Questions on Shakespeare 
By ALBERT H. TOLMAN 
A Plan of Study Intended to Develop the Student’s 
Personal Judgment on Shakespeare 
PART L - - . - - Introduction. 
220 pages, 16mo, cloth; postpaid 81 cents 
PART II. First Histories, Poems, and Comedies 
pages, 16 mo, cloth; postpaid $1.09 
perusal of the text. Study clubs in particular will find that these 
questions answer their demand for a careful, systematic, and 
illuminating guide to the text. The exercises on each play follow 
a logical order, embracing general questions, questions on indi- 
vidual acts and scenes, character-study, the relation of the play 
to its sources, and questions concerning the text or meaning 
Part I is introductory to the series. ° It includes “The Study of 
Shakespeare’s Language,” ‘‘The Study of Shakespeare’s Verse,” and a select general 
bibliography. In the first section the chief differences between the language of 
Shakespeare and present-day English are pointed out, and the reader 1s asked to 
find for himself good examples of each peculiarity indicated. Under “Versifca 
tion” Professor Tolman traces the changes that appeared in Shakespeare's meth of 
of writing verse. The bibliography (in fifteen sections), gives convenient lists 
books on sources, editions, historical data, interpretation, etc. “a 
_ Part II contains detailed questions for the study of Shakespeare’s four et 
histories (the three parts of Henry VI, and Richard III) which deal with the ’ 
of Lancaster and the coming of Tudor; the early poems; and the first gery 
Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Comedy of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verond, 20° ° 
Mid-summer Night's Dream. 
“I have had time only to look hastily through them, but n° 
haste can countervail the manifest and manifold proofs of your 
_ “Happy the flock that can graze on the ‘sustaining corn 
which you have here provided for them.” 
Dr. Horace HowarD FURNESS, 
Editor of the Wew Variorum Shakespear 
Address Dept. P 
The University of Chicago Pres* 
Chicago, Illinois 
