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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

'Was Shakespeare ever a Soldier?' (1849), a study based on an erroneous identification of the poet with another William Shakespeare; Specialised studies in biography.Lord Campbell's 'Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements considered' (1859); John Charles Bucknill's 'Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare' (1860); C. F. Green's 'Shakespeare's Crab-Tree, with its Legend' (1862); C. H. Bracebridge's 'Shakespeare no Deer-stealer' (1862); William Blades's 'Shakspere and Topography' (1872); D. H. Madden's 'Diary of Master William Silence (Shakespeare and Sport),' new edit. 1907; and C. I. Elton's 'William Shakespeare: His Family and Friends' (1904). Useful epitomes.An epitome of the biographical information is supplied in Karl Elze's 'Life of Shakespeare' (Halle, 1876; English translation, 1888), with which Elze's 'Essays' from the publications of the German Shakespeare Society (English translation, 1874) are worth. studying. A slighter effort by Samuel Neil (1861) accepts Collier's forgeries. Professor Dowden's 'Shakespere Primer' (1877) and 'Introduction to Shakspere' (1893), and Dr. Furnivall's 'Introduction to the Leopold Shakspere,' are useful.

Aids to study of plots and texts.Francis Douce's 'Illustrations of Shakespeare' (1807, new edit. 1839), 'Shakespeare's Library' (ed. J. P. Collier and W. C. Hazlitt, 1875), 'Shakespeare's Plutarch' (ed. Skeat. 1875), and 'Shakespeare's Holinshed' (ed. W. G. Boswell-Stone, 1896) are, with H. R. D. Anders's 'Shakespeare's Books' (Berlin, 1904), of service in tracing the sources of Shakespeare's plots. Alexander Schmidt's 'Shakespeare Lexicon' (1874), Dr. E. A. Abbott's 'Shakespearian Grammar' (1869, new edit. 1893), and Prof. Franz's. 'Shakespeare-Grammatik,' 2 pts. (Halle, 1898-1900), with his 'Die Grundzüge der Sprache Shakespeares' (Berlin, 1902) are valuable aids to a study of the text. Concordances.Useful concordances to the Plays have been prepared by Mrs. Cowden-Clarke (1845), to the Poems by Mrs. H. H. Furness (Philadelphia, 1875), and to Plays and Poems, in one volume, with references to numbered lines, by John Bartlett (London and New York, 1895).[1] Extensive bibliographies are

  1. ↑ The earliest attempts at a concordance were A Complete Verbal Index to the Plays, by F. Twiss (1805), and An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words by Samuel Ayscough (1827), but these are now superseded.
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