When Did Shakespeare Write the Choruses of Henry V?

Bednarz, James P.

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“…iv. 1,10,21,5,15,17,19,29,24,25,28,22, and 32) group. Tobin's simple listing of Act, Scene and Line numbers without further explication disguises the fact that both these clusters are in scenes of Two Gentlemen which were probably late, or even last-minute, additions to the play, the first cluster coming in a scene involving the Outlaws, and, most significantly, the second cluster coming entirely within Lance's final soliloquy.…”

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“…Certainly, Jonson appears to have had Shakespeare very much on his mind during Every Man Out. There are allusions in the play to Julius Caesar and Henry IV, and probably to Henry V as well 28 , and it is even possible that Jonson takes a personal swipe at Shakespeare, using the character of Sogliardo to mock his social pretensions in acquiring a coat of arms 29 . To all this focus on Shakespeare in Every Man Out we can probably now add an extended reference to Two Gentlemen.…”

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Why a Dog? A Late Date for The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Peachman¹

2007

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The date of Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen Of Verona is one of the most uncertain in the canon. The only text we have is that in the Folio of 1623, there is no record of a performance until the eighteenth century, and no topical allusions have been found within the text. The only indisputable fact about dating is that the play is mentioned in Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia: Wit's Treasury, dedicated 19 October 1598, and entered in the Stationers' Register on 7 September of that year. It is generally believed that the play is 'early', but in the absence of hard evidence for a date of composition, editors have ranged between 1588 and 1595 in their dating, and recent editors candidly admit that whatever the date chosen 'the actual dating and placing remain more or less informed guesswork' 1 and 'the play could belong to any year in the decade before Meres mentioned it' 2 .

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Why a Dog? A Late Date for The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Peachman¹

2007

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Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage

Rutter

2008

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Time and again, early modern plays show people at work: shoemaking, grave-digging, and professional acting are just some of the forms of labour that theatregoers could have seen depicted on stage in 1599 and 1600. Tom Rutter demonstrates how such representations were shaped by the theatre's own problematic relationship with work: actors earned their living through playing, a practice that many considered idle and illegitimate, while plays were criticised for enticing servants and apprentices from their labour. As a result, the drama of Shakespeare's time became the focal point of wider debates over what counted as work, who should have to do it, and how it should be valued. This book describes changing beliefs about work in the sixteenth century, and shows how different ways of conceptualising the work of the governing class inform Shakespeare's histories. It identifies important contrasts between plays written for the adult and child repertories.

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Eliminating Essex: Richard II and the Diverse Poetical Essays

Bednarz

2012

Shakespeare and the Truth of Love

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When Did Shakespeare Write the Choruses of Henry V?

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Why a Dog? A Late Date for The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Why a Dog? A Late Date for The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage

Eliminating Essex: Richard II and the Diverse Poetical Essays

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