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WITH HIS LIFE.

Illustrated with many hundred Wood-cuts,

EXECUTED BY

H W HEWET, AFTER DESIGNS BY KENNY MEADOWS, HARVEY, AND OTHERS

EDITED

BY GULIAN C. VERPLANCK, LL.D.

WITH

CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, ETC., ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOLUME I.-HISTORIE S.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

92 CLIFF STREET

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

ENCX LIERAST

NEW YORK

1

[To be slipt into any copy of Shakspere.]

THE ORDER OF SHAKSPERE'S PLAYS.

MR FURNIVALL'S Introduction to the Leopold Shakspere, Cassell & Co., 10s. 6d., gives his order and groups of the Plays and Poems as follows:

FIRST PERIOD (? 1588-1594).

e. The darkening Comedy. All's Well (1601-2). Shakspere's Sonnets (? 1592-1608).

THIRD PERIOD (1601-1608).

a. The Comedy-of-Errors or Mistaken-Iden-
tity Group (Tit. Andr. not Shakspere's).
Love's Labours Lost (? 1588-9); Errors
(1589); Midsum. Night's Dream (? 1590). a. The Unfit-Nature or Under-Burden-failing
b. Link-play. Two Gent. of Verona (? 1590-1).
e. The Passion Group.

Romeo and Juliet (? 1591-3); Venus and Adonis (? 1593); Lucrece (1593-4); The Passionate Pilgrim (pr. 1599).

d. The Early Histories.

Richard II. (? 1593); 1, 2, 3 Henry VI. (1592-4: 1 Henry VI. perhaps earlier); Richard III. (1594).

SECOND PERIOD (? 1595-1601).

a. The Life-plea Group. King John (? 1595); The Merchant of Venice (? 1596).

b. A Farce: The Taming of the Shrew (1596-7). c. The 3 Comedies of Falstaff, with the Trilogy of Henry IV., V.

1 Henry IV. (1596-7); 2 Henry IV. (1597-8); The Merry Wives (1598-9); Henry V. (1599).

d. The 3 Sunny- or Sweet-Time Comedies,

Much Ado (1599-1600); As you like it (1600); Twelfth Night (1601).

Group. Julius Caesar (1601); Hamlet (1602-3); Measure for Measure (? 1603).

b. The Tempter-yielding Group.

Othello (1604); Macbeth (1605-6). c. The 1st Ingratitude and Cursing Play: Lear (1605-6).

d. The Lust or False-Love Group.

Troilus and Cressida (? 1606-7); Antony and Cleopatra (? 1606-7).

e. The 2nd Ingratitude and Cursing Group.
Coriolanus (?1607-8); Timon (? 1607-8).
FOURTH PERIOD (? 1608-1613).
All plays of Re-union, of Reconciliation, and
Forgiveness. a. By Men. Pericles (1608-9);
The Tempest (? 1609-10).

b.

By Women (mainly). Cymbeline (? 1610); Winter's Tale (1611); Hen. VIII. (1612-13). Doubtful Plays: The Two Noble Kinsmen (1612-13), part Shakspere's. Edward III. (1594), none of it Shakspere's.

In the Notes to the same Introduction are Prof. Dowden's groups and order, thus:

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Observe I have early, middle, and later History; early, middle, and later Comedy; and early, middle, and later Tragedy; and the plays might well be read not only right through in chronological order, but also in these three lines chronologically :

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