The Disobedient Child
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The Disobedient Child is a theatrical comic interlude
written c.1560
by Thomas Ingelend (an author who is known only as a "late student of Cambridge
", as described on the first edition's title-page) and first performed in a Tudor hall.
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The printed edition by Thomas Colwell is without date, but it was published about the year 1560. "The source," writes Tucker Brooke, "from which Ingelend derived the rough framework of his play is a prose dialogue of the French Latinist Ravisius Textor (Jean Tixier de Ravisi, 1480-1524); but Textor's scant two hundred and thirty-five lines of question and answer between a colorless Pater Juvenis and Uxor are expanded, in the fifteen hundred lines of the English work, into a drama of much higher intensity and literary merit than the original in any way suggested." It was last known to be published by AMS Press in 1970, with ISBN 0404533426.
Morality play
The morality play is a genre of Medieval and early Tudor theatrical entertainment. In their own time, these plays were known as "interludes", a broader term given to dramas with or without a moral theme. Morality plays are a type of allegory in which the protagonist is met by personifications of...
written c.1560
1560 in literature
-Births:*January 3 - John Bois, Bible translator *October 10 - Jacobus Arminius, theologian *December 3 - Jan Gruter, critic and scholar *date unknown - Constantino Cajetan, ecclesiastical historian -Deaths:...
by Thomas Ingelend (an author who is known only as a "late student of Cambridge
Cambridge
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", as described on the first edition's title-page) and first performed in a Tudor hall.
Morality play
It deals with the subject of the proper disciplinary treatment of children, raising the threat of the evil of those raised without strict discipline. It portrays a young man who is eager to marry despite his father's objections, and the unhappiness of his subsequent married life. The moral of its story is "you've made your bed, now lie in it." It ends with a song to Queen ElizabethElizabeth I of England
Elizabeth I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty...
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The printed edition by Thomas Colwell is without date, but it was published about the year 1560. "The source," writes Tucker Brooke, "from which Ingelend derived the rough framework of his play is a prose dialogue of the French Latinist Ravisius Textor (Jean Tixier de Ravisi, 1480-1524); but Textor's scant two hundred and thirty-five lines of question and answer between a colorless Pater Juvenis and Uxor are expanded, in the fifteen hundred lines of the English work, into a drama of much higher intensity and literary merit than the original in any way suggested." It was last known to be published by AMS Press in 1970, with ISBN 0404533426.
None is so deaf as who will not hear
This play contains the famous line: "None is so deaf as who will not hear."Sources
- Tucker Brooke, C. F. 1911. The Tudor Drama: A History of English National Drama to the Retirement of Shakespeare. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
- Chambers, E. K.Edmund Kerchever ChambersSir Edmund Kerchever Chambers was an English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar. His four-volume history of Elizabethan theater, published in 1923, remains a standard resource for scholars of the period's drama....
1923. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press. - Southern, Richard. 1973. The Staging of Plays Before Shakespeare. London: Faber. ISBN 0571101321.