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IT has not hitherto been noticed that the final tragedy in the 1563 edition of A Mirror for Magistrates is markedly different in form from all the others in the volume. In this essay, I shall argue that the nature of these differences argues that the middle section of the poem—about a hundred lines: a quarter of its entirety—was written by Humphrey Cavell as a quite separate poem, unconnected with the Mirror, and that it was only later that it was taken up by William Baldwin, who inserted it—or some of it—into a new tragedy of his own making: ‘The wilfull fall of [the] Blacke Smyth, and the foolishe ende of the Lord Audley’.
Author(s): Pincombe MJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Notes and Queries
Year: 2009
Volume: 56
Issue: 4
Pages: 515-521
ISSN (print): 0029-3970
ISSN (electronic): 1471-6941
Publisher: Oxford University Press
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjp198
DOI: 10.1093/notesj/gjp198
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