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on Henry the Sixth, Part the First; on Henry the Sixth, Part the Second; and on A Mid-
summer Night's Dream-Dissertation on the Fairy Mythology, and on the Modifications which
it received from the Genius of Shakspeare.
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CHAPTER X.
Observations on Romeo and Juliet; on the Taming of the Shrew; on The Two Gentlemen of Ve-
rona ; on King Richard the Third ; on King Richard the Second ; on King Henry the Fourth,
Parts First and Second; on The Merchant of Venice; and on Hamlet-Dissertation on the
Agency of Spirits and Apparitions, and on the Ghost in Hamlet.
512
CHAPTER XI
Observations on King John; on All's Well that Ends Well; on King Henry the Fifth; on Much
Ado about Nothing; on As You Like It; on Merry Wives of Windsor; on Troilus and Cressida ;
on Henry the Eighth; on Timon of Athens ; on Measure for Measure ; on King Lear ; on Cym-
beline ; on Macbeth - Dissertation on the Popular Belief in Witchcraft during the Age of Shak-
speare, and on his Management of this Superstition in the Tragedy of Macbeth.
540
CHAPTER XII.
Observations on Julius Cæsar; on Antony and Cleopatra ; on Coriolanus ; on The Winter's Tale ;
on The Tempest - Dissertation on the General Belief of the Times in the Art of Magic, and on
Shakspeare's Management of this Superstition as exhibited in The Tempest - Observations
on Othello ; on Twelfth Night, and on the Plays ascribed to Shakspeare - Summary of Shak-
speare's Dramatic Character.
572
CHAPTER XIII.
A Brief View of Dramatic Poetry, and its Cultivators, during Shakspeare's Connection with the
Stage.
603
CHAPTER XIV.
The Biography of Shakspeare continued to the Close of his Residence in London.
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PART III.
SHAKSPEARE IN RETIREMENT.
CHAPTER I.
Anecdotes relative to Shakspeare during his Retirement at Stratford.
626
CHAPTER II.
The Death of Sbakspeare – Observations on his Will — On the Disposition and Moral Character
of Shakspeare -- On the Monument erected to his Memory, and on the Engraving of him pre-
fixed to the first Folio Edition of his Plays--Conclusion.
630
APPENDIX.
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