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Despite his alleged cruelties, Phalaris gained in medieval times a certain literary fame as the supposed author of an epistolary corpus. [5] In 1699, Richard Bentley published an influential Dissertation on the Epistles of Phalaris, in which he proved that the epistles were misattributed and had actually been written around the 2nd century AD.
In 1697, William Wotton, about to bring out a second edition of his Ancient and Modern Learning, asked Bentley to write out a paper exposing the spuriousness of the Epistles of Phalaris, long a subject of academic controversy. [4] The Christ Church editor of Phalaris, Charles Boyle, resented Bentley's paper. He had already quarrelled with ...
An anthology of 20 poems collected and published by William Jaggard that were attributed to "W. Shakespeare" on the title page, only five of which are considered authentically Shakespearean. The Phoenix and the Turtle: 1601 A Lover's Complaint: 1609 Shakespeare's Sonnets: 1609 A Funeral Elegy: 1612 No longer attributed to Shakespeare by most ...
Aristolochus (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστόλοχος) was a tragic poet who is mentioned only in the collection of the Epistles formerly attributed to Phalaris, the tyrant of Akragas, where the tyrant is made to speak of him with indignation for venturing to compete with him in writing tragedies.
Phalaris I Phalaris 1: A paradoxical defence of the notorious tyrant Phalaris. Φάλαρις Β Phalaris II Phalaris 2: The second part of the above. Ἱππίας ἢ Βαλανεῖον Hippias Hippias or The Bath: A description of a Roman bath-house. Διόνυσος Bacchus Dionysus: A short essay about the god Dionysus and his journey to ...
Written by Shakespeare c. 1589, revised 1593–1594. [56] Omitted from Folio because anti-Scottish. [56] The First Part of the Contention: Written by Shakespeare c. 1589–1590. [57] Rewritten as Henry VI, Part 2 for Folio. Thomas of Woodstock, or The first Part of the Reign of King Richard II: Written by Shakespeare c. 1590. [58] [59] Unpublished.
The story was a popular one for dramatists in the early 17th century and Shakespeare may have been inspired by contemporary plays. Thomas Heywood's two-part play The Iron Age also depicts the Trojan War and the story of Troilus and Cressida, but it is not certain whether his or Shakespeare's play was written first. [18]
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare.Some editions include several works that were not completely of Shakespeare's authorship (collaborative writings), such as The Two Noble Kinsmen, which was a collaboration with John Fletcher; Pericles, Prince of Tyre, the first two acts of which were ...