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The records of the play's licensing on 10 May 1622 were first printed in 1799 by George Chalmers, who reproduced extracts from "Sir Henry Herbert's Official Register" (although the Master of the Revels at the time was Sir John Astley): | The records of the play's licensing on 10 May 1622 were first printed in 1799 by George Chalmers, who reproduced extracts from "Sir Henry Herbert's Official Register" (although the Master of the Revels at the time was Sir John Astley): | ||
"1622 May 10 – A new Play, called, ''The Blacke Ladye'', was allowed to be acted by the Lady Elizabeth's Servants." | :"1622 May 10 – A new Play, called, ''The Blacke Ladye'', was allowed to be acted by the Lady Elizabeth's Servants." | ||
:([https://archive.org/details/bib_fict_1737867/page/212/mode/2up Chalmers 213]; see also [http://archive.org/stream/dramaticrecordso00greaiala#page/22/mode/1up Herbert 23]) | |||
([https://archive.org/details/bib_fict_1737867/page/212/mode/2up Chalmers 213]; see also [http://archive.org/stream/dramaticrecordso00greaiala#page/22/mode/1up Herbert 23]) | |||
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Revision as of 21:19, 19 February 2025
Historical Records
The Office-Book of Sir Henry Herbert
The records of the play's licensing on 10 May 1622 were first printed in 1799 by George Chalmers, who reproduced extracts from "Sir Henry Herbert's Official Register" (although the Master of the Revels at the time was Sir John Astley):
- "1622 May 10 – A new Play, called, The Blacke Ladye, was allowed to be acted by the Lady Elizabeth's Servants."
- (Chalmers 213; see also Herbert 23)
In 1996, N. W. Bawcutt published new records deriving from hitherto overlooked transcriptions and cuttings from the Ord manuscript, made by its previous owner (i.e. previous to Halliwell-Phillipps) the nineteenth-century scholar Jacob Henry Burn (Beinecke Library, Osborn d1):
A New Play called the Black Lady, alld 10 May 1622, by the Lady Elizabeth's Servants 1li
- (Jacob Henry Burn, "Collection towards forming a history of the now obsolete office of the Master of the Revells", [1874], fol. 194r. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Reproduced with permission).
Theatrical Provenance
Licensed for the Lady Elizabeth's Men, presumably at the Cockpit.
Probable Genre(s)
Comedy (?) (Harbage)
Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues
Unknown. Information welcome. EEBO-TCP does not currently shed any light on the phrase "black lady" any earlier than Aphra Behn's work.
References to the Play
None known; information welcome.
Critical Commentary
For What It's Worth
Information welcome.
Works Cited
Site created and maintained by David McInnis, University of Melbourne; updated 28 March 2016.