| PAGE | | Preface by Sidney Lee | v | | Some Notes on Shakespeare’s Reputation | 1 | | PART I | | “THESE THREE HUNDRED YEARS” | | THE FIRST PERIOD | | 1596 | Francis Meres | 35 | | 1598 | Richard Barnfield | 36 | | 1599 | John Weever | 37 | | 1610 | John Davies | 38 | | 1614 | Thomas Freeman | 39 | | 1622 | William Basse | 40 | | 1623 | Anonymous | 41 | | 1623 | Ben Jonson | 42 | | 1623 | Hugh Holland | 45 | | 1623 | John Heminge and Henrie Condell | 46 | | 1623 | Leonard Digges | 47 | | 1627 | Michael Drayton | 48 | | 1630 | John Milton | 49 | | 1632 | I. M. S. | 50 | | a. | 1633 | John Hales | 53 | | 1637 | Sir William D’Avenant | 54 | | c. | 1637 | Anonymous | 55 | | 1639 | Thomas Bancroft | 57 | | 1647 | George Daniel | 58 | | 1651 | Samuel Sheppard | 59 | | c. | 1661 | Thomas Fuller | 61 | | 1662-7 | Samuel Pepys | 62 | | 1664 | Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle | 64 | | 1667 | John Dryden | 66 | | 1668 | John Dryden | 67 | | 1672 | Anonymous | 69 | | 1675 | Edward Phillips | 71 | | 1680 | Thomas Otway | 72 | | 1681 | “A Person of Honour” | 74 | | 1693 | Sir Charles Sedley | 75 | | THE SECOND PERIOD | | 1709 | Sir Richard Steele | 76 | | 1709 | Nicholas Rowe | 78 | | 1711 | Elijah Fenton | 80 | | 1712 | John Dennis | 82 | | 222 | | 1767 | Anonymous | 223 |
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