Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare

Edmond Malone was the first scholar to construct a tentative chronology of Shakespeare's plays in An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in Which the Plays attributed to Shakspeare were Written (1778), an essay published in the second edition of Samuel Johnson and George Steevens's The Plays of William Shakespeare.Extract from Francis Meres' Palladis Tamia (1598), which makes reference to twelve of Shakespeare's plays.1596 second quarto of A Shrew1594 quarto of The First part of the ContentionTitle page of Robert Greene's Groatsworth of Wit, which helps fix a date for 3 Henry VI.1594 quarto of Titus Andronicus1597 quarto of Richard III1596 quarto of Edward III1598 quarto of Love's Labour's LostChristopher Hunt's list of plays; the bottom entry reads "Loves labor won."Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (1596). In 1601, Devereux staged the earliest definite production of Richard II.1599 second quarto of Romeo and Juliet1619 "False Folio" title page of A Midsummer Night's Dream1611 quarto of The First and Second Part of the troublesome Raigne of King John of England, falsely attributed to "W.Sh." 1598 quarto of Henry IV, Part 1

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