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''The Poor Man's Comfort'' is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy by Robert Daborne — one of his two extant plays. ==Date, performance, publication== The play's date is uncertain, though it is generally assigned to the 1610–18 era. It was not published until several decades after it was written. ''The Poor Man's Comfort'' was entered into the Stationers' Register on 20 June 1655, and published in quarto later that year by the booksellers Robert Pollard and John Sweeting. Both the Register entry and the title page of the quarto refer to Daborne as a "Master of Arts." In the original text, a stage direction at line 186 reads "Enter 2 Lords, Sands, Ellis." The names refer not to the characters of the play but the actors who played the roles — a feature that occurs on rare occasions in the texts of English Renaissance drama. (See, for example, ''Sir John van Olden Barnavelt''.) The two actors may have been Gregory Sanderson and Ellis Worth, who played with Queen Anne's Men.〔E. K. Chambers, ''The Elizabethan Stage,'' 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923; Vol. 3, p. 271.〕 The title page of the quarto states that the play was performed at the Cockpit Theatre, which was occupied by the Queen Anne's company from 1617 to 1619. If the title page describes the original production, the most likely single year for the play might be narrowed to 1617, since Daborne is thought to have stopped writing for the stage by 1618. The drama was revived early in the Restoration era, in 1661 — which was its last known stage production. A manuscript of the work is preserved in MS. Egerton 1994, an important collection of play manuscripts now in the British Library. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Poor Man's Comfort」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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