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Creator: John Ward
Title: Notebook of John Ward [manuscript], 1665-1666.
Date: 1665-1666
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA
Call number and opening: V.a.294, fol. 20r-v
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As in another notebook, John Ward, vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon, here notes, and wonders why, Peter Heylyn did not include Shakespeare among the dramatic poets in his Cosmographie in 4 bookes (London, 1652).
[fol. 20r (middle of right-hand page)]
Whether Dr. Heylin does well in reckoning up the dramatic poets which have been famous in England, to omit Shakespeare.
[fol. 20r]
Whether Dr. Heylin does well in Reck
oning vp the Dramatick poets which
haue been famous in England to o=
mitt Shakespear:
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