Chapter IX · Shakespeare since 1616
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1. THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
The Shakespeare Allusion Books. Ed. J. Munro. 2 vols. This reprints references to Shakespeare before 1700.
Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare. Ed. D. Nichol Smith. Glasgow. Contains Rowe's, Pope's, Theobald's, Johnson's prefaces, Farmer's essay on Shakespeare's learning, Morgann's essay on Falstaff, etc.
Shakespearian Wars. T. R. Lounsbury. i. Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist, ii. Shakespeare and Voltaire. 2 vols. Yale Univ., 1901.
First Editors of Shakespeare or The Text of Shakespeare (Pope and Theobald). T. R. Lounsbury. 1906.
Shakespeare en France sous l'ancien régime. J. J. Jusserand. Paris. 1898. Eng. trans. London, 1899.
Considerable matter in the following volumes from the Clarendon Press bears on the early criticism of Shakespeare: Elizabethan Critical Essays, ed. Gregory Smith, 2 vols.; Seventeenth Century Critical Essays, ed. J. E. Spingarn, 3 vols.; Dryden's Essays, ed. W. P. Ker, 2 vols.
2. THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Baker, G. P. The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist. Macmillan, 1907.
Boas, F. S. Shakespeare and his Predecessors. 1895.
Bradley, A. C. Shakespearean Tragedy. Macmillan, 1904.
—— Oxford Lectures on Poetry. Macmillan, 1909.
Brandes, G. William Shakespeare. Copenhagen, 1896. Eng. trans. 2 vols., 1898.
Coleridge, S. T. Notes and Lectures on Shakespeare, etc. 2 vols. 1849. Reprinted in Everyman's Library, the New Universal Library, and Bohn's Library.
Collins, J. C. Studies in Shakespeare. 1904.
Dowden, E. Shakspeare: His Mind and Art. 1874.
—— A Shakspere Primer. 1877.
—— Introduction to Shakespeare. 1893.
Elze, K. William Shakespeare. Halle, 1876. Eng. trans., 1888.
Goethe. Wilhelm Meister, book IV, chaps. 13-16, contains an analysis of Hamlet.
—— Wahrheit und Dichtung, and Eckermann's Reports of Goethe's conversations contain references. An essay "Shakespeare und kein Ende" appears in his collected works.
Hazlitt, W. Characters of Shakespeare's plays, 1817. Reprinted in Everyman's Library, New Universal Library, Bohn's Library.
Heine, Heinrich. Shakespeare's Maidens and Women, in Works. Eng. trans. Heinemann, 1851.
Jameson, Mrs. Shakespeare's Heroines. Temple Classics.
Kreyssig, F. S. T. Vorlesungen über Shakespeare. 2 vols. 3d ed. Berlin, 1876.
Lamb, Charles. On Some of the Old Actors (Essays of Elia). Reprinted in Everyman's Library.
—— On the Tragedies of Shakespeare (Misc. essays). Reprinted in Temple Classics.
Lee, Sidney. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage. 1906.
Lessing, G. E. Laokoön, and Dramatic Notes. Eng. trans., Bohn's Library.
MacCallum, M. W. Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background. 1910.
Martin, Lady (Helen Faucit). On Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters. 1885.
Matthews, Brander. Shakespeare as a Playwright. In preparation.
Moulton, R. G. Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist. Oxford, 1885.
—— The Moral System of Shakespeare. 1903.
Raleigh, W. Shakespeare (English Men of Letters). 1907.
Schlegel, A. W. von. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature. Reprinted in Bohn's Library.
Swinburne, A. C. A Study of Shakespeare. 1880.
Thorndike, A. H. The Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Shakespeare. Lemcke and Buechner, N. Y., 1901.
Wendell, B. William Shakspere. 1894.
White, R. G. Studies in Shakespeare. 9th ed. 1896.
—— Shakespeare's Scholar. 1854.
Important critical and interpretative aids will also be found in the bibliographies for earlier chapters, as in the complete editions of Shakespeare's works, in histories of literature and the drama, or in special studies, as Anders's Shakespeare's Books, and Madden's Diary of Master William Silence.
For a handy bibliography of studies of botany, folk-lore, law, medicine, the supernatural in Shakespeare, etc., see the Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. v, pp. 450, 451, to which may be added Freytag, G., Technique of the Drama, Eng. trans. 1891; Matthew, B., A Study of the Drama, 1910; Arnold, M. E., Soliloquies of Shakespeare, New York, 1911; Fansler, H. E., Evolution of Technic in Elizabethan Tragedy, 1914; Archer, W., Play Making, 1912.
In the New Variorum Furness gives a summary of the interpretation and criticism for each play; but he is often quite neglectful of recent tendencies in criticism.
3. STAGE HISTORY
The standard work for the English stage is Some Account of the English Stage, from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, by J. Genest, 10 vols., Bath, 1832. There is no authoritative history of the stage since 1832. Information in regard to the Shakespearean plays may be had in the lives of the actors, as Colley Cibber's Apology; Davies's Memoirs of Garrick, 1790; Murphy's Life of Garrick, 1801; Boaden's Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons, 1827, and Memoirs of Kemble, 1825; Cumberland's Memoir, 1806; Boaden's Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald; Private Correspondence of David Garrick, 1831-1832; Cooke's Memoirs of Charles Macklin, 1808; Macready's Reminiscences, 1878; Archer's Life of Macready, 1890; Molloy's Life of Edmund Kean, 1888; Winter's Life and Art of Edwin Booth, 1893; Brereton's Life of Sir Henry Irving, London, 1908.
Baker, H. B. The London Stage, 1576-1903. 1904.
Brown, J. S. A History of the New York Stage, 1732-1901. 3 vols. New York, 1903.
Doran, J. Their Majesties' Servants. 1888. Ed. R. W. Lowe.
Dunlap, W. A History of the American Theater. 1832.
Fitzgerald, P. A New History of the English Stage. 2 vols. London, 1882.
Hazlitt, W. A View of the English Stage. 1818.
Home, R. H. New Spirit of the Age. 1884.
Lowe, R. W. Thomas Betterton, New York, 1891.
Lowe, R. W. Bibliographical Account of English Dramatic Literature. 1888.
Phelps, W. M., and Forbes Robertson, J. Life and Works of Samuel Phelps. London, 1886.
Seilhamer, G. O. A History of the American Theater, 3 vols. Philadelphia, 1891.
4. SHAKESPEARE ON THE CONTINENT
A good selected bibliography is to be found in the Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. v, pp. 456-472, and a full bibliography annually in the Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Only a few of the most important titles are given here, including some already noted.
Böhtling, A. R. A. Goethe und Shakespeare. Leipzig, 1909.
Burckhardt, C. A. H. Das Repertoire des Weimarischen Theaters unter Goethes Leitung. Hamburg, 1901.
Chateaubriand, F. R. de. Shakespeare. 1801.
Cohn, A. Shakespeare in Germany in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Berlin, 1865.
Creizenach, W. Die Schauspiele der englischen Komödianten. Stuttgart, 1889.
Delius, N. Sämmtliche Werke, Kritische Ausgabe. 1854-1861. 5th ed., 1882.
Elze, K. William Shakespeare. Halle, 1876.
Genée, R. Geschichte der Shakespeareschen Dramen in Deutschland. Leipzig, 1870.
Guizot, F. De Shakespeare et de la Poésie dramatique. Paris, 1822.
Heine, H. Shakespeares Mädchen und Frauen, in sämmtliche Werke. vol. v, 1839. Eng. trans., 1895.
Hugo, F. V. Œuvres complètes de Shakespeare, traduites. 18 vols. Paris, 1856-1867.
Hugo, Victor. Cromwell, Preface. Paris, 1827.
—— William Shakespeare. Paris, 1864.
Jusserand, J. J. Shakespeare en France sous l'ancien régime. Paris, 1898. Eng. trans. London, 1899.
Koeppel, E. Studien über Shakespeare's Wirkung auf zeitgenössische Dramatiker. Louvain, 1905.
Kreyssig, F. Vorlesungen über Shakespeare und seine Werke. 1858. 3d ed., 1877.
Lee, Sidney. Shakespeare in France. In Shakespeare and the Modern Stage.
Lessing, G. E. Hamburgische Dramaturgie. Nos. 12, 15, 73. 1767, 1768.
Lounsbury, T. R. Shakespeare and Voltaire. 1902.
Mézières, A. Shakespeare, ses œuvres et ses critiques. Paris, 1860.
Renan, E. Caliban, Suite de la Tempête. Paris, 1878.
Schlegel, A. W. Ueber dramatische Kunst und Literatur. Heidelberg, 1809-1811.
—— Shakespeare's Dramatische Werke, übersetzt. 1797-1810. Neue Ausgabe, ergänzt und erläutert von L. Tieck. 9 vols. 1825, 1880-1883. Revised by Ulrici, 1867-1871, by Grandl, 1897-1899, by H. Conrad, 1905.
Stendhal (Henri Bergh) Racine et Shakespeare. Paris, 1823.
Taine, H. Histoire de la litterature anglaise. Paris, 1844. Eng. trans., rev. ed., 1873.
Ten Brink, B. Shakespeare. Strassburg, 1893.
Tolstoi, L. N. Shakespeare. 1906.
Ward, A. W. History of English Dramatic Literature. vol. i, pp. 534 ff.