Shakespeare at the Globe, 1599-1609

by Bernard Beckerman

THE NON-SHAKESPEAREAN PLAYS:(k)

Property	Plays	Scenes		Method of Introduction
Tables	Every Man Out of His Humour	II,	ii	use uncertain
	Every Man Out of His Humour	V,	iv	no indication
	Cromwell		vii	brought on
	Devil’s Charter	IV,	iv	use uncertain
	Devil’s Charter	Prologue		probably brought on
	Devil’s Charter	IV,	iii	brought on
	Devil’s Charter	V,	vi	brought on
	Devil’s Charter	V,	iv	brought on
	Fair Maid of Bristow		i	use uncertain
	Miseries of Enforced Marriage		xii	brought on
	Revenger’s Tragedy	V,	iii	brought on
Seats	Merry Devil of Edmonton	Prologue		discovered
	London Prodigal		ii	probably brought on
	Yorkshire Tragedy		viii	brought on
	Miseries of Enforced Marriage		xii	brought on
	Devil’s Charter	IV,	v	probably brought on
	Devil’s Charter	V,	vi	discovered
	Devil’s Charter	V,	vi	brought on
	Devil’s Charter	I,	v	brought on
	Devil’s Charter	Prologue		brought on
	Devil’s Charter	II,	i	no indication
	Devil’s Charter	I,	iv	discovered
	Cromwell		vi	discovered
	Every Man Out of His Humour	II,	ii	probably brought on
	Every Man Out of His Humour	Chorus		brought on
	Sejanus	II,	ii	no indication
	Sejanus	III,	i	probably brought on
	Volpone	V,	xii	probably brought on
	Volpone	IV,	v	probably brought on
	Volpone	V,	iii	brought on
	Revenger’s Tragedy	I,	ii	no indication
	Revenger’s Tragedy	V,	i	probably discovered
Beds	Merry Devil of Edmonton	Prologue		discovered
	Devil’s Charter	IV,	v	taken off
	Volpone	I,	ii	no indication
	Revenger’s Tragedy	I,	iv	discovered
	Revenger’s Tragedy	II,	iv	no indication
Tents	Devil’s Charter	Prologue		probably brought on
	Devil’s Charter	IV,	iv	no indication
Scaffold	Volpone	II,	ii	brought on
	Fair Maid of Bristow		xiii	taken off
Raised Structure	Every Man Out of His Humour	III,	ii	no indication
Writing Desk	Miseries of Enforced Marriage		iii	use uncertain
	Miseries of Enforced Marriage		iv	use uncertain
	Cromwell		iii	discovered
	Volpone	V,	ii	no indication
Trees, Rocks, etc.	Merry Devil of Edmonton		x	use uncertain
	Merry Devil of Edmonton		x	use uncertain
	Merry Devil of Edmonton		i	use uncertain
	Miseries of Enforced Marriage		ix	no indication
	Miseries of Enforced Marriage		ix	use uncertain
	Every Man Out of His Humour	III,	iii	use uncertain
Gibbets	A Larum for London		viii	use uncertain
	A Larum for London		xi	use uncertain
Post	A Larum for London		xiv	use uncertain
	Cromwell		v	use uncertain
	Every Man Out of His Humour	III,	i	use uncertain
Tortoise	Volpone	IV,	iv	no indication
Chest	Volpone	I,	i	no indication
Altar	Sejanus	V,	iv	no indication
Magic Glass	Devil’s Charter	IV,	i	discovered
Statue	Devil’s Charter	I,	ii	use uncertain
Earthen Vessel	Devil’s Charter	IV,	i	brought on
Prop Lion or Dragon	Devil’s Charter	IV,	i	brought on
Cupboard	Devil’s Charter	V,	iv	brought on
Hearse	A Larum for London		ii	brought on
Cannon	A Larum for London	II,	ii	use uncertain
Corpse	Revenger’s Tragedy	V,	i	no indication

Total number of properties		68
Less properties whose use is uncertain		17
Total number of properties used		51
Properties brought on	18	35.3% ┐
Properties probably brought on	8	15.7% ├	54.9%
Properties taken off	2	3.9% ┘
Properties discovered	8	15.7% ┐	17.6%
Properties probably discovered	1	1.9% ┘
Properties for which method of introduction is not indicated	14		27.5%

(k) This list of properties does not include properties from Satiromastix or The Malcontent.

APPENDIX C

i. Disguise

Play(l)	Character
Dress	Manner	Voice	Face
As You Like It	Rosalind
II, iv, 4-8	I, iii, 122-124
	III, ii,	313-315
Twelfth Night	Viola
I, iv, s.d.	I, V, 177-236	I, iv, 29-34
Twelfth Night	Feste
IV, ii, 1	IV, ii, 22-23	IV, ii, 71-72	IV, ii, 2
Measure for Measure	Duke
I, iii, 45-48	I, iii, 45-48
	II, iii, 1-42
Coriolanus	Coriolanus
IV, iv, s.d.
IV, v, 59 ff.
Pericles	Pericles
II, ii, 48-52
Pericles	Thaisa(m)
V, iii, 13-15
Julius Caesar	Lucilius(n)
Merry Wives of Windsor	Ford(o)
II, ii (?)
Merry Wives of Windsor	Falstaff
IV, ii, 190 ff.
Merry Wives of Windsor	Children, Evans
V, iv, 49-52
V, v
Othello	Roderigo
			I, iii, 346(?)
King Lear	Kent
I, iv, 1-4	II, ii, 1-180	I, iv, 1 f.
King Lear	Edgar (Poor Tom)
II, iii, 10	II, iii, 9-20	II, iii, 14-20	II, iii, 9(?)
III, iv, 66	III, iv
King Lear	Edgar (Peasant)
IV, i, 40-44	IV, vi	IV, vi, 7 f., 45 ff.
King Lear	Edgar (Cornishman)
		IV, vi, 235-251
King Lear	Edgar (Champion)
V, iii, 117, 142
Devil’s Charter	Candie, Caesar
F3v
Merry Devil of Edmonton	Raymond as Friar
D2r
London Prodigal	Old Flowerdale
A2r	A2r		G4r 18-20
London Prodigal	Luce
F1v	F1v	F1v
Cromwell	Hodge, Bedford
C4v 26-D1v 27	C4v 26-D1v 27
Miseries of Enforced Marriage	John, Thomas
Fair Maid of Bristow	Harbart
B1v 28-2v 16	B1v 28-2v 16
Fair Maid of Bristow	Challener
B1v
Fair Maid of Bristow	Sentloe
E3r 20	E3r-v
Fair Maid of Bristow	Anabell
E4v	(?)
Volpone	Volpone (Scoto)
II, iv	II, iv, 30-36
Volpone	Volpone (sick)
	I, iii-v
	III, iii-v, vii, ix
	IV, vi
Volpone	Volpone (Commandant)
V, iii
Volpone	Peregrine
V, iv, 1
Revenger’s Tragedy	Vindice
I, i	I, i

(l) The Malcontent is not included in this list although its plot is based completely upon a disguise. In this play the basic disguise is manner (see I, i). Malevole and Celso converse about the former’s loss of his dukedom (213-255). On the entrance of Bilioso, however, “Malevole shifteth his speech,” that is, he adopts his satiric manner. This treatment of disguise is similar to that in The Revenger’s Tragedy.

(m) Time here helps to disguise Thaisa.