Welshman's Price, The (Welshman's Prize): Difference between revisions

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Historical Records

Henslowe's Inventory of Playbooks

A Note of all suche bookes as belong to the Stocke, and such as I have bought since the 3^d of March 1598

Welchmans price

Theatrical Provenance

The sole mention of "Welchmans price" in the Diary occurs in a list of play titles inventoried by Henslowe under the heading dated 3 March 1598; when, and whether, the play entered the repertory of the Admiral's men cannot be deduced from available evidence.

Probable Genre(s)

History (Harbage, who collapses the play with "Famous Wars of Henry I and the Prince of Wales")

Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

References to the Play

Critical Commentary

For What It's Worth

Henslowe's inventory list is in two columns. If one reads down column one rather than across at each line to column two, one could argue that "Welchmans price" does not belong to the cluster of plays that head column one and that Greg identified as having been brought into the possession of the Admiral's men by players from Pembroke's men who moved to the Rose following the business disruptions at the Swan in August 1597 (Greg, II.187, headnote to Section VIII). Following that reasoning, "Welchmans price" is listed along with plays certainly performed by the Admiral's men such as "Phaeton", the two parts of Robin Hood, and the two parts of "Hercules," which have confirming evidence of performance by being in Henslowe's playlists or his entries of payments to dramatists (the Robin Hood plays, in addition, advertised ownership by the Admiral's men, or as Nottingham's, on their title pages in 1601 [The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, the Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon).

Works Cited

Site created and maintained by Roslyn L. Knutson, Professor Emerita, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; updated 5 June 2016.

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+===''Henslowe's Inventory of Playbooks''===
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+([http://www.archive.org/stream/henslowepapersbe00hensuoft#page/120/mode/1up Greg, ''Papers'', p. 121])
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+:''A Note of all suche bookes as belong to the Stocke, and such as I have bought since the 3<sup>d</sup> of March'' 1598
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+::Welchmans price
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 ==Theatrical Provenance==
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+The sole mention of "Welchmans price" in the ''Diary'' occurs in a list of play titles inventoried by Henslowe under the heading dated 3 March 1598; when, and whether, the play entered the repertory of the Admiral's men cannot be deduced from available evidence.
+<br><br>
 ==Probable Genre(s)==
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+History (Harbage, who collapses the play with "[[Famous Wars of Henry I and the Prince of Wales|Famous Wars of Henry I and the Prince of Wales]]")
+<br><br>
 ==Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues==
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 ==References to the Play==
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 ==Critical Commentary==
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+<br><br>
 ==For What It's Worth==
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+Henslowe's inventory list is in two columns. If one reads down column one rather than across at each line to column two, one could argue that "[[Welshman's Price, The (Welshman's Prize)|Welchmans price]]" does not belong to the cluster of plays that head column one and that Greg identified as having been brought into the possession of the Admiral's men by players from Pembroke's men who moved to the Rose following the business disruptions at the Swan in August 1597 ([http://www.archive.org/stream/henslowesdiary02hensuoft#page/186/mode/1up Greg, II.187, headnote to Section VIII]). Following that reasoning, "[[Welshman's Price, The (Welshman's Prize)|Welchmans price]]" is listed along with plays certainly performed by the Admiral's men such as "[[Phaeton]]", the two parts of ''Robin Hood'', and the two parts of "[[Hercules, Parts 1 and 2|Hercules]]," which have confirming evidence of performance by being in Henslowe's playlists or his entries of payments to dramatists (the Robin Hood plays, in addition, advertised ownership by the Admiral's men, or as Nottingham's, on their title pages in 1601 [''The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon'', ''the Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon'').
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