Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins, The

Anon. (Richard Tarlton?) (<1591, 1597?)

Historical Records

Plot

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.

Gurr, Andrew. "The Work of Elizabethan Plotters and 2 The Seven Deadly Sins." Early Theatre 10.1 (2007): 67-87.

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.

— — —. "The Seven Deadly Sins and Theatrical Apprenticeship." Early Theatre, 14.1 (2011): 129-39.

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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