This also is described in the Merry Jests (cf. ch. xxiv, s.v. Soliman and Perseda).
Doubtful Plays
Peele’s hand has been sought in nearly every masterless play of his epoch: Alphonsus of Germany, Captain Thomas Stukeley, Clyomon and Clamydes, Contention of York and Lancaster, George a Greene, Henry VI, Histriomastix, Jack Straw, Troublesome Reign of King John, Knack to Know a Knave, Leire, Locrine, Mucedorus, Soliman and Perseda, Taming of A Shrew, True Tragedy of Richard III, Wily Beguiled, Wisdom of Dr. Dodipoll (cf. ch. xxiv).
ENTERTAINMENTS
Dixie Pageant. 29 Oct. 1585
1585. The Device of the Pageant borne before Woolstone Dixi Lord Maior of the Citie of London. An. 1585. October 29. Edward Allde. [At end, ‘Done by George Peele, Master of Arts in Oxford’.]
Editions in Nichols, Eliz. (1823), ii. 446, and F. W. Fairholt, Lord Mayor’s Pageants (1843, Percy Soc. xxxviii).
Polyhymnia. 17 Nov. 1590
See s.v. Lee.
Descensus Astreae. 29 Oct. 1591