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Foul papers, promptbooks, and Thomas Heywood's The Captives.(Critical essay)

THE British Library catalogue describes folios 52 to 73 of MS Egerton 1994 as a "[p]lay in five acts, without title, in which the characters are Raphael, Treadway, Ashburne, Lord and Lady Averne, an abbat, etc. Apparently autograph; with corrections and passages marked for omission." Since its identification by A. H. Bullen in 1885, the manuscript has been recognized widely as a text of Thomas Heywood's The Captives, a play written for The Lady Elizabeth's Men for performance at the Cockpit Theatre and granted license by Sir Henry Herbert on September 3, 1624. (1) But exactly what kind of text of Heywood's play the manuscript represents is less clear. The document has proven ...

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