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''Bonduca. 1609 < > 14''

1647. Bonduca, A Tragedy. [Part of F_{1}.]

1679. [Part of F_{2}. 'The Principal Actors were Richard Burbadge, Henry Condel, William Eglestone, Nich. Toolie, William Ostler, John Lowin, John Underwood, Richard Robinson.']

Dissertations: B. Leonhardt, Die Text-Varianten von B. und F.'s B. (1898, Anglia, xx. 421) and Bonduca (E. S. xiii. 36). The actor-list is of the King's men between 1609-11 or between 1613-14, as these are the only periods during which Ecclestone and Ostler can have played together. The authorship is generally regarded as substantially Fletcher's; and the occasional use of rhyme in i and  iv hardly justifies Oliphant's theory of an earlier version by Beaumont, or the ascription by Fleay and Macaulay of these scenes to Field, whose connexion with the King's does not seem to antedate 1616. ''Monsieur Thomas. 1610 < > 16''

S. R. 1639, Jan. 22 (Wykes). 'A Comedy called Monsieur Thomas, by master John Fletcher.' Waterson (Arber, iv. 451).

1639. Monsieur Thomas. A Comedy. Acted at the Private House in Blacke Fryers. The Author, Iohn Fletcher, Gent. ''Thomas Harper for John Waterson.'' [Epistle to Charles Cotton, signed 'Richard Brome' and commendatory verses by the same.]

[c. 1661]. Fathers Own Son. A Comedy. Formerly Acted at the Private House in Black Fryers; and now at the Theatre in Vere Street by His Majesties Servants. The Author John Fletcher Gent. For Robert Crofts. [Reissue with fresh t.p.]

Edition by R. G. Martin (1912, Bullen, iv).—Dissertations: H. Guskar, Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas und seine Quellen (1905, Anglia, xxviii. 397; xxix. 1); A. L. Stiefel, ''Zur Quellenfrage von John Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas (1906, E. S.'' xxxvi. 238); O. L. Hatcher, The Sources of Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas (1907, Anglia, xxx. 89).

The title-page printed at the time of the revival by the King's men of the Restoration enables us to identify Monsieur Thomas with the Father's Own Son of the Cockpit repertory in 1639, and like the other plays of the Beaumont and Fletcher series in that repertory it was probably written by 1616, and either for the Queen's Revels or for the Lady Elizabeth's. An allusion in iii. 104 to 'all the feathers in the Friars' might indicate production at Porter's Hall in the Blackfriars about that year. The play cannot be earlier than its source, Part ii (1610) of H. d'Urfé's Astrée, and by 1610 the more permanent Blackfriars house had passed to the King's, by whom the performances referred to on the original title-page must therefore have been given. Perhaps the explanation is that there had been some misunderstanding about the distribution of the Lady Elizabeth's men's plays between the King's and the Cockpit, and that a revival by the King's in 1639 led the Cockpit managers to get the Lord Chamberlain's order of 10 Aug. 1639 (Variorum, iii. 159) appropriating their repertory to them. The authorship is ascribed with general assent to Fletcher alone.