BY

N O T ES,
SAMUEL JOHNSON AND GEORGE STEEVENS.

THE FIFTH EDITION.

REVISED AND AUGMENTED

BY ISAAC REED,
WITH A GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

ΤΗΣ ΦΥΣΕΩΣ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΥΣ ΗΝ, ΤΟΝ ΚΑΛΑΜOΝ ΑΠΟ ΒΡΕΧΩΝ ΕΙΣ ΝΟΥΝ,

Vet. Auct. apud. Suidam.
Time, which is continually washing away the dissoluble Fabricks of other
Pocts, passes without Injury by the Adamant of SHAKSPEARE.

Dr. Johnson's Preface.
MULTA DIES, VARIUSQUE LABOR MUTABILIS ÆVI
RETULIT IN MELIUS, MULTOS ALTERNA REVISENS
LUSIT, ET IN SOLIDO RURSUS FORTUNA LOCAVIT.

Virgil.

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VOL. I.

ADVERTISEMENT by Mr. Reed - i

Advertisement by Mr. Steevens - - 1

Preface to Mr. Richardson's Proposals, &c. - 4

Proposals by William Richardson - - 14

Supplement to Proposals - - - 17

Advertisement by Mr. Steevens to Edition of

1793 - - - - - . - 24

Rowe's Life of Shakspeare, &c. : - - 57

Anecdotes of Shakspeare from Oldys, &c. 120

Baptisms, Marriages, &c. - - - 132

Shakspeare's Coat of Arms

146

Shakspeare's Mortgage

149

Shakspeare's Will

154

Dedication by Hemings and Condell - 163

Preface by ditto

166

by Pope

168

by Theobald -

by Hanmer - - - - 222

— by Warburton

- by Johnson -

245

Advertisement to 20 Plays, by Steevens --

311

Preface by Capell - - - - 326

Advertisement by Steevens

396

Preface by M. Mason - - -

Advertisement by Reed

Preface by Malone -

424

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188

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VOL. II.

. Dr. Farmer's Essay on the Learning of Shak-

speare - - - - - - 1

Colman's Remarks on it - - - 87

Ancient Translations from Claffick Authors - 92

Entries of Shakspeare's Plays on the Stationers'

Books -

- - - 119

List of ancient Editions of Shakfpeare's

Plays - - - - - - 139

List of modern Editions - - - 148

List of ancient Editions of Shakspeare's

Poems - - - - - 152

List of modern ditto

153

List of altered Plays from Shakspeare - 156

List of detached Pieces of Criticism on Shak-

speare, his Editors, &c. - - 167

Commendatory Verses on Shakspeare - 181

Malone's Attempt to ascertain the Order of

Shakspeare's Plays - - - 222

Malone's Essay on Ford's Pamphlet, &c. - 374
Steevens's Remarks on it

408

VOL. III.

Malone's historical Account of the English

Stage - - - - - - 1

Additions - - - - - 351

Additions by Steevens - - - 404

Further historical Account by Chalmers - 417

Addenda by the fạme - - - - 513