The Faithful Shepherdess

Author(s): Fletcher, John
Note: Date of first performance and of first publication from Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 480. DEEP dates the earliest publication «[1610?].
Date of composition:
  • 1608 (best guess, Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 477 )
  • 1607 -1608 (Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 477)
Date of first performance: 1607 - 1608 1609
Date of first publication: 1619 ?
Genre (Annals): Pastoral
Genre: pastoral tragicomedy [source of genre: Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 477 ]

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 1582 (Vol. 5)
HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1609 or 1610 quarto (STC 11068) transcript
  • 1609 quarto Allde, Edward Bonian, Richard; Walley, Henry Printed title: THE FAITHFVLL Shepheardesse single-play print

  • STC/WING:
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  • DEEP:
  • Greg:
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Early Performances

  • Company: Children of the Queen's Revels Venue: The Blackfriars Date: 1607-8 approx,
    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: The King’s Men Venue: Denmark House (Somerset House) Date: 1634
      Cast:
        Location: Venue type: palace / court
        Note: 6 January
        Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 5: 1603-1608. 2015.
      • Company: The King’s Men Venue: The Blackfriars Date: 1634
        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.

        Modern Productions

        Aebischer and Prince refer to an amateur and student group production in 1923 (Performing, p. 226).

        Modern editions

        • Kirk, Florence Ada, ed. The Faithful Shepherdess. Fletcher, John. London and New York: Garland Pub, 1980. Garland Renaissance Drama.
        • Fletcher, John The Faithful Shepherdess. In: Hoy, Cyrus, ed. The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. Vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976, pp. 483–612
        • Nethercot, Arthur H.; Baskervill, Charles R.; Heltzel, Virgil B., ed. Stuart Plays. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
        • Kirk, Florence Ada The Faithful Shepherdess', by John Fletcher: A Critical Edition. In: . Northwestern University, 1944. Doctoral dissertation.
        • Fletcher, John The Faithful Shepherdess. In: Greg, Walter W., ed. The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. Vol. 3. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1908, pp. 1–110

        Select Bibliography: Criticism

        • Frodella, Sheila. ""Il 'pastor fido', 'The Faithful Shepherdess' e l'ideologia monarchica in epoca Stuart". Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate. 2010, vol. 4, 63, p. 355-379.
        • Yoch, James J. "The Renaissance Dramatization of Temperance: The Italian Revival of Tragicomedy and The Faithful Shepherdess". Ed. Maguire, Nancy Klein. Renaissance Tragicomedy: Explorations in Genre and Politics. New York: AMS, 1987, p. 115-138.
        • Finkelpearl, Philip J. "ohn Fletcher as Spenserian playwright: The Faithful Shepherdess and 'The Island Princess'". Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 1987, vol. 2, 27, p. 285-302.
        • Dorangeon, Simone. "'Ailleurs': Dans le monde baroque de la métamorphose (à propos de The Faithful Shepherdess, de John Fletcher". Reims: Pubs. du Centre de Recherche sur l'Imaginaire dans les Litts. de Langue Anglaise. 1981, , .
        • Mincoff, Marco. "The Faithful Shepherdess': A Fletcherian Experiment". Renaissance Drama. 1966, 9, p. 163-77.
        • Kempling, William B. "'The Faithful Shepherdess'". Times Literary Supplement. 1938, , p. 60.
        • Jeffery, V. M. ""Italian Influence in Fletcher's 'Faithful Shepherdess". Modern Language Review. 1926, 21, p. 147-58.

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