The love-sick king, an English tragical history : with the life and death of Cartesmunda, the fair nun of Winchester
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Type of record: Book
Title: The love-sick king, an English tragical history : with the life and death of Cartesmunda, the fair nun of Winchester
Other titles: The perjured nun
Classmark: BC Lt/BRE
Creator(s): Brewer, Anthony (1630-1655)
Related people: Canute I, King of England, 995?-1035
Publisher: Printed for Rob. Pollard; and John Sweeting
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1655
Language: English
Size and medium: [51] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/268821
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017705769705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Probably originally written for the visit of James I to Newcastle in 1617 (vendor).
Contains allusions to "Hamlet", "The tragedy of Hoffman", and Beaumont's "Knight of the burning pestle", from which a snatch of song is borrowed.
Mostly printed as prose, although serious passages are actually in verse (Greg).
Revived in 1680 under title: The perjured nun.
Indexed in: Wing B4426; Greg 740(A); Woodward & McManaway 149.
Additional description
Close-cropped, affecting signatures, catchwords, and headlines; last word of text badly cut into on A3r. Numbered 37 on title-page, c. 1750; also priced and dated 1711. 6/5 written on F4r. Armorial bookplate of the earls of Derby pasted inside front cover, with Knowsley Library location inscription pencilled on it. Ink inscription on flyleaf recording purchase by Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby at Bright sale, March 5, 1845, in his hand? Signed Derby, Knowsley
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