Dramatic criticism

The document examines early Elizabethan plays to determine if they were original works or unpublished plays that were taken and published by a later playwright as their own works.

The materials include three articles discussing the play Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare. One document talks about plot structure and sources; another talks about the development and evolution of the show. Also included are general notes and analysis of the show.

The material includes various documents about Francis Bacon including, an article in Dutch about a secret society Bacon was apart of, a review of Mr. Edwin Reed's Book Bacon Versus Shakespere, and a document about Bacon's essays.

The document discusses whether or not Garrick had a significant effect on the revival of Shakespeare's plays for the mid-eighteenth-century London stage.

The materials include documents talking about Alexandre Hardy's life as a playwright and author and also the strange resemblance between Hardy and Shakespeare. The articles give examples of how the playwrights are similar through their plays.

The materials include a volume of "Studies in Literary Imagination" as well as two other articles that discuss the historical context behind Shakespeare's history plays and other playwright's dramas.

The materials include a document that analyzes the influence that eighteenth-century Shakespearean criticism had on two later playwrights: Hazlitt and Coleridge.

The material includes a document discussing, looking at the historical context, and how Shakespeare portrays certain characters in his plays if he was Aristocratic. It was written by Albert H. Tolman.

The articles discuss the authorship of songs appearing in Blounts Sixe Court Comedies. The first document reaffirms that Lyly wrote them and provides evidence to support it. Another one is a response to an author's argument made against the first article.

The documents discuss the relationship with humanism and the Renaissance and how the pessimism of man in the modern world as well as the deniability of humanism is preventing a new Renaissance.