1.3. List of literary references
List of literary references to William Shakespeare, the author (1574-1623)
see also 3.8. List of contemporary witnesses
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Author
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Title |
Year |
William Shakespeare, the author |
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Henry Peacham |
Sketch of Titus Andronicus |
1574 |
"mo qo g qto" (millesimo / quingentesimo / g [=7] / quarto) |
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[Revel' Account] |
'The Historie of Error' |
1576/77 1583 |
"The Historie of Error, showen at Hampton Court on Newyeres daie and night, enacted by the Children of Powles." - Revel' Account 1577. - Carnival entertainment of eve of Epiphany, 1583 |
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S. Gosson, G. Harvey |
'The Jew' (in: Gosson, The Schoole of Abuse; Harvey, Letter-Book) |
1578 |
"The Jew", representing "the greedinesse of worldly chusers and bloody minds of Userers" / "fast bownde … in more obligations then any merchant in Italy to any Jewe there" |
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Thomas Nashe |
Preface to Greene's Menaphon |
1589 |
"yet English Seneca … will afford you whole Hamlets, I should say handfuls, of tragical speeches." |
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Gabriel Harvey |
Foure Letters |
1592 |
"some old Lads of the Castle ... with their rapping bauble" [cites 1Henry IV] |
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Henry Chettle alias 'Robert Greene' |
Greenes Groatsworth of Wit |
1592 |
"that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide" [cites "O tiger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's hide!" 3Henry VI, I/4] |
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Thomas Nashe |
Strange Newes |
1593 |
"Master William", "Will.Monox" |
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Gabriel Harvey |
Pierces Supererogation |
1593 |
"the excellent Gentlewoman"; "Idle Hours" |
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Thomas Edwards |
Cephalus and Procris |
1593 |
"Adon" |
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Henry Willobie |
Willobies his Avisa |
1594 |
"And Shake-speare paints poore Lucrece rape" |
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W[illiam].C[ovell]. |
Polimanteia |
1595 |
"All-praiseworthy. Lucrecia [of] Sweet Shakespeare." |
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John Trussell |
The first rape of faire Hellen |
1595 |
"Phœbus’ Laurel will eternize [thy Poesie]" |
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Joseph Hall |
Virgidemiarum |
1597 |
"Labeo" ("Who list complain of wronged faith or fame, When he may shift it to another's name?") |
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John Marston |
The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image |
1598 |
"So Labeo did complain his love was stone, Obdurate, flinty, so relentless none" |
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Francis Meres |
Palladis Tamia |
1598 |
"Shakespeare" |
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Richard Barnfield |
Poems in diverse Humours |
1598 |
"And Shakespeare thou, whose honey-flowing Vein" |
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Gabriel Harvey |
Marginalia |
1598/99 |
"Shakespeares Venus and Adonis ... his Lucrece and his tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke" |
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John Marston |
Histriomastix |
1599 |
"when he shakes his furious Speare" |
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John Weever |
Epigrammes |
1599 |
"Honey-tongued Shakespeare" |
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Anonymous |
The Return from Parnassus |
c.1599 |
"Shakespeare" |
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Henry Chettle |
England's Mourning Garment |
1603 |
"Melicertus" |
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Anthony Scoloker |
Diaphantus, or the Passions of Love |
1604 |
"Friendly Shakespeare's Tragedies" |
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M. L. |
Envies Scourge |
c.1604 |
"verses live supported by a speare" |
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Anon. |
Sir Thomas Smithes voiage and entertainment in Rushia |
1605 |
"the late English quick-spirited, cleare-sighted Ovid" (+) (Hamlet; "it is to be feared dreaming") |
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William Barksted |
Mirrha the Mother of Adonis |
1607 |
"His Song was worthie merrit (Shakespeare hee)" (+) |
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Anon. = Ben Jonson |
Preface to Troilus and Cressida |
1609 |
"Shakespeare" |
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Thomas Thorpe |
Dedication of the Sonnets |
1609 |
"SHAKE-SPEARE (Our ever-living Poet)" (+) |
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John Davies of H. |
The Scourge of Folly |
1610 |
"Shake-speare" ("To our English Terence, Mr. Will. Shake-speare.") |
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John Webster |
Epistle to the White Devil |
1612 |
"the right happy and copious industry of M. Shake-speare" |
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Christopher Brooke |
The Ghost of Richard III |
1614 |
"that writ my story" (+) |
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Thomas Freeman |
Run and a great Cast |
1614 |
"Shakespeare, that nimble Mercury" |
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Thomas Vicars |
Manuductio |
1621 |
"qui a quassatione et hasta nomen habet" (who takes his name from the shaking and spear) |
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Ben Jonson |
W. S. First Folio |
1623 |
"my beloved, The Author Mr. William Shakespeare" |
see also 3.8. List of contemporary witnesses