S H A K S P E A. R. E.

AND

H IS TIMES:

INCLUDING
THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE POET;

CRITICISMS ON HIS GENIUS AND WRITINGS: A NEW CHRONOLOGY OF HIS PLAYS;
A DISQUISITION ON THE OBJECT OF HIS SONNETS;
AND
A HISTORY OF
THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND AMUSEMENTS, SUPERSTITIONS,
POETRY, AND ELEGANT LITERATURE OF HIS AGE.

By NATHAN DRAKE, M.D.

AUTHOR of “Liter ARY Hours,” AND of “Essays on PERiodical LITERATURE.”

— On the tip of his subduing tongue
All kind of arguments and question deep,
All replication prompt, and reason strong,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep :
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,
. He had the dialect and different skill,
Catching all passions in his craft of will;
That he did in the general bosom reign
Of young, of old; and sexes both enchanted.

The very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.
ShakspeaRE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

LONDON :
PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND.
1817. ,

Dedications of Shakspeare's VENUS AND ADoNIs, and RAPE of LUCRECE, to

the Earl of Southampton—Biographical Sketch of the Earl–Critique on

the Poems of Shakspeare. - - - - - Page 1

CHAP. VI. -

On the Dress and Modes of Living, and the Manners and Customs of the

Inhabitants of the Metropolis, during the Age of Shakspeare. - 87

CHAP. VII.

On the Diversions of the Metropolis, and the Court – The Stage; its

Usages and Economy. - - - - - 168

CHAP. VIII.

A Brief View of Dramatic Poetry, from the Birth of Shakspeare to the

Period of his Commencement as a Writer for the Stage, about the Year

1590; with Critical Notices of the Dramatic Poets who flourished during

that Interval. ** - * - - - 227

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