CHETTLE, SIR THOMAS WYAT, AND LADY JANE.
The article reports that the drama "The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat" represents, in some form, the two parts of "Lady Jane" for which Philip Heslowe paid a total of £8 to Chettle, Dekker, Heywood, Webster, and Wentworth Smith in October 1602. Two of the Lady Jane collaborators are the authors...
| Published in: | Notes & Queries Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 488 - 490 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec1988
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| Summary: | The article reports that the drama "The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat" represents, in some form, the two parts of "Lady Jane" for which Philip Heslowe paid a total of £8 to Chettle, Dekker, Heywood, Webster, and Wentworth Smith in October 1602. Two of the Lady Jane collaborators are the authors named on the titlepage of Wyat whose names were probably used to capitalize on their recent successes Westward Ho and Northward Ho; and the structural defects of Wyat can be shown to stem from omission made necessary by the abridger's ruling principle to retain only the episodes associated directly with Wyat. |
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