Locrine is an Elizabethan play depicting the legendary Trojan founders of the nation of England and of 'Troynovant' (London). The Elizabethan Era is the period associated with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603) and is often considered to be a golden age in English history. ... The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of the Achaeans, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...
Locrine was published in 1595 as "Newly set forth, overseen and corrected by W.S.", and as such is classed with the Shakespeare Apocrypha. The play's stiff, formal verse is unshakespearean, though it is conceivable that Shakespeare might have been in charge of tidying up an old play. It is thought more likely, however, that the attribution was merely an attempt by the publisher to increase sales by seeming to link the play with a newly popular playwright. The Shakespeare Apocrypha is the name given to a group of plays that have sometimes been attributed to Shakespeare, but whose attribution is questionable for various reasons. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
It is also conceivable that the 'W.S.' of the title page is actually intended to represent Wentworth Smith, a much more obscure contemporary playwright with the same initials. Smith is not known to have written for the stage before 1601, however. Wentworth Smith (fl. ...
A feature of the play, pointed out by Crawford 3 and by Koeppel, 4 and discussed in an earlier chapter, is that some of its verses reappear almost unchanged in Selimus (1594), and, also, that both of these plays have imported a number of verses from Spenser’s Ruines of Rome, published in 1591.
But, if Locrine, as verse, diction and plot construction lead us to suppose, was written before 1590, it is probable that the lines borrowed from Spenser do not belong to the original edition, but only to the revised version of 1595.
The story of Locrine, which is also told by Lodge in his Complaint of Elstred and by Spenser in his Faerie Queene 5 was found by the playwright in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Britonum and the Chronicles of Holinshed.
It is pointed out that the comic scene in Locrine, 32 which is paralleled in Selimus, stands alone in the latter play, while, in Locrine, there is much other low humour of the same kind in connection with the same characters.
A consideration of the whole passage in Locrine and its relation to the parallel lines in Selimus and the Complaints bears out the contention that the borrowings from the Complaints in Selimus were made through Locrine.
Selimus was later than Locrine, from which it copied, and, as Greene died on 3 September, 1592, this brings the issue of his authorship of the play within narrow limits.
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