THE QUARTERLY No. 469 PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER, 1921 LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1. NEW YORK: LEONARD SCOTT PUBLICATION COMPANY 1921 GENERAL INDEX TO THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. A new Index, forming Volume CCXXII., comprising the volumes from CCII. to CCXXI., of the QUARTERLY REVIEW, has been published, and is obtainable through any bookseller (Price 6/- net). The QUARTERLY REVIEW is published on or about the 15th of Price Thirty-two Shillings per Annum, post free. Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, Limited, 10. A HISTORY OF FRENCH ARCHITECTURE. 11. CARDINAL MANNING. By Algernon Cecil 12. Two RUSSIAN STATESMEN. By Dr. E. J. Dillon 13. THE TRI-UNE KINGDOM, POLITICAL AND ECONOMICAL. 1. Australian Labour and Australian Ideals . 2. The Letters of William James 3. Lord Chelmsford's Viceroyalty 4. Chartism 5. Travels and Discoveries 6. Ships' Timber and Contraband of War 7. The English' Poems of Maurice Hewlett . 8. Modern Democracies 9. Lord Haldane and Relativity THE QUARTERLY REVIEW No. 469.-OCTOBER, 1921. Art. 1.-RECENT SHAKESPEAREAN RESEARCH.-I. 1. A Life of William Shakespeare. New edition. By Sidney Lee. Murray, 1915. 2. The Oxford Shakespeare. By W. J. Craig. Clarendon Press, N.d. [1902]. 3. Shakespear, Himself and His Work. Hazlitt. Second edition. Quaritch, 1903. By W. Carew 4. William Shakespeare, His Family and Friends. By C. I. Elton. Murray, 1904. 5. Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare. By J. O. HalliwellPhillipps. 7th edition. Two vols. Longmans, 1887. 6. Shakespeare's Life and Work. By F. J. Furnivall and John Munro. Cassell, 1908. And other works. THE first folio had been published fifty years before the advent of any true or adequate criticism of Shakespeare's work, and he had been dead nearly a hundred years when Rowe compiled the first detailed biography of the Poet. It is from the publication of Rowe's edition in 1709 that we must date the gradual accumulation of material illustrating his life and character. Some of the most important of Rowe's new facts were got from the actor, Betterton, who knew Davenant,* Shakespeare's godson, and made an expedition to Stratford on purpose to pick up any traditions he could of its famous citizen. From this source must have come the maiden-name of Shakespeare's wife, which was not verified till long afterwards, and further details which would otherwise Betterton was born about 1635, and Davenant lived till 1668. The actor just survived the issue of Rowe's work. Vol. 236.-No. 469. |