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Shakespeare (1901), E. Koeppel, Studien über Shakespeares Wirkung auf zeitgenössische Dramatiker (1905), Ben Jonson's Wirkung auf zeitgenössische Dramatiker (1906). The special problem of the authorship of the so-called Shakespeare Apocrypha is dealt with in the editions thereof described below, and by Halliwell-Phillipps (ii. 413), Ward (ii. 209), R. Sachs, Die Shakespeare zugeschriebenen zweifelhaften Stücke (1892, Jahrbuch, xxvii), and A. F. Hopkinson, Essays on Shakespeare's Doubtful Plays (1900). The analogous question of the possible non-Shakespearian authorship of plays or parts of plays published as his is too closely interwoven with specifically Shakespearian literature to be handled here; J. M. Robertson, in Did Shakespeare Write Titus Andronicus? (1905), Shakespeare and Chapman (1917), The Shakespeare Canon (1922), is searching; other dissertations are cited under the plays or playwrights concerned. The attempts to use metrical or other 'tests' in the discrimination of authorship or of the chronology of work have been predominantly applied to Shakespeare, although Beaumont and Fletcher (vide infra) and others have not been neglected. The broader discussions of E. N. S. Thompson, Elizabethan Dramatic Collaboration (1909, E. S. xl. 30) and E. H. C. Oliphant, Problems of Authorship in Elizabethan Dramatic Literature (1911, M. P. viii, 411) are of value. To the general histories of Elizabethan literature named in the General Bibliographical Note may be added Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1901-3), E. Gosse, Modern English Literature (1897), G. Saintsbury, Short History of English Literature (1900), A. Lang, English Literature from 'Beowulf' to Swinburne (1912), W. Minto, Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley (1874), G. Saintsbury, Elizabethan Literature (1887), E. Gosse, The Jacobean Poets (1894), T. Seccombe and J. W. Allen, The Age of Shakespeare (1903), F. E. Schelling, English Literature during the Lifetime of Shakespeare (1910); and for the international relations, G. Saintsbury, The Earlier Renaissance (1901), D. Hannay, The Later Renaissance (1898), H. J. C. Grierson, The First Half of the Seventeenth Century (1906), C. H. Herford, The Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Sixteenth Century (1886), L. Einstein, The Italian Renaissance in England (1902), S. Lee, The French Renaissance in England (1910), J. G. Underhill, Spanish Literature in the England of the Tudors (1899). I append a chronological list of miscellaneous collections of plays, covering those of more than one author. A few of minimum importance are omitted.

1664. M^r William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. The Third Impression. And unto this Impression is added seven Playes, never before printed in Folio, viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigall. The History of Thomas L^d Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York-shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. For P[hilip] C[hetwinde]. [A second issue of the Third Folio (F_{3}) of Shakespeare. I cite these as 'The 7 Plays'.]

1685. M^r William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies The Fourth Edition. For H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley. [The Fourth Folio (F_{4}) of Shakespeare, The 7 Plays.]

1709, 1714. N. Rowe, The Works of Sh. [The 7 Plays in vol. vi of 1709 and vol. viii of 1714.]

1728, &c. A. Pope, The Works of Sh. [The 7 Plays in vol. ix of 1728.]

1780. [E. Malone], Supplement to the Edition of Sh.'s Plays published in 1778 by S. Johnson and G. Steevens. [The 7 Plays in vol. ii.]