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''The Northern Lass'' is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy by Richard Brome that premiered onstage in 1629 and was first printed in 1632. A popular hit with its audience, and one of his earliest successes, the play provided a foundation for Brome's career as a dramatist.〔Brome's other early hit, ''A Lovesick Maid'', was never printed and has not survived.〕 ==Performance and publication== ''The Northern Lass'' was acted by the King's Men at both the Globe and Blackfriars theatres, "with good applause." So states the title page of the 1632 first quarto, printed by Augustine Matthews for the bookseller Nicholas Vavasour. In the original quarto, Brome dedicated the play to Richard Holford. Holford was a member of Gray's Inn, and owned land next to the site of the Cockpit Theatre, where future Brome plays would be produced.〔Steggle, pp. 39–40.〕 Though little is known about Holford or his connection with Brome, it is possible that Holford helped Brome with the legal terminology included in ''Northern Lass''. The first edition contains prefatory verses praising the play and its author, written by Ben Jonson, John Ford, and Thomas Dekker among others. The poem by Jonson begins with the lines, often quoted in the critical literature on Jonson and Brome, that record Brome's evolution from Jonson's former manservant to his fellow dramatist — :::I had you for a servant once, Dick Brome; :::And you perform'd a servant's faithfull parts; :::Now, you are got into a nearer room, :::Of fellowship, professing my old arts.〔Spelling and punctuation modernized in quotations.〕 The popular play was revived and republished during the Restoration era; the second edition of 1663 added the subtitle ''A Nest of Fools'' to Brome's title. Subsequent editions tended to coincide with stage revivals – so that the play was both revived onstage and republished in 1684, in 1706/7, and in 1717. (Another edition was printed in Dublin in 1726.)〔Andrews, p. 30.〕 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 Northern Lass」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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