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Patient Grissel is a play by Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, and William Haughton, first printed in 1603. It is mentioned in Henslowe's diary in the entry for December 1599.
The plot is a variant of the medieval tale of Patient Griselda, as told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio's Decameron.
The play contains Dekker's poem "Golden Slumbers" (which was adapted by Paul McCartney for the song of the same title on The Beatles' Abbey Road album):
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise.
Sleep, pretty wantons; do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby:
Rock them, rock them, lullaby.
Care is heavy, therefore sleep you;
You are care, and care must keep you;
Sleep, pretty wantons; do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby:
Rock them, rock them, lullaby.[1]
References
- ^ Collier, J.P., ed. (1841). Patient Grissil: a comedy by T. Dekker, H. Chettle and W. Haughton. Reprinted from the Black Letter Edition of 1603. With an introduction and notes. London: F. Shoberl, Jun. p. 61.
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First Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
Patient Grissel
A variant of "Patient Griselda"
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The version Pepys saw as a puppet-play 30 August 1667 was based on this text:
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Second Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
Griselda (anglicised to Grizzel and similar forms) is a figure in European folklore noted for her patience and obedience.
In literature the most famous version of the Griselda tale was written by Giovanni Boccaccio c. 1350. Griselda appears in tales by Petrarch[5] (died 1374, Historia Griseldis published 100 years later) and by Chaucer (The Clerk's Tale in The Canterbury Tales, late 1300s). She is also cited in Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies.[6] Patient Griselda is a tale by Charles Perrault (fr:La Marquise de Salusses ou la Patience de Griselidis, 1691)[7][8]. John Phillip's play The Commodye of Pacient and Meeke Grissill (also known as The Plaie of Grissill) dates from 1565. Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker and William Haughton collaborated on another dramatic version, Patient Grissel, first performed in 1599. There are operas named Griselda by Antonio Maria Bononcini (Griselda, 1718), Alessandro Scarlatti (La Griselda, 1721), Giovanni Bononcini (Griselda, 1722), and Antonio Vivaldi (Griselda, 1735). Also Jules Massenets Grisélidis (1901) was inspired by the tale of Griselda.
William Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale (1623) features many elements of the Griselda story.[9] Anthony Trollope's high Victorian novel Miss Mackenzie (1865) is based on the Griselda theme. The Modern Griselda is a novel by Maria Edgeworth from 1804. Patient Griselda is one of a group of historical or legendary dinner-party guests in Caryl Churchill's 1982 play Top Girls. Patient Griselda is a 2015 short story by Steven Anthony George in the anthology Twice Upon A Time: Fairytale, Folklore, & Myth. Reimagined & Remastered, where the tale is retold as a late twentieth century horror story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gri…
San Diego Sarah • Link
For those of us not aware of the wisdom of The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, it was a book written during the plague of 1350 which killed approximately half the population of Italy.
It incorporates 100 short, engaging stories with a combined message that they should build back a better world, and to mindfully re-examine attitudes and systems rather than do the old, comfortable things.
Now is the the time to act creatively and intelligently: Pandemics give us a clean start, and we honor the fallen by building back better.
Pepys should have read it ... he did exactly that with the Navy,
A much better summary is at https://psyche.co/ideas/craft-you…