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Title: The Fatal Jealousie (1673)

Author: Henry Nevil Payne

Commentator: Willard Thorp

Release Date: October 21, 2005 [EBook #16916]

Language: English

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Series Five:
_Drama_
No. 2

Henry Nevil Payne, _The Fatal Jealousie_ (1673)

With an Introduction by
Willard Thorp

The Augustan Reprint Society
November, 1948
_Price One Dollar_

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_GENERAL EDITORS_

RICHARD C. BOYS, _University of Michigan_
EDWARD NILES HOOKER, _University of California, Los Angeles_
H.T. SWEDENBERG, JR., _University of California, Los Angeles_

_ASSISTANT EDITOR_

W. EARL BRITTON, _University of Michigan_

_ADVISORY EDITORS_

EMMETT L. AVERY, _State College of Washington_
BENJAMIN BOYCE, _University of Nebraska_
LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, _University of Michigan_
CLEANTH BROOKS, _Yale University_
JAMES L. CLIFFORD, _Columbia University_
ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, _University of Chicago_
SAMUEL H. MONK, _University of Minnesota_
ERNEST MOSSNER, _University of Texas_
JAMES SUTHERLAND, _Queen Mary College, London_

Lithoprinted from copy supplied by author
by
Edwards Brothers, Inc.
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
1949

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INTRODUCTION

None of Henry Nevil Payne's plays, _The Fatal Jealousie_ (1673), _The
Morning Ramble_ (1673), _The Siege of Constantinople_ (1675), bears his
name on the title-page. Plenty of external evidence exists, however, to
prove his claim to them. John Downes, in _Roscius Anglicanus_ (1708),
has this to say: "_Loves Jealousy_ [i.e. _The Fatal Jealousy_], and _The
Morning Ramble_. Written by Mr. _Nevil Pain_. Both were very well
_Acted_, but after their first run, were laid aside, t