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==Theatrical Provenance==
==Theatrical Provenance==



Revision as of 04:32, 29 January 2016

Anon. (c.1565)


Historical Records

Stationers' Register

22 July 1565--22 July 1566 (S.R. I, 1.295)

colwell Recevyd of Thomas Colwell for his lycence for prynting of a
play intituled a merye playe bothe pytthy and pleasaunt of
ALBYON knyghte . . . . . . . . Iiijd



Print fragment

A 6-leaf fragment comprising leaves B1, B4, C1-4 survives at the Huntington Library:

Anon., [A mery playe bothe pytthy and pleasaunt of albyon knyghte], [London: Printed by Thomas Colwell, 1566], RB 60584.

(Reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.)

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sig. B1r
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sig. B1v


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sig. B4r sig. B4v


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sig. C1r sig. C1v


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sig. C3r sig. C3v


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sig. C4r sig. C4v




Theatrical Provenance

Unknown.


Probable Genre(s)

Moral Interlude (Harbage).


Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

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References to the Play

(Information welcome)


Critical Commentary

Wiggins (408) dates the play to 1565, the year he suggests it was printed (given the SR entry), but provides limits of 1537-8, 1559-65.

Harbage dates the play much earlier, to 1537, though provides generous limits of c.1537-1566.


For What It's Worth

(Information welcome)


Works Cited

Anon., [A mery playe bothe pytthy and pleasaunt of albyon knyghte], [London: Printed by Thomas Colwell, 1566], RB 60584.




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