Mortimer His Fall

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NB. Technically this is not so much a "lost play" as an incomplete fragment, left unfinished when the author died.

Historical Records

Jonson F2 (1640)

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"Titlepage", p.[287] "Persons", p.[289] "Arguments", p.[290]



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"Scene 1", p.291 "Scene 1 (cont'd) and Scene 2", p.292

Images from the University of Melbourne copy of Jonson's Second Folio; reproduced by permission of the Baillieu Library.


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