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|year=1597
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|venue=Rose
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|company=Category:Admiral's
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|probableGenres=Comedy
|documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary)
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== Historical Records ==
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=== Performance Records (''Henslowe's Diary'')  ===
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[http://www.archive.org/stream/henslowesdiary00unkngoog#page/n111/mode/1up '''F. 26<sup>v</sup> / Greg 1.52''']
Fol. 26<sup>v</sup> / [http://www.archive.org/stream/henslowesdiary00unkngoog#page/n111/mode/1up (Greg 1.52)]


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[http://www.archive.org/stream/henslowesdiary00unkngoog#page/n113/mode/1up '''F. 27 / Greg 1.53''']
Fol. 27  [http://www.archive.org/stream/henslowesdiary00unkngoog#page/n113/mode/1up (Greg 1.53)]


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[http://www.archive.org/stream/henslowesdiary00unkngoog#page/n114/mode/1up '''F. 27<sup>v</sup> /Greg 1.54''']
Fol. 27<sup>v</sup> [http://www.archive.org/stream/henslowesdiary00unkngoog#page/n114/mode/1up (Greg 1.54)]


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== Theatrical Provenance ==
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The Admiral's men offered "A French Comedy" in late spring 1597 at the Rose; Henslowe marked it with "ne," seemingly therefore indicating that it was a new acquisition.
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== Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues ==
== Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues ==
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None known.
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== References to the Play ==
== References to the Play ==
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None known.
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== Critical Commentary ==
== Critical Commentary ==
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[[WorksCited|Collier]] accepted "A French Comedy" as a new play but does observe that "we have had the title before" (p. 87, n1).[[category:John Payne Collier]]
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[[WorksCited|Fleay, ''BCED'']] ignored the 1597 play and itemizes only "The French Comedy" in Henslowe's lists for the Admiral's men in 1595 (II.303; "Anonymous Plays," #162).
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[[WorksCited|Greg II]] lumped the two "French Comedy" plays @ #67, but he observed that there was no way to tell whether there were two plays or one, with the 1597 run given to the original "revived with alterations" (p. 174, #67).
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'''Gurr''' lumped the two French comedies into a single play, adding the performances of the 1597 play to those of the 1595 play as a revival run (#28 [p. 213-4, n.35).
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[[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'']] differentiates the two French comedies by giving the 1595 play the article "The" in the title and the 1597 play the article "A".
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== For What It's Worth ==
== For What It's Worth ==
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Information welcome.
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== Works Cited ==
== Works Cited ==
<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. 26v / (Greg 1.52)

Aprell 1597
|18| ne.. tt at a frenche comodey. . . . . . . . . . 02|00|01 — 01 — 03
|22| tt at frenche comodey. . . . . . . . . . . 01|02|00 — 17 — 01
|26| tt at frenche comodey. . . . . . . . . . . 01|02|00 — 11 — 00
Maye 1597
|2| tt at frenshe comodey. . . . . . . . . . . 01|00|00 — 09 — 03
|5| tt at frenshe comodey. . . . . . . . . . . 01|07|01 — 00 — 00
|21| tt at frenshe comodey. . . . . . . . . . . 00|14|00 — 13 — 06


Fol. 27 (Greg 1.53)

June 1597
|1| . . . . . . tt at a frenshe comodey. . . . . . . . . . 00|13|00 — 04 — 06
|16| tt at frenshe comodey. . . . . . . . . . . 00|07|00 — 13 — 06
|23| tt at frenshe comodey. . . . . . . . . . . 00|08|00 — 00 — 00
July 1597
|2| tt at frenshe comodey. . . . . . . . . . . 00|04|02 — 00 — 13


Fol. 27v (Greg 1.54)

July 1597
|16| . . . . . . . . tt at frenshe comodey. . . . . . . . . . 00|09|00 — 14 — 00



Theatrical Provenance


The Admiral's men offered "A French Comedy" in late spring 1597 at the Rose; Henslowe marked it with "ne," seemingly therefore indicating that it was a new acquisition.


Probable Genre(s)

Comedy

Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues


None known.

References to the Play


None known.

Critical Commentary


Collier accepted "A French Comedy" as a new play but does observe that "we have had the title before" (p. 87, n1).

Fleay, BCED ignored the 1597 play and itemizes only "The French Comedy" in Henslowe's lists for the Admiral's men in 1595 (II.303; "Anonymous Plays," #162).

Greg II lumped the two "French Comedy" plays @ #67, but he observed that there was no way to tell whether there were two plays or one, with the 1597 run given to the original "revived with alterations" (p. 174, #67).

Gurr lumped the two French comedies into a single play, adding the performances of the 1597 play to those of the 1595 play as a revival run (#28 [p. 213-4, n.35).

Wiggins, Catalogue differentiates the two French comedies by giving the 1595 play the article "The" in the title and the 1597 play the article "A".

For What It's Worth


Information welcome.

Works Cited

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




Site created and maintained by Roslyn L. Knutson, Professor Emerita, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; updated 19 November 2019.