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| | Shakespeare Statement |
 | | Tylney reports over his signature that "Mesur for Mesur," "The Plaie of Errors," and "The Marchant of Venis" were performed at court by "his Maiesties plaiers," and that the "poet" of these plays was Shakespeare. |
 | | Shakespeare's literary talents were recognized in print as early as 1594, when Henry Willobie linked "Shake-speare" with "poore Lucrece rape." In 1598 Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia named Shakespeare as the author of Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, and "sugred Sonnets among his priuate friends," and as the best for both comedy and tragedy. |
 | | Humphrey Dyson, a contemporary of Shakespeare's, was personally acquainted with Henry Condell, Nicholas Tooley, and playwright and sometime servant of the earl of Oxford Anthony Munday; he was also the son-in-law of Thomas Speght, editor of Chaucer's Works (1598). |
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