constrained the source mostly to the Bible, and made mistakes, such as to identify the angel Ithuriel as a coinage. Other commentary Keightley also published an unannotated edition of Shakespeare (6 vols. 1864), followed by a study guide entitled Shakespeare Expositor: an aid to the perfect understanding of Shakespeare's plays (1867). Keightley is credited with first noticing that Chaucer's Squire's Tale is paralleled by, and hence may have drawn from, the Old French romance, Adenes Le Roi's Cléomadès. () He also wrote of Henry Fielding's peculiarism of using the antiquated "hath" and "doth" ( Fraser's Magazine, 1858), without acknowledging a commentator who made the same observation before him. Friends and family Keightley, a friend to Gabriele Rossetti, and firm supporter of the latter's views on Dante became one of a handful of non-Italians who socialized with the family in the childhood days of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his siblings. Keightley's Fairy Mythology was one of the books Dante Gabriel pored over until age ten. William Michael Rossetti's Memoir notes that Keightley had as "his nephew and adopted son, Mr. Alfred Chaworth Lyster" who became a dear friend. A pen and ink likeness of this nephew by Dante Gabriel Rossetti exists, dated 1855.The Rossetti Archive: Alfred Chaworth Lyster Writings from the Rossetti family provide some other loose information on Keightley's related kin or on his later private life. A record by William Rossetti of a spiritual séance at Keightley's home at Belvedere on 4 January 1866, amusing in its own right, identifies "two Misses Keightley" in attendance, a kinsman named "William Samuel Keightley" who died in 1856 supposed to have made his spiritual presence in the session. It has also been remarked that by this period, Keightley had become as "stone-deaf" as Seymour Kirkup, a person who was corresponding with Keightley on matters of spiritualism and visions. Selected publications & Vol. 2 & Vol. 2 (Reprint of 1878 ed.) —— (1848).Secret Societies of the Middle Ages: With Illustrations, New edition, C. Cox. —— (1834). The Crusaders, or Scenes, Events, and Characters from the times of the Crusaders. 1834. —— (1838). The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy. —— (1845). The History of Greece. Whittaker and Company, London. —— (1860). The Manse of Mastland. A translation of Schetsen uit de pastorij te Mastland'', the Dutch novel by . Explanatory notes References Citations Bibliography External links The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley, 1870.,