A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen: and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacySpalding, William
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A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen: and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy
iv, v, vi. | Littledale.
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Act IV. sc. i, ii. | FLETCHER. Spalding, Hickson.
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Act IV. sc. *SHAKSPERE. Hickson. | *FLETCHER. Spalding, Dyce.
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Act V. sc. i SHAKSPERE. Spalding, | ? lines 1-17 by FLETCHER.
(includes Hickson, &c. | Skeat, Littledale.
Weber's sc. |
i, ii, iii). |
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Act V. sc. ii. | FLETCHER. Spalding, Hickson,
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Act V. sc. iii, SHAKSPERE. Spalding, |
iv. Hickson, &c., with a few lines |
FLETCHER. Sc. iv. (with |
FLETCHER interpolations. |
Swinburne, Littledale). |
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Epilogue | FLETCHER. Littledale.
* Here Prof. Spalding and Mr Hickson differ.
Mr Swinburne, when duly clothed and in his right mind, and not exposing
himself in his April-Fool's cap and bells, will have something to say on
the subject; and it will no doubt be matter of controversy to the end of
time. Let every one study, and be fully convinct in his own mind.
To Mrs Spalding and her family I am greatly obligd for their willing
consent to the present reprint. To Dr John Hill Burton, the Historian of
Scotland, we are all grateful for his interesting Life of his old
schoolfellow and friend, which comes before the author's _Letter_. Miss
Spalding too I have to thank for help. And our Members, Mrs Bidder--the
friend of our lost sweet-natured helper and friend, Richard Simpson--and
Mr *****, for their gifts of £10 each, and the Rev. Stopford Brooke for
his gift of four guineas, towards the cost of the present volume.
To my friend Miss Constance O'Brien I am indebted for the annext Scheme
of Prof. Spalding's argument, and the Notes and Index. The side-notes,
head-lines, and the additions to the original title-page[xi:1] are mine.
I only regret that the very large amount of his time--so much wanted for
other pressing duties,--which Mr Harold Littledale has given to his
extremely careful edition of _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ for us, has thrown
on me, who know the Play so much less intimately than he does, the duty
of writing these _Forewords_. But we shall get his mature opinion in his
Introduction to the Play in a year or two[xi:2].
F. J. FURNIVALL.
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