I was not aware at that time of the evidence, in
Henslow's _Diary_, of Marlowe's authorship of _Tamburlaine_; but, so far
from considering it inferior, I was inclined to place it, in some
important respects, at the very head of his plays.
I will not take up your space now with the parallel passages which I
noted; but, should you wish it, and be able to make room for them, I
will furnish you with a list. It is, of course, obvious that the one I
have quoted proves nothing by itself; accumulated instances, in
connection with the general question of style, alone become important. I
will conclude, by giving a list which I have made out of Marlowe's
plays, in favour of which I conceive there to be either internal or
external evidence:--
"Locrine.
Tamburlaine the Great (two parts).
Jew of Malta.
Doctor Faustus.
Edward the Second.
Massacre of Paris.
Taming of a Shrew.
Dido, Queen of Carthage (with Nash)."
SAMUEL HICKSON
St. John's Wood, Jan. 12. 1850
[We trust our correspondent will favour us with the further
communications he proposes on this very interesting point.]
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BEETLE MYTHOLOGY.
Mr. Editor,--I never thought of asking my Low-Norman fellow-rustics
whether the ladybird had a name and a legend in the best preserved of
the northern Romance dialects: on the score of a long absence
(eight-and-twenty years), might not a veteran wanderer plead
forgiveness? Depend upon it, Sir, nevertheless, that should any
reminiscences exist among my chosen friends, the stout-hearted and
industrious tenants of a soil where every croft and paddock is the leaf
of a chronicle, it will be communicated without delay.
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