The London Prodigal by William Shakespeare - Apocryphal (Illustrated)

By William Shakespeare (Apocryphal)

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The London Prodigal’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare’.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781786563118

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The Complete Works of

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

VOLUME 45 OF 74

The London Prodigal

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2012

Version 6

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‘The London Prodigal’

William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)

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William Shakespeare: Parts Edition

This eBook is Part 45 of the Delphi Classics edition of William Shakespeare in 74 Parts. It features the unabridged text of The London Prodigal from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of William Shakespeare, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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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 London Prodigal

A comedy set in London, this play tells the story of a prodigal son, who eventually learns the error of his ways. The play was published in quarto in 1605 by the stationer Nathaniel Butter, and printed by Thomas Cotes. In 1664 it was one of the seven plays that publisher Philip Chetwinde added to the second impression of his Third Folio of Shakespeare’s plays.  The play was not entered into the Stationers’ Register, but it is attributed to Shakespeare on the title page of the first edition. This attribution is widely rejected by scholars.

The London Prodigal has been dated as early as 1591 and as late as 1604. It is one of a long series of prodigal son plays that reach back as far as the Bible.

CONTENTS

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

ACT I.

SCENE I. London. A room in Flowerdale Junior’s house.

SCENE II. The high street in Croydon. An inn appearing, with an open drinking booth before it.

ACT II.

SCENE I. A road near Sir Lancelot Spurcock’s house, in Kent.

SCENE II. A room in Sir Lancelot’s house.

SCENE III. The same.

SCENE IV. The same.

ACT III.

SCENE I. A walk before Sir Lancelot’s house.

SCENE II. London. The street before young Flowerdale’s house.

SCENE III. A high road near London.

ACT IV.

SCENE I. A room in Sir Lancelot Spurcock’s house in Kent.

SCENE II. A street in London.

SCENE III. Another street. Before Civet’s house.

ACT V.

SCENE I. Scene before Civet’s house.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

M. FLOWERDALE (Senior), a Merchant trading at Venice.

MATTH. FLOWERDALE, his Prodigal Son.

M. FLOWERDALE (Junior), Brother to the Merchant.

SIR LANCELOT SPURCOCK, of Lewsome in Kent.

FRANCES, LUCY, DELIA, Daughters to Sir Lancelot Spurcock.

DAFFODIL, ARTICHOKE, Servants to Sir Lancelot Spurcock.

SIR ARTHUR GREENSHOOD, a Commander, in love with Lucy.

OLIVER, a Devonshire Clothier, in love with