Gesta Grayorum. 1688
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Gesta Grayorum. 1688
| Author: | Gray's Inn |
| Category: | Unspecified Category [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | [London : Printed for the Malone society by F. Hall at the Oxford university press] |
| Release Date: | 01 Jan 1914 |
| Pages: | 128 |
| File Size: | 3.77 MB |
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| Creation Date: | 18 Sep 2008 |
| Rank: | 823,048 No 1 most popular |
| Short link: | Copy |
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Book Description
xxi, 68 p. 22 x 18 cm
"This reprint ... has been prepared under the direction of the general editor [W. W. Greg]"
Account of Gray's Inn revels, 1594-5, under the leadership of H. Helmes, "prince of Purpoole."
"There are three main points of literary interest in the Gesta Grayorum, namely, a supposed allusion to Shakespeare's Comedy of errors, the speeches of the six councillors, [ascribed to Francis Bacon] and the Masque of Proteus ... [Of the masque, really the occasion of the present reprint] Francis Davison was ... the main author." - Introd
With facsimile reproductions of original t.-p. leaf Ii verso (first page of masque) and leaf of masque as contained in ms. Harley 541
Original title: Gesta Grayorum: Or, The History of the History of the High and mighty Prince, Henry Prince of Purpoole, Arch-Duke of Stapulia and Bernardia, Duke of High and Nether Holborn [etc.] ... Who Reigned and Died, A.D. 1594. Together With A Masque, as it was presented (by His Highness's Command) for the Entertainment of Q Elizabeth; who, with the Nobles of both Courts, was present thereat. London, Printed for W. Canning ... 1688 ..
"Text of the masque from manuscript Harley 541": p. xii-xxi
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