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When 'harey' Met Shakespeare. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Dec 2008, Pages: 252
This book investigates the complex genesis of the
play printed in the Shakespeare First Folio of 1623
as 'The first Part of Henry the Sixt'. It begins by
anchoring the present volume in the wider context of
authorship theory and attribution studies before
examining the external and internal evidence for the
play’s date. It is demonstrated that it is
only by carrying out a full structural analysis of
the play that we can hope to disentangle and
accurately appraise the various revision theories
put forward by scholars over the centuries. The
author then conducts the first comprehensive
assessment of Gary Taylor’s groundbreaking 1995
authorship hypothesis for the play, and modifies it
significantly before concluding that 'The
first Part of Henry the Sixt' is Shakespeare’s
revision of the play that appears in Philip
Henslowe’s Diary as ‘harey the vj’; a play written
by Thomas Nashe (Act 1) and an anonymous playwright
(Acts 2–5) for Lord Strange’s company and first
performed at the Rose theatre on 3 March 1592. This
book will appeal to all students of Shakespeare,
especially those interested in his earliest
beginnings as a playwright.
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