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The Swisser
''The Swisser'' is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Arthur Wilson. It was performed by the King's Men in the Blackfriars Theatre in 1631, and is notable for the light in throws on the workings of the premier acting company of its time.
(In seventeenth-century parlance, "Swisser," or "Swizzer" or "Switzer," referred to a Swiss mercenary soldier.)
Though Humphrey Moseley entered the play into the Stationers' Register on 4 September 1646, no edition of the drama was printed in the seventeenth century. The play remained in manuscript until it was published in the early 1900s.〔Albert Feuillerat, ed., ''The Swisser'', Paris, Librairie Fischbacher, 1904.〕 The manuscript, now ''Add. MS. 36,749'' in the collection of the British Museum, is in the author's hand.〔Alfred Harbage, "Elizabethan and Seventeenth-Century Play Manuscripts," ''Papers of the Modern Language Association'' Vol. 50 No. 3 (September 1935), pp. 687-99; see p. 696.〕
==The play==
''The Swisser'' shares the primary fault of Caroline drama as a whole; it is unoriginal and highly derivative of earlier works. Felix Schelling catalogued the play's stock elements as "the lecherous tyrant; the love-lorn girl page; the banished lord...; two old men of noble houses, enemies; their children, in love; poison evaded by the substitution of a sleeping potion; a fair captive generously treated by a chivalrous soldier, her captor; and...consanguinity a bar to virtuous love." Schelling cites ''Campaspe'', ''Romeo and Juliet'', ''The Malcontent'', ''Philaster'', and '''Tis Pity She's a Whore'' as dramatic precedents.〔Felix Emmanuel Schelling, ''Elizabethan Drama 1558–1642'', 2 Volumes, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1908; Vol. 2, p. 339.〕 (He also concedes that the play "is not bad, as such productions go.")
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