Prologue and
Epilogue
to a Comedy acted before the Prince in Trin.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06
Lang.
Rev. vol. 11, no. 2. 1908.
Plays performed in Cambridge Colleges before 1585. In Fasciculus
J. W. Clark dicatus, pp. 265-273. 1909.
(See, also, post, under the headings of certain University plays. )
Wake, I. Rex Platonicus: Sive de Potentissimi Principis Jacobi Brittanni-
arum Regis ad illustrissimam Academiam Oxoniensem adventu, Aug. 27,
Anno, 1605 . . . 1607.
Ward. Vol. 11, pp. 630-642, and vol. III, pp. 174-188.
Watson, Foster. The English Grammar Schools to 1660: their Curriculum
and Practice. Cambridge, 1908. (Pp. 318-324: Excursus on Play-reading
and Play-acting in Schools. )
Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. 2nd ed. 1813-20.
(Reference should also be made to bibliography of vol. v, chap. v, section
on School and Prodigal Son Plays).
II. ENGLISH UNIVERSITY DRAMATISTS AND PLAYS.
The following list includes the English and Latin plays written before
1642, preserved in printed form, or in MSS which can be verified as still
extant. Plays known only by allusion are not recorded, except in a few
cases of special importance.
For information concerning Synedrium (by R. Worseley), Callidamus et
Callanthia and Susenbrotus, and for the titles of Jovis et Junonis nuptiæ
and Microcosmus, special acknowledgment is due to G. C. Moore Smith, who
has placed unpublished memoranda on Cambridge university plays at the
service of this bibliography.
WILLIAM ALABASTER.
Roxana Tragoedia olim Cantabrigiae acta in Col. Trin. Nunc primum in
lucem edita summaque cum diligentia ad castigatissimum exemplar
comparata. Cui accesserunt etiam Argumenta. 1632.
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Gulielmo Alabastro. 1632.
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Palace, 838; Emmanuel coll. Cam. , III. 1. 17.
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1567.
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HENRY BELLAMY,
Iphis, Comoedia Latina, Autore Henrico Bellamy. MS in Bodleian, Lat. misc.
1. 17. (Dedicated to Juxon, President of St John's Coll. Oxon. )
SAMUEL BROOKE.
Adelphe. MS in Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 3. 9. Comoedia in Collegii Trin. anla bis
publice acta. Authore Dno Dro Brooke Coll. Trin. Also, R. 10. 4, with
prologue dated 1662.
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Hiberniæ Rex, Cantabrigiam suam nuper inviserat, ibidemque musarum
atque animi gratia dies quinque commoraretur. Egerunt Alumni Coll.
San, et individuæ Trinitatis Cantabrigiæ. 1615.
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Charolo et comite Palatino mensis Martii 30 A. D. 1612. Authore Dr
Brooke Coll. Trin. Also, M88 in Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 3. 37, R. 17. 10, &
0. 3. 4; Emmanuel coll. Cam. II. 1. 17; Univ. Lib. Cam. Ee. 16.
Source: Bonarelli, G. de: Filli di Sciro, favola pastorale. Ferrara, 1607.
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V.
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by the Students of Christ Church in Oxford. August 30, 1636. Presented
since to both their Majesties at Hampton-Court by the Kings Servants,
Oxford. 1639. Reissued in 1640.
Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, With other Poems, By Mr. William Cartwright
late Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and Proctor of the University.
The Ayres and Songs set by Mr Henry Lawes, Servant to his late Majesty
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471
in his Publick and Private Musick. 1651. (The plays included are:
The Lady Errant. The Royall Slave. The Ordinary. The Siedge or
Love's Convert. The Royall Slave is the second play in this volume,
with the imprint 'The Third edition. ' 1651. )
The Ordinary is rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. x, x, x,
and XII, respectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. III.
ABRAHAM COWLEY,
The Guardian. A Comedie Acted before Prince Charles his Highness, at
Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, upon the twelfth of March, 1641. 1650.
Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedy acted before the Prince in Trin. Coll.
March 1642. Spoken by the author S. Cowley. MS in Trin. coll. Cam. ,
R. 5. 5 (78).
Cutter of Coleman-Street (a revised form of The Guardian). A Comedy.
The Scene London in the year 1658. 1663.
Naufragium Joculare, Comedia: Publice Coram Academicis Acta, in Col-
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Another ed. appeared in 1700.
The Works of M' Abraham Cowley. Consisting of Those which were
formerly Printed: and Those which he Design'd for the Press. Now
Published out of the Authors Original Copies. To this Edition are added,
Cutter of Coleman-Street (etc. ) MDCXCIII.
Other eds. of The Works appeared in 1700, 1708 and 1710–11.
The two latter contain Naufragium Joculare as well as Cutter of Cole-
man Street.
Abraham Cowley. Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses. Ed. Waller, A. R.
(Cambridge English Classics. ) 1906. (Contains Cutter of Coleman
Street. )
Fortune in her Wits. A Comedy. 1705. (By Charles Johnson, An
English version of Naufragium Joculare. ]
AQUILA CRUSO.
Euribates Pseudomagus. MS in Emmanuel coll. Cam. 111. 1. 17. See Jahrbuch
XXXIV, p. 318.
SAMUEL DANIEL.
The Queenes Arcadia. A Pastorall Tragi-comedie presented to her Majestie
and her Ladies, by the Universitie of Oxford in Christs Church, In August
last, 1605. 1606.
Certain Small Workes Heretofore Divulged by Samuel Daniel one of the
Groomes of the Queenes Majesties privie Chamber, & now againe by him
corrected and augmented. 1607. [The Queenes Arcadia is included in
this volume, in the later edition of 1611, and in The Whole Workes of
Samuel Daniel Esquire in Poetrie, 1623. ]
The Complete Works in verse and prose of Samuel Daniel. Ed. Grosart, A. B.
5 vols. 1885. (The Queenes Arcadia is in vol. 111. )
(See, also, bibliography of Daniel, vol. iv, chap. vii. )
RICHARD EDWARDS.
Palamon and Areyte. Not extant; but summary of plot is given by Bereblock,
J. , in his Commentarii (see Plummer's Elizabethan Oxford, ante).
(See, also, bibliography to vol. v, chap. v. )
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Marlowe, ed. Dyce, A. , Appendix 3 (1858). Synopsis of Brit. Mus. MS in
Jahrbuch, xxxiv, p. 238.
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(See, also, post, under the headings of certain University plays. )
Wake, I. Rex Platonicus: Sive de Potentissimi Principis Jacobi Brittanni-
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Anno, 1605 . . . 1607.
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(Reference should also be made to bibliography of vol. v, chap. v, section
on School and Prodigal Son Plays).
II. ENGLISH UNIVERSITY DRAMATISTS AND PLAYS.
The following list includes the English and Latin plays written before
1642, preserved in printed form, or in MSS which can be verified as still
extant. Plays known only by allusion are not recorded, except in a few
cases of special importance.
For information concerning Synedrium (by R. Worseley), Callidamus et
Callanthia and Susenbrotus, and for the titles of Jovis et Junonis nuptiæ
and Microcosmus, special acknowledgment is due to G. C. Moore Smith, who
has placed unpublished memoranda on Cambridge university plays at the
service of this bibliography.
WILLIAM ALABASTER.
Roxana Tragoedia olim Cantabrigiae acta in Col. Trin. Nunc primum in
lucem edita summaque cum diligentia ad castigatissimum exemplar
comparata. Cui accesserunt etiam Argumenta. 1632.
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Palace, 838; Emmanuel coll. Cam. , III. 1. 17.
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Source: La Dalida. Tragedia nova di Luigi Groto, Cieco di Hadria.
1567.
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1903.
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HENRY BELLAMY,
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publice acta. Authore Dno Dro Brooke Coll. Trin. Also, R. 10. 4, with
prologue dated 1662.
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Hiberniæ Rex, Cantabrigiam suam nuper inviserat, ibidemque musarum
atque animi gratia dies quinque commoraretur. Egerunt Alumni Coll.
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V.
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Acta demum et publice exhibita Academicis In Aula Ædis Christi et A
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in his Publick and Private Musick. 1651. (The plays included are:
The Lady Errant. The Royall Slave. The Ordinary. The Siedge or
Love's Convert. The Royall Slave is the second play in this volume,
with the imprint 'The Third edition. ' 1651. )
The Ordinary is rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. x, x, x,
and XII, respectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. III.
ABRAHAM COWLEY,
The Guardian. A Comedie Acted before Prince Charles his Highness, at
Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, upon the twelfth of March, 1641. 1650.
Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedy acted before the Prince in Trin. Coll.
March 1642. Spoken by the author S. Cowley. MS in Trin. coll. Cam. ,
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formerly Printed: and Those which he Design'd for the Press. Now
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Other eds. of The Works appeared in 1700, 1708 and 1710–11.
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man Street.
Abraham Cowley. Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses. Ed. Waller, A. R.
(Cambridge English Classics. ) 1906. (Contains Cutter of Coleman
Street. )
Fortune in her Wits. A Comedy. 1705. (By Charles Johnson, An
English version of Naufragium Joculare. ]
AQUILA CRUSO.
Euribates Pseudomagus. MS in Emmanuel coll. Cam. 111. 1. 17. See Jahrbuch
XXXIV, p. 318.
SAMUEL DANIEL.
The Queenes Arcadia. A Pastorall Tragi-comedie presented to her Majestie
and her Ladies, by the Universitie of Oxford in Christs Church, In August
last, 1605. 1606.
Certain Small Workes Heretofore Divulged by Samuel Daniel one of the
Groomes of the Queenes Majesties privie Chamber, & now againe by him
corrected and augmented. 1607. [The Queenes Arcadia is included in
this volume, in the later edition of 1611, and in The Whole Workes of
Samuel Daniel Esquire in Poetrie, 1623. ]
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5 vols. 1885. (The Queenes Arcadia is in vol. 111. )
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RICHARD EDWARDS.
Palamon and Areyte. Not extant; but summary of plot is given by Bereblock,
J. , in his Commentarii (see Plummer's Elizabethan Oxford, ante).
(See, also, bibliography to vol. v, chap. v. )
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