Spurio and the date of All's Well That Ends Well

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Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 298-299

  Jackson, MacD P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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References (15)

1. For Meres and Loue labours wonne see The Riverside Shakespeare, ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974), 1844.
2. Views identifying the lost play with All's Well are summarized by G. K. Hunter (ed.) in his Arden All's Well That Ends Well (London: Methuen, 1959), xviii-xxv.
3. Hunter, Arden All's Well, xxi.
4. Russell Fraser (ed.), All's Well That Ends Well (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 5.
5. Susan Snyder (ed.), All's Well that Ends Well (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), 23-4;
6. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor with John Jowett and William Montgomery, William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987), 126-7.
7. My references to All's Well are to William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, general eds Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988).
8. Alfred Harbage, revised S. Schoenbaum, revised S. Wagonheim, Annals of English Drama (London and New York: Methuen, 1989).
9. Textual Companion, 127-8.
10. R. V. Holdsworth, 'The Revenger's Tragedy, Ben Jonson, and The Devil's Law Case', Review of English Studies, xxxi (1980), 305-10;
11. R. B. Parker (ed.), Ben Jonson, Volpone or. The Fox (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1983), 8-10. Holdsworth suggested that, just possibly, Volpone may have been influenced by The Revenger's Tragedy, rather than vice versa, as has always been assumed. This seems to me unlikely, but, in any case, whatever the direction of the influence it must have been exerted soon after the earlier of the two plays was first performed.
12. R. V. Holdsworth, 'Middleton and William Perkins: A Biblical Echo in The Revenger's Tragedy, N&Q, ccxxx (1985), 63 n. 13 (for Lear echoes);
13. Gary Taylor, 'A New Source and an Old Date for King Lear', Review of English Studies, xxxiii (1982), 396-413;
14. R. V. Holdsworth (ed.), Three Jacobean Revenge Tragedies (London: Macmillan, 1990), 105;
15. Metrical evidence not known to the authors of the Textual Companion associates All's Well with King Lear (1605-6) and Macbeth (1606), as do all the most significant metrical indices: MacD. P. Jackson, 'Another Metrical Index for Shakespeare's Plays', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, xcv (1994), 453-8.