-1791).

=Shakespeare of Germany= (_The_), Augustus Frederick Ferdinand von
Kotzebue (1761-1819).

=Shakespeare of Prose Fiction= (_The_). Richardson, the novelist, is so
called by D'Israeli (1689-1761).

=Shallow=, a weak-minded country justice, cousin to Slender. He is a great
braggart, and especially fond of boasting of the mad pranks of his
younger days. It is said that Justice Shallow is a satirical portrait of
Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, who prosecuted Shakespeare for
deer-stealing.--Shakespeare, _The Merry Wives of Windsor_ (1596); and 2
_Henry IV._ (1598).

As wise as a justice of the quorum and custalorum in Shallow's
time.--Macaulay.

=Shallum=, lord of a manor consisting of a long chain of rocks and
mountains called Tirzah. Shallum was "of gentle disposition, and beloved
both by God and man." He was the lover of Hilpa, a Chinese antediluvian
princess, one of the 150 daughters of Zilpah, of the race of Cohu or
Cain.--Addison, _Spectator_, viii. 584-5 (1712).

=Shalott= (_The lady of_), a poem by Tennyson, in four parts. Pt. i. tells
us that the lady passed her life in the island of Shalott in great
seclusion, and was known only by the peasantry. Pt. ii. tells us that
she was weaving a magic web, and that a curse would fall on her if she
looked down the river. Pt. iii. describes how Sir Lancelot rode to
Camelot in all his bravery; and the lady gazed at him as he rode along.
Pt. iv. tells us that the lady floated down the river in a boat called
_The Lady of Shalott_, and died heart-broken on the way. Sir Lancelot
came to gaze on the dead body, and exclaimed, "She has a lovely face,
God in his mercy grant her grace!" This ballad was afterwards expanded
into the _Idyll_ called "Elaine, the Lily Maid of Astolat" (_q.v._), the
beautiful incident of Elaine and the barge being taken from the _History
of Prince Arthur_, by Sir T. Malory.

"While my body is whole, let this letter be put into my right hand,
and my hand bound fast with the letter until I be cold, and let me
be put in a fair bed with all the richest clothes that I have about
me, and so let my bed and all my rich clothes be laid with me in a
chariot to the next place whereas the Thames is, and there let me
be put in a barge, and but one man with me such as ye trust to
steer me thither, and that my barge be covered with black samite
over and over." ... So when she was dead, the corpse and