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==Theatrical Provenance==
==Theatrical Provenance==


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"Agamemnon and Ulysses" is one of seven performances listed in the Revels Accounts as having been played before the Queen between 26 October 1584 and 27 February 1585. St. John's Day was on 27 December in 1584. The other performances in the winter season included '''[[Phyllida and Corin]]''', '''[[Felix and Philomena]]''', '''[[Five Plays in One (Queen's)|Five Plays in One]]''', '''[[Three Plays in One]]''', '''[[Antic Play and a Comedy]]''', as well as "Dyuers feats of Actyuytie."
 




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==For What It's Worth==
==For What It's Worth==


St. John's Day was on 27 December in 1584.
 




Revision as of 13:41, 7 January 2014

Anon. (1584)


Historical Records

Court Records

Accounts of the Office of the Revels

Chrystmas Twelftyde & Shrouetyde and making choyse of plaies Anno Regni Regine Elizabethe: xxvijo 1584

The Charges of those tymes viz. betwene the laste daie of October 1584. Anno xxvjto Regni Regine Elizabethe and the —— of ffebruary .1584. Annoque Regni Regine Elizabethe predicte xxvijo did rise aswell by meanes of attending making choyse, reforminge and altering of suche plaies Comodies maskes and inventions as were prepared sett furth and presented before her maiestie at the tymes aforesaid. ...

The history of Agamemnon & Vlisses presented and enacted before her maiestie by the Earle of Oxenford his boyes on St Iohns daie at night in Grenewich. (Feuillerat, 365)



Declared Accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber

To Henry Evans vppon the Counsell[s] warr[ant] dated at Grenewch vijmo Aprilis 1585 for one play or Interlude presensed before her matie on St Iohn the Evangeliste[s] day last past at nighte by the †Chdren of Therle of Oxforde vili xiijs iiijd (Cook and Wilson 22-23)


Theatrical Provenance

"Agamemnon and Ulysses" is one of seven performances listed in the Revels Accounts as having been played before the Queen between 26 October 1584 and 27 February 1585. St. John's Day was on 27 December in 1584. The other performances in the winter season included Phyllida and Corin, Felix and Philomena, Five Plays in One, Three Plays in One, Antic Play and a Comedy, as well as "Dyuers feats of Actyuytie."


Probable Genre(s)

Classical Legend (Harbage).


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For What It's Worth

Works Cited

Cook, David and F.P. Wilson. Dramatic Records in the Declared Accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber 1558-1642. Malone Society Collections VI. 1962. Feuillerat, Albert, ed. Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the Time of Queen Elizabeth. Louvain: A. Uystpruyst, 1908.


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