works where the language has not become obsolete, and where allusions to the manners, customs, or occurrences of the author's own age are not to be discovered.

The pages of Shakespeare are replete with forgotten allusions and obsolete phraseology, as any one may ascertain from a careful perusal of such scenes as we meet with at the commencement of "Much Ado about Nothing," and in several other plays.

Criticism on the works of Shakespeare may be classed into three principal divisions :

I. PHILOLOGICAL, including the grammatical construction used by the poet, idiomatic phraseology, explanations of obsolete words, and the systems of

metre.

II. PHILOSOPHICAL, including every kind of æsthetic or psychological commentary.

III. HISTORICAL, including inquiries into the sources of the plots, local and contemporary illustration of realities (not words), costume, and all that relates to history, geography, chronology, &c.

It is no dishonour to the labours of the elder critics or modern editors to admit that much remains to be done in each of these departments, especially in the first, before an earnest inquirer can form a Shakespearian library in which all his difficulties shall be solved, or at least intelligently discussed. The consideration of the subject is not irrelevant to the preface of a work treating on a branch of criticism on which we require less information than on almost

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Books issued by the Shakespeare Society.

FOR 1841.

Memoirs of Edward Alleyn, Founder of Dulwich College. By J. P. Collier.

Gosson's School of Abuse. With Introduction, &c.

Thomas Heywood's Apology for Actors. With Introduction, &c.

The Coventry Mysteries. Edited by J. O. Halliwell, with Introduction and Notes.

Thynn's Pride and Lowliness. With Introduction, Notes, &c.

Patient Grissell. A Comedy, by Dekker, Chettle, and Haughton. Edited by J. P. Collier.

FOR 1842.

Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court in Elizabeth and James's Reigns. With Intro duction and Notes by Peter Cunningham.

Ben Jonson's Conversations with Drummond. Introduction, &c. by David Laing.

First Sketch of the Merry Wives of Windsor. The Novels on which it is founded, and an Introduction and Notes by J. O. Halliwell.

Fools and Jesters; with Armin's Nest of Ninnies, &c. Introduction, &c. by J. P.Collier.

The Old Play of Timon. Now first printed. Edited by Rev. A. Dyce.

Nash's Pierce Pennilesse. With Introduction, &c. by J. P. Collier.

Heywood's Edward the Fourth, a Play, in Two Parts. Edited by Barron Field.

FOR 1843.

Northbrooke's Treatise. With an Introduction, &c. by J. P. Collier.

The First Sketches of the Second and Third Parts of Henry the Sixth. Edited by J. O. Halliwell.
Oberon's Vision Illustrated. By the Rev. A. J. Halpiu.

The Chester Whitsun Plays -Part I. With Introduction and Notes by Thomas Wright.
The Alleyn Papers, illustrative of the Early English Stage. With Introduction by J. P. Collier.
Inedited Tracts by John Forde the Dramatist. With Introduction by J. P. Collier.

FOR 1844.

Tarlton's Jests and Tarlton's Newes out of Purgatory. With a Life, &c. by J. O. Halliwell.
The True Tragedie of Richard the Third, from a unique Copy, and The Latin Play of Richardus
Tertius, from a Manuscript. Edited by Barron Field.

The Ghost of Richard the Third. A Poem. Edited by J. P. Collier.

Sir Thomas More. A Play. Edited by the Rev. A. Dyce.

VOL. I. of THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY'S PAPERS," being a Miscellany of Contributions Illustrative of the Objects of the Society.

The Taming of a Shrew; and the Woman lapped in Morrel Skin. Edited by Thomas Amyot. FOR 1845.

Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare. By J. O. Halliwell.

First Part and a portion of the Second Part of Shakespeare's Henry the IVth. From a Unique Contemporary Manuscript. Edited by J.O. Halliwell.

Diary of Philip Henslowe, from 1591 to 1609. From the Original at Dulwich College. Edited by J. P. Collier.

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FOR 1846.

The Fair Maid of The Exchange, A Comedy, by Thomas Heywood: and Fortune by Land and
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The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom. An Ancient Interlude. From the original Manuscript re-
cently discovered.

Memoirs of the Principal Actors in Shakespeare's Plays. By J. Payne Collier.

Rich's Farewell to Military Profession. From the unique Copy of the first edition of 1581.

FOR 1847.

Ralph Roister Doyster, a Comedy, by Nicholas Udall, and the Tragedie of Gorboduc, by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville. Edited by W. Durrant Cooper.

Part II. of The Chester Whitsun Plays. Edited by Thomas Wright.

VOL. III. of "THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY'S PAPERS." Consisting of Miscellaneous Contributions. FOR 1848.

The Moral Play of Wit and Science. Edited by J. O. Halliwell.

Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company of Works entered for publication between 1557 and 1570; with Notes and Illustratious by J. Payne Collier. Vol. I.

Inigo Jones. A Life of the Architect, by Peter Cunningham. Remarks on some of his Sketches for Masques and Dramas; by J. R. Planché. Five Court Masques; edited from the original MSS. of Ben Jonson, John Marston, &c, by J. P. Collier. Accompanied by Facsimiles of drawings by Inigo Jones, and a Portrait from a Painting by Vandyck.

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VOL. IV. of "THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY'S PAPERS."

VOL. II. of Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company: 1570 to 1587. By J. P. Collier. The CHANDOS PORTRAIT, engraved, by permission of the President, the Rt. Hon. Earl of Ellesmere, by Mr. COUSINS, A.R.A.

FOR 1850.

The First and Second Parts of the Fair Maid of the West; or, a Girl worth Gold. Two Comedies by Thomas Heywood. Edited by J. P. Collier.

The Remarks of M. Karl Simrock, on the Plots of Shakespeare's Plays. With Notes, &c., by J. O. Halliwell.

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A dissertation on the imputed Portraits of Shakespeare: as an accompaniment to the Engraving of the Chandos Portrait. By J. Payne Collier.

Selection from Oldys's MS. Notes to Laugbaiue's Dramatic Poets. By Peter Cunningham.

James Orchard

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