Albumazar is a Jacobean era play, a comedy written by Thomas Tomkis that was performed and published in 1615. The play was specially commissioned by Trinity...
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Abu Ma‘shar al-Balkhi, Latinized as Albumasar (also Albusar, Albuxar, Albumazar; full name Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Balkhī أبو معشر...
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of a more ambiguous kind is presented by the case of Thomas Tomkis's Albumazar, performed for King James I at Cambridge in 1615. A tradition apparently...
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Aemilia (March 7), Ruggle's farce Ignoramus (March 8), Tomkis's comedy Albumazar (March 9), and Brooke's Melanthe (March 10). The royals leave Cambridge...
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decades after the play's origin, including references in Thomas Tomkis's Albumazar (1615), Thomas May's The Heir (1620), and as late as Thomas Rawlins's...
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academic plays of the early seventeenth century: Lingua (published 1607) and Albumazar (published 1615). He is also regarded as a likely author of Pathomachia...
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Retrieved 13 March 2013. Who was Who, OUP 2007 "Standing Type in Tomkis's Albumazar". Oxford – The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Archived from...
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John Hoadly) James Ralph – The Astrologer (adapted from Thomas Tomkis's Albumazar, itself adapted from Giambattista della Porta's L'astrologo) Antonio de...
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farmer stabbed a city gentleman. In 1614, Thomas Tomkiss's academic play Albumazar linked the Fortune and the Red Bull Theatre as raucous places to see old-fashioned...
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evolution that was ongoing in its era, as marked by plays like Lingua, Albumazar, and Pathomachia. Technogamia was revived for a Court performance on 26...
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assigns the play to Tomkis; and the play's resemblances with Tomkis's Albumazar have persuaded scholars that Harington's attribution of Lingua to Tomkis...
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sun above the horizon.) bottom right: Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (labelled Albumazar), the Persian mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. His banner: "Sapiens...
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(1600), Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters (1608), Thomas Tomkis's Albumazar (1615), George Ruggle's Ignoramus (also 1615), and perhaps most importantly...
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and William Rowley's The Changeling, 1668 (2nd edition) Thomas Tomkis's Albumazar, 1668 (5th edition). Beyond the confines of drama, Dring issued volumes...
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Cooke's Greene's Tu Quoque (1614), for John Trundle; Thomas Tomkis's Albumazar (1615), for Walter Burre (plus two subsequent editions); the first two...
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Similarly, Thomas Tomkis calls the telescope a "perspicill" in his 1615 play Albumazar. Sanders, p. 126. Brown, p. 92. Brown, Huntington. Rabelais in English...
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similarities with Tomkis's play. Tomkis was an academic playwright; his Albumazar (1615) was acted at Cambridge University. Composed in prose rather than...
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and others – A Fair Quarrel, The Widow, More Dissemblers Besides Women, Albumazar, The Queen of Corinth, The Devil is an Ass, and Christmas, His Masque...
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