Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid

Author(s): Fletcher, John
Note: Attribution by Pérez Díez (2015). Annals ascribes the play to «Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John (revised by Massinger)», and date it on «c. 1606 (rev. 1625)» (p. 94). «John Fletcher (possibly with, or revised by, Philip Massinger» (Wiggins vol. 6, p. 465). Narrative source of the plot: Guillén de Castro’s La fuerza de la costumbre [The Force of Custom] (c. 1610; first printed in 1625).
Date of composition:
  • 1615 (best guess, Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 465)
  • 1611 -1617 (Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 465)
Date of first performance: 1615 approx.
Date of first publication: 1647
Genre (Annals): Comedy

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 1779 (Vol. 6)
HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1647 folio transcript
  • 1647 quarto Raworth, Ruth; Warren, Thomas (1); White, Robert (1); Islip, Susan; Griffin, Edward (2); Macock, John Moseley, Humphrey; Robinson, Humphrey Printed title: LOVES CURE OR, The Martial Maid play in print collection
      ESTC: R22900 Wing B1581 5143.25 for play; 5143 for collection 661a
      EEBO-TCP: A27177 - Harvard University Library - EEBO record for collction – TCP HTML for collection, XML HTML
      Observations: Included in collection "COMEDIES AND TRAGEDIES Written by FRANCIS BEAVMONT AND IOHN FLETCHER Gentlemen"

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Early Performances

  • Company: The King’s Men Venue: Date: 1615 approx,
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: unknown
      Note: The venue could be the Globe and/or the Blackfriars (Pérez Díez 2015). Harbage et al. date it around 1606.
      Information source:
    • Company: Venue: Date: 1630s (?)
      Cast:
        Location: Venue type: unknown
        Note: “the play was revived, with a new prologue" (Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 469)
        Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 5: 1603-1608. 2015.
      • Company: The King’s Men Venue: Date: 1641
        Cast:
          Location: Venue type: unknown
          Note: “The play (as The Martial Maid) was in the repertory of the King's Men. It was later reported (in 1669, on a list which gives both its titles separately) as having been performed by them at the Blackfriars before 1642" (Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 469)
          Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 5: 1603-1608. 2015.

        Modern Productions

        • King’s College London, 2001.

        Modern editions

        • Pérez Díez, José Alberto “Love’s Cure, or the Martial Maid” by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger: A Modern-Spelling Critical Edition. University of Birmingham, 2015. PhD dissertation.
        • Mitchell, Marea, ed. Love’s Cure, or The Martial Maid. Fletcher, John. Nottingham: Nottingham Drama Texts, 1992. Nottingham Drama Texts.
        • Fletcher, John; Beaumont, Francis; Massinger, Philip Love’s Cure, or The Martial Maid. In: Williams, George Walton, ed. The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. Vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976, pp. 1–111
        • Bowers, Fredson, ed. The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. Vol. 10 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966.
        • Waller, A. R, ed. Beaumont and Fletcher. Vol. 7. London: Cambridge University Press, 1909.
        • Dyce, Alexander, ed. The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions. Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John. Vol. 9. London: Edward Moxon, 1845.

        Select Bibliography: Criticism

        • Díez, José A. Pérez. "Editing on Stage: Theatrical Research for a Critical Edition of John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's 'Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid'". Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship. 2016, vol. 1, 34, p. 69-88.
        • Duncan, Anne. "It takes a woman to play a real man: Clara as hero(ine) of Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Love's Cure'". English Literary Renaissance. 2000, vol. 3, 30, p. 396-407.
        • Erickson, Martin E. "A Review of Scholarship Dealing with the Problem of a Spanish Source for 'Love's Cure'". Ed. McNeir, Waldo F.. Studies in Comparative Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1962, p. 102-19.

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