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- Title
'THREE PARTES ARE PAST': THE EARLIEST PERFORMANCES OF SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST TETRALOGY.
- Authors
Duncan-Jones, Katherine
- Abstract
A passage that sheds light on the early performance dates both of playwright William Shakespeare's "Henry VI" trilogy and of his play "Richard III" appears to have been overlooked by scholars, despite the fact that the poem in which it occurs was edited as long ago as 1964.1 It lends reinforcement to the view that the first three plays "were performed" before the closure of the theatres in mid-1592. The editor of Giles Fletcher's English Works, Lloyd Berry, suggested that the "first six stanzas" of the poem might well have been added when Fletcher decided to include the poem in his sonnet sequence.
- Subjects
EARLY modern English literature; STAGE history of Shakespeare's plays; DRAMA; THEATER; HENRY VI (Theatrical production); RICHARD III (Play : Shakespeare)
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2003, Vol 50, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/nq/50.1.20