The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon. 1598
With Chettle.
S. R. 1600, Dec. 1. ‘The Death of Robert Earle of Huntingdon with the lamentable trogidye of Chaste Mathilda.’ Leake (Arber, iii. 176).
1601. The Death of Robert, Earle of Huntington. Otherwise called Robin Hood of merrie Sherwodde: with the lamentable Tragedie of chaste Matilda, his faire maid Marian, poysoned at Dunmowe by King Iohn. Acted by the Right Honourable, the Earle of Notingham, Lord high Admirall of England, his seruants. For William Leake. [Epilogue.]
Editions and Dissertation with The Downfall (q.v.).
This is a sequel to The Downfall (q.v.). Fleay, ii. 115, gives Munday the scenes dealing with Robin Hood’s death and Chettle those dealing with Maid Marian’s. The play contains discrepancies, but Henslowe’s entries afford no evidence that Munday revised Chettle’s work, as Fleay thinks. Greg (Henslowe, ii. 191) points out that Davenport borrowed much of his King John and Matilda (1655) from The Death.
1 Sir John Oldcastle. 1599
With Drayton (q.v.), Hathway, and Wilson.
Lost Plays
The following is a complete list of the plays in which Henslowe’s diary shows Munday to have written between 1597 and 1602. All were for the Admiral’s: