The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . NOTICE THE AUTHENTICITY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS. The external evidence that bears upon the authorship of Titus Andronicus is of twokinds:— 1. The testimony which assigns the play to Shakspere, wholly, or in part. 2. The testimony which fixes the period of its original production. The direct testimony of the first kind is unimpeachable : Francis Meres, a contemporary,and probably a friend of Shakspere—a man intimately acquainted with the literary historyof his day—not writing even in the later period of Shaksperes life, but as early as 1598,—compare
The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . NOTICE THE AUTHENTICITY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS. The external evidence that bears upon the authorship of Titus Andronicus is of twokinds:— 1. The testimony which assigns the play to Shakspere, wholly, or in part. 2. The testimony which fixes the period of its original production. The direct testimony of the first kind is unimpeachable : Francis Meres, a contemporary,and probably a friend of Shakspere—a man intimately acquainted with the literary historyof his day—not writing even in the later period of Shaksperes life, but as early as 1598,—compares, for tragedy, the excellence of Shakspere among the English, with Seneca amongthe Latins, and says, witness, for tragedy, his Richard II., Richard III., Henry IV., KingJohn, Titus Andronicus, and his Romeo and Juliet. The indirect testimony is nearly as important. The play is printed in the first folioedition of the poets collected works—an edition published within seven years after his deathby his intimate friends and fellows; and t
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