Creator
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564–1593)
Title
The Maiden’s Holiday
Coverage
London
Publisher
Wharburton
Date
1754
Subject
Destroyed by John Wharburton’s cook before 1759.
Description
Kit Marlowe’s magical comedy about a young lady’s visit to her grandparents’ country house and what she found in the gardens there. The play was registered by Humphrey Moseley for printing sixty years after Marlowe’s death. It resurfaced again fifty years later in the possession of John Wharburton, where it apparently was used by his cook to start fires and line pie tins. Nothing of the manuscript survived her recycling.
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