Title: Notes on Shakespeare by Francis James Child
Description: Interleaved copies of Macbeth, Julius Caesar, King Lear, All's well that ends well, and King Henry the Fourth, containing manuscript notes on the lectures of F. J. Child in English 2. Brewster notes in a typewritten note attached to one volume, "The course could be taken twice in successive years, during each of which six or seven plays were read, exactly and minutely . . . These notes, when legible, are a very complete record of Professor Child's famous course, that is to say, of the chief undergraduate course of one of the great scholars of the nineteenth century."
Subjects: Curricula, Harvard University
People: Francis James Child (1825-1896)