The Disobedient Child
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| Author | Thomas Ingelend |
|---|---|
| Country | Great Britain |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Play |
| Publisher | Thomas Colwell / AMS Press |
| Released | 1560 / 1970 |
| Pages | 60 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-404-53342-6 |
The Disobedient Child is a play written in the mid 16th century by Thomas Ingelend, an author who is known only as a "late student of Cambridge" (as described on the first edition's title-page).
The printed edition by Thomas Colwell is without date, but it was published about the year 1560. "The source," says C. F. Tucker Brooke, "from which Ingelend derived the rough framework of his play is a prose dialogue of the French Latinist Ravisius Textor (Jean Tixier de Ravisi, 1480-1524); but Textor's scant two hundred and thirty-five lines of question and answer between a colorless Pater Juvenis and Uxor are expanded, in the fifteen hundred lines of the English work, into a drama of much higher intensity and literary merit than the original in any way suggested." [1]
This play contains the famous line: "None is so deaf as who will not hear."
It was last known to be published by AMS Press in 1970, with ISBN 0-404-53342-6.
[edit] References
- ^ C. F. Tucker Brooke, The Tudor Drama, pg. 126.
- C. F. Tucker Brooke, The Tudor Drama: A History of English National Drama to the Retirement of Shakespeare. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co. 1911.
- Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1923.
