Dramatic works
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Dramatic works
(Malone Society reprints, v. 158)
Published for the Malone Society by Oxford University Press, 1996
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
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Note
From manuscripts PwV 24, 25, and 26 in the Portland literary collection
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A substantial body of Cavendish's prose and verse is preserved among the Portland literary manuscripts in the Hallward Library, University of Nottingham. The collection was given to the University in 1949 by the Duke's descendant William Arthur Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland, following his decision to abandon Welbeck Abbey as a family home. The four volumes ascribed to Cavendish contain in the region of 450 individual works, at least 39 of which can be classified as drama. The present miscellany edition contains most of these dramatic pieces. They were written between c.1630 and the early years of the Restoration, and include the complete text of 'A Pleasante & merrye Humor off a Roge'; fragments from seven other plays including eight scenes from 'A Debaushte Gallante', two dialogues on the origin of names and 'Progectes...for the good off the Comon welth', and the draft of a scene between Mistress Hood and Mr Furrs in The Humorous Lovers which does not appear in the printed edition; a Christmas masque written shortly before the Civil War for the Duke's household at Welbeck Abbey; a pastoral composed during his exile in Antwerp; and several play songs, including eight 'for the Ende off a Comodye att the mariges' and three from Cavendish's Caroline play The Variety which differ from the versions in the printed text of 1649.
In her introduction the editor gives a detailed account of the manuscripts.
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