Roxana (c. 1592).
By W. Alabaster (q.v.).
Sapientia Solomonis (1565–6).
Addl. MS. 20061. ‘Sapientia Solomonis: Drama Comicotragicum.’
This is an expanded version of the Sapientia Solomonis of Sixt Birck (1555). A performance is recorded at Trinity, Cambridge, in 1559–60 (Boas, 21, 387), but the prologue and epilogue to this version make it clear that it was acted before Elizabeth and the inclita princeps Cecilia, i. e. Cecilia of Sweden, who was in England during 1565–6 (cf. ch. i), by a
puellorum cohors
Nutrita magnificis tuis e sumptibus.
These were the Westminster boys, who gave the play in 1565–6 (cf. ch. xii). The elaborately bound and decorated MS. bears Elizabeth’s initials in several places, and was evidently the ‘book’ officially provided for her.
Scyros (3 March 1613).
By S. Brooke (q.v.).