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“Tittus and Vespacia” and “Titus and Ondronicus” in Henslowe's Diary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

George P. Baker
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The entries in Henslowe's Diary as to “tittus and Vespacia” and “titus and Ondronicus” seem to me, if they be carefully considered, to support Mr. Fuller's conclusions in regard to the origin of Shakspere's Titus Andronicus. I believe, with him, that we have in the entries which he has quoted in his article the two plays he names as the sources for Shakspere's play—the original of G in “tittus and Vespacia”; the original of D in the “titus and Ondronicus” entered as “ne” Jan. 23, 1593–4, when the Sussex men were playing at the Rose./Note that the title-page of the first extant quarto (1600) says that the play was given by Pembroke's, Derby's, Sussex' and the Chamberlain's companies, and that—this is important—the order of the last two companies on this title-page is the order of their control of the play as shown in Henslowe's Diary. May it not be, then, that the assignment is correct and that the Pembroke and the Derby company, in the order named, used the play before the Sussex and the Chamberlain men ? I think if we assume, for the moment, that whoever put the statement on the title-page was thinking simply of a Titus Andronicus play and not of the special play before him, it may be shown that the statement was entirely correct, and that a Titus Andronicus play passed successively from Pembroke's company to Derby's, Sussex', and the Chamberlain's men. The fact that on this first quarto no author was named for the play may have helped in 'the treatment of two successive Andronicus plays as one.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , 1901 , pp. 66 - 76
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1901

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References

Note 1 in page 66 Diary, ed. J. P. Collier, p. 33.

Note 2 in page 66 Idem, pp. 33, 35, 36.

Note 1 in page 67 W. Kelly, Notices of Leicester, under 1592.

Note 2 in page 67 J. P. Collier, Memoirs of Alleyn, p. 32.

Note 3 in page 67 E. Arber, Stationers' Register: First Pt. of Contention, True Tragedy, Taming of a Shrew.

Note 4 in page 67 F. G. Fleay, History of the Stage, p. 87.

Note 5 in page 67 See title-page of first editions of these plays [1595, 1594].

Note 6 in page 67 Diary, pp. 20–30.

Note 7 in page 67 Idem, pp. 36 et seq. For evidence as to separation of the companies see later part of this article.

Note 8 in page 67 F. G. Fleay, History of the Stage, p. 94.

Note 1 in page 68 Memoirs of Alleyn, chap. iii.

Note 2 in page 68 Chronicles of the English Drama, i, p. 33.

Note 3 in page 68 Idem, p. 134.

Note 4 in page 68 Records of Nottingham, B. Quaritch, under 1578.

Note 5 in page 68 J. P. Collier, Memoirs of E. Alleyn, p. 32.

Note 1 in page 69 Time must be allowed for the revamping considered ten lines beyond.

Note 2 in page 69 Diary, p. 33.

Note 3 in page 69 Idem, pp. 20–36.

Note 4 in page 69 Idem, p. 22 et seq., and Miss Jane Lee, Trans. N. Sh. So., 1876.

Note 5 in page 69 History of the Stage, p. 140; Diary, p. 36, note 2.

Note 1 in page 70 Diary, p. 35.

Note 2 in page 70 F. G. Fleay, History of the Staye, p. 134.

Note 3 in page 70 Diary, p. 43.

Note 1 in page 71 A. Cohn, Shakespeare in Germany, pp. xxviii-ix. R. Browne and a company had been at Leyden in October, 1590, p. xxxi.

Note 2 in page 71 W. Kelly, Notices of Leicester, p. 212.

Note 3 in page 71 J. P. Collier, Memoirs of Alleyn, p. 198.

Note 4 in page 71 A. Cohn, Shakespeare in Germany, pp. xxiv-xxv.

Note 5 in page 71 J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, Illustrations of Shakespeare, i, 33.

Note 1 in page 72 J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, Illustrations of Shakespeare,—as to Alleyn's presence in the company at this date.

Note 2 in page 72 S. Lee, Shakespeare, p. 35.

Note 3 in page 72 F. G. Fleay, History of the Stage, p. 94; J. P. Collier, Memoirs of Alleyn, pp. 25–33.

Note 1 in page 73 Diary, p. 33.

Note 2 in page 73 Idem, pp. 35, 36.

Note 3 in page 73 Arber, Stationers' Register, ii, 644.

Note 1 in page 74 English Dramatic Poets, p. 464, ed. 1691. He does not say that he saw the edition.

Note 2 in page 74 Hazlitt's Dodsley, vi, 572.

Note 3 in page 74 Diary, pp. 28–30.

Note 4 in page 74 Arber, Stationers' Register, ii, 643.

Note 1 in page 75 See Mr. Fuller's parallel summaries.

Note 2 in page 75 Stationers' Register, iii, 204; iv, 164; iv, 242.

Note 3 in page 75 Page v.

Note 4 in page 75 Stationers' Register, iv, 164.

Note 1 in page 76 P. Daniel, N. Sh. So., Hen. V., p. x.

Note 2 in page 76 When the Palladis Tamia of Meres was entered in the Stationers' Register.