1615 Works - 1615 Books, 1615 Plays, 1615 Treaties, Albumazar, Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists, Ignoramus, Confessio Fratern (Paperback)

Chapters: 1615 Books, 1615 Plays, 1615 Treaties, Albumazar, Mercury Vindicated From the Alchemists, Ignoramus, Confessio Fraternitatis, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, 1615 in Literature, the Goat Amalthea With the Infant Jupiter and a Faun, Peace of Asti, Peace of Tyrnau. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Albumazar is a Jacobean era play, a comedy written by Thomas Tomkis that was performed and published in 1615. The play was specially commissioned by Trinity College, Cambridge to entertain King James I during his 1615 visit to the University. College officials sought a play from alumnus Tomkis, then a lawyer in Wolverhampton, who had written the successful Lingua for his college a decade earlier. Gentlemen of Trinity College acted Albumazar before the King and his court on March 9, 1615 (new style). One report on this production from an audience member survives, in a letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton though Chamberlain thought it a failure. The play was revived onstage during the Restoration, by the Duke's Company at their theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields; Samuel Pepys saw it on February 22, 1668. In 1744 playwright James Ralph adapted Tomkis's play into his The Astrologer; it was not a success, and ran for one performance only. In 1747 David Garrick revived Tomkis's original; and in 1773 Garrick made and staged his own adaptation. Albumazar was entered into the Stationers' Register on April 28, 1615, and was published soon after in a quarto printed by Nicholas Okes for the bookseller Walter Burre. (The 1615 quarto was issued in two states, which have sometimes been defined as two separate editions.) The play is anonymous in its first edition, though college records clearly assign it to Tomkis. A second edition was issued ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=15073442