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SHAKESPEAREAN FORGERIES
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given in Lowndes's 'Library Manual' (ed. Bohn); Bibliographies.in Franz Thimm's 'Shakespeariana' (1864 and 1871); in the 'Encyclopædia Britannica,' 9th edit. (skilfully classified by Mr. H. R. Tedder); and in 'British Museum Catalogue' (the Shakespearean entries—3,680 titles—separately published in 1897). The Oxford University Press's facsimile reproductions of the First Folio (1902), and of Shakespeare's 'Poems' and 'Pericles' (1905), contain introductions by the present writer, with bibliographies of early issues. See also 'Four Quarto Editions of Plays of Shakespeare. The Property of the Trustees of Shakespeare's Birthplace. Described by Sidney Lee. With five illustrations in facsimile' (Stratfordon-Avon. Printed for the Trustees, 1908).


The valuable publications of the Shakespeare Society, the New Shakspere Society, and of the Deutsche ShakespeareGesellschaft, are noticed above (see pp. 349-50, 362). Critical studies.To the critical studies by Coleridge, Hazlitt, Dowden, and Swinburne, on which comment has been made. (see p. 349), there may be added the essays on Shakespeare's heroines respectively by Mrs. Jameson in 1833 and Lady Martin in 1885; Dr. Ward's 'English Dramatic Literature' (1875, new edit. 1898); Richard G. Moulton's 'Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist' (1885); 'Shakespeare Studies' by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1893); F. S. Boas's 'Shakspere and his Predecessors' (1895); Georg Brandes's 'William Shakespeare'—a somewhat fanciful study (London, 1898, 2 vols. 8vo); Prof. Courthope's 'History of English Poetry,' 1903, vol. iv; Prof. A. C. Bradley's 'Shakespearean Tragedy' (London, 1904); the present writer's 'Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century,' 1904, and his 'Shakespeare and the Modern Stage,' 1906; Prof. Raleigh's 'Shakespeare' in 'English Men of Letters' series, 1907.

The intense interest which Shakespeare's life and work have long universally excited has tempted unprincipled or sportively mischievous writers from time to time to deceive the public by the forgery of documents purporting to supply new information. Shakespearean forgeries. George Steevens made some foolish excursions in this direction. But the forgers were especially active between 1780 and 1850, and their frauds have caused students so much perplexity that it may be useful

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