THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

In two former communications on a subject incidental to that to which I now beg leave to call your attention, I hinted at a result far more important than the discovery of the author of the *Taming of a Shrew*. That result I lay before your readers, in stating that I think I can show grounds for the assertion that the *Taming of the Shrew*, by Shakspeare, is the *original* play; and that the *Taming of a Shrew*, by Marlowe or what other writer soever, is a *later* work, and an *imitation*. I must first, however, state, that having seen Mr. Dyce's edition of Marlowe, I find that this writer's c…