Category: Academia

The Taming of a Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew is similar in style and narrative to “Taming of a Shrew” which was anonymously registered at the Stationer’s Office on

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King John

The history play King John originated from an early manuscript or foul papers dated from 1596 and then copied by two different scribes from 1609-1623.

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Julius Caesar

One of Shakespeare’s early Roman Plays, Julius Caesar was partly derived from an anonymous play: “The Tragedy of Caesar and Pompey, or Caesar’s Revenge” (c.

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Sir Thomas More

From the British library the only original manuscript to survive of Shakespeare’s is “Sir Thomas More” generally ascribed to Anthony Munday but on closer examination

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As You Like It

Presumed to have been written in 1599 and registered a year later at the Stationer’s Office on the 4th of August, 1600, and first published

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Henry VIth Part Two

Henry VIth Part Two is presumed to have been written from 1587-92 and registered at the Stationer’s Office 12th of March, 1594 (Q1), with the

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Henry VIth Part Three

Henry VIth Part 3 was probably written as early as 1592 or even earlier employing Raphael Holinshed’s and Edward Hall’s “Chronicles of England, Scotland &

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Titus Andronicus

Presumed to have been written from 1587-92 and entered at the Stationer’s Office on the 6th of February 1594 (Q1), subsequent editions were 1600 (Q2),

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Love’s Labours Lost

No written source for the plot has been found for “Love’s Labours Lost” only the influence of the Italian Commedia dell’arte. (See “The Secret Alchemy

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