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    The Puritan by William Shakespeare - Apocryphal (Illustrated)
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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Puritan’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare’.

    Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Shakespeare includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781786563125
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      The Puritan by William Shakespeare - Apocryphal (Illustrated) - William Shakespeare (Apocryphal)

      The Complete Works of

      WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

      VOLUME 46 OF 74

      The Puritan

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2012

      Version 6

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘The Puritan’

      William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78656 312 5

      Delphi Classics

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      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

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      William Shakespeare: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 46 of the Delphi Classics edition of William Shakespeare in 74 Parts. It features the unabridged text of The Puritan from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of William Shakespeare, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of William Shakespeare or the Complete Works of William Shakespeare in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

      IN 74 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Plays

      1, Henry  VI, Part 2

      2, Henry  VI, Part 3

      3, Henry  VI, Part 1

      4, Richard  III

      5, The Comedy of Errors

      6, Titus Andronicus

      7, Taming of the Shrew

      8, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

      9, Love’s Labour’s Lost

      10, Romeo and Juliet

      11, Richard II

      12, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

      13, King John

      14, The Merchant of Venice

      15, Henry IV, Part I

      16, Henry IV, Part II

      17, Much Ado About Nothing

      18, Henry V

      19, Julius Caesar

      20, As You Like It

      21, Twelfth Night

      22, Hamlet

      23, The Merry Wives of Windsor

      24, Troilus and Cressida

      25, All’s Well that Ends Well

      26, Measure for Measure

      27, Othello

      28, King Lear

      29, Macbeth

      30, Antony and Cleopatra

      31, Coriolanus

      32, Timon of Athens

      33, Pericles

      34, Cymbeline

      35, The Winter’s Tale

      36, The Tempest

      37, Henry  VIII

      38, The Two Noble Kinsmen

      The Lost Plays

      39, The Lost Plays

      The Sources

      40, The Plays’ Sources

      The Apocryphal Plays

      41, Arden of Faversham

      42, The Birth of Merlin

      43, King Edward  III

      44, Locrine

      45, The London Prodigal

      46, The Puritan

      47, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy

      48, Sir John Oldcastle

      49, Thomas Lord Cromwell

      50, A Yorkshire Tragedy

      51, Sir Thomas More

      52, Fair Em

      53, Mucedorus

      54, The Merry Devil of Edmonton

      55, Edmund Ironside

      56, Thomas of Woodstock

      57, Vortigern and Rowena

      The Adaptations

      58, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

      The Poetry

      59, The Sonnets

      60, Venus and Adonis

      61, The Rape of Lucrece

      62, The Passionate Pilgrim

      63, The Phoenix and the Turtle

      64, A Lover’s Complaint

      The Apocryphal Poetry

      65, To the Queen

      66, A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter

      67, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music

      The Criticism

      68, The Criticism

      The Biographies

      69, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear by Nicholas Rowe

      70, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters by Henry Norman Hudson

      71, Life of William Shakespeare by Sir Sidney Lee

      72, Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London by Arthur Acheson

      73, The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner

      Resources

      74, Resources

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      The Puritan

      OR THE WIDOW OF WATLING STREET

      This comedy was first published in 1607 and is often attributed to Thomas Middleton, but also belongs to the Shakespeare Apocrypha due to the title page bearing an attribution to W.S..   The Puritan probably dates from the year 1606. Some of its incidents are drawn from a contemporary work called The Merry Conceited Jests of George Peele, which attributes to the writer George Peele a number of tricks and jokes that can be found in previous popular literature. It contains an allusion to an almanac that specifies 15 July as a Tuesday, which was true only of 1606 in the first decade of the 17th century (although the author may not have intended it to be accurate). And the play’s interest in corporal oaths may be related to the demands for oaths of allegiance from Catholics following the Gunpowder Plot.

      Entered into the Stationers’ Register on 6 August 1607, The Puritan was published in quarto format before the end of the year by the printer George Eld.  The title page states that the play was performed by the Children of Paul’s, one of the boys’ acting companies of the era, and attributes its authorship to W. S. These initials were first identified with Shakespeare by Edward Archer in his 1656 play list, published in his edition of The Old Law. The Puritan was later added to the second impression of the Shakespeare Third Folio (1664) by publisher Philip Chetwinde, bringing the play into the Shakespeare Apocrypha.  The modern scholarly consensus rejects the identification of W. S. with Shakespeare.

      CONTENTS

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      ACTUS 1.

      SCENE I. A Garden behind the widow’s house.

      SCENE II. A street.

      SCENE III. A Street.

      SCENE IV.

      ACTUS II.

      SCENE I. A room in the widow’s house.

      SCENE II. A Garden.

      ACTUS 3.

      SCENE I. The street before the Widow’s house.

      SCENE II. An apartment in the Widow’s house.]

      SCENE III.

      SCENE IV. A gallery in a gentleman’s house.

      SCENE V. A room in the Marshalsea prison.

      ACTUS 4.

      SCENE I. An apartment in the Widow’s house.

      SCENE II. A room in the Widow’s house, with a door at the side, leading to another apartment.

      SCENE III. The street before the Widow’s house.

      ACTUS 5

      SCENE II. The same.

      SCENE III. A room in Sir Oliver Muckhill’s house.

      SCENE IV. A street; a church appearing.

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      Lady Plus, a Citizens Widow.

      Frances,

      Moll, her two Daughters.

      Sir Godfrey, Brother-in-Law to the Widow Plus.

      Master Edmond, Son to the Widow Plus.

      George Pye-boord, a Scholar and a Citizen.

      Peter Skirmish, an old Soldier.

      Captain Idle, a Highway-man.

      Corporal Oath, a vain-glorious Fellow.

      Nichols St. Antlings,

      Simon St. Mary Overies,

      Frailty, Serving-men to the Lady Plus.

      Sir Oliver Muck-hill, a Suitor to the Lady Plus.

      Sir John Penny-Dub, a Suitor to Moll.

      Sir Andrew Tipstaff, a Suitor to

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