Editing Locrine (section)

==''Locrine'' and ''Selimus''==
''Locrine'' shares a complex inter-relationship with another anonymous play of its era, ''[[Selimus (play)|Selimus]],'' first published in 1594. The commonalities between the two plays involve parallels of plot elements and shared verbal expression and prosodic structure.<ref>Maxwell, pp. 52–63.</ref> The majority of scholars who have considered the problem judge the author of ''Selimus'' to have borrowed from ''Locrine'' – though a minority has favored the opposite conclusion.<ref>Logan and Smith, pp. 265–266, 306–309.</ref> The common features in the two plays have led some critics to suppose that they are the work of the same author; but since both plays are anonymous and their authorship is disputed, the connection between the two dramas obscures as much as it enlightens.