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==Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues== | ==Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues== | ||
Judges 11-12; | Judges 11-12. | ||
The biblical story seems to have been told in ballad form in the sixteenth century. An allusion to one such ballad appears in ''Hamlet'': after taunting Polonius as "Jephthah, judge of Israel," Hamlet recites the tetrameter lines, "One fair daughter and no more, / The which he loved passing well" (Jenkins, ed., 2.2.399, 403-4). These lines are found in the ballad "Jepha Judge of Israel," which is preserved in the Shirburn manuscript, c. 1585-1616 (f. 183v; qtd. Clark [http://archive.org/stream/shirburnballads100claruoft#page/174/mode/2up 174-76]), and in a surviving broadside printed c. 1658–64 (Roxburghe Collection [http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/31618/album 3.201]; ''Roxburghe Ballads'' [http://archive.org/stream/p3roxburgheballa06chapuoft#page/684/mode/2up 6.685-66]; Jenkins, ed., 475-77). | |||
George Buchanan dramatized the story in his Latin ''Iephthes sive votum'' (Paris, 1554). | |||
Munday himself had treated the subject in his ''The Mirror of Mutabilitie'' (London, 1579), where Jephthah's story is told to exemplify Rashness. | |||
Revision as of 22:16, 8 June 2016
Anthony Munday, Thomas Dekker (1602)
Historical Records
Payments to Playwrights (Henslowe's Diary)
Fol. 105v (Greg I.168)
- Lent vnto the companye the 5 of maye 1602
- to geue vnto antoney monday & thomas deckers
- J earnest of a Bocke called Jeffae
- as may apeare the some of . . . . vll
Payments, Miscellaneous (Henslowe's Diary)
Fol. 105v (Greg I.168)
- Layd owt for the companye when they
- Read the playe of Jeffa for wine at
- the tavern dd vnto thomas downton . . . . .ijs
Payments for Properties and Apparel (Henslowe's Diary)
Fol. 106v (Greg I.170)
- Lent vnto Thomas downton the 8 of
- maye 1602 to bye cottes for the
- playe of Jeffa the some of . . . . vjll
- Lent vnto thomas downton the 12
- of June 1602 to by Rebatous & other
- thinges for the playe of Jeffa the some
- of . . . . iiijll
- pd at the apoynt of thomas downton
- vnto the tayller for mackynge of sewtes
- for Jeffa the 25 of June 1602 some of . . . . xxxs
- Lent vnto the company 1602 the 27 of
- June to paye vnto hime wch made ther
- propertyes for Jeffa the some of . . . . xxvs
- Lent vnto thomas downton the
- 5 of July 1602 to paye the cvter
- for the play of Jeffa the some of . . . . xxijs
Acquittance from William Playstowe (Henslowe Papers)
- Receved of mr Henslowe the iiijth of Agust 1602
- for one monthes pay due vnto my mr mr Edmund
- Tylney vppon the xxxjth day of July last past
- the som of iijll J say R[eceived] . . . . iijll
- per mei Will Playstowe
- bookes owinge for /5/
- baxsters tragedy
- Tobias Comedy
- Jepha Judg of Jsrael & the Cardinall
- loue parts frendshipp
- (Dulwich College, MSS I, article 37; qtd. Greg, Henslowe Papers, 58-59)
Theatrical Provenance
Performed by the Admiral's Men at the Fortune, perhaps in July.
Probable Genre(s)
Biblical History (Harbage).
Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues
Judges 11-12.
The biblical story seems to have been told in ballad form in the sixteenth century. An allusion to one such ballad appears in Hamlet: after taunting Polonius as "Jephthah, judge of Israel," Hamlet recites the tetrameter lines, "One fair daughter and no more, / The which he loved passing well" (Jenkins, ed., 2.2.399, 403-4). These lines are found in the ballad "Jepha Judge of Israel," which is preserved in the Shirburn manuscript, c. 1585-1616 (f. 183v; qtd. Clark 174-76), and in a surviving broadside printed c. 1658–64 (Roxburghe Collection 3.201; Roxburghe Ballads 6.685-66; Jenkins, ed., 475-77).
George Buchanan dramatized the story in his Latin Iephthes sive votum (Paris, 1554). Munday himself had treated the subject in his The Mirror of Mutabilitie (London, 1579), where Jephthah's story is told to exemplify Rashness.
References to the Play
None known.
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