TO

MR. JOSEPH BURNETT,
OF SOUTHBOROUGH, MASS.

Sir:

The Memories of a Friendship running, I believe, without interruption
through a period of more than five-and-twenty years, prompt the
inscribing of these volumes to you.

H.N. HUDSON.

BOSTON, January 1, 1872.




CONTENTS.


LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE

ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE DRAMA IN ENGLAND
MIRACLE-PLAYS
MORAL-PLAYS
COMEDY AND TRAGEDY

SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES