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In the original 1641 edition, the play's title and the heroine's name is spelled "Claracilla." The spelling was changed to "Claricilla" in the 1664 collection. Normally, scholars would give the original spelling priority; yet since there are indications that
Killigrew oversaw Herringman's 1664
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saw it on 4 July 1661. Pepys saw the drama again at the
Cockpit on 5 January 1663, when it struck him as a "poor play," and on 9 March 1669, when he conceded in his Diary that "there are a few good things in it."
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actors, because they denied him a share in the proceeds – and indicated that this actor was involved in attempts to stage plays "in his own house." The "ill Beest" may signify W
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In addition to the two printed texts, a manuscript of the play dated 1639 survives with a title-page in
Killigrew's hand (Harvard, Houghton Library, MS Thr 7).
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When
Killigrew was no longer committed to that type of courtly drama, he would write a radically different kind of play, in his comedy
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was raided by the authorities. The performance was allegedly betrayed by an actor. A contemporary source, the
Royalist periodical
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was
Beeston's brother-in-law and business associate. Beeston was then trying to resume dramatic performances at his "house," the
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collection, the revised spelling appears to have the authority of the creator, and many scholars have accepted it on that basis.
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notes the contemporary fashion for naming plays after their heroines. The examples he cites are
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O. L. Brownstein, "New Light on the
Salisbury Court Playhouse,"
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was one of the rare plays surreptitiously acted during the
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Claricilla, by Thomas
Killigrew: A Critical Edition
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352:Thomas Killigrew, Cavalier Dramatist 1612–83
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402:Plays by Thomas Killigrew
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317:William T. Reich, ed.,
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161:The Shepherd's Paradise
99:Comedies and Tragedies
239:Gibbon's Tennis Court
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35:Queen Henrietta's Men
288:period, in December
243:Mercurius Democritus
222:The 1653 performance
170:The Parson's Wedding
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84:commendatory verses
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276:In the Restoration
88:William Cartwright
25:era stage play, a
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231:Interregnum
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391:Categories
332:Claracilla
305:References
282:Claricilla
270:Claricilla
251:Claricilla
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210:Claricilla
193:Heliodorus
188:Aethiopica
130:Claricilla
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177:The name
23:Caroline
215:Aglaura
90:and by
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