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Excerpt from The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Date. - The precise date of this play must remain matter of conjecture. Malone, in his Attempt to ascertain the order in which the plays of Shakespeare were written (var., 1821, II. Pointed out that in 1611 Sir George Buck, Master of the Revels, had before him a ms. Play, which he licensed in these words - This Second Maiden's Tragedy (for it hath no name inscribed) may, with the reformations, be publickly acted. 31 October, 1611, G. Buc. This ms. Now in the Lansdowne Collection has no title-page but is now headed, in a hand-writing different from that of the play itself, The Second Maiden's Tragedy.l It seems evident from Sir George's words for it hath no name inscribed - that this heading must have been adopted from the licence itself. Of course the inference Malone wished us to draw - and which is drawn from this licence - is that Sir George having this untitled tragedy of a maiden before him, and bearing in mind The Maid's Tragedy of Beaumont and Fletcher, which he may be supposed to have licensed shortly before, spoke of this as a second maiden's tragedy to distinguish the one from the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.