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


Performance Records (''Henslowe's Diary)
===Performance Records (''Henslowe's Diary)===
 
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Res at poope Jone the 1 of marche 1591 . . . . . . .xv<sup>s</sup>
A single record of performance survives in Henslowe’s accounts for early 1592 (new style):
 
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No reference to the play appears in the Stationers' Register; presumably, then, it was not published.
Fol. 7/  [http://archive.org/stream/henslowesdiary01hensuoft#page/12/mode/2up Greg I, 13]
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==Theatrical Provenance==
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Revision as of 11:10, 2 November 2018

Anon. (1592)


Historical Records

Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary)


A single record of performance survives in Henslowe’s accounts for early 1592 (new style):

Fol. 7/ Greg I, 13

.9.………. Res at clorys & orgasto the 28 of febreary 1591 ………. ………. xviijs




Theatrical Provenance

Henslowe's Diary reports that Lord Strange's Men performed this play at the Rose Theatre on March 1, 1591/92. Since Henslowe does not mark it as a new play, Pope Joan was evidently performed earlier, but no record of earlier performances has survived. Manley and Maclean speculate that, given the play's anti-Catholic subject matter, it might have belonged to the "more staunchly Protestant repertory of Leicester's Men," a company that shared several members (George Bryan, Will Kempe, and Thomas Pope) with Lord Strange's Men (31, 146).


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