ABSTRACT
From Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet (1736). The ascription of this essay to the Rev. George Stubbes (born c. 1683), a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford from 1701 to 1725, subsequently a country clergyman and domestic chaplain to the Duke of Ormond and Frederick, Prince of Wales, was made by the antiquary Richard Rawlinson. See Bodleian MS. Rawl.J 4° 3, fols 401r-402r; Alumni Oxonienses ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), IV, p. 1439; and N.Joost, ‘The Authorship of the Free-Thinker’, in Studies in the Early English Periodical (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1957), p. 125. Stubbes also published a poem, The Laurel and the Olive (1710), a Sermon, A Constant Search after Truth (1721), two Platonic dialogues (on beauty, 1731; on the understanding, 1734) and A New Adventure of Telemachy (1731). Rawlinson also ascribes to him a translation of Mme de Sévigné’s letters.
