=== Performance Records (Henslowe’s Diary)

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F.14 (Greg I.27)

16 of Jenewary 1595 ne––Rd at pethageros . . . iij li j s

F.14v

23 of Jenewary 1595 Rd at pethagorus . . . xxxvj s

28 of Jenewary 1595` Rd at pethagoros . . . xxx s

9 of Febreary 1595 Rd at pethagores . . . xx s

15 of Febreary 1595 Rd at pethagores . . . xxxv s

23 of Febreary 1595 shroft tewsday Rd at pethagores xxxiiij s

F.15v

21 of aprell 1596 Rd at pethagorus . . . xviij s

4 of maye 1596 Rd at pethagorus . . . xx s

22 of maye 1596 mr pd Rd at pethagoros . . . xxvij s

F.21v

31 of maye whittsenmvnday Rd at pethagores . . . iij li

15 of June 1596 Rd at pethagores . . . xxiij s

On July 1st, 1596 Henslowe entered the takings from a new play. It appears that he began to write pethagores, but crossed it out and wrote "paradox" instead.

1 of Ju[ne]ly 1596 ne––Rd at [peth] paradox ... xxxxv s

1[3]4 of July 1596 Rd at pethagores . . . xxij s

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Henslowe Papers ===

45v

Lente vnto the company the 16 of maye 1598 to bye v boockes of martine slather called ij ptes of hercolus & focas & pethagores & elyxander & lodicke wch laste boocke he hath not yet delyuerd the some of . . . . . vij li

Another reference to this lost play occurs in a company inventory, transcribed and published by Malone in his Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare and reprinted by Greg (121)

“A Note of all bookes as belong to the Stocke, and such as I have bought since the 3d of March 1598.” Pethagores

Pythagoras

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