1.3. List of literary references

 

List of literary references to William Shakespeare, the author  (1574-1623)

see also 3.8. List of contemporary witnesses

 

Author

 

Title

Year

William Shakespeare, the author

Henry Peacham

Sketch of Titus Andronicus

1574

"mo qo g qto" (millesimo / quingentesimo / g [=7] / quarto)

[Revel' Account]

 'The Historie of Error'

1576/77

1583

"The Historie of Error, showen at Hampton Court on Newyeres daie and night, enacted by the Children of Powles." - Revel' Account 1577. - Carnival entertainment of eve of Epiphany, 1583

S. Gosson, G. Harvey

 'The Jew' (in: Gosson, The Schoole of Abuse; Harvey,  Letter-Book)

1578

"The Jew", representing "the greedinesse of worldly chusers and bloody minds of Userers" / "fast bownde … in more obligations then any merchant in Italy to any Jewe there"

Thomas Nashe

Preface to Greene's Menaphon

1589

"yet English Seneca … will afford you whole Hamlets, I should say handfuls, of tragical speeches."

Gabriel Harvey

Foure Letters

1592

"some old Lads of the Castle ... with their rapping bauble" [cites 1Henry IV]

Henry Chettle alias 'Robert Greene'

Greenes Groatsworth of Wit

1592

"that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide" [cites "O tiger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's hide!" 3Henry VI, I/4]

Thomas Nashe

Strange Newes

1593

"Master William", "Will.Monox"

Gabriel Harvey

Pierces Supererogation

1593

"the excellent Gentlewoman"; "Idle Hours"

Thomas Edwards

Cephalus and Procris

1593

"Adon"

Henry Willobie

Willobies his Avisa

1594

"And Shake-speare paints poore Lucrece rape"

W[illiam].C[ovell].

Polimanteia

1595

"All-praiseworthy. Lucrecia [of] Sweet Shakespeare."

John Trussell

The first rape of faire Hellen

1595

"Phœbus’ Laurel will eternize [thy Poesie]"

Joseph Hall

Virgidemiarum

1597

"Labeo" ("Who list complain of wronged faith or fame, When he may shift it to another's name?") 

John Marston

The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image

1598

"So Labeo did complain his love was stone, Obdurate, flinty, so relentless none"

Francis Meres

Palladis Tamia

1598

"Shakespeare"

Richard Barnfield

Poems in diverse Humours

1598

"And Shakespeare thou, whose honey-flowing Vein"

Gabriel Harvey

Marginalia

1598/99

"Shakespeares Venus and Adonis ...  his Lucrece and his tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke"

John Marston

Histriomastix

1599

"when he shakes his furious Speare"

John Weever

Epigrammes

1599

"Honey-tongued Shakespeare"

Anonymous

The Return from Parnassus

c.1599

"Shakespeare"

Henry Chettle

England's Mourning Garment

1603

"Melicertus"

Anthony Scoloker

Diaphantus, or the Passions of Love

1604

"Friendly Shakespeare's Tragedies"

M. L.

Envies Scourge

c.1604

"verses live supported by a speare"

Anon.

Sir Thomas Smithes voiage and entertainment in Rushia

1605

"the late English quick-spirited, cleare-sighted Ovid" (+)   

(Hamlet; "it is to be feared dreaming")

William Barksted

Mirrha the Mother of Adonis

1607

"His Song was worthie merrit (Shakespeare hee)" (+)

Anon. = Ben Jonson

Preface to Troilus and Cressida

1609

"Shakespeare"

Thomas Thorpe

Dedication of the Sonnets

1609

"SHAKE-SPEARE (Our ever-living Poet)" (+)

John Davies of H.

The Scourge of Folly

1610

"Shake-speare" ("To our English Terence, Mr. Will. Shake-speare.")

John Webster

Epistle to the White Devil

1612

"the right happy and copious industry of M. Shake-speare"

Christopher Brooke

The Ghost of Richard III

1614

"that writ my story" (+)

Thomas Freeman

Run and a great Cast

1614

"Shakespeare, that nimble Mercury"

Thomas Vicars

Manuductio

1621

"qui a quassatione et hasta nomen habet" (who takes his name from the shaking and spear)

Ben Jonson

W. S.  First Folio

1623

"my beloved, The Author Mr. William Shakespeare"

 

see also 3.8. List of contemporary witnesses