Entered on the Stationers’ register 2 May, 1608, as by "Wylliam Shakespeare". Evidence available is not sufficient to ascribe the play to him - cf. Camb. Engl. lit., etc.
Manuscript on paper of an Anonymous comedy in five acts in prose, based on various amorous plots, the scene being laid in Florence.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding, marbled paper over cardboard and parchment spine. On the spine red leather title label with gold-tooled inscription: “COMMEDI / MANOSCRITT / XVI SECOL”., No decoration., and Script: One hand, writing Humanistica Cursiva. Corrections by a contemporary hand very close to the scribe's hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)--Fiction
Subject (Topic):
Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
At head of title: ... Shakspere's plays. and George Gissing's copy, with his autograph and manuscript notes, inscribed by him: "Acted at Lind. [Lindow] Grove Xmas 1873." Bookplate: George Matthew Adams.
Publisher:
Ireland & Co.,
Subject (Name):
Gissing, George,--1857-1903--Autograph and Gissing, George,--1857-1903--Ms. notes
Manuscript copy, in an unidentified seventeenth-century hand, of a text of Macbeth very similar to the Sir William Davenant version published in 1674. Ten pages supplied in a modern hand.
Description:
Binding: 18th century marbled boards; contemporary cloth case., Formerly owned by Sir William Turner., and Several additions on slips of paper attached to the pages with sealing wax are possibly in the hand of Sir William Turner.
Subject (Name):
D'Avenant, William,--Sir,--1606-1668, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.--Macbeth, and Turner, William,--Sir,--1615-1692--Ownership