Additionally, the diarist Phillip Henslowe recorded a performance of a King Leare in Easter of 1594. Would it not be the most straightforward conclusion that in fact an early version of Shakespeare’s Lear was already kicking around during the 1590s?
Chronology: MacBeth The comic porter scene (II.3) in Macbeth makes several passing references to the Jesuit doctrine of equivocation and the “equivocator who could not equivocate his way to heaven.” According to scholars like Henry N. Paul ( The Royal Play of Macbeth ), equivocation did not become a significant subject of political controversy until after the spring 1606 trial of the Jesuit martyr Father Henry Garnet, convicted for his role in the Gunpowder Plot. However, Henry Paul is quite mistaken in his conviction. The doctrine of equivocation was well known in England at least by the mid-1590s (and much earlier on the Continent) when Father Robert Southwell was executed in 1595 for practicing Catholic rite. Indeed, the manuscript Treatise on Equivocation confiscated from Garnet in 1606 most likely dates to the early 1590s, before Southwell’s execution. The Porter’s remarks and with it the main reason for dating Macbeth after 1600 could in fact just as easily refer to Southwell. On
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