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{{Chronology Entry |Year=1612 |Year Suffix=c |Year Number=1 |Headline=Play Attributed to Shakespeare Cites Stool-ball |Salience=2 |Tags=Famous, Females, |Game=Rounders |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary |Age of Players=Adult |Text=<p>A young maid asks her wooer to go with her. "What shall we do there, wench?" She replies, "Why, play at stool-ball; what else is there to do?"</p> <p>Fletcher and Shakespeare, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Two Noble Kinsmen</span> [London], Act V, Scene 2, per W. W. Grantham, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Stoolball Illustrated and How to Play</span> It [W. Speaight, London, 1904], page 29. David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 170, gives 1634 as the publication date of this play, which was reportedly performed in 1612, and mentions that doubts have been expressed as to authorship, so Shakespeare [1564-1616] may not have contributed. Others surmise that The Bard wrote Acts One and Five, which would make him the author of the stoolball reference. See also item #1600c.2 above. <strong>Note:</strong> can we find further specifics? Russell-Goggs, in "Stoolball in Sussex," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Sussex County Magazine</span>, volume 2, no. 7 (July 1928), page 320, notes that the speaker is the "daughter of the Jailer."</p> |Reviewed=Yes |Has Supplemental Text=No }}
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