[The play is dramatically feeble,
but in sentiment and diction not unworthy of the author of Castara.
but in sentiment and diction not unworthy of the author of Castara.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06
Written by Robert
Dauborne, Master of Arts. 1655. There is a manuscript copy of this in
Egerton MSS, 1994.
[An inferior dramatist, interesting chiefly for his extant letters to
Henslowe in the year 1613. He died dean of Lismore in 1628. ]
SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT.
The Tragedy of Albovine, King of the Lombards. By Wm. D'avenant. 1629.
For a discussion of the sources of this tragedy see Campbell, A. , in the
Journal of Germanic Philology, vol. iv, 1902.
The Cruell Brother. A Tragedy. 1630.
The Just Italian. 1630. [The author's name in these two plays appeare
after the dedication. ]
The Platonick Lovers. A Tragæcomedy. The Authour William D'avenant,
Servant to her Majestie. 1636.
The Witts. A Comedie. The Authour William D'avenant, Servant to Her
Majestie. 1636.
Rptd in Reed's Dodsley, vol. VIII, and Collier's Dodsley, vol. VIII;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. I.
The Unfortunate Lovers: A Tragedie; . . . The Author William Davenant,
Servant to Her Majestie. 1643, 1649.
Love and Honour. Written by W. Davenant Knight. . . . 1649.
Two Excellent Plays: The Wits, A Comedie. The Platonick Lovers, A
Tragi-Comedie. 1665.
The Works of S: William Davenant K. 1673. (In this there are consider.
able alterations in the case of some plays. ]
The Dramatic Works of Sir William Davenant, with prefatory memoir and
notes. Ed. by Maidment, J. and Logan, W. H. (Dramatists of the
Restoration. ) 5 vols. 1872-4.
(As to D'Avenant see, also, bibliography to chap. v of vol. VIII, post. )
ROBERT DAVENPORT,
A Pleasant and Witty Comedy: Called, A New Tricke to Cheat the Divell.
Written by R. D. Gent. 1639.
King John and Matilda, A Tragedy. As it was Acted with great Applause
by Her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane. Written by
Robert Davenport Gent. 1655. Another ed. : 1662, 'Written by W. Daven. '
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455
The City-Night-Cap: Or, Crede quod habes, et habes. A Tragi-Comedy.
As it was Acted with great Applause, by Her Majesties Servants, at the
Phoenix in Drury Lane. 1661.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. IX, XI, XI, XIII, respectively;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. III.
The Works of Robert Davenport. Bullen's Old English Plays, N. S.
vol. III.
For an essay on King John and Matilda see the Retrospective Review,
vol. iv.
John Day.
The Ile of Guls. As it hath been often playd in the blacke Fryars, by the
Children of the Revels. 1606. Another ed. : 1633.
Humour out of breath. A Comedie Divers times latelie acted, By the
Children of the Kings Revells. 1608.
Law-Trickes or, who would have Thought it. As it hath bene divers times
Acted by the Children of the Revels. 1608.
The Parliament of Bees, With their proper Characters. Or A Bee-hive
furnisht with twelve Honycombes, as Pleasant as Profitable. Being
an Allegoricall description of the actions of good and bad men in these
our daies. By John Daye, Sometimes Student of Caius Colledge in
Cambridge. 1641.
There is among the Lansdowne MSS (no. 725) a contemporary
transcript of The Parliament of Bees, probably written about 1639.
(With William Rowley and George Wilkins ? ) The Travailes of The three
English Brothers, Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony, Mr Robert Shirley. As it
is now play'd by her Majesties Servants. 1607.
The Works of John Day. Ed. Bullen, A. H. 1881.
The Parliament of Bees and Humour out of breath are included in Nero
and other Plays (Mermaid Series), 1888, with an introductory essay on Day's
plays in the volume by Symons, A.
For an essay on John Day by Swinburne, A. C. , see The Nineteenth
Century, October 1897.
NATHANIEL FIELD.
A Woman is a Weather-cocke. A New Comedy, As it was acted before the
King in White-Hall. And divers times Privately at the White-Friers,
By the Children of her Majesties Revels. 1612.
Amends for Ladies. A Comedie. As it was acted at the Blacke-Fryers,
both by the Princes Servants, and the Lady Elizabeths. 1618. Another
ed. : 1639, with the addition: With the merry prankes of Moll Cut-parse :
Or, the humonr of Roaring. A Comedy full of honest mirth and wit.
Both plays were ed. with illustrations and notes by Collier, J. P. , 1829,
and are rptd in Old E. D. vol. II, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. XI;
and, again, in Nero and other Plays in Mermaid Series, 1888, with an
essay by Verity, A. W.
On the share of Field in the Fatall Dowry, consult Fleay, Engl. Stud.
vol. XIII, and Boyle in the same periodical, vols. V-X.
The remonstrance of N. F. . . . addressed to a Preacher in Southwark, who had
been arraigning against the Players at the Globe Theatre, in the year
1616. Now first ed. from the original manuscript (by Halliwell-Phillippe,
J. O. ; only ten copies printed). 1865.
## p. 456 (#474) ############################################
456
Bibliography
HENRY GLAPTHORNE.
Argalus and Parthenia. 1639.
The Tragedy of Albertus Wallenstein, Late Duke of Fridland, and Generall
to the Emperor Ferdinand the Second. The Scene, Egers. . . . 1639, 1640.
Rptd in Old English Drama, vol. 11, 1825.
The Hollander. A Comedy written 1635. The Author Henry Glapthorne. 1640.
The Ladies Priviledge. 1640.
Rptd in Old English Drama, vol. 11, 1825.
Wit in a Constable. A Comedy written 1639. 1640.
The Lady Mother. Extant in Manuscript (Egerton MSS, 1994), rptd by
Bullen in Old English Plays, vol. 11, 1883.
The Plays and Poems of Henry Glapthorne, now first collected, with illustra-
tive notes and a memoir of the author. 2 vols. 1874. (Pearson's reprint. )
For an essay on Glapthorne see the Retrospective Review, vol. x.
WILLIAM HABINGTON.
The Queene of Arragon. A Tragi-Comedie. 1640.
Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. XIII.
[The play is dramatically feeble,
but in sentiment and diction not unworthy of the author of Castara. ]
HENRY KILLIGREW.
The Conspiracy A Tragedy, As it was intended for the Nuptialls, of the Lord
Charles Herbert, and the Lady Villers. 1638. Another ed. of 1653
bears the title Pallantus and Eudora. A reprint is promised in Bang's
Materialien.
THOMAS KILLIGREW.
The Prisoner and Claracilla. Two Trago-Comedies. As they were presented
at the Phænix in Drury-Lane, by her Mties Servantes. Written by Tho.
Killigrew, Gent. 1641.
Comedies and Tragedies. Written by Thomas Killigrew, Page of Honour
to King Charles the First. And Groom of the Bed-Chamber to King
Charles the Second. 1664. Fol.
(See, also, bibliography to chap. v of vol. viii, post. )
GERVASE MARKHAM.
The dumbe Knight, A pleasant Comedy, acted sundry times by the children
of his Majesties Revels. Written by Jarvis Markham. 1608. There
are three impressions of this date and another of 1733. The preface
is signed by Lewis Machin.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley and in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
The true Tragedy of Herod and Antipater: With the Death of Faire
Marriam. According to Josephus, the learned and famous Jew. As it
hath beene, of late, divers times publiquely Acted (with great Applause)
at the Red Bull, by the Company of his Majesties Revels. Written by
Gervase Markham and William Sampson Gentlemen. 1622.
(See, also, bibliography to vol. iv, chap. XVII, p. 539. )
SHACKERLEY MARMION.
Hollands Leaguer. Written by Shackerley Marmyon, Master of Arts. 1632.
A Fine Companion. 1633.
The Antiquary. 1641.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols, vii, X, X, XIII, respectively;
also in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
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457
The Dramatic Works of Shackerley Marmion, with prefatory memoir,
introductions, and notes. Edd. by Maidment, J. , and Logan, W. H.
(Dramatists of the Restoration. ) 1875.
THOMAS MAY.
The Heire an Excellent Comedie. As it was lately Acted by the Company
of the Revels. Written by T. M. Gent. 1622. Again, in 1633, when
1620 is given as the date of its first acting.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. VII, VIII, VIII, XI, re-
spectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. 1.
The Tragedy of Antigone, The Theban Princesse. Written by T. M. 1631.
The Tragedy of Cleopatra Queen of Egypt. By T. M. Acted 1626. 1639.
Another ed. : 1654.
The Tragedy of Julia Agrippina; Empresse of Rome. By T. M. Esq.
1639. Another ed. : 1654.
Cleopatra and Julia Agrippina were republished together in 1654.
The Old Couple. A Comedy. 1658.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. vii, X, X, XII, respectively;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. 111.
JASPER MAYNE.
The Citye Match. A Comoedye. Presented to the King and Queene at
White-Hall. Acted since at Black-Friers by His Majesties Servants.
Oxford, 1639. Another ed. : 1659.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. x, IX, IX, XIII, respectively;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
Two Plaies. The City Match. A Comoedy. And the Amorous Warre. A
Tragy-comoedy. Both long since written, By J. M. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon.
1658. (The Amorous Warre has a separate title-page with the imprint,
Printed in the year 1648, probably a mistake for 1658. )
The Amorous Warre. A Tragi-Comoedy. By J. M. St. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon.
1659.
THOMAS NABBES.
Hannibal and Scipio. An Historicall Tragedy Acted in the year 1635, by
the Queenes Majesties Servants, at their Private house in Drury-Lane.
1637.
Microcosmus. A Morall Maske, Presented with generall liking, at the
private house in Salisbury Court, and heere Set downe according to the
intention of the Authour Thomas Nabbes. 1637.
Rptd in Dodsley (1744) and in Reed's and Collier's Dodsley, in
vols. v, Ix, and ix, respectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
Covent-Garden: A Pleasant Comedie: Acted in the yeare, MDCXXXII.
By the Queenes Majesties Servants. 1638. Another ed. : 1639.
Totenham-Court. A Pleasant Comedie: Acted in the Yeare, MDCXXXIII.
At the private House in Salisbury-Court. 1638. Two other eds. : 1639.
:
Rptd 1709.
The Bride, A Comedie. Acted in the yeere 1638, at the private house in
Drury-lane by their Majesties Servants. 1640.
The Unfortunate Mother: A Tragedie. Never acted; but set downe
according to the intention of the Author Thomas Nabbes. 1640.
Playes, Maskes, . . . collected into one volume. 1639. This contains Micro-
cosmus, Hannibal and Scipio, Covent Garden, The Springs Glorie,
Totenham Court, The Unfortunate Mother, and The Bride.
The Works of Thomas Nabbes. Bullen's Old English Plays, N. S. vols. I
and 11.
## p. 458 (#476) ############################################
458
Bibliography
THOMAS RANDOLPH.
(See bibliography to chap. XII, post. )
THOMAS RAWLINS.
The Rebellion : A Tragedy: As it was acted nine dayes together, and divers
times since with good applause, by his Majesties Company of Revells.
1640.
Rptd in Ancient B. D. vol. in, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. XIV.
Rawlins wrote two comedies after the Restoration.
NATHANIEL RICHARDS.
The Tragedy of Messallina The Roman Emperesse. As it hath beene Acted
With generall applause divers times, by the Company of his Majesties
Revells. 1640.
Rptd by Skemp, A. R. , in Bang's Materialien.
Dauborne, Master of Arts. 1655. There is a manuscript copy of this in
Egerton MSS, 1994.
[An inferior dramatist, interesting chiefly for his extant letters to
Henslowe in the year 1613. He died dean of Lismore in 1628. ]
SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT.
The Tragedy of Albovine, King of the Lombards. By Wm. D'avenant. 1629.
For a discussion of the sources of this tragedy see Campbell, A. , in the
Journal of Germanic Philology, vol. iv, 1902.
The Cruell Brother. A Tragedy. 1630.
The Just Italian. 1630. [The author's name in these two plays appeare
after the dedication. ]
The Platonick Lovers. A Tragæcomedy. The Authour William D'avenant,
Servant to her Majestie. 1636.
The Witts. A Comedie. The Authour William D'avenant, Servant to Her
Majestie. 1636.
Rptd in Reed's Dodsley, vol. VIII, and Collier's Dodsley, vol. VIII;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. I.
The Unfortunate Lovers: A Tragedie; . . . The Author William Davenant,
Servant to Her Majestie. 1643, 1649.
Love and Honour. Written by W. Davenant Knight. . . . 1649.
Two Excellent Plays: The Wits, A Comedie. The Platonick Lovers, A
Tragi-Comedie. 1665.
The Works of S: William Davenant K. 1673. (In this there are consider.
able alterations in the case of some plays. ]
The Dramatic Works of Sir William Davenant, with prefatory memoir and
notes. Ed. by Maidment, J. and Logan, W. H. (Dramatists of the
Restoration. ) 5 vols. 1872-4.
(As to D'Avenant see, also, bibliography to chap. v of vol. VIII, post. )
ROBERT DAVENPORT,
A Pleasant and Witty Comedy: Called, A New Tricke to Cheat the Divell.
Written by R. D. Gent. 1639.
King John and Matilda, A Tragedy. As it was Acted with great Applause
by Her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane. Written by
Robert Davenport Gent. 1655. Another ed. : 1662, 'Written by W. Daven. '
## p. 455 (#473) ############################################
Chapter IX
455
The City-Night-Cap: Or, Crede quod habes, et habes. A Tragi-Comedy.
As it was Acted with great Applause, by Her Majesties Servants, at the
Phoenix in Drury Lane. 1661.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. IX, XI, XI, XIII, respectively;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. III.
The Works of Robert Davenport. Bullen's Old English Plays, N. S.
vol. III.
For an essay on King John and Matilda see the Retrospective Review,
vol. iv.
John Day.
The Ile of Guls. As it hath been often playd in the blacke Fryars, by the
Children of the Revels. 1606. Another ed. : 1633.
Humour out of breath. A Comedie Divers times latelie acted, By the
Children of the Kings Revells. 1608.
Law-Trickes or, who would have Thought it. As it hath bene divers times
Acted by the Children of the Revels. 1608.
The Parliament of Bees, With their proper Characters. Or A Bee-hive
furnisht with twelve Honycombes, as Pleasant as Profitable. Being
an Allegoricall description of the actions of good and bad men in these
our daies. By John Daye, Sometimes Student of Caius Colledge in
Cambridge. 1641.
There is among the Lansdowne MSS (no. 725) a contemporary
transcript of The Parliament of Bees, probably written about 1639.
(With William Rowley and George Wilkins ? ) The Travailes of The three
English Brothers, Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony, Mr Robert Shirley. As it
is now play'd by her Majesties Servants. 1607.
The Works of John Day. Ed. Bullen, A. H. 1881.
The Parliament of Bees and Humour out of breath are included in Nero
and other Plays (Mermaid Series), 1888, with an introductory essay on Day's
plays in the volume by Symons, A.
For an essay on John Day by Swinburne, A. C. , see The Nineteenth
Century, October 1897.
NATHANIEL FIELD.
A Woman is a Weather-cocke. A New Comedy, As it was acted before the
King in White-Hall. And divers times Privately at the White-Friers,
By the Children of her Majesties Revels. 1612.
Amends for Ladies. A Comedie. As it was acted at the Blacke-Fryers,
both by the Princes Servants, and the Lady Elizabeths. 1618. Another
ed. : 1639, with the addition: With the merry prankes of Moll Cut-parse :
Or, the humonr of Roaring. A Comedy full of honest mirth and wit.
Both plays were ed. with illustrations and notes by Collier, J. P. , 1829,
and are rptd in Old E. D. vol. II, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. XI;
and, again, in Nero and other Plays in Mermaid Series, 1888, with an
essay by Verity, A. W.
On the share of Field in the Fatall Dowry, consult Fleay, Engl. Stud.
vol. XIII, and Boyle in the same periodical, vols. V-X.
The remonstrance of N. F. . . . addressed to a Preacher in Southwark, who had
been arraigning against the Players at the Globe Theatre, in the year
1616. Now first ed. from the original manuscript (by Halliwell-Phillippe,
J. O. ; only ten copies printed). 1865.
## p. 456 (#474) ############################################
456
Bibliography
HENRY GLAPTHORNE.
Argalus and Parthenia. 1639.
The Tragedy of Albertus Wallenstein, Late Duke of Fridland, and Generall
to the Emperor Ferdinand the Second. The Scene, Egers. . . . 1639, 1640.
Rptd in Old English Drama, vol. 11, 1825.
The Hollander. A Comedy written 1635. The Author Henry Glapthorne. 1640.
The Ladies Priviledge. 1640.
Rptd in Old English Drama, vol. 11, 1825.
Wit in a Constable. A Comedy written 1639. 1640.
The Lady Mother. Extant in Manuscript (Egerton MSS, 1994), rptd by
Bullen in Old English Plays, vol. 11, 1883.
The Plays and Poems of Henry Glapthorne, now first collected, with illustra-
tive notes and a memoir of the author. 2 vols. 1874. (Pearson's reprint. )
For an essay on Glapthorne see the Retrospective Review, vol. x.
WILLIAM HABINGTON.
The Queene of Arragon. A Tragi-Comedie. 1640.
Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. XIII.
[The play is dramatically feeble,
but in sentiment and diction not unworthy of the author of Castara. ]
HENRY KILLIGREW.
The Conspiracy A Tragedy, As it was intended for the Nuptialls, of the Lord
Charles Herbert, and the Lady Villers. 1638. Another ed. of 1653
bears the title Pallantus and Eudora. A reprint is promised in Bang's
Materialien.
THOMAS KILLIGREW.
The Prisoner and Claracilla. Two Trago-Comedies. As they were presented
at the Phænix in Drury-Lane, by her Mties Servantes. Written by Tho.
Killigrew, Gent. 1641.
Comedies and Tragedies. Written by Thomas Killigrew, Page of Honour
to King Charles the First. And Groom of the Bed-Chamber to King
Charles the Second. 1664. Fol.
(See, also, bibliography to chap. v of vol. viii, post. )
GERVASE MARKHAM.
The dumbe Knight, A pleasant Comedy, acted sundry times by the children
of his Majesties Revels. Written by Jarvis Markham. 1608. There
are three impressions of this date and another of 1733. The preface
is signed by Lewis Machin.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley and in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
The true Tragedy of Herod and Antipater: With the Death of Faire
Marriam. According to Josephus, the learned and famous Jew. As it
hath beene, of late, divers times publiquely Acted (with great Applause)
at the Red Bull, by the Company of his Majesties Revels. Written by
Gervase Markham and William Sampson Gentlemen. 1622.
(See, also, bibliography to vol. iv, chap. XVII, p. 539. )
SHACKERLEY MARMION.
Hollands Leaguer. Written by Shackerley Marmyon, Master of Arts. 1632.
A Fine Companion. 1633.
The Antiquary. 1641.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols, vii, X, X, XIII, respectively;
also in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
## p. 457 (#475) ############################################
Chapter IX
457
The Dramatic Works of Shackerley Marmion, with prefatory memoir,
introductions, and notes. Edd. by Maidment, J. , and Logan, W. H.
(Dramatists of the Restoration. ) 1875.
THOMAS MAY.
The Heire an Excellent Comedie. As it was lately Acted by the Company
of the Revels. Written by T. M. Gent. 1622. Again, in 1633, when
1620 is given as the date of its first acting.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. VII, VIII, VIII, XI, re-
spectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. 1.
The Tragedy of Antigone, The Theban Princesse. Written by T. M. 1631.
The Tragedy of Cleopatra Queen of Egypt. By T. M. Acted 1626. 1639.
Another ed. : 1654.
The Tragedy of Julia Agrippina; Empresse of Rome. By T. M. Esq.
1639. Another ed. : 1654.
Cleopatra and Julia Agrippina were republished together in 1654.
The Old Couple. A Comedy. 1658.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. vii, X, X, XII, respectively;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. 111.
JASPER MAYNE.
The Citye Match. A Comoedye. Presented to the King and Queene at
White-Hall. Acted since at Black-Friers by His Majesties Servants.
Oxford, 1639. Another ed. : 1659.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. x, IX, IX, XIII, respectively;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
Two Plaies. The City Match. A Comoedy. And the Amorous Warre. A
Tragy-comoedy. Both long since written, By J. M. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon.
1658. (The Amorous Warre has a separate title-page with the imprint,
Printed in the year 1648, probably a mistake for 1658. )
The Amorous Warre. A Tragi-Comoedy. By J. M. St. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon.
1659.
THOMAS NABBES.
Hannibal and Scipio. An Historicall Tragedy Acted in the year 1635, by
the Queenes Majesties Servants, at their Private house in Drury-Lane.
1637.
Microcosmus. A Morall Maske, Presented with generall liking, at the
private house in Salisbury Court, and heere Set downe according to the
intention of the Authour Thomas Nabbes. 1637.
Rptd in Dodsley (1744) and in Reed's and Collier's Dodsley, in
vols. v, Ix, and ix, respectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
Covent-Garden: A Pleasant Comedie: Acted in the yeare, MDCXXXII.
By the Queenes Majesties Servants. 1638. Another ed. : 1639.
Totenham-Court. A Pleasant Comedie: Acted in the Yeare, MDCXXXIII.
At the private House in Salisbury-Court. 1638. Two other eds. : 1639.
:
Rptd 1709.
The Bride, A Comedie. Acted in the yeere 1638, at the private house in
Drury-lane by their Majesties Servants. 1640.
The Unfortunate Mother: A Tragedie. Never acted; but set downe
according to the intention of the Author Thomas Nabbes. 1640.
Playes, Maskes, . . . collected into one volume. 1639. This contains Micro-
cosmus, Hannibal and Scipio, Covent Garden, The Springs Glorie,
Totenham Court, The Unfortunate Mother, and The Bride.
The Works of Thomas Nabbes. Bullen's Old English Plays, N. S. vols. I
and 11.
## p. 458 (#476) ############################################
458
Bibliography
THOMAS RANDOLPH.
(See bibliography to chap. XII, post. )
THOMAS RAWLINS.
The Rebellion : A Tragedy: As it was acted nine dayes together, and divers
times since with good applause, by his Majesties Company of Revells.
1640.
Rptd in Ancient B. D. vol. in, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. XIV.
Rawlins wrote two comedies after the Restoration.
NATHANIEL RICHARDS.
The Tragedy of Messallina The Roman Emperesse. As it hath beene Acted
With generall applause divers times, by the Company of his Majesties
Revells. 1640.
Rptd by Skemp, A. R. , in Bang's Materialien.
