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The Battle of Alcazar, the Glossary

The Battle of Alcazar is a play attributed to George Peele, perhaps written no later than late 1591 if the play "Muly Molucco" mentioned in Henslowe's diary is this play (see below), and published anonymously in 1594, that tells the story of the battle of Alcácer Quibir in 1578.^[1]

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1594 plays
Plays by George Peele

Admiral's Men

The Admiral's Men (also called the Admiral's company, more strictly, the Earl of Nottingham's Men; after 1603, Prince Henry's Men; after 1612, the Elector Palatine's Men or the Palsgrave's Men) was a playing company or troupe of actors in the Elizabethan and Stuart eras.

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Battle of Alcácer Quibir

The Battle of Alcácer Quibir (also known as "Battle of Three Kings" (معركة الملوك الثلاثة) or "Battle of Wadi al-Makhazin" (معركة وادي المخازن) in Morocco) was fought in northern Morocco, near the town of Ksar-el-Kebir (variant spellings: Ksar El Kebir, Alcácer-Quivir, Alcazarquivir, Alcassar, etc.) and Larache, on 4 August 1578.

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Believe as You List

Believe as You List is a Caroline era tragedy by Philip Massinger, famous as a case of theatrical censorship. The Battle of Alcazar and Believe as You List are English Renaissance plays.

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Book size

The size of a book is generally measured by the height against the width of a leaf, or sometimes the height and width of its cover.

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British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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E. K. Chambers

Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers, (16 March 1866 – 21 January 1954), usually known as E. K. Chambers, was an English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar.

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Edward Allde

Edward Allde (Alde, Alldee, or Alday; born c. 1560, died 1627) was an English printer in London during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.

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Edward Alleyn

Edward "Ned" Alleyn (1 September 156621 November 1626) was an English actor who was a major figure of the Elizabethan theatre and founder of the College of God's Gift in Dulwich.

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English Armada

The English Armada (lit), also known as the Counter Armada or the Drake–Norris Expedition, was an attack fleet sent against Spain by Queen Elizabeth I of England that sailed on 28 April 1589 during the undeclared Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) and the Eighty Years' War.

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George Peele

George Peele (baptised 25 July 1556 – death date uncertain) was an English translator, poet, and dramatist, who is most noted for his supposed but not universally accepted collaboration with William Shakespeare on the play Titus Andronicus.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Greek chorus

A Greek chorus (chorós) in the context of ancient Greek tragedy, comedy, satyr plays, is a homogeneous group of performers, who comment with a collective voice on the action of the scene they appear in, or provide necessary insight into action which has taken place offstage.

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Henry V (play)

Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written near 1599. The Battle of Alcazar and Henry V (play) are English Renaissance plays.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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John Dryden

John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate.

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Lord Strange's Men

Lord Strange's Men was an Elizabethan playing company, comprising retainers of the household of Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange (pronounced "strang").

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Malone Society

The Malone Society is a British-based text publication and general scholarly society devoted to the study of 16th- and early 17th-century drama.

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Morocco

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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Philip Henslowe

Philip Henslowe (– 6 January 1616) was an Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur and impresario.

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Philip Massinger

Philip Massinger (1583 – 17 March 1640) was an English dramatist.

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Samuel Rowley

Samuel Rowley was a 17th-century English dramatist and actor.

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Sebastian, King of Portugal

Sebastian (Sebastião I; 20 January 1554 – 4 August 1578) was King of Portugal from 11 June 1557 to 4 August 1578 and the penultimate Portuguese monarch of the House of Aviz.

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Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, lit) was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous naval experience appointed by Philip II of Spain.

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W. W. Greg

Sir Walter Wilson Greg (9 July 1875 – 4 March 1959), known professionally as W. W. Greg, was one of the leading bibliographers and Shakespeare scholars of the 20th century.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Alcazar

Also known as The Battle of Alcazar (play), The Tragical Battell of Alcazar in Barbary.