Drake, NATHAN

Drake, NATHAN, Shakespearian scholar, was born at York in 1766, graduated M.D. at Edinburgh in 1789, practised his profession for forty years at Hadleigh, in Suffolk, and died in 1836. He published several collections of more than average essays, but his name now lives only in his learned and valuable Shakespeare and his Times (2 vols. 1817). A supplementary work was entitled Memorials of Shakespeare, or Sketches of his Character and Genius by Various Writers (1828).