THE SONNETS OF SHAKSPERE. Re-arranged and divided into Four Parts, with an introduction and Explanatory Notes.

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THE FOOTSTEPS OF SHAKSPERE.

Or, a Ramble with the Early Dramatists, containing new and interesting Information respecting Shakspere, Lyly, Marlowe, Green, and others.

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SHAKSPERE, SIDNEY, AND ESSEX.
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THE "ARCADIA" UNVEILED.
Vide Notes and Queries, 3rd S., iii., 441, 481, 501.

THE "FAERIE QUEENE" UNVEILED.
Vide Notes and Queries, 3rd S., iv., 21, 65, 101.

"JULIET" UNVEILED.
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SHAKSPERE AND JONSON.

DRAMATIC v. WIT-COMBATS.

Auxiliary Forces: Beaumont and Fletcher, Marston, Decker, Chapman, and Webster.

Post 8vo, 3s. Twelfth Night, 1864.

NEW READINGS IN SHAKSPERE;
Or Proposed Emendations of the Text.

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JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON.

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JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE. APRIL, 1877.

PAPERS ON SHAKSPERE.

ON THE SUCCESSION OF SHAKSPERE'S EARLIEST PLAYS.

IN some remarks made before the New Shakspere Society, November 12, 1875 (the Paper announced for the evening being 'On the Three Hamlets,' by Richard Sympson, Esq. B.A.), I introduced a few extracts showing the intimate connection between 'Pericles' and the quarto, 1603; and also extracts from the 'Arcadia,' showing the intimate connection between 'Pericles' and 'Pyrocles.' As the article then read will be published, I presume in the next volume of the Transactions of the Society, I shall here merely give a few extracts which, in my opinion, justify the belief in the authenticity and early production of 'Pericles;' nor is it probable Shakspere, on recomposing the three last acts, would have left the other two in their pristine state, if he had not had some unexplained interest therein; and which interest I hold to be their intimate connection with 'Hamlet.'

Ant. "He hath found the meaning, for the which we mean

King.

To have his head."

"And therefore instantly this prince must die."

Thaliard, adieu ! till Pericles be dead,

My heart can lend no succour to my head."-Pericles.
"He presently without demanding why,
That Hamlet lose his head, for he must die,
There's more in him than shallow eyes can see;
He once being dead, why then our state is free."

Hamlet, 1603.

Again, the second scene of 'Pericles' commences with a soliloquy:

Per.

"Let none disturb us: Why this charge of thoughts?

The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy,

By me so us'd a guest-"

which may be regarded as a forerunner of "To be or not to be;'