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::([http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_6177070_002/pages/ldpd_6177070_002_00000657.html?toggle=image&menu=maximize&top=&left= Stationers' Register, Vol. 2, p. 307; 14 May 1594]) | |||
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== Theatrical Provenance == | == Theatrical Provenance == | ||
:Unknown. However, reading White's entries as a batch acquisition from a single playing company, [[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'']] assigns the play "tentatively" to the Queen's men (#823). | |||
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== Probable Genre(s) == | == Probable Genre(s) == | ||
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:[[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' #823]]: "romance (or history?)" | |||
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== Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues == | == Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues == | ||
:Any one of the chronicles of England such as [[WorksCited|Holinshed]] addressing the fourteenth century could have provided the narrative of this play.[[category:Holinshed]] | |||
:[[WorksCited|Greg, ''BEPD'' (2.965, θ12)]] offers two likely story lines: "the successful expedition of John of Gaunt and the Black Prince in 1367, which restored Pedro the Cruel to the throne of Castile, and which was followed in 1372 by John of Gaunt's marriage to Constance, and that of his brother Edmund to Isabella, Pedro's daughters; or ... his [John of Gaunt's] rather inglorious invasion of 1386-7, undertaken in pursuit of his own claim to the throne in right of his wife, which in fact led to the marriage of his daughters Philippa and Catharine to John of Portugal and Henry, afterwards King of Castile." Greg thinks it "`[v]ery likely" that the play addressed both "historical occasions." | |||
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== References to the Play == | == References to the Play == | ||
: None known. | |||
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== Critical Commentary == | == Critical Commentary == | ||
:[[WorksCited|Fleay, ''BCED'' (2.309, #223)]] suggests that this earlier piece was "[p]robably the foundation of ''The Conquest of Spain by John of Gaunt'', by Hathway and Rankens" in Philip Henslowe's lists for the Admiral's men in the early spring of 1601. [[WorksCited|Greg, ''BEPD'']] echos that presumption (2.965, θ12). | |||
:[[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' #823]] considers the play to have addressed the life of John of Gaunt in 1386-7. He does not repeat Fleay's and Greg's link to the 1601 play by Richard Hathway and William Rankins. | |||
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== For What It's Worth == | == For What It's Worth == | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:34, 4 October 2022
Historical Records
Book Trade Records
Stationers' Register
Adam Islip./.Entred likewise for his Copie vnder the handes of bothe the wardens Edward White./. a booke entituled / the famous historye of JOHN OF GAUNTE sonne to Kinge EDWARD the THIRD with his Conquest of Spaine and marriage of his Twoo daughters to the Kinges of Castile and Portugal &c vjd C./
Theatrical Provenance
- Unknown. However, reading White's entries as a batch acquisition from a single playing company, Wiggins, Catalogue assigns the play "tentatively" to the Queen's men (#823).
Probable Genre(s)
- Wiggins, Catalogue #823: "romance (or history?)"
Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues
- Any one of the chronicles of England such as Holinshed addressing the fourteenth century could have provided the narrative of this play.
- Greg, BEPD (2.965, θ12) offers two likely story lines: "the successful expedition of John of Gaunt and the Black Prince in 1367, which restored Pedro the Cruel to the throne of Castile, and which was followed in 1372 by John of Gaunt's marriage to Constance, and that of his brother Edmund to Isabella, Pedro's daughters; or ... his [John of Gaunt's] rather inglorious invasion of 1386-7, undertaken in pursuit of his own claim to the throne in right of his wife, which in fact led to the marriage of his daughters Philippa and Catharine to John of Portugal and Henry, afterwards King of Castile." Greg thinks it "`[v]ery likely" that the play addressed both "historical occasions."
References to the Play
- None known.
Critical Commentary
- Fleay, BCED (2.309, #223) suggests that this earlier piece was "[p]robably the foundation of The Conquest of Spain by John of Gaunt, by Hathway and Rankens" in Philip Henslowe's lists for the Admiral's men in the early spring of 1601. Greg, BEPD echos that presumption (2.965, θ12).
- Wiggins, Catalogue #823 considers the play to have addressed the life of John of Gaunt in 1386-7. He does not repeat Fleay's and Greg's link to the 1601 play by Richard Hathway and William Rankins.
For What It's Worth
Works Cited
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