99. Ja. 10, ’07. 370w. |
“Much of this investigation of necessity wanders far from Shakespere; but it is difficult to see how it could have been avoided, and the substantial results of the author’s researches ought to silence the critic who is inclined to quibble over the appropriateness of the title of the volume.”
| + | Nation. 83: 416. N. 15, ’06. 1360w. |
“It is for these additions to exact knowledge and for the tedious labor spent in exhaustive investigation of dusty sources that students will be grateful to a volume condensing for them the results of ardent toil. But the general reader will find it almost equally rewarding for its extraordinarily vivid representation in the surroundings and atmosphere of their age of two notable figures.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 834. D. 1, ’06. 2140w. |
“While scholars and students will gratefully acknowledge Professor Lounsbury’s notable contribution to Shakespearean literature, the lasting importance of his work in this field lies in the clear light it throws on the conditions in which the dramatist lived, and the method or order of his growth.”