John of Gaunt

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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

References to the Play

Critical Commentary

For What It's Worth

Works Cited

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