Dowden, E. Shakespeare Primer. American Book Co. ($.35). A very useful little manual of Shakespearean criticism.
Lee, Sidney. Life of Shakespeare. Macmillan. ($1.75). An invaluable critical analysis of all biographical material relating to Shakespeare.
Moulton, R. G. Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist. Oxford Univ. Press. ($1.90). A detailed consideration of the motives, plots, and characters of a number of Shakespeare’s plays.
Symonds, J. A. Shakespeare’s Predecessors in the English Drama. Scribner. ($2.00). An excellent account of the origin and the development of the English drama.
Baker, G. P. The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist. Macmillan. ($1.75). A discussion of the Elizabethan stage, the public, and other conditions in relation to the development of Shakespeare’s dramatic art.
Freytag, G. The Technique of the Drama. Scott, Foresman & Co., Chicago. ($1.50). A comparative study of drama as a literary form with considerable discussion of the plays of Shakespeare.
Raleigh, W. History of the English Novel. Scribner. ($1.25). An interesting account of the development of the English novel to Scott.
Cross, W. L. The Development of the English Novel. Macmillan. ($1.50.) A history of English fiction from the Arthurian romance to Stevenson.
Perry, Bliss. A Study of Prose Fiction. Houghton, Mifflin Co. ($1.25). A suggestive discussion of plot, characters, setting and other elements in the novel and short story, with suggestions for original work in construction and analysis.
Alden, R. M. Specimens of English verse. Holt. ($1.25). A practical handbook of poetics with numerous selections.