Albion Knight

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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Theatrical Provenance

Unknown.


Probable Genre(s)

Moral Interlude (Harbage).


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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.


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