Love's Labour's Won

Anon. ([[>1598]])

Historical Records

1598, Palladis Tamia: In 1598 Francis Meres, a cleric and schoolmaster, published a lengthy essay entitled Palladis Tamia, or Wits Treasury, in which he praised contemporary English poets by comparing them favorably to their classical counterparts. He wrote the following paragraph about Shakespeare:

As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and Tragedy among the Latines: so Shakespeare among y^e English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage; for Comedy, witnes his Ge[n]tleme[n] of Verona, his Errors, his Loue labors lost, his Loue labours wonne, his Midsummers night dreame, & his Merchant of Venice: for Tragedy his Richard the 2. Richard the 3. Henry the 4. King Iohn, Titus Andronicus and his Romeo and Iuliet.

1603, Packing slip, Christopher Hunt:

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