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''The Second Maiden's Tragedy'' is a Jacobean play that survives only in manuscript. It was written in 1611, and performed in the same year by the King's Men. The manuscript that survives is the copy that was sent to Sir George Buc, Master of the Revels and censor. It includes his markings as well as markings by The Kings Men, Shakespeare’s company, who used it as a prompt copy. The manuscript was acquired, but never printed, by the publisher Humphrey Moseley after the closure of the theatres in 1642. In 1807, the manuscript was acquired by the British Museum. Victorian Poet and critic, Algernon Swinburne, was the first to attribute this work to Thomas Middleton; this judgement has since been joined by most editors and scholars.〔Briggs, Julia. “The Lady’s Tragedy: Parallel Texts”. Middleton, Thomas. ''Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works''. Oxford University Press. (2007) ISBN 9780191568541 Page 833.〕 ==Title== The play's original title is unknown. The manuscript bears no title, and the censor, George Buc, added a note beginning "This second ''Maiden's Tragedy'' (for it hath no name inscribed)...". Buc was comparing the play to Beaumont and Fletcher's ''The Maid's Tragedy''. Buc's comment confused a seventeenth-century owner of the manuscript, Humphrey Moseley, who listed the play in the Stationers' Register as ''The Maid's Tragedy, 2nd Part''.〔Martin Wiggins, ed. ''Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies'' (Oxford UP, 1998), p. xxx.〕 Buc's title has stuck and the play is usually referred to as ''The Second Maiden's Tragedy''. However, two recent editors of the play have preferred to retitle it. In his anthology ''Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies'', Martin Wiggins argues that since the word "second" refers to the play, not to a character (there is no "second maiden"), Buc was actually calling the play ''The Maiden's Tragedy''.〔Martin Wiggins, ed. ''Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies'' (Oxford UP, 1998), p. xxx–xxxi.〕 In ''Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works'', Julia Briggs goes further: pointing out that the word "maiden" never appears in the play, she retitles it ''The Lady's Tragedy'', after the unnamed female protagonist.〔Julia Briggs, ed. ''The Lady's Tragedy: Parallel Texts'' in ''Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works'' Oxford University Press (2007) ISBN 9780191568541 p. 833.〕 Briggs was anticipated by the 1994 Hen and Chicken production in Bristol, which also used ''The Lady's Tragedy''.〔Martin Wiggins, ed. ''Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies'' (Oxford UP, 1998), p. xl.〕 Other theatrical productions have also retitled the play. For example, in 1984, the first, modern professional production at London's Upstream Theatre called it ''The Tyrant's Tragedy'', after the play's primary protagonist.〔''Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works'' (Oxford UP, 2007), p. 835.〕 The play has similarly been known in the past as simply ''The Tyrant'', identifying it as being a lost play by Philip Massinger of the same title.〔Anne Lancashire, ed. ''The Second Maiden's Tragedy'' (Manchester University Press, 1978)〕) The play has received few modern revivals. It was the opening production at the newly refurbished Hackney Empire studio in 2006 starring Alexander Fiske-Harrison and Jos Vantyler.〔http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/〕 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 Second Maiden's Tragedy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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