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Foakes, ''Henslowe's Diary'' (267)
 
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== Theatrical Provenance  ==
== Theatrical Provenance  ==


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The Admiral's Men, at the Rose in January 1600 but looking ahead to their move to the Fortune by the end of the year, paid 40s. to Thomas Dekker toward the playbook of ''Truth's Supplication to Candlelight''. This sum does not seem sufficient to indicate that the play was completed.


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== Probable Genre(s)  ==
== Probable Genre(s)  ==


&lt;List possible genres of the play: if noted by a critic, cite them, e.g. "Comedy (Harbage)". If an original speculation, simply list the genre.&gt;
Allegorical Hist[ory] (Harbage)  


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== Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues  ==
== Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues  ==
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== References to the Play  ==
== References to the Play  ==
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== Critical Commentary  ==
== Critical Commentary  ==


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Greg, following F. G. Fleay's suggestion, identified the play with Dekker's ''Whore of Babylon'' (S. R. 20 Apr. 1607; Q1607). For him, the "mention of a robe for Time" purchased in April 1600  and "the extreme appropriateness" of the 1600 title made "the identification practically certain" (II. 210, Item # 195). He did not resolve the apparent contradiction of purchasing apparel in 1600 for a play in 1607, or those of internal evidence in "Whore of Babylon" that mix references to events in Elizabeth's reign with those in James's. He seemed skeptical, however, that Dekker in 1600 "should have represented as contemporary events which happened in 1587." He mentioned but provided no reference for a possible allusion to the play "under its later title" in ''Satiromastix'', 1601.
 
 
Bowers repeats the suggested connection of Truth's Supplication to Candlelight with The Whore of Babylon, adding that E. K. Chambers was cautious about the likelihood of a play on Mary, Queen of Scots, would be acceptable subject matter in 1600 (2:493).
 
 
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== For What It's Worth  ==
== For What It's Worth  ==


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Greg connected the purchase of a robe for Time in Henslowe's Diary on 2 April 1600 with ''Truth's Supplication to Candlelight'', persuaded apparently of its connection to Dekker's Whore of Babylon in which the character of Time appears (II. 210, Item # 195). The diary entry is as follows:
 
F. 68<sup>v</sup> (Greg I.120)
 
:Lent vnto Robart shaw the 2 of ap<sup>r</sup>ell 1600 for  
:to by a Robe for tyme some of ... xxxx<sup>s</sup> 


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== Keywords  ==
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Thomas Dekker  
Thomas Dekker (category: Thomas Dekker), D


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== Works Cited  ==
== Works Cited  ==


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Bowers, Fredson. ''The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker''. 4 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1953-61.
 
Foakes, R. A. ''Henslowe's Diary'', 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
 
Hoy, Cyrus. ''Introductions, Notes, and commentaries to Texts in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, Edited by Fredson Bowers''. New York: Cambridge UP. 1980.
 


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Revision as of 17:44, 15 November 2009

Thomas Dekker (1600)


Historical Records

Henslowe's Diary

F. 67 (Greg I.117)

Lent vnto Thomas towne the 18 of Janewary 1599
to lend thomas dickers in earneste of a playe Boocke
called trewghtes [c]suplication to candelighte some of ... xxs
                                                        as may a pere


Lent vnto Thomas dickers at the apoyntment
of the company the 30 of Janewary 1599 in erneste
of a Boocke called trewth suplication to candelithe
R[d] by wm harton for hime ... xxs


F. 30v (Greg I.58)

Receiued by me william Haughton for the vse
of Thomas dickers on the 30th. of Januarie
the some of ... 20s
Jn parte of payement for the booke of truths
supplycation to candle light



Fragment in the collection of the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle

Foakes, Henslowe's Diary (267)


                        18. die Januarij. 1599
<R>eceaved by mee Thomas Dekker at the handes of Mr
<Ph>illip Hynchlow the Somme of twenty Shillinges in ernest
<of> a play Called Truethes supplication to Candle-light
                               By mee Thomas Dekker
wittnes
thomas towne



Theatrical Provenance

The Admiral's Men, at the Rose in January 1600 but looking ahead to their move to the Fortune by the end of the year, paid 40s. to Thomas Dekker toward the playbook of Truth's Supplication to Candlelight. This sum does not seem sufficient to indicate that the play was completed.


Probable Genre(s)

Allegorical Hist[ory] (Harbage)


Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues


References to the Play


Critical Commentary

Greg, following F. G. Fleay's suggestion, identified the play with Dekker's Whore of Babylon (S. R. 20 Apr. 1607; Q1607). For him, the "mention of a robe for Time" purchased in April 1600 and "the extreme appropriateness" of the 1600 title made "the identification practically certain" (II. 210, Item # 195). He did not resolve the apparent contradiction of purchasing apparel in 1600 for a play in 1607, or those of internal evidence in "Whore of Babylon" that mix references to events in Elizabeth's reign with those in James's. He seemed skeptical, however, that Dekker in 1600 "should have represented as contemporary events which happened in 1587." He mentioned but provided no reference for a possible allusion to the play "under its later title" in Satiromastix, 1601.


Bowers repeats the suggested connection of Truth's Supplication to Candlelight with The Whore of Babylon, adding that E. K. Chambers was cautious about the likelihood of a play on Mary, Queen of Scots, would be acceptable subject matter in 1600 (2:493).


Hoy




For What It's Worth

Greg connected the purchase of a robe for Time in Henslowe's Diary on 2 April 1600 with Truth's Supplication to Candlelight, persuaded apparently of its connection to Dekker's Whore of Babylon in which the character of Time appears (II. 210, Item # 195). The diary entry is as follows:

F. 68v (Greg I.120)

Lent vnto Robart shaw the 2 of aprell 1600 for
to by a Robe for tyme some of ... xxxxs


Keywords

Thomas Dekker (category: Thomas Dekker), D


Works Cited

Bowers, Fredson. The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. 4 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1953-61.

Foakes, R. A. Henslowe's Diary, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Hoy, Cyrus. Introductions, Notes, and commentaries to Texts in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, Edited by Fredson Bowers. New York: Cambridge UP. 1980.



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