Supposes
Alternative title(s): The Supposes
Note:
Translation of Ludovico Ariosto’s I Suppositi.
Date of composition:
- 1566 (latest)
Date of first performance: 1566
Genre (Annals): Comedy
Catalogue references: Wiggins: 419 (Vol. 1)
HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1573 quarto transcript
- 1573 quarto Bynneman, Henry Smith, Richard Printed title: SVPPOSES: A Comedie play in print collection
- STC/WING:
- ESTC:
- DEEP:
- Greg:
- Wiggins:
Early Performances
- Company: Venue: Gray’s Inn Date: 1566
Cast:
Information source: Harbage, Alfred; Schoenbaum, Samuel; Wagonheim, Sylvia Stoler. Annals of English Drama, 975-1700, 3rd edition. 1989. - Company: Venue: Trinity College Date: 1582
Cast:
Note: 8 January
Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 1: 1533-1566. 2012.
Modern editions
- Pigman III, G. W., ed. A Hundreth Sundrie Flowers. Gascoigne, George. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. Supposes, pp. 5-58..
- Fraser, Russell A.; Rabkin, Norman, ed. Drama of the English Renaissance I: The Tudor Period.. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc., 1976. Supposes, pp. 101-124..
- Forssberg, C. F. William, Jr, ed. A Critical Old-Spelling Edition of Supposes by George Gascoigne and Jocasta by George Gascoigne and Francis Kinwelmarsh with Introduction and Notes. Ann Arbor (Michigan): Ann Arbor, University Microfilms, 1968.
- Adams, Joseph Quincy, ed. Chief Pre-Shakespearean Dramas.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. Supposes, pp. 536-67.
- Cunliffe, John W., ed. Supposes and Jocasta. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1912.
- Bond, R. Warwick, ed. Early Plays from the Italian. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911. Supposes, pp. 1-73..
Select Bibliography: Criticism
- Ingram, Jill Phillips. "Gascoigne's 'Supposes': Englishing Italian 'Error' and Adversarial Reading Practices". Ed. Marrapodi, Michele. talian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Rewriting, Remaking, Refashioning. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Ashgate, 2007, p. 83-96.
- Jordan, Susan M. "The 'Captivi' and Gascoigne's 'Supposes'". Classical Bulletin. 1969, 45, p. 37-41.
- Prouty, C. T.. George Gascoigne: Elizabethan Courtier, Soldier and Poet. New York: Columbia University Press, 1942.
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