| Charles Whitney - 2006 - 24 pages
...it. The satire soon drew the rival Admiral's Men to produce two plays, i and 2 The True and Honorable History of the Life of Sir John Old-castle, the Good Lord Cobham (1599, 1600) celebrating a suitably orthodox version of this Lollard leader, that is, one in which... | |
| Catherine Grace Canino - 2007 - 21 pages
...Admiral's Men, the rival playing company of Shakespeare's Lord Chamberlain's Men, produced a play entitled The First Part of the True and Honourable History...Life of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham. This play portrayed John Oldcastle as a Protestant martyr — virtuous, brave, and undoubtedly trim... | |
| 1859 - 636 pages
...practice of scraping in bowing, so as to curry favour by obsequiousness.] Wrotham, co. Kent. — In the first part of the True and Honourable History...Life of Sir John Oldcastle, the good Lord Cobham, $-c., 4to. 1600, an historical play " written by William Shakespeare" (?), occurs the following remarkable... | |
| 1869 - 830 pages
...old heroes of English thought. " In the year IfiOO, n play was printed in London with ttie title, • The First Part of the True and Honourable History...Life of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham.' The title-page bore Shakespeare's name. ' Sir John Oldcastle' is now regarded by every one as a play... | |
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