Supposes

Alternative title(s): The Supposes
Author(s): Gascoine, George
Note: Translation of Ludovico Ariosto’s I Suppositi.
Date of composition:
  • 1566 (latest)
Date of first performance: 1566
Date of first publication: 1573
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
      ESTC: S105691 11635 5006.1
      EEBO-TCP: A01513 - Huntington Library - EEBO record - TCP HTML XML HTML
      Observations: Printed title of collection: A Hundreth sundrie Flowres bounde vp in one small Poesie

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Early Performances

  • Company: Venue: Gray’s Inn Date: 1566
    Cast:
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      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:
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        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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