... It seemed not amifs to introduce the following Obfervations with one general Criticifm on our Author's Dramatick Works, by dividing them into four Claffes, and fo giving an estimate of each Play reduced to its proper Clafs. COMEDIES. CLASS I. 1 Tempeft. Vol. 1. 2 Merry Wives of Windfor. Vol. 1. 3 Meafure for Measure, Vol. 1. 4 Merchant of Venice. Vol. 2. 5 Twelfth-Night. Vol. 3. CLASS I I. 1 Midfummer-Night's Dream. Vol. 1, 2 Much Ado about Nothing. 3 As you like it. Vol. 2. Vol. 2. 4 All's well that ends well. Vol. 3. 1 Two Gentlemen of Verona. Vol. 1. Part 2.. Vol. 5. 3 Henry VI. Part 3. Vol. 5. 4. Titus Andronicus. Vol. 6. The Comedies and Tragedies in the laft Clafs 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 Act of Fletcher's Two Noble Kinfmen was wrote by Shakespear, but in his worst manner. 3 THE THE WORK S O F SHAKESPEAR: VOLUME the FIRST. CONTAINING, The TEMPEST. A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM. The Two GENTLEMEN of VERONA. The MERRY WIVES of WINDSOR. MEASURE for MEASURE. LONDON: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Longman and T.Shewell, H. Lintot, C. Hitch, J. Brindley, J. and R. Tonfen and S. Draper, R. Wellington, E. New, and B. Dod. MDCCXLVII. |