mention made of this play.

1 _Henry VI._ Alluded to by Nash in _Pierce Penniless_, 1592.

2 _Henry VI._ Original title, _First Part of the Contention_, 1594.

3 _Henry VI._ Original title, _True Tragedy of Richard Duke of
York_, 1595.

_Henry VIII._, 1601. Acted at the Globe Theatre, 1613.

_John_ (_King_), 1596. Mentioned by Meres, 1598.

_Julius Caesar_, 1607. No early mention made of this play.

_Lear_, 1605. Acted at Whitehall[TN-169] 1607. Printed 1608.

_Macbeth_, 1606. No early mention made of this play.

_Measure for Measure_, 1603. Acted at Whitehall[TN-170] 1604.

_Merry Wives of Windsor_, 1596. Printed 1602.

_Pericles Prince of Tyre._ Printed 1609.

_Taming of the Shrew._ (?) Acted at Henslow's Theatre, 1593.
Entered at Stationer's Hall, 1607.

_Tempest_, 1609. Acted at Whitehall, 1611.

_Timon of Athens_, 1609. No early mention made of this play.

_Titus Andronicus_, 1593. Printed 1600.

_Twelfth Night._ Acted in the Middle Temple Hall, 1602.

_Two Gentlemen of Verona_, 1595. Mentioned by Meres[TN-171] 1598.

_Winter's Tale_, 1604. Acted at Whitehall, 1611.

First complete collection in folio; 1623, Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount;
1632, 1664, 1685. The second folio is of very little value.

_Shakespeare's Parents._ His father was John Shakespeare, a glover, who
married Mary Arden, daughter of Robert Arden, Esq., of Bomich, a good
country gentleman.

_Shakespeare's Wife_, Anne Hathaway, of Shottery, some eight years older
than himself; daughter of a substantial yeoman.

_Shakespeare's Children._ One son, Hamnet, who died in his twelfth year
(1585-1596). Two daughters, who survived him, Susanna and Judith,
twin-born with Hamnet. Both his daughters married and had children, but
the lines died out.

_Voltaire says of Shakespeare_: "Rimer had very good reason to say that
Shakespeare _n'etait[TN-172] q'un vilain singe_." Voltaire, in 1765, said,
"Shakespeare is a savage with some imagination, whose plays can please
only in London and Canada." In 1735 he wrote to M. de Cideville,
"Shakespeare is the Corneille of London, but everywhere else he is a
great fool (_grand fou d'ailleur_)."

=Shakespeare of Divines= (_The_), Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667).

Taylor, the Shakespeare of divines.--Emerson.

=Shakespeare of Eloquence= (_The_). The comte de Mirabeau was so called by
Barnave (1749