Thursday 28 March 1661

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• N Josh on Mon 29 Mar 2004, 12:59am. Flag this

  A cursory search reveals the play is another by John Fletcher: “The Bloody Brother; or, The Tragedy of Rollo, Duke of Normandy,” 1639—-or thereabouts. Anyone care to furnish particulars?

• N Emilio on Mon 29 Mar 2004, 01:20am. Flagged

  “to sign me a bond for my 500l.”

  L&M have an intersting footnote about this transaction: “This loan was increased to

• N Emilio on Mon 29 Mar 2004, 01:34am. Flag this

  The Bloody Brother; or, The Tragedy of Rollo

  L&M footnote: “The bloody brother, or Rollo, Duke of Normandy, a tragedy by John Fletcher and several others, written c. 1617; published 1639. Now at the [Theatre Royal], Vere St. The cast listed by Downes (pp. 5-6) includes Hart as Rollo, Kynaston as Otto, Mrs Corey as the Duchess and Mrs Marshall as Edith.”

  And this from Bartleby (http://www.bartleby.com/216/0513.html ):
  “The date of The Bloody Brother, or Rollo, Duke of Normandy is uncertain; but it was probably produced about the year 1616. It is an effective drama, and was reckoned by Rymer with Philaster, The Maides Tragedy and A King and no King, as among the most celebrated tragedies of its age. Four authors seem to have been concerned in this play, and it is probable that the remarkable political reflections in the first scene of the fourth act are to be ascribed to Jonson. A small part only is by Fletcher, to whom, however, are due the striking scenes between Rollo and Edith in the third and fifth acts. Of the former of these scenes, Coleridge remarks that it exhibits ‘probably the grandest working of passion in all Beaumont and Fletcher’s dramas’; the latter he criticises severely because of the momentary weakening of Edith’s resolve, comparing her with lady Anne in Richard III.”

• N dirk on Mon 29 Mar 2004, 01:37am. Flagged

  Big money today…

  The sums of money mentioned in today’s entry are huge! 1000

• N Emilio on Mon 29 Mar 2004, 01:56am. Flag this

  Is this the same one Sam mentioned yesterday for 60

• N Wim van der Meij on Mon 29 Mar 2004, 09:18am. Flag this

  I realize this is not the place for it, but I could not find a niche in the Background Info: in a secondhand bookshop I found an edition of Sam’s Diary in three beautiful volumes published in the Everyman’s Library. It is edited by John Warrington. Unfortunately the editor abridged it “guided by its human appeal and historic interest”. Does anybody know something about this edition? As I said it is a beautiful publication in 3 bound volumes with some 500 pages each. It was first published in this series in 1906; revised and reset 1953 and the edition I found reprinted 1963.

• N Emilio on Mon 29 Mar 2004, 01:21pm. Flag this

  Warrington

  As far as I can tell (from Bookfinder), it’s based on Bright’s transcription of the diary, which our Wheatley ed. is also based on in large part. Per L&M, Bright published his version in the 1870s, and included about 4/5 of the diary altogether. Who knows how much of that Everyman might have further cut for their edition. He apparently also bowdlerized the text more than Wheatley and made a number of historical errors—in a 1667 entry the Queen of Sweden becomes the ‘Queen of Sheba’, for instance.
  

• N Phil on Mon 29 Mar 2004, 09:00pm. Flag this

  Annotations like this are better suited to the discussion list: http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/pepysdiary

  Annotations on diary entries should be relevant to the particular entry. Thanks.

• N Todd Bernhardt on Mon 29 Mar 2004, 10:28pm. Flagged

  Not sure I understand the

• N Josh on Mon 29 Mar 2004, 11:23pm. Flag this

  Thanks, Emilio, for the Fletcher. My info came from Bartleby.com too, but I forgot that date of first publication (thus the “1639”) for Renaissance plays can be decades after first performance. Nota bene, for future references.

• N Emilio on Tue 30 Mar 2004, 12:45am. Flagged

  the

• N Todd Bernhardt on Tue 30 Mar 2004, 01:21am. Flag this

  re: the