CHAPTER VI
THE PLAYS OF THE UNIVERSITY WITS
The following works may be consulted with regard to all the writers
treated in this chapter, together with the general Histories.
THE PLAYS OF THE UNIVERSITY WITS
The following works may be consulted with regard to all the writers
treated in this chapter, together with the general Histories.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05
Chap.
III.
Leach, A. F. Some English Plays and Players. Furnivall Miscellany.
1901.
Macropedius, G. Asotus Evangelicus, seu evangelica de filio prodigo para
bola . . . comice descripta. Bois le Duc, 1537.
Comicarum fabularum G. Macropedii duae, Rebelles videlicet et Aluta.
Rptd in Lateinische Litteraturdenkmäler, no. 13, ed. Bolte, J. 1891.
1540.
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413
Manlsby, D. L. The relation between Udall's Roister Doister and the
comedies of Plautus and Terence. Engl. Stud. vol. XXXVIII, part II,
1907.
Maxwell-Lyte, H. C. History of Eton College, 1440-1898. 3rd ed. 1899.
Roeder, A. Menechmi und Amphitruo in englischen Drama. 1904.
Sargeaunt, J. Annals of Westminster School. 1898.
Scott, E. J. L. Accounts of the Westminster Play, 1564 and 1616. The
Athenæum, 14 February 1903. [Heautontimoroumenos and Miles
Gloriosus. ]
Stymmelius, C. Studentes, comedia de vita studiosorum nunc primum in
lucem edita authore M. C. Stummelio, F. Frankfurt, 1550.
Wallace, M. W. The Birthe of Hercules. 1903. An edition of an anonymous
MS translation of the Amphitruo (c. 1610) with an introduction on Roman
comedy in England.
Watson, Foster. The English Grammar Schools to 1660. Their Curriculum
and Practice. 1898.
Wilson, H. B. The History of Merchant-Taylors' School from its foundation
to the present time. 1812-4.
Wilson, J. D. Euphuism and The Prodigal Son. The Library, October 1909.
Woodruff, C. E. and Cape, H. J. Schola Regia Cantuariensis: a history of
Canterbury School, commonly called the King's School. 1908.
ANONYMOUS COMEDIES OF ITALIAN OR ROMANTIC ORIGIN.
The Bugbears.
Lansdowne MSS, 807, ff. 55-77. [The MS, which is written in five different
hands, is imperfect, as the title-page, the greater part of fol. 61 and the last
leaf are missing. The title, The Buggbears, has been added later, by a
sixth hand. At the end of the text there is the entry: Soli deo honor et
gloria Johannus Jeffere scribebat hoc. ]
Printed in Herrig's Archiv, vol. XCVIII, pp. 301-322, and vol. xcix,
pp. 25-58; ed. Grabau, C. , 1897. See, also, above, Bond, R. W. , under
General Authorities.
Sources.
Graban, C. Quellenuntersuchung. Herrig's Archiv, vol. xcix, pp. 311-326.
Grazzini, A. F. La Spiritata. 1561. (See also text, chap. v, p. 115. ) See,
also, above, Bond, R. W. , under General Authorities.
Common Conditions.
[A Pleasant Comedie called Common Conditions. ] The copy in the Chats-
worth library contains only the pages from sig. B 1 to F IV. The title-page
and beginning and end of the play are thus missing. The title is, however,
obtained from the headline to the pages. The play is entered in the
Stationers' register on 26 July 1576.
Transcript by Malone, E. , in the Bodleian library. Bptd in Brandl's
Quellen. See Introduction, pp. cxii-cxviii. Photographic facsimile and
reprint, ed. Tucker Brooke, C. F. Yale and Oxford, 1915.
The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune.
The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune. Plaide before the Queenes most
excellent Majestie: wherein are many fine Conceites with great delight.
At London. Printed by E. A. for Edward White. . . . 1589.
Rptd from the unique copy in the Bridgewater house library in Five
Old Plays (mod. s. ), and thence in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. VI, with
Collier's General Introduction. Identical with A Historie of Love and
9
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ffortune shewed before her majestie at Wyndesor on the sondaie at night
next before newe yeares daie Enacted by the Earle of Derbies servauntes
(Revels' Accounts, 1582-3).
Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes.
The Historie of the two valiant Knights, Sir Clyomon Knight of the Golden
Sheeld, sonne to the King of Denmarke: And Clamydes the White Knight,
sonne to the King of Suavia. As it hath been sundry times Aoted by her
Majesties Players. Thomas Creede. 1599.
Rptd in The Dramatic Works of George Peele, ed. Dyce, A. , 1829-39
(mod. s. ), reissued with R. Greene's works, 1861, and in The works of George
Peele, ed. Bullen, A. H. , 1898 (mod. s. ). [Dyce ascribed the play to Peele
merely because his name was written in an old handwriting on the title-
page of one of the extant copies. Bullen thinks that the play was written
by some such person as Richard Edwards. ']
Criticism.
Fleay's English Drama. Vol. 11, pp. 295-7.
Kellner, L. Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes. Ein romantisches Schauspiel des
16. Jahrhunderts. Engl. Stud, vol. XIII, pp. 187—229, 1889.
Kittredge, G. L. Notes on Elizabethan Plays. Journal of Germanic Philo-
logy, vol. II, pp. 8-9, 1898. [Kittredge ascribes this play to Thomas
Preston. )
Morley H. Vol. ix, pp. 238-245. (Includes a summary of the plot of the
play. )
General Authorities.
Cunliffe, J. W. The Influence of Italian on Early Elizabethan Drama. Mod.
Philology, vol. iv, pp. 597-605, 1907.
Murray, J. R. The Influence of Italian upon English Literature during the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. 1886.
Schucking, L. L. Studien über die stofflichen Beziehungen der englischen
Komoedie zur italienischen bis Lilly. Halle, 1901.
CHAPTER VI
THE PLAYS OF THE UNIVERSITY WITS
The following works may be consulted with regard to all the writers
treated in this chapter, together with the general Histories.
Boas, F. S. Shakespeare and his Predecessors. 1896.
Mezières, A. J. F. Prédécesseurs et Contemporains de Shakespeare. Paris,
1863.
Symonds, J. A. Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama. 1884.
New ed. 1900.
I. John LYLY.
A. Plays.
(i) Original Editions.
A moste excellent Comedie of Alexander, Campaspe, and Diogenes, Played
before the Queenes Majestie on twelfe day at night by her Majesties
children, and the children of Poules. 1584.
## p. 415 (#439) ############################################
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415
Sapho and Phao, Played beefore the Queenes Majestie on Shrovetewsday, by
her Majesties Children, and the Boyes of Paules. By John Lilly. 1584.
Endimion, The Man in the Moone. Playd before the Queenes Majestie at
Greenewich on Candlemas day at night, by the Chyldren' of Paules.
1591.
Gallathea. As it was playdo before the Queenes Majestie at Greene-wiche,
on Newyeeres day at Night. By the Chyldren of Paules. At London.
1592.
Midas. Plaied Before The Queenes Majestie Upon Twelfe Day At night.
By the Children of Paules. 1592.
Mother Bombie. As it was sundrie times plaied by the Children of Powles,
London. 1594.
The Woman in the Moone. As it was presented before her Highnesse. By
John Lyllie maister of Artes. 1597.
Loves Metamorphosis. A Wittie and Courtly Pastorall, Written By Mr John
Lyllie. First playd by the Children of Paules, and now by the Children
of the Chappell. 1601.
(ii) Modern Editions.
Complete Works. Ed. Bond, R. W. 3 vols. 1902. [The standard edition. ]
Dramatic Works. Ed. Fairholt, F. W. 2 vols. 1858.
Sixe Court Comedies. Contains: Endimion, Alexander and Campaspe,
Sapho and Phao, Gallathea, Midas, Mother Bombie. Ed. Blount, E.
1632.
Endymion. Ed. Baker, G. P. 1894.
The Maydes Metamorphosis. Bullen's Old English Plays, vol. 1.
The Maids Metamorphosis. Tudor Reprints and Parallel Texts. 1908.
B. Critical Material.
Bang, W. and de Vocht. Klassiker und Humanisten : John Lyly und
Erasmus. Engl. Stud. vol. XXXVI, part 111, 1906.
Bond, R. W. Lyly's Doubtful Poems. The Athenæum, 9 May 1903.
[Important as supplementing statements in Bond's edition. ]
Child, C. G. John Lyly and Euphuism. Münchener Beiträge, vol. VII.
Erlangen and Leipzig, 1894.
Creizenach. Vol. iv, part 1, pp. 48-65.
Dudley, Robert, Memoirs of. Collectanea Adamantaea, xxiv. 1887.
Ferrière, H. de la. Projets de Mariage de la Reine Elisabeth. 1882.
Feuillerat, A. John Lyly. Contribution à l'histoire de la renaissance en
Angleterre. Cambridge, 1910. [A work of high importance. ]
Gabbett, H. S. Spenser's Pleasant Willy. The Athenæum, 16 Oct. 1875.
Greg, W. W. On the Authorship of the Songs in Lyly's Plays. Modern
Language Quarterly, vol. I, 1905.
Halpin, N. J. Oberon's Vision in Midsummer Night's Dream illustrated by
a comparison with Lyly's Endymion. Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1843.
Hart, J. M. Euphuism. 1889.
Hense, C. C. John Lyly and Shakespeare. Shakesp. Jahrb. vols. vii and
VIII, 1872 and 1873.
John Lyly et l'euphuisme. Revue de Cours et Conférences, vol. viii, p. 11.
Koeppel, E. Studien zur Geschichte der italienischen Novelle in der engli-
schen Litteratur des 16en Jahrhunderts. (Quellen und Forschungen
zur Sprach- und Culturgeschichte der germanischen Völker. ) 1892.
Zu John Lyly's Alexander und Campaspe. Herrig's Archiv, vol. cx,
1903.
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Landmann, F. Der Euphuismus, sein Wesen, seine Quelle, seine Geschichte.
(Diss. ) Giessen, 1881.
Shakespeare and Euphuism. New Shaksp. Soc. Trans. , 1880-2.
Long, P. W. The Purport of Lyly's Endymion. Mod. Lang. Assoc. vol. XXIV,
p. 1, 1909. [Suggests, in lieu of personal allegory, an interpretation
consonant with the courtly love-making in vogue at the time. ]
Mackenzie, D. J. An Elizabethan Endymion. In Byways Among Books.
1900.
Morley, Henry. On Eaphuism. Quarterly Review, vol. cıx, 1861.
Prowse, A. B. Nature Notes on Campaspe. The Academy, 1880.
Rushton, W. L. Shakespeare's Euphuism. 1871.
Sprenger, R. Zu John Lilly's Campaspe. Engl. Stud. vol. xvi, p. 156.
Wendelstein, L. Zur Vorgeschichte des Euphuismus.
Leach, A. F. Some English Plays and Players. Furnivall Miscellany.
1901.
Macropedius, G. Asotus Evangelicus, seu evangelica de filio prodigo para
bola . . . comice descripta. Bois le Duc, 1537.
Comicarum fabularum G. Macropedii duae, Rebelles videlicet et Aluta.
Rptd in Lateinische Litteraturdenkmäler, no. 13, ed. Bolte, J. 1891.
1540.
## p. 413 (#437) ############################################
Chapter V V
413
Manlsby, D. L. The relation between Udall's Roister Doister and the
comedies of Plautus and Terence. Engl. Stud. vol. XXXVIII, part II,
1907.
Maxwell-Lyte, H. C. History of Eton College, 1440-1898. 3rd ed. 1899.
Roeder, A. Menechmi und Amphitruo in englischen Drama. 1904.
Sargeaunt, J. Annals of Westminster School. 1898.
Scott, E. J. L. Accounts of the Westminster Play, 1564 and 1616. The
Athenæum, 14 February 1903. [Heautontimoroumenos and Miles
Gloriosus. ]
Stymmelius, C. Studentes, comedia de vita studiosorum nunc primum in
lucem edita authore M. C. Stummelio, F. Frankfurt, 1550.
Wallace, M. W. The Birthe of Hercules. 1903. An edition of an anonymous
MS translation of the Amphitruo (c. 1610) with an introduction on Roman
comedy in England.
Watson, Foster. The English Grammar Schools to 1660. Their Curriculum
and Practice. 1898.
Wilson, H. B. The History of Merchant-Taylors' School from its foundation
to the present time. 1812-4.
Wilson, J. D. Euphuism and The Prodigal Son. The Library, October 1909.
Woodruff, C. E. and Cape, H. J. Schola Regia Cantuariensis: a history of
Canterbury School, commonly called the King's School. 1908.
ANONYMOUS COMEDIES OF ITALIAN OR ROMANTIC ORIGIN.
The Bugbears.
Lansdowne MSS, 807, ff. 55-77. [The MS, which is written in five different
hands, is imperfect, as the title-page, the greater part of fol. 61 and the last
leaf are missing. The title, The Buggbears, has been added later, by a
sixth hand. At the end of the text there is the entry: Soli deo honor et
gloria Johannus Jeffere scribebat hoc. ]
Printed in Herrig's Archiv, vol. XCVIII, pp. 301-322, and vol. xcix,
pp. 25-58; ed. Grabau, C. , 1897. See, also, above, Bond, R. W. , under
General Authorities.
Sources.
Graban, C. Quellenuntersuchung. Herrig's Archiv, vol. xcix, pp. 311-326.
Grazzini, A. F. La Spiritata. 1561. (See also text, chap. v, p. 115. ) See,
also, above, Bond, R. W. , under General Authorities.
Common Conditions.
[A Pleasant Comedie called Common Conditions. ] The copy in the Chats-
worth library contains only the pages from sig. B 1 to F IV. The title-page
and beginning and end of the play are thus missing. The title is, however,
obtained from the headline to the pages. The play is entered in the
Stationers' register on 26 July 1576.
Transcript by Malone, E. , in the Bodleian library. Bptd in Brandl's
Quellen. See Introduction, pp. cxii-cxviii. Photographic facsimile and
reprint, ed. Tucker Brooke, C. F. Yale and Oxford, 1915.
The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune.
The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune. Plaide before the Queenes most
excellent Majestie: wherein are many fine Conceites with great delight.
At London. Printed by E. A. for Edward White. . . . 1589.
Rptd from the unique copy in the Bridgewater house library in Five
Old Plays (mod. s. ), and thence in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. VI, with
Collier's General Introduction. Identical with A Historie of Love and
9
## p. 414 (#438) ############################################
414
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ffortune shewed before her majestie at Wyndesor on the sondaie at night
next before newe yeares daie Enacted by the Earle of Derbies servauntes
(Revels' Accounts, 1582-3).
Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes.
The Historie of the two valiant Knights, Sir Clyomon Knight of the Golden
Sheeld, sonne to the King of Denmarke: And Clamydes the White Knight,
sonne to the King of Suavia. As it hath been sundry times Aoted by her
Majesties Players. Thomas Creede. 1599.
Rptd in The Dramatic Works of George Peele, ed. Dyce, A. , 1829-39
(mod. s. ), reissued with R. Greene's works, 1861, and in The works of George
Peele, ed. Bullen, A. H. , 1898 (mod. s. ). [Dyce ascribed the play to Peele
merely because his name was written in an old handwriting on the title-
page of one of the extant copies. Bullen thinks that the play was written
by some such person as Richard Edwards. ']
Criticism.
Fleay's English Drama. Vol. 11, pp. 295-7.
Kellner, L. Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes. Ein romantisches Schauspiel des
16. Jahrhunderts. Engl. Stud, vol. XIII, pp. 187—229, 1889.
Kittredge, G. L. Notes on Elizabethan Plays. Journal of Germanic Philo-
logy, vol. II, pp. 8-9, 1898. [Kittredge ascribes this play to Thomas
Preston. )
Morley H. Vol. ix, pp. 238-245. (Includes a summary of the plot of the
play. )
General Authorities.
Cunliffe, J. W. The Influence of Italian on Early Elizabethan Drama. Mod.
Philology, vol. iv, pp. 597-605, 1907.
Murray, J. R. The Influence of Italian upon English Literature during the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. 1886.
Schucking, L. L. Studien über die stofflichen Beziehungen der englischen
Komoedie zur italienischen bis Lilly. Halle, 1901.
CHAPTER VI
THE PLAYS OF THE UNIVERSITY WITS
The following works may be consulted with regard to all the writers
treated in this chapter, together with the general Histories.
Boas, F. S. Shakespeare and his Predecessors. 1896.
Mezières, A. J. F. Prédécesseurs et Contemporains de Shakespeare. Paris,
1863.
Symonds, J. A. Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama. 1884.
New ed. 1900.
I. John LYLY.
A. Plays.
(i) Original Editions.
A moste excellent Comedie of Alexander, Campaspe, and Diogenes, Played
before the Queenes Majestie on twelfe day at night by her Majesties
children, and the children of Poules. 1584.
## p. 415 (#439) ############################################
Chapter VI
415
Sapho and Phao, Played beefore the Queenes Majestie on Shrovetewsday, by
her Majesties Children, and the Boyes of Paules. By John Lilly. 1584.
Endimion, The Man in the Moone. Playd before the Queenes Majestie at
Greenewich on Candlemas day at night, by the Chyldren' of Paules.
1591.
Gallathea. As it was playdo before the Queenes Majestie at Greene-wiche,
on Newyeeres day at Night. By the Chyldren of Paules. At London.
1592.
Midas. Plaied Before The Queenes Majestie Upon Twelfe Day At night.
By the Children of Paules. 1592.
Mother Bombie. As it was sundrie times plaied by the Children of Powles,
London. 1594.
The Woman in the Moone. As it was presented before her Highnesse. By
John Lyllie maister of Artes. 1597.
Loves Metamorphosis. A Wittie and Courtly Pastorall, Written By Mr John
Lyllie. First playd by the Children of Paules, and now by the Children
of the Chappell. 1601.
(ii) Modern Editions.
Complete Works. Ed. Bond, R. W. 3 vols. 1902. [The standard edition. ]
Dramatic Works. Ed. Fairholt, F. W. 2 vols. 1858.
Sixe Court Comedies. Contains: Endimion, Alexander and Campaspe,
Sapho and Phao, Gallathea, Midas, Mother Bombie. Ed. Blount, E.
1632.
Endymion. Ed. Baker, G. P. 1894.
The Maydes Metamorphosis. Bullen's Old English Plays, vol. 1.
The Maids Metamorphosis. Tudor Reprints and Parallel Texts. 1908.
B. Critical Material.
Bang, W. and de Vocht. Klassiker und Humanisten : John Lyly und
Erasmus. Engl. Stud. vol. XXXVI, part 111, 1906.
Bond, R. W. Lyly's Doubtful Poems. The Athenæum, 9 May 1903.
[Important as supplementing statements in Bond's edition. ]
Child, C. G. John Lyly and Euphuism. Münchener Beiträge, vol. VII.
Erlangen and Leipzig, 1894.
Creizenach. Vol. iv, part 1, pp. 48-65.
Dudley, Robert, Memoirs of. Collectanea Adamantaea, xxiv. 1887.
Ferrière, H. de la. Projets de Mariage de la Reine Elisabeth. 1882.
Feuillerat, A. John Lyly. Contribution à l'histoire de la renaissance en
Angleterre. Cambridge, 1910. [A work of high importance. ]
Gabbett, H. S. Spenser's Pleasant Willy. The Athenæum, 16 Oct. 1875.
Greg, W. W. On the Authorship of the Songs in Lyly's Plays. Modern
Language Quarterly, vol. I, 1905.
Halpin, N. J. Oberon's Vision in Midsummer Night's Dream illustrated by
a comparison with Lyly's Endymion. Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1843.
Hart, J. M. Euphuism. 1889.
Hense, C. C. John Lyly and Shakespeare. Shakesp. Jahrb. vols. vii and
VIII, 1872 and 1873.
John Lyly et l'euphuisme. Revue de Cours et Conférences, vol. viii, p. 11.
Koeppel, E. Studien zur Geschichte der italienischen Novelle in der engli-
schen Litteratur des 16en Jahrhunderts. (Quellen und Forschungen
zur Sprach- und Culturgeschichte der germanischen Völker. ) 1892.
Zu John Lyly's Alexander und Campaspe. Herrig's Archiv, vol. cx,
1903.
## p. 416 (#440) ############################################
416
Bibliography
Landmann, F. Der Euphuismus, sein Wesen, seine Quelle, seine Geschichte.
(Diss. ) Giessen, 1881.
Shakespeare and Euphuism. New Shaksp. Soc. Trans. , 1880-2.
Long, P. W. The Purport of Lyly's Endymion. Mod. Lang. Assoc. vol. XXIV,
p. 1, 1909. [Suggests, in lieu of personal allegory, an interpretation
consonant with the courtly love-making in vogue at the time. ]
Mackenzie, D. J. An Elizabethan Endymion. In Byways Among Books.
1900.
Morley, Henry. On Eaphuism. Quarterly Review, vol. cıx, 1861.
Prowse, A. B. Nature Notes on Campaspe. The Academy, 1880.
Rushton, W. L. Shakespeare's Euphuism. 1871.
Sprenger, R. Zu John Lilly's Campaspe. Engl. Stud. vol. xvi, p. 156.
Wendelstein, L. Zur Vorgeschichte des Euphuismus.
