An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in Which the Plays of Shakespeare Were Written

Malone’s “An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in Which the Plays of Shakespeare Were Written” (1778) was the first such chronology. His three supplemental volumes (1780–83) to scholar George Steevens’s edition of Johnson’s Shakespeare—containing apocryphal plays, textual emendations, and the first critical edition of the sonnets—are…