SHAKS PEARE

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.
LITERARY HOURS,” AND OF « ESSAYS ON PERIODICAL LITERATURE.”

On the tip of his subduing tongue
All kind of arguments and question deep,
All replication prompt, and reason strong,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep :
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,
He had the dialect and different skill,
Catching all passions in his craft of will ;
That he did in the general bosom reign

Of young, of old; and sexes both enchanted.
The very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.

SHAKSPEARE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

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

CHAP. V.

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.

Page 1

CHAP. VI.

On the Dress and Modes of Living, and the Manners and Customs of the

Inhabitants of the Metropolis, during the Age of Shakspeare.

87

CHAP. VII.

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

Usages and Economy.

168

CHAP. VIII.

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.

227

(UP. XII.

LIANi on ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA ; on Corio-

le l'un; on The TEMPEST — Dissertation on the

in times in the Art of Magic, and on Shakspeare's

Los perstition as exhibited in The TEMPEST – Ob-

in ottimo in TWELFTH Night, and on the PLAYS ASCRIBED

INWANT or SMAKSPEARE's DRAMATIC CHARACTER.

490

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CHAP. XIII.

144matic Poetry, and its Cultivators, during Shakspeare's

Inte

Hith the Stage.

556