Page:The Elizabethan stage (Volume 3).pdf/507

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

[Q_{1}] 1609. The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true Relation of the whole Historie, aduentures, and fortunes of the said Prince: As also, The no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the Birth and Life, of his Daughter Mariana. As it hath been diuers and sundry times acted by his Maiesties Seruants, at the Globe on the Banck-side. By William Shakespeare. [William White] for Henry Gosson.

[Q_{2}] 1609. [William White] for Henry Gosson. ['Eneer' for 'Enter' on A_{2}]. [Q_{3}] 1611. By S[imon] S[tafford].

[Q_{4}] Printed for T[homas] P[avier] 1619. [The signatures are continuous with those of The Whole Contention printed n.d. in 1619. Probably the printer was William Jaggard; cf. Pollard, 81.] [Q_{5}] 1630. I. N[orton]for R. B[ird]. [Two issues.] [Q_{6}] 1635. By Thomas Cotes.

[F_{3}] 1664. Pericles Prince of Tyre. [Distinct text from Qq.]

Cymbeline. 1609 (?) [F_{1}] 1623. The Tragedie of Cymbeline.

The Winter's Tale. 1610 (?) [F_{1}] 1623. The Winters Tale.

The Tempest. 1611

[F_{1}] 1623. The Tempest.

Henry VIII. 1613 (?) [F_{1}] 1623. The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight.

Doubtful Plays Besides the seven plays printed in F_{3} (vide supra) Shakespeare has been credited (cf. ch. xxiv) with the authorship of or contributions to An Alarum for London, Arden of Feversham, Fair Em, Merry Devil of Edmonton, Troublesome Reign of King John, Mucedorus, Second Maiden's Tragedy, Taming of A Shrew, and perhaps more plausibly, Contention of York and Lancaster, Edward III, Sir Thomas More, and T. N. K. (cf. s.v. Beaumont).

Lost Plays

Meres includes 'Loue Labours Wonne' in his list of 1598 (App. C, No. lii).

On 9 Sept. 1653 Humphrey Mosely entered in the Stationers' Register (Eyre, i. 428), in addition to The Merry Devil of Edmonton with an ascription to Shakespeare (cf. ch. xxiv):

'The History of Cardenio, by M^r Fletcher & Shakespeare.'
'Henry y^e first, & Hen: the 2^d. by Shakespeare, & Davenport.'

On 29 June 1660 he entered (Eyre, ii. 271):

'The History of King Stephen. }
Duke Humphrey, a Tragedy. } by Will: Shakspeare.'
Iphis & Iantha or a marriage without a man, a Comedy. }