REMARKS ON THE PLOT, THE FABLE, AND CONSTRUCTION OF TITUS ANDRONICUS. THERE is an authority for ascribing this play to Shakspeare, which I think a decisive one, though not made use of, as I remember, by any of his commentators. It is given to him, among other plays, which are undoubtedly his, in a little book, called Palladis Tamia, or the second Part of Wit's Commonwealth, written by Francis Meeres, Maister of arts, and printed at London in 1598. The other tragedies, enumerated as his in that book, are King John, Richard the second, Henry the fourth, Richard the third, and Romeo and Juliet. The comedies are, the Midsummer Night's Dream, the Gentlemen of Verona, the Errors, the Love's Labour lost, the Love's Labour won, and the Merchant of Venice. I have given this list, as it serves so far to ascertain the date of these plays; and also, as it contains a notice of a comedy of Shakspeare, the Love's Labour won, not included in any collection of his works; nor, as far as I know, attributed to him by |