A contributor to the Bristol Entertainment of Elizabeth (cf. ch. xxiv, C).
ROBINSON.
Henslowe paid £3 on behalf of the Admiral’s men on 9 Sept. 1602 ‘vnto Mr. Robensone for a tragedie called Felmelanco’. Later in the month he paid two sums amounting to another £3 to Chettle, for ‘his tragedie’ of the same name. The natural interpretation is that Chettle and Robinson co-operated, but Fleay, i. 70, rather wantonly says, ‘Robinson was, I think, to Chettle what Mrs. Harris was to Mrs. Gamp’, and Greg, Henslowe, ii. 224, while not agreeing with Fleay, ‘It is, however, unlikely that he had any hand in the play. Probably Chettle had again pawned his MS.’
Dates make it improbable that this Robinson was the poet Richard Robinson whose lost ‘tragedy’ Hemidos and Thelay is not likely to have been a play (cf. App. M).
SAMUEL ROWLEY (?-1624).
For Rowley’s career as an Admiral’s and Prince’s man, cf. ch. xv.
Dr. Faustus
For the additions by Rowley and Bird in 1602, cf. s.v. Marlowe.
When You See Me, You Know Me. 1603 < > 5
S. R. 1605, Feb. 12, ‘Yf he gett good alowance for the enterlude of King Henry the 8th before he begyn to print it. And then procure the wardens handes to yt for the entrance of yt: He is to haue the same for his copy.’ Nathanaell Butter (Arber, iii. 283). [No fee recorded.]