As Lady Asburnham, the future ER
frequented the Court. In 1627 she was spending some time with Queen Henrietta Maria
, who had arrived in England two years before this. She was said to have...
Textual Production
Lady Mary Wroth
It was probably designed for amateur performance.
Roberts, Josephine A., and Lady Mary Wroth. “Introduction and Notes”. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, 1983, pp. 3 - 75, 219.
53ff.
Sir Edward Dering
, a connection of the author by marriage and a theatre fan, owned a manuscript of this play in her hand.
Roberts, Josephine A., and Lady Mary Wroth. “Introduction and Notes”. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, 1983, pp. 3 - 75, 219.
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His copy...
Timeline
8 November 1623: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies,...
Writing climate item
8 November 1623
Shakespeare
's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, collected (with one or two omissions) and posthumously published this year in a handsome large-format edition (the First Folio) were registered with the Stationers' Company
.
Dobson, Michael. “Whatever you do, buy”. London Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2001, pp. 8-10.
8-9
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
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Lea, Richard. “Shakespeare’s First Folio fetches ¥2.8m”. Guardian Unlimited, 13 July 2006.
Smith, Emma. Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book. Oxford University Press, 2016.