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Shakespeare of Stratford
by Tucker Brooke
First Mention of Shakespeare’s Name in Register of the Stationers’ Company (1600)

New Haven: Yale University Press, pages 35–36

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XXVIII. FIRST MENTION OF SHAKESPEARE’S NAME IN REGISTER OF THE STATIONERS’ COMPANY (1600).

Transcript of Stationers’ Register (copyright notice of Much Ado about Nothing and 2 Henry IV).

1600 28 Augusti Andrew Wise William Aspley Entered for their copies under the hands of the wardens two books, the one called Much Ado about Nothing, the other the second part of the History of King Henry the IIIIth, with the humors of Sir John Falstaff, written by Master Shakespere.