The diary contains references to and biographical sketches of Shakespeare and also gives an account of the medical knowledge of the time. (From Folger)
3d ed. ESTC T138751. Western copy listed. One of several ESTC numbers are possible and so NEED to check copy.Folger notes:
Dedication signed: Ralph Register, i.e. Sir Henry Bate Dudley and Mary Dudley, his wife.
"A satire on the leading public characters of the day in a series of passages professing to be quotations from William Ireland’s play; it originally appeared from time to time in the ’Morning herald’ and was written by Dudley and his wife "(D.N.B.).
Vol. IX, no. 1, in the L. C. set, with general t.-p.: Early prose and poetical tracts...vol. I. 1853.With reproduction of original t.-p.: Riche his Farewell to militarie profession: conteining verie pleasaunt discourses fit for a peaceable tyme, Gathered together...by Barnabe Riche...Imprinted at London, by Robart Walley, 1581. Ed. by John Payne Collier. Several of the tales are from Italian sources. The "Conclusion" contains a ninth story, Balthaser, similar to Machiavelli's Marriage of Belphegor. (From Omni)
"This essay is an expansion, in accordance with a preconceived scheme, of the two papers, one on 'The witches in Macbeth', and the other on 'The demonology of Shakspere', which were read before the New Shakspere society in the years 1877 and 1878."--Forewords. (From Omni, Same appears in Folger)
