yet of him.

SECOND EPOCH.

All's Well that Ends Well;--but afterwards worked up afresh
(_umgearbeitet_), especially Parolles.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona; a sketch.
Romeo and Juliet; first draft of it.

THIRD EPOCH

rises into the full, although youthful, Shakespeare; it was the negative
period of his perfection.

Love's Labour's Lost.
Twelfth Night.
As You Like It.
Midsummer Night's Dream.
Richard II.
Henry IV. and V.
Henry VIII.; _Gelegenheitsgedicht_.
Romeo and Juliet, as at present.
Merchant of Venice.

FOURTH EPOCH.

Much Ado about Nothing.
Merry Wives of Windsor; first edition.
Henry VI.; _rifacimento_.

FIFTH EPOCH.

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succeeds.

Lear.
Macbeth.
Hamlet.
Timon of Athens; an after vibration of Hamlet.
Troilus and Cressida; _Uebergang in die Ironie_.
The Roman Plays.
King John, as at present.
Merry Wives of Windsor
Taming of the Shrew _umgearbeitet._
Measure for Measure.
Othello.
Tempest.
Winter's Tale.
Cymbeline.

CLASSIFICATION ATTEMPTED, 1810.

Shakespeare's earliest dramas I take to be--

Love's Labour's Lost.
All's Well that Ends Well.
Comedy of Errors.
Romeo and Juliet.

In the second class I reckon--

Midsummer Night's Dream.
As You Like It.
Tempest.
Twelfth Night.

In the third, as indicating a greater energy--not merely of poetry, but of
all the world of thought, yet still with some of the growing pains, and
the awkwardness of growth--I place--

Troilus and Cressida.
Cymbeline.
Merchant of Venice.
Much Ado about Nothing.
Taming of the Shrew.

In the fourth, I place the plays containing the greatest characters--

Macbeth.
Lear.
Hamlet.
Othello.

And lastly, the historic dramas, in order to be able to show my reasons
for rejecting some whole plays, and very many scenes in others.

CLASSIFICATION ATTEMPTED, 1819.

I think Shakespeare's earliest dramatic attempt--perhaps even prior in
conceptio