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REPLY1850

MARLOWE AND THE OLD “TAMING OF A SHREW.”

By SAMUEL HICKSON. (St. John's Wood)

I regret that my communication (No. 13. p. 194.), on the subject of the authorship of *The Taming of a Shrew*, was too late to be of any avail for the already-published new edition of Marlowe’s works; and, had I been aware of such being the case, I should have waited until I had had an opportunity of seeing a work whose editor may entertain views in ignorance of which, to my disadvantage, I am still writing. It is, perhaps, a still greater disadvantage that I should appear to depend for proofs upon a bare enumeration of parallel passages; when I know that the space I should require for the pur…

Topics: Authorship of The Taming of a Shrew, Literary Analysis, Comparative Literature

Locations: India, Persian