For some time Anthony Scoloker was identified as "An. Sc.", the author of Daiphantus, or the Passions of Love a burlesque of contemporary lovesick young men as depicted in the play and love poetry of the time. Francis Douce put this forward in 1807, but other scholars have questioned this, arguing that as there are two mentions of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, but as Scoloker died in 1593 before Hamlet was written sometime between 1599 and 1601, there is little support for this view nowadays.[2] Nevertheless, this attribution to "Anthony Scoloker" attribution as author is maintained by OCLC's WorldCat website.[3] Albert Pollard in his entry for this Anthony Scoloker suggests that there was a second "Anthony Scoloker" – "doubtless a relative" of the printer considered here.[4]
