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The Puritan by William Shakespeare - Apocryphal (Illustrated) - William Shakespeare (Apocryphal)
The Complete Works of
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
VOLUME 46 OF 74
The Puritan
Parts Edition
By Delphi Classics, 2012
Version 6
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‘The Puritan’
William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
IN 74 VOLUMES
Parts Edition Contents
The Plays
1, Henry VI, Part 2
2, Henry VI, Part 3
3, Henry VI, Part 1
4, Richard III
5, The Comedy of Errors
6, Titus Andronicus
7, Taming of the Shrew
8, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
9, Love’s Labour’s Lost
10, Romeo and Juliet
11, Richard II
12, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
13, King John
14, The Merchant of Venice
15, Henry IV, Part I
16, Henry IV, Part II
17, Much Ado About Nothing
18, Henry V
19, Julius Caesar
20, As You Like It
21, Twelfth Night
22, Hamlet
23, The Merry Wives of Windsor
24, Troilus and Cressida
25, All’s Well that Ends Well
26, Measure for Measure
27, Othello
28, King Lear
29, Macbeth
30, Antony and Cleopatra
31, Coriolanus
32, Timon of Athens
33, Pericles
34, Cymbeline
35, The Winter’s Tale
36, The Tempest
37, Henry VIII
38, The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Lost Plays
39, The Lost Plays
The Sources
40, The Plays’ Sources
The Apocryphal Plays
41, Arden of Faversham
42, The Birth of Merlin
43, King Edward III
44, Locrine
45, The London Prodigal
46, The Puritan
47, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy
48, Sir John Oldcastle
49, Thomas Lord Cromwell
50, A Yorkshire Tragedy
51, Sir Thomas More
52, Fair Em
53, Mucedorus
54, The Merry Devil of Edmonton
55, Edmund Ironside
56, Thomas of Woodstock
57, Vortigern and Rowena
The Adaptations
58, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
The Poetry
59, The Sonnets
60, Venus and Adonis
61, The Rape of Lucrece
62, The Passionate Pilgrim
63, The Phoenix and the Turtle
64, A Lover’s Complaint
The Apocryphal Poetry
65, To the Queen
66, A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter
67, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
The Criticism
68, The Criticism
The Biographies
69, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear by Nicholas Rowe
70, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters by Henry Norman Hudson
71, Life of William Shakespeare by Sir Sidney Lee
72, Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London by Arthur Acheson
73, The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner
Resources
74, Resources
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The Puritan
OR THE WIDOW OF WATLING STREET
This comedy was first published in 1607 and is often attributed to Thomas Middleton, but also belongs to the Shakespeare Apocrypha due to the title page bearing an attribution to W.S.
. The Puritan probably dates from the year 1606. Some of its incidents are drawn from a contemporary work called The Merry Conceited Jests of George Peele, which attributes to the writer George Peele a number of tricks and jokes that can be found in previous popular literature. It contains an allusion to an almanac that specifies 15 July as a Tuesday, which was true only of 1606 in the first decade of the 17th century (although the author may not have intended it to be accurate). And the play’s interest in corporal oaths may be related to the demands for oaths of allegiance from Catholics following the Gunpowder Plot.
Entered into the Stationers’ Register on 6 August 1607, The Puritan was published in quarto format before the end of the year by the printer George Eld. The title page states that the play was performed by the Children of Paul’s, one of the boys’ acting companies of the era, and attributes its authorship to W. S.
These initials were first identified with Shakespeare by Edward Archer in his 1656 play list, published in his edition of The Old Law. The Puritan was later added to the second impression of the Shakespeare Third Folio (1664) by publisher Philip Chetwinde, bringing the play into the Shakespeare Apocrypha. The modern scholarly consensus rejects the identification of W. S.
with Shakespeare.
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACTUS 1.
SCENE I. A Garden behind the widow’s house.
SCENE II. A street.
SCENE III. A Street.
SCENE IV.
ACTUS II.
SCENE I. A room in the widow’s house.
SCENE II. A Garden.
ACTUS 3.
SCENE I. The street before the Widow’s house.
SCENE II. An apartment in the Widow’s house.]
SCENE III.
SCENE IV. A gallery in a gentleman’s house.
SCENE V. A room in the Marshalsea prison.
ACTUS 4.
SCENE I. An apartment in the Widow’s house.
SCENE II. A room in the Widow’s house, with a door at the side, leading to another apartment.
SCENE III. The street before the Widow’s house.
ACTUS 5
SCENE II. The same.
SCENE III. A room in Sir Oliver Muckhill’s house.
SCENE IV. A street; a church appearing.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Lady Plus, a Citizens Widow.
Frances,
Moll, her two Daughters.
Sir Godfrey, Brother-in-Law to the Widow Plus.
Master Edmond, Son to the Widow Plus.
George Pye-boord, a Scholar and a Citizen.
Peter Skirmish, an old Soldier.
Captain Idle, a Highway-man.
Corporal Oath, a vain-glorious Fellow.
Nichols St. Antlings,
Simon St. Mary Overies,
Frailty, Serving-men to the Lady Plus.
Sir Oliver Muck-hill, a Suitor to the Lady Plus.
Sir John Penny-Dub, a Suitor to Moll.
Sir Andrew Tipstaff, a Suitor to