SHAKS PEARE

AND

HIS TIMES:

INCLUDING

THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE POET;

CRITICISMS ON HIS GENIUS AND WRITINGS; A NEW CHRONOLOGY OF HIS PLAYS;

A DISQUISITION ON THE OBJECT OF HIS SONNETS;

AND

A HISTORY OF

THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND AMUSEMENTS, SUPERSTITIONS,

POETRY, AND ELEGANT LITERATURE OF HIS AGE.

BY NATHAN DRAKE, M.D.
LITERARY HOURS," AND OF ESSAYS ON PERIODICAL LITERATURE.”

AUTHOR OF

On the tip of his subduing tongue
All kind of arguments and question deep,
All replication prompt, and reason strong,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep :
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,
He had the dialect and different skill,
Catching all passions in his craft of will ;
That he did in the general bosom reign

Of young, of old; and sexes both enchanted.
The very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.

SHAKSPEARE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND.

CHAP. V.

Dedications of Shakspeare's VENUS AND ADONIS, and RAPE OF LUCRECE, to

the Earl of Southampton-- Biographical Sketch of the Earl - Critique on

the Poems of Shakspeare.

Page 1

CHAP. VI.
On the Dress and Modes of Living, and the Manners and Customs of the
Inhabitants of the Metropolis, during the Age of Shakspeare.

87

CHAP. VII.

On the Diversions of the Metropolis, and the Court - The Stage ; its

Usages and Economy.

168

CHAP. VIII.

A Brief View of Dramatic Poetry, from the Birth of Shakspeare to the

Period of his Commencement as a Writer for the Stage, about the Year

1590; with Critical Notices of the Dramatic Poets who flourished during

that Interval.

227

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W; on

D; on

FIRST

Disser-

PST in

356

THAT ENDS WELL ; on King

O ABOUT NOTHING ; on As You LIKE

WINDSOR'; on TROILUS AND CRESSIDA ; on

on HON OF ATHENS; on MEASURE FOR MEASURE ;

MASLINK on MACBETH -

'; — Dissertation

Arts during the Age of Shakspeare, and on

Wation in the Tragedy of MACBETH. 419

CHAP. XII.

Ceni on ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA ; on Corio-

Tauw; on Tue TEMPEST — Dissertation on the
we limes in the Art of Magic, and on Shakspeare's

Calperstition as exhibited in The Tempest – Ob-

Wher on Twelfth Night, and on the Plays ASCRIBED

MANY or SAAKSPEARE's DRAMATIC CHARACTER.

490

CHAP. XIII.

pamatic Poetry, and its Cultivators, during Shakspeare's

556