John Webster, James Shirley, and the Melbourne manuscript.(essay)(Critical essay)

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England | January 1, 2006| | Copyright

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IN 1986 there was discovered in the muniments room at Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, the manuscript fragment of a play apparently written during the early decades of the seventeenth century. A single sheet of paper, folded once, contains 144 lines of text covering its four pages. It had been wrapped around a packet of Sir John Coke's correspondence. Coke had been Charles I's secretary of state. (1)

The dialogue of the dramatic remnant involves Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (here Duke Alexander), and his favorite, Lorenzino de' Medici (here ...

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