The Golden Age: Collation

Witnesses

[Q1]: Heywood, Thomas. The Golden Age. Or the Liues of Jupiter and Saturne, with the deifying of the Heathen Gods. London: Printed for William Barrenger, 1611. DEEP 567. STC 13325. Wiggins 1637.
[Collier]: Collier, J. Payne, ed. The Golden and Silver Ages: Two Plays. London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1851.
[Shepherd]: Shepherd, Richard Herne, ed. The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood Now First Collected with Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the Author in Six Volumes. London: John Pearson, 1874.
[Bevis]: Bevis, N.F., ed. A Critical Edition of Callisto, or The Escapes of Jupiter. MA Dissertation. University College London, 1960.
[Janzen]: Janzen, Henry David. The Escapes of Jupiter: A Critical Edition. PhD Dissertation. Wayne State University, 1969.
[Gaines]: Gaines, Barry, and Grace Ioppolo, eds. The Collected Works of Thomas Heywood. Volume 3. Middle Plays. Oxford University Press, 2023.
[This Edition]: This edition, edited by Janelle Jenstad and Cameron Stirling.
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Actus I. Scaena I.
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1.2
of Crete
1 Lord
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2. Lord.
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makes
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make
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styled
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stilʼd
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Aside
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Exeunt
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Exeunt omnes.
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1.3
1.4
crares
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craers
crayers
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rigour.—Is
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rigor. Is
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succeed. / Maugre the envious gods, the brat
succeed. Maugre the envious gods the brat
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succeed, / Maugre the envious Gods, the brat
succeed, / Maugre the envious gods. The brat
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Make me, O heavens,
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make me oh Heavens,
Make me, oh, heavens!
Make me, oh, heavens,
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inhumane
inhuman
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1.5
2.1
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Actus secundi, Scoena prima.
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2.2
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2.4
2.5
(Aside)
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(aside,
[Aside.
Collier moves the stage direction to the end of A2 Sc5 Sp20.
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(Thatʼs … proceed.
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That’s more then I can promise (well proceed)
Thatʼs more than I can promise.—Well, proceed.
(Aside) That’s more than I can promise. (To them) Well, proceed.
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2.6
3.1
Act. 3. Scoene 1.
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3.5
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wrapped
rapt
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3.6
Arcas my son, / My young son … firstborn.
Arcas … firstborn
Set on one compositorial line
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perjurous
perjurious
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3.7
Jupiter kills Enceladus.
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Jupiter kills Enceladus, and enters with victory,
Jupiter kills Enceladus, and enters with victory.
Jupiter kills Enceladus and exits with victory, carrying Enceladusʼ body.
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Exit Jupiter with the body of Enceladus.
Jupiter kills Enceladus and exits with victory, carrying Enceladusʼ body.
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3.10
Jupiter enters in victory, with Saturn,
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and enters with victory, Iupiter, Saturne,
and enters with victory. Jupiter, Saturn,
Enter Jupiter again, Saturn,
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4.1
Actus. 4. Scoena. 1.
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Homer
4.2
father, double tyrannous
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father double tyrannous,
father, double tyrannous,
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(Aside)
transhapes
trans-shapes
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(To all)
growing
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going
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beldams
Beldams
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Unsensible
Insensible
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4.3
alarm
ʼlarm
ʼlarum
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portcullised
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percullist
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palate? All
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palate, all
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palate all
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favours, / Unvirginlike,
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favours / Un-virginlike,
favours / Unvirginlike
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luckʼs
luck
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all in
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all-in
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Now, gold,
Now gold
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Here’s first for you, for you, for you, for you.
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Here’s first for you, for you, for, for you, for you.
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Exit 2, 3, and 4 Beldam.
three
their
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—Sweet, your ear.
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(sweete your eare.
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4.4
(With … buy
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(With any saue Danae.) Let me buy
—With any save Danae?— Let me buy
(Aside) With any save Danae. (To Danae) Let me buy
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4.6
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Enter the Clown
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5.2
Arcas
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guard
guard,
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Trojans
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Troians
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Prosopography

Brett Greatley-Hirsch

Brett Greatley-Hirsch is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Textual Studies at the University of Leeds. He is a coordinating editor of Digital Renaissance Editions, co-editor of the Routledge journal Shakespeare, and a Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association. He is the author (with Hugh Craig) of Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama: Beyond Authorship (Cambridge, 2017), which brings together his interests in early modern drama, computational stylistics, and literary history. His current projects include editions of Hyde Park for the Oxford Shirley (with Mark Houlahan) and Fair Em for DRE, a history of the editing and publishing of Renaissance drama from the eighteenth century to the present day, and several computational studies of early modern dramatic authorship and genre. For more details, see notwithoutmustard.net.

Cameron Stirling

Cameron Stirling is an English Honours student at the University of Victoria and the holder of a 2024–2025 Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award.

James D. Mardock

James Mardock is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Associate General Editor for the Internet Shakespeare Editions, and a dramaturge for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival and Reno Little Theater. In addition to editing quarto and folio Henry V for the ISE, he has published essays on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and other Renaissance literature in The Seventeenth Century, Ben Jonson Journal, Borrowers and Lenders, and contributed to the collections Representing the Plague in Early Modern England (Routledge 2010) and Shakespeare Beyond Doubt (Cambridge 2013). His book Our Scene is London (Routledge 2008) examines Jonsonʼs representation of urban space as an element in his strategy of self-definition. With Kathryn McPherson, he edited Stages of Engagement (Duquesne 2013), a collection of essays on drama in post-Reformation England, and he is currently at work on a monograph on Calvinism and metatheatrical awareness in early modern English drama.

Janelle Jenstad

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Sarah Neville

Sarah Neville is an associate professor of English and Theatre, Film and Media Arts at the Ohio State University. She specializes in early modern English literature, bibliography, theories of textuality and Shakespeare in performance, chiefly examining the ways that authority is negotiated in print, digital and live media. She is an assistant editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016-17), for which she edited five plays in both old and modern-spelling editions, as well as an associate coordinating editor of the Digital Renaissance Editions. She regularly publishes on textual theory, digital humanities, pedagogy, and scholarly editing. Neville’s book, Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany (Cambridge, 2022), demonstrates the ways that printers and booksellers of herbals enabled the construction of scientific and medical authority in early modern England. A theatre director and film artist who is a great believer in experiential learning, Neville is the founder and creative director of Ohio State’s Lord Denney’s Players, an academic theatre company that enables students to see how technologies of textual transmission have shaped the reception of Shakespeare’s plays.

Thomas Heywood

Orgography

Digital Renaissance Editions (DRE1)

Anthology Leads and Co-Coordinating Editors: Brett Greatley-Hirsch, Janelle Jenstad, James Mardock, and Sarah Neville.

LEMDO Team (LEMD1)

The LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators, encoders, and remediating editors.

University of Victoria (UVIC1)

https://www.uvic.ca/

Witnesses

Bevis, N.F., ed. A Critical Edition of Callisto, or The Escapes of Jupiter. MA Dissertation. University College London, 1960.
Collier, J. Payne, ed. The Golden and Silver Ages: Two Plays. London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1851.
Gaines, Barry, and Grace Ioppolo, eds. The Collected Works of Thomas Heywood. Volume 3. Middle Plays. Oxford University Press, 2023.
Heywood, Thomas. The Golden Age. Or the Liues of Jupiter and Saturne, with the deifying of the Heathen Gods. London: Printed for William Barrenger, 1611. DEEP 567. STC 13325. Wiggins 1637.
Janzen, Henry David. The Escapes of Jupiter: A Critical Edition. PhD Dissertation. Wayne State University, 1969.
Shepherd, Richard Herne, ed. The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood Now First Collected with Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the Author in Six Volumes. London: John Pearson, 1874.
This edition, edited by Janelle Jenstad and Cameron Stirling.

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