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If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 659205a97c84c41f • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. The Scornful Lady by John Fletcher. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 659205a98c2184e0 • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Wikipedia. This text was copied from Wikipedia on 1 June 2021 at 6:01AM. The Scornful Lady is a Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, and first published in 1616, the year of Beaumont's death. It was one of the pair's most popular, often revived, and frequently reprinted works. Contents. Performances. The title page of the 1616 first edition states that the play was premiered by the Children of the Queen's Revels; it later passed into the possession of the King's Men, who revived the play in 1624. [1] (The company's clown, John Shank, played the Curate in their 1624 production.) The King's Men acted The Scornful Lady on 19 October 1633, when Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels, refused to let them perform The Woman's Prize. Prince Charles, the future King Charles II, attended a performance of the play at the Cockpit-in-Court Theatre on Twelfth Night, 6 January 1642. While the theatres were closed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum (1642–60), material was extracted from The Scornful Lady to form a droll called The False Heir and Formal Curate, published by Kirkman in The Wits . The play was revived early in the Restoration and became a standard in the repertory. In his Diary, Samuel Pepys recorded seeing it on 27 November 1660 and on 4 January 1661, both times with male actors in the title role, as was standard up to that time. Then Thomas Killigrew staged the play with women in the female parts; Pepys saw that production on 12 February 1661. Pepys saw the play again on 27 December 1666, 16 September 1667, and 3 June 1668. Charles Hart and Edward Kynaston were among the actors of the day who played in it. [2] The Scornful Lady remained in the repertory until the middle of the 18th century. [3] Some early actresses acquired reputations for their work in the play; Anne Marshall was noted for her portrayal of the title character in the 1660s, while in the next century Mrs. Macklin, the wife of Charles Macklin, was a popular success as the servant Abigail. Authorship. The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 19 March 1616; both the Register entry and the first edition assign the play to Beaumont and Fletcher. Cyrus Hoy, in his survey of authorship problems in the canon of Fletcher and his collaborators, produced this breakdown in the two writers' contributions: [4] Beaumont — Act I, scene 1; Act II, 2; Act V, 2; Fletcher — Act I, scene 2; Act II, 2 and 3; Act III; Act IV; Act V, scenes 1, 3, and 4. Hoy's schema is in general agreement with the work of earlier researchers. [5] A few early critics suggested the participation of Philip Massinger, though that possibility has generally been rejected due to lack of evidence. Based on references and allusions to contemporary events, scholars generally date the play to the 1613–16 period, though dates as early as 1610 have also been proposed. [6] [7] [8] The Scornful Lady participates in a complex inter-relationship with several other plays of its era, a set of dramas that includes Marston's The Dutch Courtesan, Fletcher and Massinger's The Little French Lawyer, Massinger's The Parliament of Love, and A Cure for a Cuckold by John Webster and William Rowley. [9] All the plays exploit the idea of a woman who wants her beloved to duel with and kill his closest friend. Texts. The play went through multiple editions in the 17th century, leaving it with a complex publication history. [10] The 1616 first edition, published in quarto by the bookseller Miles Partridge, with the printing probably done by Richard Bradock. Q2, 1625, published by Thomas Jones, the printing presumably done by Augustine Matthews. Q3, 1630, issued again by Thomas Jones, printed by Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcett. Q4, 1635, published and printed by Augustine Matthews, the printer of Q2. Q5, 1639, issued by Robert Wilson, printing by Marmaduke Parsons. Q6, 1651, published by Humphrey Moseley; the printer was probably William Wilson. Two pirated editions of Moseley's Q6, issued by Francis Kirkman, both with the false date "1651." Q7, 1677, which, in light of the previous piracies, pointedly identifies itself as "The Seventh Edition" on its title page; "As it is now Acted at the Theatre Royal" in Drury Lane. The likely publishers were Thomas Collins and Dorman Newman, acting through the bookseller Simon Neale. Q8, 1691, from Dorman Newman. Subsequent editions followed in the 18th century. Like other already-published Beaumont/Fletcher plays, The Scornful Lady was omitted from the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647, but was included in the second folio of 1679. Thomas Shadwell borrowed from the Beaumont/Fletcher play for his own The Woman-Captain (1680), [11] which was revived in 1744 as The Prodigal. References. ^ E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage, 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1823; Vol. 3, p. 229. ^ Arthur Colby Sprague, Beaumont and Fletcher on the Restoration Stage, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1926; pp. 42-3. ^ Sprague, p. 124. ^ Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, eds., The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama, Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1978; p. 63. ^ E. H. C. Oliphant, The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher: An Attempt to Determine Their Respective Shares and the Shares of Others, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1927; p. 210. ^ Chambers, Vol. 3, pp. 229-30. ^ Oliphant, p. 209. ^ Logan and Smith, p. 63. ^ Rupert Brooke, John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama, New York, John Lane, 1916; pp. 261- 74. ^ Fredson Bowers, general editor, The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon, Vol. 2., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1970. Cyrus Hoy, Textual Introduction, pp. 451-5. ^ Albert Stephens Borgman, Thomas Shadwell: His Life and Comedies, New York, New York University Press, 1928; reprinted New York, Benjamin Blom, 1969; pp. 185-90. External links. 1 Annotation. in Aqua Scripto on 16 Nov 2005 • Link. your copy available here: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12110 quote:"Kiss till the cow comes home:" II. ii. "There is no other puratory but a woman" III. i. Log in to post an annotation. If you don't have an account, then register here. References. Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries. The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes Volume I. By: John Fletcher (1579-1625) The first collected edition of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher was published in 1647, in folio (12 1/2 ins. x 8 1/8 ins. is the measurement of the copy used for the purpose of collation). The title page runs thus: Comedies and Tragedies. Never printed before, And now published by the Authours Originall Copies. Si quid habent veri Vatum præsagia, vivam.London , Printed for Humphrey Robinson , at the three Pidgeons , and for Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes in St Pauls . This collection, which is referred to as the First Folio throughout the present edition, contained all the authors' previously unpublished plays (34) except The Wild Goose Chase , which, at the date of the Folio, was supposed to be lost. The dedicatory epistles, commendatory poem, and Catalogue of Plays, prefixed to the First Folio, are reprinted in the preliminary pages at the end of this Note (pp. ix lvii). The second collected edition appeared in 1679 in folio (14 3/8 ins. x 8 1/4 ins.); a reprint of the title page is given on p. lix of the present volume. This collection, referred to henceforth as the Second Folio, contained (i) all the plays included in the First Folio, (ii) The Wild Goose Chase , which had been published in folio in 1652, (iii) all the other then known plays of the authors which had been published previously to 1679. William Marshall's portrait of John Fletcher faces the title page of both folios with the following inscription engraved underneath: Felicis ævi ac Præsulis Natus; comes Beaumontis; sic, quippe Parnassus , biceps; FLETCHERUS unam in Pyramida furcas agens. Struxit chorum plus simplicem Vates Duplex; Plus duplicem solus: nec ullum transtulit; Nec transferendus: Dramatum æterni sales, Anglo Theatro, Orbe, Sibi, superstites . FLETCHERE, facies absqz vultu pingitur; Quantus! vel umbram circuit nemo tuam. Later collected editions of the works were published in 1711 (7 vols.); 1750, edited by Lewis Theobald, Thomas Seward and J. Sympson (10 vols.); 1778, edited by George Colman (10 vols.); 1812, edited by Henry Weber (14 vols.); 1843, edited by Alexander Dyce (11 vols.). It is unnecessary to refer in detail to these later editions which, very widely as they differ among themselves, agree in presenting an eclectic text, a text formed partly by a collation of the various old editions and partly by the adoption of conjectural emendations. During the progress of work upon the present issue another edition has been announced, under the general editorship of Mr A. H. Bullen, and the first volume was published last year. It follows the lines of its predecessors in presenting a modernised text, giving 'a fuller record than had been given by Dyce of variæ lectiones ,' and pleading, in its prospectus, that, 'for the use of scholars, there should be editions of all our old authors in old spelling.' The objects of the present edition, in accordance with the scheme of the series of ENGLISH CLASSICS of which it is a part, are to provide (i) a text in which there shall be no deviation from that adopted as its basis, in the matter of spelling, punctuation, the use of capitals and italics, save as recorded, and to give (ii) an apparatus of variant readings as an Appendix, comprising the texts of all the early issues, that is to say, of all editions prior to and including the Second Folio. Within these limits, and apart from mere variations in spelling and punctuation, every variation, whether deemed important or not, is recorded in the Appendixes to these volumes. Continue reading book >>