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English The Adventures of Five Hours
Note:
An adaptation of the Spanish play Los empeños de seis horas [ The labours of six hours ], by Antonio Coello, formerly attributed to Pedro Calderón de la Barca (ESTC R23158).
Date of composition from Womersley, Restoration Drama, p. 2
Samuel Tuke (d. 1674)
Date of composition:
- 1662
Date of first performance: 1663
Genre (Annals): Tragicomedy
Genre: comedy of intrigue [source of genre: Gómez-Lara et al., p. 476]
Catalogue references: Gómez-Lara et al.: p. 472-478
- 1663 folio Wilson, William Herringman, Henry single-play print
- ESTC: R23158 T3229
EEBO-TCP: A63834 - British Library - EEBO record – TCP HTML XML
Observations: Reprint: Swaen, A. E. H., ed. 'The Adventures of Five Hours by Sir Samuel Tuke', reprinted from the folio of 1663 and the third impression of 1671, together with Coello's 'Los empenos de seis horas'. Amsterdam: Swets&Zeitlinger, 1927.
- STC/WING: WING T3229
- ESTC:
Early Performances
- Company: The Duke’s Company Venue: Lincoln’s Inn Fields Date: 1663
Cast:
Note: 8 January. In Pepys’s “Diary”.
Information source: Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Volume 1 Restoration Drama 1660-1700. 1952. - Company: Venue: Date: 1666-67
Cast:
Note: 3 December
Information source: Gómez-Lara, Manuel J.; et al.. Restoration Comedy 1660-1670: A Catalogue. 2014. - Company: Venue: Date: 1668-69
Cast:
Note: 27 January; 15 Februaru
Information source: Gómez-Lara, Manuel J.; et al.. Restoration Comedy 1660-1670: A Catalogue. 2014. - Company: Venue: Date: 1671-72
Cast:
Note: 20 April
Information source: Gómez-Lara, Manuel J.; et al.. Restoration Comedy 1660-1670: A Catalogue. 2014. - Company: Venue: Date: 1673-74
Cast:
Note: 31 January
Information source: Gómez-Lara, Manuel J.; et al.. Restoration Comedy 1660-1670: A Catalogue. 2014. - Company: Venue: Date: 1676-77
Cast:
Note: 26 October
Information source: Gómez-Lara, Manuel J.; et al.. Restoration Comedy 1660-1670: A Catalogue. 2014. - Company: Venue: Date: 1698-99
Cast:
Information source: Gómez-Lara, Manuel J.; et al.. Restoration Comedy 1660-1670: A Catalogue. 2014.
Modern editions
- Hopkins, Paul M. S., ed. The adventures of Sir Samuel Tuke : full authentic text of Tuke's play and suggestions for staging The adventures of five hours. Tuke, Samuel, Sir. woodford Halse2003.
- Womersley, David, ed. Restoration Drama. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
- Thal, B. van., ed. The Adventures of Five Hours: Adapted from the Spanish of an Unknown Play of Calderón.. London: Holden, 1927. The Covent Garden Series of Restoration Plays.
- Hazlitt, W. Carew, ed. A Select Collection of Old English Plays. Vol. 15. London: Reeves and Turner, 1874.
- Dodsley, Robert,, ed. A Select Collection of Old Plays. Vol. 12. London: Septimus Prowett, 1827.
Select Bibliography: Criticism
- Keenan, Tim. "The Early Restoration Stage Re-Anatomised: 'The Adventures of Five Hours' at Lincoln's Inn Fields 1663". Theatre Notebook: A Journal of the History and Technique of the British Theatre. 2007, vol. 1, 61, p. 12-31.
- Williams, Carolyn D. "The adventures of Sir Samuel Tuke: full authentic text of Tuke's play and suggestions for staging 'The Adventures of Five Hours'". Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research. 2004, vol. 1, 19, p. 77-8.
- Visser, Colin. "The Anatomy of the Early Restoration Stage: 'The Adventures of Five Hours' and John Dryden's 'Spanish' Comedies". Theatre Notebook: A Journal of the History and Technique of the British Theatre. 1975, 29, p. 56-69, 114-19.
- Gaw, Allison. Sir Samuel Tuke's “Adventures of Five Hours” in relation to the “Spanish Plot” and to Dryden. Baltimore: Waverly Press, 1917.
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