A Poetical Rhapsody (original spelling: A Poetical Rapsodie) is an Elizabethan verse miscellany compiled by Francis Davison with contributions by an unidentified ‘A. W.’ which went through four editions: 1602, 1608, 1611, and 1621.
The Poetical Rapsodie includes a version text of the Harefield Entertainment which had previously circulated in manuscript.Gabriel Heaton, 'Elizabethan Entertainments in Manuscript: The Harefield Festivities and the Dynamics of Exchange', in Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, Sarah Knight, Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth (Oxford, 2007), p. 242.A. H. Bullen, Davison's Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1902), p. 10.
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