The Arraignment of Paris, c. 1584
1584. The Araygnement of Paris A Pastorall. Presented before the Queenes Maiestie, by the Children of her Chappell. Henry Marsh. [Prologue and Epilogue.]
Editions by O. Smeaton (1905, T. D.) and H. H. Child (1910, M. S. R.).—Dissertation: F. E. Schelling, The Source of P.’s A. of P. (1893, M. L. N. viii. 206).
Fleay, ii. 152, assigns the play to 1581 on the assumption that the Chapel stopped playing in 1582. But they went on to 1584. Nashe’s allusion (vide supra) and the ascription of passages from the play to ‘Geo. Peele’ in England’s Helicon (1600) fix the authorship.
The Battle of Alcazar, c. 1589
[MS.] Addl. MS. 10449, ‘The Plott of the Battell of Alcazar’. [Probably from Dulwich. The fragmentary text is given by Greg, Henslowe Papers, 138, and a facsimile by Halliwell, The Theatre Plats of Three Old English Dramas (1860).]
1594. The Battell of Alcazar, fought in Barbarie, betweene Sebastian king of Portugall, and Abdelmelec king of Marocco. With the death of Captaine Stukeley. As it was sundrie times plaid by the Lord high Admirall his seruants. Edward Allde for Richard Bankworth. [Prologue by ‘the Presenter’ and dumb-shows.]
Edition by W. W. Greg (1907, M. S. R.).
Interest in Sebastian was aroused in 1589 by the expedition of Norris and Drake to set Don Antonio on the throne of Portugal. This started on 18 April, and Peele wrote A Farewell, in which is a reference to this amongst other plays (l. 20, ed. Bullen, ii. 238):
Bid theatres and proud tragedians,