Love's Pilgrimage

Alternative title(s): The Lover’s Pilgrimage  [ contemporary reference ]
Author(s): Fletcher, John
Note: Authorship: John Fletcher «(with Francis Beaumont ?)» (Annals), «and collaborator?» (Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 502). Revision in 1635 (Annals; Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 502).
Date of composition:
  • 1616 (best guess, Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 502)
  • 1613 -1625 (Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 502)
Date of first performance: 1616 ?
Date of first publication: 1647
Genre (Annals): Tragicomedy

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 1794 (Vol. 6)
HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1647 folio transcript
  • 1647 folio Raworth, Ruth; Warren, Thomas (1); White, Robert (1); Islip, Susan; Griffin, Edward (2); Macock, John Moseley, Humphrey; Robinson, Humphrey Printed title: LOVES PILGRIMAGE play in print collection
      ESTC: R22900 B1581 5143.33 for play, 5143 for collection 669a
      EEBO-TCP: A27177 - Harvard University Library - EEBO record for collection – TCP HTML for collection HML
      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: 1616 (?)
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: unknown
      Information source: Harbage, Alfred; Schoenbaum, Samuel; Wagonheim, Sylvia Stoler. Annals of English Drama, 975-1700, 3rd edition. 1989.
    • Company: The King’s Men Venue: Hampton Court Date: 1636
      Cast:
        Location: Venue type: palace / court
        Note: 16 December
        Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 6: 1609-1616. 2015.
      • Company: The King’s Men Venue: Date: 1635
        Cast:
          Location: Venue type:
          Note: Presumably performed ... in the revised version, presumably by the King's Men" (Wiggins vol. 6, p. 506)
          Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 6: 1609-1616. 2015.
        • Company: The King’s Men Venue: The Blackfriars Date: 1641
          Cast:
            Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
            Note: Reported in 1669 to have been performed at the Blackfriars by the King's Men before 1642 (Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 506). Indoor “private” theatre
            Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 6: 1609-1616. 2015.

          Modern editions

          • Fletcher, John Love’s Pilgrimage. In: Beaurline, L. A., ed. Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970, pp. 567–695

          Select Bibliography: Criticism

          • Hicklin, Christopher. "Girls on the Run: 'Love's Pilgrimage', The Coxcomb, and Double Falsehood"". Ed. Bourus, Terri; Taylor, Gary. The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio: Performing Shakespeare, Transforming Cervantes. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, p. 73-82.
          • Powell, William C. "A Note on the Stage History of Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Love's Pilgrimage' and The Chances". MLN: modern language notes. 1941, 56, p. 122-7.
          • Maxwell, Baldwin. "The Date of 'Love's Pilgrimage' and its Relation to the New Inn". Studies in Philology. 1931, 28, p. 702-709.

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