The Birth of Merlin or the Child Hath Found His Father

by William Rowley

Other authors: Denise Coffey (Contributor), Roy Hu (Contributor), Robert John Stewart (Contributor)

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Credited on its first title page to William Shakespeare and William Rowley, The Birth of Merlin continues to provoke speculation about its place in the Shakespeare 'Apocrypha'. The play is an imaginative re-working of the story of Merlin the Magician and his part in the struggle against the Saxon invasion of Britain. It contains not only scenes of love, war, and court politics, but a devil, a clown, and an unusual number of spectacular stage effects. This edition seeks to provide contexts for the play's diverse elements (chronicle history, romance, spectacle, and comedy), and considers its relationships with a wide variety of texts from Geoffrey of Monmouth and the English prose Brut to Shakespeare's Henry VIII.… (more)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Rowley, William	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Coffey, Denise	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hu, Roy	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Stewart, Robert John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Shakespeare, William	Attributed author	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Urdall, Joanna	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Although most editions of this play credit William Shakespeare on the title page, it is in fact by William Rowley (ob. 1626) as shown by the 1622 entry in Sir Henry Herbert's office-book (isbn 0198122462, page 136). The coupling of Shakespeare's name with Rowley's on the title page of the first edition (1662), based on a late and often inaccurate bookseller's catalogue is probably a ploy to help sales.

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Credited on its first title page to William Shakespeare and William Rowley, The Birth of Merlin continues to provoke speculation about its place in the Shakespeare 'Apocrypha'. The play is an imaginative re-working of the story of Merlin the Magician and his part in the struggle against the Saxon invasion of Britain. It contains not only scenes of love, war, and court politics, but a devil, a clown, and an unusual number of spectacular stage effects. This edition seeks to provide contexts for the play's diverse elements (chronicle history, romance, spectacle, and comedy), and considers its relationships with a wide variety of texts from Geoffrey of Monmouth and the English prose Brut to Shakespeare's Henry VIII.

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