The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . [The Caskets.^ INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. The Merchant of Yenice, like A Mid-summer-Nights Dream/ was first printed in1600 ; and it liad a further similarity to thatplay from the circumstance of two editionsappearing in the same year—the one bearingthe name of a publisher, Thomas Hayes, theother that of a printer, J. Eoberts. Theplay was not reprinted till it appeared in thefolio of 1623. In that edition there are afew variations from the quartos. All theseeditions present the internal evidence ofhaving been printed from correct c
The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . [The Caskets.^ INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. The Merchant of Yenice, like A Mid-summer-Nights Dream/ was first printed in1600 ; and it liad a further similarity to thatplay from the circumstance of two editionsappearing in the same year—the one bearingthe name of a publisher, Thomas Hayes, theother that of a printer, J. Eoberts. Theplay was not reprinted till it appeared in thefolio of 1623. In that edition there are afew variations from the quartos. All theseeditions present the internal evidence ofhaving been printed from correct copies. The Merchant of Yenice is one of theplays of Shakspere mentioned by FrancisMeres in 1598, and it is the last mentionedin his list. Stephen Gosson, who, in 1579, was movedto publish a tract called The School of Abuse,containing a pleasant invective against poets^pipers, players, jesters, and such like cater-pillars of the commonwealth, thus describesa play of his time :— The Jew, shown atthe Bull, representing the greedyness ofworldly choosers, and the b
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