Portraits, Tales, Women, and Twain

An inquiry into the authenticity of various pictures and prints, which, from the decease of the poet to our own times, have been offered to the public as portraits of Shakspeare: containing a careful examination of the evidence on which they claim to be received; by which the pretended portraits have been rejected, the genuine confirmed and established, illustrated by accurate and finished engravings, by the ablest artists, from such originals as were of indisputable authority

James Boaden. An Inquiry Into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints, Which, From the Decease of the Poet to Our Own Times, Have Been Offered to the Public as Portraits of Shakspeare….
London: Robert Triphook, 1824.
A treatise on the authenticity of the various portraits and busts of Shakepeare.

Charles & Mary Lamb. Tales from Shakespeare.
London: E. Nister; New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., circa 1901.

With six color plates and 70 half-tone illustrations by Walter Stanley Paget.

Frontispiece from Charles Lamb.

Characteristics of women, moral, poetical, and historical by Mrs. Jameson

Anna Brownell Jameson.
Characteristics of Women. Moral, Poetical, and Historical.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857.

Essays on Shakespeare’s women characters.

Mark Twain. Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography.
New York; London: Harper & Brothers, 1909.

In this semi-autobiographical work, Twain discusses the longstanding question on the authorship of the Shakespearian canon. Twain compares Satan and Shakespeare vis-à-vis the lack of biographical information: “They are the best-known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.”