The Castle of Perseverance: staging and textual transmission (c. 1400–c. 1650)

1. Morality play likely composed in East Anglia

   Jan 1, 1400Labels: The Castle, East Anglia

   • Folger Highlights
   • Castle Wiki
   • Folgerpedia

2. Outdoor “round” staging plan enters the text

   Jan 1, 1425Labels: staging plan, outdoor round

   • Folger Highlights
   • Folgerpedia
   • Castle Wiki

3. Macro-manuscript copy of the play is transcribed

   Jan 1, 1440Labels: Macro Manuscripts, manuscript copy

   • Folgerpedia
   • Folger Highlights
   • Macro Wiki

4. Loss of leaves creates a small textual gap

   Jan 1, 1440Labels: manuscript damage, missing leaves

   • Castle Wiki
   • Macro Wiki
   • Folgerpedia

5. Manuscripts are collected by Reverend Cox Macro

   Jan 1, 1700Labels: Cox Macro, manuscript collecting

   • Folgerpedia
   • Macro Wiki
   • Folger Collation

6. Hudson Gurney rebinding separates the plays as a set

   Jan 1, 1830Labels: Hudson Gurney, rebinding

   • Folger Collation
   • Folgerpedia

7. Furnivall’s 1882 edition publishes the Macro plays

   Jan 1, 1882Labels: Furnivall edition, print publication

   • Folgerpedia
   • Macro Wiki

8. Quaritch buys the plays at Sotheby’s auction

   Mar 30, 1936Labels: Sotheby s, Bernard Quaritch

   • Folgerpedia
   • Folger Collation

9. Folger acquires the Macro Manuscripts

   Aug 1, 1936Labels: Folger Shakespeare, Joseph Quincy

   • Folger Collation
   • Folgerpedia
   • Macro Wiki

10. EETS issues Mark Eccles’s scholarly edition

    Jan 1, 1969Labels: EETS edition, Mark Eccles

    • Folgerpedia
    • Castle Wiki

11. Bevington publishes a Folger facsimile edition

    Jan 1, 1972Labels: Bevington facsimile, Folger facsimile

    • CiNii
    • Castle Wiki
    • Folgerpedia

12. Folger highlights the staging diagram for public access

    Oct 20, 2015Labels: Folger interpretation, staging diagram

    • Folger Collation
    • Folger Highlights