Johannes Reuchlin’s comic Latin farce (1498) is one of the best-known and most influential plays of early modern Europe. It was reprinted and translated many times and inspired other playwrights. One of the boy actors at the first performance, Jacob Spiegel, wrote an extensive commentary on the play that was published in 1512 and reprinted in 1519. Both the play itself and the commentary are transnational: the motifs of the play are drawn from French farce and Italian commedia dell’arte, and inspired others in Europe; the commentary cites texts from Italy, France, and Germany, among other countries. The present edition presents Henno, for the first time with an English translation, Spiegel’s commentary, with notes tracking the sources of the commentary, and an introduction with a bibliography of all editions. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 9 Johannes Reuchlin 9 Early Comedy in Germany 15 —The Play Itself 19 Reuchlin’s Sources for 23 Reception of 25 History of Interpretation of Henno 29 Jacob Spiegel 36 Spiegel’s Commentary on Reuchlin’s 39 Transnational Aspects of Reuchlin, Spiegel and 44 Editions of 45 This Edition 53 Reuchlin, —Text and Translation 55 Preliminary Texts of 89 Jacob Spiegel’s Commentary 97 Prologus 99 Actus primus 109 Actus secundus 158 Actus tertius 190 Actus quartus 208 Actus quintus 226 Post scripta 244 Notes on Spiegel’s Commentary 261 Dictionum index 403 Bibliography 409 Abbreviations 409 Primary Sources Antiquity–16th Century 410 Bible Books Quoted 417 Other Abbreviations 417 References and Editions Used 420 Primary Sources 420 Humanist Works: Modern Editions, Translations and Commentaries 433 Secondary Sources 440 Figures 459 weiterlesen