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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 861 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUGHES, See also:THOMAS , See also:English dramatist, a native of See also:Cheshire, entered Queens' See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1571. He graduated and became a See also:fellow of his college in 1576, and was afterwards a member of See also:Gray's See also:Inn. He wrote The Misfortunes of See also:Arthur. Uther Pendragon's son reduced into tragical notes by Thomas Hughes, which was performed at See also:Greenwich in the See also:Queen's presence on the 28th of See also:February 1588. See also:Nicholas Trotte provided the introduction, See also:Francis See also:Flower the choruses of Acts I. and II., See also:William Fulbeck two speeches, while three other gentlemen of Gray's Inn, one of whom was Francis See also:Bacon, undertook the care of the dumb show. The See also:argument.of the See also:play, based on a See also:story of See also:incest and See also:crime, was borrowed, in accordance with Senecan tradition, from mythical See also:history, and the treatment is in See also:close accordance with the See also:model. The See also:ghost of Gorlois, who was slain by Uther Pendragon, opens the play with a speech that reproduces passages spoken by the ghost of See also:Tantalus in the Thyestes; the tragic events are announced by a messenger, and the See also:chorus comments on the course of the See also:action. Dr W. J. Cunliffe has proved that Hughes's memory was saturated with See also:Seneca, and that the play may be resolved into a patchwork of See also:translations, with occasional See also:original lines. Appendix II. to his exhaustive See also:essay On the See also:Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy (1893) gives a See also:long See also:list of parallel passages. The Misfortunes of Arthur was reprinted in J.

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Collier's supplement to See also:Dodsley's Old Plays; and by See also:Harvey See also:Carson Grumline (See also:Berlin, 1900), who points out that Hughes's source was See also:Geoffrey of See also:Monmouth's Historia Britonum, not the Morte D'Arthur.

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