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Revision as of 07:18, 18 May 2015
Falsely attributed to Anon. (falsely attributed to 1593)
NB This record is a hoax. It is listed here simply to document that it is indeed inauthentic.
Historical Records
An interpolated entry in the manuscript of Henslowe's Diary for 1593:
- 18 of maye 1595… Rd at galfrido & Bernardo… xxxis. (Foakes ed., Diary, 28.)
The entry was not reported by Malone, first appearing in print in J. P. Collier's edition of the Diary. It was recognized as Collier's own forgery within his own lifetime, and is categorized as such by the subsequent editors of the Diary, Greg and Foakes.
Theatrical Provenance
n/a
Probable Genre(s)
n/a
Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues
Collier clearly intended it to look like an adaptation of the 1570 poem Galfrido and Bernardo, discussed by Mike Pincombe here http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/origins/DisplayServlet?id=drout7241.5&type=print.
References to the Play
None
Critical Commentary
This forgery was caught fairly early on, but it had already made it into some reference works besides Collier's own edition - for instance, J. O. Halliwell-Phillips's Dictionary of Old English Plays (1860), 105-6. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DZEUAAAAQAAJ&q=galfrido#v=snippet&q=galfrido&f=false
As late as 1904 it was still causing W. W. Greg needless suspicion about the genuineness of the 1570 poem itself (Greg ed., Diary, 2.36-7).
The fullest discussion is in Freeman and Freeman, 2.367-8.
For What It's Worth
It's not.
Works Cited
Collier, John Payne (ed.) The Diary of Philip Henslowe, from 1591 to 1609. London: Shakespeare Society, 1845. Google Books
Fleay, F. G. A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559—1642. 2 vols. 1891; rpt New York: Burt Franklin, 1962. Internet Archive [vol. 1]
Freeman, Arthur and Janet Ing Freeman. John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. 2 vols. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004.
Site created and maintained by Matthew Steggle, Sheffield Hallam University; updated 18 May 2015.