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    Mucedorus: the last ludic playbook, the first stage Arcadia

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    This article argues that two seemingly contradictory factors contributed to and sustained the success of the anonymous Elizabethan play Mucedorus (c. 1590; pub. 1598). First, that both the initial composition of Mucedorus and its Jacobean revival were driven in part by the popularity of its source, Philip Sidney's Arcadia. Second, the playbook's invitation to amateur playing allowed its romance narrative to be adopted and repurposed by diverse social groups. These two factors combined to create something of a paradox, suggesting that Mucedorus was both open to all yet iconographically connected to an elite author's popular text. This study will argue that Mucedorus pioneered the fashion for “continuations” or adaptations of the famously unfinished Arcadia, and one element of its success in print was its presentation as an affordable and performable version of Sidney's elite work. The Jacobean revival of Mucedorus by the King's Men is thus evidence of a strategy of engagement with the Arcadia designed to please the new Stuart monarchs. This association with the monarchy in part determined the cultural functions of the Arcadia and Mucedorus through the Interregnum to the close of the seventeenth century

    Few hours in a far-off age / by H.A. Dugdale.

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    Electronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2009

    Science and religion : Judge Higinbotham's admirable lecture defended : a reply to the Rev. A.W. Cresswell, M.A., (of St. John's Church, Camberwell) / by H.A. Dugdale.

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    Electronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library ofAustralia, 2011.; HHP copy bound with 19 pamphlets with spine title: Aust, freethought no.5

    Science and religion : Judge Higinbotham's admirable lecture defended : a reply to the Rev. A.W. Cresswell, M.A., (of St. John's Church, Camberwell) / by H.A. Dugdale.

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    Electronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library ofAustralia, 2011.; HHP copy bound with 19 pamphlets with spine title: Aust, freethought no.5
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