Excerpt from Titus Andronicus: With the True Tragedie of Richard the Third

Of Titus Andronicus there were two quarto editions printed for Edward White, near the little north door of St. Paul's, at the sign of the "Gun." The first quarto, in 1600, gave the play "As it hath been played by the Right Honourable the Earl of Pembroke, the Earl of Darbie, the Earl of Sussex, and the Lord Chamberlain, their servants." The second quarto, in 1611, gave it "As it hath sundry times been played by the King's Majesty's Servants." Neither of these quartos names Shakespeare as the author of the play, although at either date his name would have strongly recommended it to readers.

But in the Palladis Tamia Francis Meres included Titus Andronicus in the list of Shakespeare's tragedies; and in the first folio of 1623, into which his fellow-players Heminge and Coudell collected Shakespeare's works, Titus Andronicus is included.

In the registers of the Stationers' Company there was entered to John Danter, on the 6th of February, 1593 (new style, 1594), "a Noble Roman Historye of Tytus Andronicus," and on the same day was "entred alsoe vnto him by warraunt from Master Woodcock the ballad thereof." This agrees with the statement in Langbaine's "Account of English Dramatic Poets."

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