Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Vol. 5 of 20: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-Notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index
This is the only contemporary notice of the play that has been discovered. As it was not mentioned in the list given by F rancis Meres in I 598, we are probably warranted in presuming it had not been heard of at that time. The play has a line, Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight? Apparently quoted from Marlowe's version of Hero and Leander, which was published in I 598. So that we may safely conclude the play to have been written some time between that date and the' date of the forecited entry at the Stationers'; that is, when the Poet was in his thirty-sixth or thirty-seventh year. The play was never printed, that we know of, till in the folio of 1623.
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