LATIN PLAYS
Adelphe.
By S. Brooke (q.v.).
Atalanta.
Harl. MS. 6924, with dedication to Laud, President of St. John’s, Oxford, 1611–21, signed by Philip Parsons, of St. John’s, B.A. 1614, M.A. 1618.
Bellum Grammaticale.
S. R. 1634, April 17. ‘A booke called Bellum grammaticale &c. by Master Spense’, authorized by Herbert. John Spenser (Arber, iv. 317).
1635. Bellum Grammaticale sive Nominum Verborumque discordia civilis Tragico-Comoedia. Summo cum applausu olim apud Oxonienses in Scaenam producta et nunc in omnium illorum qui ad Grammaticam animos appellant oblectamentum edita. B. A. and T. Fawcet, impensis Joh. Spenceri.
Editions of 1658, 1698, 1718, 1726, 1729, and in J. Bolte (1908, Andrea Guarnas B. G. und seine Nachahmungen, 106).
A performance was given before Elizabeth at Ch. Ch., Oxford, on 24 Sept. 1592, with a prologue and epilogue by Gager, which are printed with his Meleager. But the play was not new, for Sir John Harington, who records the 1592 performance in his Metamorphosis of Ajax (1596), 127, had already named ‘the Oxford Bellum Grammaticale’ as ‘full of harmeles myrth’ in his Apologie of Poetrie (1591). The ‘Master Spense’ of the S. R. entry may be a confusion with the publisher’s name. Wood, Ath. Oxon. ii. 533, was told by Richard Gardiner of Ch. Ch. that the author was Leonard Hutten, who took his B.A. from Ch. Ch. in 1578, and his M.A. in 1582. He was known as a dramatist by 26 Sept. 1583, when Gager wrote of him (Boas, 256),
Seu scribenda siet Comoedia, seu sit agenda,
Primum Huttone potes sumere iure locum.
The source was the Latin prose narrative Bellum Grammaticale (1511) of Andrea Guarna. Ralph Radclif (c. 1538) seems to have also treated the theme, but not necessarily in dramatic form (Mediaeval Stage, ii. 197).
Britanniae Primitiae, sive S. Albanus Protomartyr (c. 1600).
Bodl. Rawl. Poet. MS. 215. The Bodleian Catalogue dates the MS. c. 1600. The play, described in Jahrbuch, xlvii. 75, is a fragment only, probably written in some Jesuit seminary on the Continent, but with an English interest. There seems to be nothing specifically English in the theme of Sanguis Sanguinem sive Constans Fratricida Tragoedia, which is in the same MS.
Caesar Interfectus (c. March 1582).
Epilogue of a play by Richard Edes (q.v.) at Ch. Ch., Oxford.
Dido (12 June 1583).
By W. Gager (q.v.).
Euribates Pseudomagus.
Camb. Emmanuel MS. 3. 1. 17. ‘Authore Mr Cruso Caii Colle: Cantabr.’
Aquila Cruso entered Gonville and Caius in 1610.
Fatum Vortigerni.
Lansd. MS. 723, f. 1. ‘Fatum Vortigerni seu miserabilis vita et exitus Vortigerni regis Britanniae vna complectens aduentum Saxonum siue Anglorum in Britanniam.’
Keller puts the play at the end of the sixteenth century, and thinks it influenced by Richard III.
Fortunia (March 1615).
See s.v. Susenbrotus.
Herodes.
Camb. Univ. MS. Mm. I. 24, with dedication by William Goldingham, B.A. 1567 and Fellow of Trinity Hall 1571, to ‘D. Thomae Sackuilo, Equiti aurato, Domino de Buckhurst.’ Sackville became Lord Buckhurst 1567 and K.G. 1588.
Hispanus (March 1597).
Bodl. Douce MS. 234, f. 15v. This was ‘in diem comitialem anno domini 1596’, and the actor-list is composed of members of St. John’s, Cambridge (Boas, 398). The MS. has the note ‘Summus histrio-didascalus Mr. Pratt’ and a possible indication of authorship in the mutilated name ‘orrell’, which may stand for Roger Morrell, Fellow of St. John’s.
Hymenaeus (March 1579).
St. John’s Cambridge MS. S. 45; Caius Cambridge MS. 62.
Edition by G. C. Moore Smith (1908).
The actor-list agrees closely with that of Legge’s Ricardus III, and points to St. John’s, Cambridge, in 1579 (Boas, 393). The source is Boccaccio’s Decamerone, which suggests the possible authorship of A. Fraunce (q.v.), who used the Decamerone for his contemporary Victoria.
Ignoramus (8 March 1615).
By G. Ruggle (q.v.).
Labyrinthus (March 1603?).
By W. Hawkesworth (q.v.).
Laelia (1 March 1595).
Lambeth MS. 838.
Edition by G. C. Moore Smith (1910).—Dissertation: G. C. Moore Smith, The Cambridge Play ‘Laelia’ (1911, M. L. R. vi. 382).
The production is assigned by Fuller, Hist. of Cambridge (ed. Nichols), 217, to a visit by the Earl of Essex to Cambridge as Chancellor of the University in 1597–8. Moore Smith has, however, shown that it almost certainly belongs to an earlier visit, and took place at Queens’ College on 1 March 1595. The chief evidence is the reference in Rowland Whyte’s account of the Device by Essex or Bacon (q.v.) for 17 Nov. 1595 to ‘Giraldy’ and ‘Pedantiq’, as played at Cambridge. These may fairly be taken to be the Gerardus and the pedant Petrus of Laelia. The actors of these two parts are identified with George Meriton and George Mountaine, Fellows of Queens’, by John Weever, Epigrammes (1599), iv. 19.
Your entertaine (nor can I passe away)
Of Essex with farre-famed Laelia;
Nor fore the Queen your service on Queens day.
Conceivably this may also attribute authorship of the play and the device. The play is an adaptation of the Italian Gl’ Ingannati (c. 1531) through Les Abusez (1543) of Charles Estienne. It is possible that, directly or indirectly, it influenced Twelfth Night.
Leander (March 1598).
By W. Hawkesworth (q.v.).
Machiavellus (1597).
Bodl. Douce MS. 234, f. 40v, dated ‘Anno Dmni 1597, Decemb. 9’.
A note in Douce’s hand assigns the authorship to [Nathaniel] Wiburne, who, like the other actors, was of St. John’s, Cambridge, in 1597 (Boas, 398).
Melanthe (1615).
By S. Brooke (q.v.).
Meleager (Feb. 1582)
By W. Gager (q.v.).
Nero (1603).
By M. Gwynne (q.v.).
Oedipus.
By W. Gager (q.v.).
Panniculus Hippolyto Assutus (8 Feb. 1592).
By W. Gager (q.v.).
Parthenia.
Emmanuel, Cambridge, MS. 1. 3. 16. Greg, Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama, 368, thinks the handwriting later than 1600.
Pastor Fidus (> 1605).
Cambridge Univ. Libr. MS. Ff. ii. 9. ‘Il pastor fido, di signor Guarini ... recitata in Collegio Regali Cantabrigiae’, with Prologus and Argumentum. T. C. C. MS. R. 3. 37.
Greg, Pastoral, 247, points out that this must be the ‘Fidus Pastor, which was sometimes acted by King’s College men in Cambridge’, out of which a contemporary observer thought that Daniel’s Queen’s Arcadia (q.v.) was drawn. It is a translation of Guarini’s Il Pastor Fido (1590).
Pedantius (1581).
Caius College, Cambridge, MS. 62. ‘Paedantius comoedia acta in collegio Sanctae et individuae Trinitatis authore Mro Forcet.’
T. C. C. MS. R. 17 (9).
S. R. 1631, Feb. 9. ‘A Comedy in Lattyn called Pedantius’, authorized by Austen. Milborne (Arber, iv. 248).
1631. Pedantius Comoedia, Olim Cantabrig. Acta in Coll. Trin. Nunquam antehac Typis evulgata. W. S. Impensis Roberti Mylbourne.
[Engravings of Dromodotus and Pedantius. Introductory lines, ‘Pedantius de Se’. The title-page has an engraved border dated 1583, already used for W. Alexander’s Monarchicke Tragedies (1616).]
Edition by G. C. Moore Smith (1905, Materialien, viii).
The introductory line, ‘Ante quater denos vixi Pedantius annos’, suggests production in 1591, but the play cannot have been very recent when Sir John Harington, in a note to his translation of Orlando Furioso (1591), Bk. xiv, cited a ‘pretie conceit’ of ‘our Cambridge Comedie Pedantius (at whiche I remember the noble Earle of Essex that now is, was present)’. In his Apologie of Poetrie, prefixed to the translation, Harington also says (G. Smith, Elizabethan Critical Essays, ii. 210), ‘How full of harmeles myrth is our Cambridge Pedantius? and the Oxford Bellum Grammaticale?’ Harington, who again cites ‘our Pedantius of Cambridge’ in his Metamorphosis of Ajax (1596), 126, was with Essex at Cambridge during 1578–81, and Moore Smith has shown that the production at Trinity was probably on 6 Feb. 1581, shortly before the defeat of Gabriel Harvey by Anthony Wingfield of Trinity for the Public Oratorship of Cambridge. There can be little doubt that Harvey was the butt of Pedantius, and hardly more that Wingfield was concerned in this satire. Nashe has two allusions to the matter. In Strange News (1593) he says that Harvey’s verses were ‘miserably flouted at in M. Winkfields Comoedie of Pedantius in Trinitie Colledge’ (Works, i. 303). In Have With You to Saffron-Walden (1596) he says, ‘Ile fetch him aloft in Pedantius, that exquisite Comedie in Trinitie Colledge; where, vnder the cheife part, from which it tooke his name, as namely the concise and firking finicaldo fine School-master, hee was full drawen & delineated from the soale of the foote to the crowne of his head’, and goes on to enumerate the principal traits of Harvey touched off by the actors, who ‘borrowed his gowne to playe the Part in, the more to flout him’ (Works, iii. 80). So far, we are left a little uncertain whether the main authorship is to be ascribed, with Nashe in Strange News, to Anthony Wingfield, or, with the Caius MS., to Edward Forsett, both of whom were Fellows of Trinity in 1581. Moore Smith has, however, shown in T. L. S. (10 Oct. 1918) that Forsett refers to ‘Pedantio meo’ in the epistle to an unprinted Concio of his among the MSS. of St. John’s, Cambridge. For an absurd attempt to assign the authorship to Bacon, largely on the ground of some non-existent pigs in the title-page border, cf. E. A. [E. G. Harman], The Shakespeare Problem (1909), and T. L. S. (27 March, 17 April, 1 May, 1919). Modern ascriptions to Thomas Beard and to Walter Hawkesworth seem to rest on misunderstandings.
Perfidus Hetruscus.
Bodl. Rawlinson MS. C. 787.
Physiponomachia (1609–11).
Bodl. MS. 27639.
Dedicated to John Buckeridge, President of St. John’s, Oxford, 1605–11, by Christopher Wren, father of the architect, who took his B.A. from St. John’s in 1609.
Psyche et Filii Ejus.
Bodl. Rawl. Poet. MS. 171, f. 60.
This is a Jesuit play, on the heresy of England.
Lugentis Angliae faciem dum Poeta pingeret.
Moore Smith (M. L. R. iii. 143), who is responsible for the title, thinks that it was written at the seminary of Valladolid, perhaps in Elizabeth’s reign.
Richardus Tertius (March 1580).
By T. Legge (q.v.).
Romeus et Julietta (c. 1615).
Sloane MS. 1775, f. 242.
According to H. de W. Fuller in M. P. iv (1906), 41, this is a fragment based on A. Brooke’s Romeus and Juliet, probably a student’s exercise, with corrections. It is datable by two poems in the same hand on the royal visit to Cambridge in 1615.
Roxana (c. 1592).
By W. Alabaster (q.v.).
Sapientia Solomonis (1565–6).
Addl. MS. 20061. ‘Sapientia Solomonis: Drama Comicotragicum.’
This is an expanded version of the Sapientia Solomonis of Sixt Birck (1555). A performance is recorded at Trinity, Cambridge, in 1559–60 (Boas, 21, 387), but the prologue and epilogue to this version make it clear that it was acted before Elizabeth and the inclita princeps Cecilia, i. e. Cecilia of Sweden, who was in England during 1565–6 (cf. ch. i), by a
puellorum cohors
Nutrita magnificis tuis e sumptibus.
These were the Westminster boys, who gave the play in 1565–6 (cf. ch. xii). The elaborately bound and decorated MS. bears Elizabeth’s initials in several places, and was evidently the ‘book’ officially provided for her.
Scyros (3 March 1613).
By S. Brooke (q.v.).
Silvanus (13 Jan. 1597).
Bodl. Douce MS. 234. ‘Acta haec fabula 13º Januarii an. dmi. 1596.’
The actor-list belongs to St. John’s, Cambridge, and is headed by the name of [Francis] Rollinson, whose authorship has been unjustifiably assumed.
Solymannidae (5 March 1582).
Lansd. MS. 723. ‘Solymannidae, Tragoedia ... 1581 Martii 5º.’
Susenbrotus or Fortunia (March 1615).
Bodl. Rawl. Poet. MS. 195, f. 79. ‘Susenbrotus Comoedia. Acta Cantabrigiae in Collegio Trin. coram Rege Jacobo & Carolo principe Anno 1615.’
Bridgewater MS. ‘Fortunia.’
The accounts of the royal visit of 7–11 March 1615 do not mention the play, and the date of this visit would be ‘1614’. It may be the unnamed play given by Cambridge men, not at Cambridge, but at Royston in March 1616; the actors are ‘extra Lyceum’, cf. ch. iv.
Tomumbeius (> 1603).
Bodl. Rawl. Poet. MS. 75. ‘Tomumbeius siue Sultanici in Aegypto Imperii Euersio. Tragoedia noua auctore Georgio Salterno Bristoënsi.’
Nothing is known of George Salterne, and a dedication to Elizabeth is hardly sufficient to indicate a production before her at Bristol during the progress of 1574.
Ulysses Redux (5 Feb. 1592).
By W. Gager (q.v.).
Vertumnus (29 Aug. 1605).
By M. Gwynne (q.v.).
Victoria (c. 1580–3).
By A. Fraunce (q.v.).
Zelotypus (1606).
Emmanuel, Cambridge, MS. 3. 1. 17; T. C. C. MS. R. 3, 9.
The actor-list points to St. John’s, Cambridge, in 1606.
APPENDIX L
PRINTED PLAYS
[Preliminary Note.—This is a chronological abstract of plays, printed or entered for printing in the Stationers’ Register, of which either the entry or the possible date of production falls in 1558–1616. Some of the later plays are only included in deference to the conjectures of others as to their early origin in whole or in part. The list is little more than an index; details must be sought in chh. xxiii and xxiv. I think it is nearly self-explanatory. The plays marked T. in col. 1 are those of which the first entry in the Register is in connexion with a transfer of copyright; the name in col. 4 is then that of the transferrer. Titles of non-extant plays are marked with inverted commas in col. 3; some of them (cf. App. M) may not really relate to plays at all. The symbol (s) in col. 6 is used where the imprint indicates, not that a play is printed ‘for’ a stationer, but that it is ‘to be sold by’ a stationer; it is not quite clear how far the two formulae are equivalent. The most important notes in col. 7 are those in italics, which indicate direct evidence afforded by the entry or first title-page as to companies by which the plays had been acted. I have added from other sources additional ascriptions which seem certain or reasonably probable, and sometimes omitted even title-page evidence where it obviously relates to production by a company of later origin than 1616. The notes in col. 8 must not be taken as attributions of authorship, but merely as guides to the relevant sections in ch. xxiii or to ch. xxiv. The brackets in this column indicate that the plays, being pre-Elizabethan, are dealt with in App. X of The Mediaeval Stage. Some statistics, based on this list, of the output of plays from the Elizabethan press, will be found in ch. xxii.]
| Date of Entry. | Date of Print. | Title. | Enterer. | Printer. | Publisher. | Source. | Author. |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) |
| 1557–8 | N.D. | Wealth and Health | J. Walley | [No imprint] | [Anon.] | ||
| 1557–8 | N.D. | Youth | J. Walley | J. Walley | [Anon.] | ||
| 1557–8 | 1568 | Jacob and Esau | H. Sutton | Bynneman | [Anon.] | ||
| 1558–9 | 1559 | Troas | Tottel | Tottel | Transl. | Seneca. | |
| Thyestes | Powell? | Transl. | Seneca. | ||||
| 1560, June 10 | 1560 | Nice Wanton | King | King | [Anon.] | ||
| 1560, June 10 | N.D. | Impatient Poverty | King | King | [Anon.] | ||
| 1560, Aug. 14 | N.D. | Lusty Juventus | King | Copland | [Wever.] | ||
| 1560, Oct. 30? | N.D. | Robin Hood | Copland | Copland | Anon. | ||
| N.D. | Enough is as Good as a Feast | J. Allde | W. Wager. | ||||
| 1560–1 | ‘Witless’ | Hacket | [Heywood.] | ||||
| 1560–1 | 1561 | Godly Queen Hester | Pickering | Pickering Hacket | [Anon.] | ||
| 1561, May 11 | N.D. | Free Will | Tisdale | Tisdale | Transl. | Cheke. | |
| 1561 | Hercules Furens | H. Sutton | Transl. | Seneca. | |||
| 1561–2 | ‘Two Sins of King David’ | Hacket | [App. M.] | ||||
| 1562–3 | 1562 | Three Laws | Colwell | Colwell | [Bale.] | ||
| 1562–3 | N.D. | Jack Juggler | Copland | Copland | [Anon.] | ||
| 1562–3 | 1575 | Gammer Gurton’s Needle | Colwell | Colwell | Univ. | [Anon.] | |
| 1562–3 | 1661 | Tom Tyler and his Wife | Colwell | Kirkman | Anon. | ||
| 1562–3 | 1563, Apr. 28 | Oedipus | Colwell | Colwell | Transl. | Seneca. | |
| [T. 1582, Jan. 15] | N.D. | Weather | [Awdeley] | Awdeley | [Heywood.] | ||
| 1565–6 | [t.p. lost] | Albion Knight (fragm.) | Colwell | Anon. | |||
| 1565–6 | 1565, Sept. 22 | Gorboduc | Griffith | Griffith | Inner Temple | Norton. | |
| 1565–6 | 1565, Oct. | King Darius | Colwell | Colwell | Anon. | ||
| 1565–6 | 1566 | Agamemnon | Colwell | Colwell | Transl. | Seneca. | |
| 1565–6 | [t.p. lost] | Cruel Debtor (fragm.) | Colwell | W. Wager. | |||
| 1565–6 | 1566 | Medea | Colwell | Colwell | Transl. | Seneca. | |
| 1565–6 1568–9 | N.D. | Patient Grissell | Colwell | Colwell | Phillip. | ||
| 1566–7 | N.D. | Octavia | Denham | Denham | Transl. | Seneca. | |
| 1566–7 | 1581 | Hippolytus | Denham | T. Marsh | Transl. | Seneca. | |
| 1566–7 1570–1 | 1581 | Hercules Oetaeus | Denham Colwell | T. Marsh | Transl. | Seneca. | |
| 1566–7 | [t.p. lost] | Ralph Roister Doister | Hacket | [Udall.] | |||
| 1566–7 | ‘Far Fetched and Dear Bought is Good for Ladies’ | Hacket | [App. M.] | ||||
| 1566–7 | 1566 | Repentance of Mary Magdalen | Charlwood | Charlwood | L. Wager. | ||
| 1566–7 | ‘College of Canonical Clerks’ | Charlwood | [App. M.] | ||||
| 1567 | Trial of Treasure | Purfoot | Anon. | ||||
| 1567 | Orestes | Griffith | Pickering. | ||||
| 1567–8 | 1571 | Damon and Pithias | R. Jones | R. Jones | Chapel | Edwardes. | |
| 1567–8 | 1575 | Apius and Virginia | R. Jones | Howe | R. Jones | Anon. | |
| 1568–9 | 1568 | Like Will to Like | J. Allde | J. Allde | Fulwell. | ||
| 1568–9 | [1578?] | ‘Susanna’ | Colwell | T. Garter. | |||
| 1568–9 | N.D. | The Longer Thou Livest, the More Fool Thou Art | R. Jones | Howe | R. Jones | W. Wager. | |
| [T. 1582,Jan. 15] | 1569, Sept. 14 | Four Ps | [Awdeley] | J. Allde | [Heywood.] | ||
| 1569–70 | N.D. | Disobedient Child | Colwell | Colwell | Ingelend. | ||
| 1569–70 | N.D. | Marriage of Wit and Science | T. Marsh | T. Marsh | Anon. | ||
| 1569–70 | N.D. | Cambyses | J. Allde | J. Allde | Preston. | ||
| 1573 | Supposes | Bynneman | R. Smith | Gray’s Inn | Gascoigne. | ||
| 1573 | Jocasta | Bynneman | R. Smith | Gray’s Inn | Gascoigne. | ||
| 1573 | New Custom | Howe | Veale | Anon. | |||
| 1575 | Glass of Government | Middleton | Barker | Gascoigne. | |||
| N.D. | Minds | [No imprint] | Transl. | Anon. | |||
| 1576, July 26 | N.D. | Common Conditions | Hunter | Howe | Hunter | Anon. | |
| 1576, Oct. 22 | 1576 | Tide Tarrieth No Man | H. Jackson | H. Jackson | Wapull. | ||
| 1577, Nov. 25 | 1578 | All for Money | Ward | Ward and Mundee | Lupton. | ||
| 1577 | Abraham’s Sacrifice | Vautrollier | Transl. | Golding. | |||
| 1577 | God’s Promises | Charlwood | Peele | [Bale.] | |||
| 1578, July 31 | 1578, Aug. 20 | Promos and Cassandra | R. Jones | R. Jones | Whetstone. | ||
| 1580–1 | 1581 | Ten Tragedies | T. Marsh | T. Marsh | Transl. | Seneca. | |
| 1581, July 31 | 1581 | Antigone | Wolf | Wolf | Transl. | Watson. | |
| 1581 | Conflict of Conscience | Bradock | Woodes. | ||||
| 1584, Apr. 6 | 1584 | Sapho and Phao | Cadman | Dawson | Cadman | Chapel, Paul’s | Lyly. |
| 1584, Nov. 12 | 1585 | Fedele and Fortunio | Hacket | Hacket | Transl. | Anon. | |
| 1584 | Arraignment of Paris | H. Marsh | Chapel | Peele. | |||
| 1584 | Three Ladies of London | Ward | Wilson. | ||||
| [T. 1597, Apr. 12] | 1584 | Campaspe | [Cadman] | Cadman | Chapel, Paul’s | Lyly. | |
| 1585, Apr. 1 1591, Oct. 4 | 1592 | Galathea | Cawood J. Broome | Charlwood | J. Broome | Paul’s | Lyly. |
| 1587[8] | Misfortunes of Arthur | Robinson | Gray’s Inn | Hughes. | |||
| 1588 | Andria | East | Woodcock | Transl. | Kyffin. | ||
| 1589 | Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune | E. A. | E. White | Derby’s? | Anon. | ||
| 1590, July 31 | 1590 | Three Lords and Three Ladies of London | R. Jones | R. Jones | Queen’s? | Wilson. | |
| 1590, Aug. 14 | 1590 | 1, 2 Tamburlaine | R. Jones | R. Jones | Admiral’s | Marlowe. | |
| 1591, Feb. 9 | 1591 | Phillis and Amyntas | Ponsonby | T. Orwin | Ponsonby | Transl. | Fraunce. |
| 1591, July 26 | ‘Hunting of Cupid’ | R. Jones | Peele. | ||||
| 1591, Oct. 4 | 1591 | Endymion | J. Broome | Charlwood | J. Broome | Paul’s | Lyly. |
| 1591, Oct. 4 | 1592 | Midas | J. Broome | Scarlet | J. Broome | Paul’s | Lyly. |
| 1591 | Tancred and Gismund | Scarlet | Robinson (s) | Inner Temple | Wilmot. | ||
| 1591 | 1, 2 Troublesome Reign of King John | [T. Orwin] | Clarke | Queen’s | Anon. | ||
| 1592, Apr. 3 | 1592 | Arden of Feversham | E. White | E. White | Anon. | ||
| 1592, May 3 | 1592 | Antonius | Ponsonby | Ponsonby | Transl. | Herbert. | |
| 1592, Oct. 6 | N.D. | Spanish Tragedy | Jeffes | E. Allde | E. White | Strange’s? | Kyd. |
| 1592, Nov. 20 | N.D. | Soliman and Perseda | E. White | E. Allde | E. White | Anon. | |
| [Oxford] | 1592 | Ulysses Redux | Joseph Barnes | Univ. | Gager. | ||
| [Oxford] | 1592 | Meleager Panniculus Hippolyto assutus | Joseph Barnes | Univ. | Gager. | ||
| 1593, July 6 | 1594 | Edward II | W. Jones | W. Jones | Pembroke’s | Marlowe. | |
| 1593, Oct. 8 | 1593 | Edward I | Jeffes | Jeffes | Barley (s) | Peele. | |
| 1593, Oct. 19 | 1594 | Cleopatra | S. Waterson | Roberts and E. Allde | S. Waterson | Closet | Daniel. |
| 1593, Oct. 23 | 1593 | Jack Straw | Danter | Danter | Barley (s) | Anon. | |
| 1593, Dec. 7 | 1594 | Orlando Furioso | Danter | Danter | Burby | Queen’s Admiral’s Strange’s | Greene. |
| 1594, Jan. 7 | 1594 | Knack to Know a Knave | R. Jones | R. Jones | Strange’s | Anon. | |
| 1594, Jan. 26 | 1594 | Cornelia | Ling and Busby | Roberts | Ling and Busby | Transl. | Kyd. |
| 1594, Feb. 6 | 1594 | Titus Andronicus | Danter | Danter | E. White (s) and Millington (s) | Derby’s Pembroke’s Sussex’s | Shakespeare. |
| 1594, Mar. 5 | 1594 | Looking Glass for London and England | Creede | Creede | Barley (s) | Queen’s? Strange’s | Greene. |
| 1594, Mar. 12 | 1594 | 1 Contention of York and Lancaster | Millington | Creede | Millington | Pembroke’s? | Anon. |
| 1594, May 2 | 1594 | Taming of A Shrew | Short | Short | Burby (s) | Pembroke’s | Anon. |
| 1594, May 13 | 1595 | Pedlar’s Prophecy | Creede | Creede | Barley (s) | Anon. | |
| 1594, May 14 | 1598 | Famous Victories of Henry V | Creede | Creede | Queen’s | Anon. | |
| 1594, May 14 | 1598 | James IV | Creede | Creede | Queen’s? | Greene. | |
| 1594, May 14 | 1594 | Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay | Islip | E. White | Strange’s Sussex’s Queen’s | Greene. | |
| 1594, May 14 1605, May 8 | 1605 | King Leir | Islip Stafford | Stafford | J. Wright | Queen’s Sussex’s | Anon. |
| 1594, May 14 | ‘John of Gaunt’ | E. White | [App. M.] | ||||
| 1594, May 14 | 1599 | David and Bethsabe | Islip | Islip | Peele. | ||
| 1594, May 14 | ‘Robin Hood and Little John’ | Islip | [App. M.] | ||||
| 1594, May 17 1632, Nov. 20 | 1633 | Jew of Malta | Ling and Millington. Vavasour | I. B. | Vavasour | Strange’s Sussex’s Admiral’s | Marlowe. |
| 1594, May 24 | 1594 | Wounds of Civil War | Danter | Danter | Admiral’s | Lodge. | |
| 1594, June 8 | 1594 | Cobbler’s Prophecy | Burby | Danter | Burby | Wilson. | |
| 1594, June 10 | 1595 | Menaechmi | Creede | Creede | Barley (s) | Transl. | Warner. |
| 1594, June 18 | 1594 | Mother Bombie | Burby | Scarlet | Burby | Paul’s | Lyly. |
| 1594, June 19 | 1615 | Four Prentices of London | Danter | I. W. | Admiral’s Anne’s | Heywood. | |
| 1594, June 19 | ‘Heliogabilus’ | Danter | [App. M.] | ||||
| 1594, June 19 | 1594 | True Tragedy of Richard III | Creede | Creede | Barley (s) | Queen’s | Anon. |
| 1594, July 20 | 1595 | Locrine | Creede | Creede | Anon. | ||
| N.D. | Fair Em | T. N. and I. W. | Strange’s | Anon. | |||
| 1594 | Battle of Alcazar | E. Allde | Bankworth | Strange’s Admiral’s | Peele. | ||
| 1594 | Selimus | Creede | Queen’s | Anon. | |||
| 1594 | Wars of Cyrus | E. A. | Blackwall | Chapel | Anon. | ||
| [T. 1600, June 26?] | 1594 | Dido | [Lynley] | J. Orwin | Woodcock | Chapel | Marlowe. |
| 1595, Apr. 1 | 1599 | George a Greene | Burby | Stafford | Burby | Sussex’s | Anon. |
| 1595, Apr. 16 | 1595 | Old Wive’s Tale | Hancock | Danter | Hancock (s) and Hardy (s) | Queen’s | Peele. |
| 1595, May 10 | ‘Ninus and Semiramis’ | Hardy | [App. M.] | ||||
| 1595, May 23 1600, Mar. 31 | ‘Valentine and Orson’ | T. Gosson and Hancock. W. White | Queen’s | [App. M.] | |||
| 1595, Sept. 22 | 1597 | Woman in the Moon | Finch | W. Jones | Lyly. | ||
| 1595, Nov. 24 | ‘Rufus I’ | Blackwell | Admiral’s? | [App. M.] | |||
| 1595, Nov. 26 | 1596 | Knack to Know an Honest Man | Burby | Burby | Admiral’s | Anon. | |
| 1595, Dec. 1 | 1596 | Edward III | Burby | Burby | Chamberlain’s? | Anon. | |
| [T. 1602, Apr. 19] | 1595 | True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York | [Millington] | P. S. | Millington | Pembroke’s | Anon. |
| 1596, Jan. 20 | ‘1 Chinon of England’ [?] | Gosson and Danter | [App. M.] | ||||
| 1597, Apr. 21 | ‘Eunuchus’ | Linley | Transl. | Kyffyn | |||
| 1597, Aug. 29 | 1597 | Richard II | Wise | Simmes | Wise | Chamberlain’s | Shakespeare. |
| 1597, Oct. 20 | 1597 | Richard III | Wise | Simmes | Wise | Chamberlain’s | Shakespeare. |
| [T. 1607, Jan. 22] | 1597 | Romeo and Juliet | [Burby] | Danter | Hunsdon’s | Shakespeare. | |
| 1598, Feb. 25 | 1598 | 1 Henry IV | Wise | P. S. | Wise | Chamberlain’s | Shakespeare. |
| 1598, July 22 | 1600 | Merchant of Venice | Roberts | Roberts | Hayes | Chamberlain’s | Shakespeare. |
| 1598, Aug. 15 | 1598 | Blind Beggar of Alexandria | W. Jones | W. Jones | Admiral’s | Chapman. | |
| 1598, Oct. 5 | ‘Celestina’ | Aspley | [App. M.] | ||||
| 1598, Oct. 5 | 1598 | Virtuous Octavia | Ponsonby | Ponsonby | Closet | Brandon. | |
| [T. 1607, Jan. 22] | 1598 | Love’s Labour’s Lost | [Burby] | W. W. | Burby | Chamberlain’s | Shakespeare. |
| [T. 1618, Sept. 17] | 1598 | Mucedorus | [S. Jones] | W. Jones | Anon. | ||
| [Cambridge] | 1598 | Adelphi Andria Eunuchus Heautontimoroumenos Hecyra Phormio | Legatt | Transl. | Bernard. | ||
| 1599, Aug. 28 | 1600 | 1, 2 Edward IV | Oxenbridge and Busby | F. K. | H. Lownes and Oxenbridge | Derby’s | Anon. |
| 1599, Nov. 17 | 1599 | Warning for Fair Women | Aspley | Simmes | Aspley | Chamberlain’s | Anon. |
| 1599 | Humourous Day’s Mirth | Simmes | Admiral’s | Chapman. | |||
| 1599 | Two Angry Women of Abingdon | Hunt and Ferbrand | Admiral’s | Porter. | |||
| 1599 | Clyomon and Clamydes | Creede | Queen’s | Anon. | |||
| 1599 | Alphonsus | Creede | Greene. | ||||
| 1600, Feb. 20 | 1600 | Old Fortunatus | Aspley | S. S. | Aspley | Admiral’s | Dekker. |
| 1600, Mar. 28 | 1603 | Patient Grissell | Burby | Rocket | Admiral’s | Dekker. | |
| 1600, Apr. 8 | 1600 | Every Man Out of His Humour | Holme | Ling | Chamberlain’s | Jonson. | |
| 1600, May 27 | ‘Cloth Breeches and Velvet Hose’ | Roberts | Chamberlain’s | ||||
| 1600, May 29 | 1602 | A Larum for London | Roberts | Ferbrand | Chamberlain’s | Anon. | |
| 1600, July 24 | 1600 | Maid’s Metamorphosis | Oliffe | Creede | Oliffe | Paul’s | Anon. |
| 1600, July 24 | ‘Give a Man Luck, and Throw Him into the Sea’ | Oliffe | |||||
| [Stayed 1600, Aug. 4] | [1623] | As You Like It | Chamberlain’s | Shakespeare. | |||
| [Stayed 1600, Aug. 4] [T. 1600, Aug. 14] | 1600 | Henry V | [?] | Creede | Millington and Busby (sen.) | Chamberlain’s | Shakespeare. |
| [Stayed 1600, Aug. 4] 1600, Aug. 14 | 1601 | Every Man In His Humour | Burby and Burre | Burre | Chamberlain’s | Jonson. | |
| [Stayed 1600, Aug. 4] 1600, Aug. 23 | 1600 | Much Ado About Nothing | Wise and Aspley | V. S. | Wise and Aspley | Chamberlain’s | Shakespeare. |
| 1600, Aug. 11 | 1600 | 1 Sir John Oldcastle ‘2 Sir John Oldcastle’ | Pavier Pavier | V. S. | Pavier | Admiral’s | Drayton. |
| 1600, Aug. 11 | 1605 | Captain Thomas Stukeley | Pavier | Pavier | Admiral’s? | Anon. | |
| 1600, Aug. 14 | ‘Tartarian Cripple, Emperor of Constantinople’ | Burby | [App. M.] | ||||
| 1600, Aug. 23 | 1600 | 2 Henry IV | Wise and Aspley | V. S. | Wise and Aspley | Chamberlain’s | Shakespeare. |
| 1600, Sept. 8 | 1601 | Jack Drum’s Entertainment | F. Norton | Oliffe | Paul’s | Anon. | |
| 1600, Oct. 7 | 1600 | Wisdom of Dr. Dodipoll | Oliffe | Creede | Oliffe | Paul’s | Anon. |
| 1600, Oct. 8 | 1600 | Midsummer Night’s Dream | Fisher | Fisher | Chamberlain’s | Shakespeare. | |
| 1600, Oct. 23 | 1600 | Weakest Goeth to the Wall | Oliffe | Creede | Oliffe | Oxford’s | Anon. |
| 1600, Oct. 28 | 1600 | Summer’s Last Will and Testament | Burby and Burre | Stafford | Burre | Private | Nashe. |
| 1600, Nov. 25 | 1601 | Love’s Metamorphosis | Wood | Wood | Paul’s, Chapel | Lyly. | |
| 1600, Dec. 1 | 1601 | 1, 2 Robert Earl of Huntingdon | Leake | Leake | Admiral’s | Munday. | |
| 1600 | Look About You | Ferbrand | Admiral’s | Anon. | |||
| [T. 1610, Apr. 19] | 1600 | Shoemaker’s Holiday | [Simmes] | Simmes | Admiral’s | Dekker. | |
| 1601, Jan. 7 | 1604 | Dr. Faustus | Bushell | V. S. | Bushell | Admiral’s | Marlowe. |
| 1601, Mar. 1 | ‘God Speed the Plough’ | John Harrison | [App. M.] | ||||
| 1601, May 23 | 1601 | Cynthia’s Revels | Burre | Burre | Chapel | Jonson. | |
| 1601, July 3 | ‘George Scanderbarge’ | E. Allde | Oxford’s | [App. M.] | |||
| 1601, Aug. 3 | 1616 | Englishmen for my Money | W. White | W. White | Admiral’s | Haughton. | |
| 1601, Sept. 16 | 1602 | Pastor Fido | S. Waterson | S. Waterson | Transl. | Anon. | |
| 1601, Oct. 24 | 1602 | 1, 2 Antonio and Mellida | M. Lownes and Fisher | M. Lownes and Fisher. Fisher | Paul’s | Marston. | |
| 1601, Nov. 11 | 1602 | Satiromastix | John Barnes | E. White | Chamberlain’s Paul’s | Dekker. | |
| 1601, Dec. 21 | 1602 | Poetaster | M. Lownes | M. Lownes | Chapel | Jonson. | |
| 1601 | Two Lamentable Tragedies | Lawe | Admiral’s? | Yarington. | |||
| 1602, Jan. 18 | 1602 | Merry Wives of Windsor | Busby (sen.) | T. C. | A. Johnson | Chamberlain’s | Shakespeare. |
| 1602, June 7 | 1602 | Blurt Master Constable | E. Allde | Rocket | Paul’s | Middleton. | |
| 1602, July 26 | 1603 | Hamlet | Roberts | [Simmes] | Ling and Trundle | King’s | Shakespeare. |
| 1602, Aug. 11 | 1602 | Thomas Lord Cromwell | Cotton | W. Jones | Chamberlain’s | Anon. | |
| 1602 | Liberality and Prodigality | Stafford | Vincent | Chapel? | Anon. | ||
| 1602 | How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad | Lawe | Worcester’s | Anon. | |||
| [Edinburgh] | 1602 | Satire of the Three Estaitis | Charteris | [Lindsay.] | |||
| 1603, Feb. 7 1609, Jan. 28 | 1609 | Troilus and Cressida | Roberts. Bonian and Walley | Eld | Bonian and Walley | King’s | Shakespeare. |
| 1603, Feb. 23 | [t.p. impf.] | Nero | Blount | Blount | Univ. | Gwynne. | |
| [Edinburgh] | 1603 | Darius | Waldegrave | Closet | Alexander. | ||
| [Edinburgh] | 1603 | Philotus | Charteris | Anon. | |||
| N.D. | Massacre at Paris | E. A. | E. White | Strange’s Admiral’s | Marlowe. | ||
| 1604, Apr. 30 | 1604 1607 1607 | Croesus Alexandraean Julius Caesar | Blount | Simmes | Blount | Closet | Alexander. |
| 1604, July 5 | 1604 | Malcontent | Aspley and Thorpe | V. S. | Aspley | Revels, King’s | Marston. |
| 1604, Nov. 2 | 1605 | Sejanus | Blount | Eld | Thorpe | King’s | Jonson. |
| 1604, Nov. 9 | 1604 | 1 Honest Whore | T. Man (jun.) | V. S. | Hodgets | Henry’s | Dekker. |
| 1604, Nov. 29 | 1605 | Philotas | S. Waterson and Blount | Eld | S. Waterson and Blount | Revels | Daniel. |
| 1604, Dec. 4 | 1605 | Trial of Chivalry | Butter | Stafford | Butter | Derby’s | Anon. |
| 1604 | Wit of a Woman | E. White | Anon. | ||||
| 1605, Feb. 8 | ‘Richard Whittington’ | Pavier | Henry’s | [App. M.] | |||
| 1605, Feb. 8 | 1605 | Fair Maid of Bristow | Pavier | Pavier | King’s | Anon. | |
| 1605, Feb. 12 | 1605 | When You See Me, You Know Me | Butter | Butter | Henry’s | S. Rowley. | |
| 1605, Mar. 2 | 1607 | Westward Ho | Rocket | Hodgets (s) | Paul’s | Dekker. | |
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| 1605, June 26 | 1605 | Dutch Courtesan | Hodgets | T. P. | Hodgets | Revels | Marston. |
| 1605, July 5 | 1605 | 1 If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody | Butter | Butter | Anne’s? | Heywood. | |
| 1605, Sept. 4 | 1605 | Eastward Ho | Aspley and Thorpe | Aspley | Revels | Chapman. | |
| 1605, Sept. 14 | 1606 | 2 If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody | Butter | Butter | Anne’s? | Heywood. | |
| 1605, Oct. 16 | 1606 | 3 Parnassus | J. Wright | Eld | J. Wright | Univ. | Anon. |
| 1605, Nov. 26 | 1606 | Queen’s Arcadia | S. Waterson | Eld | S. Waterson | Univ. | Daniel. |
| 1605, Nov. 26 | 1606 | Gentleman Usher | Simmes | Simmes | Thorpe | Chapel? | Chapman. |
| 1605 | All Fools | Thorpe | Revels | Chapman. | |||
| 1605 | London Prodigal | T. C. | Butter | King’s | Anon. | ||
| 1605 | 1 Jeronimo | Pavier | Chamberlain’s? | Anon. | |||
| 1606, Jan. 10 | 1606 | Sir Giles Goosecap | Blount | Windet | Blount | Chapel | Anon. |
| 1606, Mar. 12 | N.D. | Nobody and Somebody | Trundle | Trundle | Anne’s | Anon. | |
| 1606, Mar. 12 | 1606 | Fawn | Cotton | T. P. | Cotton | Revels, Paul’s | Marston. |
| 1606, Mar. 17 | 1606 | Sophonisba | Edgar | Windet | Revels | Marston. | |
| 1606, May 13 | 1607 | Fleir | Trundle and Busby | F. B. | F. B. (s) | Revels | Sharpham. |
| 1606, June 5 | N.D. | Caesar’s Revenge | J. Wright and Fosbrooke | G. E. | J. Wright | Univ. | Anon. |
| 1606, Nov. 12 | 1606 | Wily Beguiled | C. Knight | H. L. | C. Knight | Paul’s? | Anon. |
| 1606 | M. D’Olive | T. C. | Holmes | Revels | Chapman. | ||
| 1606 | Isle of Gulls | Hodgets (s) | Revels | Day. | |||
| 1607, Feb. 23 | 1607 | Lingua | S. Waterson | Eld | S. Waterson | Univ.? | Tomkis. |
| 1607, Apr. 10 | 1607 | Claudius Tiberius Nero | Burton | Burton | Univ.? | Anon. | |
| 1607, Apr. 20 | 1607 | Whore of Babylon | Butter and Trundle | Butter | Henry’s | Dekker. | |
| 1607, Apr. 24 | 1607 | Fair Maid of the Exchange | Rocket | Rocket | Anon. | ||
| 1607, May 9 | 1607 | Phoenix | Johnson | E. A. | Johnson | Paul’s | Middleton. |
| 1607, May 15 | 1607 | Michaelmas Term | Johnson | Johnson | Paul’s | Middleton. | |
| 1607, May 20 | 1607 | Woman Hater | Edgar and R. Jackson | R. R. | Hodgets (s) | Paul’s | Beaumont. |
| 1607, June 3 | 1607 | Bussy D’Ambois | Aspley | Aspley | Paul’s | Chapman. | |
| 1607, June 29 | 1607 | Cupid’s Whirligig | Busby and Johnson | E. Allde | Johnson (s) | King’s Revels | Sharpham. |
| 1607, June 29 | 1607 | Travels of the Three English Brothers | J. Wright | J. Wright | Anne’s | Day. | |
| 1607, July 31 | 1607 | Miseries of Enforced Marriage | Vincent | Vincent | King’s | Wilkins. | |
| 1607, Aug. 6 | 1607 | Puritan | Eld | Eld | Paul’s | Anon. | |
| 1607, Aug. 6 | 1607 | Northward Ho | Eld | Eld | Paul’s | Dekker. | |
| 1607, Aug. 6 | 1607 | What You Will | Thorpe | Eld | Thorpe | Paul’s? | Marston. |
| 1607, Oct. 7 | 1607 | Revenger’s Tragedy | Eld | Eld | King’s | Anon. | |
| 1607, Oct. 7 | 1608 | Trick to Catch the Old One | Eld | Eld | Paul’s | Middleton. | |
| 1607, Oct. 12 | 1608 | Family of Love | Browne and Helme | Helme | King’s Revels | Middleton. | |
| 1607, Oct. 14 | ‘Jesuits Comedy’ | E. Allde and Johnson | [App. M.] | ||||
| 1607, Oct. 16 | 1607 | Devil’s Charter | J. Wright | G. E. | J. Wright | King’s | Barnes. |
| 1607, Oct. 22 | 1608 | Merry Devil of Edmonton | Johnson | Ballard | Johnson | King’s | Anon. |
| 1607, Nov. 26 | 1608 | King Lear | Butter and Busby (sen.) | [Okes] | Butter | King’s | Shakespeare. |
| [T. 1610, Oct. 3] | 1607 | Volpone | [Thorpe] | Thorpe | King’s | Jonson. | |
| 1607 | Woman Killed with Kindness | W. Jaggard | Hodgets (s) | Anne’s | Heywood. | ||
| 1607 | Sir Thomas Wyatt | E. A. | T. Archer | Anne’s | Dekker. | ||
| 1607 | Vertumnus | Okes | Blount | Univ. | Gwynne. | ||
| 1608, Mar. 22 | N.D. | Your Five Gallants | Bonian | Bonian | Revels | Middleton. | |
| 1608, Mar. 26 | ‘Adams Tragedy’ | W. White | [App. M.] | ||||
| 1608, Mar. 28 | 1608 | Law Tricks | Moore | Moore | Revels | Day. | |
| 1608, Apr. 12 | 1608 | Humour out of Breath | Helme | Helme | King’s Revels | Day. | |
| 1608, Apr. 29 1630, June 29 | 1630 | 2 Honest Whore | T. Man (jun.) Butter | Eliz. Allde | Butter | Henry’s | Dekker. |
| 1608, May 2 | 1608 | Yorkshire Tragedy | Pavier | R. B. | Pavier | King’s | Anon. |
| 1608, May 20 | 1609 | Pericles | Blount | H. Gosson | King’s | Shakespeare. | |
| 1608, May 20 1623, Nov. 8 | 1623 | Antony and Cleopatra | Blount. Blount and I. Jaggard | W. Jaggard | W. Jaggard and Blount and Smethwick and Aspley | King’s | Shakespeare. |
| 1608, June 3 | 1608 | Rape of Lucrece | Busby and Butter | Busby | Anne’s | Heywood. | |
| 1608, June 5 | 1608 | Conspiracy and Tragedy of Byron | Thorpe | Eld | Thorpe | Revels | Chapman. |
| 1608, Oct. 4 | 1608 | A Mad World, my Masters | Burre and Edgar | H. B. | Burre | Paul’s | Middleton. |
| 1608, Oct. 6 | 1608 | Dumb Knight | Bache | Okes | Bache | King’s Revels | Markham. |
| 1608, Nov. 25 | 1609 | Mustapha | Butter | Butter | Closet | Greville. | |
| 1609 Jan. 26 1609 July 20 | 1609 | The Case is Altered | H. Walley and Bonian and B. Sutton | B. Sutton | Revels | Jonson. | |
| 1609, Jan. 27 | ‘Bonos Nochios’ | Charlton | [App. M.] | ||||
| 1609, Jan. 27 | ‘Craft upon Subtlety’s Back’ | Charlton | [App. M.] | ||||
| 1609, Mar. 10 | 1610 | Turk | Busby (jun.) | E. A. | Busby (jun.) | King’s Revels | Mason. |
| 1609 | Every Woman in Her Humour | E. A. | Archer | King’s Revels? | Anon. | ||
| 1609 | Two Maids of Moreclack | N. O. | Archer | King’s Revels | Armin. | ||
| N.D. | Faithful Shepherdess | Bonian and H. Walley | Revels? | Beaumont. | |||
| 1610, Sept. 20 | 1612? 1620 | Epicoene | Browne and Busby (jun.) | Stansby | Browne (s) | Revels | Jonson. |
| 1610, Oct. 3 | 1612 | Alchemist | Burre | Snodham | Burre Stepney (s) | King’s | Jonson. |
| 1610, Oct. 31 | 1610 | Histriomastix | Thorpe | Thorpe | Paul’s? | Anon. | |
| 1610, Nov. 9 | 1611 | Ram Alley | Wilson | Eld | Wilson | King’s Revels | Barry. |
| 1611, Sept. 14 | 1611 | Atheist’s Tragedy | Stepney | Stepney and Redmer | Tourneur. | ||
| 1611, Oct. 14 | 1611 | Golden Age | Barrenger | Barrenger | Anne’s | Heywood. | |
| 1611, Nov. 23 | 1612 | Woman a Weathercock | Budge | Budge | Revels | Field. | |
| [T. 1635, July 4] | 1611 | Catiline | [Burre] | Burre | King’s | Jonson. | |
| 1611 | May Day | Browne | Revels | Chapman. | |||
| 1611 | Roaring Girl | Archer | Henry’s | Dekker. | |||
| 1612, Feb. 1 | 1612 | Christian Turned Turk | Barrenger | Barrenger | Daborne. | ||
| 1612, Feb. 15 1653, Sept. 9 | ‘Nobleman’ | Blount Moseley | King’s | Tourneur. | |||
| 1612, Feb. 15 | ‘Twins’ Tragedy’ | Blount | King’s | Niccols. | |||
| 1612, Apr. 17 | 1612 | Widow’s Tears | Browne | Browne | Revels | Chapman. | |
| 1612, Apr. 17 | 1613 | Revenge of Bussy | Browne | T. S. | Helme (s) | Revels | Chapman. |
| 1612, Dec. 17 | 1613 | Mariam | Hawkins | Creed | Hawkins | Closet | Carey. |
| 1612 | White Devil | N. O. | Archer | Anne’s | Webster. | ||
| 1612 | If It Be not Good, the Devil is in It | I.T. Marchant (s) | Anne’s | Dekker. | |||
| 1613 | Silver Age | Okes | Lightfoot (s) | Anne’s | Heywood. | ||
| 1613 | Brazen Age | Okes | Rand | Anne’s? | Heywood. | ||
| 1613 | Cynthia’s Revenge | R. Barnes | Stephens. | ||||
| 1613 | Insatiate Countess | T. S. | Archer | Revels | Marston. | ||
| 1613 | Knight of the Burning Pestle | Burre | Revels | Beaumont. | |||
| 1614, May 23 | 1614 | Hog Hath Lost his Pearl | Redmer | Redmer | Prentices | Tailor. | |
| 1614 | Greene’s Tu Quoque | Trundle | Anne’s | Cooke. | |||
| 1615, Jan. 13 | 1615 | Hymen’s Triumph | Constable | Constable | Somerset House | Daniel. | |
| 1615, Feb. 10 | 1615 | Ruff, Cuff, and Band | Partrich | Stansby | Partrich | Univ. | Anon. |
| 1615, Feb. 21 | 1615 | Valiant Welshman | R. Lownes | Purslowe | R. Lownes | Charles’s | Anon. |
| [Cambridge] | 1615, Mar. 27 | Melanthe | Legge | Univ. | Brooke. | ||
| 1615, Apr. 18 1630, July 20 | 1630 | Ignoramus | Burre Edmondson and Spencer | T. P. | I. S. | Univ. | Ruggle. |
| 1615, Apr. 24 | 1615 | Hector of Germany | Jos. Harrison | Creede | Jos. Harrison | Prentices | Smith. |
| 1615, Apr. 24 | 1615 | Cupid’s Revenge | Jos. Harrison | Creede | Jos. Harrison | Revels | Beaumont. |
| 1615, Apr. 28 | 1615 | Albumazar | Okes | Okes | Burre | Univ. | Tomkis. |
| 1615, July 4 | 1615 | Work for Cutlers | Meighen | Creede | Meighen and T. Jones | Univ. | Anon. |
| 1615, Aug. 14 | 1616 | Honest Lawyer | Redmer | Purslowe | Woodroffe | Anne’s | Anon. |
| 1616, Mar. 19 | 1616 | Scornful Lady | Partrich | Partrich | Revels | Beaumont. | |
| 1618, Aug. 7 | 1619 | A King and No King | Blount | Walkley | King’s | Beaumont. | |
| 1618 | Amends for Ladies | Eld | Walbancke | Charles’s Elizabeth’s | Field. | ||
| 1619, Apr. 28 | 1619 | Maid’s Tragedy | Higgenbotham and Constable | Constable | King’s | Beaumont. | |
| 1620, Jan. 10 | 1620 | Philaster | Walkley | Walkley | King’s | Beaumont. | |
| 1621, Oct. 6 | 1622 | Othello | Walkley | N. O. | Walkley | King’s | Shakespeare. |
| 1621, Dec. 7 | 1622 | Virgin Martyr | T. Jones | B. A. | T. Jones | Dekker. | |
| 1621 | Thierry and Theodoret | Walkley | King’s | Beaumont. | |||
| 1623, Nov. 8 | 1623 | Tempest Two Gentlemen of Verona Measure for Measure Comedy of Errors [As You Like It] All’s Well that Ends Well Twelfth Night Winter’s Tale I Henry VI Henry VIII Coriolanus Timon of Athens Julius Caesar Macbeth [Anthony and Cleopatra] Cymbeline | Blount and I. Jaggard | [W. Jaggard] at charges of W. Jaggard and Blount and Smethwick and Aspley | I. Jaggard and Blount | King’s | Shakespeare. |
| 1623 | Duchess of Malfi | Okes | J. Waterson | King’s | Webster. | ||
| 1628, Jan. 9 | 1632 | [Six Court Comedies] | Blount | Stansby | Blount | Lyly. | |
| 1630, Feb. 26 | 1631 | Hoffman | J. Grove | I. N. | Perry | Henry’s? | Chettle. |
| 1630, Apr. 8 | 1630 | Chaste Maid in Cheapside | Constable | Constable | Elizabeth’s | Middleton. | |
| 1630, Nov. 8 | 1631 | Match Me in London | Seile | Alsop and Fawcet | Seile | Dekker. | |
| 1631, Feb. 9 | 1631 | Pedantius | Milborne | W. S. | Milborne | Univ. | [App. K.] |
| 1631, Apr. 25 | 1631 | Sicelides | Sheares | I. N. | Sheares | Univ. | P. Fletcher. |
| 1631, May 16 1633, Dec. 9 | 1634 | Noble Soldier | Jackman Vavasour | Vavasour | Dekker. | ||
| 1631, May 16 1636, Feb. 24 | 1636 | Wonder of a Kingdom | Jackman Vavasour | Raworth | Vavasour | Dekker. | |
| 1631, May 18 | 1631 | Caesar and Pompey | Harper | Harper | Edmonson (s) Alchorne (s) | Chapman. | |
| 1631, Nov. 24 | 1632 | A New Wonder | Constable | G. P. | Constable | Anne’s? | W. Rowley. |
| 1631 | Bartholomew Fair | I. B. | Allott | Elizabeth’s | Jonson. | ||
| 1631 | The Devil is an Ass | I. B. | Allott | King’s | Jonson. | ||
| 1632, May 9 | 1632 | Roxana | Crooke | Badger | Crooke | Univ. | Alabaster. |
| 1632, Nov. 10 | 1633 | Alaham | Seile | E. P. | Seile | Closet | Greville. |
| 1632 | 1, 2 Iron Age | Okes | Anne’s? | Heywood. | |||
| 1633, Jan.15 | 1633 | Match at Midnight | Sheares | Mathewes | Sheares | W. Rowley. | |
| 1634, Apr. 8 | 1634 | Two Noble Kinsmen | J. Waterson | Cotes | J. Waterson | King’s | Beaumont. |
| 1634, Apr. 17 | 1635 | Bellum Grammaticale | Spencer | B. A. and Fawcet | Spencer | Univ. | [App. K.] |
| 1635, July 17 | 1636 | Labyrinthus | Robinson | Univ. | Hawkesworth. | ||
| 1635, Aug. 29 | 1637 | Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas | Hearne | R. O. | Hearne Slater (s) | Closet | Heywood. |
| 1637, Mar. 25 | 1637 | Royal King and Loyal Subject | Becket | N. and J. Okes | Becket | Henrietta’s | Heywood. |
| 1637, Nov. 28 | 1638 | A Shoemaker a Gentleman | J. Okes | J. Okes | Cooper (s) | Anne’s? | W. Rowley. |
| 1638, Mar. 12 | 1638 | Wise Woman of Hogsdon | Shephard | M. P. | Shephard | Anne’s? | Heywood. |
| 1638, Oct. 24 | 1639 | Chabot Admiral of France | Crooke and Cooke | Cotes | Crooke and Cooke | Henrietta’s | Chapman. |
| 1639, Jan. 22 | 1639 | Monsieur Thomas | J. Waterson | Harper | J. Waterson | King’s | Beaumont. |
| 1639, Apr. 25 | 1639 | Wit Without Money | Crooke and Cooke | Cotes | Crooke and Cooke | Henrietta’s | Beaumont. |
| 1639, Apr. 25 | 1640 | Nightwalker | Crooke and Cooke | Cotes | Crooke and Cooke | Henrietta’s | Beaumont. |
| 1641, Mar. 23 | 1641 | Parliament of Bees | Ley | Ley | Closet | Day. | |
| 1646, Sept. 4 1661, Feb. 13 | 1661 | Mayor of Quinborough | Robinson and Moseley. Herringham | Herringham | King’s | Middleton. | |
| 1646, Sept. 4 | 1647 | Captain Coxcomb Bonduca Woman’s Prize Love’s Cure Honest Man’s Fortune Valentinian | Robinson and Moseley | Robinson and Moseley | King’s Revels King’s King’s? King’s? Elizabeth’s King’s | Beaumont. | |
| 1660, June 29 | 1647 | Wit at Several Weapons Four Plays in One | Robinson and Moseley | Robinson and Moseley | Beaumont. | ||
| 1652, Apr. 12 | 1652 | Widow | Moseley | Moseley | King’s | Middleton. | |
| 1653, Sept. 9 | 1654 | Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany | Moseley | Moseley | King’s | Anon. | |
| 1653, Sept. 9 | 1657 [1824–5] | ‘Jew of Venice’ ‘History of Cardennio’ No Wit, no Help, like a Woman’s Second Maiden’s Tragedy ‘Henry ye first’ ‘Hen. ye 2d’ ‘Knave in Print’ | Moseley | Moseley | King’s Charles’s | Dekker. Shakespeare. Middleton. Anon. Shakespeare. Shakespeare. W. Rowley. | |
| 1654, Apr. 8 | ‘Maidens Holiday’ | Moseley | Marlowe. | ||||
| 1654, May 13 | 1654 | Appius and Virginia | Marriott | [No imprint] | Anne’s? | Webster. | |
| 1655, June 20 | 1655 | Fortune by Land and Sea | Sweeting | Pollard and Sweeting | Henrietta’s | Heywood. | |
| 1655, June 20 | 1655 | Lovesick King | Sweeting | Pollard and Sweeting | Provincial? | Brewer. | |
| 1655, June 20 | 1655 | Poor Man’s Comfort | Sweeting | Pollard and Sweeting | Daborne. | ||
| 1656 | Old Law | E. Archer | Middleton. | ||||
| 1656 | Sun’s Darling | Bell | Penneycuicke | Dekker. | |||
| 1657, Sept. 14 | 1659 | Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green | F. Grove | Pollard and Dring | Admiral’s | Day. | |
| 1657 | Lust’s Dominion | F. K. Pollard (s) | Marlowe. | ||||
| 1658, May 21 | 1658 | Witch of Edmonton | Blackmore | Cottrel | Blackmore | Dekker. | |
| 1660, June 29 | [1812] | Faithful Friends ‘History of Madon King of Britain’ ‘Philenzo & Hypollita’ ‘Antonio & Vallia’ ‘History of King Stephen’ ‘Duke Humphrey’ ‘Iphis & Iantha’ ‘An Ill Beginning has a Good End’ ‘London Merchant’ ‘Gustavus, King of Swethland’ ‘Tale of Joconda and Astolso’ | Moseley | King’s | Beaumont. Beaumont. Dekker. Dekker. Shakespeare. Shakespeare. Shakespeare. Ford. Ford. Dekker. Dekker. | ||
| 1661 | Thracian Wonder | T. Johnson | Kirkman (s) | Anon. | |||
| 1662 | Birth of Merlin | T. Johnson | Kirkman and H. Marsh | W. Rowley. | |||
| 1662 | Grim the Collier of Croydon | R. D. | Anon. |
APPENDIX M
LOST PLAYS
[Bibliographical Note.—As unknown prints have turned up in the sale of an Irish collection (1907) and the Mostyn sale (1919), and others may yet turn up from time to time, I give a list of plays as to the existence or preparation for publication of which there is some evidence. These are mainly taken either from the Stationers’ Register or from the publishers’ advertisement lists (Rogers and Ley’s in 1656, Archer’s in 1656, Kirkman’s in 1661 and 1671), analysed by W. W. Greg in an appendix to his Masques (1902). One is included in Sir John Harington’s catalogue of his library of plays apparently compiled in 1610 (cf. ch. xxii). Probably some of the registered titles, in which the description ‘play’ or ‘interlude’ is not used, do not relate to plays at all. I might have added a few more of this type from A. Esdaile, List of English Tales and Romances (1912, Bibl. Soc.), xxxiii. And it must be borne in mind that registration is not proof of publication. In particular, it is pretty clear that the two long series of entries by Humphrey Moseley on 9 Sept. 1653 and 29 June 1660, from which I have taken those conceivably relating to pre-1616 work, represent unaccomplished enterprises. They are fully discussed in W. W. Greg, The Bakings of Betsy (1911, 3 Library, ii. 225), together with John Warburton’s (ob. 1759) list in Lansd. MS. 807, f. 1, of plays which he claims to have possessed in MS., until ‘through my own carelesness and the ignorance of my ser[vant] in whose hands I had lodgd them they was unluckely burnd or put under Pye bottoms’. As this list is evidently in some way related to Moseley’s entries, I have, for the sake of completeness, cited a few titles which it adds.]
A Bad Beginning Makes a Good Ending.
By Ford (q.v.).
Adam’s Tragedy.
S. R. 1608, March 26 (Pasfield). ‘A book called Adams tragedie.’ W. White (Arber, iii. 372).
This is not likely to have been a play.
Antonio and Vallia.
By Massinger (q.v.).
Baggs Seneca.
See ch. xxiii (Seneca).
Bartholomew Fairing.
Comedy in Archer’s list as well as Jonson’s B. Fair.
Battle of Affliction.
Tragedy in Archer’s list.
Belinus.
Brennus.
Sir John Harington’s catalogue of his plays in 1610 (7 N. Q. ix. 382) includes ‘Belynus, Brennus’. This might represent either two plays or one.
Bonos Nochios.
S. R. 1609, Jan. 27 (Segar). ‘An enterlude called Bonos Nochios.’ Charlton (Arber, iii. 400).
Cardenio.
Ascribed to Shakespeare (q.v.) and Fletcher.
Celestina.
S. R. 1598, Oct. 5. ‘A booke intituled The tragicke Comedye of Celestina, wherein are discoursed in most pleasant stile manye Philosophicall sentences and advertisementes verye necessarye for younge gentlemen Discoveringe the sleightes of treacherous servantes and the subtile cariages of filthye bawdes.’ William Aspley (Arber, iii. 127).
This was doubtless, like the earlier Calisto and Meliboea (Mediaeval Stage, ii. 455) and James Mabbe’s The Spanish Bawd (1631), a version of the Spanish Celestina (1499) of Fernando de Rojas, but it can hardly have been Mabbe’s, which was entered in S. R. on 27 Feb. 1630, while Mabbe, although born in 1572, is first heard of as a writer in 1611, and appears to have turned his attention to things Spanish as a result of a visit to Spain in that year.
1 Chinon of England.
S. R. 1596, Jan. 20. ‘The ffirste parte of the famous historye of Chinan of England.’ T. Gosson and Danter (Arber, iii. 57).
The Admiral’s produced ‘Chinone of Ingland’ as a new play on 3 Jan. 1596. Greg, ii. 178, is probably right in relating the S. R. entry to Christopher Middleton’s romance, The Famous Historie of Chinon of England, printed by Danter for Cuthbert Burby in 1597. But ‘Chinon of England’ is in Rogers and Ley’s list.
Cleopatra.
An unascribed ‘Cleopatra’, in addition to the plays of Daniel (q.v.) and May, is in Rogers and Ley’s list.
Cloth Breeches and Velvet Hose.
S. R. 1600, May 27. ‘A morall of Clothe breches and veluet hose, As yt is acted by my lord Chamberlens servantes.’ Roberts (Arber, iii. 161).
This is one of the plays stayed by a note in the Register on the same day (cf. ch. xxii).
College of Canonical Clerks.
S. R. 1566–7. ‘An interlude named the Colledge of canonycall clerkes.’ John Charlewod (Arber, i. 335).
Craft Upon Subtlety’s Back.
S. R. 1609, Jan. 27 (Segar). ‘An enterlude called, Crafte vppon Subtiltyes backe.’ Charlton (Arber, iii. 400).
Crafty Cromwell.
A tragi-comedy in Kirkman’s list of 1661. Greg, Masques, lx, thinks it may be a duplicate entry of Cromwell’s Conspiracy (1660).
Destruction of Jerusalem.
By Legge (q.v.).
Duke Humphrey.
Ascribed to Shakespeare (q.v.).
English Arcadia.
A comedy in Archer’s list, but probably, as suggested by Greg, Masques, lxv, an error for Gervase Markham’s romance (1607, 1613) of that name.
Eunuchus.
By Kyffyn (q.v.)?
Faithful Friends.
Ascribed to Beaumont (q.v.) and Fletcher.
Far Fetched and Dear Bought is Good for Ladies.
S. R. 1566–7. ‘A playe intituled farre fetched and deare bowght ys good for lades.’ Thomas Hackett (Arber, i. 331).
Fatal Love.
Ascribed to Chapman (q.v.).
Fortune.
S. R. 1566–7. ‘A playe of Fortune to know eche one hyr conditions and gentle manours aswell of Women as of men &c.’ Thomas Purfoote (Arber, i. 332).
Collier, Stationers’ Registers, i. 155, suggested that this was a ‘lottery, or game’, not an interlude, and this receives support from a transfer of his father’s copies to Purfoot’s son on 6 Nov. 1615 (Arber, iii. 576), which includes ‘The little booke of Fortune with pictures’.
George Scanderbeg.
S. R. 1601, July 3. ‘The true historye of George Scanderbarge as yt was lately playd by the right honorable the Earle of Oxenforde his servantes.’ E. Allde (Arber, iii. 187).
There seems no adequate reason for ascribing this to Marlowe (q.v.) or Nashe.
Give a Man Luck and Throw him into the Sea.
S. R. 1600, July 24. ‘Two plaies or thinges ... the other gyve a man luck and throw him into the sea.’ Oliffe (Arber, iii. 168).
Godfrey of Bulloigne.
See Heywood, Four Prentices of London.
God Speed the Plough.
S. R. 1601, March 1. ‘A booke called God spede the ploughe.’ Harrison (Arber, iii. 180).
This is not necessarily the play acted by Sussex’s men for Henslowe in Dec. 1593 (ch. xiii), or indeed a play at all.
Guise.
Entered in Rogers and Ley’s list as by Marston (q.v.), in Archer’s as a comedy by Webster (q.v.), and in Kirkman’s of 1661 and 1671 without ascription; that of 1671 calls it a tragedy.
Gustavus, King of Swethland.
Ascribed to Dekker (q.v.).
Heliogabalus.
S. R. 1594, June 19. ‘An ... enterlude of the lyfe and deathe of Heliogabilus.’ Danter (Arber, ii. 654).
Can this be the play on ‘the mad priest of the Sun’ apparently referred to by Greene (q.v.) in Perimides (1588)?
Hemidos and Thelay.
S. R. 1569–70. ‘A boke intituled the Rufful tragedy of Hemidos and Thelay by Rychard Robynson.’ Henry Bynneman (Arber, i. 411).
Probably not a play.
Henry I.
Henry II.
Both ascribed to Shakespeare (q.v.).
Hunting of Cupid.
By Peele (q.v.).
Impatient Grissell.
A comedy in Archer’s list.
Iphis and Iantha.
Ascribed to Shakespeare (q.v.).
The Jesuits’ Comedy.
S. R. 1607, Oct. 14 (Jackson). ‘A book called the Jesuytes Commedie. Acted at Lyons in Fraunce the 7 and 8 of August 1607.’ Allde and Johnson (Arber, iii. 361).
Probably only a narrative of this famous performance; cf. ch. x.
The Jew of Venice.
Ascribed to Dekker (q.v.).
Job.
Ascribed to Greene (q.v.).
Joconda and Astolso.
Ascribed to Dekker (q.v.).
John of Gaunt.
S. R. 1594, May 14. ‘A booke entituled the famous historye of John of Gaunte sonne to Kinge Edward the Third with his Conquest of Spaine and marriage of his Twoo daughters to the Kinges of Castile and Portugale &c.’ E. White (Arber, ii. 649).
Probably not a play but the chap-book source of that begun by Hathway (q.v.) and Rankins for the Admiral’s in 1601 (cf. Greg, Henslowe, ii. 216). Arber, v. 176, however, describes it as a play printed for White by Islip.
Joseph’s Afflictions.
An interlude in the lists of Archer and Kirkman.
A Knave in Print.
By W. Rowley (q.v.).
The London Merchant.
By Ford (q.v.).
Madon, King of Britain.
Ascribed to Beaumont (q.v.).
The Maiden’s Holiday.
Ascribed to Marlowe (q.v.) and Day.
Manhood and Misrule (?).
In Rogers and Ley’s list; presumably identical with the comedy of Manhood and Wisdom in those of Archer and Kirkman.
The Second Maiden’s Tragedy.
Extant in MS. (cf. ch. xxiv).
Marriage of Wit and Wisdom.
By Merbury (q.v.); extant in MS.
Mother Rumming.
A comedy in Archer’s list. Greg, Masques, xc, suggests an error for T. Thompson’s late Mother Shipton, which Archer omits. Elinor Rumming, however, might well have made a play-theme.
The Netherlands.
In Rogers and Ley’s list.
Niniveh’s Repentance.
An interlude in Rogers and Ley’s and Archer’s lists.
Ninus and Semiramis.
S. R. 1595, May 10. ‘The tragedie of Ninus and Semiramis, the first Monarchs of the world.’ Hardy (Arber, ii. 297).
The Nobleman.
By Tourneur (q.v.).
2 Sir John Oldcastle.
By Drayton (q.v.).
Ortenus.
Archer’s list has both Ortenas, a tragedy, and Ortenus, a comedy.
The Owl.
By Daborne (q.v.).
Philenzo and Hippolyta.
By Massinger (q.v.).
The Queen.
A tragedy in Archer’s list. Fletcher’s name is given, but Greg, Masques, c, says this has ‘crept in from another entry’.
Richard Whittington.
S. R. 1605, Feb. 8. ‘The history of Richard Whittington of his lowe byrthe, his great fortune, as yt was plaid by the prynces servantes.’ Pavier (Arber, iii. 282).
The play is referred to in K. B. P. ind. 22.
Robin Hood and Little John.
S. R. 1594, May 14. ‘A booke entituled a pastorall plesant Commedie of Robin Hood and Little John.’ Islip (Arber, ii. 649).
Arber, v. 176, describes the play as printed by Islip for E. White, to whom the copy was passed by a cancel. It appears in Rogers and Ley’s and Archer’s lists of 1656. Greg, Henslowe, ii. 190, finds an allusion to its ‘merry jests’ in Munday’s Downfall of Robin Hood, iv. 2.
Rufus I.
S. R. 1595, Nov. 24. ‘A booke intituled The true tragicall historie of kinge Rufus the First with the life and deathe of Belyn Dun the first thief that ever was hanged in England.’ W. Blackwell (Arber, iii. 54).
Greg, Henslowe, ii. 164, thinks this the Bellendon played as a new piece by the Admiral’s and Chamberlain’s for Henslowe on 10 June 1594 (cf. ch. xiii). The title curiously resembles that of another book, probably, as Greg suggests, a chap-book, entered in S. R. by T. Gosson on 17 May 1594 as ‘a book intituled The famous Cronicle of Henrye the First, with the life and death of Bellin Dunn the firste thief that ever was hanged in England’ (Arber, ii. 650). Perhaps this was the source of the play.
A Sackful of News.
S. R. 1557–8. ‘These bokes folowynge called ... a sacke full of newes.’ J. King (Arber, i. 75).
1582, Jan. 15. Transfer from S. Awdeley to John Charlwood (Arber, ii. 405).
1586, Sept. 5. ‘A sackfull of newes, beinge an old copie: whiche the said Edward is ordered to haue printed by Abell Jeffes.’ Edward White (Arber, ii. 456).
This is less likely to have been the ‘lewd’ play suppressed at the Boar’s Head, Aldgate, in Aug. 1557 (Mediaeval Stage, ii. 223) than the jest-book known to Captain Cox in 1575 (F. J. Furnivall, Laneham’s Letter, lxvi. 30) and printed from the earliest extant edition of 1673 by W. C. Hazlitt, Old English Jest Books, ii. 163.
King Stephen.
Ascribed to Shakespeare (q.v.).
Susanna.
By T. Garter (q.v.).
The Tartarian Cripple.
S. R. 1600, Aug. 14. ‘The famous Tragicall history, of ye Tartarian Crippell Emperour of Constantinople.’ Burby (Arber, iii. 169).
Not necessarily a play.
’Tis Good Sleeping in a Whole Skin.
By W. Wager (q.v.).
Tityrus and Galatea.
Possibly identical with Lyly’s Galathea (q.v.).
The Twins’ Tragedy.
By Niccolls (q.v.).
The Two Sins of King David.
S. R. 1561–2. ‘An new interlude of the ij synmes of kynge Davyd.’ Hacket (Arber, i. 181).
Valentine and Orson.
S. R. 1595, May 23. ‘An enterlude of Valentyne and Orsson, plaid by her maiesties Players.’ T. Gosson and Hancock (Arber; ii. 298).
1600, March 31 (in full court). ‘A famous history called Valentine and Orsson played by her maiesties Players.’ W. White (Arber, iii. 159).
The relation of this Queen’s play to that written by Hathaway and Munday (q.v.) for the Admiral’s in 1598 is uncertain.
Witless.
S. R. 1560–1. ‘Playe of wytles.’ Hacket (Arber, i. 154).
Probably John Heywood’s dialogue of Witty and Witless, extant in MS. (Mediaeval Stage, ii. 446).
A Yorkshire Gentlewoman and her Son.
Ascribed to Chapman (q.v.).
APPENDIX N
MANUSCRIPT PLAYS
[Bibliographical Note.—This list includes only English texts. Most of the Latin plays (cf. App. K) also exist in MS. The English ones so preserved are generally of an academic type; on the general character of the few that are of playhouse origin, cf. ch. xxii. Of the fifteen play texts collected in Egerton MS. 1994, only three appear to be of plays written before 1616; descriptions of this collection are in A. H. Bullen, O. E. P. ii. 417, and F. S. Boas, A Seventeenth-Century Theatrical Repertoire (3 Library, July 1917). In addition to the plays named below, there are a Pelopidarum Secunda in Harleian MS. 5110, which may be of any date in the first half of the seventeenth century, and a Welsh ‘enterlut’, dated 1584 and without ascription or title in Peniarth MS. 68 (H. M. C. Welsh MSS. i. 2. 467). A full account of the Plots (‘plott’ ‘plotte’, ‘platt’) is given, with the seven texts, by Greg, Henslowe Papers, 127. They have sometimes been taken for ‘scenarie’ of impromptu plays, like the Italian ‘Commedie dell’arte’, although one of them is for the extant Battle of Alcazar; but they were probably for the use of the ‘bookholder’ or the ‘tireman’, and consist of skeleton outlines of the action, with notes of entrances and exits, and of the points at which properties and music are required. The names of the dramatis personae are generally accompanied by those of the actors who represented them. The paper on which they are written is mounted on pasteboard, and a hole cut near the top probably served to suspend them on a peg in the playhouse. All seven probably belong to companies (Strange’s and Admiral’s) with which Edward Alleyn was connected. One was utilized for the cover of a Dulwich MS., and G. Steevens, who once owned three of the others, found ‘reason to suppose that these curiosities once belonged to the collection of Alleyn’.]