SHAKSPEARE

AND

HIS TIMES:

INCLUDING

THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE POET;

CRITICISMS ON HIS GENIUS AND WRITINGS; A NEW CHRONOLOGY OF HIS PLAYS;

A DISQUISITION ON THE OBJECT OF HIS SONNETS;

AND

A HISTORY OF

THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND AMUSEMENTS, SUPERSTITIONS,

POETRY, AND ELEGANT LITERATURE OF HIS AGE.

BY NATHAN DRAKE, M.D.

AUTHOR OF "LITERARY HOURS," AND OF "ESSAYS ON PERIODICAL LITERATURE."

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND.

1817.

Dedications of Shakspeare's VENUS AND ADONIS, and RAPE OF LUCRECE, to

the Earl of Southampton-Biographical Sketch of the Earl - Critique on

the Poems of Shakspeare.

CHAP. VI.

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On the Dress and Modes of Living, and the Manners and Customs of the
Inhabitants of the Metropolis, during the Age of Shakspeare.

CHAP. VII.

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87

On the Diversions of the Metropolis, and the Court - The Stage; its

Usages and Economy.

CHAP. VIII.

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168

A Brief View of Dramatic Poetry, from the Birth of Shakspeare to the

Period of his Commencement as a Writer for the Stage, about the Year

1590; with Critical Notices of the Dramatic Poets who flourished during

that Interval.

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CHAP. XII.

419

AAN ON ANTtony and Cleopatra; on Corio\wa D'AN; on THE TEMPEST - Dissertation on the asmes in the ART OF MAGIC, and on Shakspeare's Nuperstition as exhibited in THE TEMPEST - ObON TWELFTH NIGHT, and on the PLAYS ASCRIBED

MMANY OF SHAKSPEARE'S DRAMATIC CHARACTER.

CHAP. XIII.

490

"Mamatic Poetry, and its Cultivators, during Shakespeare's

Wawah the Stage.

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