Stage Histories
Edited by Elizabeth Schafer| Type | Date(s) | Theatre | Director | Company / Cast | Details |
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The English Moor |
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| Performance | 1637 | Salisbury Court | Queen Henrietta's MenCast ListBuzzard - Timothy Read |
External ReviewsRead's performance as Buzzard is alluded to in the Praeludium to The Careless Shepherdess: 'I heard a fellow / Once on this stage cry, Doodle, Doodle, Dooe, / Beyond compare'. See also [DM 5.1.speech887], apparently referrring to Read's performance: 'See how you carry de hands like de comedien dat act de shangling'. For further discussion of both these allusions, and their implications for a more precise dating of the play, see the Introduction to The English Moor in this edition. |
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| Performance | 1641 | ?Cockpit | ?Beeston's Boys | CommentsThe Textual Introduction makes the case that there was a revival of The English Moor, associated with O's prologue and epilogue. It dates the revival, tentatively, to 1641 or 1642, but other details about it are entirely speculative. |
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