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The Court Secret
''The Court Secret'' is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by James Shirley, and first published in 1653. It is generally regarded as the final play Shirley wrote as a professional dramatist.
Though ''The Court Secret'' can seem, to a modern taste, a confection of romantic fluff, exaggerated and wildly unrealistic (see the Synopsis below), it has been read as an index of the social anxieties and stresses of England at the crisis point of 1642, suggesting the conflict "between royalty and the rest," between the demands of royalist absolutism and the urges of ordinary humanity at the start of the English Civil War.〔Martin Butler, "The condition of the theatres in 1642," in Milling and Thomson, pp. 454–7.〕
==Date and performance==
The play's title page in its first edition states that ''The Court Secret'' was never acted, but was intended to be produced at the Blackfriars Theatre. This identifies the play as belonging to the final phase of Shirley's professional career: he wrote regularly for the King's Men at the Blackfriars in the 1640–42 era, after he had returned from Ireland and the Werburgh Street Theatre. The implication is that ''The Court Secret'' would have followed ''The Sisters'' on the Blackfriars stage, but was forestalled when the theatres closed in September 1642.〔Shirley did not give up playwriting during the Civil War and Interregnum; earning his living as a schoolteacher, he wrote theatrical works for his students to perform. His plays in this final phase of amateur dramatic activity — ''The Triumph of Beauty, Cupid and Death, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses,'' and ''Honoria and Mammon'' — all fall into this class of pedagogical drama.〕
The play, however, was staged during the Restoration era, by the King's Company at their Bridge Street theatre. Samuel Pepys recorded in his Diary that his wife saw the play the afternoon of 18 August 1664. (She didn't like it: "My wife says the play...is the worst that ever she saw in her life.")〔Randall, p. 342.〕 "''The Court Secret'' stands almost alone as a play composed for the Caroline, but produced first on the Restoration, stage."〔Howarth, p. 304.〕 Another production occurred in 1682, again by the King's Company, at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
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