DOCUMENTS MENTIONING WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WHICH ARE EITHER SPURIOUS OR RELATING TO A NAMESAKE OF THE POET
1589. Appeal of the sharers in the Blackfriars Theatre to the Privy Council, Shakespeare’s name being twelfth in the list. Manuscript published by Collier in New Facts, 1835. The date is quite inconsistent with what we know of Shakespeare’s interest in the Blackfriars Theatre.[1]
1596. July. List of inhabitants of Liberty of Southwark, Shakespeare being sixth. Printed in Collier’s Life of Shakespeare, 1858. Malone quoted a now missing memorandum of Alleyn, indicating Shakespeare’s residence ‘near the Bear Garden’ in Southwark (Lee, Life of Shakespeare, p. 274). Compare document XIV, Note, p. 20.
1596. Petition of owners and players of Blackfriars Theatre to Privy Council. Shakespeare’s name fifth. Printed in Collier’s History of English Dramatic Poetry, 1881, i. 298–300. No evidence that Shakespeare’s company played in Blackfriars before 1610.
1596. List of Shareholders in Blackfriars Theatre. Shakespeare listed as having four shares worth nearly a thousand pounds. MS. printed by Collier in New Facts, 1835. Spurious on the face of it.
1596? Letter signed H. S. (ostensibly Southampton)
- ↑ For facsimiles and discussion of the forgeries ascribed to Collier see C. M. Ingleby, A Complete View of the Shakspere Controversy, 1861, pp. 241 ff.
