It seemed not amifs to introduce the following Obfervations with one general Criticism on our Author's Dramatick Works, by dividing them into four Claffes, and fo giving an eftimate of each Play reduced to its proper Clafs. COMEDIES. CLASS I. 1 Tempeft. Vol. 1. 2 Merry Wives of Windfor. Vol. 1. CLASS II. I Midfummer-Night's Dream. 2 Much Ado about Nothing. Vol. 1. Vol. 2. 3 As you like it. Vol. 2. 4 All's well that ends well. Vol. 3. 5 Winter's Tale. Vol. 3. 1 Two Gentlemen of Verona. Vol. 1. 2 Love's Labour's Loft. Vol. 2. CLASS IV. 1 Taming of the Shrew. Vol. 2. 2 Comedy of Errors. Vol. 3. TRAGE 3 Henry VI. Part 3. Vol. 5. The Comedies and Tragedies in the last Class are certainly not of Shakespear. The most that can be faid of them is, that he has, here and there, corrected the dialogue; and now and then added a Scene. It may be just worth while to obferve, in this place, that the whole firft A&t of Fletcher's Two Noble Kinfmen was wrote by Shakespear, but in his worst manner. 13 THE Dramatis Perfonæ. ALONSO, King of Naples. Sebaftian, his Brother. Profpero, the rightful Duke of Milan. Anthonio, his Brother, the ufurping Duke of Milan Ferdinand, Son to the King of Naples. Gonzalo, an honest old Counsellor of Naples. Adrian, } Lords. Francisco, Caliban, a Salvage, and deformed Slave. Trinculo, a fefter. Stephano, a drunken Butler. Mafter of a Ship, Boatfwain, and Mariners. Ariel, an aiery Spirit. Iris, Ceres, ¡Juno, Nymphs, Spirits, employ'd in the Mafque. S Other Spirits, attending on Profpero. SCENE, An uninhabited Ifland. THE |