)
Synedrii idest consessus animalium inscripta tragoedia.
Synedrii idest consessus animalium inscripta tragoedia.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06
)
Lingua. Retrospective Review, vol. 11, pp. 270 ff.
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod.
Lang. Rev. vol. III, no. 2, pp. 146-9.
NICHOLAS UDALL.
Ezechias (performed before Elizabeth in the chapel of King's college, Cam-
bridge, August 3, 1564).
Not preserved, but described by Abraham Hartwell in Regina
Literata.
(For Udall's other plays see bibliography to vol. v, chap. v. )
FRANCIS VERNEY.
The tragedye of Antipoe. MS in Bodleian, 31041. Dedicated to King James I
by Yo' graces most affectionate servant to command Francis Verney. ?
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod.
Lang. Rev. vol. II1, no. 2, p. 151.
THOMAS VINCENT.
Paria. Acta coram sereniss. Rege Carolo: Authore Tho. Vincent, Trin.
Colleg. Socio. 1648.
MS in Emmanuel coll. Cam. , 1. 3. 16,‘Acta coram sereniss. Rege Carolo.
Mar. 3. 1627. Ab hora undecima ad quintam. '
Odinga, T. Thomas Vincent's Paria. Engl. Stud. vol. xvi, pp. 435-440.
1892. Prints Vincent's prefatory English abstract of the plot of
this Latin play.
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ROBERT WARD (? ).
Fucus Histriomastix. MSS in Lambeth Palace, 838, and Bodleian, Rawlinson
Poet. 21.
Printed, 1909, ed. Smith, G. C. Moore, probably written by Robert
Ward and acted at Queens' college, Cambridge, in Lent 1623. On the
performance before James I at Newmarket see verses by Molle, H.
printed by the same editor in the Cambridge Review, 5 May 1910.
THOMAS WATSON.
[Absalom]. Brit. Mus. Stowe MSS, 957.
The MS does not contain the title or the author's name, but the play
is probably the Absalom of Thomas Watson eulogised by Roger Ascham
in The Scholemaster.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 230-2.
NATHANIEL WIBOURNE.
Machiavellus. MS in Bodleian, Douce 234. (Imperfect; dated Anno Dmni.
1597. Decemb. 9. )
The attribution of the authorship to Wibourne, fellow of St John's
college, Cambridge, is in Douce's handwriting.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 300-2.
GEORGE WILDE.
Eumorphus sive Cupido Adultns. Comedia. Acta A Joanensibus Oxon
Feb. 5° 1634. Authore Georgio Wilde ejusdm Coll. Soc. et LL. Bacc.
Brit. Mus. Add. MSS, 14047.
Loves Hospitall. As it was acted before the Kinge & Queens Majestyes by
the Students of 8 Jo. Baptists Colī in Oxon: Augustii 29° 1636. Authore
Georgio Wilde LL: Bac. Brit. Mus. Add. MSS, 14047.
The Converted Robber. A Pastorall Acted by 8. Johns College. 1637. Also
in Brit. Mus. Add. MSS, 14047, and probably by Wilde, though it does not
contain his name.
ANTHONY WINGFIELD.
Pedantius. Comoedia, Olim Cantabrig. Acta in Coll. Trin. Nunquàm antehàc
Typis evulgata. 1631.
MS in Caius coll. Cam. , 62, with the title 'Pædantius comoedia acta
in Collegio Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis anthore Mr Forcet'; also in
Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 17 (9), apparently a copy of the Caius MS.
A Latin Comedy formerly acted in Trinity college, Cambridge. Ed.
Smith, G. C. Moore. 1905. Bang's Materialien, vol. VIII. [The text
is based on the edition of 1631, the variants in the Caius MS being
given in the textual notes. ]
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 279-281, preceded by critical remarks,
including the theory that Holofernes was derived from Pedantius.
Harington, Sir John. Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse.
1591. (Contains incidental references to the play. )
Harvey, Gabriel. Rhetor. 1577.
Smithus; vel Musarum Lachrymae. 1578.
Xalpe vel Gratulationes Valdenses. 1578.
Three Proper and Wittie familiar letters. 1580.
(Phrases from these works are introduced into the play. )
Nashe, Thomas. Have with you to Saffron Walden. 1596.
Strange Newes. 1593. Here Nashe speaks of ‘M. Winkfield's[i. e.
Anthony Wingfield's] Comoedie of Pedantius in Trinity College. '
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481
Smith, G. C. Moore. Introduction to edition of the play (ante). In-
clines to attribute authorship of the work, in the main, to Edward
Forsett. Identifies Pedantius with Gabriel Harvey.
In a review of this edition, Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. I, no. 3,
pp. 235-8, Boas, F. 8. , supports Wingfield's claim.
Notes on some English University Plays. Mod. Lang. Rev.
vol. III, no. 2, p. 142. Supplementary notes on Pedantius.
RALPH WORSELEY.
Synedrium, id est, Consessus animalium videlicet collectio mor[a]e comoediae
ant pocius tragoediae descriptive. (In Latin prose. Imperfect.
)
Synedrii idest consessus animalium inscripta tragoedia. A. D. 1553. Mense
Novembris 14 die. . . . Finis. 27 die. Febr. 1554. Per me Radulphum
Worselaeum. (In Latin verse. )
MS in Trin. coll. Cam. , 0. 3. 25.
CHRISTOPHER WRENN.
ΦΥΣΙ - ΠΟΝΟ. ΜΑΧΙΑ. A Latin Comedy dedicated to Buckeridge, J. ,
President of St John's coll. Oxon. MS in Bodleian, 30.
RICHARD ZOUCH.
The Sophister. A Comedy. 1639.
Fallacy or The Troubles of great Hermenia Aug: 13: 1631. R. Z. Brit.
Mus. Harl. MSS, 6869.
AUTHORS UNKNOWN.
Amurath.
The tragedy of Amurath, 3rd tyrant of the Turkes, as it was publickly
presented to the University of Oxford by the Students of Christchurch,
Mathew's day, 1618. (Historical MSS Comm. Rep. vol. 1. p. 49. )
Andronicus Commenus.
Andronicus Commenus. MS in Brit. Mus. , Sloane 1767. A Latin tragedy.
Jahrbuch, xxxiv, p. 256.
Antoninus Bassianus Caracalla.
Antoninus Bassianus Caracalla. MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson C, 590. A
Latin tragedy.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, XXXIV, pp. 265-7.
Band, Cuffe and Ruffe.
A Merrie Dialogue, Betweene Band, Cuffe, and Ruffe: Done by an excellent
Wit, And Lately acted in a shew in the famous Universitie of Cambridge.
London. 1615.
Exchange Ware at the Second hand, viz. Band, Ruffe and Cuffe, lately out
and now newly dearned up. Or A dialogue, acted in a shew in the
famous Universitie of Cambridge. The second edition. 1615. Adds an
introductory dialogue.
A 3rd ed. appeared in 1661, with the same title as the 1st ed. , and
without the introductory dialogue.
MS in Brit. Mus. , Add. 23723, also lacks this introduction.
Rptd in Harleian Miscell. vol. x, pp. 204-9, ed. Park, T. , 1813
(mod. s. ); contains a Prologue taken from a MS copy 'which is said to
have been acted at Oxford, Feb. 24, 1646. ' Also rptd in Miscell. Antiqua
Anglicana, vol. II, ed. Hindley, C. ; and in Contributions to Early
English Literature, ed. Halliwell-Phillipps, J. 0. , 1849.
E. L. VI.
31
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Comoedia. Summo cum applausu olim apud Oxonienses in Scaenam
producta & nunc in omnium illorum qui ad Gramaticam animos appellant
oblectamentum edita. Londini. Excudebant B. A. & T. F. Impensis
Joh: Spenceri, 1635 (ascribed by Dr R. Gardiner to Leonard Hutten
of Christ Church, but Anthony à Wood contradicts this. Ath. Ox, vol. II,
p. 533. )
. . Tragico-Comedia . . . producta, olim, apud Oxonienses, coram
Serenissima Elizabetha Anglorum Regina, iterum in Schola Pelliorum,
apud Tunbrigienses, 1718. . . . Editio hæc altera est multo emendatior,
cura Richardi Spenceri Scholæ Tunbrigiensis Magistri. 1726. Another
issue in 1729.
ad exemplar M" Alexandri Humii . . . editum Edinburgi, excud. Gideon
Lithgo, Anno Dom. 1658. Another issue by Mosman, George, in 1698.
(As to an edition of the play by Irvine, Christopher, from a MS of
Hume, Alexander, a Scotsman resident for some time in Oxford, see
Aldis, H. G. , A List of Books printed in Scotland 1700, p. 98; and
under Bolte, J. , post. )
Rptd from the edition of 1635 in Andrea Guarnas Bellum Gram-
maticale und seine Nachamungen, pp. 106-147, ed. Bolte, J. 1908.
(Monumenta Germaniæ Pedagogica, vol. XLII. )
Bolte also reprints, pp. 148-9, the prologue and epilogue to the play,
written by Gager, William, for its performance before Elizabeth in
September 1592, and printed as an appendix to his Meleager.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 273-5, preceded by critical remarks.
Source: Grammaticale Bellom Nominis et Verbi Regum: de princi-
palitate orationis inter se contendentium: nuper editum a Rever. d.
Andrea Salernitano Patricio Cremon. 1511. 103 editions appeared in
various countries between 1511 and 1739.
Bptd by Bolte (op. cit. ), with a parallel text of a revised edition by
Spangenberg, J. , pp. 3–55. This edition includes the texts of a number
of adaptations of the work, and has an elaborate introduction and
bibliography.
Translations and other adaptations of Guarna's work in England.
Bale, John: Scriptorum illustrium. . . . Catalogus. I, 700, mentions that
R. Radcliff'scripsit de Nominis ac Verbi, potentissimorum regum
in regno Grammatico, calamitosa & exitiali pugna, Lib. 2. '
Hayward, W. Bellum Grammaticale. A discourse of great war and
dissention betweene two worthy Princes, the Noune and the Verbe,
contending for the chefe place or dignitie in Oration.
Very
pleasant & profitable. Turned into english by W. H. 1569.
Later eds. in 1576 and 1635. Rptd in Lord Somers' Tracts,
vol. 1, pp. 1-29, 1750, and in the 2nd ed. of the Tracts, vol. 1,
pp. 523-554, 1809.
Hoadley, S. (? ). The Warr of Grammar a Tragick-Comedy Acted by
the Scholars of Cranebrook School more than once not without
Applause. In which the whole vulgar Grammar with something
of the Authors own, is festiveously handled. MS in Brit. Mus. , Add.
22725. On leaf 3a ‘Basileia seu Bellum Grammaticale Tragico-
Comodia. Sub ferias Nativitatis acta, à Generosis Scholae Crane-
burgensis alumnis. An. 1666. ' On the first leaf'Samuel Hoadley
His Book 1667. As Hoadley was an assistant master at Cranbrook
6
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483
at the time, and an author of grammatical works, he was probably
the author of the play, which is an adaptation of the Oxford play
rather than of Guarna's original work. (See Bolte's introduction,
pp. 41-43. )
Turner, W.
Lingua. Retrospective Review, vol. 11, pp. 270 ff.
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod.
Lang. Rev. vol. III, no. 2, pp. 146-9.
NICHOLAS UDALL.
Ezechias (performed before Elizabeth in the chapel of King's college, Cam-
bridge, August 3, 1564).
Not preserved, but described by Abraham Hartwell in Regina
Literata.
(For Udall's other plays see bibliography to vol. v, chap. v. )
FRANCIS VERNEY.
The tragedye of Antipoe. MS in Bodleian, 31041. Dedicated to King James I
by Yo' graces most affectionate servant to command Francis Verney. ?
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod.
Lang. Rev. vol. II1, no. 2, p. 151.
THOMAS VINCENT.
Paria. Acta coram sereniss. Rege Carolo: Authore Tho. Vincent, Trin.
Colleg. Socio. 1648.
MS in Emmanuel coll. Cam. , 1. 3. 16,‘Acta coram sereniss. Rege Carolo.
Mar. 3. 1627. Ab hora undecima ad quintam. '
Odinga, T. Thomas Vincent's Paria. Engl. Stud. vol. xvi, pp. 435-440.
1892. Prints Vincent's prefatory English abstract of the plot of
this Latin play.
## p. 480 (#498) ############################################
480
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ROBERT WARD (? ).
Fucus Histriomastix. MSS in Lambeth Palace, 838, and Bodleian, Rawlinson
Poet. 21.
Printed, 1909, ed. Smith, G. C. Moore, probably written by Robert
Ward and acted at Queens' college, Cambridge, in Lent 1623. On the
performance before James I at Newmarket see verses by Molle, H.
printed by the same editor in the Cambridge Review, 5 May 1910.
THOMAS WATSON.
[Absalom]. Brit. Mus. Stowe MSS, 957.
The MS does not contain the title or the author's name, but the play
is probably the Absalom of Thomas Watson eulogised by Roger Ascham
in The Scholemaster.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 230-2.
NATHANIEL WIBOURNE.
Machiavellus. MS in Bodleian, Douce 234. (Imperfect; dated Anno Dmni.
1597. Decemb. 9. )
The attribution of the authorship to Wibourne, fellow of St John's
college, Cambridge, is in Douce's handwriting.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 300-2.
GEORGE WILDE.
Eumorphus sive Cupido Adultns. Comedia. Acta A Joanensibus Oxon
Feb. 5° 1634. Authore Georgio Wilde ejusdm Coll. Soc. et LL. Bacc.
Brit. Mus. Add. MSS, 14047.
Loves Hospitall. As it was acted before the Kinge & Queens Majestyes by
the Students of 8 Jo. Baptists Colī in Oxon: Augustii 29° 1636. Authore
Georgio Wilde LL: Bac. Brit. Mus. Add. MSS, 14047.
The Converted Robber. A Pastorall Acted by 8. Johns College. 1637. Also
in Brit. Mus. Add. MSS, 14047, and probably by Wilde, though it does not
contain his name.
ANTHONY WINGFIELD.
Pedantius. Comoedia, Olim Cantabrig. Acta in Coll. Trin. Nunquàm antehàc
Typis evulgata. 1631.
MS in Caius coll. Cam. , 62, with the title 'Pædantius comoedia acta
in Collegio Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis anthore Mr Forcet'; also in
Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 17 (9), apparently a copy of the Caius MS.
A Latin Comedy formerly acted in Trinity college, Cambridge. Ed.
Smith, G. C. Moore. 1905. Bang's Materialien, vol. VIII. [The text
is based on the edition of 1631, the variants in the Caius MS being
given in the textual notes. ]
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 279-281, preceded by critical remarks,
including the theory that Holofernes was derived from Pedantius.
Harington, Sir John. Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse.
1591. (Contains incidental references to the play. )
Harvey, Gabriel. Rhetor. 1577.
Smithus; vel Musarum Lachrymae. 1578.
Xalpe vel Gratulationes Valdenses. 1578.
Three Proper and Wittie familiar letters. 1580.
(Phrases from these works are introduced into the play. )
Nashe, Thomas. Have with you to Saffron Walden. 1596.
Strange Newes. 1593. Here Nashe speaks of ‘M. Winkfield's[i. e.
Anthony Wingfield's] Comoedie of Pedantius in Trinity College. '
## p. 481 (#499) ############################################
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481
Smith, G. C. Moore. Introduction to edition of the play (ante). In-
clines to attribute authorship of the work, in the main, to Edward
Forsett. Identifies Pedantius with Gabriel Harvey.
In a review of this edition, Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. I, no. 3,
pp. 235-8, Boas, F. 8. , supports Wingfield's claim.
Notes on some English University Plays. Mod. Lang. Rev.
vol. III, no. 2, p. 142. Supplementary notes on Pedantius.
RALPH WORSELEY.
Synedrium, id est, Consessus animalium videlicet collectio mor[a]e comoediae
ant pocius tragoediae descriptive. (In Latin prose. Imperfect.
)
Synedrii idest consessus animalium inscripta tragoedia. A. D. 1553. Mense
Novembris 14 die. . . . Finis. 27 die. Febr. 1554. Per me Radulphum
Worselaeum. (In Latin verse. )
MS in Trin. coll. Cam. , 0. 3. 25.
CHRISTOPHER WRENN.
ΦΥΣΙ - ΠΟΝΟ. ΜΑΧΙΑ. A Latin Comedy dedicated to Buckeridge, J. ,
President of St John's coll. Oxon. MS in Bodleian, 30.
RICHARD ZOUCH.
The Sophister. A Comedy. 1639.
Fallacy or The Troubles of great Hermenia Aug: 13: 1631. R. Z. Brit.
Mus. Harl. MSS, 6869.
AUTHORS UNKNOWN.
Amurath.
The tragedy of Amurath, 3rd tyrant of the Turkes, as it was publickly
presented to the University of Oxford by the Students of Christchurch,
Mathew's day, 1618. (Historical MSS Comm. Rep. vol. 1. p. 49. )
Andronicus Commenus.
Andronicus Commenus. MS in Brit. Mus. , Sloane 1767. A Latin tragedy.
Jahrbuch, xxxiv, p. 256.
Antoninus Bassianus Caracalla.
Antoninus Bassianus Caracalla. MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson C, 590. A
Latin tragedy.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, XXXIV, pp. 265-7.
Band, Cuffe and Ruffe.
A Merrie Dialogue, Betweene Band, Cuffe, and Ruffe: Done by an excellent
Wit, And Lately acted in a shew in the famous Universitie of Cambridge.
London. 1615.
Exchange Ware at the Second hand, viz. Band, Ruffe and Cuffe, lately out
and now newly dearned up. Or A dialogue, acted in a shew in the
famous Universitie of Cambridge. The second edition. 1615. Adds an
introductory dialogue.
A 3rd ed. appeared in 1661, with the same title as the 1st ed. , and
without the introductory dialogue.
MS in Brit. Mus. , Add. 23723, also lacks this introduction.
Rptd in Harleian Miscell. vol. x, pp. 204-9, ed. Park, T. , 1813
(mod. s. ); contains a Prologue taken from a MS copy 'which is said to
have been acted at Oxford, Feb. 24, 1646. ' Also rptd in Miscell. Antiqua
Anglicana, vol. II, ed. Hindley, C. ; and in Contributions to Early
English Literature, ed. Halliwell-Phillipps, J. 0. , 1849.
E. L. VI.
31
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482
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Bellum Grammaticale.
Bellum Grammaticale, sive Nominum Verborumque discordia civilis Tragico-
Comoedia. Summo cum applausu olim apud Oxonienses in Scaenam
producta & nunc in omnium illorum qui ad Gramaticam animos appellant
oblectamentum edita. Londini. Excudebant B. A. & T. F. Impensis
Joh: Spenceri, 1635 (ascribed by Dr R. Gardiner to Leonard Hutten
of Christ Church, but Anthony à Wood contradicts this. Ath. Ox, vol. II,
p. 533. )
. . Tragico-Comedia . . . producta, olim, apud Oxonienses, coram
Serenissima Elizabetha Anglorum Regina, iterum in Schola Pelliorum,
apud Tunbrigienses, 1718. . . . Editio hæc altera est multo emendatior,
cura Richardi Spenceri Scholæ Tunbrigiensis Magistri. 1726. Another
issue in 1729.
ad exemplar M" Alexandri Humii . . . editum Edinburgi, excud. Gideon
Lithgo, Anno Dom. 1658. Another issue by Mosman, George, in 1698.
(As to an edition of the play by Irvine, Christopher, from a MS of
Hume, Alexander, a Scotsman resident for some time in Oxford, see
Aldis, H. G. , A List of Books printed in Scotland 1700, p. 98; and
under Bolte, J. , post. )
Rptd from the edition of 1635 in Andrea Guarnas Bellum Gram-
maticale und seine Nachamungen, pp. 106-147, ed. Bolte, J. 1908.
(Monumenta Germaniæ Pedagogica, vol. XLII. )
Bolte also reprints, pp. 148-9, the prologue and epilogue to the play,
written by Gager, William, for its performance before Elizabeth in
September 1592, and printed as an appendix to his Meleager.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 273-5, preceded by critical remarks.
Source: Grammaticale Bellom Nominis et Verbi Regum: de princi-
palitate orationis inter se contendentium: nuper editum a Rever. d.
Andrea Salernitano Patricio Cremon. 1511. 103 editions appeared in
various countries between 1511 and 1739.
Bptd by Bolte (op. cit. ), with a parallel text of a revised edition by
Spangenberg, J. , pp. 3–55. This edition includes the texts of a number
of adaptations of the work, and has an elaborate introduction and
bibliography.
Translations and other adaptations of Guarna's work in England.
Bale, John: Scriptorum illustrium. . . . Catalogus. I, 700, mentions that
R. Radcliff'scripsit de Nominis ac Verbi, potentissimorum regum
in regno Grammatico, calamitosa & exitiali pugna, Lib. 2. '
Hayward, W. Bellum Grammaticale. A discourse of great war and
dissention betweene two worthy Princes, the Noune and the Verbe,
contending for the chefe place or dignitie in Oration.
Very
pleasant & profitable. Turned into english by W. H. 1569.
Later eds. in 1576 and 1635. Rptd in Lord Somers' Tracts,
vol. 1, pp. 1-29, 1750, and in the 2nd ed. of the Tracts, vol. 1,
pp. 523-554, 1809.
Hoadley, S. (? ). The Warr of Grammar a Tragick-Comedy Acted by
the Scholars of Cranebrook School more than once not without
Applause. In which the whole vulgar Grammar with something
of the Authors own, is festiveously handled. MS in Brit. Mus. , Add.
22725. On leaf 3a ‘Basileia seu Bellum Grammaticale Tragico-
Comodia. Sub ferias Nativitatis acta, à Generosis Scholae Crane-
burgensis alumnis. An. 1666. ' On the first leaf'Samuel Hoadley
His Book 1667. As Hoadley was an assistant master at Cranbrook
6
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483
at the time, and an author of grammatical works, he was probably
the author of the play, which is an adaptation of the Oxford play
rather than of Guarna's original work. (See Bolte's introduction,
pp. 41-43. )
Turner, W.
