Howard, Robert, Sir. Copy of The country gentleman, ca. 1668

Folger bibliographic ID: 234828
Folger call number: V.b.228
Folger holdings ID: 288263
Accession Number: 470923

A play by Sir Robert Howard with an interpolated scene by the Duke of Buckingham. A comedy in five acts. Includes very few stage directions and while each act opens with a scene 1, there are no further formal scene divisions

General notes

The country gentleman was never printed or publicly performed Complete scribal copy in a single hand, with two corrections in another contemporary hand. May have been copied for Lady Anne Coventry, Sir William Coventry's grand-niece by marriage Formerly Folger MS 470923.2 For a discussion of this manuscript see article by A.H. Scouten and R. Hume in TLS (Times Literary Supplement), September 28, 1973. Subsequently publishing an edition of the play as The country gentleman : a "lost" play and its background / Sir Robert Howard and George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham ; edited by Arthur H. Scouten and Robert D. Hume, [Philadelphia] : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1976 The text of Act III, 1, 1-390 (Folger Ms. V.b. 228), containing the satire on Sir William Coventry's table by George Villiers, 2nd duke of Buckingham, printed as A subject for the mirth of the world by Cambridge University Library, 1975 Acquired from Raphael King in 1947 This record contains unverified data from catalog cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email HamnetHelp@folger.edu for assistance

Publications

"The pen's excellencie" : treasures from the manuscript collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library / compiled and edited by Heather Wolfe. Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2002, p. 148-150

Uniform title: Country gentleman
Extended title: Copy of The country gentleman, ca. 1668 ca. 1695

author: Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698
associated with: Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1628-1687
associated name: Coventry, Anne Coventry, Countess of, 1673-1763