Telomo
Historical Records
Court Records
Accounts of the Office of the Revels
Christmas Twelftide & Shrouetide and makeing choise of plaies. Anno Regni Regine Elizabethe: xxvo 1582
- A historie of Telomo shewed before her maiestie at Richmond on Shrovesondaie at night Enacted by the Earle of Leicesters servauntes, for which was prepared and Imployed, one Citty, one Battlement of canvas iij. Ells of sarcenet and viij. paire of gloves. And furnished with sondrey other garmentes of the store of the office &c.
Theatrical Provenance
Performed for the court by Leicester's Men at Richmond on Shrove Sunday (10 February) 1583.
Probable Genre(s)
(Under construction.)
Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues
(Under construction.)
References to the Play
None known.
Critical Commentary
Probably following Collier (22), Harbage suggests this play might the same as "Ptolemy", performed at the Bull Inn in the late 1570s.
Wiggins points out that Harbage's identification is quite problematic, especially because by 1583 the play would have been too old to be staged before the Queen (serial number 736).
MacLean remarks that for the members of Leicester's Men who had obtained the royal patent in 1574 the performance of "Telomo" must have been one of the last before joining the newly-formed Queen's Men in March 1583 (261-262).
For What It's Worth
(Under construction.)
Works Cited
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