Set at Maw, The: Difference between revisions

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== Theatrical Provenance ==
== Theatrical Provenance ==


"The Set at Maw" belonged to the Admiral's men in the winter of 1594-5, when the company was playing at the Rose. It appears nowhere else in extant theater records.
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== Probable Genre(s) ==
== Probable Genre(s) ==

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Historical Records

Performance Records

Playlists in Philip Henslowe's diary


Fol. 10v (Greg, I.20)

ye 14 of decembʒ 1594
. . . ne . . .
Res at the maw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
xxxxiiijs


Fol. 11 (Greg, I.21)

ye 2 of Jenewary 1594
. . . . . . . . .
Res at the seat at mawe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
xxiiijs
ye 17 of Jenewary 1594

Res at the mawe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
xxvs
ye 28 of Jenewary 1594

Res at the mawe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
xxvijs



Theatrical Provenance

"The Set at Maw" belonged to the Admiral's men in the winter of 1594-5, when the company was playing at the Rose. It appears nowhere else in extant theater records.



Probable Genre(s)

Harbage suggested that the play was a comedy.

Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

Information welcome.

References to the Play

None known.

Critical Commentary

Malone commented that "maw" was a game of cards, and he read the second entry of the play title as "seut, i.e., "suit" (p. 296, n.4). He also identified "The Mack" as a play entitled for a "game at cards" (p. 296, n.5).

Collier agreed about the title of "Set at Maw" as indicating a card game but rejected Malone's reading of the second entry in the manuscript as "seut" (p. 47, n.1). He agreed also that "The Mack" referred to a card game, and he conjectured that it "was perhaps written in consequence of the success of the Maw, already many times represented" (p. 49, n. 3).

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Works Cited




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