1633. Augustine Matthewes for William Sheares. [Another issue.]
The preliminary matter of 1602 and 1633 is shown by Greg, Pastoral, 242, to point to a kinsman, but not the son, of Sir Edward Dymocke as the translator. He may be a John Dymmocke, to whom Archer’s play-list of 1656 (Greg, Masques, xcvi) assigns in error The Faithful Shepherdess. The translation is from G. Battista Guarini’s Il Pastor Fido (1590). For a Latin translation see App. L.
The Pedlar’s Prophecy > 1594
S. R. 1594, May 13. ‘A plea booke intituled the Pedlers Prophesie.’ Thomas Creede (Arber, ii. 649).
1595. The Pedlers Prophecie. Thomas Creede, sold by William Barley. [Prologue.]
Editions by J. S. Farmer (1911, T. F. T.) and W. W. Greg (1914, M. S. R.).
The analogies of title and date of publication to The Cobler’s Prophecy have led Fleay, ii. 283, and others to ascribe the authorship to Wilson. To me the play reads more like a belated piece of c. 1560–70.
Pericles c. 1607–8
See Shakespeare (ch. xxiii), except in relation to whose work the play can hardly be discussed.