Eastward Ho

Alternative title(s): Eastward Ho!
Author(s): Chapman, George; Jonson, Ben; Marston, John
Note: Conjectural collaborative stints: 1.1-2, 2.1 Marston; 2.2, 3.1-4 Chapman; 4.1 Jonson, Chapman and Marston; 4.2, 5.1-5 Jonson (Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 214).
Date of composition:
  • 1605 (best guess, Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 214)
  • 1604 -1605 (Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 214)
Date of first performance: 1605
Date of first publication: 1605
Genre (Annals): Comedy

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 1473 (Vol. 5)
HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1605 quarto transcript
  • 1605 quarto Eld, George Aspley, William Printed title: EASTWARD HOE single-play print
      ESTC: S91403 4970 402 217a(i)
      EEBO-TCP: Dyce Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum - EEBO record
  • 1605 quarto Eld, George Aspley, William single-play print

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Early Performances

  • Company: Children of the Queen's Revels Venue: The Blackfriars Date: 1605
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
      Note: Indoor “private” theatre
      Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 5: 1603-1608. 2015.
    • Company: Lady Elizabeth's Men Venue: The Swan (?) Date: 1613
      Cast:
        Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
        Note: 9 or 16 August
        Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 5: 1603-1608. 2015.
      • Company: Lady Elizabeth's Men Venue: Whitehall Palace Date:
        Cast:
          Location: Venue type: palace / court
          Note: 25 January
          Information source:

        Modern Productions

        • Royal Shakespeare Company. Dir. Lucy Putman-Wallace. Perf. Geofrey Freshwater (Touchstone); Billy Carter (Quicksilver); James Tucker (Golding); Shelley Conn (Mildred); Michael Matus (Sir Petronel Flash). Swan/Newcastle Playhouse/ Gielgud. 2002
        • American Shakespeare Center. No casting details available. Blacfriars/Staunton, Virginia. 2006.

        Modern editions

        • Gossett, Suzanne; Ian Kay, David, ed. Eastward Ho. In: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 529–640
        • Knowles, James; Giddens, Eugene, ed. The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Oxford English Drama.
        • Petter, C. G., ed. Eastward Ho. Jonson, Ben. Tonbridge, Kent: Benn, 1973, pp. 139 . New Mermaids.
        • Brooke, Charles F. Tucker; Paradise, Nathaniel Burton, ed. English Drama 1580-1642. Boston: Heath, 1933.
        • Spencer, Hazelton, ed. Elizabethan Plays. Boston: Heath, 1933.
        • Herford, C. H.; Simpson, Percy, ed. Eastward Ho. In: Ben Jonson. Vol. 4. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932, pp. 487–619
        • Herford, C. H.; Simpson, Percy; Simpson, Evelyn, ed. . In: . Vol. 11. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925

        Select Bibliography: Translations

        • FR:
          • Chapman, George, Jonson, Ben; Marston, John. "Cap à l’Est". Tra. Villquin, Jean-Pierre. Ed. Cottegnies,Line; Laroque, François; Maguin, Jean-Marie. Théâtre élisabéthain. Paris: Gallimard, 2009. Vol. 1.

        Select Bibliography: Criticism

        • Austern, Linda Phyllis. "Music, its Histories, and Shakespearean (Inter-) Theatricality in Beaumont's 'Knight of the Burning Pestle'". Ed. Barclay, Bill and Lindley, David. Shakespeare, Music, and Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, p. 84-98.
        • Cathcart, Charles. "Edward Greene, goldsmith; William Marston, apprentice; and 'Eastward Ho!' '". Early Theatre. 2016, vol. 2, 19, p. 81-100.
        • Stage, Kelly. "Eastward Ho' and the strength of weak ties for playwrights and patrons". Ben Jonson Journal. 2015, vol. 2, 22, p. 208-28.
        • Stritmatter, Roger; Kositsky, Lynne. "The pattern of parody in 'Eastward Ho', and a new date for King Lear". Critical Survey. 2014, vol. 2, 26, p. 21-52.
        • Donley, Maren L. "The mechanics of virtue: Quicksilver's 'repentance', the test of the audience, and social change in 'Eastward Ho'". Renaissance Drama. 2013, vol. 1/2, 41, p. 25-55.
        • Stevens, Paul. "The New Presentism and Its Discontents: Listening to 'Eastward Ho' and Shakespeare's 'Tempest' in Dialogue". Ed. Coiro, Ann Baynes; Fulton, Thomas. Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, p. 133-158.
        • Kay, W. David. "Parodic wit and social satire in Chapman, Jonson, and Marston's 'Eastward Ho!' [with illustration]". English Literary Renaissance. 2012, vol. 3, 42, p. 391-424.
        • McIntosh, Shona. "Space, Place and Transformation in 'Eastward Ho!' and 'The Alchemist'". Ed. Fitzpatrick, Joan. The Idea of the City: Early-Modern, Modern and Post-Modern Locations and Communities. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2009, p. 65-77.
        • Shaffer, Elinor. "'Eastward Ho!' The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe: From the Low Countries to the Hellespont". Ed. De Clercq, Martine; Toremans, Tom; Verschueren, Walter. Textual Mobility and Cultural Transmission/Tekstmobiliteit en Culturele Overdracht. Louvain: Leuven UP, 2006, p. 39-48.
        • Klein, Jürgen. "Eastward Ho!' Hakluyt's Principal Voyages on English 16th Century Seafarers to the Baltic and Eastern Europe". Zeitsprünge: Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit. 2006, vol. 3-4, 10, p. 400-423.
        • Jankowski, Theodora A. "Class categorization, capitalism, and the problem of 'gentle' identity in 'The Royall King and the Loyall Subject' and 'Eastward Ho!'". Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. 2006, 19, p. 144-74.
        • Ingram, Jill Phillips. "Economies of obligation in 'Eastward Ho!'". Ben Jonson Journal. 2004, 11, p. 21-40.
        • Kang, Du-hyoung. "Renaissance Drama and the Problem of Power: Historicizing 'The Shoemaker's Holiday' and 'Eastward Ho'". Journal of English Language and Literature/Yongo Yongmunhak. 1999, vol. 4, 45, p. 1033-57.
        • Sigalas, Joseph G. "Sailing against the tide: resistance to pre-colonial constructs and euphoria in 'Eastward Ho!'". Renaissance Papers. 1994, , p. 85-94.
        • Schlösser, Jutta. "Überlegungen zur Interpretation von 'Eastward Ho'". Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft. 1983, 119, p. 115-22.
        • Lake, D. J. "'Eastward Ho': linguistic evidence for authorship". Notes and Queries. 1981, 28, p. 158-66.
        • Cohen, Ralph Alan. "The function of setting in 'Eastward Ho'". Renaissance Papers. 1974, , p. 85-96.
        • Horwich, Richard. "Hamlet' and 'Eastward Ho'". Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 1971, 11, p. 223-33.
        • Summersgill, Travis. "Structural Parallels in 'Eastward Ho' and 'The Tempest'". Bucknell Review: A Scholarly Journal of Letters, Arts and Sciences. 1957, vol. 4, 6, p. 24-28.
        • Peery, William. "'Eastward Ho!'' and 'A Woman is a Weathercock'". MLN: modern language notes. 1947, 62, p. 131-2.
        • Simpson, Percy. "The Problem of Authorship of 'Eastward Ho'". PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 1944, vol. 3, 59, p. 715-25.
        • Withington, Robert. "A Note on 'Eastward Ho,' I, ii, 178". MLN: modern language notes. 1928, 63, p. 324-5.
        • Cooper, Lane. "'A Note on 'Eastward Ho', I, ii, 178'". Modern Language Notes. 1928, vol. 5, 43, p. 324-25.

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