The Renegado, or The Gentleman of Venice

Author(s): Massinger, Philip
Note: Master of the Revels’s licence on 17 April 1624. «It is reasonable to suppose that The Renegado was written at some time between early December 1623 and late March 1624″ (Neill, Renegado, p. 58).
Date of composition:
  • 1624
Date of first performance: 1624
Date of first publication: 1630
Genre (Annals): Tragicomedy

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 2090 (Vol. 8)
HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1630 quarto transcript
  • 1630 quarto Mathewes, Augustine Waterson, John Printed title: THE RENEGADO, A TRAGÆCOMEDIE. single-play print
      ESTC: S112427 17641 752 430a
      EEBO-TCP: A07246 HTML XML HTML HTML HTML
      Observations: • EMED entry • a copy (now at the Folger Shakespeare Library) bears Massinger's handwritten alterations
  • 1662 (?) MS single-play print


      Observations: MS Rawlinson poet. 20, at Bodleian Library, transcription from 1630 quarto with adaptations (Wiggins, vol. 8, p. 28)

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Early Performances

  • Company: Lady Elizabeth's Men Venue: The Cockpit Date: 1624
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
      Note: Licensed on 17 September. Indoor “private” theatre
      Information source: Neill, Michael. {Falta título edición estudioso}. Massinger, Philip. The Renegado. 2010.
    • Company: Lady Elizabeth's Men Venue: The Cockpit Date: 1639
      Cast:
        Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
        Note: Latest date. "The Renegado remained an important part of the Cockpit repertory until at least 1639" (Neill, Renegado, p. 61). Indoor “private” theatre
        Information source: Neill, Michael. {Falta título edición estudioso}. Massinger, Philip. The Renegado. 2010.
      • Company: King’s Company Venue: Lincoln's Inn Fields Date: 1662
        Cast:
          Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
          Note: 6 August
          Information source: Neill, Michael. {Falta título edición estudioso}. Massinger, Philip. The Renegado. 2010.

        Modern Productions

        • [Staged reading] Shakespeare’s Globe, London. 2003. ‘Read Not Dead’ series.

        Modern editions

        • Neill, Michael, ed. The Renegado. Massinger, Philip. London: A & C Black, 2010. Arden Early Modern Drama.
        • Vitkus, Daniel J., ed. Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: 'Selimus', 'A Christian Turned Turk', and 'The Renegado'. New York2000.
        • Edwards, Philip; Gibson, Colin, ed. The Plays and Poems of Philip Massinger. Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976. (5 vols.).
        • Senob, Alice An Edition of Philip Massinger's 'The Renegado'. In: . University of Chicago, 1939. (PhD Thesis. The University of Chicago).

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