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 F1; 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, Q 1; 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;
George-a-Greene; Locrine; King Edward III (of which
Act ii. is by a different hand, and that, almost certainly
Shakspere's); Mucedorus; Sir John Oldcastle; Thomas
Lord Cromwell; The Merry Devil of Edmonton; The
London Prodigal; The Puritan; A Yorkshire Tragedy;
Faire Em; The Birth of Merlin; The Siege of Antwerp;
The Life and Death of Thomas Stucley; A Warning to
Fair Women.

c. The Martinist and Anti-Martinist Plays of 1589-91; and
the Plays relating to the quarrel between Dekker and
Jonson in 1600.

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
(suggested by Mr J. O. Halliwell).

The Returne from Pernassus, 1606, to be edited by the Rev.
A. B. Grosart.

Series VI. Edward Hake's Touchstone, 1574; William Stafford's
Compendious or briefe Examination of certeyne ordinary Com-
plaints 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, re-
edited 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.

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SERIES I.

Transactions

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NEW SHAKSPERE SOCIETY 1875-6.

PART I

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VI. Note upon the "Elf-Locks" in Romeo and Juliet, I. iv. 91, 92. By
J. Wickham Legg, M.D., F.S.A.

191

VIL. Grunch (Lady Macbeth). By the Countess of Charlemont
VIII. On the Character of Banquo. By Algernon Foggo, M.A., Camb.
(Discussion, p. 205)

194

200

IX. On Shakspere's Use of Narration in his Dramas. Part I. (Englisht by
Miss Gordon.) By Professor N. Delius

207

X. On the Authorship of the Second and Third Parts of Henry VI, and their Originals. By Miss Jane Lee

219

Discussion on the Paper

280

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 Euereece 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, by the late Prof. J. Wilson (Christopher North), p. 349; Shak-pere's Dramatic Unities, with the Time-Amlysis of The Merchant of Venice, (by the late Rev. N. J. Halpin (edited by Dr C. M. Ingleby)

II. Dr S. Forman's Book of Plays

312

314

332

388

413

III. On the Confusion of Time in the Merry Wives. By R. Grant White,
Esq.

IV. The Speeches of Brutus on Cæsar, and of Antony over Caesar's Dead
Body, from the Englisht Appian's Chronicle of 1578

427

V. Account of the German Shakspere Society's Jahrbuch, 1876, by F. D.
Matthew, Esq.

440

VI. Collation of the First Edition of Marlowe's Edward II, 1594, with
Dyce's Text of 1850, Marlowe's Works, Vol. II, by Dr Rudolph
Genée of Dresden

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
Adonis, p. 150; on Twelfth Night, II. v. 66-7, p. 154; on the Bond-
and Casket-Stories in the Merchant of Venice

457

Index (by W. Wilkins, Esq., Trin. Coll., Dublin)

Order of Shakspere's Plays. By Mr Furnivall and Prof. Dowden

461

464

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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.

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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.

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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, Miss Jane Lee, Prof. S. R. Gardiner, &c.