law, medicine,
the supernatural in Shakespeare, etc., see the Cambridge History of
English Literature, vol. v, pp. 450, 451, to which may be added Freytag,
G., Technique of the Drama, Eng. trans. 1891; Matthew, B., A Study of
the Drama, 1910; Arnold, M. E., Soliloquies of Shakespeare, New York,
1911; Fansler, H. E., Evolution of Technic in Elizabethan Tragedy, 1914;
Archer, W., Play Making, 1912.

In the New Variorum Furness gives a summary of the interpretation and
criticism for each play; but he is often quite neglectful of recent
tendencies in criticism.

3. STAGE HISTORY

The standard work for the English stage is _Some Account of the English
Stage, from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830_, by J. Genest, 10 vols.,
Bath, 1832. There is no authoritative history of the stage since 1832.
Information in regard to the Shakespearean plays may be had in the lives
of the actors, as Colley Cibber's Apology; Davies's Memoirs of Garrick,
1790; Murphy's Life of Garrick, 1801; Boaden's Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons,
1827, and Memoirs of Kemble, 1825; Cumberland's Memoir, 1806; Boaden's
Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald; Private Correspondence of David Garrick,
1831-1832; Cooke's Memoirs of Charles Macklin, 1808; Macready's
Reminiscences, 1878; Archer's Life of Macready, 1890; Molloy's Life of
Edmund Kean, 1888; Winter's Life and Art of Edwin Booth, 1893;
Brereton's Life of Sir Henry Irving, London, 1908.

Baker, H. B. The London Stage, 1576-1903. 1904.

Brown, J. S. A History of the New York Stage, 1732-1901. 3 vols. New
York, 1903.

Doran, J. Their Majesties' Servants. 1888. Ed. R. W. Lowe.

Dunlap, W. A History of the American Theater. 1832.

Fitzgerald, P. A New History of the English Stage. 2 vols. London, 1882.

Hazlitt, W. A View of the English Stage. 1818.

Home, R. H. New Spirit of the Age. 1884.

Lowe, R. W. Thomas Betterton, New York, 1891.

Lowe, R. W. Bibliographical Account of English Dramatic Literature.
1888.

Phelps, W. M., and Forbes Robertson, J. Life and Works of Samuel Phelps.
London, 1886.

Seilhamer, G. O. A History of the American Theater, 3 vols.
Philadelphia, 1891.

4. SHAKESPEARE ON THE CONTINENT

A good selected bibliography is to be found in the Cambridge History of
English Literature, vol. v, pp. 456-472, and a full bibliography
annually in the Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Only a few of the most important
titles are given here, including some already noted.

Boehtling, A. R. A. Goethe und Shakespea