Romeo and Juliet, a Tragedy, fol. Plot from Bandello’s Novels.
The Taming of the Shrew, a Comedy, fol. The Story of the Tinkar, ſo diverting, may be found in Goulart’s Hiſt. Admirabiles and Pontus Heuterus, Rerum Burdicarum.
The Tempeſt, a Comedy, fol. and 4 to. This has been reviv’d and alter’d by Mr. Dryden, who brought it much in eſteem, and is of late Days often acted.
Titus Andronichus, a Tragedy, fol. and 4 to. This Play has been reviv’d and altered by Mr. Ravenſcroft.
Timon of Athens, a Tragedy, fol. and 4 to. This Play, as publiſh’d firſt by our Author, was not divided into Acts, but has been reviv’d with Alterations, by Mr. Shadwell, and for a few Years paſt, as often acted at the Theatre Royal, as any Tragedy I know.
Troilus and Creſſida, a Tragedy, fol. This was reviv’d with Alterations, by Mr. Dryden; who added divers new Scenes. Plot from Chaucer’s Troilus and Creſſida.
Twelfth-Night; or, What you will; a Comedy, fol. Plot from Plautus, Amphitruo, Mænechmi, &c.
Two Gentlemen of Verona, a Comedy, fol.
A Winters Tale, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. Plot from Doraſtus and Fawnia, 4 to.
The York-ſhire Tragedy, fol. When this Play was firſt printed, the Title then told you, the Story was new, lamentable, and true. The Play, being but very ſhort, is not divided into Acts, and may rather be accounted an Interlude than a Tragedy.
The Arraignment of Paris, which you may find among the Anonymous Plays, has been by Kirkman aſcribed to this Author, but not being in any Edition of Shakeſpear, I much queſtion whether it be any of his.
Our Author writ little elſe, we find in print only two ſmall pieces of Poetry publiſh’d by Mr. Quarles, viz. Venus and Adonis, 8 vo. 1602. and The Rape of Lucrece, 8 vo. 1655.
Lewis Sharp.
THis Author, who liv’d in the Reign of King Charles the Firſt, writ but one Play, viz.
The Noble Stranger, a Comedy, 4 to. 1649. acted at the private Houſe in Salisbury-Court, by her Majeſty’s Servants; dedicated to Sir Edmund Williams.
