Parallel Texts of the Imperfect sketches of b. Hamlet and its Quarto 2 (with the Folio and a revised Text). c. Merry Wives of Windsor, and Folio 1; d. The Contention, and Henry VI, Part 2, in F 1; The True Tragedy, and Henry VI, Part 3, in F 1. Parallel Texts of the following Quarto Plays and their versions in the First Folio, with collations: Richard III, Q1; 2 Henry IV, Q1; Troilus and Cressida, Q 1; Lear, Q 1. Of Othello, four Texts: Q 1, Q 2, F 1, and a revised Text. Parallel Texts of the two earliest Quartos of Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Merchant of Venice. The First Quartos of Much Ado about Nothing; Loues Labour's Lost; Richard II; 1 Henry IV;-from which the copies in the Folio were printed ;—and Edward III. Reprints in Quarto of the remaining Folio Plays, with collations. Series V. The Contemporary Drama (ed. Richard Simpson, Esq.). a. The Works of Robert Greene, Thomas Nash (with a selection from Gabriel Harvey's), Thomas Lodge, and Henry Chettle. b. The Arraignment of Paris (Peele's); Arden of Feversham; c. The Martinist and Anti-Martinist Plays of 1589-91; and d. Lists of all the Companies of Actors in SHAKSPERE's time, their Directors, Players, Plays, and Poets, &c. &c. e. Dr Wm. Gager's Meleager, a tragedy, printed October 1592. f. Robert Chester's Love's Martyr. Richard II, and the other Plays in Egerton MS. 1994 The Returne from Pernassus, 1606, to be edited by the Rev. Series VI. Edward Hake's Touchstone, 1574; William Stafford's Compendious or briefe Examination of certeyne ordinary Complaints of divers of our Countreymen, in these our Days, 1581; and Thomas Powell's Tom of all Trades, 1631; edited by F. J. Furnivall, Esq., M.A. Series VII. Mysteries, &c. Ancient Mysteries, with a Morality, from the Digby MS. 133, re-edited from the unique MS. by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A.; The Towneley Mysteries, reedited from the unique MS. by the Rev. Richard Morris, LL.D. Series VIII. Miscellaneous. Autotypes of the parts of the Play of Sir Thomas More that may possibly be in young SHAKSPERE'S handwriting, from the Harleian MS. 7368. Thomas Rymer's Tragedies of the last Age considered and examined', 1673, 1692; and his 'A short View of Tragedy of the last Age', 1693. THE NEW SHAKSPERE SOCIETY. "Societie (saith the text) is the happinesse of life."-Loues Labour's lost, iv. 2. Meeting at University College, Gower St, London, W.C., on the 2nd Friday of every month (except at Easter and during July, August, and September), at 8 p.m. Subscription, One Guinea a year, due on 1st January, and payable to the Hon. Sec., A. G. Snelgrove, Esq., London Hospital, London, E. PRESIDENT: [It is hoped that one of our chief living Poets will take the post.] VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. H. N. HUDSON, Cambridge, U.S.A. R. C. JEBB, Esq., M.A., Public Orator, Cam- LORD LECONFIELD. F. LEIGHTON, Esq., R.A. J. RUSSELL LOWELL, Esq., D.C.L., Cambridge, SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart., M.P., F.R.S. THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER. H. MAUDSLEY, Esq., M.D. Prof. HENRY MORLEY, Univ. Coll., London. Professor MAX MÜLLER, Ph.D., Oxford. Professor DoWDEN, LL. D., Trin. Coll., Dublin. Professor C. W. OPZOOMER, Ph.D., Utrecht. Professor C. H. PEARSON, M. A., Melbourne. Professor J. RUSKIN, M.A., Oxford Professor BERNHARD TEN BRINK, Ph.D., Strassburg. Professor G. GUIZOT, College de France, THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP THIRLWALL. Paris. N. E. S. A. HAMILTON, Esq. SIR T. DUFFUS HARDY. THE REV. W. H. THOMPSON, D.D., MASTER OF R. GRANT WHITE, Esq, New York, U.S.A. COMMITTEE: F. J. FURNIVALL, Esq. (M.A.), Director, 3, St George's Square, Primrose Hill, London, N. W. J. W. HALES, Esq., M.A. C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY, Esq., LL. D. FRED. D. MATTHEW, Esq. BRINSLEY NICHOLSON, ESQ., M.D. Treasurer: WILLIAM PAYNE, Esq., The Keep, Forest Hill, London, S.E. Bankers: THE ALLIANCE BANK, Bartholomew Lane, London, E. C. SERIES I. Transactions OF THE NEW SHAKSPERE SOCIETY, 1875-6. PART I PAGE VI. Note upon the "Elf-Locks "in Romeo and Juliet, I. iv. 91, 92. By 191 VII. Gruach (Lady Macbeth). By the Countess of Charlemont 194 200 IX. On Shakspere's Use of Narration in his Dramas. Part I. (Englisht by 207 X. On the Authorship of the Second and Third Parts of Henry VI, and their Originals. By Miss Jane Lee 219 Table of Shakspere's and Marlowe's Shares in 2 and 3 Henry VI, p. 293; Table of Marlowe's and Greene's Shares in the Contention and True Tragedy, p. 304; Postscript to Paper X, p. 307; Parallelisms between Luerece and 2 and 3 Henry VI (by Mr Furnivall). XI. The Political Element in Massinger. By Professor S. R. Gardiner XII. On Shakspere's Use of Narration in his Dranias. Part II. (Englisht by Miss Marx.) By Professor N. Delius APPENDIXES. I. Shakspere's Dramatic Art: The Time-Analysis of Macbeth and Othello, III. On the Confusion of Time in the Merry Wives. By R. Grant White, 312 314 332 388 413 421 IV. The Speeches of Brutus on Casar, and of Antony over Caesar's Dead 427 V. Account of the German Shakspere Society's Jahrbuch, 1876, by F. D. 440 VI. Collation of the First Edition of Marlowe's Edward II, 1594, with 445 VII. A List of Shakspereana since Jan. 1, 1874, by Mr Franz Thimm 452 Note on 1 Henry IV, II. iii. 90, p. 124; on the Date of Venus and 457 Index (by W. Wilkins, Esq., Trin. Coll., Dublin) Order of Shakspere's Plays. By Mr Furnivall and Prof. Dowden 461 464 PUBLISHT FOR THE NEW SHAKSPERE SOCIETY BY N. TRÜBNER & CO., 57, 59, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C., 1877. issued for 1874: Series I. Transactions. 1. Part I, containing 4 Papers, and editions of the genuine parts of Timon and Pericles, by the Rev. F. G. Fleay, M.A., with Discussions on the Papers, Mr Spedding's Paper on Henry VIII, &c. Series II. Plays. The First two Quartos of Romeo and Juliet, 1597 and 1599, in a. simple Reprints; b. Parallel Texts, arranged so as to show their Differences, and with Collations of all the Quartos and Folios; all edited by P. A. Daniel, Esq. [b. was presented to the Society by H.R.H. Prince Leopold, one of its VicePresidents.] Series IV. Shakspere Allusion-Books. 1. Part I. 1592-8 A.D. (Greenes Groatesworth of Wit [written in 1592], 1596; Henry Chettle's 'Kind-Harts Dreame' [written in 1593]; Englandes Mourning Garment' [1603]; A Mourneful Dittie [1603]; five sections from Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia, 1598, &c. &c.); edited by C. Mansfield Ingleby, Esq., LL.D. Copies of Dr Ingleby's Still Lion, and Mr Furnivall's Introduction to Gervinus's Commentaries, were presented to every Member. The following Publications have been issued for 1875: Series II. 4. Plays: Romeo and Juliet, c. a Revised Edition of the Quarto of 1599, collated with the other Quartos and the Folios; edited by P. A. Daniel, Esq., with Notes and Introduction. 5, 6. Henry V., a. Reprints of the Quarto and Folio, edited by Dr Brinsley Nicholson. Series I. Transactions, 1874, Part II; 1875-6, Part I, containing Papers by Messrs Hales, Fleay, Simpson, and Spedding, and Profs. Ingram and Delius, with Discussions on the Papers. Series III. Originals and Analogues. 1. Part I. a. The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, written first in Italian by Bandell, and nowe in Englishe by Ar[thur] Br[ooke], 1562; edited by P. A. Daniel, Esq. b. The goodly hystory of the true and constant loue between Rhomeo and Julietta; from Painter's Palace of Pleasure, 1567; edited by P. A. Daniel, Esq. Mr Halliwell presented to every Member a copy of Mr A. H. Paget's "Shakespeare's Plays: a Chapter of Stage History." The following Publications have been issued for 1876: Series VI. 2. a. Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift, 1593, with The passionate Morrice. b. John Lane's Tom Tell-Troths message and his Pens Complaint, 1600. c. Thomas Powell's Tom of all Trades, or the Plaine Pathway to Preferment, 1631. d. The Glasse of Godly Loue, [1569]. (Presented by 3 members of the Society.) Edited by F. J. Furnivall, M. A. 3. William Stafford's Compendious or briefe Examination of certeyne ordinary Complaints of divers of our Countreymen, in these our Days, 1581; with an Introduction by F. D. Matthew, Esq.; edited by F. J. Furnivall, M.A. (Presented by the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby.) 4. Phillip Stubbes's Anatomie of Abuses, 1 May, 1583; with extracts from his Life of his Wife, 1591; edited by F. J. Furnivall, M.A. Part I. Series II. Plays: 7, 8. The Two Noble Kinsmen, by Shakspere and Fletcher; a. A Reprint of the Quarto of 1634; b. a revised Edition, with Notes, by Harold Littledale, Esq., Trinity College, Dublin. (The latter presented by Richard Johnson, Esq.) Series VIII. Miscellanies. 1. The late Prof. W. Spalding's Letter on the Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen, on the Characteristics of SHAKSPERE's style, and the secret of his Supremacy (1833). A new ed. with a Memoir of Prof. Spalding by John Hill Burton, LL.D., and Forewords by F. J. Furnivall, M.A. The following Publications for 1877 are ready: Series VI. Shakspere's England. 1. William Harrison's Description of England, 1577, 1587, edited from its two versions by Fredk. J. Furnivall, M.A. Part I, with an enlarged copy of Norden's Map of London by van den Keere, 1593, and Notes on it by Mr H. B. Wheatley. Series I. Transactions. 4. Part II. for 1875-6, containing Papers by Prof. Delius, Mis s Jane Lee, Prof. S. R. Gardiner, &c. |