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The first English self-labeled "tragicomedy" about Octavia's failed attempts to win back her inconstant husband, Antony, from his Egyptian lover, Cleopatra, and to prevent her brother, Octavius, from waging retaliatory war on Antony and Cleopatra.This volume presents overwhelming evidence for the re-attribution of the "Samuell Brandon"-bylined The Virtuous Octavia (1598) to Gabriel Harvey. The introduction raises questions about potential attribution leads and revealing relevant sources, which are answered with the evidence in the "Primary Sources" section that includes: three letters exchanged between William Byrd and Harvey while both were teaching at Cambridge, the "Octavia to Anthony" poetic epistle from the Arundel Harington Manuscript, and fragments from Plutarch's "Mark Antony" chapter. The "Exordium" includes sections that present revealing clues in seemingly mundane details, such as this play's typesetting. Another introductory section explains how Gerard Langbaine created the first "Brandon" biography solely based on the evidence presented in the Virtuous play, and without any evidence to support that "Brandon" was indeed a real author, and not merely a fictitious pseudonym. The imaginative process Langbaine used to manufacture "Brandon's" biography is used to explain how scholars have communally arrived at the erroneous current attributions for the texts of the British Renaissance. A section on Harvey's literary style explains how the texts Harvey ghostwrote differ from the patterns seen in the other Workshop ghostwriters' texts. Another section presents visual examples of Harvey's handwriting in his signed annotations on Domenichi's Facetie, on "J. Harvey's" A Discursive Problem Concerning Prophesies, and on Nicolai Machiavelli Princeps, and matches these to the handwriting styles currently assigned to two bylines Harvey ghostwrote under: "Edmund Spenser's" poem on a copy of Sabinus' Poëmata and "Elizabeth I's" letter in Italian to Don Ferdinando de Medici, Grand-Duke of Tuscany. Another section explains how the two dedications to "the virtuous? Mary Thynne" and "the virtuous Lady Lucia Audley" are subversive clues that explain Virtuous Octavia as Harvey's rebuttal to Percy's at first anonymous and later "Shakespeare"-bylined Romeo and Juliet (1597). Romeo's plot has long been suspected to be grounded in the contemporary story of Mary Thynne's marriage...

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