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.

3

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.-AUGUSTUS

WILLIAM SCHLEGEL.

131

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-

. 147

POLITANA.

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.

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.

GEL.

261

Shakspeare and Calderon compared.-FREDERICK SCHLE-

. 268

Shakspeare and Corneille compared, with Observations on

Shakspeare's characters in low life.-GARDENSTONE.

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.

Observations on King Lear continued.-WARTON.

316

Observations on King Lear concluded.-WARTon.

Critical Remarks on Othello.-ANONYMOUS.

342

Critical Remarks on Othello continued.-ANONYMOUS. 351

Critical Remarks on Othello concluded.-ANONYMOUS. 362

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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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