O

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.