Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others
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Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; Interludes, English; Moralities, English
Personally, I should have preferred to have deferred
publishing the text, in order to have had an opportunity of
careful and exact comparative study of the piece in its relation
to the Tudor drama as a _whole_ as well as "_play_"-meal. On
the other hand, I felt that the generous support we have met
with at the hands of the Society's subscribers would be best
repaid by speedy publication--"In the city of Jerusalem ...
walled" (353,_c_), if the play has come to us intact, and the
lack of continuity is intentional, the punctuation of this
passage must be altered: delete the full point after _called_
and regard the next line as a parenthesis, and substitute a
semicolon for the period after _walled_--"in the _lane of
business_" (354,_a_), in original _laue_ of _besynesse_--"Yes,
on the left side" (354,_c_), _Ies_ in original--"full of
_slouthy_ bushes" (355,_b_), this may be _flouthy_--"_Fumus_
_tormentorum_" (355,_d_), in original _Finit_: Latin quotations,
_supra_ (418,_d_)--"[_Iris_]. It is time for to be walking,
&c." (356,_a_), these two lines are not in original given to
Irisdision, but form part of Eugenios' speech, which proceeds
without a break to "Sir William of Trentram" (357,_a_). They
seem to me, however, to be rightly restored as now given--"by
books _Amromes_" (356,_b_), so in original:? a misprint for
_amorous_, which would at least restore the sense. There is,
moreover, nothing in original to suggest a break--"_St. John
the Evangelist_" (357,_a_), preceded by [+] instead of the
usual "leaf"--"plain _information_" (357,_b_) in original
_infymacyon_--"I am _that_ John that" (357,_b_), in original "I
am John that": a blunder I carelessly passed--"saw _Lungis_"
(357,_c_), original _Longes_: see (424,_d_)--"almost changed
my mood" (359,_c_), original _mode_--"have _been_ so witty"
(359,_c_), in original _brn_--"_Yes_, yes daily" (362,_b_), in
original _Ies_--"some pleasure then there _appears_" (363,_d_),
in original _areres_--"between your ears" (363,_d_), in original
_bytwene_--"make thee to _fly_" (365,_b_), a mistake: the
original is _stye_ (= ascend, A.S.)--"_Deo_ _gratias ago tibi_"
(366,_b_), substitute a full point for the comma--"In _that_ he
thanked God" (366,_b_), in original _than_--"By raveners ... men
can rehearse" (366,_c_). I do not feel sure that the present
punctuation gives the best rendering of the original, which
is entirely unstopped--"In that cayme" (366,_c_), see _supra,
s.v._ Cayme:? Cain--"_Against_ _God_" (366,_d_), in original
_Agayne_--"Who doth hie him shall be _ho_" (367,_a_), see
_supra,_ _s.v._ Ho.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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