[17] Henslowe, II, pp. 83, 124-125, 149.
[18] The eight plays are Suckling’s Aglaura (1638), Cartwright’s The Royal Slave (1636), and Habington’s Cleodora (1640), which were presented for Their Majesties by courtiers seeking favor (see Steele, pp. 265, 268; Herbert, p. 58); Carlell’s The Deserving Favourite (1629) and Mayne’s City Match (1639) (see Steele, pp. 263, 274, 277); Two Merry Milkmaids (1620), which may or may not have been presented publicly (Steele, p. 206); Middleton and Rowley, A World Tost at Tennis (1620), which was conceived as a masque, but apparently presented publicly (Steele, p. 227); and As Merry as May Be (1602–1603).
[19] Herbert, p. 32. Also see pp. 19, 19 n., 36.
[20] Ibid., pp. 22, 35, 54; also Bentley, II, p. 675.
[21] J. C. Adams, The Globe Playhouse (Cambridge, 1942), pp. 59-89; T.W. Baldwin, The Organization and Personnel of the Shakespearean Company (Princeton, 1927), pp. 332-338; Alfred Harbage, Shakespeare’s Audience (New York, 1941), p. 33.
[22] Chambers, Elizabethan Stage, IV, pp. 166-175. From Elizabeth the Lord Chamberlain’s men received £30 (3.6 per cent) in 1599–1600, £30 (3.6 per cent) in 1600–1601, £40 (4.8 per cent) in 1601–1602, and £20 (2.4 per cent) in 1602–1603. The percentages indicate that portion of their income derived by the players from the Court. (Based upon Baldwin’s low estimate of £840 annual income.)
[23] Frances Keen, “The First Night of Twelfth Night,” T.L.S., December 19, 1958, 737.
[CHAPTER TWO]. THE DRAMATURGY
[1] The recognition of this deficiency forced Thomas W. Baldwin to develop his theory of Shakespeare’s five-act structure in reference to the Renaissance critics of France, Italy, and Germany (Shakespeare’s Five-Act Structure, Urbana, 1947). Henry Popkin, Dramatic Theory of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Playwrights (unpublished dissertation, Harvard, 1950) endeavors to show that the Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights were aware of prevailing theories of drama, but he does not go on to show that they introduced what they knew into what they wrote.