Table 2

Act/Scene	2.3	2.4	2.5	2.6	3.1	3.2	3.3	3.4
Colman 1778	B&F	B&F	B&F	B&F	B&F	B&F	B&F	B&F
Weber 1812
Spalding 1833	F	F	F	F	S	F	F	F
Hickson 1847	F	F	F	F	S	S	F	F
Littledale 1885	F	F	F	F	S (mostly)	S	F	F
Thorndike 1901	F	F	F	F	S	S	F	F
Brooke 1908	F	F	F	F	M?	M?	F	F
Oliphant 1927	F	F	F	F	S	S	F	F
Chambers 1930	F	F	F	F		F?	F	F
Kittredge 1936	R2C2	R2C3	R2C4	R2C5	R2C6	R2C7	R2C8	R2C9
Muir 1958	F	F	F	F	S	F	F	F
Hoy 1962	F	F	F	F	S	S	F	F
Bertram 1965	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
Leech 1966	F	F	F	F	S	F	F	F
Proudfoot 1970	F	F	F	F	S	S?	F	F
Smith 1976	F	F	F	F	S	F	F	F
Bawcutt 1977	F	F	F	F	S	S	F	F
Montgomery 1988	F	F	F	F	S	S?	F	F
Bowers 1989	F	F	F	F	S	S	F	F
Waith 1994	F	F	F	F	S	S	F	F
Potter 1997	F	F?	S/F?	F?		F?

Table 3

Act/Scene	3.5	3.6	4.1	4.2	4.3	5.1	5.2	5.3
Colman 1778	B&F	B&F	B&F	B&F	B&F	B&F	B&F	B&F
Weber 1812
Spalding 1833	F	F	F	F	F	S	F	S
Hickson 1847	F	F	F	F	S	S	F	S
Littledale 1885	F	F	F	F	S (nearly all)	S (except 1-17)	S	S (only part) /F
Thorndike 1901	F	F	F	F	S (nearly all)	S (F in part)	F	S (F in part)
Brooke 1908	F	F	F	F	M? (nearly all)	M? (except 1-19)	M?	M? (only part) /F
Oliphant 1927	F/B	F	F	F	B	F/S/S	F	S
Chambers 1930	F	F	F	F			F
Kittredge 1936	R2C2	R2C3	R2C4	R2C5	R2C6	R2C7	R2C8	R2C9
Muir 1958	F	F	F	F	F	S	F	F
Hoy 1962	F	F	F	F	F	F (1-33) S (rest)	F	S
Bertram 1965	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
Leech 1966	F	F	F	F	F	S	F	S
Proudfoot 1970	F	F	F	F	S?	F (1-33) S (rest)	F	S
Smith 1976	F	F	F	F	F	F (1-33) S (rest)	F	S
Bawcutt 1977	F	F	F	F	F	S	F	S
Montgomery 1988	F	F	F	F?	F	F (1-33?) S (rest)	F	S
Bowers 1989	F	F	F	F	F	F (1-33) S (rest)	F	S
Waith 1994	F	F	F	F	S	S	F	S
Potter 1997	F				?	S/F

Table 4

Act/Scene	5.4	Epi.
Colman 1778	B&F	B&F
Weber 1812
Spalding 1833	S	F
Hickson 1847	S	N/C
Littledale 1885	S (lines 86-98), F	N/C
Thorndike 1901	S	N/C
Brooke 1908	M?, F (99-113)	F
Oliphant 1927	S	F
Chambers 1930		written later
Kittredge 1936	R2C2	R2C3
Muir 1958	S	F
Hoy 1962	S
Bertram 1965	S	S
Leech 1966	S	F?
Proudfoot 1970	S	N/C
Smith 1976	S	F
Bawcutt 1977	S	F
Montgomery 1988	S	F?
Bowers 1989	S
Waith 1994	S	F?
Potter 1997		F

Bawcutt, N. W. ed. The Two Noble Kinsmen. New Penguin Shakespeare. Gen. Ed. T. J. B. Spencer. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1977. "It must be emphasized that this division in no way excludes the possibility that each of the two dramatists added short passages or revisions to the works of the other." (13-14) [Bawcutt's position is that of a general review of previous findings]       Back Bertram, Paul. Shakespeare and The Two Noble Kinsmen. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1965. [Bertram is virtually alone in assigning the entire play to Shakespeare.]        Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Bowers, Fredson. Ed. The Two Noble Kinsmen. The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. Vol. 7. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989. [Bowers agrees with Hoy (not suprisingly) and states that Hoy's conclusions "have not been seriously challenged" (156).]        Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Brooke, C. F. Tucker. The Shakespeare Apocrypha. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908. "it would scarcely be too much to say that there is not even one speech which has ever seemed thoroughly and completely convincing to any conscientious student – no speech, that is, on which he would have been willing to rest the whole question, declaring that just here, if nowhere else, the fingers of the greatest poet of the world [Shakespeare] have infallibly left their mark." [xliii] Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Chambers, E. K. William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1930.      Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Colman, George. The Dramatic Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. 10 vols. London, 1778. TNK in vol. 10.        Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Hickson, Samuel. "Untitled Review of "A Letter on Shakspeare's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen" by William Spalding (1833), The Pictorial Edition of Shakspere, ed. by Charles Knight (1841), and The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher ed. by Alexander Dyce (1846)." The Westminster Review 67 (April-July 1847): 59-88.       Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Hoy, Cyrus. "The Shares of Fletcher and his Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (VII)." Studies in Bibliography 15 (1962): 72-91.        Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Kittredge, George Lyman. ed. The Complete Works of Shakespeare. Boston: , 1936.        Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Leech, Clifford. ed. The Two Noble Kinsmen. Signet Edition. Gen. Ed. Sylvan Barnet. New York: New American Library, 1966.        Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Littledale, Harold. "Introduction" The Two Noble Kinsmen. rev. ed., pt 2. London: New Shakspere Society, 2nd series, no. 15, 1885.        Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Montgomery, William. The Two Noble Kinsmen. William Shakespeare: The Complete Works. General Editors Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. "Studies of style suggest that Shakespeare was primarily responsible for the rhetorically and ritualistically impressive [acts and scenes], which include emblematically spectacular episodes related to his other late plays. Fletcher appears mainly to have written the scenes showing the rivalry of Palamon and Arcite along with the subplots concerned with the Jailer's daughter's love for Palamon and the rustics' entertainment for Theseus" (1225). Also: William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion. Stanely Wells and Gary Taylor, with John Jowett and WIlliam Montgomery. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1987.        Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Muir, Kenneth. "Shakespeare's Hand in The Two Noble Kinsmen." Shakespeare Survey 11 (1958): 50-59. Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Oliphant, E. H. C. The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher: An Attempt to Determine their Respective Shares and the Shares of Others. New York: AMS Press, 1927. Reprinted 1970. Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Potter, Lois. Ed. The Two Noble Kinsmen. The Arden Shakespeare, 3rd Edition. Gen. Eds. Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, and David Scott Kastan. Walton-on Thames, Surrey: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1997. "My own hypothesis is that the two dramatist began writing concurrently, but that Fletcher constructed the final draft. In 1.4, 2.2, possibly 2.5, and 5.1, he seems to have been working on, or in the light of, Shakespearean material; nothing suggests that Shakespeare was ever working on Fletcher's" (32).        Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Proudfoot, G. R. ed. The Two Noble Kinsmen. Regents Renaissance Drama Series. Gen. Ed. Cyrus Hoy. London: Edward Arnold, 1970. [agrees with Kittredge: "exact details are beyond the scope of sane criticism" (xvii)]        Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Smith, Hallett. The Two Noble Kinsmen. The Riverside Shakespeare. Gen. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.        Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Spalding, William. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen; and on the Characteristics of Shakspere's Style and the Secret of his Supremacy. Edinburgh 1833. Reprinted London: New Shakspere Society, 1876. [This reprint also contains Littledale's facsimile of the 1634 quarto.]        Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Thorndike, Ashley. The Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Shakspere. Worcester, Mass: Oliver B. Wood, 1901. Reprinted New York: AMS Press, 1966. "The test [an 'em/them test] does not, however, indicate that the division by scene is as exact as in Henry VIII." (50) "The scenes which Shakspere wrote show a knowledge of the whole course of the dramatic action ... these considerations make it probable that, after having made a fairly detailed outline of the play, each writer took certain scenes and, to all intents, completed those scenes after his own fashion. As in Henry VIII, the method of composition seems to have been collaboration, pure and simple." (54-55) Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Waith, Eugene M. The Two Noble Kinsmen. The Oxford Shakespeare. (World Classics Series.) General Editor Stanely Wells. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1994. "The strongest case for dividing the authorship between Fletcher and Shakespeare can be made by comparing parallel scenes such as the two intercessions with Theseus (in 1.1 and 3.6) ... the dialogues between Palamon and Arcite in Thebes (1.2) and in Theseus' prison (2.2), their encounters in the woods (in 3.1, 3.3, 3.6), and Emilia's soliloquies (in 4.2 and 5.3)" [18].        Back to Table 1 2 3 4 Weber, Henry. "Observations on the Participation of Shakspeare in The Two Noble Kinsmen." The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. Vol. 13. Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co., 1812. 151-169.        Back to Table 1 2 3 4

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