Seu scribenda siet Comoedia, seu sit agenda,
Primum Huttone potes sumere iure locum.
The source was the Latin prose narrative Bellum Grammaticale (1511) of Andrea Guarna. Ralph Radclif (c. 1538) seems to have also treated the theme, but not necessarily in dramatic form (Mediaeval Stage, ii. 197).
Britanniae Primitiae, sive S. Albanus Protomartyr (c. 1600).
Bodl. Rawl. Poet. MS. 215. The Bodleian Catalogue dates the MS. c. 1600. The play, described in Jahrbuch, xlvii. 75, is a fragment only, probably written in some Jesuit seminary on the Continent, but with an English interest. There seems to be nothing specifically English in the theme of Sanguis Sanguinem sive Constans Fratricida Tragoedia, which is in the same MS.
Caesar Interfectus (c. March 1582).
Epilogue of a play by Richard Edes (q.v.) at Ch. Ch., Oxford.
Dido (12 June 1583).
By W. Gager (q.v.).
Euribates Pseudomagus.