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Henry Chettle and/or Thomas Dekker, Michael Drayton, Anthony Munday and Robert Wilson (1598)


Historical Records

Payments to Playwrights (Henslowe's Diary)

F. 49 (Greg I.93)

Lent vnto the company the 19 of aguste 1598 to }
paye vnto mr willson monday & deckers in pte }
of payment of a boocke called chance medley the } iiijll vs
some of iiijll vs in this maner willson xxxs cheattell }
xxxs mondy xxvs J say . . . . . . . . . . . . }


F. 49v (Greg I.94)

pd vnto mr. drayton the 24 of aguste 1598 }
in fulle payment of a Boocke called chance } xxxvs
medley [or worse a feared then [hurte] the] some of . . }

File:HADP f49v snippet.jpg
(Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project, MSS 7, fol.49v)


Theatrical Provenance

The Admiral's were at the Rose when Henslowe paid Chettle, Dekker, Drayton, Munday and Wilson for "Chance Medley".


Probable Genre(s)

Comedy (Harbage)


Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

Wiggins notes that " 'chance medley' could refer to a narrative which proceeds by a chaotic agglomeration of accidents, or more specifically to the legal term for culpable but clergyable homocide" (1142).


References to the Play

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