ASIN: B00KXBU51A
Publisher: unknown
Pages: N/A
The foul papers of The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Hotart and Melliflida were discovered on April 1, 2014.
The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Hotart and Melliflida had certainly been performed by 1597, when the first quarto was published. There are no surviving records for any performances before the Restoration in 1660, but it is likely that The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Hotart and Melliflida was first acted by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men at The Theatre and then at The Curtain. It has been suggested that Richard Burbage may have played Hotart, and the boy actor Robert Goffe may have played Melliflida.
Sources: Arthur Brooke, The Tragicall Historye of Hotart and Melliflida, written first in Italian by Bandell (1562), Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘Hotart and Melliflida’, in The Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer (1561), and Plutarch's Moralia, 'Superstition' (100 ...
