The
Floating
Island: A Tragi-Comedy, Acted before his Majesty at Oxford,
Aug.
Aug.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06
E.
& J.
S.
1630.
Comedia coram Rege Jacobo et Totius Angliæ Magnatibus per Aca-
demicos Cantabrigienses habita. Editio Tertia, locis sexcentis emendatior.
Cum Eorum supplemento quæ, causidicorum municipalium reverentia,
hactenus desiderabantur. Autore Mr Ruggle, Aulæ Clarensis A. M.
Later eds. in 1659, 1668, 1707, 1731, 1736 (at Dublin), 1737.
MSS in Bodleian, Tanner 306; Brit. Mus. , Harl. 6869 (imperfect), and
7042, f. 245 (cast only); and reference to MS, possibly Mr Ruggle's copy'
formerly at Clare Hall.
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Ignoramus. . . . Nunc denuo in lucem edita cum notis historicis et criticis, quibus
insuper praeponitur vita auctoris et subjicitur glossarum vocabula forensia
dilucide exponens accurate. Johanne Sidneio Hawkins Arm. 1787.
Abbreviatus. Comedia in schola Mercatorum Scissorum Habita, Anno
MDCCLXIII.
English versions :
Ignoramus: A Comedy As it was several times Acted with extraordinary
Applause, before the Magisty of King James With a Supplement which
(out of respect to the Students of the Common Law) was hitherto wanting.
Written in Latine by R. Ruggles sometimes Master of Arts in Clare
Colledge in Cambridge. And Translated into English by R. C[odrington]
sometimes Master of Arts in Magdalen Colledge in Oxford. 1662.
The English Lawyer, a Comedy, acted at the Royal Theatre; written by
Edward Ravenscroft, Gent. 1678.
An English Prologue and Epilogue to the Latin Comedy of Ignoramus.
With a Preface and Notes Relative to Modern Times and Manners. By
George Dyer, Late of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. 1797. (Written
for the performance of the play at Westminster school in 1794. )
Della Porta, G. B. La Trappolaria. 1596.
Cowell, John. The Interpreter. 1607.
Mullinger, J. B. The University of Cambridge, vol. II, pp. 529-540.
(Contains an analysis of the plot of the play. )
John SADLER.
Masquerade du Ciel. Presented to the great Queen of the little world:
a Celestial Map of the heavenly bodies the years 1639, 1640 by J. S. of
Emmanuel college, Cambridge.
GEORGE SALTERNE.
Tomumbeius sive Saltanici in Aegypto Inperii Eversio. Tragoedia nova
auctore Georgio Salterno Bristoënsi. Bodleian MSS, Rawlinson Poet. 75.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 247-9.
JOSEPH SIMEON.
Fratrum Concordia Sæva seu Zeno. Rome, 1648.
Leo Armenus sive Impietas Punita. (Included with Zeno in Simonis, J. ,
Tragediæ quinque quarum duæ prostremæ nunc primum lucem vident,
Liège, 1657. ) Later eds. in 1680 and 1697.
MSS of both plays in Univ. Lib. Cam. , Ii. vi. 35, and of Zeno in Brit.
Mus. , Harl. 5024.
[Simeon, 1594–1671, was Provincial of the Jesuits, and lived chiefly
in Rome and Liège. Zeno, according to the Retrospective Review, vol.
XII, 5, was acted at Cambridge in 1631. ]
Ladit in Humanis Divina Potentia Rebus sive Leo Armenus: Tragoedia.
MS in Univ. Lib. Cam. , Ii. vi. 35.
THOMAS SNELLING.
Thibaldus sive Vindictae Ingenium Tragoedia. Oxoniae. Anno Dom. 1640.
Reissued later as Pharamus sive Libido Vindex. Hispanica tragoedia.
Londini, 1650.
Bolte, J. Die Oxforder Tragödie Thibaldus. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol.
XXVII, pp. 228-9.
Madan, F. The Early Oxford Press. p. 223. 1895.
Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. Ed. Bliss, P. Vol. 111, p. 275.
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THOMAS SPARROWE.
Confessor. MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson Poet. 77.
(Thomas Sparrowe, who dedicates the play to an unnamed Bishop,
matriculated as a pensioner of St John's college, Cambridge, on 22 March
1629/30, and graduated B. A. in 1632/3. See Smith, G. C. Moore, Notes
on some English University Plays in Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. 111, no. 2, p. 155. )
WILLIAM STEVENSON (? ).
(On the attribution of Gammer Gurtons Nedle to Stevenson see text. )
A Ryght Pithy, Pleasannt an(d) merie Comedie: Intytuled Gammer gurtons
Nedle: Played on Stage, not longe ago in Christes Colledge in Cambridge.
Made by Mr. S. Mr. of Art. Thomas Colwell. 1575.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts (1909). Rptd by Johnson, T, in
1661, with imprint 'Played on the stage near a hundred years ago in
Christs-Colledge in Cambridge'; in Origin of E. D. vol. 1; Dodsley
(1744), vol. 1 (mod. s. ); in Reed's Dodsley, vol. 11, in Collier's Dodsley,
vol. 11, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. 11; in Ancient B. D. vol 1 (mod. 8. );
in Old E. D. , vol. 1 (mod. s. ); in Manly's Specimens, vol. II; and ed.
Bradley, H. , in Gayley's R. E. C.
Biographia Dramatica. Vol. II. p. 257. [Attributes the play to
John Still. ]
Bradley, H. The Authorship of Gammer Gurton's Needle. The
Athenæum, 6 Aug. 1898.
Chambers. Vol. 11, p. 457.
Martin Marprelate Tracts: (1) The Epistle, (2) The Epitome. 1588.
See bibliography to vol. III, chap. XVII.
(The author of these two Tracts speaks of John Bridges,
dean of Salisbury, as the reputed author of the play. )
Ross, C. H. Mod. Lang. Notes, vol. vii, no. 6, 1892, and Anglia, vol.
xix, 1896. [Supports the attribution of the play to Bridges. ]
:
WILLIAM STRODE.
The Floating Island: A Tragi-Comedy, Acted before his Majesty at Oxford,
Aug. 29. 1636. By the Students of Christ-Church. Written by William
Strode, late Orator of the University of Oxford, the Aires and Songs set
by M' Henry Lawes, servant to his late Majesty in his publick and private
Musick. 1655.
Rptd in The Poetical Works of William Strode, ed. Dobell, Bertram,
1907.
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EDMUND STUB.
Fraus Honesta. Comoedia Cantabrigiæ olim acta, authore Magistro Stubbe,
Collegii Trinitatis Socio. 1632.
MS in Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 17. 10, ' Acta erat haec Comedia decimo die
Febr. A. D. 1618'; also R. 17. 9.
MS in Emmanuel coll. Cam. , III. 1. 17, with cast of the play, and note,
apparently in a different hand, 'Scæna est Florentiæ decimo die Februarii,
1616.
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod.
Lang. Rev. vol. III, no. 2.
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THOMAS TOMKIS.
Albumazar. A Comedy presented before the Kings Majestie at Cambridge,
the ninth of March, 1614. By the Gentlemen of Trinitie Colledge. 1615.
Another ed. in the same year, with same title-page. Two eds. in 1634
Newly revised and corrected by a speciall Hand.
A Comedy, As it is now Acted at His Highness the Duke of Yorks
Theatre. 1668. [Contains a prologue by Dryden, who erroneously states
that the play was the source of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. ]
Source: Della Porta, G. B. L'Astrologo. 1606.
Rptd in Ancient B. D. vol. 1 (mod. 8. ), and in Hazlitt's Dodsley,
vol. Xi (mod. s. ).
Albumazar, a Comedy. Notes and Queries, Ser. III, vol. ix, pp. 178-9,
259-260, 302, and vol. XII, p. 270.
Lingua: Or the Combat of the Tongue, and the five Senses. For Superiority.
A pleasant Comoedie. 1607.
Later eds. in 1617, 1622, 1632, 1657 and n. d. Bptd in Reed's Dodsley,
vol. v, in Collier's Dodsley, vol. v, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. ix
(mod. s. ).
Boas, F. 8. Macbeth and Lingua. Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. iv, no. 4.
1909.
Fleay, F. G. Shakespeariana. March, 1885.
Furnivall, F. J. Sir John Harington's Shakespeare Quartos. Notes
and Queries, Ser. 7, vol. IX, pp. 382-3. (Gives an account of a list of
volumes and single copies of plays belonging to Harington from
Brit. Mus. Add. MSS, 27632. On f. 30 Harington mentions The
combat of Lingua made by Thom. Tomkis of Trinity Colledge in
Cambridge. ' See also same series, vol. x, pp. 112-113. )
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.
Comedia coram Rege Jacobo et Totius Angliæ Magnatibus per Aca-
demicos Cantabrigienses habita. Editio Tertia, locis sexcentis emendatior.
Cum Eorum supplemento quæ, causidicorum municipalium reverentia,
hactenus desiderabantur. Autore Mr Ruggle, Aulæ Clarensis A. M.
Later eds. in 1659, 1668, 1707, 1731, 1736 (at Dublin), 1737.
MSS in Bodleian, Tanner 306; Brit. Mus. , Harl. 6869 (imperfect), and
7042, f. 245 (cast only); and reference to MS, possibly Mr Ruggle's copy'
formerly at Clare Hall.
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477
Ignoramus. . . . Nunc denuo in lucem edita cum notis historicis et criticis, quibus
insuper praeponitur vita auctoris et subjicitur glossarum vocabula forensia
dilucide exponens accurate. Johanne Sidneio Hawkins Arm. 1787.
Abbreviatus. Comedia in schola Mercatorum Scissorum Habita, Anno
MDCCLXIII.
English versions :
Ignoramus: A Comedy As it was several times Acted with extraordinary
Applause, before the Magisty of King James With a Supplement which
(out of respect to the Students of the Common Law) was hitherto wanting.
Written in Latine by R. Ruggles sometimes Master of Arts in Clare
Colledge in Cambridge. And Translated into English by R. C[odrington]
sometimes Master of Arts in Magdalen Colledge in Oxford. 1662.
The English Lawyer, a Comedy, acted at the Royal Theatre; written by
Edward Ravenscroft, Gent. 1678.
An English Prologue and Epilogue to the Latin Comedy of Ignoramus.
With a Preface and Notes Relative to Modern Times and Manners. By
George Dyer, Late of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. 1797. (Written
for the performance of the play at Westminster school in 1794. )
Della Porta, G. B. La Trappolaria. 1596.
Cowell, John. The Interpreter. 1607.
Mullinger, J. B. The University of Cambridge, vol. II, pp. 529-540.
(Contains an analysis of the plot of the play. )
John SADLER.
Masquerade du Ciel. Presented to the great Queen of the little world:
a Celestial Map of the heavenly bodies the years 1639, 1640 by J. S. of
Emmanuel college, Cambridge.
GEORGE SALTERNE.
Tomumbeius sive Saltanici in Aegypto Inperii Eversio. Tragoedia nova
auctore Georgio Salterno Bristoënsi. Bodleian MSS, Rawlinson Poet. 75.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 247-9.
JOSEPH SIMEON.
Fratrum Concordia Sæva seu Zeno. Rome, 1648.
Leo Armenus sive Impietas Punita. (Included with Zeno in Simonis, J. ,
Tragediæ quinque quarum duæ prostremæ nunc primum lucem vident,
Liège, 1657. ) Later eds. in 1680 and 1697.
MSS of both plays in Univ. Lib. Cam. , Ii. vi. 35, and of Zeno in Brit.
Mus. , Harl. 5024.
[Simeon, 1594–1671, was Provincial of the Jesuits, and lived chiefly
in Rome and Liège. Zeno, according to the Retrospective Review, vol.
XII, 5, was acted at Cambridge in 1631. ]
Ladit in Humanis Divina Potentia Rebus sive Leo Armenus: Tragoedia.
MS in Univ. Lib. Cam. , Ii. vi. 35.
THOMAS SNELLING.
Thibaldus sive Vindictae Ingenium Tragoedia. Oxoniae. Anno Dom. 1640.
Reissued later as Pharamus sive Libido Vindex. Hispanica tragoedia.
Londini, 1650.
Bolte, J. Die Oxforder Tragödie Thibaldus. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol.
XXVII, pp. 228-9.
Madan, F. The Early Oxford Press. p. 223. 1895.
Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. Ed. Bliss, P. Vol. 111, p. 275.
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478
Bibliography
THOMAS SPARROWE.
Confessor. MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson Poet. 77.
(Thomas Sparrowe, who dedicates the play to an unnamed Bishop,
matriculated as a pensioner of St John's college, Cambridge, on 22 March
1629/30, and graduated B. A. in 1632/3. See Smith, G. C. Moore, Notes
on some English University Plays in Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. 111, no. 2, p. 155. )
WILLIAM STEVENSON (? ).
(On the attribution of Gammer Gurtons Nedle to Stevenson see text. )
A Ryght Pithy, Pleasannt an(d) merie Comedie: Intytuled Gammer gurtons
Nedle: Played on Stage, not longe ago in Christes Colledge in Cambridge.
Made by Mr. S. Mr. of Art. Thomas Colwell. 1575.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts (1909). Rptd by Johnson, T, in
1661, with imprint 'Played on the stage near a hundred years ago in
Christs-Colledge in Cambridge'; in Origin of E. D. vol. 1; Dodsley
(1744), vol. 1 (mod. s. ); in Reed's Dodsley, vol. 11, in Collier's Dodsley,
vol. 11, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. 11; in Ancient B. D. vol 1 (mod. 8. );
in Old E. D. , vol. 1 (mod. s. ); in Manly's Specimens, vol. II; and ed.
Bradley, H. , in Gayley's R. E. C.
Biographia Dramatica. Vol. II. p. 257. [Attributes the play to
John Still. ]
Bradley, H. The Authorship of Gammer Gurton's Needle. The
Athenæum, 6 Aug. 1898.
Chambers. Vol. 11, p. 457.
Martin Marprelate Tracts: (1) The Epistle, (2) The Epitome. 1588.
See bibliography to vol. III, chap. XVII.
(The author of these two Tracts speaks of John Bridges,
dean of Salisbury, as the reputed author of the play. )
Ross, C. H. Mod. Lang. Notes, vol. vii, no. 6, 1892, and Anglia, vol.
xix, 1896. [Supports the attribution of the play to Bridges. ]
:
WILLIAM STRODE.
The Floating Island: A Tragi-Comedy, Acted before his Majesty at Oxford,
Aug. 29. 1636. By the Students of Christ-Church. Written by William
Strode, late Orator of the University of Oxford, the Aires and Songs set
by M' Henry Lawes, servant to his late Majesty in his publick and private
Musick. 1655.
Rptd in The Poetical Works of William Strode, ed. Dobell, Bertram,
1907.
6
EDMUND STUB.
Fraus Honesta. Comoedia Cantabrigiæ olim acta, authore Magistro Stubbe,
Collegii Trinitatis Socio. 1632.
MS in Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 17. 10, ' Acta erat haec Comedia decimo die
Febr. A. D. 1618'; also R. 17. 9.
MS in Emmanuel coll. Cam. , III. 1. 17, with cast of the play, and note,
apparently in a different hand, 'Scæna est Florentiæ decimo die Februarii,
1616.
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod.
Lang. Rev. vol. III, no. 2.
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THOMAS TOMKIS.
Albumazar. A Comedy presented before the Kings Majestie at Cambridge,
the ninth of March, 1614. By the Gentlemen of Trinitie Colledge. 1615.
Another ed. in the same year, with same title-page. Two eds. in 1634
Newly revised and corrected by a speciall Hand.
A Comedy, As it is now Acted at His Highness the Duke of Yorks
Theatre. 1668. [Contains a prologue by Dryden, who erroneously states
that the play was the source of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. ]
Source: Della Porta, G. B. L'Astrologo. 1606.
Rptd in Ancient B. D. vol. 1 (mod. 8. ), and in Hazlitt's Dodsley,
vol. Xi (mod. s. ).
Albumazar, a Comedy. Notes and Queries, Ser. III, vol. ix, pp. 178-9,
259-260, 302, and vol. XII, p. 270.
Lingua: Or the Combat of the Tongue, and the five Senses. For Superiority.
A pleasant Comoedie. 1607.
Later eds. in 1617, 1622, 1632, 1657 and n. d. Bptd in Reed's Dodsley,
vol. v, in Collier's Dodsley, vol. v, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. ix
(mod. s. ).
Boas, F. 8. Macbeth and Lingua. Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. iv, no. 4.
1909.
Fleay, F. G. Shakespeariana. March, 1885.
Furnivall, F. J. Sir John Harington's Shakespeare Quartos. Notes
and Queries, Ser. 7, vol. IX, pp. 382-3. (Gives an account of a list of
volumes and single copies of plays belonging to Harington from
Brit. Mus. Add. MSS, 27632. On f. 30 Harington mentions The
combat of Lingua made by Thom. Tomkis of Trinity Colledge in
Cambridge. ' See also same series, vol. x, pp. 112-113. )
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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480
Bibliography
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.
