Romeo and Juliet were, he thought, originally composed by George Peele and later revised by Shakespeare.) Perhaps due to the enormous effort involved in creating his tables of verse-test data, Fleay had a tendency to make mistakes and get things wrong. The work of Fleay and other members of the New Shakspere Society was ridiculed by Algernon Charles Swinburne in 1880: "...the double-ending test, the triple-ending test, the heavy-monosyllabic-eleventh-syllable-of-the-double-ending test...." In his later years, Fleay largely abandoned studies in English literature and devoted himself to Egyptology and Assyriology. His work in those fields was not free of his characteristic flaws, and had little impact. Selected works Hints on Teaching, 1864. Guide to Chaucer and Shakespeare, 1877. Shakespeare Manual, 1878. English Sounds and English Spelling, 1878. The Logical English Grammar, 1884. A Chronicle History of the Life and Work of William Shakespeare, Player, Poet, and Playmaker, 1886. A Chronicle History of the London Stage, 1559–1642, 1890. A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559–1642, 3 Volumes, 1891. Egyptian Chronology: An Attempt to Conciliate the Ancient Schemes and to Educe a Rational System, 1899. Notes References Grady, Hugh G. The Modernist Shakespeare: Critical Texts in a Material World. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994. Halliday, F. E. A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964. Baltimore, Penguin, 1964. Murphy, Andrew. Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. External links 1831 births 1909 deaths Shakespearean scholars People educated at King's College School, London Alumni of King's College London