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A character list (also known as a ''dramatis personae'') is a paratext that names most or all of the characters in a play. Many early modern playbooks included printed character lists, but some surviving texts include manuscript lists or printed lists that have been annotated. | A character list (also known as a ''dramatis personae'') is a paratext that names most or all of the characters in a play. Many early modern playbooks included printed character lists, but some surviving texts include manuscript lists or printed lists that have been annotated. | ||
=== The Folger Shakespeare Library === | === The [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] === | ||
Jonson, Ben. ''Every Man in his Humour''. London: [By S. Stafford] for Walter Burre. 1601. Call number [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=163327 STC 14766 Copy 1.] | Jonson, Ben. ''Every Man in his Humour''. London: [By S. Stafford] for Walter Burre. 1601. Call number [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=163327 STC 14766 Copy 1.] | ||
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A partial character list with descriptions written on the final page of the play. See [https://marissanicosia.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/handwritten-character-lists-at-the-folger-shakespeare-library/ this blog post] by Marissa Nicosia and Emma Depledge for more information, digital images, and a transcription. | A partial character list with descriptions written on the final page of the play. See [https://marissanicosia.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/handwritten-character-lists-at-the-folger-shakespeare-library/ this blog post] by Marissa Nicosia and Emma Depledge for more information, digital images, and a transcription. | ||
=== The Bodleian Library, Oxford === | === The [http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/finding-resources/catalogues-and-online-resources Bodleian Library, Oxford] === | ||
Braithwaite, Richard. ''Mercurius Brittanicus, or the English Intelligencer''. 1641. [http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph014674258 Call number Malone 197(8)]. Manuscript additions to the printed character list. | Braithwaite, Richard. ''Mercurius Brittanicus, or the English Intelligencer''. 1641. [http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph014674258 Call number Malone 197(8)]. Manuscript additions to the printed character list. | ||
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Shakespeare, William. ''Cymbeline''. Fourth Folio. 1685. Call number Arch. G. c. 12. A handwritten character list with descriptions for ''Cymbeline'' added to the final page of ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (facing the first page of ''Cymbeline''). | Shakespeare, William. ''Cymbeline''. Fourth Folio. 1685. Call number Arch. G. c. 12. A handwritten character list with descriptions for ''Cymbeline'' added to the final page of ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (facing the first page of ''Cymbeline''). | ||
=== The Boston Public Library === | === The [http://www.bpl.org/collections/ Boston Public Library] === | ||
Daniel, Samuel. ''The Queenes arcadia''. At London: Printed by G[eorge]. Eld, for Simon Waterson, 1606. [http://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.6&type=Keyword&term=5138569&by=CN&sort=RELEVANCE&limit=TOM=*&query=&page=0&searchid=12 Call #: G.3970.18]. From the Bridgewater House Library. A printed character list with a single, early manuscript correction on the [https://archive.org/details/queenesarcadiapa00dani title page verso]. | Daniel, Samuel. ''The Queenes arcadia''. At London: Printed by G[eorge]. Eld, for Simon Waterson, 1606. [http://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.6&type=Keyword&term=5138569&by=CN&sort=RELEVANCE&limit=TOM=*&query=&page=0&searchid=12 Call #: G.3970.18]. From the Bridgewater House Library. A printed character list with a single, early manuscript correction on the [https://archive.org/details/queenesarcadiapa00dani title page verso]. | ||
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Shirley, James. ''The Example''. London: Printed by John Norton, for Andrew Crooke and William Cooke, 1637. Call #: G.3976.48. A reference to Langbaine on the title page, with a MS character list in the same hand on the title page verso. [[File:Boston PL Char List R2.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Character list for ''Richard II'' at the Boston Public Library. Photo courtesy of Jay Moschella]] | Shirley, James. ''The Example''. London: Printed by John Norton, for Andrew Crooke and William Cooke, 1637. Call #: G.3976.48. A reference to Langbaine on the title page, with a MS character list in the same hand on the title page verso. [[File:Boston PL Char List R2.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Character list for ''Richard II'' at the Boston Public Library. Photo courtesy of Jay Moschella]] | ||
=== The Morgan Library & Museum === | === The [http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=kbSearch Morgan Library & Museum] === | ||
Shakespeare, William. ''King Lear''. London: Printed for Nathaniel Butter. 1608 [1619]. [http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=173891 Call Number: W 08 C] | Shakespeare, William. ''King Lear''. London: Printed for Nathaniel Butter. 1608 [1619]. [http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=173891 Call Number: W 08 C] | ||
MS character list on the title page verso. | MS character list on the title page verso. | ||
=== University of Pennsylvania Libraries === | === [http://franklin.library.upenn.edu/index.html University of Pennsylvania Libraries] === | ||
Shakespeare, William. ''King John, Coriolanus'', and ''Macbeth''. First Folio. 1623. Call number [http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/franklin/record.html?xbrowse=call_number_xfacet&id=FRANKLIN_1972482&xbrowse.explicit=Folio%20PR2751%20.A1&xbrowse.term=Folio+PR2751+.A1& Folio PR2751 .A1] | Shakespeare, William. ''King John, Coriolanus'', and ''Macbeth''. First Folio. 1623. Call number [http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/franklin/record.html?xbrowse=call_number_xfacet&id=FRANKLIN_1972482&xbrowse.explicit=Folio%20PR2751%20.A1&xbrowse.term=Folio+PR2751+.A1& Folio PR2751 .A1] | ||
Revision as of 11:00, 16 December 2016
A character list (also known as a dramatis personae) is a paratext that names most or all of the characters in a play. Many early modern playbooks included printed character lists, but some surviving texts include manuscript lists or printed lists that have been annotated.
The Folger Shakespeare Library
Jonson, Ben. Every Man in his Humour. London: [By S. Stafford] for Walter Burre. 1601. Call number STC 14766 Copy 1. A printed character list with annotations.
Massinger, Philip. The Fatal Dowry. London: John Norton for Francis Constable. 1632. Call number STC 17646 Copy 3. A printed character list with annotations.
Shakespeare, William. The Merry Wives of Windsor. First Folio. 1623. Call number STC 22273 Fo.1 no.57. A partial character list with descriptions written on the final page of the play. See this blog post by Marissa Nicosia and Emma Depledge for more information, digital images, and a transcription.
The Bodleian Library, Oxford
Braithwaite, Richard. Mercurius Brittanicus, or the English Intelligencer. 1641. Call number Malone 197(8). Manuscript additions to the printed character list.
Markham, Gervase. The Dumb Knight. 1633. Call number Malone 199(4). A handwritten character list on the verso of "To the Reader" (sig. A2v), facing 1.1.
Shakespeare, William. Cymbeline. Fourth Folio. 1685. Call number Arch. G. c. 12. A handwritten character list with descriptions for Cymbeline added to the final page of Antony and Cleopatra (facing the first page of Cymbeline).
The Boston Public Library
Daniel, Samuel. The Queenes arcadia. At London: Printed by G[eorge]. Eld, for Simon Waterson, 1606. Call #: G.3970.18. From the Bridgewater House Library. A printed character list with a single, early manuscript correction on the title page verso.
Field, Nathan. Amends for ladies. London: Printed by Io[hn]. Okes for Math[thew]. Wallbancke, 1639. Call #: G.3971.21. Roxburghe/Genest copy. A later manuscript character list on the front pastedown.
Hemings, William. The fatal contract, a French tragedy. Printed at London: For J.M., in the year, 1653. Call #: G.3972.10. A printed character list with the names of actors in the King’s Company written in the margins in a contemporary hand on pi2 verso.
Heywood, Thomas. A pleasant conceited comedy, wherein is shewed, how a man may choose a good wife from a bad. London: Printed [by Thomas Purfoot] for Matthew Lawe, 1621. Call #: G.3970.2. Frances Wolfreston copy, with her inscriptions. Manuscript character list on the title page verso in what appears to be a later hand.
[Middleton, Thomas]. The revenger's tragedy. London: By G[eorge]. Eld, 1607. Call #: G.3977.37 A character list with several descriptions written on the title page verso.
Shakespeare, William. A wittie and pleasant comedy called the taming of the shrew. London: Printed by W[illiam]. S[tansby]. for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstones Churchyard vnder the Diall, 1631. Call #: G.176.39. An early manuscript list of character on the title page verso, trimmed partially away but still legible.
Shakespeare, William. The tragedie of King Richard the Second. At London: Printed for Mathew Law, 1615. Call #: G. 176.33. An early manuscript list of characters on the title page verso, trimmed heavily and washed away.
Shirley, James. The Example. London: Printed by John Norton, for Andrew Crooke and William Cooke, 1637. Call #: G.3976.48. A reference to Langbaine on the title page, with a MS character list in the same hand on the title page verso.
The Morgan Library & Museum
Shakespeare, William. King Lear. London: Printed for Nathaniel Butter. 1608 [1619]. Call Number: W 08 C MS character list on the title page verso.
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Shakespeare, William. King John, Coriolanus, and Macbeth. First Folio. 1623. Call number Folio PR2751 .A1 Character lists for these three plays were written in and later washed off. See the Provenance Online Project for more information and digital images.