The Young Admiral

Author(s): Shirley, James
Note: Based on Lope de Vega’s Don Lope de Cardona.
Date of composition:
  • 1633
Date of first performance: 1633
Date of first publication: 1637
Genre (Annals): Tragicomedy

HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 2015 modern edition by Ana Albalat
  • 1637 quarto Cotes, Thomas Cooke, William; Crooke, Andrew Printed title: THE YOVNG ADMIRALL single-play print

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Early Performances

  • Company: Queen Henrietta’s Men Venue: The Cockpit Date: 1633
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
      Note: Information from 1637 quarto title page (with venue named as “Drury Lane”). Licensed on 3 July. Indoor “private” theatre
      Information source: Harbage, Alfred; Schoenbaum, Samuel; Wagonheim, Sylvia Stoler. Annals of English Drama, 975-1700, 3rd edition. 1989.
    • Company: Queen Henrietta’s Men Venue: St James’s Palace Date: 1633
      Cast:
        Location: Venue type: palace / court
        Note: 19 November
        Information source:
      • Company: King's Men and Queen's young Company (Beeston's Boys) Venue: The Cockpit Date: 1639
        Cast:
          Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
          Information source: Wiggins, Martin, in association with Catherine Richardson. British Drama 1533+1642: A Catalogue. Volume IX 1632-1636. 2018.

        Modern editions

        • Ericksen, Kenneth J, ed. A critical old-spelling edition of The young admiral / byJames Shirley (1637).. Shirley, James. New York: Garland Pub, 1979.
        • Shirley, James The Young Admiral. In: Gifford, William; Dyce, Alexander, ed. The Dramatic Works and poems of James Shirley, Now First Collected; with Notes by the Late William Gifford, Esq. and Additional Notes, and some account of Shirley and his writings, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. III. London: John Murray, 1833

        Select Bibliography: Criticism

        • Noling, Kim H. "Recent Studies in James Shirley". English Literary Renaissance. 2007, 37, p. 450-465.
        • Clark, Ira. Professional Playwrights: Massinger, Ford, Shirley & Brome. {Falta nombre ciudad}: UP of Kentucky, 1992.
        • Braden, Gordon. "James Shirley". Ed. Bowers, Fredson. Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists. {Falta nombre ciudad}: {Falta nombre editorial}, 1987, p. 249-266.
        • Loftis, John. "English Renaissance Plays from the Spanish Comedia". English Literary Renaissance. 1984, vol. 2, 14, p. 230-248.
        • Runyan, William Ronald. "Shirley's Sexual Comedy". Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia - Selected Papers. 1982, 7, p. 8-13.
        • Wertheim, Albert. "James Shirley". Ed. Logan, Terence P; Denzell S. Smith. The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama. {Falta nombre ciudad}: UP of Nebraska, 1978, p. 152-171.
        • Morton, Richard. "Deception and Social Dislocation: An Aspect of James Shirley's Drama". Renaissance Drama. 1966, 9, p. 227-245.
        • McGrath, Juliet. "James Shirley's Uses of Language". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 1966, vol. 2, 6, p. 323-339.

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