...Langbaine. || Phillips has attributed it to Thomas Newton. sions, and other eminent critics, have supposed the first Part of The Contention of the Two famous Houses of York and Lancaster, and The true Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, which form, with trifling variation,...

...1600, with Marlowe's name. § MS. notes on Langbaine. sions, and other eminent critics, have supposed the first Part of The Contention of the Two famous Houses of York and Lancaster, and The true Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, which form, with trifling variation,...

...necessarily be applicable to, and used in speaking of, the other. These two plays then, founded on The First Part of the Contention of the Two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, and on the Second, or The true Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, written by Marlowe and his friends...

...my opinion concerning The Second and Third Part of King Henry VI. - •,.','. :> " A book entituled, The First Part of the Contention of the Two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, with the Death of the good Duke Humphrie, and the Banishment and Deathe of the Duke of Yorke, and the...

...; and that from this piece, which is in two parts, (the former of which is entitled, The First Fart of the Contention of the Two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, with the Death of the good Duke Humphrey, &c. first printed in 1594; and the latter, The true Traged'ie...

...for the outlines of this terrific scene, and a portion of its language, may be found in the old play of The Contention of the Two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, probably written before the year 1590. eyes, is at once so pathetic, so new, and so true to nature,...

...for the outlines of this terrific scene, and a portion of its language, may be found in the old play of The Contention of the Two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, probably written before the year 1590. eyes, is at once so pathetic, so new, and so true to nature,...

...certain plays written by Greene, Peele, Marlowe, or Lodge, which he had new modelled, most probably The First Part of the Contention of the two famous houses of York and Lancaster, and The tragedie of Richard' Duke of Yorke, out of which old dramas the great poet...

...Greene, is the foundation of this and the ensuing drama ; the prototype of the present being called ' The First Part of the Contention of the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster.' These two parts were published in quarto, the first in 1594, the second in the following year : both...

...supposed. The second and third parts of King Henry VI. were, we all know, founded on two old pieces ; viz., the first part of the contention of " the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster," and " the true Tragedie of Richarde Duke of Yorke." Hence the allusion of Greene has been thought confirmatory...