Fleay. Shakespeare Manual (Facsimile on CDrom)
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Author: Frederick Gard Fleay (1831-1909)

Comprehensive analysis of Shakespeare. An interesting insight into nineteenth century Shakespeare scholarship.

The Author, Frederick Gard Fleay, was a literary scholar who devoted decades to the study of language, Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama.
His detailed study, techniques of analysis and linguistic tests of Shakespeare have provided a firm foundation for modern Shakespearean study. The Dictionary of National biography sites his method of mechanistic and quantative analyses of metre and phrase as a development which has been successfully exploited in modern-day computer-assisted analyses.

PART I:  Manual of Reference. Chapter I.  Shakespeare's Life. Chapter II.  Contemporary Illusions to Shakespeare. Chapter III.  On the Plays of Shakespeare  - Chronological Table - Love's Laour's Lost - Comedy of Errors - Midsummer Night's Dream - Ricahrd II - Edward III - Two Gentlemen of Verona - Richard III - Henry IV - John - Romeo and Juliet - Merchant of Venice - Henry IV (1) - Henry IV (2) - Merry Wives of Windsor - Henry V - Much Ado about Nothing - Julius Caesar - As You Like it - Twelfth Night - Hamlet - Taming of the Shrew - Henry VI (2 and 3) - Titus Andronicus - Measure for Measure - All's Well that Ends Well - Othello - Lear - Macbeth - Timon of Athens - Troylus and Cressida - Pericles - Anthony and Cleopatra - Coriolanus - Two Noble Kinsmen - Cymbeline - Tempest - Winter's Tale - Henry VIII -   Spurious Plays. Chapter IV.  On Various Questions connected with Shakespeare's Plays  - What Plays are Genuine? - What Plays are not Entirely Written at one Date? - Early Editions - Relative Values of Quartos and Folios - Entries and Stationers' Hall. Chapter V.  Pronunciation and Metre - Pronunciation - Metre - Distinguishing Metrical Tests. Chapter VI.  How Plays were Presented. Chapter VII.  On the Early Theatrical Companies - Chronolgical Table. Chapter VIII.  On the Theatres, 1576-1642 - Chronolgical Table. Chapter IX.  On Contemporary Dramatic Authors - Chronolgical Table - Lilly - Peele - Greene - Marlowe - Chapman - Jonson - Dekker - Heywood - Middleton - Martson - Webster - Beaumont and Fletcher - Rowley - Massinger - Ford - Shirley - Randolph - Brome - Glapthorne - Dodsley's Plays, &c - Daniel - Alexander - Cartwright - Suckling - Davenant. Chapter X.  Miscellaneous Chronological Table. Chapter XI.  List of Desirable Books. Chapter XII.  Tests of Chronology and Authorship. Chapter XIII.  On Emendation - Canons - Causes of Error. Chapter XIV.  On the Actors - Table of King's Company - Table of Prince's Company - Table of Queen's Company - Table of Revel's Company - Other Companies.

PART II: Original Investigations. Chapter I.  Metrical Terms applied:-i. Shakespeare Table of Dates, as assigned by Drake, Chalmers, Malone, Delius and Fleay - Metrical Tables. Chapter II.  On the Quarto Editions - Tabular View of Quartos. Chapter III.  Metrical Tests applied:-ii. Beaumont and Fletcher, Massinger - On 'Henry VIII' - On 'Two Noble Kinsmen.' Chapter IV.  On 'The Taming o the Shrew.' Chapter V.  'Timon of Athens'-i. (1874) - ii. (1869) Chapter VI.  On 'Pericles.' Chapter VII.  On 'All's well that Ends Well.' Chapter VIII.  On 'Twelfth Night.' Chapter IX.  On 'Troylus and Cressida' - Canons on Metrical Tests. Chapter X.  On 'Macbeth' - Table Lenght of Shakespeare's Plays - Table of Rhyme Tags. Chapter XI.  On 'Julius Caesar' - Note on 'Two Gentlemen of Verona.' Chapter XII. Personal Satire Common on the Old English Stage ('Willy Beguiled.') Chapter XIII.  Annals of the Stage 1584-95 - "Fair Emm" - "London Prodigal" - Greene's Plays - Dates of Marlowe's Plays - Story of the Stage. Chapter XIV. On 'Edward III.' Chapter XV. Extracts reprinted from the Athenaeum - Is Aetion Shakespeare? - Shakespeare's Arms - List of Mangaers and Companies and Masters of Schools, in the time of Elizabeth.