Brute Parts: From Troy to Britain at the Rose, 1595–1600

Teramura, Misha

doi:10.1057/9781137403971_8

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“…Needless to say, the proposal brought forward in these pages -like most arguments about lost plays -must necessarily rely to a large extent on conjectures, however sensible and informed they may be: Misha Teramura voices a common concern when he wonders, 'can there be criticism without a text?'. 50 As Steggle remarks, 'one must always remember that the evidence base is … much smaller and more vulnerable than for a play whose playscript is extant'. 51 As a result, 'Telomo' might simply have been a different character entirely, now utterly unknown to us, completely lost in the mists of time.…”

Section: Informed Conjecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Leicester’s Men and the Lost <i>Telomo</i> of 1583

Lovascio¹

2017

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This article proposes a new identification for the lost play Telomo, performed at court by Leicester’s Men in 1583. Challenging previous hypotheses that the play might have been either about a character named Ptolemy or about one of the main character’s friends from the Spanish romance Palmerin d’Oliva, this article suggests that the play may have dramatized either episodes involving Ajax Telamonius or his father or, as appears more likely, the episode of ‘The Vnkindly Loue of Telamon to Castibula His Frends Wife’ from Brian Melbancke’s euphuistic romance Philotimus. The Warre betwixt Nature and Fortune (1583).

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Section: Informed Conjecturementioning

confidence: 99%