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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."

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

1817.

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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.

VA

556

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