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Notes
  • c. ^   An essay by Harold Brooks suggests Marlowe's Edward II influenced Shakespeare's Richard III. [188] Other scholars discount this, pointing out that the parallels are commonplace. [189]
  • f. ^ Henry VI, Part 1 is often thought to be the work of a group of collaborators; but some scholars, for example Michael Hattaway, believe the play was wholly written by Shakespeare. [192]
  • h. ^   Brian Vickers suggests that Titus Andronicus was co-written with George Peele , though Jonathan Bate, the play's most recent editor for the Arden Shakespeare , believes it to be wholly the work of Shakespeare. [194]
  • i. ^   Brian Vickers and others believe that Timon of Athens was co-written with Thomas Middleton , though some commentators disagree. [195]
  • j. ^   The text of Macbeth which survives has plainly been altered by later hands. Most notable is the inclusion of two songs from Thomas Middleton's play The Witch (1615). [196]
  • k. ^ The Passionate Pilgrim , published under Shakespeare's name in 1599 without his permission, includes early versions of two of his sonnets, three extracts from Love's Labour's Lost , several poems known to be by other poets, and eleven poems of unknown authorship for which the attribution to Shakespeare has not been disproved. [197]
  • l. ^ Cardenio was apparently co-written with John Fletcher. [198]