Elkanah Settle

Elkanah Settle (* 1. Februar 1648 i​n Dunstable; † 12. Februar 1724 i​n London) w​ar ein englischer Dramatiker d​er Stuart-Restauration.

Leben

Sein größter Erfolg w​ar die spektakuläre Empress o​f Morocco (1673), d​ie sich zahlreicher Wiederaufnahmen u​nd Nachdrucke erfreute. John Dryden, John Crowne u​nd Thomas Shadwell attackierten d​as Stück i​n einem 1674 gedruckten Pamphlet Notes a​nd Observations o​n the Empress o​f Morocco a​uf das Schärfste. Überaus erfolgreich w​ar auch d​ie 1673 erstaufgeführte Farce-Version d​es Stücks v​on Thomas Duffett.

Neben zahlreichen Dramen veröffentlichte Settle Gelegenheitsgedichte u​nd politische Pamphlete.

Dramatisches Werk (Auswahl)

• Cambyses King of Persia: a tragedy. Acted by His Highness the Duke of York’s servants. Written by Elkanah Settle, Gent. Licensed, March 6. 1670. Roger L’Estrange. London: printed for William Cademan, at the Pope’s Head in the lower walk of the New-Exchange, 1671.
• The empress of Morocco. A tragedy. With sculptures. As it is acted at the Duke’s Theatre. Written by Elkanah Settle, servant to his Majesty. London: printed for William Cademan at the Popes-head in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange in the Strand, 1673.
• The conquest of China, by the Tartars. A tragedy acted at the Duke’s Theatre. Written by Elkanah Settle, servant to His Majesty. London: printed by T[homas]. M[ilbourn]. for W. Cademan, at the Popes-Head in the lower-walk of the New-Exchange, in the Strand, 1676.
• Ibrahim the illustrious Bassa. A tragedy. Acted at the Duke’s Theatre. Written by Elkanah Settle, servant to His Majesty. Licensed May the 4th. 1676. Roger L’Estrange. London: printed by T[homas]. M[ilbourn]. for W. Cademan, at the Popes-Head in the lower vvalk of the New-Exchange in the Strand, 1677.
• The Female Prelate: being the History of the Life and Death of Pope Joan. London: Printed for W. Cademan, 1680.
• The heir of Morocco, with the death of Gayland. Acted at the Theatre Royal. By E. Settle. London: printed for William Cademan at the Popes Head in the lower walk of the New Exchange, 1682.
• Distress’d innocence: or, The Princess of Persia, a tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal by Their Majesties servants. Written by E. Settle. London: printed by E[dward]. J[ones]. for Abel Roper at the Mitre near Temple-Bar in Fleet-Street, 1691.
• The ambitious slave: or, a generous revenge, a tragedy, acted at the Theatre Royal. Written by E. Settle. London: printed for A. Roper, and E. Wilkinson, at the Black-Boy in Fleetstreet, 1694.
• Cassandra: or, the virgin prophetess An opera, as it is now perform’d at the Theatre Royal by His Majesty’s servants. The musical entertainments being inserted in their proper places. London: printed for A. Roper, and R. Basset, 1702.

Literatur

• F. C. Brown: “Settle’s occasional poetry”. Elkanah Settle: His Life and Works. University of Chicago Press, 1910.
• William J. Bulman: Publicity and Popery on the Restoration Stage: Elkanah Settle’s ‘The Empress of Morocco in Context’. In: Journal of British Studies, 51.2, 2012, S. 308–339.
• Settle, Elkanah. In: Encyclopædia Britannica. 11. Auflage. Band 24: Sainte-Claire Deville – Shuttle. London 1911, S. 705 (englisch, Volltext [Wikisource])..
• Jeannie Dalporto: The Succession Crisis and Elkanah Settle’s The Conquest of China by the Tartars. In: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 45.2, 2004, S. 131–146.
• Anne Doyle: Dryden’s Authorship of Notes and Observations on The Empress of Morocco (1674). In: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 (SEL), 6.3, 1966, S. 421–445.
• Don-John Dugas: Elkanah Settle, John Crowne and Nahum Tate. In: Susan J. Owen (Hrsg.): A Companion to Restoration Drama. Blackwell, Oxford UK 2008, S. 378–395. Print. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture), S. 12.
• Anne Hermanson: Monstrous Women in Aphra Behn’s Abdelazer and Elkanah Settle’s The Empress of Morocco. In: Mary Ann O’Donnell, Bernard Dhuicq (Hrsg.): Aphra Behn (1640–1689): Le modèle Européen. Bilingua, Paris 2005, S. 25–32.
• Anne Hermanson: The Horror Plays of the English Restoration. Ashgate, Surrey UK 2014.
• Susan B. Iwanisziw: Tortured Bodies, Factionalism, and Unsettled Loyalties in Settle’s Morocco Plays. In: James Robert Allard, Mathew R. Martin (Hrsg.): Staging Pain, 1580–1800: Violence and Trauma in British Theater. Ashgate, Surrey UK 2009, S. 111–136.
• H. H. R. Love: The Authorship of the Postscript of Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco. In: Notes and Queries, 13, 1966, S. 27–28.
• Maximillian E. Novak: Elkanah Settle’s Attacks on Thomas Shadwell and the Authorship of the ‚Operatic Tempest‘. In: Notes and Queries, 15, 1968, S. 263–265.
• The Empress of Morocco and Its Critics. Clark Memorial Library, UCLC, Los Angeles 1968.
• Ayanna Thompson: Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage. Routledge, New York NY 2008.

Weblinks

• Literatur von und über Elkanah Settle in der bibliografischen Datenbank WorldCat