Category: Shakespeare Authorship Question

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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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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Romeo & Juliet

The most likely source for Romeo & Juliet was Dante‘s “Purgatorio” and Arthur Brooke‘s English translation entitled “Tragicall Historye of Romeus & Juliet” (1562), first

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Richard II

The main sources for Richard II were of course Edward Hall, (1498-1547) from his “The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster

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Pericles, Prince of Tyre:

One of the plays that was not included in the 1623 Shakespeare Folio Pericles, Prince of Tyre was dubiously published under Shakespeare‘s name but later

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