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....125]). He then asked, "Can it be that this title was discarded for ''Look About You'' (''LAY'')," which he had already "attributed to [Anthony] Wadson." In
...ve a care"), but saw nothing that suggested the several instances of "look about you" in the text of ''LAY'' had been edited from "bear a brain." He conside
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| [[Anon.]] ([[Webster, John|Webster]]? [[Shirley, James|Shirley]]?)||[[Play about the Duke of Florence (BL Add MS 88878)]]||[[:category:Unknown|Unknown]]
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...25). See pp. 51-77 for Gurr's detailed discussion of "Disguises" as ''Look About You''.
...''Catalogue'' #1010]] rejects the identification of "Disguises" as ''Look About You,'' a play he considers "almost certainly later than the ''Robin Hood''
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:If, as several scholars propose (see below), the play was about Rhodri Mawr, King of Gwynedd, [[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' (#1077)]]
...ed|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' (#1077)]] proposes that the play could have been about Roderic, the last Visigothic king of Spain; he suggests the following sourc
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...t Plays Database'' is a wiki-style forum for scholars to share information about lost plays in England, 1570-1642. Its purpose is to add lost plays to schol
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About Ten; before the heat of the Day.
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...at the Rose in 1598, but the absence of payments in full raise a question about whether the play was completed.
[[WorksCited|Malone]] makes no comment about "'Tis No Deceit to Deceive the Deceiver" (p. 311); [[WorksCited|Collier]] m
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Chalmers's comment about the identity of "young Johnson" - almost certainly, it is now thought, a gu
Ronald Bayne, writing about ''A Fault in Friendship'', assumed that both of these identifications were
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...y spent 32s. might be for "an unnamed play from Herford's Men, or … a play about the earl, the queen's cousin" (266, n135).
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[[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' #1139]] opines that play might have been about humours; he bases this on the "hot anger" of the title that, in its turn to
...te of Jonson's payment for "Hot Anger Soon Cold" was "as nearly as may be" about a month before Jonson killed Gabriel Spenser with a rapier in a duel on 22
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...ng court performances generally, '''Astington''' points out the following: about painted cloths:
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...oes not comment on this play (p. 299); [[WorksCited|Collier]] says nothing about its possible storyline or source (p. 85). [[WorksCited|Fleay, ''BCED'']] pr
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...[[WorksCited|Greg II (#81, p. 177 )]], nor '''Gurr''' has hazarded a guess about the story line of this play. Fleay does mention a play associated with [[Sh
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...out this play. His focus is primarily Lluelyn's degree play and conjecture about a broader, informal tradition at Oxford which might form a context for it,
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If the play was about the Jack Cade rebellion (see below), its closest dramatic analogue might be
...himself 'Captaine ''Mend-all''' (138). Nicol thus argues that the play was about the conflict between Cade and King Henry VI, who had a reputation as a peac
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...rksCited|Fleay, ''BCED'' (2. #174, p. 304]] ignores Collier's false claims about "Barnardo and Fiammetta" and a companion forgery, as does [[WorksCited|Greg
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...is Atalanta, Plautus’s Menechmus about the harlot Erotes, and Oedipus even about his mother, Jocasta; and Julius Caesar so in love with power that for the s
...er the Great" in North's Plutarch relates one of the more famous anecdotes about the two men:
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...tettin-Pomerania saw on 13 September was yet another in a cluster of plays about military sieges (as Steggle suggests, pp. 113-16).
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:'''Sharpe''', in the following comment, seems to accept Fleay's claim about the absorption of the "Troy" play into the "Ages" plays of Thomas Heywood:
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...D'']] had previously done. He mused that the 5s. paid Chettle for the play about Orestes would more nearly bring payments to Dekker for "Agamemnon" up to th
...s up on an observation first made by [[WorksCited|Greg II]] (#174, p. 202) about a "striking" prevalence of Greek story materials to argue that the play/s
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...be guessed about this play's subject matter is that it was likely a comedy about love and marriage.
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...y of the Rape of the Sabine Women, but it doesn't follow that the play was about that story.
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...ck at this play when he gave Benedick a jest in ''Much Ado About Nothing'' about fetching a hair from the Great Cham's beard.
...adding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Knutson, Roslyn L. "What's So Special About 1594." ''Shakespeare Quarterly'' 61.4 (2010): 449-467.</div>
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live like a Prince here; and that the very contrivances about your House, tell who's the Master of it.<br>
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...led dean thereof an. 1635. The said ''Pastoral'' is not printed, but goes about in MS. from hand to hand.
...obvious similarity between Wood's description of a St John's College play about Stonehenge, and the play in the British Library manuscript. W. W. Greg pro
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'''Gurr''' has nothing to say about "The Mack" beyond its having received one performance marked "ne" in Henslo
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...least four tragedies, two of them operas. In default of further evidence about the "real" Duchesses of Fernandina, there is a possibility that Glapthorne'
...s leading characters in Webster's ''The White Devil''. If this suggestion about the play's subject-matter were tenable, then ''The Duchess of Fernandina''
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...s entangled the play with another Admiral's product—"[[Bristow Tragedy]]"— about which very little is known except its author (John Day) and dates of purcha
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[[WorksCited|Malone]] has no comment to make about this title, but he does read the spelling as "times triumph and foztus" (p.
[[WorksCited|Greg II]] rejects all of Fleay's supposes about what other play "Times Triumph" might be. He reads Henslowe's "& fortus" to
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[[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'']] makes the only plausible observation about the Admiral's "[[Burbon (i.e. Bourbon?)|Burbon]]," which is that it belonge
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...the Robin Hood play in Dec-Jan 1600-1. However, Greg was enthusiastic only about two tracts published in 1595: "The Estate of English Fugitiues vnder the ki
[[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'']], however, endorses Greg's suggestion about the Lewkenor tracts, which he labels the probable sources of the lost play.
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* Since the ballad sung at the Curtain (see above) is about "riotous drinkers", Bentley suggests that the play was "a roistering, possi
* Alternatively, Wiggins suggests, the play could have been more about the claret than the moon. He notes that calling for alcohol for the Man in
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...xon kings but acknowledges that "the relative dearth of specific narrative about them" is a problem: Osric of Deira, A.D. 625-35; Osric of Northumberland, A
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Whilst the play was evidently about what we would now call a dentist, the fact of its being a comedy is rather
...get an Angell of you, Bee it, said Scogin. Scogin did knit a strong threed about the tooth-drawers tooth, and gaue it a great twitch. Oh, said the tooth-dra
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...rical Records." However, given that these references are the only evidence about the play (unless a Plot of three-sevenths of it survives), it seems appropr
...edition of Henslowe's ''Diary'', [[WorksCited|Greg II]] agreed with Fleay about the splintering of "Seven Deadly Sins" into the Queen's two plays ([http://
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No information about the theatrical provenance of this play is available. It was evidently stage
...s King Henry VI (see, for example, Loades 49). The play thus may have been about events during the Wars of the Roses. This possibility is given further cred
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...ffered for the narrative matter of this play, but no one has found a story about the town of Bristol (or a man named Bristow) that seems plausible as the so
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:Received of Mr. Lowens for my paines about Messinger's play called The King and the Subject, 2 June 1638, 1''l.''0.0.
...e Tyrant" and labels it scholars' favorite choice. He provides information about the registration of "The Tyrant" at Stationers' Hall to Humphrey Moseley on
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...in his propriety: And to the end that any other Companies of Actors in or about London shall not p<sup>r</sup>sume to act any of them to y<sup>e</sup> prei
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...g another, possibly stronger, argument to the one Wiggins already advanced about ''Telomo'' and ''Ptolemy'' being not one and the same play" (12).
...; finally, "while we know little about Leicester’s Men’s repertory, a play about Ajax would not sit very comfortably among the other play titles we know, wh
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...Alleyn in 1601-2 (Greg, II.119; Chambers, 1.372). They were less specific about plays for which payments higher than £2 but lower that £5 were made. ''Kn
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...es'', which "does not relate to anything in the likely narrative of a play about Caesar", and the fact that Henslowe's payments for ''Two Shapes'' and ''Cae
...urt Tetzeli von Rosador (who follow Greg in assuming that "Two Shapes" was about Julius Caesar) argue that the word "shape" probably refers to disguises (OE
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...Admiral's Men in 1602. Basically, the Proud Woman story is a tragic one; about a beautiful woman; set in Antwerp. It thus fits with the title and known g
If the suggestion made above is tenable, then we can say a little more about the genre of ''The Fair Star of Antwerp'', which would, for instance, neces
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...f James I in the spring of 1603; the royal patent is dated 19 May 1603. At about this time, the ban on performances that had been imposed by the privy counc
The great oddity about this play is that the King's players put it on during their second year as
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...ts meaning would be straightforward. It could have been a lost Latin play about an alchemist, or indeed merely Erasmus's colloquy of that name, which could
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Currently in EEBO TCP, the only substantial narratives about a tinker (one who mends pots, kettles, etc.) are from writers associated wi
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...properties (while he is writing about costumes and properties rather than about the "Book", Henslowe inadvertently starts referring to the play as "The Thr
There is no further information extant about this play.
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...ks_Cited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'']] (#1309) assumes that an Elizabethan play about the Henrican court would not have represented Henry VIII, but may have repr
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...tigernhomepage.htm Vermaat]), provides a substantial amount of information about Vortigern and his times.
...sidered "Vortigern" to be the "henges" on 22 June 1597, but he was dubious about its having a connection to the much later play, ''Hengist King of Kent'' by
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...s from the Elizabethan Playhouse'' (109-13). He raised a valuable question about how Strange's players would have gotten Tarlton's play from the Queen's men
...-part play had an induction of some length, which joined to seven playlets about the sins would make eight units in all, divided into five and three for the
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...inctive about Richard’s funeral, though he did leave detailed instructions about what was to be done with his body, specifying distinct final resting paces
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...eadstrong by reason of his ambition; he growes iealous of his actions, and about the end of the yeare [1614] concludes his ruine and death. The commandement
...fell to worke, and casting themselues vpon him, they put a coad [sc. cord] about his necke, and sought to strangle him; but seeing that the fatnesse of his
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...s from the Elizabethan Playhouse'' (109-13). He raised a valuable question about how Strange's players would have gotten Tarlton's play from the Queen's men
...-part play had an induction of some length, which joined to seven playlets about the sins would make eight units in all, divided into five and three for the
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...bly not a play." However, upon receiving being notified by Bradley D. Cook about the information in Corser's edition, he could confirm that "it definitely '
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...nitent Sinner'', by R. Willis (London 1639). In the book Willis reminisces about "a stage play which I saw when I was a child," being taken by his father to
...nce of seeing a play, Willis "reinterpreted a play about works into a play about grace" (367). Pearlman suggests that Willis's recall of the play is "layere
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'''Knutson''' (p. 162) and '''Gurr''' (p. 105) concur that nothing about the 15s. payment to Chettle and Haughton suggests that the play was complet
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...s lost play dealing with the Antony and Cleopatra story, were written just about the turn of the century’ (Rees, 177).
...cularly Cecil (Bullough, II. 5-7). Rebholz suggests that the same concerns about the ability of Greville’s readers to interpret his works as topical alleg
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...players' visit to Oxford (366n), '''Elliott''' is the only critic to write about this play. He observes that there seems to have been "an informal tradition
...te>These poems, then, record a rite of passage enacted by an undergraduate about to receive his B.A. before two men who had been heads of is house since he
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...oduction for some time. Sussex's players gave performances at the Rose for about seven weeks, 27 Dec 1593 through 6 Feb 1594, during which time they offered
...adding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Knutson, Roslyn L. "What's So Special about 1594." ''Shakespeare Quarterly'' 61.4 (2010): 449-67.</div>
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The scholarly commentary on "Jerusalem" is a product of guesswork about its subject matter:
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<blockquote>The date assigned by the catalogue to the manuscript, 'about 1600', is also incorrect; for the author's marginal note, 'Speede in Greece
...of < 1627 in this entry is chosen on the basis of this prudent observation about Speed's publication, and is thus preferred to the Folger catalogue's arbitr
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...s 1904 it was still causing W. W. [[WorksCited|Greg I]] needless suspicion about the genuineness of the 1570 poem itself (xxxvi-xxxviii). The forgery is st
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...are duplicates), Robin Hood grew restless after a couple of weeks messing about in the forest without challenging entertainment, so he set off looking for
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...to France, in which the arrogant king specifically orders that the verses about ‘’deposuit potentes’’ be removed from his copy of the bible.
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...o a song by Robert Jones, published in 1609; the second stanza of his song about Robin Hood and his romance with Maid Marian reads:
...spent much of his youth at the family’s home in Clifton, Nottinghamshire, about twenty miles south of Robin Hood’s legendary territory of Sherwood Forest
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<br>...The same daye after supper about 9. of the Clock they began to act the
...mblematic Elizabethan one for the comedy [''Vertumnus'']. What was similar about them was the really crucial innovation, the use of perspective for both. (3
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'''Bentley''' was sceptical about the reliability of Warburton's list as evidence, but confident that Moseley
...hn and Matilda material, which, if correct, may invalidate the supposition about the Admiral's play (317).
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[[WorksCited|Greg, II]] has nothing to suggest about the content and genre of the play (#111 p. 185).
...']] mentions but puts little stock as theatrical subject matter in a story about threats to Queen Elizabeth that were prompted by the discovery of "wax effi
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...lder friend and fellow gossip, John Chamberlain, the following information about goings-on at the court of the new king, James: "On New Year's night we had
...eia'' (1598) (p. vi). It is reasonable to assume that the general folklore about Robin was much older than that. Collier describes but does not reprint two
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...berlain's/King's men in the prologue of ''The Malcontent'' as being a joke about the 1605 ''The First Part of Jeronimo''; rather, he thinks it was a referen
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...ingsgate," 1521 (Greg notes a 1535 printing but made no further conjecture about a narrative connection).
...fayre" and the groom as "London Stone/ curtes and gente." The speaker asks about impediments to the marriage, and London Stone repeats rumors ("euyll tunges
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...k," so to speak; however, there isn't an obvious rollover to the new title about fools, which implies considerable foolery given the preponderance of real f
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Thomas Gainsford appears to allude to a stage play about Perkin Warbeck that predates John Ford's treatment of the subject matter:
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...es'', which "does not relate to anything in the likely narrative of a play about Caesar", and the fact that Henslowe's payments for ''Two Shapes'' and ''Cae
...ect to the ''de casibus'' pattern, to the inevitable rise and fall brought about either by a turn of blind Fortune’s wheel or the retribution of the gods.
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...plays (''Vertumnus'' and ''The Queen's Arcadia''), and what is conjectured about ''[[Ajax Flagellifer]]'', Boas and Greg deduce that most of the property li
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...avorably to their classical counterparts. He wrote the following paragraph about Shakespeare:
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...f account of Wright's life, dated the performance of "The Reformation" to "about 1631" (603)
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...shire. While this work was not in fact a drama, there was enough confusion about its contents that Swinburne, writing around 1874, could describe it as a "n
...ly possibility again involves Swinburne, who wrote to Collins asking about about "the ''other'' comedy attributed to C.T. by Lowndes, with the charming titl
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...miles south of the border with Scotland, while Clifton is in the midlands about a hundred miles further south, making Bateman of Kendal perhaps a likelier
...licencing on 28 March (F.45, Greg I.85; see also F.44-F44v, Greg I.83-84). About three months later, ''Black Bateman of the North, Part I ''appears to have
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...f Amyntas." Some ambiguities of phrasing in the latter raise uncertainties about whether it was prepared to accompany Digby's full translation of Tasso's pl
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...rase "madman's morris" is common enough in the period, but offers "no clue about any likely narrative for the play".
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:about their neckes of black gold Tyncell having truncheons in their handes <br />
...o de Mendoza, the Spanish ambassador in London, writes to Gabriel de Zayas about a series of state issues and international intrigues. Mendoza mentions in p
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...Henslowe "would then have bought the play twice over" within the space of about a month). The "nearest long-shot" he offers is ''Philomela'', which he note
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...served as the basis for John Pickering's ''Horestes'' (1567). Information about Orestes could also have been gleaned from many other classical works, such
...ght have expected some kind of Oresteian echo or trace in his unaided play about a son avenging his father's death, ''The Tragedy of Hoffman'' (1602)" (41n)
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...d Gisippus]], whose story Elyot gives in full (ff.136<sup>v</sup>-152) and about whom a lost play of [[1577]] concerned itself.
...On the other hand, it is interesting in that very little seems to be known about any English circulation of this particular pseudo-Petrarchan text. In Folge
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...ing a very rich man, and lying upon his death-bed, called his three sonnes about him, who with teares, and on their knees craved his blessing, and to the el
...(1892). The marginalia largely consists of Hazlitt’s private speculations about certain titles, some of which were clearly intended as notes for a revised
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...94 and continued it into the autumn season of 1596-7. However, any clarity about its pre-October provenance is complicated by the fact that Henslowe did not
...-play doctors "have a medicine that will bring the dead to life; they brag about their achievements, travels, or high fees; they use an often preposterous m
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Much about this play can be learned from its possible sources. Wiggins (183) cautiousl
Also this play, if it indeed is about a queen of Ethiopia, would fall within the scope of Alden T. Vaughan and Vi
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...ful discussion of how this particular record relates to what else is known about Jacobean dramatic censorship. No record is known of action being taken aga
Is it worth pointing out the possibility that this lost play about a pair of brothers could be connected to '''''The [[Younger Brother]]''''',
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Bentley speculates further about the title as it appears in the Revels list (“the Cittye: . . .”) but do
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...br>Cross mee no Tapster durst at any rate,<br>Lest I should break his Jugs about his pate.<br>'Tis knowne the service that I did at'' Bulloigne,<br>''Beatin
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...main themes. The fact that he likens those plays to his own speaks volumes about his endorsement of them and his dramatic tastes.
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:[[WorksCited|Malone]] misdirected scholarly opinion about the collaborative team on "Richard II, King of Scots" by reading Henslowe's
...9), '''Shapiro''' offers the context of growing anxiety in England in 1599 about the succession of James to the English throne. He points to Scotland's dubi
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...ected to be - broken. Roman history offers various possible source stories about members of the order who underwent entombment, whether justly or unjustly a
...tage, on the pattern of Brooke's play and of most of the classical stories about Vestal Virgins.
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...adding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Knutson, Roslyn L. "What's So Special About 1594?" ''Shakespeare Quarterly'' 61.4 (2010): 449-467.</div>
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...n 1620 was a revision that has now been lost (149). Part of his conjecture about a 1590s Guy of Warwick play involves recognition of how it would relate to
...tley''' (''JCS'', 3.251) argues that "Probably two and perhaps three plays about Guy of Warwick are covered by the above items" - the Taylor reference, the
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...efore or after May 1641, though this detail is important for any inference about the nature of the lost play.
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...jecture that "earlier versions may have existed" (2.419 [Appendix C, #1]). About Dekker and Chettle's "Stepmother's Tragedy," he pointed out the lack of " e
'''Knutson''' is not fastidious as Clark about the story connections between the ballad called "The Lady Isabella's Traged
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Collier's guess that this might have been a play about Richard III was widely influential.
...Chichester, and links Richard the Confessor to other extant and lost plays about British saints including Rowley's ''A Shoemaker, a Gentleman'' and the anon
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...include an anecdote about his falling in her lap while dancing and another about her seeing him swimming. Another source emphasizes her desire for him. The
...France. He too remembers the meeting at Windsor and adds a charming detail about his missing a step in the dance and falling into her lap. In a modesty trop
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...ggins, both #894 [for "Pope Joan" specifically] and #878 [for his argument about the repertorial age of non-"ne" plays in Strange's 1592 repertory]).
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...al time were in performance from 1590 to 1594 (p. 48). Being more specific about repertorial competition, she calls "Buckingham" a "possible spin-off" and n
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...offers one possible explanation of the phrase, relating the following tale about Dowgate Wharf:
In some respects, the story is a good fit to the fragmentary evidence about the phrase, since Overy/Overs is certainly associated with a 'devil'. Furt
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...is authority. Yet the anti-Catholicism of Gunpowder Treason Day (or a show about the rebellion), together with other holidays such as Elizabeth's Accession
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...in his propriety: And to the end that any other Companies of Actors in or about London shall not p<sup>r</sup>sume to act any of them to y<sup>e</sup> prei
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...us something about taste, or the expectation of taste, at a certain date, about what characteristics of staging an intentioned playwright thought possible,
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...‘References to the Play’]] below), the play seems to be a domestic tragedy about a woman who murders her husband in order to pursue the affections of a youn
...eatning and menacing me. At which shrill and vexpected out-cry, the people about her, moou'd to a strange amazement, inquired the reason of her clamour, whe
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...as unlikely because whenever the Revels Office scribe was clearly confused about proper names, he left blanks rather than attempting to offer a solution. Wi
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...all critics have noted” (“The Metamorphoses" 21), Moseley again speculates about the lost play ''Sir John Mandeville'', suggesting that the play may have co
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...th [he] hast infected this glorious Island” (p. 15). Velvet Breeches brags about his favored status and thus reveals his exploitation of a corrupt socio-pol
...knaves, for a discarding card” (p. 36). There are the age-old complaints about tanners who quick-cure skins, butchers who dress old meat in fresh blood, v
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...s were available in Latin in Elizabethan London; Marlowe’s celebrated line about Helen of Troy’s face is thought to be a paraphrase of a macabre query in
Although a few terse anecdotes about Pythagoras and his followers appear in scattered sources such as Plato and
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...that the title character of "Brandimer" is the giant by making an argument about theatricality across the repertories staged at the Rose and Fortune: he not
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...while noting the possibility that the slip of paper could have been "lying about for a number of years before he used it for his corrections or that it reco
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...emic by the Freemans' work, it is worth observing that Bentley's suspicion about the title-page was well-founded. The [http://deep.sas.upenn.edu/ ''Databas
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...ned La Boderie's prohibition, but also included new and offensive material about the French queen and Madame de Verneuil. La Boderie complained to Salisbury
...he afore-mentioned Ladies''', and for that reason I decided to say no more about it but simply consider what they did. When His aforesaid Majesty was here,
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|[[Play about the Duke of Florence (BL Add MS 88878)]]
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...ell out with the players at the Fortune (which was the house I frequented) about a seat which they would not admit me to have, whereupon out of anger, and a
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...e narrative that called up the legend of ‘Irene’, a popular, western story about Sultan Mehmed II’s infatuation with a Christian captive following the fal
...-page’ is the most likely explanation is further supported by what we know about Carlell’s career, and the contextual information through which we can wit
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...he moment is that they sound French. There is surely more to be found out about them.
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...why a play about him should have been performed in Chester” (128). A play about a legendary English maritime commander would have been fitting for performa
...y of the known troupes’ repertories (though, given the paucity of evidence about those repertories, this in itself is hardly telling).
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...t being seen (sig.A4v). De Paris conversed with the jeweller for some time about the precious stones, before taking a pistol out of the chamber (in front of
...th the loot. Unfortunately he runs into Goussepin there, who had not known about the enterprise until he spied money falling out of the bulging bags of cash
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...'' (publ. 1657): "In the same year one thousand five hundred ninety seven, about the latter end of September, I passed into the Low-countreys, took and gave
It is unknown which company would have performed the play about Turnholt. Gurr rules out the Admiral's men, since "[t]here is nothing in He
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...and the demon-fighting Saint Dunstan, whom Guilpin mentions in the epigram about Cutlack discussed below. Quoting the passage above from Camden, Sharpe fur
...on has been proposed again by Todd A. Borlik, in the course of an argument about the possible relationship between ''The Tempest'' and stories of Lincolnshi
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...tragedy with the lost early play referred to by Cary, and offers arguments about its likely date, which is, of course, constrained by the date of ''The Trag
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...ier (''The Weeding of Covent Garden''), and little can be said for certain about the date of the other lost play on the list, ''[[Christianetta, or Marriage
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...rt of a discourse about the wicked secrets of night-time, and specifically about the wickedness of the city at night" (93).
...that the robe may still be for ''Truth's Supplication'', since the date is about right.
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'''Image:''' Add MS 88878, fols.1r-2v (Play about the Duke of Florence)<br>
'''LPD entry:''' [[Play about the Duke of Florence (BL Add MS 88878)]]<br>
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[[Works_Cited|'''Bentley''']], however, was more cautious about the link: "There is no way of knowing if this piece [in Henslowe's diary] h
...man 451–54.) It could be that the communication between Croker and Collier about the Massinger manuscript, which took place as Collier was finishing his edi
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...e performances in 1594-5 as evidence that Henslowe was recording two plays about Godfrey in the Admiral's offerings starting in July 1594. However, the "pai
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It is difficult to be precise about which "fair maid" the title might refer to: she must be unmarried and in (o
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...nry IV'': it features a tapster speaking to two thieves (one named George) about a man carrying 300 marks to the king's exchequer, in direct imitation of th
...suggest a date-range narrower that [sic, than] 1586 (publication) through about 1620" (99). He further adds:
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...catalogues suggests that the play was a comedy and conjectures a date of "about 1615." Departing from theories that the play depicted the same historical G
'''Hammond and Delvecchio''' (7) assume that the play was a tragedy about the Duke of Guise, although "it is conceivable that ''Guise'' may have been
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...tes the title as "Tamburlane" (p. 292). [[WorksCited|Collier]], rarely shy about calling out Malone's perceived errors, notes the misspelling of ''Tamburlai
[[Works Cited|Manley and Maclean]] conjecture at length about the likely content of the second part in particular:
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'''Gurr''', making a point about how busy the schedule of playing was for Edward Alleyn, hints at a narrativ
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A decade later, in ''An Apology for Actors'' (1612), Thomas Heywood wrote about the performance of a play with the same title acted (in English, presumably
...players in the 1610s-1630s. One thread of his argument is that "The jibes about the terrible tear-throats at the northern playhouses miss the point; it was
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...y." Chambers repeated an anecdote about the king's joking at a game of Maw about the trial of Sir Thomas Monson; he also quoted from a contemporary pamphlet
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...e in William Langland's ''Piers Plowman'' mentions the existence of "rymes about Robyn hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre" (V.395). Scholars have debated wheth
...ibed in Holinshed's ''Chronicles'' (329-30). The Admiral's Men play ''Look About You'' (which may also be by Munday), is also set in the Robin Hood era, and
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...agedies. They are specifically about treason against one's own state, not about conspiracies against private people; nor meddling in the affairs of foreign
...ld add extra spice to the satirical potential of this play too. The story about Laud has been most fully documented by '''Norrie''', who shows that it is r
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...ed nobleman in which "poor Amintas" apologises for the entertainment he is about to offer with the aid of his "silly" shepherd boys.
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For Norbert F. O'Donnell, Jonson's comment about Oedipus' sons suggests that Goffe adapted Seneca's ''Phoenissae''. O'Donnel
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...nt,'' in which (speaking as themselves) Henry Condell and William Sly joke about their having taken another company's play (i.e., ''The Malcontent'') as pay
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:J have occasion to be absent about the plott of the Jndyes therfre pray delyer it to will hamton sadler
...how he might best preserve their success, and they respond with complaints about the lack of a standardized cloth measure, the unwillingness of people to ac
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...t#page/213/mode/1up (#205, p. 213)]. Beyond clarifying that Fleay's phrase about a shrew play as a misplaced tag from "The Devil and his Dame," Greg does no
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...nus+and+brennus&view=theater Greg] (Θ 32) includes minor chronicle details about the characters, only citing Brennus as “the Gaulish chieftan who sacked R
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...committed there" (p. 159, n.3). [[WorksCited|Greg II]] agreed with Collier about the name of the town but was “not aware of any record thereof,” althoug
...hat is thought to have been seen in this manner, it is presently whispered about that he will not recover, for that such, or such an one, who has watched St
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...and we were all deeply moved they had acted it so well. There is no doubt about it, they really are good actors.
...ne of the German plays "may have been the play, or the model for the play 'about the rich man and Lazarus'" performed in 1608. (While Murad does not say so
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...to her father (the bounty of a noble mind). The story was not necessarily about Mahomet II. Another Sultan---Solyman the Magnificent--was involved, accordi
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...adding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Knutson, Roslyn L. "What's So Special About 1594?" ''Shakespeare Quarterly'' 61.4 (2010): 449-467.</div>
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...it "likely that both companies were offering the public a Theseus play at about the same time" (119). Thompson, drawing a parallel with the two ''Troilus''
...retter argues that Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice'' and ''Much Ado About Nothing'' offer "a critique of the kind of triumphalist male friendship tha
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...on to perform. They listed their repertoire of ten plays, including a play about Romeo and Juliet, and one described as 'vonn Annabella eines hertzogen toch
...lingen list, which is also Robert Browne’s company; and that the two plays about a daughter called Annabella are in fact different descriptions of the same
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Despite Fleay's off-the-cuff suggestion and Greg's dismissal, something about ''The Christmas Prince'' apparently influenced opinion on "Seven Days of th
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...ans ... thresh out" that question (320). However, footnoting his statement about Buc's authority on Tilney's authorship, Greg pointed to the uncertain date
:[[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'']] finds Buc "less than certain" about the identity of the 1595 ''Locrine'' as the play he remembers (and worked o
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The allusion in ''The Trimming of Thomas Nashe'' has been known about since at least the nineteenth century, although often misattributed to Gabr
Little is known about the life of Robert Mills. He matriculated in Lent Term 1582/3 as a pension
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...lly think of in connection with Brome; and supplies what evidence there is about Brome's career at this point, noting Alexander Brome's allusion to the play
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...furiating Caganus and causing him to slaughter the Christian prisoners. At about this time, Mauritius reportedly experienced a number of quasi-supernatural
'''Beckerman''' agreed with Greg about the limited value of attending to the plot, noting that it “exists only i
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...ving character to a symbol and figure used by many a writer to tell truths about the Church which it might have been dangerous to tell openly.” (59)
...usiak''' puts "Friar Fox and Gillian of Brentford" in the context of plays about friars. He cites Henslowe's inventories, which have various sets of friars'
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...by 1589, and the association (in that poem) with ''Tamburlaine'' and plays about "Mahomet" and "Tom Stukely" at "theatres" with "proud tragedians" implies a
...gins''' (#808) notes that Peele's "poem cannot refer to the extant MS play about him [i.e. Charlemagne], which dates from the 1610s or early 1620s". Consequ
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The historical records suggest this was a topical play about the Gunpowder Plot of November 1605, in which Catholic conspirators (chiefl
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...ruly people hauing obserued him present, after the Play was ended, flocked about him … [and] began in a confused manner to assault him” (''A briefe desc
...pened to be in Parliament time, and at that instant of time when they were about the Remonstrance against the Duke. (630)
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...arked, as "Of the roughly 3000 total lines of print [...], more than half (about 1600) are marked with pencilled vertical lines, with Jonson's distinctive f
...lio edition of his ''Workes'', Jonson may have become increasingly dubious about the accuracy or justice of More's account of Richard" and decided not to pu
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...n'' from Shakespeare’s play, claiming “it is much more likely to have been about the two Roman emperors, who were the subject of a romance with that name”
...nd Vespasian" in its specific entry (2.298 #114), but he produces a theory about it in the context of ''Titus Andronicus''. Mulling over the means by which
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...years old, recalled that Hobbes's "conversation about those times was much about Ben: Jonson," who was "his loving and familiar friend and acquaintance" (Cl
:they that go about by disobedience, to doe no more than reforme the Commonwealth, shall find t
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.... The Erell of Arundell oxford and others. Crossing the king in his humor. about the duke of Erland and Bushy wer glad to fly and Raise an hoste of men. and
...ely more recent), and ''The Winter's Tale'' (new) raises further questions about the carry-over of offerings from Blackfriars the previous winter (88). She
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...aw crosses on their garments and tables; the Delphic Temple also, was much about this time overthrown with thunder and earthquakes, as ''Iulian'' was sendin
...the bloud of christians to his Gods, if he prevailed against the Persians. About this time also ''Apollo's'' Temple at Rome was burned down.
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...vawted, and within it the maskers seated w:<sup>th</sup> stores of lights about the''m'', and it was no ill shew. they were brought in by the fower seasons
...January); the 1615 edition repeats the dating error and adds the comments about the masquing ladies, perhaps confusing the wedding masque with the ''The Ma
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Conjectures about the narrative of the play are embedded in guesswork by F. G. Fleay and W. W
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The presiding critical question about "The Wise Man of West Chester" is whether its title is merely a variant of
...petition among the professional companies" (4). She also raises a question about the title of "Wise Man": namely, if the Admiral's players had Munday's pla
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...e play premiered) suffered from mental illness, and there are many legends about his behaviour. These include his concealed love for a noblewoman named Leon
...eferences in Eliot, Harington and Scoloker, and on later facts and legends about Tasso's madness (see above), [[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' (#963)]] c
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...script is written on both sides of a fairly large sheet of paper measuring about 28 by 17.6 cm.
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...the mid-1590s; that the presence of players' names raises fresh questions about the company affiliations of ''Sir Thomas More'' and ''John of Bordeaux''; a
:'''Stern''' emphasizes the difficulty of making generalizations about the "shared theatrical origin" of the surviving Plots (203). She uses the n
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...y of the Herculean character. See [[WorksCited|Wiggins]] below for guesses about the content of the plays based in part on Heywood's comments in the essay.
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:Two Arrant ''Thieues'' we euer beare about vs
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...) -- 26 March 1621, Philip Powell of Brecon records the following anecdote about a playgoer responding to a line delivered by a player:<br>
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...ere best to worke to get his suite, and who were most in credit and fauour about the king, that he might seeke to them to furder his attempt. ''Philino'' pe
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...h provides some indication of what his contemporaries found most memorable about his life:
...the poets prefacing a New England tract, we know Smith had mixed feelings about the play. His pride as a martial man was gratified, yet he knew that he had
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:[[WorksCited|Malone]] has nothing to say about "The Fount(ain) of New Fashions" except to prefer "Fountain" to "Fount" (p.
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...e and Eleanor Cobham. But it is, perhaps, enough to suggest that any play about a witch based in Westminster might, for early modern audiences, have been c
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...records for the proceeding involving Sir John Yorke of Nidderdale, brought about by the evidence of William Stubbs, Puritan minister of Pateley Bridge (Bodd
...olthwayt [or Gowthwaite Hall, Nidderdale] and in other places in Yorkshire about Christmas 1609, by a travelling company of local players. If we are to acce
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...-master is one of the characters in the drama, and his intervention brings about the catastrophe.
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...gests a wider narrative context in the Admiral's repertory including plays about the early legendary history of Britain's Trojan kings (e.g. [[Conquest_of_B
'''Evidence about Casting'''
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...ywright might have been intimidated had he not "had at hand an extant play about Jugurth" (p. 23). He thus offers for consideration that the Bodleian manusc
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:There [i.e. at New College, Oxford] he continued till about the eighteenth year of his age, and was then transplanted into ''Queens Col
...short biography of Wotton seems to draw on Walton's "Life" for the detail about Wotton's undergraduate essay in playwriting:
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If this lost play were
about the 1622 massacre of settlers by Indians in Jamestown, then the following t
<blockquote>This transcript adds the information
about the length of the play and Herbert’s objection to it. Herbert seems to me
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...ted|'''Wiggins''']] (#1471) cites three more passages that may offer clues about the play. The first is from the pamphlet ''The Scot Arraigned'' (1651) by R
...5), although a play set in the time of Edward III would scarcely have been about knights errant. (On the other hand, Thomas de Beauchamp was a founder membe
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...n Covent Garden in November and December 1807; no records add anything new about the play beyond its listing from the auction catalogue (see, for example, F
...ommander, Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, led his remaining force of about 500 men south to camp in Linnell's Meadow, by the river called Devil's Wate
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...or the Woman Captain</i>, prompt the question, what might happen in a play about prizes? The most obviously relevant possible model is John Fletcher's play
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...When Florentine is astonished at Alexander's recovery, Lodowick confesses about the voice's call for infanticide, and she enthusiastically accedes. Lodowic
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'''Chambers''' was skeptical about Lawrence's argument: "I think that ''Wars of Cyrus'', as it stands, is clea
...'s argument in his edition of the play (10-20, ''passim''). Finding claims about ''Tamburlaine'''s influence unconvincing, he argues that the 1594 publicati
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...nd continue to believe that it ''was'' Shakespearean? (In which case, what about it made it an apt inclusion in the Shakespeare apocrypha?)
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Further details about the location of the playhouse are provided in a lawsuit in the Court of Ki
(For further details about the architecture, finances, and use of the Red Lion, see [[#Critical Commen
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...he original play, which is of uncertain authorship, was presumably written about 1590” but adds:
...nto one play” and agrees with Fleay and Greg that “the juncture may … come about l.1315.” On the authorship of the lost play, Chambers speculates as follo
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'''Fleay''' made no guesses about the content of ''Christmas Comes but Once a Year'' (''BCED''); '''Greg''' w
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...ies a-Bleeding”), "[[Knot of Fools, The | The Knot of Fools]]," ''Much Ado About Nothing'' (also played under the title “Benidicte and Bettris”?), ''The
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...position is a strange and rather unsettling insight into Jacobean thinking about sedition. Happily, since Thomas Napleton went on to serve as Mayor of Fave
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...arance of Bottom in ''Midsummer Night's Dream''. For everything (and more) about the images of the ass in Shakespeare and during the Renaissance, see Debora
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...nce. And if any man doe aske for me, say that I am gone to <i>Florence</i> about certaine businesse.” (Xxxiiii<sup>v</sup>)
.... And he him self, rode vpo[n] a horse all couered with black, beset round about with mo[n]strous and vglie faces, euery of them hauing a burning candle in
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...y based on the information in the Stationers' Register, with a speculation about its authorship: "The christian name of this writer is not mentioned; but I
'''Bentley''' was similarly skeptical about the identification with Rider's play: "Actually the suggestion is an unlike
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...ultan of Syria receives the merchants upon their return, and they tell him about Lady Constance’s noble qualities; he instantly falls in love with her. Hi
...to see any alternative. The Sultan’s mother, however, has grown concerned about her son’s imminent apostasy and what it might mean for Muslims more gener
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...ork on the stories dramatized in most of the playlets. He is more positive about Fleay's identification of an item in Henslowe's inventory lists with [[Five
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...arnier's play as Aree, also engages in a stichomythic debate with Octavius about the relative values of rigour and restraint. The trope of the restraining c
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|[[Play about the Duke of Florence (BL Add MS 88878)]]
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...Bathsheba'' has not gained scholarly acceptance; it rests on Peele's line about making "a third discourse of David's life" (the implication being that ''Da
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...f the beholder, compromise Genevra’s virtue. Just as Claudio in ''Much Ado About Nothing'' is duped by Don John, so Ariodante, shocked at what he sees, wron
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...ry VIII'', a view repeated by McLaughlin (348). It seems they did not know about the 1602 letter.
<strong>Collier</strong> corrected Malone's assessment about authorship by noting the ''Diary'''s further payments to Chettle (189n). He
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...nice to make fun of good men like Franciscan friars, then why the details about the decapitation that made the whole thing turn out to be a tragedy? He see
...more than a year, Busino preserves a remarkably rich trove of information about the English stage. As he observed, "in London, as the capital of a most flo
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He describes vaguely “some passage acted in the said play about the getting of a lycense for the mariage of the widow there personated” (
“Prince’s (lic. Sept)” (Harbage); “There is some uncertainty about the company which occupied the Red Bull in September 1624, but it was proba
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...ore details on the characters' roles in the prose romances and conjectures about the place names in the fragment, see [[#For_What_It.27s_Worth|'''For What I
...'Griffon''" (''Eighth'', sig. P4r ). He meets Rosicler and the two quarrel about the proper motive for valour—love or reward. They enter a city where knig
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...t flowers I could gather out of all hys works. ''Wiggenton'' daunces round about him in a Cotten-coate, to court him with a Leatherne pudding, and a woodden
...discouering the scabbe that is bredde in England: and conferring together about the speedie dispersing of the golden legende of the liues of the saints.''
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...lf-deprecating (but snarky) mood, Fleay then added: "I am rather diffident about putting forth this conjecture, because my former ephemeral hypothesis publi
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...n, Philippa, Alice kept the affair private until the queen died (1369); at about this time also, Alice married Sir William Windsor). Her coming-out party as
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The central question about the play Henslowe entered "ne" on 29 August 1595 and bought from Edward All
...d for no one but Edward I, and no other play is known to have been written about that monarch" (p. 7). He considers the item of apparel listed as both "Gone
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...panied by the father and mother of the bride, and all the Lords and Ladies about the court. The men were well mounted and richly arrayed making a goodly she
...<sup>t</sup> all y<sup>e</sup> rest, were inuited to a princely banquet, & about 3. a clock in the morning they returned to white hall…
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:Look about you or run red cap.
:Much adoe about nothing.
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...roes. If Greg is right about the casting, then, he is unlikely to be right about the date; Burbage was twenty-one in 1590, and past his days of taking femal
...The title of the play is not clearly explicable from what the plot reveals about its action, but it probably is bound up with a final revelation involving a
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...tion of high receipts and solo performance has aroused scholarly curiosity about its commercial value but generated no answers.
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...ructed as ''Henry the Una<ble>''. This would make it a historical tragedy about the career of Henry the Impotent of Castile, a figure of considerable inter
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...yd see Bentley thrust at hym twice with his naked Raper the one thrust was about the kneee but hee knoweth not where the other thrust was" (71).
...an account of the venue itself, and conjectures that a mistaken assumption about Winsdon's motivations may have sparked the fracas:<br>
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:In these times were mighty woods about the place where the two high wayes ''Watling ''and ''Ikening'' doe ioyne to
...204n). Discussing the Admiral's Men's plays generally, he makes two points about "Bellendon": (1) he calls the play-character "the clown Belin Dun" (p. 50),
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...nt of Mary Sidney, and they also disagree over, or maintain an agnosticism about, whether or not Mary Sidney really was involved. Penny McCarthy, for insta
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...ensibly to fetch objects to save her, but actually in the hope of bringing about their downfall (Ch8). Unfortunately for the witch, Chinon then arrives unex
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Erasmus's editor, Craig Thompson, writes the following about this particular colloquy:
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...rd suggests that this prologue is addressed to the “Irish Gentry” (and not about a play (IV.102); Dyce rejects this assertion and suggests that “Irish Gen
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...iolante meet in the wilderness, and the eventual reconciliation is brought about by Roderick, Henriquez's elder brother.
...Key points in the argument include the apparent unawareness of a lost play about Cardenio, and thus the improbability of Theobald independently creating a p
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<tr><td> </td><td>To walke about the worlde with a wish. </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
::To walke about the worlde with a wish<br>
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...in his propriety: And to the end that any other Companies of Actors in or about London shall not p<sup>r</sup>sume to act any of them to y<sup>e</sup> prei
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:[[WorksCited|Wiggins, Catalogue'']] cites Greg's uncertainty about the S.R. title's status as a play. Like Fleay, he suggests that the play ma
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...MS Tenbury 389 attributed to William Byrd. Byrd scholars have been divided about the plausibility of this attribution. Westrup was dubious, finding that the
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...t Harvard and states that ‘''Love Hath Found out his Eyes''’ was performed about May 1660" (113, n28).
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:Cock Watt (or Watch), the "spirit" of Newgate, is skulking about the city after dark. A raucous fight erupts within a tavern he passes; when
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...l at the house; ('''3''') a Mariner's song and lottery; ('''4''') a letter about St. Swithin and Iris that accompanied the presentation of a rainbow gown to
...ed and feasted at the Lord Keepers his charge in that behalf, amounting to about 4,000 li, passing further into Oxfordshire, the weather and ways proving fo
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:about his temples, and a braunch of Palme in his hand.<br />
:ments and Iewels from off her: And so leaue her bloudy, with her hayre about her shoulders, ly-<br />
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Finally, Gammer Gurton tells a fable about beasts and scarcity of resources, which Redcap correctly summarises as "For
...pe, Diane Purkiss suggests that "''Mother Redcap'', may possibly have been about a cunning woman, but may also have been a representation of the case of Ali
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:To a small chain of gold about his neck
:women; how men killed T about brittle
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...ncluding Richard Brome's ''The English Moor''. Two things are interesting about the Salisbury Court ''Careless Shepherdess'', in the current context. Firs
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...tives, "yet we could not be rid of them. For afterward they were so thicke about the ship, that it stemmed & brake 1 or 2 of their canoas" (817). The Englis
...the Countie of Suffolke Esquire, into the South sea, and from thence round about the circumference of the w[h]ole earth, begun in the yeere of our Lord 1586
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:[In the afternoon a tragic play was acted about Samson and the half tribe of Benjamin.]
...d's Gift, and wanted to set out shows on stage that might counter the fuss about his most famous roles, 'that atheist Tamburlaine' and his revivals of ''Fau
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...from benefitting privately to the detriment of the collective. The clause about delaying the publication of "Torrismount," however, seems to indicate that
...ould be successful on the stage, and "never afterwards troubled themselves about their productions, which remained in MS. in the part-books belonging to the
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...on in early modern drama, but it is also interesting here for what it says about uses of The Fleire in particular... The revised version bears no title. It
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...not reveal her (or his) Jewishness. The king then asks Hester the question about the greatest honor, and she replies that a queen should govern as virtuousl
...dulation, and Ambition—agree to give all their attributes to Aman to bring about his fall: headed for a tavern, they exit singing.</div style>
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...his page is a general wiki page that is open for your editing. Information about yourself is at your leisure, where other users can see this if they choose
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'''Wiles''' repeats Creizenach's suggestion about Kemp, who would presumably have also danced the English and Irish dances en
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...There was sharp disagreement, both among courtiers and throughout England, about whether the match was in the best interests of the queen and country. Those
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...his page is a general wiki page that is open for your editing. Information about yourself is at your leisure, where other users can see this if they choose
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...s for the Dekker/Ford/Rowley/Webster play did not exist, we would not know about the "Keep the Widow Waking" portion of that play.
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...‘[t]he haughty Dane commands the narrow seas’, in ''Edward II''): 'A play about Hamlet’s father would provide Strange’s Men with repertorial competitio
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...s frustrating that virtually nothing can be ascertained with any certainty about the subject of this considerably successful play. For a new speculation on
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...n and the company owners are unknown. The link with Peele is the only clue about the debut of the play, and it is not much help. Peele's plays appear in the
...ll, and rigorous" that he would not hesitate to put to death whoever "went about to withdrawe him from his desire" (f. 108v). They knew Mahomet was "so dron
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...Listserv, in which Will Sharpe related his discussion with Martin Wiggins about the Powis Castle manuscript:
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...Butler (234-5) contextualizes this play in terms of a wave of 1630s dramas about the Dutch, including Glapthorne's ''Albertus Wallenstein'' (?1634). In 163
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...en masters discredited (if not also executed), tells the emperor a parable about a great tree that was hewed down to allow a lesser plant to flourish, the r
...n the roof above the birdcage. When the husband returned, the pie told him about the visit from his wife's lover as well as the near-deadly storm. However,
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...remaking the materials of medieval romance" (143). It also becomes a play about doppelgangers, joining a small group including ''Twelfth Night'' and ''The
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...payment to Chettle, apparently for further work on the unfinished tragedy about "or fens," Hanabusa avers that Henslowe's entry should be taken literally (
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Since Philip Massinger wrote a play of his own (c. 1630) about on the reappearance of Sebastian, '''Edwards and Gibson''' (3:294) propose
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Lisa Hopkins is similarly cynical about Marlowe’s possible involvement: “in 1764 David Erskine Baker in his Com
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:• Expanding on Dio's point about the sacrifice of male children, this source claims that Heliogabalus "colle
:Which ran about as if it were woode,
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...reyken there on Thursday, 6 March. If the play performed was indeed a play about Sir John Oldcastle (and not the Falstaff character [see below]), it belonge
...nd Falstaff?" (p. 106) In answer, he explores two contexts beyond the flap about the character's name: Edmond Tilney's allowing ''1 Henry IV'' to be license
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...'Confessio Amantis'' cites the Acis and Galatea story as a cautionary tale about Envy (Book 2). A very different version of the Polyphemus story, however, i
...the ''Moralia'') interpolated a summary of the story following an anecdote about "One Theocrite a philsopher" who insulted King Antigonus, blind in one eye,
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...privity procurement and allowance of the said S''i''r Edward Dymocke in or about the Moneth of August in the xliij<sup>th</sup> yeare of yo''u''r Highnes Ra
...s''aie''d Greene & there to deliver an old idle speache w''hi''ch was made about 2. or 3. yeres before by the saied Talbois Dymocke" ([http://archive.org/st
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...ioceses, and those into provinces. The army was increased by one-third, to about 450,000 soldiers, and an army of manoeuvre was created to follow the Empero
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...part an attempt by Cockayne to distract the King from his serious concerns about the viability of the as yet unsuccessful New Company (Evans 144-45; Beal 25
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...n of Hungary, if he woulde come and vanquish the army of Ferdinandus lying about the siege of Buda. The Turke maketh no long tarying, but taketh the occasio
...of men, women, and children, thereupon executed, in number (as was deemed) about twentie thousand. There was to be seene the father, with his wife, children
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...th only a small entourage. He is on a type of spy mission to find out more about the encroaching Christian armies. He and his small band are in need of lodg
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Theater historians have very few clues about the relationship of a company's London repertory and the plays taken on the
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...to be the melodramatic theme of this play, it would fit with what is known about the nature of other public performances at this time at the [[Theater]]. [[
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...eth uses the barbed crooks he made long ago to fasten the hangings tightly
about them, and sets fire to the hall. Thence he moves on to Feng's own apartment
<blockquote>The French writer's unease
about Amleth's powers of divination is typical of his attitude towards Saxo's sto
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...lability of new digital resources. New models are emerging of how to think about plays whose script is not extant. This seminar asks: can we further develop
...mping” vs. “splitting” of titles; what it means to speculate “responsibly” about lost plays; the nature of scholarly collaboration in researching lost plays
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...dently abandoned" and never completed, but there is no conclusive evidence about it (p. 148).
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...ephthah in ''Hamlet'' were occasioned by Alleyn's role: "Across the river, about the same time, talk of 'the best actors in the world' triggered the mocking
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'''Corbin and Sedge''' have little to say about the lost second part. Most of their attention is given to the restoration o
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...). Topcliffe is instructed to learn what he can from the prisoners at hand about a play recently performed, including details of play copies and their distr
...athe given direction that not onlie no plaies shalbe used within London or about the citty or in any publique place during this time of sommer, but that als
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...am/henslowesdiary02hensuoft#page/190/mode/1up #130, pp. 191-92 ]). Casting about for other plays with which to connect "The Famous Wars of Henry I and the P
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..., a Mantell of Carnacon taffeta cast vnder the Arme, and their heare loose about their shulders curiously knotted and interlaced. but these are the maskers
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...retter argues that Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice'' and ''Much Ado About Nothing'' offer "a critique of the kind of triumphalist male friendship tha
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...her lifetime, not only in performing sundry quarrels with divers ruffians about London but also how valiantly she behaued her self in the wars of Bolloingn
:In a fanciful narrative about a young woman, Britania Hollandia, starts out innocent and sweet but turns
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...]ill to take order that the same be not represented or played in any place about this Cittie or ellswhere, where yo<sup>w</sup> haue authoritie. And hereof
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...whether there is any foundation for this severe allegation. Lorenzo jokes about the letter’s style but admits the allegations are true. He then reminds A
...us: the Melbourne Manuscript preserves ambiguous but illuminating evidence about a rarely witnessed stage in the production of early modern dramatic texts,
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[NB. Foakes has “J have occasion to be absent” ''after'' “about the plot of the Indies” (Foakes 295)].
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There is a nice irony in this company staging plays about Spain. James’ daughter had married the Elector Palatine in 1613 and follo
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...arkas a miserable spectacle, but no stone that could trouble him was found about him: his funerall according to his desire was so private, that there were h
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There is a nice irony in this company staging plays about Spain. James's daughter had married the Elector Palatine in 1613 and follow
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Caesar pursued Pompey to Alexandria, where he learned about his rival's death. In the Egyptian dynastic war between Ptolemy and his sis
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...heare Ignoramus. Hee saith, they purpose to break their fast at Newmarket about 9. then to goe to Cambridge, there to heare one Comedy that afternoon, and
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...ands and William Sands the yonger doe wander vp and downe the Countrey and about nine others of their Company w''i''th certaine blasphemous shewes and sight
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...ing's supposition (see [[#Critical Commentary|Critical Commentary]] below) about Guido Guerra, which if correct, may mean that the lost play ''[[Guelphs and
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...the Maskers for the sword dance" whose strength Peace has stolen. They are about to attack her in retribution when Mars intervenes for her protection and, a
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...nt for many years. Here, Old Banks, a countryman, and his son (Cuddy) talk about the dog Cuddy has seen:
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...the Pole couete to beholde the Son, of old Merlines prophecie, that muche about this time, a spotlesse, peerlesse, endlesse virgine, sprunge out of the roo
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...So it may be replyed our Galenist, for I spie neither any disease swimming about thy body in this water, and thy verry lookes shew that thou art sound: Soun
...bid her lye still, & held her so long till a number of his neighbors came about him to beholde this sceane of mirth: all of them (knowing how dangerously t
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...entable Tragedies'' by Robert Yarington, but he made no further conjecture about the lost plays ([http://www.archive.org/stream/diaryphiliphens00hensgoog#pa
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...with nedels of yorn they pricked his tender body, therby causing him to go about the stake, till that all his bowels were drawen out. [http://www.johnfoxe.o
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...es the entirety of lines spoken by the play's main character, reveals much about the play's narrative, yet our knowledge is obviously limited by the relativ
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:Scholarly decisions about "Muly Molocco" rely on the widespread assumption in theater history that Al
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...adding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Knutson, Roslyn L. "What's So Special About 1594?" ''Shakespeare Quarterly'' 61.4 (2010): 449-467. </div>
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...their kingdome almost in one battell subuerted, report ... many vntruths" about him to construct "a very monster in nature ... a lumpe of earth tempered wi
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...s later, the Admiral's Men (now the Palsgrave's Men) licensed another play about a woman from Antwerp, possibly dramatizing the same story again: see '''[[F
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...doing so in the present instance". Harbage is less sceptical than Bentley about the authenticity of Warburton's list of play manuscripts, deducing from War
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...Sisson observes that “[i]t is clear from this that Dr Milward heard enough about the play to known that it was a close reflection of the events in which he
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...been very different". MacCulloch also records how "Cranmer was so reticent about it later, no doubt feeling the pain of his double loss, that we cannot even
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...314, and after the deliuerance of the Israelites out of captiuitie 97, and about the 26 yeere of Darius Artaxerxes Longimanus," the fifth king of the Persia
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Humphrey Banister himself featured in at least two other early modern dramas about Richard III. One is the anonymous ''True Tragedy of Richard III'' (1594),
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...hat the historical record on Cutting Dick may be as slipperywh are guesses about the dramatized episodes of his career.
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...ll, he is not to be outdone in apotheosizing the Duke. Middleton is unsure about the cause of Humphrey's death. Perhaps it was murder. If so, his enemies su
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..., responded to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury's request to be informed about the recent Christmas masques at court by sending a copy of Samuel Daniel's
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