N.B.-The dates are of course only approximate. 'Hamlet' must have been produced before 1589 (see Nash's Preface to Menaphon '), and we have assumed that his bitterness was occasioned by the appearance as a dramatist of the young lawyer who was thus supplanting him and his friends (Greene, Marlowe, and Peele) in Shakespeare's theatre. If that hypothesis be correct, their plays, to which Greene referred in 1592 (Groatsworth of Wit), must have been written before 'Hamlet' appeared. So, if the "two more " he mentions were Samuel Daniel and Thomas Lodge, and they were the authors of Romeo and Juliet' and 'As You Like It,' their plays must have been written before he died (1592). Then 'Henry V.' and 'Much Ado about Nothing' were printed in 4to. edition in 1600, and ‘Othello' was represented at the court revels while the 'Merry Wives of Windsor,' 'King Lear,' and 'Troilus and Cressida' were respectively in 1604; published in 4to. editions in 1602, 1608, and 1609, and Taming the Shrew' was entered on the Stationers' Register in 1594. 12. Timon of Athens. 13. Taming the Shrew. 14. Twelfth Night. 15. Two Gentlemen of Verona. 17. Henry VI., 1 N.B.-Pericles of Tyre was omitted. OTHER PLAYS PUBLISHED WITH SHAKESPEARE'S NAME. No. III.-LIST OF PLAYS AND PLAYERS PREFIXED A CATALOGUE OF THE SEVERAL COMEDIES, HISTORIES, COMEDIES. Tempest. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Measure for Measure. The Comedy of Errors. Much Ado about Nothing. Midsummer Night's Dream. As You Like it. Taming of the Shrew. All's Well that Ends Well. Twelfth Night, or What You Will. Winter's Tale. HISTORIES. The Life and Death of King John. The Life and Death of King Richard the Second. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth. The First Part of King Henry the Sixth. The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth. TRAGEDIES. The Tragedy of Coriolanus. Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet. Timon of Athens. The Life and Death of Julius Cæsar. The Tragedy of Macbeth. The Tragedy of Hamlet. King Lear. Othello, the Moor of Venice. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline, King of Britain. N.B.-Though 'Troilus and Cressida' is not in this list, it is included in the book, and stands as the first of the tragedies. THE NAMES OF THE PRINCIPAL ACTORS IN ALL THESE PLAYS. William Shakespeare Richard Burbage John Hemmings Samuel Gilburne Robert Armin William Ostler No. IV. FRANCIS MERES' LIST OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS IN 1598, FROM THE PALLADIS TAMIA,' 1598 (C. of P., p. 21). 1. Richard II. 2. Richard III. 3. Henry IV. 5. Titus Andronicus. 8. Love's Labour's Lost. 9. Love's Labour Won (As You Like It?). 10. Two Gentlemen of Verona. 11. Midsummer Night's Dream. 12. Merchant of Venice. 13. Hamlet. 14. Henry VI. OF THES X |