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King John and Matilda
''King John and Matilda'' is a Caroline era stage play, a historical tragedy written by Robert Davenport.〔Joyce O. Davis, ed., ''Robert Davenport's King John and Matilda, a Critical Edition,'' New York, Garland, 1968.〕〔A. H. Bullen, ed., ''The Works of Robert Davenport,'' London 1890; reprinted New York, Benjamin Blom, 1968.〕 It was initially published in 1655; the cast list included in the first edition is provides valuable information on some of the actors of English Renaissance theatre.
==Performance and publication==
No certain information survives on the play's date of authorship or earliest production. Scholars generally date the play to c. 1628–29, though dates as early as 1624 and as late as 1634 have been proposed. The title page of the first edition states that the play was acted by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Cockpit Theatre; the actors in the cast list belonged to that company. The troupe staged a revival of Davenport's play c. 1638–39, perhaps a decade after its initial appearance.
The 1655 quarto was published by actor-turned-stationer Andrew Pennycuicke. The volume includes an epistle addressed "To the knowning Reader" that is signed with the initials "R. D." This has been taken by some commentators to indicate that Davenport was still alive when the play was printed. The epistle opens with a notable and sometimes-quoted line, "A good reader helps to make a book; a bad injures it."
The volume also bears Pennycuicke's dedication of the work to Montague Berty, the 2nd Earl of Lindsey.
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