Mucedorus – The HIERONIMO Project

Alternative title(s): Mucedorus, the King’s Son of Valencia, and Amadine, the King’s Daughter of Aragon | Mucedorus and Amadine | Mucedorus (and Amadine)

Author(s): anon.

Note: Two substantive textual versions: 1598 quarto and 1610 quarto (adding three new scenes and revising endings to the last two scenes). The 1606 quarto has minor alterations in the final scene in reference to Elizabeth I. Harbage et al. set date limits between 1588 and 1598.

Date of composition:

1591 (best guess, Wiggins, vol. 3, p. 82 )
1590 -1598 (Wiggins, vol. 3, p. 82 )

Date of first performance: 1590 - 1598 approx.

Date of first publication: 1598

Genre (Annals): Romantic comedy

Genre: comedy [source of genre: 1598 quarto title page] Genre: romance [source of genre: Wiggins, vol. 3, p. 82 ]

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 884 (Vol. 3)

HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1598 quarto transcript

1598 quarto Printer(s): unknown Publisher: Jones, William (2) Printed title: A Most pleasant Comedie of Mucedorus the kings sonne of Valentia and Amadine the Kings daughter of Arragon, with the merie conceites of Mouse. Type: single-play print
1606 quarto Printer(s): White, William Publisher: Jones, William (2) Type: single-play print
1610 quarto Printer(s): White, William Publisher: Jones, William (2) Type: single-play print
1611 quarto Printer(s): White, William Publisher: Jones, William (2) Type: single-play print
1613 quarto Printer(s): Eld, George (?) Publisher: Jones, William (2) Type: single-play print
1615 quarto Printer(s): Okes, Nicholas Publisher: Jones, William (2) Type: single-play print
[ 1615-1618 ] quarto Publisher: Jones, William (2) (?); Wright, John (1) (?) Type: single-play print
1618 quarto Printer(s): Eld, George (?) Publisher: Wright, John (1) Type: single-play print
1619 quarto Printer(s): Eld, George (?) Publisher: Wright, John (1) Type: single-play print
1621 quarto Printer(s): Eld, George (?) Publisher: Wright, John (1) Type: single-play print
1626 quarto Printer(s): Purslowe, George Publisher: Wright, John (1) Type: single-play print
[ 1629 ? ] quarto Printer(s): Purslowe, George Publisher: Wright, John (1) Type: single-play print
1631 quarto Printer(s): Purslowe, George Publisher: Wright, John (1) Type: single-play print
1634 quarto Printer(s): Purslowe, Elizabeth Publisher: Wright, John (1) Type: single-play print
1639 quarto Printer(s): Young, Robert Publisher: Wright, John (1) Type: single-play print
[ 1656 ? ] quarto Printer(s): unknown Publisher: Coles, Francis Type: single-play print
1663 quarto Printer(s): Wilson, William Publisher: Coles, Francis Type: single-play print
1668 quarto Printer(s): Okes, Edward Publisher: Coles, Francis Type: single-play print
quarto Type: single-play print

Wiggins: 884 (in vol. 3)

Early Performances

Company: Venue: Date: 1598
Cast:
Location: Venue type:
Note: 1598 is the latest date. The 1598 quarto title page refers to the play as 'sundry times played'.
Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 3: 1590-1597. 2013.
Company: Venue: Date: 1604 - 1606
Cast:
Location: Venue type:
Note: Performance inferred by R. T. Thornberry (1977).
Information source:
Company: The King’s Men Venue: Whitehall Palace Date: 1610
Cast:
Location: Venue type: palace / court
Note: 20 February. Performance of revised version in 1610 quarto.
Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 3: 1590-1597. 2013.

Modern Productions

Aebischer and Prince refer to an amaateur and student group production in 2003 (Peforming, p. 227).

Modern editions

Jupin, Arvin H., ed. A Contextual Study and Modern-Spelling Edition of Mucedorus. New York: Garland Pub, 1987.
Fraser, Russell A.; Rabkin, Norman, ed. Drama of the English Renaissance II: The Stuart Period. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc., 1976.
Boyer, Norman P. A Critical Edition of ‘Mucedorus’ [unpublished diss.]. University of Denver, 1969. Dissertation Abstracts. 1970.
Brooke, Charles F. Tucker; Burton, Nathaniel Paradise, ed. English Drama 1580-1642. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1933.

Select Bibliography: Criticism

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Segall, Kreg. "Mucedorus and Counsel from Q1 to Q3". Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate. 2014, vol. 1, 24, p. 63-87.
Kirwan, Peter. "Mucedorus". Ed. Kesson, Andy and Emma Smith. The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Ashgate, 2013, p. 223-234.
{Falta autor artículo revista}. "The First Collected 'Shakespeare Apocrypha'". Shakespeare Quarterly. 2011, vol. 4, 62, p. 594-601.
Drábek, Pavel. "Shakespeare's Influence on Mucedorus". Ed. Drábek, Pavel, Klára Kolinská, Matthew Nicholls and John Russell Brown. Shakespeare and His Collaborators Over the Centuries. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Cambridge Scholars, 2008, p. 45-53.
Rooney, Tom. "Who 'Plaid' the Bear in Mucedorus?". Notes and Queries. 2007, vol. 3, 54, p. 259-262.
Hyland, Peter. "Scare Bear: Playing with Mucedorus". Ed. by Loomis, Catherine, Sid Ray and Ralph Alan Cohen. Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Fairleigh Dickinson UP--Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, p. 203-211.
Peachman, John. "Links between Mucedorus and the Tragical History, Admirable Atchievments and various Events of Guy Earl of Warwick". Notes and Queries. 2006, vol. 4, 53, p. 464-467.
Proudfoot, Richard. "'Modernizing' the Printed Play-Text in Jacobean London: Some Early Reprints of Mucedorus". Ed. Anderson, Linda, Janis Lull and David Haley. 'A Certain Text': Close Readings and Textual Studies on Shakespeare and Others. {Falta nombre ciudad}: U of Delaware P--Associated UP, 2002, p. 18-28.
Finkelstein, Richard. "Censorhip and Forgiven Violence in Mucedorus". Parergon: Bulletin of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 1999, vol. 1, 17, p. 89-108.
Pitcher, John. "'Fronted with the Sight of a Bear': Cox of Collumpton and the Winter's Tale". Notes and Queries. 1994, vol. 1, 41, p. 47-53.
Dessen, Alan C. "Conceptual Casting in the Age of Shakespeare: Evidence from Mucedorus". Shakespeare Quarterly. 1992, vol. 1, 43, p. 67-70.
Stodder, Joseph H. "Mucedorus and the Birth of Merlin at the Los Angeles Globe". Shakespeare Quarterly. 1990, vol. 3, 41, p. 368-372.
Kreuzer, Paul G. "Mucedorus". Ed. Bowers, Fredson. Elizabethan Dramatists. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Gale, 1987, p. 373-383.
Bond, David. "On Playing Musidors". Notes and Queries. 1986, vol. 4, 33, p. 469-471.
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Thornberry, Richard T. "A Seventeenth-Century Revival of Mucedorus in London before 1610". Shakespeare Quarterly. 1977, vol. 3, 28, p. 362-364.
{Falta autor libro}. Thoth: Syracuse University Graduate Studies in English. {Falta nombre ciudad}: {Falta nombre editorial}, 1976. Vol. 16.Mucedorus: A Comedy of Transformation.
Corman, Brian. "'The Way of the World' and Morally Serious Comedy". University of Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of the Humanities. 1975, 44, p. 199-212.
Jackson, MacD P. "Edward Archer's Ascription of Mucedorus to Shakespeare". Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association: A Journal of Literary Criticism, Philology & Linguistics. 1964, 22, p. 233-248.
Reynolds, George F. "Mucedorus, most Popular Elizabethan Play?". Ed. Bennett, Josephine W.. Studies in the English Renaissance Drama: In Memory of Karl Julius Holzknecht. {Falta nombre ciudad}: {Falta nombre editorial}, 1959, p. 248-268.
Kirschbaum, Leo. "The Texts of 'Mucedorus". Modern Language Review. 1955, 50, p. 1-5.