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==Historical Records==
==Historical Records==


===Stationers' Register===
22 July 1565--22 July 1566 [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_6177070_001/pages/ldpd_6177070_001_00000341.html?toggle=image&menu=maximize&top=&left= (S.R. I, 1.295)]
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| '''colwell'''||||Recevyd of '''Thomas Colwell''' for his lycence for prynting of a
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| ||||play intituled ''a merye playe bothe pytthy and pleasaunt of''
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| ||||''ALBYON knyghte'' . . . . . . . . Iiij<sup>d</sup>
|}
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===Print fragment===
===Print fragment===


A 6-leaf fragment comprising leaves B1, B4, C1-4 survives at the Huntington Library:
A 6-leaf fragment comprising leaves B1, B4, and C1-4 survives at the Huntington Library:
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  |<!--column1--><small>sig. B1<sup>r</sup></small>
  |<!--column1--><small>sig. B1<sup>r</sup><br>[[Albion Knight B1r transcription|(Click '''here''' for transcription)]]</small>
  |<!--column2--><small>sig. B1<sup>v</sup></small>
  |<!--column2--><small>sig. B1<sup>v</sup><br>[[Albion Knight B1v transcription|(Click '''here''' for transcription)]]</small>
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  |<!--column1-->[[Image:RB60584 pB4r thumb.jpg|link=https://www.lostplays.org/images/5/50/RB60584_pB4r.jpg]]
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  |<!--column1--><small>sig. B4<sup>r</sup></small>
  |<!--column1--><small>sig. [B4]<sup>r</sup><br>[[Albion Knight B4r transcription|(Click '''here''' for transcription)]]</small>
  |<!--column2--><small>sig. B4<sup>v</sup></small>
  |<!--column2--><small>sig. [B4]<sup>v</sup><br>[[Albion Knight B4v transcription|(Click '''here''' for transcription)]]</small>
  |}<!--end wikitable-->
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  |<!--column1--><small>sig. C1<sup>r</sup></small>
  |<!--column1--><small>sig. C1<sup>r</sup><br>[[Albion Knight C1r transcription|(Click '''here''' for transcription)]]</small>
  |<!--column2--><small>sig. C1<sup>v</sup></small>
  |<!--column2--><small>sig. C1<sup>v</sup><br>[[Albion Knight C1v transcription|(Click '''here''' for transcription)]]</small>
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  |<!--column1--><small>sig. C2<sup>r</sup> </small>
  |<!--column1--><small>sig. C2<sup>r</sup><br>[[Albion Knight C2r transcription|(Click '''here''' for transcription)]] </small>
  |<!--column2--><small>sig. C2<sup>v</sup> </small>
  |<!--column2--><small>sig. C2<sup>v</sup><br>[[Albion Knight C2v transcription|(Click '''here''' for transcription)]] </small>
  |}<!--end wikitable-->
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  |<!--column1--><small>sig. C3<sup>r</sup></small>
  |<!--column1--><small>sig. C3<sup>r</sup><br>[[Albion Knight C3r transcription|(Click '''here''' for transcription)]]</small>
  |<!--column2--><small>sig. C3<sup>v</sup></small>
  |<!--column2--><small>sig. C3<sup>v</sup><br>[[Albion Knight C3v transcription|(Click '''here''' for transcription)]]</small>
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  |<!--column1--><small>sig. C4<sup>r</sup></small>
  |<!--column1--><small>sig. C4<sup>r</sup><br>[[Albion Knight C4r transcription|(Click '''here''' for transcription)]]</small>
  |<!--column2--><small>sig. C4<sup>v</sup></small>
  |<!--column2--><small>sig. C4<sup>v</sup><br>[[Albion Knight C4v transcription|(Click '''here''' for transcription)]]</small>
  |}<!--end wikitable-->
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==Theatrical Provenance==
==Theatrical Provenance==


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==Probable Genre(s)==
==Probable Genre(s)==


<List possible genres of the play: if noted by a critic, cite them, e.g. "Comedy (Harbage)". If an original speculation, simply list the genre.>
Moral Interlude (Harbage); Moral (Wiggins).
 
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==Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues==
==Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues==


<Enter any information about possible or known sources. Summarise these sources where practical/possible, or provide an excerpt from another scholar's discussion of the subject if available.>
See Wiggins 408 for a summary of the fragment's action.
 
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==References to the Play==
==References to the Play==


<List any known or conjectured references to the lost play here.>
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==Critical Commentary==
==Critical Commentary==


<Summarise any critical commentary that may have been published by scholars. Please maintain an objective tone!>
'''Wiggins''' (408) dates the play to 1565, the year he suggests it was printed (given the SR entry), but provides limits of 1537-8, 1559-65.
 
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'''Harbage''' dates the play much earlier, to 1537, though provides generous limits of  c.1537-1566.
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'''Greg''' (229), in his MSC edition (1910), associated this play with the entries in '''[[Archer's List]]''' ([https://www.lostplays.org/images/f/f2/Archer's_list_a1v.JPG see the specific page here)] and Kirkman's list of publications (''A true, perfect, and exact catalogue of all the comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, pastorals, masques and interludes, that were ever yet printed and published, till this present year 1661''). He further reports that although Collier was the first to record the existence of this print fragment (reprinting it in 1840), his suggestion that it had been used as wastepaper in a binding was not certain: "This may be so, though the leaves bear no sign of having ever formed part of a binding" (228).
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==For What It's Worth==
==For What It's Worth==


<Enter any miscellaneous points that may be relevant, but don't fit into the above categories. This is the best place for highly conjectural thoughts.>
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==Works Cited==
==Works Cited==


<List all texts cited throughout the entry, except those staple texts whose full bibliographical details have been provided in the masterlist of Works Cited found on the sidebar menu. Use the coding below to format the list>
<div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Anon., [A mery playe bothe pytthy and pleasaunt of albyon knyghte], [London: Printed by Thomas Colwell, 1566], [http://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1505097 RB 60584].</div>
 
<div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Greg, W. W. ''Malone Society Collections'' 1.3 (Oxford, 1910 for 1909), 229-42.</div>
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Anon. (c.1565)


Historical Records

Stationers' Register

22 July 1565--22 July 1566 (S.R. I, 1.295)

colwell Recevyd of Thomas Colwell for his lycence for prynting of a
play intituled a merye playe bothe pytthy and pleasaunt of
ALBYON knyghte . . . . . . . . Iiijd



Print fragment

A 6-leaf fragment comprising leaves B1, B4, and C1-4 survives at the Huntington Library:

Anon., [A mery playe bothe pytthy and pleasaunt of albyon knyghte], [London: Printed by Thomas Colwell, 1566], RB 60584.

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

RB60584 pBir.jpg RB60584 pBiv.jpg
sig. B1r
(Click here for transcription) 		sig. B1v
(Click here for transcription)


RB60584 pBiv r.jpg RB60584 pBiv v.jpg
sig. [B4]r
(Click here for transcription) 		sig. [B4]v
(Click here for transcription)


RB60584 pC1r.jpg RB60584 pC1v.jpg
sig. C1r
(Click here for transcription) 		sig. C1v
(Click here for transcription)


RB60584 pC2r.jpg RB60584 pC2v.jpg
sig. C2r
(Click here for transcription) 		sig. C2v
(Click here for transcription)


RB60584 pC3r.jpg RB60584 pC3v.jpg
sig. C3r
(Click here for transcription) 		sig. C3v
(Click here for transcription)


RB60584 pC4r.jpg RB60584 pC4v.jpg
sig. C4r
(Click here for transcription) 		sig. C4v
(Click here for transcription)




Theatrical Provenance

Unknown.


Probable Genre(s)

Moral Interlude (Harbage); Moral (Wiggins).


Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

See Wiggins 408 for a summary of the fragment's action.


References to the Play

(Information welcome)


Critical Commentary

Wiggins (408) dates the play to 1565, the year he suggests it was printed (given the SR entry), but provides limits of 1537-8, 1559-65.

Harbage dates the play much earlier, to 1537, though provides generous limits of c.1537-1566.

Greg (229), in his MSC edition (1910), associated this play with the entries in Archer's List (see the specific page here) and Kirkman's list of publications (A true, perfect, and exact catalogue of all the comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, pastorals, masques and interludes, that were ever yet printed and published, till this present year 1661). He further reports that although Collier was the first to record the existence of this print fragment (reprinting it in 1840), his suggestion that it had been used as wastepaper in a binding was not certain: "This may be so, though the leaves bear no sign of having ever formed part of a binding" (228).


For What It's Worth

(Information welcome)


Works Cited

Anon., [A mery playe bothe pytthy and pleasaunt of albyon knyghte], [London: Printed by Thomas Colwell, 1566], RB 60584.
Greg, W. W. Malone Society Collections 1.3 (Oxford, 1910 for 1909), 229-42.




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