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Authority Cited: Shakespeare
Author name and dates: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) drama quotes are from: 

• The works of Shakespear : in eight volumes : the genuine text (collated with all the former editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled, being restored from the blunders of the first editors, and the interpolations of the two last : with a comment and notes, critical and explanatory [Warburton edition]; per Reddick in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (204), Plays of William Shakespeare (1747), 8 vol., lacking vol. 6, marked by SJ, is at University College, Aberystwyth- PR.2752.P8.  Details of more than 17,000 quotations are in microfiche associated with: Thomas, E.J., "A Bibliographical and Critical Analysis of Johnson's Dictionary, with Special Reference to Twentieth Century Scholarship," D.Phil. Dissertation, University of Aberystwyth, 1974.

• All’s Well
• Anthony and Cleopatra
• As You Like It
• Comedy of Errors
• Coriolanus
• Cymbeline
• Hamlet
• Henry IV Part 1
• Henry IV Part 2
• Henry V & Prologue
• Henry VI Part 1
• Henry VI Part 2
• Henry VI Part 3
• Henry VII
• Henry VIII & Prologue & Epilogue
• Julius Caesar
• King John
• King Lear
• Love’s Labours Lost
• Macbeth
• Measure for Measure
• Merchant of Venice
• Merry Wives of Winsor
• Mid Summer Night’s Dream
• Much Ado
• Othello
• [Rape of Lucrece] Tarq. and Luc.
• Richard II
• Richard III
• Romeo and Juliet
• Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music (Supplementary title page in The Passionate Pilgrim – poem quoted is by Marlowe)
• Taming of the Shrew
• Tempest
• Timon [of Athens]
• Titus [Andronicus]
• Troilus and Cressida & Prologue
• Twelfth Night
• Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Winter’s Tale
• Shakespeare (no work cited)

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