Editing Locrine (section)

==Date==
''Locrine'' was entered into the [[Stationers' Register]] on 20 July 1594 and published in 1595 in a [[book size|quarto]] issued by printer [[Thomas Creede]]. Individual scholars have proposed dates for the play from the early 1580s on; many have favored a date c. 1591, based on the play's links with other works of the era. It has been argued, for example, that ''Locrine'' borrows from the ''Complaints'' of [[Edmund Spenser]], published in 1591,<ref>Chambers, Vol. 4, p. 27.</ref> and from ''The Complaint of Elstred,'' a poem by [[Thomas Lodge]], written c. 1591, that circulated in manuscript before its first printing in 1593. The question of the play's date is complicated by the question of its authorship; if Charles Tilney was the play's author (see below), it must date prior to Tilney's death in 1586.<ref>Logan and Smith, pp. 258–259, 263–264.</ref>