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====Playlists in Philip Henslowe's diary====
====Playlists in Philip Henslowe's diary====
 
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| R''d'' at antony & vallea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br>
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| R''d'' at valia & antony  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br>
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::Fol. 13 [https://archive.org/stream/henslowesdiary00unkngoog#page/n85/mode/1up (Greg I.25)]
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== Theatrical Provenance ==
== Theatrical Provenance ==


The play that theater historians collectively have called "Antony and Vallia" (based on Henslowe's variant spellings) had been acquired by the Admiral's men by January 1595, at which time it made its initial recorded performance at the Rose playhouse. Because Henslowe did not mark that showing with "ne" (the marking that most frequently distinguishes new plays in the diary playlists), theater historians have assumed a prior stage life for "Antony and Vallia," though no evidence suggests when and with which company that might have been.  <br><br><br>
The play that theater historians collectively have called "Antony and Vallia" (based on Henslowe's variant spellings) had been acquired by the Admiral's men by January 1595, at which time it made its initial recorded performance at the Rose playhouse (if indeed it is the "valy a for" recorded on the 4th). Because Henslowe did not mark that showing with "ne" (the marking that most frequently distinguishes new plays in the diary playlists), theater historians have assumed a prior stage life for "Antony and Vallia," though no evidence suggests when and with which company that might have been.  <br><br><br>


== Probable Genre(s) ==
== Probable Genre(s) ==
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[[WorksCited|Harbage]]; Comedy [[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' (#804]]
[[WorksCited|Harbage]]; Comedy [[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' (#804]])
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== Critical Commentary ==
== Critical Commentary ==


[[WorksCited|Collier]] (with no helpful commentary from [[WorksCited|Malone]]) puzzled over the garbled phrase in the diary which he read to be "velya for." Noticing the entry in June 1595 of "Antony and Vallea," he back-identified the January entry as possibly an attempt at spelling the same title. In making this connection, he was aided by [[WorksCited|Malone]], who had tagged the item on 20 June as the same as one entered in the Stationers' Register by Humphrey Moseley on 29 June 1660 and attributed to Philip Massinger. Lumping by association, Collier in the entry for the "Antony and Vallea" on 20 June, mentioned the lost play of July-September 1594, "Phillipo and Hippolito," as having a history similar to that of "Antony and Vallia" in being "revived and altered" by Massinger at a much later date (p. 54, n.2).
[[WorksCited|Malone]] does not even record the entry, "valy a for." His commentary begins with the June 20th entry of "antony & vallea," which he identifies with the item "entered in the Stationers' books, by Humphrey Moseley, June 29, 1660, as the production of Philip Massinger" (p. 297, n.9).[[category:Edmond Malone]]
 
[[WorksCited|Collier]] puzzles over the garbled phrase in the diary on 4 January, which he reads to be "velya for." When he comes to the entry in June 1595 of "Antony and Vallea," he back-identifies the January entry as possibly an attempt at spelling the same title. Reinforcing Malone's conjecture, he also associates the Admiral's play with Philip Massinger's lost "Antonio and Vallia." Further lumping by association, Collier (in the entry for the "Antony and Vallea" on 20 June) mentions "Phillipo and Hippolito" (yet another lost play in the diary, July-September 1594) as having a history similar to that of the Admiral's "Antony and Vallia" in being "revived and altered" by Massinger at a much later date (p. 54, n.2; this second lost Massinger play is "Philenzo and Hypollita").[[category:John Payne Collier]]
 
[[WorksCited|Fleay, ''BCED'']] silently absorbs the January entry into the June one in 1595, repeating the identification with the seventeenth-century "Antonio and Vallia," which he attributes to Thomas Dekker as "altered" by Massinger and subsequently destroyed by John Warburton's cook (2. #142).  


[[WorksCited|Fleay, ''BCED'']] silently absorbed the January entry into the June one in 1595, repeating the identification with the later :"Antonio and Vallia," which he attributed to Thomas Dekker as "altered" by Massinger and subsequently destroyed by John Warburton's cook (2. #142). [[WorksCited|Greg II]] noted the poor showing of "valy a for" and projected a revision into the piece posted for 20 June; he accepted the now-conventional opinion that the play in the diary was the basis through revision of Massinger's (and perhaps Dekker's) lost "Antonio and Vallia" (#66, p. 173).
[[WorksCited|Greg II]] notes the poor showing of "valy a for" and projects a revision into the piece posted for 20 June; he accepts the by-then conventional opinion that the play in the diary was the basis through revision of Massinger's (and perhaps Dekker's) lost "Antonio and Vallia" (#66, p. 173).


[[WorksCited|Bentley, ''JCS'' (4.759)]] headed the entry for Massinger's "Antonio and Vallia" with Henslowe's 4 entries for "valy a for/antony & vallea/valia & antony" but proceeded to undermine any textual links such as serial revision. Indeed, he undermined further the assumptions that Warburton had ever had some version of an "Antonio and Vallia" play and that Moseley had ever had "an old manuscript of Henslowe's play."
[[WorksCited|Bentley, ''JCS'' (4.759)]] heads the entry for Massinger's "Antonio and Vallia" with Henslowe's 4 entries for "valy a for/antony & vallea/valia & antony" but proceeds to undermine any textual links such as serial revision. Indeed, he undermines further the assumptions that Warburton had ever had some version of an "Antonio and Vallia" play and that Moseley had ever had "an old manuscript of Henslowe's play."


'''Gurr''' addresses the absence of an "ne" for the initial entry of "valy a for" and suggests that the play might be a carry-over from the Admiral's men of the 1580s (#27, p. 213 n.34; also n.33).
'''Gurr''' addresses the absence of an "ne" for the initial entry of "valy a for" and suggests that the play might be a carry-over from the Admiral's men of the 1580s (#27, p. 213 n.34; also n.33).


[[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' (#804)]] sets aside any textual link between the play in Henslowe's diary and the similarly named one entered by Humphrey Moseley and/or John Warburton but he finds it plausible that the two items :"were versions of the same story." He is skeptical that the source might have been "H. R.'s prose romance ''Honour's Conquest'' because the character named "Antony" has too minor of a part and "no dealings with Vallia."
[[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' (#804)]] sets aside any textual link between the play in Henslowe's diary and the similarly named one entered by Humphrey Moseley and/or John Warburton, but he does find it plausible that the two items "were versions of the same story." He is skeptical that the source might have been "H. R.'s prose romance ''Honour's Conquest'' …in which there is a Princess Vallia" because the character named Antony in that work has too minor of a part and "no dealings with Vallia." Considering alternatives to guesses that the narrative of "Antony and Vallia" was a romance, he notes that the name "Vallia" belonged to a "Gothic King ... who ruled in the Pyrenees in the fifth century."
 
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== For What It's Worth ==
== For What It's Worth ==


[[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' (#804)]] redirects attention away from a vexed romance as the narrative of "Antony and Vallia" by noting that the name "Vallia" belonged to a "Gothic King ... who ruled in the Pyrenees in the fifth century."<br><br><br>
[[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' (#804)]] puts some muscle behind the absence of a "ne" in Henslowe's entries for these titles by assigning the play to volume 2 of the "Catalogue" and thus to an origin before 1590. '''Gurr''' does likewise with the conjecture that the play might have belonged to a pre-1594 version of the Admiral's men, perhaps in 1593 (#27, p.213, n.34; see also n.33).  
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== Works Cited ==
== Works Cited ==
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<div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Gurr, Andrew. ''Shakespeare's Opposites: The Admiral's Company 1594-1625''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Gurr, Andrew. ''Shakespeare's Opposites: The Admiral's Company 1594-1625''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.</div>
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Historical Records

Performance Records

Playlists in Philip Henslowe's diary


Fol. 11 (Greg, I.21)
ye 4 of Jenewary 1594
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Res at valy a for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
xjs


Fol. 12v Greg I.24)
ye 20 of June
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Res at antony & vallea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
xxs
ye 6 of septmbʒ 1595
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Res at valia & antony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
xiijs


Fol. 13 (Greg I.25)
ye 26 of octobʒ 1595
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Res at valia & antony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
xxxvijs



Theatrical Provenance

The play that theater historians collectively have called "Antony and Vallia" (based on Henslowe's variant spellings) had been acquired by the Admiral's men by January 1595, at which time it made its initial recorded performance at the Rose playhouse (if indeed it is the "valy a for" recorded on the 4th). Because Henslowe did not mark that showing with "ne" (the marking that most frequently distinguishes new plays in the diary playlists), theater historians have assumed a prior stage life for "Antony and Vallia," though no evidence suggests when and with which company that might have been.


Probable Genre(s)

Romance Harbage; Comedy Wiggins, Catalogue (#804)

Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

There are no obvious candidates for the title characters, and thus no obvious source texts for their story. See Critical Commentary below for a pattern of perceiving this play as an early version of some kind with a play called "Antonio and Vallia," itself lost yet attributed to Philip Massinger in 1620 with uncertain company provenance.

References to the Play

None known.

Critical Commentary

Malone does not even record the entry, "valy a for." His commentary begins with the June 20th entry of "antony & vallea," which he identifies with the item "entered in the Stationers' books, by Humphrey Moseley, June 29, 1660, as the production of Philip Massinger" (p. 297, n.9).

Collier puzzles over the garbled phrase in the diary on 4 January, which he reads to be "velya for." When he comes to the entry in June 1595 of "Antony and Vallea," he back-identifies the January entry as possibly an attempt at spelling the same title. Reinforcing Malone's conjecture, he also associates the Admiral's play with Philip Massinger's lost "Antonio and Vallia." Further lumping by association, Collier (in the entry for the "Antony and Vallea" on 20 June) mentions "Phillipo and Hippolito" (yet another lost play in the diary, July-September 1594) as having a history similar to that of the Admiral's "Antony and Vallia" in being "revived and altered" by Massinger at a much later date (p. 54, n.2; this second lost Massinger play is "Philenzo and Hypollita").

Fleay, BCED silently absorbs the January entry into the June one in 1595, repeating the identification with the seventeenth-century "Antonio and Vallia," which he attributes to Thomas Dekker as "altered" by Massinger and subsequently destroyed by John Warburton's cook (2. #142).

Greg II notes the poor showing of "valy a for" and projects a revision into the piece posted for 20 June; he accepts the by-then conventional opinion that the play in the diary was the basis through revision of Massinger's (and perhaps Dekker's) lost "Antonio and Vallia" (#66, p. 173).

Bentley, JCS (4.759) heads the entry for Massinger's "Antonio and Vallia" with Henslowe's 4 entries for "valy a for/antony & vallea/valia & antony" but proceeds to undermine any textual links such as serial revision. Indeed, he undermines further the assumptions that Warburton had ever had some version of an "Antonio and Vallia" play and that Moseley had ever had "an old manuscript of Henslowe's play."

Gurr addresses the absence of an "ne" for the initial entry of "valy a for" and suggests that the play might be a carry-over from the Admiral's men of the 1580s (#27, p. 213 n.34; also n.33).

Wiggins, Catalogue (#804) sets aside any textual link between the play in Henslowe's diary and the similarly named one entered by Humphrey Moseley and/or John Warburton, but he does find it plausible that the two items "were versions of the same story." He is skeptical that the source might have been "H. R.'s prose romance Honour's Conquest …in which there is a Princess Vallia" because the character named Antony in that work has too minor of a part and "no dealings with Vallia." Considering alternatives to guesses that the narrative of "Antony and Vallia" was a romance, he notes that the name "Vallia" belonged to a "Gothic King ... who ruled in the Pyrenees in the fifth century."

For What It's Worth

Wiggins, Catalogue (#804) puts some muscle behind the absence of a "ne" in Henslowe's entries for these titles by assigning the play to volume 2 of the "Catalogue" and thus to an origin before 1590. Gurr does likewise with the conjecture that the play might have belonged to a pre-1594 version of the Admiral's men, perhaps in 1593 (#27, p.213, n.34; see also n.33).

Works Cited

Gurr, Andrew. Shakespeare's Opposites: The Admiral's Company 1594-1625. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.



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