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== Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues == | == Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues == |
Revision as of 12:53, 11 October 2024
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