Did Shakespeare Write "titus Andronicus"? a Study in Elizabethan Literature
Did Shakespeare Write "titus Andronicus"? a Study in Elizabethan Literature
Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon), 1856-1933
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Ssune positions in Biog, Chron,, ii. 62. Digitized by VjOOQ IC 140 peelk's unsigned work Tennyson that the strongest part of the play was written by Shakespeare. To upset the decision of such judges would be a bold undertaking ; and I do not confidently venture upon it. The parts of the play assigned to Shake- speare by Mr. Fleay are so far worthy of him, in comparison with his other early work, that if there had been much of such matter in Titiis the present debate could hardly have arisen. Bu...t I venture to submit some considerations which do not appear to have been present to the minds of the eminent critics who have maintained Shakespeare's author- ship, of whom Tennyson is, on such a question, not the least authoritative. That the bulk of the play was written by Greene can be shown, I think, with something like certainty. Whether the love-episode is from another hand is indeed a more difficult problem. Digitized by VjOOQ IC Chapter VII. GREENE'S UNSIGNED WORK Of Greene, quite as certainly as of Peele, it may be said that he **wrote in many plays now lost": at least we may confidently say ** not now assigned to him." In his Repentance of Robert Greene he speaks of play-writing as having been for years his " continual exercise."' In his Groatsworth of Wtty again, written in 1592, the year of his death, he protests to his fellow-craftsmen Marlowe, Peele, and Nash (or Lodge) : " Unto none of you, like me, sought those burrs [the players] to cleave "; and Nash describes him as "chief agent for the company " [of Queen's players], " for he writ more than four other."* Yet there have been ascribed to him only seven plays : Alphonsus King of Arragony Orlando FuriosOy Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay y James IVy A Looking-Glass for London (with Lodge), George-a-Greene : the Pinner of Wakefield, and Selimus — the last being only recently assigned to him by Dr.
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