Play_ (1902) is the best discussion of this species. W. Bang's series, _Materialien zur Kunde des älteren englischen Dramas_, includes reprints and studies of interest in connection with this and the three following chapters. FOOTNOTES: [9] It consists of two parts published 1591, and acted, as the prologue indicates, shortly after _Tamburlaine_, perhaps in 1588. Its scenes cover about the same ground as Shakespeare's play, with the addition of a ribald account of the sack of a monastery, an explanation of the poisoning of John in his treatment of the clergy, and a scene of some power in which Philip obtains from his mother, Lady Fauconbridge, a confession that his father was Richard. [10] _Tamburlaine_ in two parts, certainly acted as early as 1588, gained an immediate and long-continued popularity, and was followed by a number of plays, all tragedies or histories. Without reckoning the numerous plays that have been assigned to Marlowe on no sufficient grounds, he collaborated on the _Tragedy of Dido_ (1594), perhaps an early work, and on the three parts of _Henry VI_; and was the author of _The Tragicall History of Dr. Faustus_, printed 1604, acted 1588 (?); _The Jew of Malta_, acted about 1589, and long the most popular of Henslow's repertoire: _The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward II_, printed 1594, acted about 1591; and _The Massacre of Paris_, of an unknown date of acting. [11] The only other play certainly by Kyd is a translation of Garnier's _Cornelia_, 1595, which was doubtless never acted. His authorship of the _First Part of Jeronimo_, 1605, is denied by recent critics, and at most the text represents a very corrupt abridgment of his work. _Soliman and Perseda_, S. R. 1592, is attributed to him solely on internal evidence, and may have been by an imitator. The non-extant _Hamlet_, alluded to by Nash in 1589, and not until twelve years later used by Shakespeare as the basis of his play, is now generally assigned to Kyd. [12] Printed 1594, "as newly set forth, overseen, and corrected by W. S.," sometimes assigned to Peele, and in an earlier form perhaps acted about 1590. [13] Preserved in MS. and first printed in the _Shakespeare Jahrbuch_ in 1899. [14] Harold DeW. Fuller, _Publ. Mod. Lang. Assn._ 1901. [15] The collaborators on Part I (1623) are unknown, and Shakespeare's contribution to the present form seems likely to have been written later than the bulk of the play, a not very impressive example of chronicle history. Parts II and III (1623) exist also in the abridged and altered forms of the two quartos of 1594, _The First Part of The Contention_ and _The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York_. The problems of the relations of these two quarto plays to the folio texts are among the most puzzling encountered by Shakespearean scholars.