A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen / and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy

An extended critical letter investigates the disputed joint authorship of a Jacobean drama and offers a close study of the celebrated poet's characteristic style and artistic strengths. The author weighs internal textual evidence against the work of contemporaries, examining diction, imaginative energy, dramatic construction, and the fidelity of characterization. He highlights passages that both resemble and depart from the poet's known manner, considers theories of collaboration or later revision, and balances enthusiastic praise of particular qualities with a candid admission that some attribution problems remain unresolved.