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Excerpt from Did Shakespeare Write Titus Andronicus a Study in Elizabethan Literature
IT may be useful to preface the present treatise with a brief account of its evolution. Always unable to see that T z'tus Androm'eus exhibited any of the characteristics of Shakespeare's work, I was long content to rest on the general consensus of English critics of the same way of thinking. Finding that attitude loudly challenged, however, I undertook, some years ago, to seek for grounds of a fully reasoned opinion, for or against. Beginning, with that aim, to re-read the Elizabethan drama, I ere long framed the provisional hypothesis that T z'tus was the work of the author of Locrine, and that that writer was the author likewise of the Spanish Tragedy. Finding subsequently that this theory had been put forward in the eighteenth century by so good a critic as Farmer, and endorsed by Ritson, I naturally thought the better of it. When, how ever, I sought to reduce it to precision, I found it inadequate to the phenomena. The problem had been expanded, not solved.
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