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==Historical Records==
==Historical Records==


<Reproduce relevant documentary evidence from historical records here. (For example, entries from Henslowe's Diary).>
===Payments===


====To playwrights in Philip Henslowe's diary====
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Fol. 68<sup>v</sup> [http://www.archive.org/stream/henslowesdiary00unkngoog#page/n180/mode/2up (Greg, I. 120)]
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| Lent vnto w<sup>m</sup> harton the 16 of ap<sup>r</sup>ell 1600 in ||}
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| earneste of a Boocke called the Ingleshe ||} x<sup>s</sup>
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| fegetives the some of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ||}
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|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;W Haughton [[category:autograph signature]]
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:::{|
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| Item receiued more of m<sup>r</sup> Henchelowe in ||}
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| earnest of y<sup>e</sup> englishe fugitiues on the 24<sup>th</sup> ||} 20<sup>s</sup>
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| of Aprill.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;by me receiued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ||}
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|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; W Haughton
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==Theatrical Provenance==
==Theatrical Provenance==
 
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<Enter information about which company performed the play, and where/when it was performed, etc.>
The Admiral's men, for whom Henslowe purchased "The English Fugitives" from William Haughton, were anticipating a move to the Fortune playhouse in April 1600, when this sale took place. The company were performing at their new playhouse by the fall of the year.
 
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==Probable Genre(s)==
==Probable Genre(s)==
 
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<List possible genres of the play: if noted by a critic, cite them, e.g. "Comedy (Harbage)". If an original speculation, simply list the genre.>
Topical Play? ([[WorksCited|Harbage]])
 
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==Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues==
==Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues==
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<Enter any information about possible or known sources. Summarise these sources where practical/possible, or provide an excerpt from another scholar's discussion of the subject if available.>
See [[#Critical Commentary|Critical Commentary]], below.
 


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==References to the Play==
==References to the Play==


<List any known or conjectured references to the lost play here.>
None known.
 
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==Critical Commentary==
==Critical Commentary==
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<Summarise any critical commentary that may have been published by scholars. Please maintain an objective tone!>
[[WorksCited|Collier]], having noted Haughton's autograph signature, guessed "that the play was on the story of the Duchess of Suffolk, afterwards dramatised by Drue, and printed in 1631." He added, without providing further identification, that "it was the subject of a well-known ballad" (p. 168, n.2).
 
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[[WorksCited|Fleay, ''BCED'']], uncharacteristically, did not repeat Collier's suggestion or add one of his own (1.#9*, p. 273).
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==For What It's Worth==
[[WorksCited|Greg II]] had several ideas on the subject of "The English Fugitives" (II. 212, Item # 201). Adding to Collier's guess that the subject was Duchess of Suffolk, he provided Thomas Drue's affiliation with Palsgraves men and assigned that play to 1624 and observed that "The English Fugitives" might have been "an old stock piece." Greg also considered a link with "[[Robin Hood's Pennyworths]]," also a lost play by Haughton (Greg was perhaps thinking \of Robin Hood's band as the fugitives). In this context, he tallied other partial payments to Haughton that might add up to the purchase of an entire play, finding payments totalling £4 for the Robin Hood play in Dec-Jan 1600-1. However, Greg was enthusiastic only about two tracts published in 1595: "The Estate of English Fugitiues vnder the king of Spaine and his ministers," and "A Discourse of the Vsage of the English Fugitiues by the Spaniard." He suggested that these two texts, one of which is connected to Sir. L. Lewkenor, "might repay investigation" [http://www.archive.org/stream/henslowesdiary02hensuoft#page/212/mode/2up (# 201, p. 212)].
<br><br>[[category:John Payne Collier]]


<Enter any miscellaneous points that may be relevant, but don't fit into the above categories. This is the best place for highly conjectural thoughts.>
'''Knutson''' groups "The English Fugatives" with those projects in Henslowe's accounts for which the partial payments cannot be reasonably explained (p. 163).  
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'''Gurr''' does not pursue any of these suggestions for the narrative materials behind Haughton's project, "The English Fugitives" (#150, p. 251).
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[[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'']], however, endorses Greg's suggestion about the Lewkenor tracts, which he labels the probable sources of the lost play. He adds that the fugitives were "Catholic Englishmen" who were "not treated as well as they expected to be" by the Spaniards to whose country they had fled (#1248).
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==Keywords==
==For What It's Worth==
 
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William Haughton [[category:William Haughton]]




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==Works Cited==
==Works Cited==
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<List all texts cited throughout the entry, except those staple texts whose full bibliographical details have been provided in the masterlist of Works Cited found on the sidebar menu.>
<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;">Knutson, Roslyn L. “The Commercial Significance of the Payments for Playtexts in Henslowe’s Diary 1597-1603.” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 6 (1991): 117-63.</div>
 
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William Haughton (1600)


Historical Records

Payments

To playwrights in Philip Henslowe's diary


Fol. 68v (Greg, I. 120)

Lent vnto wm harton the 16 of aprell 1600 in }
earneste of a Boocke called the Ingleshe } xs
fegetives the some of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . }
                        W Haughton


Item receiued more of mr Henchelowe in }
earnest of ye englishe fugitiues on the 24th } 20s
of Aprill.      by me receiued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . }
                         W Haughton



Theatrical Provenance


The Admiral's men, for whom Henslowe purchased "The English Fugitives" from William Haughton, were anticipating a move to the Fortune playhouse in April 1600, when this sale took place. The company were performing at their new playhouse by the fall of the year.

Probable Genre(s)


Topical Play? (Harbage)

Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues


See Critical Commentary, below.



References to the Play

None known.


Critical Commentary


Collier, having noted Haughton's autograph signature, guessed "that the play was on the story of the Duchess of Suffolk, afterwards dramatised by Drue, and printed in 1631." He added, without providing further identification, that "it was the subject of a well-known ballad" (p. 168, n.2).

Fleay, BCED, uncharacteristically, did not repeat Collier's suggestion or add one of his own (1.#9*, p. 273).

Greg II had several ideas on the subject of "The English Fugitives" (II. 212, Item # 201). Adding to Collier's guess that the subject was Duchess of Suffolk, he provided Thomas Drue's affiliation with Palsgraves men and assigned that play to 1624 and observed that "The English Fugitives" might have been "an old stock piece." Greg also considered a link with "Robin Hood's Pennyworths," also a lost play by Haughton (Greg was perhaps thinking \of Robin Hood's band as the fugitives). In this context, he tallied other partial payments to Haughton that might add up to the purchase of an entire play, finding payments totalling £4 for the Robin Hood play in Dec-Jan 1600-1. However, Greg was enthusiastic only about two tracts published in 1595: "The Estate of English Fugitiues vnder the king of Spaine and his ministers," and "A Discourse of the Vsage of the English Fugitiues by the Spaniard." He suggested that these two texts, one of which is connected to Sir. L. Lewkenor, "might repay investigation" (# 201, p. 212).

Knutson groups "The English Fugatives" with those projects in Henslowe's accounts for which the partial payments cannot be reasonably explained (p. 163).

Gurr does not pursue any of these suggestions for the narrative materials behind Haughton's project, "The English Fugitives" (#150, p. 251).

Wiggins, Catalogue, however, endorses Greg's suggestion about the Lewkenor tracts, which he labels the probable sources of the lost play. He adds that the fugitives were "Catholic Englishmen" who were "not treated as well as they expected to be" by the Spaniards to whose country they had fled (#1248).

For What It's Worth


Works Cited


Gurr, Andrew. ‘’Shakespeare's Opposites: The Admiral's Company 1594-1625.’’ Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Knutson, Roslyn L. “The Commercial Significance of the Payments for Playtexts in Henslowe’s Diary 1597-1603.” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 6 (1991): 117-63.



Site created and maintained by Roslyn L. Knutson, Professor Emerita, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; created 31 October 2009, updated 13 August 2012.