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...ck at this play when he gave Benedick a jest in ''Much Ado About Nothing'' about fetching a hair from the Great Cham's beard. ...adding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Knutson, Roslyn L. "What's So Special About 1594." ''Shakespeare Quarterly'' 61.4 (2010): 449-467.</div>

live like a Prince here; and that the very contrivances about your House, tell who's the Master of it.<br>

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...led dean thereof an. 1635. The said ''Pastoral'' is not printed, but goes about in MS. from hand to hand. ...obvious similarity between Wood's description of a St John's College play about Stonehenge, and the play in the British Library manuscript. W. W. Greg pro

...ve. You can replace this comment and the line below if you'd like to write about the probable genres in more detail --> '''Gurr''' has nothing to say about "The Mack" beyond its having received one performance marked "ne" in Henslo

...least four tragedies, two of them operas. In default of further evidence about the "real" Duchesses of Fernandina, there is a possibility that Glapthorne' ...s leading characters in Webster's ''The White Devil''. If this suggestion about the play's subject-matter were tenable, then ''The Duchess of Fernandina''

...ve. You can replace this comment and the line below if you'd like to write about the probable genres in more detail --> ...s entangled the play with another Admiral's product—"[[Bristow Tragedy]]"— about which very little is known except its author (John Day) and dates of purcha

[[WorksCited|Malone]] has no comment to make about this title, but he does read the spelling as "times triumph and foztus" (p. [[WorksCited|Greg II]] rejects all of Fleay's supposes about what other play "Times Triumph" might be. He reads Henslowe's "& fortus" to

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...ve. You can replace this comment and the line below if you'd like to write about the probable genres in more detail --> [[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'']] makes the only plausible observation about the Admiral's "[[Burbon (i.e. Bourbon?)|Burbon]]," which is that it belonge

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...the Robin Hood play in Dec-Jan 1600-1. However, Greg was enthusiastic only about two tracts published in 1595: "The Estate of English Fugitiues vnder the ki [[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'']], however, endorses Greg's suggestion about the Lewkenor tracts, which he labels the probable sources of the lost play.

* Since the ballad sung at the Curtain (see above) is about "riotous drinkers", Bentley suggests that the play was "a roistering, possi * Alternatively, Wiggins suggests, the play could have been more about the claret than the moon. He notes that calling for alcohol for the Man in

...ve. You can replace this comment and the line below if you'd like to write about the probable genres in more detail --> ...xon kings but acknowledges that "the relative dearth of specific narrative about them" is a problem: Osric of Deira, A.D. 625-35; Osric of Northumberland, A

Whilst the play was evidently about what we would now call a dentist, the fact of its being a comedy is rather ...get an Angell of you, Bee it, said Scogin. Scogin did knit a strong threed about the tooth-drawers tooth, and gaue it a great twitch. Oh, said the tooth-dra

...rical Records." However, given that these references are the only evidence about the play (unless a Plot of three-sevenths of it survives), it seems appropr ...edition of Henslowe's ''Diary'', [[WorksCited|Greg II]] agreed with Fleay about the splintering of "Seven Deadly Sins" into the Queen's two plays ([http://

No information about the theatrical provenance of this play is available. It was evidently stage ...s King Henry VI (see, for example, Loades 49). The play thus may have been about events during the Wars of the Roses. This possibility is given further cred

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...ve. You can replace this comment and the line below if you'd like to write about the probable genres in more detail --> ...ffered for the narrative matter of this play, but no one has found a story about the town of Bristol (or a man named Bristow) that seems plausible as the so

:Received of Mr. Lowens for my paines about Messinger's play called The King and the Subject, 2 June 1638, 1''l.''0.0. ...e Tyrant" and labels it scholars' favorite choice. He provides information about the registration of "The Tyrant" at Stationers' Hall to Humphrey Moseley on