Shakespeare (Volume 2); With an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Growth of Drama in England (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INDEX. Actors, itinerant, I. 56. Alleys, Edward, and his com- pany, I. 94. All's Well that Ends Well, I. 373; when written, 373; its style, 377; its sources, 379; Helena, 384; " Shakespeare's loveliest charac- ter," 389; the Countess, 392: Bertram, 393; Parolles, 396; the Poet's purpose in the play, 397. Antony and Cleopatra, when printed, II. 388; when written, 388; Knight and Verplanck's view of this question, 389; Malone and Collier, 389, its historical sources, 390; the true history, 391; Oc- tavius and Octavia, 394; the last of Shakespeare's plays to be appreciated, 395; its excellencies, 396; Coleridge's view of the play, 397; its style, 396; its moral quality, 397; the magnificent in- fatuation of the hero and heroine, 399; Heraud's view of them, 399; the author's personal relation to the drama, 399; Ejiobarbus, 400; Lepidus, 403; Octavius, 404; Oc- tavia, 405; Cleopatra -jka. Vp- "pnarr' Hiniiifairpirrr in female characterizationlO?;''M