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