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''Hannibal and Scipio'' is a Caroline era stage play, a classical tragedy written by Thomas Nabbes. The play was first performed in 1635 by Queen Henrietta's Men, and was first published in 1637. The first edition of the play contained a cast list of the original production, making the 1637 quarto an important information source on English Renaissance theatre. ==Literary connections== As its title indicates, the play relates the historical rivalry between Hannibal and Scipio Africanus. Out of the vast array of historical source material on the subject, Nabbes relied primarily upon the account of the Second Punic War given by Livy in his history of Rome, ''Ab Urbe condita'', and upon Plutarch's ''Lives of Hannibal and Scipio.''〔Charlotte Moore, ''The Dramatic Works of Thomas Nabbes,'' Menasha, WI, George Banta Publishing, 1918; pp. 40-2.〕 Earlier English plays on the subject had been written and acted. A ''Scipio Africanus,'' author unknown, was staged at the English Court on 3 January 1580;〔E. K. Chambers, ''The Elizabethan Stage,'' 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923; Vol. 4, pp. 97, 156.〕 a ''Hannibal and Hermes'' by Thomas Dekker, Michael Drayton, and Robert Wilson dated from 1598; it was followed by a ''Hannibal and Scipio'' by Richard Hathwaye and William Rankins in 1601.〔Chambers, Vol. 2, pp. 166, 177; Vol. 3, pp. 302, 471.〕 (None of these works is extant.) John Marston's ''The Wonder of Women'' (1606) deals with the related figure of Sophonisba.〔Chambers, Vol. 3, p. 433.〕 In the Prologue to his play, Nabbes writes of "borrowing from a former play" (line 190), but scholars have not agreed on any specific play to which he refers.〔R. W. Vince, "Thomas Nabbes's ''Hannibal and Scipio'': Sources and Theme," ''Studies in English Literature 1500–1900'', Vol. 11 No. 2 (Spring 1971), pp. 327-43; see pp. 327-8.〕 Nabbes apparently intended to deny any debt to any previously produced drama. Beyond the range of English literature, a large body of Continental plays, poems, and prose stories dealt with the subject matter; the last category includes versions of the story by Bandello, Boccaccio, and Petrarch.〔Moore, pp. 40, 45-52.〕 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「Hannibal and Scipio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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