Document Type
Journal Article
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Faculty
Faculty of Education and Arts
School
School of Communication and Arts
RAS ID
15930
Abstract
Although it covers a mere sixteen months, from January 1602 to April 1603, the Diary of John Manningham, written when he was a twenty-five year old law student at the Middle Temple, is a rich and entertaining source of information about life in Elizabethan London, especially at the Inns of Court where he resided. Along with lengthy discussions of the sermons heard each Sunday (usually one in the morning followed by another in the afternoon), we have jokes, gossip, poems, a fascinating account of Queen Elizabeth’s last days, and many witticisms he heard and enjoyed, sometimes mentioning the source, but very often not doing so. Of greatest interest to students of the Elizabethan theatre is the entry made in February, 1602, wherein he records his attendance at the Middle Temple’s Candlemas Feast, when he saw ‘a play called “Twelve night, or what you will” ’.
DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjt127
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Notes and Queries: for readers and writers, collectors and librarians following peer review. The version of record Edelman, C. (2013). John Manningham at the Blackfriars Theatre. Notes and Queries: for readers and writers, collectors and librarians, 60(3), 445-47. is available online here