CONTENTS.

PART I.

PREFATORY ESSAY: Explanatory of the Plan of the Work,

and containing an Inquiry into the Merits of Shakspeare's

Principal Editors, Commentators, and Critics

PART II.

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Memorials of Shakspeare; or Sketches of his Character and
Genius.

On the Characteristics of Shakspeare.-COLERIDGE.

73

On the Universality of the Genius of Shakspeare, and on his

Irregularities in relation to Dramatic Unity.-CAMPBELL. 87

On the Genius of Shakspeare, and on his Four Dramas,

Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, and Lear.-BLACK WOOD'S EDIN-

BURGH MAGAZINE.

93

On the Character and Feelings of Shakspeare.-FREDERICK

SCHLEGEL.

105

On the Influence of Shakspeare over the Human Mind.-

RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW.

. 110

On Shakspeare, and on the Character of his Tragedies.-

MADAME DE STAEL HOLStein.

. 113

On Shakspeare, and on the Character of his Comedies.-

GREGORY.

. 128

On the Fame and Acquirements of Shakspeare.-AUGUST

WILLIAM SCHLEGEL.

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On the Natural Style of Shakspeare as contrasted with the

Romantic and Burlesque.-GoDWIN. .

. 136

On the Art of Shakspeare.-AUGUSTUS WILLIAM SCHLE-

. 141

GEL.

On the Method of Shakspeare.-ENCYCLOPEDIA METRO-

POLITANA.

. 147

On Shakspeare's Delineation of Character.-AUGUSTUS

WILLIAM SCHLEGEL.

. 158

On Shakspeare's Love of Natural Beauty.-EDINBURGH

REVIEW.

. 171

On Shakspeare's Delineation of Passion.-AUGUSTUS WIL-

LIAM SCHLEGel.

. 178

On the Individuality of Shakspeare's Characters.-QUAR-

TERLY REVIEW.

. 186

On Shakspeare, in reference to the Age in which he flou-

rished.-AUGUSTUS WILLIAM SCHLEGEL.

. 190

The Life and Genius of Shakspeare.-VILLEMAIN. . 203

Shakspeare compared with Homer.-GODWIN.

252

On the Similitude between Shakspeare and Homer in relation

to their knowledge of the Human Heart.—BEATTIE. . 255

Shakspeare and Eschylus compared.-CUMBERLAND. 257

Shakspeare and Chaucer compared.-GODWIN.

Shakspeare and Calderon compared.-FREDERICK SCHLE-

GEL.

261

. 268

Shakspeare and Corneille compared, with Observations on

Shakspeare's characters in low life.-GARDENSTONE. . 274

Shakspeare and Voltaire compared, as to their use and ma-

nagement of preternatural machinery.-LESSING. . . 280

Shakspeare compared with Chapman, Heywood, Middleton,

Brook, Sidney, and Beaumont and Fletcher.-LAMB. 287

PART III.

Criticisms on some of the Principal Dramas of Shakspeare.

Observations on the Tempest of Shakspeare.-WARTON. 299

Observations on the Tempest concluded.-WARTON. 307

Observations on King Lear.-WARTON.

316

Observations on King Lear concluded.-WARTON.

Critical Remarks on Othello.-ANONYMOUS.

333

342

Critical Remarks on Othello continued.-ANONYMOUS. 351

Critical Remarks on Othello concluded.-ANONYMOUS. 362

Criticism on the Character and. Tragedy of Hamlet.-

MACKENZIE.

. 370

Criticism on the Character and Tragedy of Hamlet con-

cluded.-MACKENZIE.

381

Observations on the Tragedy of Hamlet.-ANONYMOUS. 389

A Delineation of Shakspeare's Characters of Macbeth and

Richard.-CUMBERLAND.

. 412

On the Characters of Macbeth and Richard continued.-

CUMBERLAND.

418

On the Characters of Macbeth and Richard continued.-

CUMBERLAND.

428

On the Characters of Macbeth and Richard concluded.—

CUMBERLAND.

.

437

Critical Remarks on the Character of Falstaff.-MACKEN-

Critical Remarks on the Character of Falstaff concluded.—

MACKENZIE.

455

On the Characters of Falstaff and his Group.-CUMBER-

CONCLUDING ESSAY: Containing Three Miniature Portraits

of Shakspeare, by Dryden, Goëthe, and Sir Walter Scott; and

a Brief Parallel between Shakspeare and Sir Walter Scott as

Delineators of Character.

MEMORIALS OF SHAKSPEARE.

PART I.

PREFATORY ESSAY.

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