When You See Me You Know Me
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When You See Me You Know Me is an early
The play was acted by Prince Henry's Men, the company to which Rowley belonged through most of his acting career, and premiered most likely in 1604 at the Fortune Theatre. It was entered into the Stationers' Register on 12 February 1605, and printed in the same year in quarto for the bookseller Nathaniel Butter.[1] A second quarto was issued in 1613, the year in which Shakespeare's and Fletcher's Henry VIII was performed,[2] and further editions appeared in 1621 and 1632.[3]
Inevitably, Rowley had to take a selective approach to the vast subject of Henry VIII's biography; he chose to emphasize the King's conflict with
Rowley also shows the King going out in disguise to mingle with his subjects, as in the legends surrounding
Rowley's play has been cited as a "probable source" for
References
- Notes
- ^ Chambers 1923; ESTC S102964
- ^ ESTC S116270.
- ^ ESTC S503 and S503.
- ^ Bullough 1962, Vol. 4, pp. 437–442 & 489–510.
- ^ Rasmussen & Bevington 1992, pp. 72–73.
- Sources
- Bullough, Geoffrey (1962). Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare. (8 Volumes). New York: Columbia University Press.
- Chambers, E.K. (1923). The Elizabethan Stage. Vol. 3. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 472.
- Rasmussen, Eric; Bevington, David M., eds. (1992). Doctor Faustus A- and B- Texts (1604, 1616): Christopher Marlowe and His Collaborators and Revisers. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
External links
Texts
- Scan of 1605 quarto (Internet Archive)
- Facsimile of 1613 quarto (Internet Archive)
- 1874 edition in modern spelling by Karl Elze (Internet Archive).
Background
- de Booij, J. (2014). Henry VIII: A Reflection of Time (PDF) (B.A.). Utrecht University.
- Rankin, Mark (2007). Imagining Henry VIII: Cultural Memory And the Tudor King, 1535-1625 (PhD). Ohio State University.
- Schofield, Scott James (2010). Staging Tudor Royalty: Religious Politics In Stuart Historical Drama (1603–1607) (PDF) (PhD). University of Toronto.