Dekker, Thomas - Peggy Faye Shirley (essay date 1975)
Peggy Faye Shirley (essay date 1975)
SOURCE: “Dekker's Use of Serious Elements in Comedy: The Shoemaker’s Holiday,” in Serious and Tragic Elements in the Comedy of Thomas Dekker, Institut für Englishe Sprach und Literatur, 1975, pp. 12-36.
[In the following essay, Shirley explores Dekker's mixture of gravity and levity in his depiction of situations and characters in The Shoemaker's Holiday.]
Fredson Bowers notes in connection with The Shoemakers' Holiday, “On 15 July 1599 Henslowe had advanced £3 towards buying the book from Dekker, but the first recorded performance is that at court on 1 January 1600”;1 the first quarto, not listed in the Stationers' Register, is dated 1600. The quarto copy, Professor Bowers points out, did not carry the dramatist's name on the title-page; the Dekker critic feels, however, that the information from Henslowe's diary and internal evidence from the play itself form a...
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