Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore: A Bibliotic Study
I have not the slightest doubt that the small group of scholars who will read my little book will agree with me that in the chronicle play of Sir Thomas Moore, written in the last decade of the sixteenth century, we have one of the most valuable and interesting relics of the Age of Shakspere. This play, preserved to us in manuscript form, is unique in many respects. Not only was it never acted, though it has some very effective and affecting scenes, but it was not printed until almost the middle of the nineteenth century. Of the three thousand plays which it has been estimated were written during the reigns of Elizabeth and ?ames, this is the only one that is known to have been written by six authors, one more than its nearest rival in regard to the number of authors engaged in the writing of a single play: Web ster's C aesm's Fall.
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