(See, also, post, under the
headings
of certain University plays.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06
The Progresses of Queen Elizabeth.
3 vols.
1823.
Plummer, C. Elizabethan Oxford. (Oxford Hist. Soc. ) Oxford, 1887.
Revels, Documents Relating to the Office of the. Ed. Feuillerat, A. Bang's
Materialien, vol. XXI.
Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. Appendix to Seventh Report,
(MSS of Frere, G. E. and of Molyneux, W. M. ] 1879.
Schelling, F. E. The Queen's Progress. Boston, 1904.
Stettin, the Diary of the Duke of. Ed. Bülow, G. von, and Powell, W.
Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. , New Series, vol. vi, pp. 4-67. 1892.
Stopes, Charlotte C. William Hunnis. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. XXVII, pp. 200-216.
1892.
William Hunnis, the Dramatist. The Athenæum, no. 3779, pp. 410-412
31 March 1900.
Wallace, Charles William. The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars,
1597–1603. Lincoln, Nebraska, 1908.
CHAPTER XII
UNIVERSITY PLAYS
I. GENERAL AUTHORITIES.
Boas, F. S. The English Academic Drama. Clark Lectures delivered at
Trinity College, Cambridge, 1904-5. (In preparation for publication in
enlarged form. )
Bodleian Library. Catalogue of MSS. 13 vols. 1848–56.
Bowes, R. A catalogue of books printed at or relating to Cambridge, 1521–
1893. Cambridge, 1894.
Cambridge University Library. Catalogue of M88. 5 vols. 1856-6.
Chambers. Vol. 11.
Churchill, G. B. and Keller, W. Die lateinischen Universitäts-Dramen
Englands in der Zeit der Königin Elizabeth Mit Vorwort von A.
Brandi. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. XXXIV, pp. 221-323.
[An invaluable piece of research to which all students of the University
drama are deeply indebted. Several important MSS in the library of
Trinity college, Cambridge, are, however, omitted. This article is referred
to in the present bibliography as Jahrbuch, XXXIV. }
Clark, J. W. The Riot at the Great Gate of Trinity College February
1610–11. Cambridge Antiquarian Soc. 1906.
College Histories (especially the series published formerly by F. E. Robinson
now by Hutchinson and Co. ).
Creizenach.
Cooper, C. H. and J. W. Annals of Cambridge. 5 vols. Cambridge, 1852-1908.
Courtney, W. L. Oxford plays down to the Restoration. Notes and Queries,
Ser. VII, vol. 11, p. 464. 1886.
Dictionary of National Biography, ed. by Stephen, Sir L. and Lee, S. 63 vols.
1885-90,
Fleay's English Drama. Vol. 11, pp. 347-365 and 400-1.
## p. 469 (#487) ############################################
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469
Gofiot, L. V. Le Théâtre au Collège du moyen âge à nos jours. 1907.
Greg, W. W. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama. 1906.
Greg's List of Plays.
List of Masques.
Hazlitt's Handbook.
Herford's Literary Relations.
Humphrey, W. G. On the ancient amusements of the University. The
Cambridge Portfolio, vol. I, pp. 92–112. 1840.
James, M. R. Catalogues of MSS in Cambridge Colleges. Cambridge, 1895 ff.
Lee, Margaret, L. Narcissus, A Twelfe Night Merriment. 1893. The In-
troduction contains a list of Oxford plays.
Madan, F. A summary catalogue of Western MSS in the Bodleian Library.
1895.
The Early Oxford Press. 1468-1640. Oxford Hist. Soc. Publ. 1895.
Manuscript Materials relating to the History of Oxford. Oxford, 1887.
Merton College, Oxford, MS Register.
Mullinger, J. B. The University of Cambridge from the Injunctions of 1535
to the Accession of Charles I. 1884.
Nichols, J. P. Progresses of Queen Elizabeth. 1788. 2nd ed. 1823.
Progresses of James I. 1828.
Plummer, C. Elizabethan Oxford. Reprints of Rare Tracts. Oxford Hist.
Soc. Publ. 1887.
Retrospective Review, the, vol. xii, 1, pp. 1-42. The Latin Plays acted before
the University of Cambridge.
Schelling's Elizabethan Drama. Vol. 11, chap. xiv, The College Drama.
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod. 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.
## p. 470 (#488) ############################################
470
Bibliography
Roxana Tragoedia a plagiarii unguibus vindicata, aucta, & agnita ab Authore
Gulielmo Alabastro. 1632.
MSS in Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 17. 10; Univ. Lib. Cam. , Ff. 11. 9; Lambeth
Palace, 838; Emmanuel coll. Cam. , III. 1. 17.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 252-5.
Source: La Dalida. Tragedia nova di Luigi Groto, Cieco di Hadria.
1567.
Dobell, B. The Sonnets of William Alabaster. The Athenæum, 26 Dec.
1903.
THOMAS ATKINSON.
Homo. Brit. Mus. Harl. MSS, 6925. (Contains dedication to Laud, as Presi-
dent of St John's College, Oxford, by the author, Thomas Atkinson. )
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.
Melanthe: Fabula Pastoralis, arts cum Jacobus, Magnæ Brit. Franc. et
Hiberniæ Rex, Cantabrigiam suam nuper inviserat, ibidemque musarum
atque animi gratia dies quinque commoraretur. Egerunt Alumni Coll.
San, et individuæ Trinitatis Cantabrigiæ. 1615.
Scyros. MS in Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 3. 6. Fabula Pastoralis acta coram Principe
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.
Greg, W. W. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama. p. 251. (Note
on date of the play. ]
V.
ROBERT BURTON.
Philosophaster Comoedia Nova Scripta (originally Inchoata] Aº Domini
1606, Alterata, revisa (originally renovata), perfecta Aº Domini 1615,
Acta demum et publice exhibita Academicis In Aula Ædis Christi et A
Studiosis Ædis Christi Oxon. Alumnis Anno 1617, Februarii die decimo
sexto Die Lunæ Ad horam sextam pomeridianam. Auctore Roberto
Burton, Sacræ Theologiæ Baccalaureo Atque Ædis Christi Oxon.
Alumno. 1617. MSS in private hands.
Philophaster Comoedia, Nunc primum in lucem producta. . . . Auctore Roberto
Burtono, S. Th. B. , ‘Democrito Juniore,' Ex Æde Christi Oxon. Ed.
Buckley, W. E. (Roxburghe Club. ) 1862.
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT,
The Royall Slave. A Tragi-Comedy. Presented to the King and Queene
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
## p. 471 (#489) ############################################
Chapter XII
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.
Plummer, C. Elizabethan Oxford. (Oxford Hist. Soc. ) Oxford, 1887.
Revels, Documents Relating to the Office of the. Ed. Feuillerat, A. Bang's
Materialien, vol. XXI.
Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. Appendix to Seventh Report,
(MSS of Frere, G. E. and of Molyneux, W. M. ] 1879.
Schelling, F. E. The Queen's Progress. Boston, 1904.
Stettin, the Diary of the Duke of. Ed. Bülow, G. von, and Powell, W.
Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. , New Series, vol. vi, pp. 4-67. 1892.
Stopes, Charlotte C. William Hunnis. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. XXVII, pp. 200-216.
1892.
William Hunnis, the Dramatist. The Athenæum, no. 3779, pp. 410-412
31 March 1900.
Wallace, Charles William. The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars,
1597–1603. Lincoln, Nebraska, 1908.
CHAPTER XII
UNIVERSITY PLAYS
I. GENERAL AUTHORITIES.
Boas, F. S. The English Academic Drama. Clark Lectures delivered at
Trinity College, Cambridge, 1904-5. (In preparation for publication in
enlarged form. )
Bodleian Library. Catalogue of MSS. 13 vols. 1848–56.
Bowes, R. A catalogue of books printed at or relating to Cambridge, 1521–
1893. Cambridge, 1894.
Cambridge University Library. Catalogue of M88. 5 vols. 1856-6.
Chambers. Vol. 11.
Churchill, G. B. and Keller, W. Die lateinischen Universitäts-Dramen
Englands in der Zeit der Königin Elizabeth Mit Vorwort von A.
Brandi. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. XXXIV, pp. 221-323.
[An invaluable piece of research to which all students of the University
drama are deeply indebted. Several important MSS in the library of
Trinity college, Cambridge, are, however, omitted. This article is referred
to in the present bibliography as Jahrbuch, XXXIV. }
Clark, J. W. The Riot at the Great Gate of Trinity College February
1610–11. Cambridge Antiquarian Soc. 1906.
College Histories (especially the series published formerly by F. E. Robinson
now by Hutchinson and Co. ).
Creizenach.
Cooper, C. H. and J. W. Annals of Cambridge. 5 vols. Cambridge, 1852-1908.
Courtney, W. L. Oxford plays down to the Restoration. Notes and Queries,
Ser. VII, vol. 11, p. 464. 1886.
Dictionary of National Biography, ed. by Stephen, Sir L. and Lee, S. 63 vols.
1885-90,
Fleay's English Drama. Vol. 11, pp. 347-365 and 400-1.
## p. 469 (#487) ############################################
Chapter XII
469
Gofiot, L. V. Le Théâtre au Collège du moyen âge à nos jours. 1907.
Greg, W. W. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama. 1906.
Greg's List of Plays.
List of Masques.
Hazlitt's Handbook.
Herford's Literary Relations.
Humphrey, W. G. On the ancient amusements of the University. The
Cambridge Portfolio, vol. I, pp. 92–112. 1840.
James, M. R. Catalogues of MSS in Cambridge Colleges. Cambridge, 1895 ff.
Lee, Margaret, L. Narcissus, A Twelfe Night Merriment. 1893. The In-
troduction contains a list of Oxford plays.
Madan, F. A summary catalogue of Western MSS in the Bodleian Library.
1895.
The Early Oxford Press. 1468-1640. Oxford Hist. Soc. Publ. 1895.
Manuscript Materials relating to the History of Oxford. Oxford, 1887.
Merton College, Oxford, MS Register.
Mullinger, J. B. The University of Cambridge from the Injunctions of 1535
to the Accession of Charles I. 1884.
Nichols, J. P. Progresses of Queen Elizabeth. 1788. 2nd ed. 1823.
Progresses of James I. 1828.
Plummer, C. Elizabethan Oxford. Reprints of Rare Tracts. Oxford Hist.
Soc. Publ. 1887.
Retrospective Review, the, vol. xii, 1, pp. 1-42. The Latin Plays acted before
the University of Cambridge.
Schelling's Elizabethan Drama. Vol. 11, chap. xiv, The College Drama.
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod. 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.
## p. 470 (#488) ############################################
470
Bibliography
Roxana Tragoedia a plagiarii unguibus vindicata, aucta, & agnita ab Authore
Gulielmo Alabastro. 1632.
MSS in Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 17. 10; Univ. Lib. Cam. , Ff. 11. 9; Lambeth
Palace, 838; Emmanuel coll. Cam. , III. 1. 17.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 252-5.
Source: La Dalida. Tragedia nova di Luigi Groto, Cieco di Hadria.
1567.
Dobell, B. The Sonnets of William Alabaster. The Athenæum, 26 Dec.
1903.
THOMAS ATKINSON.
Homo. Brit. Mus. Harl. MSS, 6925. (Contains dedication to Laud, as Presi-
dent of St John's College, Oxford, by the author, Thomas Atkinson. )
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.
Melanthe: Fabula Pastoralis, arts cum Jacobus, Magnæ Brit. Franc. et
Hiberniæ Rex, Cantabrigiam suam nuper inviserat, ibidemque musarum
atque animi gratia dies quinque commoraretur. Egerunt Alumni Coll.
San, et individuæ Trinitatis Cantabrigiæ. 1615.
Scyros. MS in Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 3. 6. Fabula Pastoralis acta coram Principe
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.
Greg, W. W. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama. p. 251. (Note
on date of the play. ]
V.
ROBERT BURTON.
Philosophaster Comoedia Nova Scripta (originally Inchoata] Aº Domini
1606, Alterata, revisa (originally renovata), perfecta Aº Domini 1615,
Acta demum et publice exhibita Academicis In Aula Ædis Christi et A
Studiosis Ædis Christi Oxon. Alumnis Anno 1617, Februarii die decimo
sexto Die Lunæ Ad horam sextam pomeridianam. Auctore Roberto
Burton, Sacræ Theologiæ Baccalaureo Atque Ædis Christi Oxon.
Alumno. 1617. MSS in private hands.
Philophaster Comoedia, Nunc primum in lucem producta. . . . Auctore Roberto
Burtono, S. Th. B. , ‘Democrito Juniore,' Ex Æde Christi Oxon. Ed.
Buckley, W. E. (Roxburghe Club. ) 1862.
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT,
The Royall Slave. A Tragi-Comedy. Presented to the King and Queene
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
## p. 471 (#489) ############################################
Chapter XII
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.
