The Tragedy of Tancred and Gismund 1591-2 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1330239288 ISBN 13: 9781330239285

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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The earlier version is extant in two manuscripts at the British Museum, Lansdowne 786 and Hargrave 20 At least one other manuscript has been reported as in private hands but is not now known, w ile there is some reason to suppose that in making the revision Wilmot had before him a text of the earlier play, differing in certain respects from those now extant.

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There is no entry of Tancred and Gismund in the Registers of the Stationers' Company. The only known edition is a quarto printed by Thomas Scarlet for sale by R. Robinson. This is in a type the body of which approximates to modern English (22 ll. = 94 mm.). Copies vary in that the date on the title-page appears either as 1591 or 1592. The British Museum possesses three copies, marked respectively C 34. e. 43, 161. k. 71, and C. 34. e. 44. Of these the first is perfect, though the second leaf is rather badly damaged, and bears the date 1592. From the second all but a small corner of the title-page has been torn away; while the third wants the whole of the preliminary sheet except the third leaf. Perfect copies in the Bodleian Library and the Dyce Collection are also dated 1592. A copy at Eton College wants the title-page. On the other hand there is preserved in the collection of the Earl of Ellesmere at Bridgewater House a copy bearing the date 1591. The title-page of this copy appears to differ from those dated 1592 in nothing but the date and the position of the printer's mark.

The play was not new at the time of its publication, being revised from an earlier piece. This, we are informed by William Webbe in his epistle to Wilmot, had been acted before the queen by the gentlemen of the Inner Temple. There does not appear to be any contemporary record of the performance, but from the allusion to 'these 24. yeres' in Wilmot's address to the Templers, we are perhaps entitled to date it 1567.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330239288
• ISBN 13: 9781330239285
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 94