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


: None known.
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== Critical Commentary ==
== Critical Commentary ==

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Historical Records

Book Trade Records =

Stationers' Register


Adam Islip./.     Entred likewise for his Copie vnder the handes of bothe the wardens
Edward White./.     a booke entituled / the famous historye of JOHN OF GAUNTE sonne to
    Kinge EDWARD the THIRD with his Conquest of Spaine and marriage of
    his Twoo daughters to the Kinges of Castile and Portugal &c     vjd C./
(Stationers' Register, Vol. 2, p. 307)



Theatrical Provenance

Unknown. However, reading White's entries as a batch acquisition from a single playing company, Wiggins, Catalogue assigns the play "tentatively" to the Queen's men (#823).



Probable Genre(s)

Wiggins, Catalogue, "romance (or history?)"



Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

Any one of the chronicles of England in the fourteenth century could have provided the narrative of this play.
Greg, BEPD (2.965, θ12) offered two likely story lines: "the successful expedition of John of Gaunt and the Black Prince in 1367, which restored Pedro the Cruel to the throne of Castile, and which was followed in 1372 by John of Gaunt's marriage to Constance, and that of his brother Edmund to Isabella, Pedro's daughters; or ... his rather inglorious invastion of 1386-7, undertaken in pursuit of his own claim to the throne in right of his wife, which in fact led to the marriage of his daughters philippa dn Catharine to John of Portugal and Henry, afterwards King of Castile." Greg thought it [v]ery likely" that the play addressed both "historical occasions."



References to the Play

None known.



Critical Commentary

For What It's Worth

Works Cited

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