A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare : Being the Text of the First (1794) Edition Revised by the Author and Never Previously Published (Paperback)

List of Illustrations. Editor’s Preface. Abbreviations. Introduction: Whiter and His Background; Contemporary Criticism of Whiter’s Work; The Specimen and Later Shakespeare Criticism; The Present Edition and the Whiter MSS. A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare 1. Notes on As You Like It 2. An Attempt to Explain and Illustrate Various Passages of Shakespeare on a New Principle of Criticism, Derived from Mr Locke’s Doctrine of the Association of Ideas, 1794. Appendices: (a) Short Essays on Miscellaneous Topics (b) Other Examples of Whiter’s Notes on Shakespeare’s Association of Ideas. Selected Bibliography. Index.