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Scholarly Commentary
Guest Editor: PC Fleming
IntroductionÂ
Perhaps influenced by Cormell Priceâs essay on Shakespeare in the February issue of The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, this essay by William Fulford is the first in a series of essays on Shakespeareâs lesser-known plays. The two later essays in the series, one on Timon of Athens and one on Twelfth Night, were co-written with Annie Scott Hill (1835-1903).
This essay begins in the first person plural, but later changes to the singular. Tennyson had praised the Magazine for its âuse of the plain âIâ in lieu of the old hackneyed unconscientious editorial âweâ â (Mackail 90) and, since Fulford greatly admired Tennyson (he wrote a three-part essay on him for the Magazine), it is unlikely he would have forgotten this praise. The use of âweâ for the opening of this essay, then, suggests the possibility that Hill collaborated on all three of the essays on Shakespeare. The Wellesley Index lists this essay as by Fulford alone, citing Mackailâs manuscript notes and Buxton Formanâs list (730). But both of these sources are mistaken regarding other contributions to the magazine. The essay in general is similar in its approach to the essays on Timon and Twelfth Night: all three essays rely on plot summary, character sketches, and extensive quotation, and the goal of each is to entice the reader to turn to Shakespeareâs plays. The last paragraph of this essay, in which Fulford writes âI may before long examine after the same fashion another playâ (292) also links the three Shakespeare essays together.
Printing HistoryÂ
First printed in The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine , May, 1856.