A Study in Shakespeare

Annie Scott Hill and William Fulford

General Description

Date: 1856
Genre: Prose essay

Bibliography

◦ Houghton, The Wellesley Index, pp. 723-731.

◦ “George Birkbeck Hill”. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Scholarly Commentary

Guest Editor: PC Fleming

Introduction

This essay is probably by Annie Scott Hill (1837-1902) and William Fulford (1831-1882) ( Wellesley Index 731). Annie Scott Hill was the wife of George Birkbeck Hill (1835-1903), who knew Fulford at Oxford ( Dictionary of National Biography ).

Primarily a character sketch of Timon and a summary of the plot of the play, this essay is the second in a series of three essays in The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine about Shakespeare’s less popular plays. The other two discuss Troilus and Cressida and Twelfth Night, respectively. Cormell Price’s essay on Shakespeare’s minor poetry is relevant here as well.

Printing History

First printed in The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine , July, 1856.

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