Chinon of England

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Anon. (1596)


Historical Records

Rogers and Ley's List (1656)

In Rogers and Ley's list, "An exact and perfect Catologue of all Playes that are Printed", appended to Thomas Goffe's The Careless Shepherd is:

Committy man, Currie.
Cunning Lovers.
Chinon of England.


Theatrical Provenance

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Probable Genre(s)

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Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

References to the Play

In his Pleasant notes upon Don Quixot (1654), Edmund Gayton commented on the shortcomings of the English stage, noting: "nor are the incongruities and absurdities of our owne stage any lesse or more excusable, it being a long time us'd to historicall arguments, which could not be dispatched but by Chorus, or the descending of some god, or a Magitian: As in the playes of Bungy, Bacon, and Vandarmast, the three great Negromancers, Dr Faustus, Chinon of England, and the like" (272).




Critical Commentary

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For What It's Worth

Gayton also tells us of Chinon's common alternative title, "Chinon of England, or the Foole transform'd" (3), noting that "by both those names that Knight was ever remembred" (87).


Works Cited

Gayton, Edmund. Pleasant notes upon Don Quixot by Edmund Gayton, Esq. 1654.


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