Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins, The
Anon. (Richard Tarlton?) (<1591, 1597?)
Historical Records
Plot
Theatrical Provenance
Strange's Players
Chamberlain's Players
Probable Genre(s)
Moral playlets
Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues
Tarlton's play, The Seven Deadly Sins
References to the Play
None known; Harvey and Nashe?
Critical Commentary
Greg
McMillin
Bradley
McMillin and MacLean
Kathman
Tribble
Stern
For What It's Worth
For the fullest picture of the argumentative network concerning The Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins, consult also the entries for The Seven Deadly Sins, Three Plays in One, Four Plays in One, Five Plays in One (Queen's, 1585), and Five Plays in One (Admiral's, 1597).
Keep an eye out for the history of Lord Strange's players, forthcoming by Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth MacLean
Works Cited
Greg, W. W. Dramatic Documents from the Elizabethan Playhouses. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.
McMillin, Scott. "Building Stories: Greg, Fleay and the plot of 2 Seven Deadly Sins." Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 4 (1989): 53-62.
Bradley, David. From Text to Performance in the Elizabethan Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
McMillin, Scott and Sally-Beth MacLean. The Queen's Men and their Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Kathman, David. "Reconsidering The Seven Deadly Sins." Early Theatre, 7/1 (2004): 13-44.
Tribble, Evelyn B. Cognition in the Globe: Attention and Memory in Shakespeare's Theatre. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Stern, Tiffany. Documents of Performance in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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