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---- An Account of Shakespeare's England, a survey of social life and conditions in the Elizabethan age (in preparation).
Nicholls, J. The Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth. New ed., 3 vols., 1823.
---- The Progresses, Processions, and Festivities of King James I. 4 vols., 1828.
Stephenson, H. T. Shakespeare's London. New York, 1905.
---- The Elizabethan People. New York, 1910.
Strutt, J. Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. 1801. New ed., 1903.
Thompson, E. N. S. The Controversy between the Puritans and the Stage.
Yale Studies in English, vol. xx. New York, 1903.
Traill, H. D. Social England. 3d ed., 1904. See vols. iii and iv.
Wakeman, H. O. The Church and the Puritans, 1570-1660. New ed., 1902.
Wheatley, H. B. London Past and Present. 3 vols. 1891.
CHAPTER II
BIOGRAPHICAL FACTS AND TRADITIONS
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare. 2 vols.
7th ed., 1887. Later eds. are reprints. With ill.u.s.trations, facsimiles, and a full collection of doc.u.ments.
Lambert, D. H. Shakespeare Doc.u.ments. (Published originally as Cartae Shakespeareanae, 1904.) A chronological catalogue of extant evidence.
Lee, Sidney. A Life of William Shakespeare, London and New York, 1898.
New and revised ed., 1909.
---- Shakespeare in Oral Tradition, Chap. III in Shakespeare and the Modern Stage, 1906.
The preceding are the most important books, but the following are useful in various ways: William Shakespeare. K. Elze. Halle, 1876. Eng. trans, by L. D. Schmitz, 1888. A Chronicle History of the Life and Works of Shakspere. F. G. Fleay. London, 1886. Shakespeare's Marriage. J. W.
Gray. 1905. Shakespeare's Family. C. C. Stopes. 1901. Shakespeare's Warwicks.h.i.+re Contemporaries. C. C. Stopes. 1907. New Shakespeare Discoveries. C. W. Wallace. Harper's Magazine, March, 1910. Catalogues of the books, ma.n.u.scripts, works of art, antiquities, and relics at present exhibited in Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon, 1910.
For discussion of portraits of Shakespeare, see Portraits of Shakespeare, J. P. Norris, Philadelphia, 1885; M. R. Spielmann in Stratford-Town Shakespeare, vol. x; and in Encycl. Brit., 11th ed., article on Shakespeare. On a Portrait of Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Memorial at Stratford-on-Avon, L. Cust, Proc. Soc. Antiq., 1895.
See also Sources of Traditional Material, Appendix A, p. 225.
CHAPTER III
SHAKESPEARE'S READING
Shakespeare's Books: A dissertation on Shakespeare's reading and the immediate sources of his works. By H. R. D. Anders. Berlin, 1904. The best book on the subject.
Shakespeare's Studies, T. S. Baynes, 1893.
Shakespeare's Holinshed. Ed. W. G. Boswell-Stone. 1896. New ed., 1907. A reprint of the pa.s.sages in Holinshed's Chronicles which Shakespeare used.
Shakespeare's Plutarch. Ed. W. W. Skeat. 1875.
The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare. J. J. Jusserand, trans. E.
Lee. 1890.
The Shakespeare Cla.s.sics, gen. ed. L. Gollancz (in progress, 1907-), reprints the chief sources of the plays: Lodge's Rosalynde, Greene's Pandosto, Brooke's Romeo and Juliet, the Chronicle History of King Leir, The Taming of a Shrew, The Sources and a.n.a.logues of A Mid-summer-Night's Dream, Shakespeare's Plutarch. Most of these, with other valuable material, are found also in W. C. Hazlitt's revision of Collier's Shakespeare Library. 6 vols. 1875 (out of print).
Many translations which Shakespeare may have known are included in the long series of the Tudor Translations, ed. W. E. Henley and Charles Whibley (mostly out of print).
For drama see Bibliography, chap. vi; for contemporary literature see bibliography in Cambridge History of English Literature; or any short manual, as Saintsbury's Elizabethan Literature, or Seccombe and Allen's Age of Shakespeare. 2 vols.
CHAPTER IV
CHRONOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT
The first thorough attempt to determine the chronology of Shakespeare's plays was made in Malone's "Attempt to ascertain the order in which the plays attributed to Shakespeare were written," published in Steevens's edition of 1778. His final conclusions on the subject are to be found in the preliminary volumes of the 1821 Variorum. Since then, discussions of chronology and development have appeared in almost every edition of Shakespeare's Works and in many volumes discussing his life and art.
(See Bibliography for Chaps. II and VIII.) The following are the most important contributions to the general question of the chronology.
Hertzberg, W. G. Preface to Cymbeline in Ulrici's ed. of Schlegel and Tieck's trans. of Shakespeare, 1871.
---- Metrisches, grammatisches, chronologisches zu Shakespeares Dramen.
Jahrbuch, xiii, 1878.
Fleay, F. G. Shakspere Manual, 1878.
New Shakspere Society. Publications for 1874 contain Fleay's tests as originally proposed with discussions by Furnivall, Ingram, et al.
Publications for 1877-9 contain F. S. Pulling's essay on The Speech-ending test, p. 457.
Ingram, J. K. On the weak endings of Shakspere with some account of the verse-tests in general. N. S. S. Publ. 1874.
Konig, G. Der Vers in Shaksperes Dramen. Quellen und Forschungen vol.
61, 1888. The fullest presentation of numerical results for various verse tests.
Furnivall, F. J. Preface to the Leopold Shakespeare, 1876.
Hales, J. W. The Succession of Shakespeare's plays. 1874.
Stokes, H. P. Attempt to determine the chronological order of Shakespeare's plays, 1878.
CHAPTER V
THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA
Full bibliographies of both plays and critical works are to be found in Sch.e.l.ling's Elizabethan Drama and in the Cambridge History of English Literature, vols. v and vi.
