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Stephen Gosson, ''The School of Abuse'' (1579), 24-25 ([http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/a01953.0001.001/44?page=root;size=125;vid=3498;view=text EEBO-TCP, open access]): | Stephen Gosson, ''The School of Abuse'' (1579), 24-25 ([http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/a01953.0001.001/44?page=root;size=125;vid=3498;view=text EEBO-TCP, open access]): | ||
<blockquote>Catilins conspiracies vsually brought in to the Theater:...bicause it is knowen too be a Pig of myne owne Sowe, I will speake the lesse of it; onely giuing you to vnderstand, that the whole marke which I shot at in that woorke, was too showe the rewarde of traytors in Catilin, and the necessary gouernment of learned men, in the person of Cicero, which forsees euery dāger that is likely to happen, and forstalles it continually ere it take effect. Therfore I giue these Playes the commendation, that Maximus Tyrius gaue too Homers works: These Playes are good playes and sweete playes, and of al playes the best playes and most to be liked, woorthy to bee soung of the Muses, or set out with the cunning of Roscius himself, yet are they not fit for euery mans dyet: neither ought they commonly to bee shewen.</blockquote | <blockquote>Catilins conspiracies vsually brought in to the Theater: ... bicause it is knowen too be a Pig of myne owne Sowe, I will speake the lesse of it; onely giuing you to vnderstand, that the whole marke which I shot at in that woorke, was too showe the rewarde of traytors in Catilin, and the necessary gouernment of learned men, in the person of Cicero, which forsees euery dāger that is likely to happen, and forstalles it continually ere it take effect. Therfore I giue these Playes the commendation, that Maximus Tyrius gaue too Homers works: These Playes are good playes and sweete playes, and of al playes the best playes and most to be liked, woorthy to bee soung of the Muses, or set out with the cunning of Roscius himself, yet are they not fit for euery mans dyet: neither ought they commonly to bee shewen.</blockquote> | ||
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Revision as of 00:48, 6 March 2015
Historical Records
Stephen Gosson, The School of Abuse (1579), 24-25 (EEBO-TCP, open access):
Catilins conspiracies vsually brought in to the Theater: ... bicause it is knowen too be a Pig of myne owne Sowe, I will speake the lesse of it; onely giuing you to vnderstand, that the whole marke which I shot at in that woorke, was too showe the rewarde of traytors in Catilin, and the necessary gouernment of learned men, in the person of Cicero, which forsees euery dāger that is likely to happen, and forstalles it continually ere it take effect. Therfore I giue these Playes the commendation, that Maximus Tyrius gaue too Homers works: These Playes are good playes and sweete playes, and of al playes the best playes and most to be liked, woorthy to bee soung of the Muses, or set out with the cunning of Roscius himself, yet are they not fit for euery mans dyet: neither ought they commonly to bee shewen.
Theatrical Provenance
It was "usually" performed at the Theatre by 1579, possibly by Leicester's Men.
Probable Genre(s)
(Under construction.)
Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues
Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae or Cicero, In Catilinam; on the availability of these texts to a dramatist see the discussion under the 1598 play, "Catiline's Conspiracy".
References to the Play
(Under construction.)
Critical Commentary
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For What It's Worth
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Works Cited
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