Excerpt from A Handbook to the Works of William Shakespeare His Handbook to Shakespeare offers in one volume the critical and explanatory helps that must otherwise be sought from many books. As far as possible, it embodies all recent research and, like the author's Handbook to Tennyson, aims at illustrating principles while it supplies information. References are made to the Globe Edition of Shake speare's works; and for the duration of dramatic action I am indebted to Mr. Daniel's time analysis of the plays. As on former occasions, my best thanks are due to Mr. W. J. Lias, late Scholar of Jesus College, Cambridge, for his kindness in revising the proofs; I have also to thank the Rev. Tabor Davies, m.a., for similar help, and for compiling the Index. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.