New Shakespeare
Discoveries. C. W. Wallace. Harper's Magazine, March, 1910. Catalogues
of the books, manuscripts, works of art, antiquities, and relics at
present exhibited in Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon, 1910.
For discussion of portraits of Shakespeare, see Portraits of
Shakespeare, J. P. Norris, Philadelphia, 1885; M. R. Spielmann in
Stratford-Town Shakespeare, vol. x; and in Encycl. Brit., 11th ed.,
article on Shakespeare. On a Portrait of Shakespeare in the Shakespeare
Memorial at Stratford-on-Avon, L. Cust, Proc. Soc. Antiq., 1895.

See also Sources of Traditional Material, Appendix A, p. 225.

CHAPTER III

SHAKESPEARE'S READING

Shakespeare's Books: A dissertation on Shakespeare's reading and the
immediate sources of his works. By H. R. D. Anders. Berlin, 1904. The
best book on the subject.

Shakespeare's Studies, T. S. Baynes, 1893.

Shakespeare's Holinshed. Ed. W. G. Boswell-Stone. 1896. New ed., 1907. A
reprint of the passages in Holinshed's Chronicles which Shakespeare
used.

Shakespeare's Plutarch. Ed. W. W. Skeat. 1875.

The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare. J. J. Jusserand, trans. E.
Lee. 1890.

The Shakespeare Classics, gen. ed. L. Gollancz (in progress, 1907-),
reprints the chief sources of the plays: Lodge's Rosalynde, Greene's
Pandosto, Brooke's Romeo and Juliet, the Chronicle History of King Leir,
The Taming of a Shrew, The Sources and Analogues of A Mid-summer-Night's
Dream, Shakespeare's Plutarch. Most of these, with other valuable
material, are found also in W. C. Hazlitt's revision of Collier's
Shakespeare Library. 6 vols. 1875 (out of print).

Many translations which Shakespeare may have known are included in the
long series of the Tudor Translations, ed. W. E. Henley and Charles
Whibley (mostly out of print).

For drama see Bibliography, chap. vi; for contemporary literature see
bibliography in Cambridge History of English Literature; or any short
manual, as Saintsbury's Elizabethan Literature, or Seccombe and Allen's
Age of Shakespeare. 2 vols.

CHAPTER IV

CHRONOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT

The first thorough attempt to determine the chronology of Shakespeare's
plays was made in Malone's "Attempt to ascertain the order in which the
plays attributed to Shakespeare were written," published in Steevens's
edition of 1778. His final conclusions on the subject are to be found in
the preliminary volumes of the 1821 Variorum. Since then, discussions of
chronolog