Note 49 — V.—EARLY DRAMATIC EFFORTS

W. S. Walker in his Shakespeare’s Versification, 1854, and Charles Bathurst in his Difference in Shakespeare’s Versification at different Periods of his Life, 1857, were the first to point out the general facts. Dr. Ingram’s paper on ‘The Weak Endings’ in New Shakspere Society’s Transactions (1874), vol. i., is of great value. Mr. Fleay’s metrical tables, which first appeared in the same society’s Transactions (1874), and have been reissued by Dr. Furnivall in a somewhat revised form in his introduction to Gervinus’s Commentaries and in his Leopold Shakspere, give all the information possible.