Portraits, Tales, Women, and Twain

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.

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.”