The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 3

by E. K. Chambers

GEORGE RUGGLE (1575–1622).

Ruggle entered St. John’s, Cambridge, from Lavenham grammar school, Suffolk, in 1589, migrated to Trinity, where he took his B.A. in 1593 and his M.A. in 1597, and became Fellow of Clare Hall in 1598. He remained at Cambridge until 1620, shortly before his death.

Ignoramus. 8 March 1615

[MSS.] Bodl. Tanner MS. 306, with actor-list; Harl. MSS. 6869 (fragmentary); and others.

S. R. 1615, April 18 (Nidd). ‘Ignoramus Comœdia provt Cantabrigie acta coram Jacobo serenissimo potentissimo magnae Britanniae rege.’ Walter Burre (Arber, iii. 566).

1630. Ignoramus. Comœdia coram Regia Majestate Jacobi Regis Angliae, &c. Impensis I. S. [Colophon] Excudebat T. P. [Prologus Prior. Martii 8. Anno 1614; Prologus Posterior. Ad secundum Regis adventum habitus, Maii 6, 1615; Epilogus.]

1630.... Secunda editio auctior & emendatior. Typis T. H. Sumptibus G. E. & J. S. [Macaronic lines, headed ‘Dulman in laudem Ignorami’.]

1658.... Autore M^ro Ruggle, Aulae Clarensis A.M.

1659, 1668, 1707, 1731, 1736, 1737.

Edition by J. S. Hawkins (1787).