THE

PHILOSOPHY

OF

THE PLAYS

PLAYS OF SHAK SPERE

UNFOLDED.

By DELIA BACO N.

WITII

A PREFACE

BY

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE,

AUTHOR OF THE SCARLET LETTER,' ETC.

Aphorisms representing A KNOWLEDGE broken do invite men to
inquire further.

LORD BACON
You find not the apostrophes, and so miss the accent.

LOVE'S LAROU'R's Lost.
Untie the spell. -PROSPERO.

LONDON:

GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WERTHEIMER AND CO.,

CIRCUS PLACE, FINSBURY,

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PREFACE

PAOE.

iv

INTRODUCTION.

СНАР.

xvii

1. The Proposition

II. The Age of Elizabeth, and the Elizabethan Men of

Letters

III. Extracts from the Life of Raleigh. — Raleigh's School. .

IV. Raleigh's School, continued.—The New Academy

.

xxvii

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BOOK I.*

TOE ELIZABETHAN ART OF DELIVERY AND TRADITION.

1

PART I.

MICHAEL DE MONTAIGNE'S PRIVATE AND RETIRED ARTS.'

I. Ascent from Particulars to the • Highest Parts of Sciences'

by the Enigmatic Method illustrated

II. Further Illustration of Particular Methods of Tradition.' –

Embarrassments of Literary Statesmen

III, The Possibility of great anonymous Works, — or Works

published under an assumed name, - conveying under

rhetorical Disguises the Principal Sciences,--re-suggested

and illustrated

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* The HistoriCAL KEY to the ELIZABETHAN ART of TRADITION, which
formed the First Book of this work as it was originally prepared for
the Press, is reserved for separate publication.

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