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The Fatal Contract
''The Fatal Contract: A French Tragedy'' is a Caroline era stage play, written by William Heminges.〔Carol A. Morley, ed., ''The Plays and Poems of William Heminge'', Madison, NJ, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006.〕〔William Heminges, ''The Fatal Contract'', Anne Elizabeth Chard Hargrove, ed., Kalamazoo, MI, Medieval Institute Publications, University of Michigan Press, 1978.〕 The play has been regarded as one of the most extreme of the revenge tragedies or "tragedies of blood," like ''The Spanish Tragedy'' and ''Titus Andronicus'', that constitute a distinctive subgenre of English Renaissance theatre. In this "most graphic Caroline revenge tragedy...Heminges tops his predecessors' grotesque art by creating a female character, Chrotilda, who disguises herself as a black Moorish eunuch" and "instigates most of the play's murder and mayhem."〔Virginia Mason, ''Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500–1800'',Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005; pp. 121–2.〕
==Performance and publication==
''The Fatal Contract'' was most likely written in the 1638–39 period, and was acted, probably in the latter year, by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Salisbury Court Theatre. Heminges's primary source for plot materials was the ''General Inventory of the History of France'' by Jean de Serres, published in English in 1607.〔Mason, p. 121.〕 The play was first printed in 1653, in a quarto issued by the actor turned stationer Andrew Pennycuicke. (The edition's preface is co-signed by "A. T.," thought to be Anthony Turner.) The booksellers dedicated the play to the Earl and Countess of Nottingham. The prefatory matter in that edition indicates that Heminges was deceased by 1653. A second edition followed in 1661 from bookseller Richard Gammon.
During the Restoration, Elkanah Settle adapted Heminges's play into his ''Love and Revenge'' (1675). The original 1653 text was reprinted in 1687 under the alternative title ''The Eunuch''.
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