DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, YALE UNIVERSITY,
ON THE FUND

GIVEN TO THE YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS IN 1917
BY THE MEMBERS OF THE

KINGSLEY TRUST ASSOCIATION

TO COMMEMORATE THE SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE SOCIETY

Gift of Mm. H. Crocker

COPYRIGHT, 1918

BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

First published, December, 1918.

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APPENDIX A.

Sources of the Play

APPENDIX B. The History of the Play

APPENDIX C. The Authorship of the Play

I. Shakespeare's Concern in It.

II. The Author of the Original Play

1.

Marlowe?

2. Greene?

3. Peele?

APPENDIX D. The Text of the Present Edi-

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