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The Disguising at Hertford
by John Lydgate
c.1370 - 1449
a verse play written circa 1427.
This version is made available with the permission of the Master and
Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, England, the owners of the

unique original manuscript.
For the purposes of this multi-platform electronic text, the medieval
'thorn' (a character representing 'th') has been changed to 'th'. It was
impracticable to reproduce the original punctuation, which mainly
consisted of the virgule or slash. Modern commas and full stops have
been sparingly imposed. Superscript tildes and mid-script tildes have
been removed. Mid-script dots have been changed to colons as they
seem to indicate a deliberate suspension. The last four words of the
initial rubric (Brys : slayne at Loviers) appear to have been added to the
manuscript at a date slightly later than when it was first written. Section
marks occur in the original without consistency; where these clearly
indicate a new section, a blank line has been inserted to produce a
similar effect.
The endnotes include the original stage directions. Two lacunae in the
manuscript have been supplied by reference to John Stow's late
16thcentury manuscript copy of the text. The other endnotes are glosses
of particular words in the text.
The transcription of Lydgate's text has also been published in book
form under the title 'Lydgate's Disguising at Hertford Castle', including
a modern verse translation of the text, an editor's introduction and notes,
and a study of the literary and historical background of the play and of
its first performance, which took place at Hertford Castle as part of the
royal Christmas festivities of, probably, 1427. It is hoped that this
additional material will become available as a Project Gutenberg etext.
Readers interested in the book may wish to have its publication details
Lydgate's Disguising at Hertford Castle by Derek Forbes
with
Foreword by Glynne Wickham
First published by Blot Publishing,
Pulborough, 1998.
Pp. xiv + 82, f'piece, and 4 plate ills.
Decorated
and laminated card cover. ISBN 1 900929 03 1.
Retail price in 2000
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Nowe folowethe here the maner of a bille by wey of supplicacon putte
to the kyng holding his noble feest of Cristmasse in the Castel of
Hertford as in