...but without any particular Account of what sort of Parts he us'd to play; and tho' I have inquir'd, I could never meet with any further Account of him...way, than that the top of his Performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet -M The Ghost in Hamlet; that at least tells us something. To this traditional...

...statement, in the first formal memoir of Shakespeare, published in 1709, that 'though I have enquired, I could never meet with any further account of him...way, than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet'. (Shaw paradoxically interpreted this as a comment on the importance and difficulty...

...Nicholas Rowe, in the Life printed with his 1709 edition of the Works, writes that "tho1 I have mquir'ed I could never meet with any further account of him...way, than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet."4' Rowe's edition was published ninety,three years after Shakespeare's death—...

...Plays,2 but without any particular Account of what parts he us'd to play; and tho' I have inquir'd I could never meet with any further Account of him...this way than that the top of his Performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet.' On this Durning-Lawrence, after suggesting with singular lack of dramatic...