Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding

Author(s): Fletcher, John
Note: Beaumont and Fletcher authorship supported by Gurr (Philaster), by Gossett (Philaster), and by Wiggins (British); Annals ascribes the play to “Francis Beaumont (with John Fletcher)”. Two substantive textual versions: 1622 quarto; 1620 quarto (with variant scenes 1.1a and 5.4b-5).
Date of composition:
  • 1609 (best guess, Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 16.)
  • 1608 -1609 (Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 16.)
Date of first performance: 1609
Date of first publication: 1620
Genre (Annals): Tragicomedy

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 1597 (Vol. 6)
HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1933 modern edition by C. F. Tucker Brooke and N. B. Paradise
  • 1620 quarto Okes, Nicholas Walkley, Thomas Printed title: PHYLASTER. OR, Loue lyes a Bleeding single-play print
      ESTC: S101199 for Greg 363a(*), S101198 1681 677 363a
      EEBO-TCP: A06343 - Huntington Library - EEBO record for Greg 363a(†) – TCP HTML XML HTML
  • 1622 quarto Okes, Nicholas Walkley, Thomas Printed title: PHILASTER. OR, Loue lies a Bleeding single-play print
      ESTC: S101200 1682 679 363b
      EEBO-TCP: Folger Shakespeare Library - EEBO record Observations: Substantive textual version. "The second Impression, corrected, and amended."

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Early Performances

  • Company: The King’s Men Venue: Date: 1612 - 1613
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: palace / court
      Note: Performed “between Christmas 1612 and Friday 9 April 1613” (Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 19)
      Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 6: 1609-1616. 2015.
    • Company: Venue: Date: 1620 approx,
      Cast:
        Location: Venue type:
        Note: “The play appears on a list compiled at the Revels Office” (Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 19)
        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: 14 December
          Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 6: 1609-1616. 2015.
        • Company: The King’s Men Venue: St James’s Palace Date: 1637
          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: 1641 approx,
            Cast:
            • Benfield, Robert
            • Bird, Theophilus
            • Clark, Hugh
            • Clun, Walter
            • Hart, Charles Hart
            • Lowin, John
            Location: Venue type: unknown
            Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 6: 1609-1616. 2015.
          • Company: Venue: Date: 1640 approx,
            Cast:
              Location: Venue type: other
              Note: “Early 1640s: private peformance at Durdans, Surrey, home of Sir Robert Coke”, with Samuel Pepys playing Arethusa (Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 19)
              Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 6: 1609-1616. 2015.

            Modern editions

            • Gossett, Suzanne, ed. Philaster or, Love Lies a-Bleeding. Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John. London: Methuen Drama A & C Black, 2009. Arden Early Modern Drama.
            • Ashe, Dora J. Philaster. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1974, pp. 152 . Regents Renaissance Drama Series.
            • Nethercot, Arthur H.; Baskervill, Charles R.; Heltzel, Virgil B., ed. Stuart Plays. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
            • Gurr, Andrew, ed. Philaster or, Love Lies a-Bleeding. Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John. London: Methuen, 1969. The Revels Plays.
            • Fletcher, John Philaster. In: Turner, Robert Kean, ed. The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966, pp. 367–540
            • Brooke, Charles F. Tucker; Paradise, Nathaniel Burton, ed. English Drama 1580-1642. Boston: Heath, 1933.
            • Spencer, Hazelton, ed. Elizabethan Plays. Boston: Heath, 1933.
            • Matthews, Brander; Leider, Paul Robert, ed. The Chief British Dramatists Excluding Shakespeare. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924.
            • Wheeler, C. B., ed. Six Elizabethan Plays by Contemporaries of Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1915. World’s Classics Series.
            • Glover, Arnold, ed. The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1905. Cambridge English Classics.
            • P. A. Daniel, ed. Philaster. Fletcher, John. In: The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. Vol. 1. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1904, pp. 115–242
            • Dyce, Alexander, ed. The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions. Vol. 1. 2. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and company, 1854.

            Select Bibliography: Criticism

            • Varnardo, Christine. ""Getting used, and liking it: erotic instrumentality in 'Philaster'.". Renaissance Drama. 2016, vol. 1, 44, p. 25-52.
            • Park, Judy H. ""The tragicomic moment: republicanism in Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Philaster'". Comparative Drama. 2015, vol. 1, 49, p. 23-47.
            • Banerjee, Rita. ""The Subalterns in 'Philaster' and the Ideology of the Play". Discoveries: South-Central Renaissance Conference News and Notes. 1997, vol. 1, 15, p. 3-4, 9-10.
            • Loughlin, Marie H. "Cross-dressing and the politics of dismemberment in Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's 'Philaster'". Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et réforme. 1997, vol. 2, 33, p. 23-44.
            • Miller, Jo E. "'And all this passion for a boy?': cross-dressing and the sexual economy of Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Philaster'.". English Literary Renaissance. 1997, vol. 1, 27, p. 129-50.
            • Mokris, Mary P. "From Disintegration to Integration: Identity in Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Philaster'". Proceedings of the Third Dakotas Conference on Earlier British Literature. 1995, , p. 71-82.
            • Radel, Nicholas F. "'Then thus I turne my language to you': the transformation of theatrical language in 'Philaster'". Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. 1986, 3, p. 129-47.
            • Bliss, Lee. ""Three plays in one: Shakespeare and 'Philaster'". Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. 1985, 2, p. 153-70.
            • White, D. Jerry. "Irony and the Tree Temptations in 'Philaster'". Thoth: Syracuse University Graduate Studies in English. 1975, vol. 2, 15, p. 3-8.
            • Davison, Peter. ""The Serious Concerns of 'Philaster'". ELH: journal of English literary history. 1963, 30, p. 1-15.
            • Turner, Robert K., Jr. "The Printing of 'Philaster' Q1 and Q2". Library. 1960, 15, p. 21-32.
            • Wilson, Harold S. "'Philaster' and 'Cymbeline'". English Institute Essays. 1951, , p. 146-166.
            • Savage, J. E. "The 'Gaping Wounds' in the Text of 'Philaster'". Philological Quarterly. 1949, 28, p. 443-57.
            • Savage, James E. "Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Philaster' and Sidney's 'Arcadia'". ELH: journal of English literary history. 1947, 14, p. 194-206.
            • Adkins, Mary Grace Muse. ""The Citizens in 'Philaster': Their Function and Significance". Studies in Philology. 1946, 43, p. 203-12.
            • Harrison, T. P., Jr. "A Probable Source of Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Philaster'". PMLA: publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 1926, 41, p. 294-303.
            • Schutt, J. H. "Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster, considered as a work of literary art.". English Studies. 1924, 6, p. 80-7.
            • Lawrence, W. J. "The Riddle of 'Philaster'". Times Literary Supplement. 1921, 17, .
            • Collier, Susanne. ""Cutting to the Heart of the Matter: Stabbing the Woman in 'Philaster' and 'Cymbeline'". Ed. Kendall, Gillian Murray. Shakespearean Power and Punishment: A Volume of Essays. 1998 ed. London: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, {Falta año pub}, p. 39-58.

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