Thanks to Anne Lancashire and Michael Winkelman for leads on what
the "staige plaie" reference in More's Richard III was all about.
The Warnicke article I found at JSTOR. I especially needed that
correction to my misapprehension: More was not referring to some
skit in which a sultan (character) was really a shoemaker
(character)--which is good comedic stuff for later decades and
centuries--but a civilian shoemaker acting in the role of the sultan
in a morality play who would not want anyone in the audience to call
him by his actual name.
I won't be doing much explaining of More's influences (not just the
miracle plays but Latin dramatists too) as my work is about Hall's
Chronicle. Thus I am more interested in the interplay of the two
texts, with reference to some Latin version passages that Hall
omitted (he seems not to have been aware of More's Latin version)
and differences in wording. Responsibility for many variants could
be placed on Hall's publisher, Richard Grafton, who was first to
include More's history in his prose continuation of Hardyng's
metrical chronicle (1543), and of course on typesetters. But a
footnote explaining More's connection to miracle plays he may even
have acted in will catch some interest.
Cheers,
Al Magary
Hall's Chronicle Project
On 4/4/2021 1:59 PM, Michael Winkelman
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It's been ages since I've read it, but Retha Warnicke's article,
"More's Richard III and the Mystery Plays," in Historical
Journal 35 (1992): 761-78, may also be helpful.
