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== Probable Genre(s) ==
== Probable Genre(s) ==
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{{Play/Probable Genres}}
Harbage: Biblical History
Wiggins: Biblical Tragedy
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== Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues ==
== Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues ==

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Historical Records

Payments


F. 116v (Greg, I.182)

For properties in Philip Henslowe's diary

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Theatrical Provenance

The likeliest venue for performances of "Absalom" is the Rose playhouse, where Worcester's company played after the Admiral's men moved into Edward Alleyn's new Fortune playhouse.

Probable Genre(s)

Harbage: Biblical History Wiggins: Biblical Tragedy

Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

The obvious source for a play is 2 Samuel 13-19:

References to the Play

None known.


Critical Commentary

Fleay, succumbing to the temptation of folding a lost play into an extant one, subsumes "Absalom" into The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe by George Peele (BCED, II.#6, 153-4).

Greg

Wiggins

For What It's Worth

Works Cited