EXPLANATORY NOTES, AND SIMILAR PASSAGES,

FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN AUTHORS.

BY WILLIAM DODD, L.L.D.

LATE OF CLAR E-HALL, CAMBRIDGE.

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n,
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. See Mid.Night's Dr. vol.1. p. 232.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

THE THIRD EDITION WITH LARGE ADDITIONS,

AND THE

AUTHOR'S LAST CORRECTIONS,

VOL. II.

LONDON: PRINTED FOR J, MACGOWAN, No. 27, PATER-NOSTER ROW.

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SECOND VOL U M E.

COMEDIES.

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.

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DISSERTATION ON THE PRÆTERNATURAL BE-

INGS OF SHAKESPEAR, FROM MRS. MONTAGUE, 18

THE TEMPEST,

28

THE TWELFTH NIGHT,

59

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA,

80

THE WINTER'S TALE,

IOI

TRAGEDI E S.

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA,

133

CORIOLANUS,

159

CYMBELINE,

177

HAMLET,

203

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON HAMLET FROM

VARIOUS AUTHORS,

249