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== Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues ==
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Greg offers the following identification of characters in the rough outline provided with Robert Shaa's authorization of payment:
 
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== References to the Play  ==
== References to the Play  ==

Revision as of 19:14, 8 November 2009

Robert Wilson (1599)

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Historical Records


Henslowe's Diary

F.65 (Greg I.113)

Receaued of mr Ph: Hinchlow by a note
vnder the hand of mr Rob: Shaw in full
payment for the second pt of Henrye
Richmond sold to hime & his Companye
the som[m]e of eight powndes Current moneye
the viijt daye of November 1599 ... viijli
          By me R Wilson



Henslowe Papers

Greg, Papers (MS. I. 27, Art. 26, p. 49)

mr Henshlowe we haue heard their booke and lyke yt their pryce is eight poundes, wch J pray pay now to mr wilson, according to our promysse, J would haue Come my selfe, but that J am trobled wth a seytation.

yors Robt Shaa

[on the back]

1. Sce Wm Wor; & Ansell & to them ye plowghmen

2. Sce: Richard Q. & Eliza: Catesbie, Louell, Rice ap Tho: Blunt, Banester

3. Sce: Ansell Dauye Denys Hen: Oxf: Courtney Bourchier & Grace to them Rice ap Tho: & his Soldiors

4. Sce: Mitton Ban : his wyfe & children

5. Sce: K Rich : Catesb : Louell. Norf. Northumb : Percye

[6. C. and Q. Eliza.     7. Dauye. C. Daugr (in Memoirs, omitted in Papers).   9. C. Milton.]


Theatrical Provenance

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Probable Genre(s)

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Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues


Greg offers the following identification of characters in the rough outline provided with Robert Shaa's authorization of payment:

Wm Wor (? William Worsley, dean of St. Paul's, 1479-93) Ansell (? Friar Anselem, whose ghost appears in Edward IV, in association with Dr. Shaw, prebendary of London and brother of the Lord Mayor; Shaw was employed by Richard duke of Gloucester to preach at Paul's cross, 22 June 1493, against the legitimacy of the children of Edward IV  ploughmen
Richard [III] Q[ueen], i.e., Anne Neville, wife of Richard Eliza (probably Elizabeth, widow of Edward IV; but possibly his daughter, later wife of Henry Duke of Richmond after his attainment to the throne as Henry VII

References to the Play

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Critical Commentary

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For What It's Worth

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Keywords

Robert Wilson


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