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Wager, L. The Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene. A morality play
rptd from the original ed. of 1566, ed. by Carpenter, F. J. New ed.
Chicago, 1904.
The Triall of Treasure. Ptd by Thomas Parfoote, 1567. Ed. for Percy Soc.
Publ. , vol. XXVIII, by Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. 0. , 1850, and rptd in
Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. III.
Fulwel, U. Like wil to Like quod the Devel to the Colier. Ptd by John
Allde in 1568 and by Edward Allde in 1587. Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley,
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vol. III.
The Marriage of Witte and Science. Licensed 1569-70. Ptd by Thomas
Marshe. 8. a. Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. II.
The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom, Ed. Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. O. , Shakesp.
Soc. Publ. 1846.
Wager, William. The longer thou livest, the more Fool thou art. Ptd by
William How. s. a. Rptd by Brandl, A. , in Shakesp. Jahrbuch, vol.
XXXVI, 1900.
New Custome. Ptd 1573. Rptd in Reed's Dodsley, vol. 1; in Collier's
Dodsley, vol. 1, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. II.
Wapul, George. The Tide tarrieth no man. Ptd by Hugh Jackson in 1576.
Rptd by Bühl, E. , in Shakesp. Jahrbuch, vol. XLIII, 1907.
Lupton, Thomas. All for Money. Ptd 1578. Rptd in Halliwell-Phillipps,
J. O. , Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries illustrated, 1851; and,
with an Introduction by Vogel, E. , in Shakesp. Jahrbuch, vol. xl, 1904.
Woodes, Nathaniel. The Conflict of Conscience. Ptd in 1581. Rptd from
the ed. published for the Roxburghe Club by Collier, J. P. , in 1851, in
Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. II, with Collier's Introduction.
(Wilson, Robert, the actor? ) The Three Ladies of London. Ptd 1584, as
acted. Bptd in Five Old Plays, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. VI.
The Three Lords and the Three Ladies of London. Ptd 1590. Rptd in
Five Old Plays, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. vi.
Fernow, H. The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London. By
Robert) Wilson). London, 1590. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte
des Englischen Dramas. Hamburg, 1885.
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The Contention between Liberalitie and Prodigalitie. Acted before Queen
Elizabeth in 1600; probably the revision of an earlier work. Ptd in
Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. VIII.
Lyndsay, Sir David. Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis in commendation of
Vertew and Vituperation of Vyce. Ptd at Edinburgh in 1602. Rptd in
Chalmers's ed. of Lyndsay's Poetical Works, 3 vols. , 1866, and in D.
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burgh, 1835.
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[A moral play, of which some pages are rptd in Maitland, S. R. , A List of
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moralité, La Vérité Cachée. ]
CHAPTER IV
EARLY ENGLISH TRAGEDY
I. LATIN TRAGEDIES.
Buchanan, while a master at the Collège de Guyenne at Bordeaux,
1539-42, translated into Latin Euripides's Medea and Alcestis and wrote
two Latin tragedies, Jephthes and Johannes Baptistes, to be performed by
his pupils. They were printed, the former in 1554, and the latter, which is
described by the author as his primus foetus, in 1576. Several translations
exist, one of Baptistes, ascribed to Milton, others, more recent, by Gibb, A.
(1870) and Mitchell, A. Gordon (1902). Ascham, in a well known passage
of The Scholemaster, commends, together with Jephthes, Thomas Watson's
Absalon--perhaps the Latin tragedy preserved in Stowe MS 957 in the
British Museum. This Thomas Watson (1513-84) must be distinguished from
the author of the Latin translation of Sophocles's Antigone, printed in 1581,
of which Gabriel Harvey writes in his copy of Gascoigne in the Bodleian
library: ‘magnifice acta solenni ritu et verè tragico apparatu. Nicholas
Grimald's Archipropheta, a tragedy on the subject of John the Baptist,
was printed at Cologne in 1548, and, apparently, written in 1547, when its
author was elected a senior at Christ Church, Oxford. It is an adaptation of
Johannes Decollatus by Jacob Schoepper of Dortmund, ptd at Cologne in
1546. (A translation by Charles J. Tibbits was published in 1906. ) Beza's
tragedy of Abraham's Sacrifice (in which Satan appears as a monk) appeared
in a translation by Arthur Golding in 1577. (Edited by Wallace, M. W. ,
University of Toronto Studies, 1907. ) John Foxe's Christus Triumphans,
published in 1556, and translated into English by Richard Day (1578), is a
religious drama of an early type. A list of university plays in Latin is given
in Fleay's English Drama, vol. 11, p. 359, and a fuller list, prepared by
Churchill, G. B. and Keller, W. , in Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. xxxiv, p. 221. See
also Notes on some English University Plays, by Moore Smith, G. C. , in
The Modern Language Review, vol. II, p. 141. [See Spearing, E. M. , on The
Elizabethan Tenne Tragedies of Seneca, in vol. iv, 1908. ]
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II. EARLY PRINTED HISTORIES AND TRAGEDIES.
The following list is arranged according to date of publication. It does
not include translations or other plays not intended for stage representation.
In view, however, of the influence of Seneca on Early English Tragedy
details as to the collective edition of the ten Senecan tragedies, and the
original editions of translations of the several plays are given in a note
based on Greg's List of Plays1. Plays ascribed to Shakespeare or to his
leading contemporaries will be found under the bibliography of the par-
ticular author. As to Bale's Kynge Johan, an earlier Tudor morality
partaking largely of the nature of the chronicle history, see below under
sec. III and bibliography to chap. III, sec. III C.
The Tragedie of Gorboduc, whereof three Actes were wrytten by Thomas
Nortone, and the two laste by Thomas Sackvyle. Sett forthe as the
same was shewed before the Quenes most excellent Majestie, in her
highnes Court of Whitehall, the . xviii. day of January, Anno Domini
1561. By the Gentlemen of Thynner Temple in London. 1565. [Another
edition, 1590. ] See, below, under sec. IV, Canliffe, J. W.
1 Seneca His Tenne Tragedies, Translated into Englysh. 1581.
The dedication is signed by Thomas Newton, the editor of the volume, which
contains the following plays, with the names of the translators :
Hercules Furens
Jasper Heywood.
Thyestes
Jasper Heywood.
Thebais
Thomas Newton.
Hippolytus
John Studley.
Edipus
Alex. Nevyle.
Troas
Jasper Heywood.
Medea
John Studley.
Agamemnon
John Studley.
Octavia
T. N. [T. Nuce).
Hercules Oetaeus
J. S. (John Studley).
Rptd for the Spenser Society, Manchester, 1887, with an Introduction by Leigh, J.
An English prose version of The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, with notes, was published
by Bradshaw, Watson, in 1902. (See Spearing, E. M. , on The Elizabethan Tenne
Tragedies of Seneca, in Modern Language Review, vol. iv, 1908. )
The following are the original editions of particular plays:
Troas . . . Newly set forth in Englishe by Jasper Heywood studient in Oxenforde. 1559.
Thyestes . . . faithfully Englished by Jasper Heywood fellowe of Alsolne College in
Oxforde. 1560.
Hercules furens . . . faithfully translated into English metre . . . By Jasper Heywood
studient in Oxford. 1561.
Oedipus the Sonne of Laius Kyng of Thebes out of Seneca. By Alexander Nevyle.
1563.
Agamemnon. Translated out of Latin into English, by John Studley, Student in
Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge. 1566.
Medea : Translated out of Latin into English, by John Studley, Student in Trinitie
Colledge in Cambridge. 1566.
Octavia. Translated out of Latine into English, by T. N. [Nuce] Student in Cambridge.
[Jasper Heywood was the younger of the two sons of John Heywood, the writer
of interludes, and was born about 1535. Having held a fellowship successively at
Magdalen and at All Souls college, Oxford, he left the university and, in 1561, became
a Roman Catholic priest, and, finally, provincial of the Jesuits. He died at Naples in
.
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The Tragidie of Ferrex and Porrex, set forth without addition or alteration
but altogether as the same was shewed on stage before the Queenes
Majestie, about nine yeares past, vz. the xviii. day of Januarie. 1561.
by the gentlemen of the Inner Temple. Seen and allowed etc. (c. 1570. ]
Rptd in Dodsley (1744), vol. 11, in Origin of E. D. , vol. 11, in Reeds
Dodsley, vol. 1, in Ancient B. D. , vol. 1, in Collier's Dudsley,
vol. 1, in (Old) Shakesp. Soc. Publ. , 1847, in Manly's Specimens,
vol. 11, and in E. E. D. Publ. (1906) and Tudor Facsimile Texts
(1908). See, also, below under sec. IV, Sackville-West, K. W. ,
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A Newe Enterlude of Vice Conteyninge, the Historye of Horestes with the
cruell revengment of his Fathers death, upon his one naturtil Mother.
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and in Brandl's Quellen. As to the identity of this play with the
*Orestes' acted at Court 1567-8, see Feuillerat, Documents, p. 119,
and note on p. 449.
A lamentable Tragedie, mixed full of plesant mirth, containing the life of
Cambises king of Percia, from the beginning of his kingdome, unto his
death, his one good deede of execution, after that many wicked deedes
and tyrannous murders, committed by and through him, and last of all,
his odious death by Gods Justice appointed. Done in such order as
followeth. By Thomas Preston. [Stationers' register, 1567-8. ]
Rptd in Origin of E. D. , vol. I, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. iv.
The excellent Comedie of two the moste faithfullest Freendes, Damon and
Pithias. Newly Imprinted, as the same was shewed before the Queenes
Majestie, by the Children of her Graces Chappell, except the Prologue
that is somewhat altered for the proper use of them that hereafter shall
hare occasion to plaie it, either in Private, or open Audience. Made
by Maister Edwards, then beynge Maister of the Children. 1571.
[Stationers' register, 1567-8. ]
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vol. iv, and in E. E. D. Publ. (1906) and Tudor Facsimile Texts
(1908).
Jocasta: A Tragedie written in Greke by Euripides, translated and digested
into Acte by George Gascoygne, and Francis Kinwelmershe of Grayes
Inne, and there by them presented. 1566. [Part of A Hundreth sundrie
Flowres, published 1573; reprinted in Gascoigne's Posies, 1575, and in
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Bptd in Four Old Plays (1848), in Hazlitt's and in Cunliffe's Gas-
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(Cunliffe, J. W. , and Schelling, F. E. )
A new Tragicall Comedie of Apius and Virginia, Wherein is lively expressed
a rare example of the vertue of Chastitie, by Virginias constancy, in
wishing rather to be slaine at her owne Fathers handes, then to be
deflowred of the wicked Judge Apius. By R. B. 1575. [Stationers'
register, 1567-8. ]
Rptd in Dilke's 0. E. P. , vol. v, in Collier's Dodsley, vol. xii, in
Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. iv, and in E. E. D. Publ. (1908) and Tudor
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The Right Excellent and famous Historye, of Promos and Cassandra;
Devided into two Commicall Discourses. In the fyrste parte is showne,
the unsufferable abuse, of a lewde Magistrate: The vertuous behaviours
of a chaste Ladye: The uncontrowled leawdenes of a favoured Curtisan.
And the undeserved estimation of a pernicious Parasyte. In the second
parte is discoursed, the perfect magnanimitye of a noble kinge, in checking
vice and favouringe Vertue: Wherein is showne, the Ruyne and over-
throwe, of dishonest practises: with the advauncement of upright dealing.
The worke of George Whetstones, Gent. 1578.
Rptd in Six Old Plays, vol. 1, in Hazlitt, Shakespeare's Library, vol.
VI, and in Gollancz's Shakespeare Classics (1909), under the title
Promos and Cassandra the Source of Measure for Measure.
Certaine devises and shewes presented to her Majestie by the Gentlemen of
Grayes-Inne at her Highnesse Court in Greenewich, the twenty-eighth
day of Februarie in the thirtieth yeare of her Majesties most happy
Raigne. 1587. Includes The Misfortunes of Arthur, by Thomas Hughes.
Rptd in Five Old Plays (1828 and 1833), and in Hazlitt's Dodsley,
vol. iv. (See also below under sec. IV, Grumbine, H. C. )
The Troublesome Raigne of John King of England, with the discoverie of
King Richard Cordelions Base sonne (vulgarly named, The Bastard
Fawconbridge); also the death of King John at Swinstead Abbey. As
it was (sundry times) publikely acted by the Queenes Majesties Players,
in the honourable Citie of London. 1591. [Later editions, 1611 and
1622. ]
Rptd in Six Old Plays, vol. 11, and in Hazlitt, Shakespeare's Library,
vol. v. Facsimile quarto ed. 1888.
The Tragedie of Tancred and Gismund. Compiled by the Gentlemen of the
Inner Temple, and by them presented before her Majestie. Newly
revived and polished according to the decorum of these daies. By R. W.
1591.
Rptd in Dodsley (1744), vol. xi, in Reed's Dodsley, vol. 11, in Collier's
Dodsley, vol. 11, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. vii. (See, also, below
under sec. III, Gismond of Salerne. )
The Life and Death of Jacke Straw, A notable Rebell in England: Who
was kild in Smithfield by the Lord Maior of London. 1593.
Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. v.
The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke
and Lancaster, with the death of the good Duke Humphrey: And the
banishment and death of the Duke of Suffolke, and the Tragicall end of
the proud Cardinall of Winchester, with the notable Rebellion of Jack
Cade: And the Duke of Yorkes first claime unto the Crowne. 1594.
Another edition in 1600; combined in 1619 with the True Tragedie of
Richard Duke of Yorke (see below) under the title, The Whole
Contention betweene the two Famous Houses, Lancaster and
Yorke. With the Tragicall ends of the good Duke Humfrey,
Richard Duke of Yorke, and King Henrie the sixt. Divided into
two Parts: And newly corrected and enlarged. Written by William
Shakespeare, Gent. The Whole Contention was included by
Steevens and Knight in their editions of Shakespeare; the earlier
quartos were rptd in (Old) Shakesp. Soc. Publ. , 1843, in
Hazlitt, Shakespeare's Library, vols. v. and vi, and in The Cam-
bridge Shakespeare, (1863–6), vol. v. (Second edition, 1893, vol. ix. )
Facsimiles by Charles Praetorius, 1889 and 1891.


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The First part of the Tragicall raigne of Selimus, sometime Emperour of the
Turkes, and grandfather to him that now raigneth. Wherein is showne
how hee most unnaturally raised warres against his owne father Bajazet,
and prevailing therein, in the end caused him to be poysoned: Also with
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Edward the fourth, with the smothering of the two yoong Princes in the
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wicked women. And lastly the conjunction and joyning of the two noble
Houses, Lancaster and Yorke.