Category:B samme

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"b samme" is the inscription given to a player named Sam by whoever annotated the plot of "Dead Man's Fortune" ("b" for "boy"). W. W. Greg provides authority for this guess in Henslowe Papers by expanding the passage in the plot as follows: "B[oy] Sam [Gilburne?]" (p. 133). Twenty years later he is not so sure. He sees a conflict between interpreting the "b" as "boy" given that the actor (Sam) appears to have been assigned to the part of Euphrodore. He considers that "Euphrodore" might be a female character, though he finds "no reason to suppose" so (p. 101, n. 6). He then considers whether the "b" might stand for "black" as in the character of Black Dick in "Frederick and Basilea". Nungezer (influenced by the early Greg) drops the "b" in alphabetizing the player, listing him as "Sam" among the "S's." McMillin appears inclined to consider "'samme'" as one of the "regular supernumeraries" ([. 239). Bradley groups "b samme" with the adult players and does not specify him as one of the eight boys (95-7).


Roles
Attendant, Validore's man, and possibly Euphrodore in "The Dead Man's Fortune"


Works Cited

Bradley, David. From Text to Performance in the Elizabethan Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Greg, W. W. Dramatic Documents from the Elizabethan Playhouses. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931, rpt. 1969.
———, ed. Henslowe Papers: Being Documents Supplementary to Henslowe's Diary. A. H. Bullen: London, 1907.
Nungezer, Edwin. A Dictionary of Actors. New York: Greenwood Press, 1968 (orig. Yale University Press, 1929).
McMillin, Scott. "The Plots of The Dead Man's Fortune and 2 Seven Deadly Sins: Inferences for Theatre Historians," Studies in Bibliography 26 (1973): 235-43.

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