Enterlude of detraction, light judgment, verity, and justice

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Anon. (c.1550)


Historical Records

Print fragment

Five fragments from 2 leaves (E1 and E3) survive at the Huntington Library:

Anon., [Enterlude of detraction, light judgment, verity, and justice], [London : S.n., ca. 1550], RB 131401:11 (fragment).

(Reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.)

The ordering of the fragments below follows Katharine Pantzer's conjectural reconstruction (typescript and MS notes accompanying the fragments at the Huntington, made in October 1973):

sig.E1r sig.E1v
RB131401 11 fragment 3r thumb.jpg RB131401 11 fragment 3v thumb.jpg
RB131401 11 fragment 1v thumb.jpg RB131401 11 fragment 1r thumb.jpg
RB131401 11 fragment 5r thumb.jpg RB131401 11 fragment 5v thumb.jpg


sig.E3r sig.E3v
RB131401 11 fragment 2r thumb.jpg RB131401 11 fragment 2v thumb.jpg
RB131401 11 fragment 4r thumb.jpg RB131401 11 fragment 4v thumb.jpg


Transcription




Theatrical Provenance

Unknown.


Probable Genre(s)

Moral (Wiggins).


Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

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References to the Play

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Critical Commentary

See Wiggins 208.


For What It's Worth

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Works Cited

Anon., [Enterlude of detraction, light judgment, verity, and justice], [London : S.n., ca. 1550], RB 131401:11 (fragment).




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