The Four Ps

Alternative title(s): The Four PP 
Author(s): Heywood, John
Date of composition:
  • 1520 -1522 (approx.)
Date of first performance: 1520 - 1522 approx.
Date of first publication: 1544 ?
Genre (Annals): Comic Interlude
Genre: interlude

HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1544? quarto transcript (STC 13300)
  • [1544?] quarto Middleton, William Printed title: The playe called the foure PP. A newe and a very mery enterlude of A palmer. A pardoner. A potycary. A pedler. single-play print
      ESTC: S109760 13300 27 21a
      EEBO-TCP: A03177 - British Library - EEBO record TCP HTML XML
      Observations: Clopper, L. M. ed. The Four Ps. By John Heywood. From William Middleton’s edition of c.1544. Oxford: Malone Society, 1984. Malone Society Reprints, 145.
  • [1560?] quarto Copland, William Printed title: The playe called the foure P A new and very mery enterlude of A Palmer. A pardoner. A Poticary. A Pedler. single-play print
      ESTC: S118770 13301 28 21b
      EEBO-TCP: - Bodleian Library - EEBO record
  • 1569 quarto Allde, John single-play print
      ESTC: S121356 13302 29 21c
      EEBO-TCP: - British Library - EEBO record

  • STC/WING: STC 13300 (Q1544?); 13301 (Q1560?); 13302 (Q1569)
  • ESTC:
  • DEEP: 27 (Q1544?); 28 (Q1560?), 29 (Q1569)
  • Greg: 21a (Q1544?); 21b (Q1560?); 21c (Q1569)
  • Wiggins:

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    Modern editions

    • López Santos, Antonio; Tostado González, Rubén, ed. Interludio de Calisto y Melibea: Estudio, traducción y notas. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2001.
    • Walker, Greg, ed. Medieval Drama: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
    • Axton, Richard; Happé, Richard, ed. The Plays of John Heywood. D. S. Brewer, 1991.
    • Fraser, Russell A.; Rabkin, Norman, ed. Drama of the English Renaissance I: The Tudor Period. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc., 1976.
    • Bevington, David, ed. Medieval Drama. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
    • Gassner, John, ed. Medieval and Tudor Drama. New York: Bantam Books, 1963.

    Select Bibliography: Translations

    • ES:
      • López Santos, Antonio; Tostado González, Rubén. Interludio de Calisto y Melibea: Estudio, traducción y notas. Ed. López Santos, Antonio; Tostado González, Rubén. Tra. López Santos, Antonio; Tostado González, Rubén. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2001.

    Select Bibliography: Criticism

    • Happé, Peter. "Dramatizing Belief: Charlatans, Credulity and Faith in John Heywood's Four PP". Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance Studies. 2011, 79, p. 1-9.
    • Finkelstein, Richard. "Formation of the Christian Self in the Four P.P". Ed. Tricomi, Albert H. and Martin Stevens. Early Drama to 1600. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Center for Medieval & Early Renaissance Studies, State Univ. of New York, 1987, p. 143-152.
    • Bond, David. "On Playing Musidors". Notes and Queries. 1986, vol. 4, 33, p. 469-471.
    • Blamires, Alcuin. "John Heywood and the Four PP". Trivium. 1979, 14, p. 47-69.
    • Hussey, Maurice; Agarwala, Surendra. The Play of the Weather by John Heywood and Other Tudor Comedies Adapted into Modern English. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Theatre Arts, 1968.
    • McCain,John W.,Jr.. "Heywood's 'the Four PP': A Debt to Skelton". Notes and Queries. 1938, 174, p. 205.

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