The Maid’s Tragedy

Author(s): Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John
Note: Date of first performance from Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 183. Two substantive textual versions: 1622 quarto ; 1619 quarto (with cuts in 1.2, 2.1.2, 3.1, 4.1-2 and 5.2-3).
Date of composition:
  • 1611 (best guess, Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 180)
  • 1610 -1611 (Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 180)
Date of first performance: 1611 approx.
Date of first publication: 1619
Genre (Annals): Tragedy

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 1650 (Vol. 6)
HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1619 quarto transcript
  • 1619 quarto Okes, Nicholas Higgenbotham, Richard (2) for Greg 357a(*), Constable, Francis for 357a(†) Printed title: The Maides Tragedy single-play print
      ESTC: S115757 1676 660 for 357a(*), 661 for 357a(†) 357a
      EEBO-TCP: Folger Shakespeare Library - EEBO record for 357a
      Observations: Substantive textual version.
  • 1622 quarto Purslowe, George Constable, Francis Printed title: The Maids Tragedie single-play print
      ESTC: S117403 1678 662 357b
      EEBO-TCP: Harvard University Library - EEBO record
      Observations: Substantive textual version.

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Early Performances

  • Company: The King’s Men Venue: The Blackfriars Date: 1611
    Cast:
    • Lowin, John
    Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
    Note: Earliest date. Indoor “private” theatre
    Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 6: 1609-1616. 2015.
  • Company: The King’s Men Venue: The Globe playhouse Date: 1611
    Cast:
    • Lowin, John
    Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
    Note: Earliest date. Probably performed at the Globe (Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 183)
    Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 6: 1609-1616. 2015.
  • Company: The King’s Men Venue: Date: 1612 - 1613
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: palace / court
      Note: Performed between Christmas 1612 and 9 April 1613 (Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 183).
      Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 6: 1609-1616. 2015.
    • Company: Venue: Date: 1620 approx,
      Cast:
        Location: Venue type: unknown
        Note: “The play appears on a list compiled at the Revels Office” (Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 183).
        Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 6: 1609-1616. 2015.
      • Company: The King’s Men Venue: Date: 1625 - 1630
        Cast:
        • Benfield, Robert
        • Taylor, Joseph
        • Collins, Edward
        Location: Venue type: unknown
        Note: Approximate dates.
        Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 6: 1609-1616. 2015.
      • Company: The King’s Men Venue: The Cockpit at Whitehall Palace Date: 1630
        Cast:
          Location: Venue type: palace / court
          Note: 9 December
          Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 6: 1609-1616. 2015.
        • Company: The King’s Men Venue: Hampton Court Date: 1636
          Cast:
            Location: Venue type: palace / court
            Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 6: 1609-1616. 2015.
          • Company: The King’s Men Venue: Date: 1642
            Cast:
              Location: Venue type: unknown
              Note: Latest date.
              Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 6: 1609-1616. 2015.

            Modern editions

            • Bevington, David; Engle, Lars; Eisaman Maus, Katharine; Rasmussen, Eric, ed. English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. London and New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.
            • Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John The Maid’s Tragedy. In: Wiggins, Martin, ed. Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 75–159. Oxford English Drama series.
            • Craik, T. W., ed. The Maid’s Tragedy. Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. The Revels Plays.
            • Terhune, Frances Woy A critical edition, with introduction, of Edmund Waller's alteration of Beaumont and Fletcher's 'The Maid's Tragedy'. In: . Univ. of Florida, 1976. Unpub. doct. diss.[Abstr. in Dissertation Abstracts International (38) 813A.].
            • Nethercot, Arthur H.; Baskervill, Charles R. ; Heltzel, Virgil B., ed. Stuart Plays. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
            • Gurr, Andrew, ed. The Maid’s Tragedy. Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1969. Fountainwell Drama Texts.
            • Norland, Howard B., ed. The Maid’s Tragedy. Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John. London: Edward Arnold, 1968. Regents Renaissance Drama.
            • Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John The Maid’s Tragedy. In: Turner, Robert Kean, ed. The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966, pp. 1–166
            • McIlwraith, A. K., ed. Five Stuart Tragedies. London: Oxford University Press, 1953. The Worlds Classics.
            • Brooke, Charles F. Tucker; Paradise, Nathaniel Burton, ed. English Drama 1580-1642. Boston: Heath, 1933.
            • Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John The Maid’s Tragedy. In: P. A. Daniel, ed. The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. Vol. 1. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1904, pp. 1–114

            Select Bibliography: Translations

            • DE:
              • {Falta autor capítulo libro}. "Die Braut: ein Trauerspiel in 5 Aufzügen". Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John. Ed. Kannegießer, Karl Ludwig. Beaumont und Fletcher’s dramatische Werke. Berlin: Braunes, 1808. (Orig: The Maid’s Tragedy)
              • Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John. "Die Braut". Tra. Gerstenberg, Heinrich Wilhelm. Die Maskerade. Aus der Braut, einer Tragödie von Beaumont und Fletcher. Wien: Schrämbl, 1794, p. 187-200. (Orig: The Maid’s Tragedy)
              • Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John. Die Braut. Tra. Gerstenberg, Heinrich Wilhelm. Kopenhagen / Leipzig: Roth, 1765. (Orig: The Maid’s Tragedy)

            Select Bibliography: Criticism

            • Badinjki, Taher. "Dombey and Son: An Inverted 'Maid's Tragedy'". Advances in Language and Literary Studies. 2015, vol. 3, 6, p. 210-214.
            • MSBezio, Kristin. "Sudden Deaths: Regicide, Theatricality, and Anti-Absolutism in Beaumont and Fletcher's 'The Maid's Tragedy'". Early Modern Studies Journal. 2013, 5, .
            • Thomson, Leslie. "Blackfriars Stage Sitters and the Staging of 'The Tempest', 'The Maid's Tragedy', and 'The Two Noble Kinsmen'". Ed. Moncrief, Kathryn M.; McPherson, Kathryn R.; Enloe, Sarah. Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2013, p. 175-185.
            • Reid, Lindsay Ann. "Beaumont and Fletcher's Rhodes: Early Modern Geopolitics and Mythological Topography in 'The Maid's Tragedy'". Early Modern Literary Studies. 2012, vol. 2, 16, .
            • Bunker, Sarah Joyce. "'We Must See You Laid': Domestic Utopianism & the Marriage Bed in 'The Maid's Tragedy', 'Cymbeline', and 'The Revenger's Tragedy'". Appositions: Studies in Renaissance/Early Modern Literature & Culture. 2012, 5, .
            • Long, Zackariah C. "'Uncollected Man': Trauma and the Early Modern Mind-Body in 'The Maid's Tragedy'". Ed. Allard, James Robert; Martin, Mathew R.. Staging Pain, 1580-1800: Violence and Trauma in British Theater. Surrey: Ashgate, 2009, p. 31-46.
            • Denman, Jason R. "Anatomizing the body politic: corporeal rhetoric in 'The Maid's Tragedy'". Philological Quarterly. 2005, vol. 3, 84, p. 311-31.
            • Eastwood, Adrienne L. "Controversy and the single woman in 'The Maid's Tragedy' and 'The Roaring Girl'". Rocky Mountain E-Review. 2004, vol. 2, 58, .
            • Liebler, Naomi C. "'A woman dipped in blood': the violent femmes of 'The Maid's Tragedy' and 'The Changeling'". Ed. Woodbridge, Linda; Beehler, Sharon. Women, violence, and English Renaissance literature: essays honoring Paul Jorgensen.Tempe. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003, p. 361-78.
            • Schmitt, Julia. "Sisterly transgressions: an examination of Evadne from 'The Maid's Tragedy' and the Duchess from 'The Duchess of Malfi'". Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia: selected papers. 2002, 25, p. 58-69.
            • Hopkins, Lisa. "'A place privileged to do men wrong': the anxious masculinity of 'The Maid's Tragedy'". Ed. Williams, Andrew P.. The image of manhood in early modern literature: viewing the male. Westport. London: Greenwood Press, 1999, p. 55-72.
            • Giddens, E. Eugene. "Calianax's challenge in 'The Maid's Tragedy'.". Notes and Queries. 1997, vol. 4, 44, p. 523.
            • Alfar, Cristina León. "Staging the Feminine Performance of Desire: Masochism in 'The Maid's Tragedy'". Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature. 1995, vol. 3, 31, p. 313-33.
            • Ray, Sid. "'Holy knots': containment metaphors in Renaissance marriage tracts, 'The Taming of the Shrew', and 'The Maid's Tragedy'". Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia: selected papers. 1995, 18, p. 1-27.
            • Smith, Rochelle. "Admirable musicians: women's songs in 'Othello' and 'The Maid's Tragedy'.". Comparative Drama. 1994, vol. 3, 28, p. 311-23.
            • Broude, Ronald. "Divine Right and Divine Retribution in Beaumont and Fletcher's 'The Maid's Tragedy'". Ed. Elton, W. R.; Long, William B. Shakespeare and Dramatic Tradition. Newark: U of Delaware P--Associated UP, 1989, p. 246-263.
            • Carpi Setori, Daniela. "Donna come trasgressione: 'The Maid's Tragedy' di Beaumont e Fletcher". Quaderni di Filologia Germanica della Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Universita di Bologna. 1984, 3, p. 31-40.
            • Davies, H. Neville. "Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Hamlet'. 'The Maid's Tragedy'". Ed. Muir, Kenneth. Shakespeare, man of the theater: proceedings of the second Congress of the International Shakespeare Association, 1981. Newark: U of Delaware P--Associated UP, 1983, p. 173-81.
            • Hume, Robert D. "'The Maid's Tragedy' and censorship in the Restoration theatre". Philological Quarterly. 1982, 61, p. 484-90.
            • Cunnar, Eugene R. "The Wedding Masque's Moral Vision in 'The Maid's Tragedy'". Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia - Selected Papers. 1982, vol. 1, 7, p. 37-45.
            • Shullenberger, William. "'This for the most wrong'd of women': a reappraisal of 'The Maid's Tragedy'". Renaissance Drama. 1982, 13, p. 131-56.
            • Meekins, Jeanne S. "Evidence for Performance of 'The London Cuckolds', 'The Maid's Tragedy' and 'Oedipus' in 1685-86". Theatre Survey: The Journal of the American Society for Theatre Research. 1982, vol. 1, 23, p. 101-103.
            • Baines, Barbara J. "The complexities of honor in 'The Maid's Tragedy'". Journal of General Education. 1979, 31, p. 159-72.
            • Baines, Barbara J. "The complexities of honor in 'The Maid's Tragedy'". Journal of General Education. 1979, 31, p. 159-72.
            • George, David. "Pre-1642 cast lists, and a new one for 'The Maid's Tragedy'". Theatre Notebook. 1977, vol. 3, 31, p. 22-7.
            • Neill, Michael. "'The Simetry, Which Gives a Poem Grace': masque, imagery, and the fancy of 'The Maid's Tragedy'". Renaissance Drama. 1970, 3, p. 111-35.
            • Norland, Howard B. "The Text of 'The Maid's Tragedy'". Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 1967, 61, p. 173-200.
            • Turner, Robert K., Jr. "The Printing of Beaumont and Fletcher's 'The Maid's Tragedy' Q1 (1619)". Studies in Bibliography. 1960, 13, p. 199-220.
            • Turner, Robert Kean, Jr. "The Relationship of 'The Maid's Tragedy' Q1 and Q2". Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 1957, 51, p. 322-7.
            • Praz, Mario. "John Webster and 'The Maid's Tragedy'". English Studies. 1956, 37, p. 252-8.
            • Bejblík, Alois. "Pomer Zeyerova Neklana k Beaumontove a Fletcherove hre 'The Maid's Tragedy'. (J. Zeyer's Play Nekladn and its Relation to 'The Maid's Tragedy'.)". Casopis pro moderní filologii. 1949, 32, p. 135-9.
            • Pellegrini, Giuliano. "Un 'in-quarto' della 'Maid's Tragedy'". Anglica. 1946, , p. 124-7.

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