Lecture XXII
Comparison of the English and Spanish Theatres—Spirit of the Romantic Drama—Shakspeare—His Age and the Circumstances of his Life.
Lecture XXIII
Ignorance or Learning of Shakspeare—Costume as observed by Shakspeare, and how far necessary, or may be dispensed with, in the Drama—Shakspeare the greatest drawer of Character—Vindication of the genuineness of his pathos—Play on Words—Moral Delicacy—Irony-Mixture of the Tragic and Comic—The part of the Fool or Clown—Shakspeare’s Language and Versification.