Agamemnon and Ulysses

Anon. (1584)

Historical Records

Court Records

Accounts of the Office of the Revels

Chrystmas Twelftyde & Shrouetyde and making choyse of plaies Anno Regni Regine Elizabethe: xxvij^o 1584

The Charges of those tymes viz. betwene the laste daie of October 1584. Anno xxvj^to Regni Regine Elizabethe and the —— of ffebruary .1584. Annoque Regni Regine Elizabethe predicte xxvij^o did rise aswell by meanes of attending making choyse, reforminge and altering of suche plaies Comodies maskes and inventions as were prepared sett furth and presented before her maiestie at the tymes aforesaid. ...

The history of Agamemnon & Vlisses presented and enacted before her maiestie by the Earle of Oxenford his boyes on S^t Iohns daie at night in Grenewich. (Feuillerat, 365)

Declared Accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber

To Henry Evans vppon the Counsell[s] warr[ant] dated at Grenew^ch vij^mo Aprilis 1585 for one play or Interlude presensed before her ma^tie on S^t Iohn the Evangeliste[s] day last past at nighte by the †Chdren of Therle of Oxforde vi^li xiij^s iiij^d (Cook and Wilson 22-23)

Theatrical Provenance

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Probable Genre(s)

Classical Legend (Harbage).

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References to the Play

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For What It's Worth

St. John's Day was on 27 December in 1584.

Works Cited

Cook, David and F.P. Wilson. Dramatic Records in the Declared Accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber 1558-1642. Malone Society Collections VI. 1962. Feuillerat, Albert, ed. Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the Time of Queen Elizabeth. Louvain: A. Uystpruyst, 1908.

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