Tomerania, The Tragedy of
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Historical Records
Hill's list
Hill's list is reproduced and discussed here. The forty-seventh item on it is:
- The Tragedy of Tomerania
Theatrical Provenance
Unknown
Probable Genre(s)
Tragedy
Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues
None known
References to the Play
None known
Critical Commentary
"Tomerania" is not a word that seems to make any sense. J. Q. Adams, discussing Hill's list, suggests textual corruption, and that the word should be read either as "Pomerania", or as "Tamercam", a form of Tamburlaine (Adams, 97-8). Bentley (5.1421) reports Adams's two suggestions without enthusiasm for either.
For What It's Worth
EEBO-TCP can offer no obvious help at the time of writing. Google finds many occurrences of the string "Tomerania", but they all appear to result from OCR errors for the word "Pomerania".
Works Cited
- Shaw, Catherine M. Richard Brome. Boston: Twayne, 1980.
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