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These have a pretence of history; but
Hamlet, with hardly that pretence, stands alone supreme in varied
excellence. Ambition, murder, resistless fate, filial love, the love of
woman, revenge, the power of conscience, paternal solicitude, infinite
jest: what a volume is this!

TABLE OF DATES AND SOURCES.--The following table, which presents the plays
in chronological order,[32] the times when they were written, as nearly as
can be known, and the sources whence they were derived, will be of more
service to the student than any discursive remarks upon the several plays.
Plays. Dates. Sources.
1. Henry VI., first part 1589 Denied to Shakspeare; attributed to
Marlowe or Kyd.
2. Pericles 1590 From the "Gesta Romanorum."
3. Henry VI., second part 1591 " an older play.
4. Henry VI., third part 1591 " " " "
5. Two Gentlemen of Verona 1591 " an old tale.
6. Comedy of Errors 1592 " a comedy of Plautus.


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