Author: Frederick Gard Fleay (1831-1909) Comprehensive analysis of Shakespeare. An interesting insight into nineteenth century Shakespeare scholarship.
The Author, Frederick Gard Fleay, was a literary scholar who devoted decades to the study of language, Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama.
His detailed study, techniques of analysis and linguistic tests of Shakespeare have provided a firm foundation for modern Shakespearean study. The Dictionary of National biography sites his method of mechanistic and quantative analyses of metre and phrase as a development which has been successfully exploited in modern-day computer-assisted analyses. Contents: PART I: Manual of Reference.
Chapter I. Shakespeare's Life.
Chapter II. Contemporary Illusions to Shakespeare.
Chapter III. On the Plays of Shakespeare
- Chronological Table - Love's Laour's Lost - Comedy of Errors - Midsummer Night's Dream - Ricahrd II - Edward III - Two Gentlemen of Verona - Richard III - Henry IV - John - Romeo and Juliet - Merchant of Venice - Henry IV (1) - Henry IV (2) - Merry Wives of Windsor - Henry V - Much Ado about Nothing - Julius Caesar - As You Like it - Twelfth Night - Hamlet - Taming of the Shrew - Henry VI (2 and 3) - Titus Andronicus - Measure for Measure - All's Well that Ends Well - Othello - Lear - Macbeth - Timon of Athens - Troylus and Cressida - Pericles - Anthony and Cleopatra - Coriolanus - Two Noble Kinsmen - Cymbeline - Tempest - Winter's Tale - Henry VIII - Spurious Plays.
Chapter IV. On Various Questions connected with Shakespeare's Plays
- What Plays are Genuine? - What Plays are not Entirely Written at one Date? - Early Editions - Relative Values of Quartos and Folios - Entries and Stationers' Hall.
Chapter V. Pronunciation and Metre
- Pronunciation - Metre - Distinguishing Metrical Tests.
Chapter VI. How Plays were Presented.
Chapter VII. On the Early Theatrical Companies
- Chronolgical Table.
Chapter VIII. On the Theatres, 1576-1642 - Chronolgical Table.
Chapter IX. On Contemporary Dramatic Authors
- Chronolgical Table - Lilly - Peele - Greene - Marlowe - Chapman - Jonson - Dekker - Heywood - Middleton - Martson - Webster - Beaumont and Fletcher - Rowley - Massinger - Ford - Shirley - Randolph - Brome - Glapthorne - Dodsley's Plays, &c - Daniel - Alexander - Cartwright - Suckling - Davenant.
Chapter X. Miscellaneous Chronological Table.
Chapter XI. List of Desirable Books.
Chapter XII. Tests of Chronology and Authorship.
Chapter XIII. On Emendation - Canons - Causes of Error.
Chapter XIV. On the Actors
- Table of King's Company - Table of Prince's Company - Table of Queen's Company - Table of Revel's Company - Other Companies.
PART II: Original Investigations.
Chapter I. Metrical Terms applied:-i. Shakespeare
Table of Dates, as assigned by Drake, Chalmers, Malone, Delius and Fleay - Metrical Tables.
Chapter II. On the Quarto Editions - Tabular View of Quartos.
Chapter III. Metrical Tests applied:-ii. Beaumont and Fletcher, Massinger - On 'Henry VIII' - On 'Two Noble Kinsmen.'
Chapter IV. On 'The Taming o the Shrew.'
Chapter V. 'Timon of Athens'-i. (1874) - ii. (1869)
Chapter VI. On 'Pericles.'
Chapter VII. On 'All's well that Ends Well.'
Chapter VIII. On 'Twelfth Night.'
Chapter IX. On 'Troylus and Cressida' - Canons on Metrical Tests.
Chapter X. On 'Macbeth' - Table Lenght of Shakespeare's Plays - Table of Rhyme Tags.
Chapter XI. On 'Julius Caesar' - Note on 'Two Gentlemen of Verona.'
Chapter XII. Personal Satire Common on the Old English Stage ('Willy Beguiled.')
Chapter XIII. Annals of the Stage 1584-95 - "Fair Emm" - "London Prodigal" - Greene's Plays - Dates of Marlowe's Plays - Story of the Stage.
Chapter XIV. On 'Edward III.'
Chapter XV. Extracts reprinted from the Athenaeum - Is Aetion Shakespeare? - Shakespeare's Arms - List of Mangaers and Companies and Masters of Schools, in the time of Elizabeth.
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