Mucedorus: Bibliography

Early Witnesses with Sigla

Quarto Title Year
Q1 A Most pleasant Comedie of Mucedorus the kings sonne of Valentia and Amadine the Kings daughter of Arragon, with the merie conceites of Mouse. 1598
Q2 A Most pleasant Comedie of Mucedorus the Kings sonne of Valentia, and Amadine the Kinges daughter of Arragon, with the merrie conceites of Mouse. 1606
Q3 A Most pleasant Comedie of Mucedorus the Kings sonne of Valentia, and Amadine the Kinges daughter of Aragon. 1610
Q4 A Most pleasant Comedie of Mucedorus the Kings sonne of Valencia, and Amadine the Kinges daughter of Aragon. 1611
Q5 A Most pleasant Comedie of Mucedorus the Kings Sonne of Valencia, and Amadine the Kings daughter of Aragon. 1613
Q6 A Most pleasant Comedie of Mucedorus the Kings Sonne of Valencia, and Amadine the Kings Daughter of Aragon. 1615
Qη 1615-1618
Q7 A Most Pleasant Comedie of Mucedorus the Kings Sonne of Valentia, and Amadine the Kings Daughter of Aragon. 1618
Q8 A Most Pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus the Kings Sonne of Valentia, and Amadine the Kings Daughter of Aragon. 1619
Q9 A Most Pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus the Kings Sonne of Valentia, and Amadine the Kings Daughter of Aragon. 1621
Q10 A Most pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus the Kings Sonne of Valentia, and Amadine the Kings Daughter of Aragon. 1626
Q11 A most pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus the Kings Sonne of Valentia, and Amadine the Kings Daughter of Aragon. 1629
Q12 A Most pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus the Kings Sonne of Valentia, and Amadine the Kings Daughter of Aragon. 1631
Q13 A Most pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus The Kings Sonne of Valentia, and Amadine the Kings Daughter of Aragon. 1634
Q14 A Most pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus the Kings Sonne of Valentia, and Amadine the Kings Daughter of Aragon. 1639
Q15 A Most pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus the Kings Son of Valentia, and Amadine the Kings Daughter of Aragon. 1656
Q16 A Most pleasant COMEDY OF MUCEDORUS The KINGS Son of Valentia, and Amadine the KINGS Daughter of Aragon. 1663
Q17 A Most pleasant COMEDY OF MUCEDORUS The KINGʼS Son of Valentia, and Amadine the KINGʼS Daughter of Aragon. 1668

Editions Collated

Tyrrell, Henry. Mucedorus. The Doubtful Plays of William Shakespeare. London and New York: John Tallis, 1853. 350–372.
Hazlitt, W. Carew. Mucedorus. A Select Collection of Old English Plays. Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the Year 1744. 4th ed. Vol. 7. London: Reeves and Turner, 1874.
Warnke, Karl and Proescholdt, Ludwig, eds. Mucedorus. Pseudo-Shakespearian Plays. Halle (Saale), Max Niemeyer, 1878.
Hopkinson, A.F., ed. Mucedorus. Shakespeareʼs Doubtful Plays. London, M.E. Sims, 1893.
Tucker Brooke, C.F. Mucedorus. The Shakespeare Apocrypha. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908. Rpt. 1929. 103–126.
Baskervill, Charles Read, Virgil B. Heltzel, and Arthur H. Nethercot. Mucedorus. Elizabethan and Stuart Plays. New York: Henry Holt, 1934. Rpt. 1957. 525–552.
Winny, James, ed. Mucedorus, in Three Elizabethan Plays. London, Chatto and Windus, 1959, 14–16, 105–153.
Nethercot, Arthur H., Baskervill, Charles, R. and Heltzel, Virgil, B., ed. Mucedorus, in Elizabethan and Jacobean Plays: Revised Edition. vol.1. New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1971, 577–604.
Boyer, Norman Paul, ed. A Critical Edition of Mucedorus, A Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Denver, University of Denver, 1969.
Kozlenko, William, ed. Mucedorus, in Disputed plays of William Shakespeare. New York, Hawthorn Books, 1974, 166–192. WSB az248.
Fraser, Russell A. and Norman Rabkin. Mucedorus. Drama of the English Renaissance I: The Tudor Period. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan, 1976. 463—480.
Jupin, Arvin H. A Contextual Study and Modern-Spelling Edition of Mucedorus. New York: Garland, 1987. The Renaissance Imagination 29.
Goss, David A., ed. A Most Pleasant Comedy Of Mucedorus, A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the State University of New York at Buffalo. New York, University at Buffalo, 2009.
Bate, Jonathan and Eric Rasmussen. Mucedorus. William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 503—550. WSB aaac460.

Criticism

Dessen, Alan C. Conceptual Casting in the Age of Shakespeare: Evidence from Mucedorus. Shakespeare Quarterly, 43.1. Oxford, (1992, 67–70. WSB bc1095.
Finkelstein, Richard. Censorship and Forgiven Violence in Mucedorus. Parergon 17.1 (1999): 89–108. DOI 10.1353/pgn.1999.0039
Gilchrist, Kim. Mucedorus: The Last Ludic Playbook, the First Stage Arcadia. Shakespeare 15.1 (2019): 1–20. DOI 10.1080/17450918.2017.1393455. WSB bbbi1058.
Grant, Teresa. White Bears In Mucedorus, The Winterʼs Tale, and Oberon, The Fairy Prince. Notes and Queries (2001), 311-b–313. WSB bbf449. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/48-3-311b.
Hyland, Peter. Scare Bear: Playing with Mucedorus. Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage. Ed. Catherine Loomis and Sid Ray. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016. 203–211. WSB bbbf47.
Jackson, MacDonald P. Edward Archer’s Ascription of Mucedorus to Shakespeare. Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 22 (1964), 233–248. WSB bbp1106. DOI https://doi.org/10.1179/aulla.1964.22.1.008.
Kirschbaum, Leo. The Texts of Mucedorus. The Modern Language Review 50.1 (1955): 1–5. DOI 10.2307/3718751.
Kirwan, Peter. Mucedorus. The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England. Ed. Andy Kesson and Emma Smith. Farnham, UK: Asghate Publishing Limited, 2013. 223–234. WSB aaac163.
Kreuzer, Paul G. Mucedorus: A Comedy of Transformation. Thoth 16.3 (1976): 33–42.
Kreuzer, Paul G. Mucedorus. Elizabethan Dramatists. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol 62. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research Inc, 1987. 373–384.
Lamb, Jonathan P. William Shakespeareʼs Mucedorus and the Market of Forms. Renaissance Drama 46.1 (2018): 57–86. DOI 10.1086/697174. WSB bbbj558.
Proudfoot, Richard. Modernizing the Printed Play-Text in Jacobean London: Some Early Reprints of Mucedorus. A Certain Text: Close Readings and Textual Studies on Shakespeare and Others in Honor of Thomas Clayton. Ed. Linda Anderson and Janis Lull. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London, UK: Associated University Press, 2003. 18–28. WSB aah268.
Reynolds, George F. Mucedorus, Most Popular Elizabethan Play? Studies in the English Renaissance Drama. Ed. Josephine W. Bennett, Oscar Cargill, and Vernon Hall, Jr. New York: New York University Press, 1959. 248–268.
Rooney, Tom. Who Plaid the Bear in Mucedorus? Notes and Queries 54:3 (2007): 259–262. DOI 10.1093/notesj/gjm145.
Scherer, Abigail. Mucedorusʼs Wild Man: Disorderly Acts on the Early Modern Stage. Renaissance Papers 1999. Ed. T.H. Howard-Hill and Philip Rollinson. Renaissance Papers. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 1999. 55–65.
Segall, Kreg. Mucedorus and Counsel from Q1 to Q3. Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 24.1 (2014): 63–87.
Thom, Alexander. Figures of Exclusion in Mucedorus (c. 1591). Law and Literature 33.1 (2021): 49–72. DOI 10.1080/1535685X.2020.1726655.
Thomson, Leslie. Mucedorus: From Revision to Nostalgia. Theatre Notebook 71.3 (2017): 140–160.
Thornberry, Richard T. A Seventeenth-Century Revival of Mucedorus In London Before 1610. Shakespeare Quarterly 28.3 (1977): 362–364. DOI 10.2307/2869088.
Viswanathan, S. Mucedorus and Shakespeare—and his Company. Points of View, 2, no. 1. Ghaziabad (1995, 1–11. WSB bi1576.

Prosopography

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.

Sofia Spiteri

Sofia Spiteri is currently completing her Bachelor of Arts in History at the University of Victoria. During the summer of 2023, she had the opportunity to work with LEMDO as a recipient of the Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award (VKURA). Her work with LEMDO primarily includes semi-diplomatic transcriptions for The Winterʼs Tale and Mucedorus.

Bibliography

Baskervill, Charles Read, Virgil B. Heltzel, and Arthur H. Nethercot. Mucedorus. Elizabethan and Stuart Plays. New York: Henry Holt, 1934. Rpt. 1957. 525–552.
Bate, Jonathan and Eric Rasmussen. Mucedorus. William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 503—550. WSB aaac460.
Boyer, Norman Paul, ed. A Critical Edition of Mucedorus , A Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Denver, University of Denver, 1969.
Dessen, Alan C. Conceptual Casting in the Age of Shakespeare: Evidence from Mucedorus . Shakespeare Quarterly, 43.1. Oxford, (1992, 67–70. WSB bc1095.
Finkelstein, Richard. Censorship and Forgiven Violence in Mucedorus . Parergon 17.1 (1999): 89–108. DOI 10.1353/pgn.1999.0039
Fraser, Russell A. and Norman Rabkin. Mucedorus. Drama of the English Renaissance I: The Tudor Period. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan, 1976. 463—480.
Gilchrist, Kim. Mucedorus: The Last Ludic Playbook, the First Stage Arcadia . Shakespeare 15.1 (2019): 1–20. DOI 10.1080/17450918.2017.1393455. WSB bbbi1058.
Goss, David A., ed. A Most Pleasant Comedy Of Mucedorus, A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the State University of New York at Buffalo. New York, University at Buffalo, 2009.
Grant, Teresa. White Bears In Mucedorus, The Winterʼs Tale, and Oberon, The Fairy Prince . Notes and Queries (2001), 311-b–313. WSB bbf449. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/48-3-311b.
Hazlitt, W. Carew. Mucedorus. A Select Collection of Old English Plays. Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the Year 1744. 4th ed. Vol. 7. London: Reeves and Turner, 1874.
Hopkinson, A.F., ed. Mucedorus. Shakespeareʼs Doubtful Plays. London, M.E. Sims, 1893.
Hyland, Peter. Scare Bear: Playing with Mucedorus . Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage. Ed. Catherine Loomis and Sid Ray. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016. 203–211. WSB bbbf47.
Jackson, MacDonald P. Edward Archer’s Ascription of Mucedorus to Shakespeare. Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 22 (1964), 233–248. WSB bbp1106. DOI https://doi.org/10.1179/aulla.1964.22.1.008.
Jupin, Arvin H. A Contextual Study and Modern-Spelling Edition of Mucedorus . New York: Garland, 1987. The Renaissance Imagination 29.
Kirschbaum, Leo. The Texts of Mucedorus . The Modern Language Review 50.1 (1955): 1–5. DOI 10.2307/3718751.
Kirwan, Peter. Mucedorus . The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England. Ed. Andy Kesson and Emma Smith. Farnham, UK: Asghate Publishing Limited, 2013. 223–234. WSB aaac163.
Kozlenko, William, ed. Mucedorus, in Disputed plays of William Shakespeare. New York, Hawthorn Books, 1974, 166–192. WSB az248.
Kreuzer, Paul G. Mucedorus . Elizabethan Dramatists. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol 62. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research Inc, 1987. 373–384.
Kreuzer, Paul G. Mucedorus: A Comedy of Transformation. Thoth 16.3 (1976): 33–42.
Lamb, Jonathan P. William Shakespeareʼs Mucedorus and the Market of Forms. Renaissance Drama 46.1 (2018): 57–86. DOI 10.1086/697174. WSB bbbj558.
Nethercot, Arthur H., Baskervill, Charles, R. and Heltzel, Virgil, B., ed. Mucedorus, in Elizabethan and Jacobean Plays: Revised Edition. vol.1. New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1971, 577–604.
Proudfoot, Richard. Modernizing the Printed Play-Text in Jacobean London: Some Early Reprints of Mucedorus . A Certain Text: Close Readings and Textual Studies on Shakespeare and Others in Honor of Thomas Clayton. Ed. Linda Anderson and Janis Lull. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London, UK: Associated University Press, 2003. 18–28. WSB aah268.
Reynolds, George F. Mucedorus, Most Popular Elizabethan Play? Studies in the English Renaissance Drama. Ed. Josephine W. Bennett, Oscar Cargill, and Vernon Hall, Jr. New York: New York University Press, 1959. 248–268.
Rooney, Tom. Who Plaid the Bear in Mucedorus? Notes and Queries 54:3 (2007): 259–262. DOI 10.1093/notesj/gjm145.
Scherer, Abigail. Mucedorusʼs Wild Man: Disorderly Acts on the Early Modern Stage. Renaissance Papers 1999. Ed. T.H. Howard-Hill and Philip Rollinson. Renaissance Papers. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 1999. 55–65.
Segall, Kreg. Mucedorus and Counsel from Q1 to Q3. Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 24.1 (2014): 63–87.
Thom, Alexander. Figures of Exclusion in Mucedorus (c. 1591). Law and Literature 33.1 (2021): 49–72. DOI 10.1080/1535685X.2020.1726655.
Thomson, Leslie. Mucedorus: From Revision to Nostalgia. Theatre Notebook 71.3 (2017): 140–160.
Thornberry, Richard T. A Seventeenth-Century Revival of Mucedorus In London Before 1610. Shakespeare Quarterly 28.3 (1977): 362–364. DOI 10.2307/2869088.
Tucker Brooke, C.F. Mucedorus. The Shakespeare Apocrypha. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908. Rpt. 1929. 103–126.
Tyrrell, Henry. Mucedorus. The Doubtful Plays of William Shakespeare. London and New York: John Tallis, 1853 . 350–372.
Viswanathan, S. Mucedorus and Shakespeare—and his Company. Points of View, 2, no. 1. Ghaziabad (1995, 1–11. WSB bi1576.
Warnke, Karl and Proescholdt, Ludwig, eds. Mucedorus. Pseudo-Shakespearian Plays. Halle (Saale), Max Niemeyer, 1878.
Winny, James, ed. Mucedorus, in Three Elizabethan Plays. London, Chatto and Windus, 1959, 14–16, 105–153.

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