| Chamber Accounts. | Revels Accounts.[812] | ||||
| Performance. | Payees. | Amount. | Warrant. | Cunningham, 210, from Audit Office, Accounts Various, 3, 907. | |
| =1611–12= (D. A. 543, mm. 267–8). | |||||
| 31 Oct. (K.) 1 Nov. (K.) 5 Nov. (K.) 26 Dec. (K.) 5 Jan. (K.) 23 Feb. (K.) | ‘John Heminges ... for ... the Kinges Mates servauntes and players.’ | £60. | 1 June; C. xl. | By the Kings Players: | Hallomas nyght was presented att Whithall before ye Kinges Matie a play called the Tempest. |
| The Kings players: | The 5th of Nouember: A play called ye winters nightes Tayle. | ||||
| The Kings players: | On St Stiuenes night A play called A King  no King. | ||||
| 9 Nov. (H. C.) 19 Nov. (H. C.) 16 Dec. (H. C.) 31 Dec. (H. C.) 7 Jan. (H. C.) 15 Jan. (H. C.) 9 Feb. (H. C.) 20 Feb. (H. C.) 28 Feb. (H. C.) 3 Apr. (H. C.) 16 Apr. (H. C.) | ‘the sayd John Heminges.’ | £80.[813] | 1 June; C. xii. | The Queens players: The Princes players. The Kings players. The Childern of Whitfriars. | St John night A play called the City Gallant. The Sunday followinge A play called the Almanak. On Neweres night A play called the Twiñes Tragedie. The Sunday following A play called Cupids Reueng. |
| 9 Feb. (H. C. E.) 20 Feb. (H.) 28 Mar. (E.) 26 Apr. (H. C. E.) | ‘the sayd John Heminges.’ | £26 13s. 4d. | 1 June; C. xli. | By the Queens players and the Kings Men. | The Sunday following [Twelfth Night] att Grinwidg before the Queen and the Prince was playd the Siluer Aiedg: and ye next night following Lucrecia. |
| 27 Dec. (K. Q.) 2 Feb. (K. Q.) | ‘Thomas Greene ... for ... the Queenes Mates servauntes.’ | £20. | 18 June; C. xli. | By the Queens players. | Candelmas night A play called Tu Coque. |
| 21 Jan.[814] (H. E.) 23 Jan. (H. E.) | ‘the sayd Thomas Greene’ | £13 6s. 8d. | 18 June; C. xli | By the Kings players. | Shroue Sunday: A play called the Noblman. |
| 28 Dec. (K.) 29 Dec. (K.) | ‘Edward Juby ... for ... the Prince highnes servauntes.’ | £20. | 18 June; C. xli. | By the Duck of Yorks players. | Shroue Munday: A play called Himens Haliday. |
| 7ensp;5 Feb. (H.) 29 Feb (H.) | ‘the sayd Edward Juby.’ | £13 6s. 8d. | 18 June; C. xlii. | By the Ladye Elizabeths players. | Shrove Tuesday A play called the proud Mayds Tragedie. |
| 11 Apr. ‘last past’ (E.) | ‘Edward Jubye ... for ... the Prynce Palatynes Servants.’[815] | £6 13s. 4d. | 31 Mar. 1613; C. xlii. | ||
| 25 Feb. (K.) | ‘Alexander Foster ... for ... the Ladye Eliz. servauntes and players ... for ... the proud Mayde.’ | £10. | 1 Apr.; C. xl. | ||
| 19 Jan. (H. E.) 11 Mar. (H. E.) | ‘the sayd Alexander Foster.’ | £13 6s. 8d. | 1 Apr.; C. xl. | ||
| 12 Jan. (H. C. E.) 28 Jan. (H. C. E.) 13 Feb. (H. C. E.) 24 Feb.[816] (H. C. E.) | ‘Willm̄ Rowley ... for ... the Duke of Yorkes Servauntes and Players.’ | £26 13s. 4d. | 20 June (W.); C. xlii. | ||
| [Cunningham, xiv, from Privy | Purse Accounts of Henry.] | ||||
| ‘For makeinge readie the Cockepitt for a playe by the space of twoe dayes in the month of December 1611.’ | £1 14s. 4d. | ||||
| ‘For makinge readie the Cockepitt for playes twoe severall tymes by the space of ffower dayes in the monethes of January and February 1611.’ | £3 10s. 8d. | ||||
| =1612–13= (D. A. 544, m. 14; Bodl. Rawlinson MS. A. 239, ff. 46v-48). | |||||
| 8 June. | ‘John Hemynges ... for ... the kinges Mates Players for presentinge a playe before the Duke Savoyes Ambassadoes’; Rawl. MS. ‘a playe ... called Cardenna’. | £6 13s. 4d. | 9 July; C. xliii. | ||
| — (C. E. F., 14 plays) | ‘To him [Hemynges] more’; Rawl. MS. ‘fowerteene severall playes, viz: one playe called ffilaster, One other called the knott of ffooles, One other Much adoe aboute nothinge, The Mayeds Tragedy, The merye dyvell of Edmonton, The Tempest, A kinge and no kinge, The Twins Tragedie, The Winters Tale, Sir John ffalstaffe, The Moore of Venice, The Nobleman, Caesars Tragedye, And on other called Love lyes a bleedinge’. | £93 6s. 8d. | 20 May; C. xliii. | ||
| — (K., 6 plays) | ‘the sayd John Heminges’; Rawl. MS. ‘Sixe severall playes, viz: one play called a badd beginininge makes a good endinge, One other called ye Capteyne, One other the Alcumist. One other Cardenno, One other the Hotspur, And one other called Benedicte and Betteris’. | £60. | 20 May; C. xliii. | ||
| 2 Mar.[817] (C. E. F.) 10 Mar. (C. E. F.) | ‘Willm̄ Rowley ... for ... the Prynces servantes’; Rawl. MS. ‘One called the first parte of the Knaues ... And one other playe called the second parte of the Knaues’. | £13 6s. 8d. | 7 June; C. xlii. | ||
| 25 Feb. (C. E. F.) 1 Mar. (C. E. F.) | ‘Josephe Taylor ... for ... the Ladie Elizabeth hir servantes’; Rawl. MS. ‘one playe called Cockle de moye ... and one other called Raymond Duke of Lyons’. | £13 6s. 8d. | 28 June; C. xliii. | ||
| — (C. E. F.) [2 or 3 Nov.?] | ‘Phillip Rosseter for ... a play by the Children of the Chappell’; Rawl. MS. ‘for ... the Children of the Queens Majestys Revels, for ... a Commedye called the Coxcombe’. | £6 13s. 4d. | 24 Nov.; C. xlii. | ||
| 9 Jan. (C. E. F.) 27 Feb. (C. E. F.) | ‘To him more ... for ... two other playes by the Children of the Chappell’; Rawl.MS. ‘one called Cupidds revenge, and the other called the Widdowes Teares’. | £13 6s. 8d. | 31 May; C. xlii. | ||
| 1 Jan. ‘1613’ (K.) | ‘The sayd Phillip Rosseter ... for ... a play by the said Children’; Rawl. MS. ‘called Cupides Revenge’. | £10. | 31 May. | ||
| [Sullivan, 139, from Accounts of Elizabeth 29 Sept. 1612 to 25 March 1613 in Exchequerof Receipt Misc., Bundle 343.] | |||||
| — [Oct. 20?][818] | ‘To her gracs plaiers for acting a Comedie in the Cocke pitt wch her highnes lost to Mr Edward Sackvile on a wager.’ | £5. | |||
| =1613–14= (D. A. 544, m. 29). | |||||
| 4 Nov. (C.) 16 Nov. (C.) 10 Jan. (C.) 4 Feb. (C.) 8 Feb. (C.) 10 Feb. (C.) 18 Feb. (C.) ‘1614’. | ‘John Heminges and the rest of his fellowes his Mates servaunts the Players.’ | £46 13s. 0d.[819] | 21 June; C. xliii. | ||
| 1 Nov. (K.) ‘1614’. 5 Nov. (K.) 15 Nov. (K.) 27 Dec. (K.) 1 Jan. (K.) 4 Jan. (K.) 2 Feb. (K.) 6 Mar. (K.) 8 Mar. (K.) | ‘the said John Heminges and the rest of his fellowes.’ | £90. | 21 June; C. xliii. | ||
| 24 Dec.[820] (K.) 5 Jan. (K.) | ‘Robƃte Lee and the rest of his fellowes the Queenes Mates servauntes the Playiers.’ | £20. | 21 June (W.); C. xliii. | ||
| 25 Jan. (K.) | ‘Joseph Taylor for himselfe and the rest of his fellowes servaunts to the Lady Eliz’ her grace ... for presenting ... a Comedy called Eastward howe.’ | £10. | 21 June (W.); C. xliv. | ||
| 12 Dec. (C.) | ‘To him [Taylor] more ... for presenting ... a comedy called the Dutch Curtezan.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 21 June (W.); C. xliv. | ||
| =1614–15= (D. A. 544, mm. 47, 48, 65).[821] | |||||
| — (K. 8 plays) | ‘John Hemynges ... in the behalfe of himselfe and his fellowes the Kinges mates players.’ | £80. | 19 May; C. xiii (19 May ‘1613’). | ||
| — (K. 3 plays) | ‘Roberte Leigh.’[822] | £30. | 25 Apr. (W.). | ||
| — (K. 2 plays) (C.) | ‘Edward Juby in the behalfe of himselfe and the reste of his fellowes the Palsgraves players.’ | £26 13s. 4d. | 15 Apr. | ||
| — (C. 6 plays) | ‘Willm̄ Rowley one of the Princes players.’ | £43 6s. 8d. | 17 May. | ||
| 1 Nov. (K.) | ‘Nathan ffeilde in the behalfe of himselfe and the rest of his fellowes ... for ... Bartholomewe Fayre.’ | £10. | 11 June; C. xliv. | [Pipe Office D. A. (Revels), 2805.] ‘Canvas for the Boothes and other necessaries for a play called Bartholmewe Faire.’ | |
| =1615–16= (D. A. 544, mm. 66, 77). | |||||
| Between 1 Nov. and 1 Apr. (K. Q. 14 plays) | ‘John Heminges and the rest of his fellowes the Kings Mates Players.’ | £140. | 24 Apr. 1617.[823] | ||
| — (K. 4 plays) | ‘Roberte Lee and his fellowes the Queenes Mates Servauntes.’ | £40. | 20 May (G.). | ||
| — (C. 4 plays) | ‘Alexander Foster one of the Princes highnes Players.’ | £26 13s. 4d. | 29 Apr. (W.). | ||
| [A. F. Westcott, New Poems of James I, lxxii, from Accounts of Anne for Apr. 1615–Jan. 1616.] | |||||
| 17 Dec. (Q.) | ‘Ellis Worth one of her Mates plaiers for so much paid vnto him in the behalfe of himselfe and the rest of his fellowes of that companie for one plaie acted before her matie [at] Queenes Court.’ | £10. | 7 Jan. | ||
| 21 Dec. (Q.) | ‘John Heminge one of the Kinge Mates plaiers for so much paid vnto him in the behalfe of himselfe and the reste of his fellowes of that companie for one plaie acted before her Matie at Queenes Court.’ | £10. | 22 Jan. | ||
APPENDIX C
DOCUMENTS OF CRITICISM
[There is much vain repetition in learned controversy, whether literary or ethical. I have attempted, by extract or summary, to indicate the main critical positions taken up by writers of different schools with regard to plays, and at the same time to preserve the incidental information which they furnish on points of stage history. It does not seem to me necessary to do more than cite, as of minor importance, and practically adding nothing, T. Becon, The Catechisme (1564, Works, i, f. cccccxxxii); E. Hake, Merry Maidens of London (1567), A Touchstone for this Time (1574), sig. G 4v; E. Dering, Catechisme for Householders (1572); T. Brasbridge, Poor Man’s Jewel (1578); R. Crowley, Unlawful Practises of Prelates (> 1583), sig. B 3v; N. Bownde, Doctrine of the Sabbath (1595), 211; J. Norden, Progress of Piety (1596, ed. Parker Soc.), 177; T. Beard, Theatre of God’s Judgments (1597), 193, 197, 374; W. Vaughan, The Golden Grove (1600), i. 51; F. Hering, Rules for the Prevention of the Sickness (1603), sig. A 4v; R. Knolles, Six Books of a Commonweal (1606, from J. Bodin, Six Livres de la République, 1576–8, 1601), vi. 1; W. Perkins, Cases of Conscience (1608, ed. T. Pickering), 118; R. Bolton, Discourse of True Happiness (1611), 73; L. Bayly, Practice of Piety (c. 1612, ed. Webster, 1842), 182, 190; O. Lake, Probe Theologicall upon the Commandments (1612), 267; J. Dod and R. Cleaver, Exposition of the Ten Commandments (1612); G. Wither, Abuses Stript and Whipt (1613), ii. 3; D. Dyke, Michael and the Dragon (1615), 216. Probably such references could be multiplied indefinitely; they show how dread of the stage became a commonplace of pastoral theology. Thomas Spark’s Rehearsal Sermon (1579) is only known from the citation of it by Munday (cf. No. xxvii, infra).]
i. 1489 (?). Desiderius Erasmus.
[From Epistola 31, to an unnamed friend (P. S. Allen, Opus Epistolarum Des. Erasmi Roterodami, i. 123), conjecturally dated by Mr. Allen in 1489. Erasmus more briefly commends the educational use both of Terence and Plautus in De Ratione Studii (1511, Opera, i. 521). In 1532 he edited Terence, and to the same year belongs Epist. 1238 (Opera, iii. 2, 1457), which praises the comedies without re-arguing at length the ethical controversy; cf. W. H. Woodward, Desiderius Erasmus concerning the Aim and Method of Education (1904), 28, 39, 113, 164.]
Est enim in his Terentianis comoediis mirifica quaedam sermonis puritas, proprietas, elegantia ac, vt in tam antiquo comico, horroris minimum; lepos (sine quo rustica est omnis, quantumuis phalerata, oratio) et vrbanus et salsus. Aut hoc igitur magistro aut nemine discere licebit quo pacto veteres illi Latini, qui nunc vel nobis peius balbutiunt, locuti sint. Hunc itaque tibi non modo etiam atque etiam lectitandum censeo, verumetiam ad verbum ediscendum.
Caue autem ne homuncionum istorum imperitulorum, imo liuidulorum garritus te quicquam permoueant, qui vbi in ineptissimis authoribus Florista, Ebrardo Graecista, Huguitione se senuisse viderunt, nec tantis ambagibus ex imperitiae labyrintho potuisse emergere, id vnicum suae stulticiae solatium proponunt, si in eundem errorem suum iuniores omnes pelliciant. Nefas aiunt a Christianis lectitari Terentianas fabulas. Quam ob rem tandem quaeso? Nihil, inquiunt, praeter lasciuiam ac turpissimos adolescentum amores habent, quibus lectoris animum corrumpi necesse sit. Facile vnde libet corrumpitur qui corruptus accesserit. Syncerum nisi vas, quodcunque infundis acescit. Itane isti religiosuli ad caetera vel vtilissima talpis caeciores, ad vnam, si qua est, lasciuiam capreae sunt? Imo capri ac stolidi nihil sibi praeter nequitiam, qua sola imbuti sunt (indocti quippe iidemque mali), rapientes, non vident quanta illic sit moralitas, quanta vitae instituendae tacita exhortatio, quanta sententiarum venustas. Neque intelligunt totum hoc scripti genus ad coarguenda mortalium vitia accommodatum, imo adeo inuentum. Quid enim sunt comoediae, nisi seruus nugator, adolescens amore insanus, meretrix blanda ac procax, senex difficilis, morosus, auarus? Haec nobis in fabulis, perinde atque in tabula, proponuntur depicta; vt, quum in moribus hominum quid deceat, quid dedeceat, viderimus, alterum amemus alterum castigemus. En, in Eunucho Phaedria ille ex summa continentia in summam ineptiam amore, tanquam morbo validissimo, immutatus, adeo vt eundem esse non cognoscas; quam pulchro exemplo docet amorem rem esse et miserrimam et anxiam, instabilem et prorsus insaniae turpissimae plenam. Assentatores istos, pestilens hominum genus, Gnatonem suum, artis suae principem, spectare iubeto. Iactabundi et sibi placentes, quales diuitum plerosque imperitos videmus, Thrasonem suum spectent ac tandem cum sua magnificentia quam ridiculi sint intelligant.
Sed de his latius (quum [quae] de litteris scripsimus edemus) nostra leges, volente quidem Deo. Ad praesentem locum satis fuerit tetigisse comoedias Terentianas; modo recte legantur, non modo non ad subuertendos mores, verum etiam ad corrigendos maximopere valere, certe ad Latine discendum plane necessarias iudicauerim. An potius istud ex Catholicon, Huguitione, Ebrardo, Papia caeterisque ineptioribus sperare iubebunt? Mirum vero si his authoribus quis quid Latine dicat, cum ipsi nihil non barbare locuti sint. Huiusmodi amplectatur, qui balbutire volet; qui loqui cupiet, Terentium dicat, quem Cicero, quem Quintilianus, quem Hieronymus, quem Augustinus, quem Ambrosius et iuuenes didicere et senes vsi sunt; quem denique nemo, nisi barbarus, non amauit.