Histoire du
Théâtre
en France au Moyen Âge.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06
)
Fleay, F. G. A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559-1642.
2 vols. 1891. (Fleay's English Drama. )
- A Chronicle History of the London Stage. 1890. [This earlier work
contains lists of performances and authors. ] (Fleay's Chronicle of
Stage. )
(Genest, J. ) Some Account of the English Stage, from the Restoration in
1660 to 1830. 10 vols Bath, 1832. (Genest. )
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412
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Greg, W. W. A List of English Plays written before 1643 and printed
before 1700. Bibliographical Society. 1900. (Greg's List of Plays. )
A List of Masques, Pageants, &c. , supplementary to A List of English
Plays. Bibliographical Society. 1902. (Greg's List of Masques. )
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. 0. A Dictionary of Old English Plays. Being a
revision of Baker's Biographia Dramatica. 1860. (Halliwell's Dict. )
Hazlitt, W. C. Handbook to the Popular and Dramatic Literature of Great
Britain, with Supplements. 1867-90. (Hazlitt's Handbook. )
Langbaine, G. An Account of English Dramatic Poets. 1691. (Lang-
baine. ) Revised by Gildon, C. 1699.
Lowe, R. W. A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature.
1887. (Lowe. )
In addition to the above, the Catalogue of Printed Books in the British
Museum Library will of course be consulted, together with the following
catalogues of special collections :
Capell's Shakespeariana. Catalogue of the Books presented by Edward
Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge. Compiled by
Greg, W. W. Cambridge, 1903.
Chatsworth. A Catalogue of the Library at Chatsworth. (With preface by
Lacaita, Sir J. P. ) 4 vols. (Privately printed. ) 1879.
Dyce-Forster Collection. A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts
bequeathed by the Rev. Alexander Dyce and John Forster. 2 vols. 1879.
III. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH DRAMA.
Collier, J. P. History of English Dramatic Poetry. New ed. 3 vols. 1879.
(Largely superseded, especially in its earlier and in its concluding
portions, but still to some extent indispensable. ] (Collier. )
Jusserand, J. J. Le Théâtre en Angleterre jusqu'aux prédécesseurs im-
médiats de Shakespeare. 2nd ed. Paris, 1881. (Jusserand's Th. en A. )
Schelling, F. E. Elizabethan Drama. 2 vols. Boston and New York, 1908.
[Invaluable. ] (Schelling's Elizabethan Drama. )
Ward, A. W. History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of
Queen Anne. 2nd ed. 3 vols. 1899. (Ward. )
For F. G. Fleay's works, which possess an enduring critical as well as
historical value, notwithstanding the excessive amount of conjecture contained
in them, see under sec. II above.
Baker, H. Barton. History of the London Stage and its famous Players.
1904.
Chambers, E. K. The Mediæval Stage. 2 vols. Oxford, 1903. (Chambers. )
Coleridge, S. T. Literary Remains. Vols. 1-11. 1836. (Coleridge. )
Courthope, W. J. History of English Poetry. Vols. 1-III. 1895-1903.
(Courthope. )
Creizenach, W. Geschichte des neueren Dramas. Vols. 1-iv, Part 1.
Halle, 1893-1909. (A standard work. ] (Creizenach. )
Du Méril, E. Histoire de la Comédie. Période Primitive. Paris, 1864. (No
more published. ) (Du Méril. )
Hazlitt, W. C. The English Drama and Stage, under the Tudor and Stuart
Princes, 1543-1664. Illustrated by a series of Documents, Treatises and
Poems. Roxburghe Library, 1869. (Hazlitt's English Drama and':
Stage. )
Herford, C. H. Studies in the literary Relations of England and Germany
in the 16th century. 1886. (Herford's Literary Relations. )
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Jusserand, J. J. Histoire Littéraire du Peuple Anglais. Vol. 1. Des Origines
à la Renaissance.
Vol. II.
De la Renaissance à la guerre Civile.
Paris, 1894-1904. Eng. trans. New ed. , amplified. 2 vols. 1907-9.
(Jusserand, E. Tr. )
Klein, J. L. Geschichte des Dramas. 13 vols. in 15 with index vol. Leipzig,
1865-86. [Vols. XII and xiii of this voluminous and wordy book, which
however contains a vast amount of independent research, treat of the
English drama to Marlowe. ] (Klein. )
Körting, G. Grundriss der Gesch. der engl. Litteratur von ihren Anfängen
bis zur Gegenwart. 4th ed. Münster, 1905. (Körting. )
Mantzius, K. A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times.
With an introduction by Archer, W. Authorised trans. by Cassel,
Louise von. 5 vols. 1903 ff.
Morley, H. English Writers. Revised and enlarged ed. 11 vols. 1887-95.
(Morley, H. )
Petit de Julleville, L. Histoire de la Langue et de la Littérature Françaises
des Origines à 1900. 8 vols. Paris, 1896–1900.
Histoire du Théâtre en France au Moyen Âge. 4 vols. Paris, 1880-6.
(Petit de Julleville. )
Prölss, R. Geschichte des neueren Dramas. 3 vols. 1881-3. [Vol. 11. 2 con-
cerns the English drama. ] (Prölss. )
Schlegel, A. W. von. Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst. (Schlegel's
Sämmtliche Werke, vols. V and vi. ) Eng. trans. by Black, J. , revised
by Morrison, A. J. W. 1846. (Schlegel, E. Tr. )
Taine, H. A. Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise. 4 vols. 1863-4 (and sub-
sequent editions). Eng. trans. 2 vols. 1872. (Taine, E. Tr. )
Ten Brink, B. Geschichte der Englischen Literatur. Ed. Brand), A. Vol. 1.
Strassburg, 1899.
Strassburg, 1893. Eng. trans. 3 vols.
1883-96. (Ten Brink, E. Tr. )
Warton, T. History of English Poetry. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 4 vols. 1871.
(Warton. )
Apart from English, American and foreign periodical publications devoted
to the discussion of English linguistic and literary subjects in particular
(including the publications of The Early English Text Society), or of subjects
appertaining to Germanic or to Modern Literature generally (including
Anglia, Englische Studien, the Journal of the Modern Languages Asso-
ciation, now The Modern Language Review, Modern Language Notes
(Baltimore)), mention should be made here of the Transactions and
Publications of the Shakespeare Society, 1844-53, and of the New Shak.
spere Society, 1874-96; as well as of the still flourishing Jahrbuch der
deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Weimar, from 1865. These publications,
which alike possess a signal and varied interest for the student of English
dramatic literature, are cited respectively under the headings of Shakesp.
Soc. , New Shaksp. Soc. , and Shakesp. Jahrb.
Vol. II.
CHAPTER I
BEN JONSON
Bibliographies are to be found in Castelain, Ben Jonson: l'Homme et
l'Euvre (see post under sec. III), as well as in Schelling's Elizabethan
Drama, and in his edition of Eastward Hoe in the Belles Lettres Series.
Lists of seventeenth century editions are given in Fleay's Chronicle of
Stage, and Greg's List of Plays and List of Masques.
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414
Bibliography
I. EARLY EDITIONS.
The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. 1616 (folio). Contains:
Every Man In His Humour.
The Alchemist.
Every Man Out Of his Humour. Catiline His Conspiracy.
Cynthias Revels, Or The Foun- Epigrammes.
tayne of selfe-Love.
The Forrest.
Poëtaster, Or His Arraignement. Entertaynments.
Sejanus his Fall.
Panegyre.
Volpone, Or The Foxe.
Masques.
Epicone Or The silent Woman. Barriers.
The first volume of the folio of 1640 was a reprint of the 1616 edition.
The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The second Volume. 1640. Contains :
Bartholomew Fayre.
Masques.
The Divell is an Asse.
Underwoods.
The Staple of Newes.
Mortimer his Fall. A Tragedie.
The Magnetick Lady: Or Humors (A fragment. ]
Reconcil'd.
Horace, His Art of Poetrie.
The Tale Of A Tub.
The English Grammar,
The Sad Shepherd : Or A Tale of Timber: Or Discoveries.
Robin Hood. [Unfinished. ]
The one volume folio of 1692 adds The New Inne and Leges Conviviales.
The following is a list of Ben Jonson's plays, masques and entertainments,
arranged chronologically: the date of licensing is given when it differs from
the year of publication. Those which appeared for the first time in the first
or second folio are in each case so marked.
a
A. Plays.
The comicall Satyre of Every Man Out of his Humor. As it was first com-
posed by the Author B. J. Containing more then hath been publikely
spoken or acted. With the severall Character of every person. 1600.
Every Man in his Humor. As it hath beene sundry times publikely acted
by the right Honorable the Lord Chamberlaine his servants. 1601.
(Stationers register, 1600. )
The Fountaine of Selfe-Love. Or Cynthias Revels. As it hath beene sundry
times privately acted in the Black-Friers by the Children of her Majesties
Chappell. 1601.
Poetaster or The Arraignment: As it hath beene sundry times privately
acted in the Blacke Friers, by the children of her Majesties Chappell.
Et mihi de nullo fama rubore placet. 1602. (Stationers' register, 1601. )
Sejanus his fall. 1605. (Stationers register, 1604. )
Ben: Jonson his Volpone Or The Foxe. 1607.
Ben: Jonson, his Case is Alterd. As it hath beene sundry times Acted by the
Children of the Blacke-friers. 1609 (two eds. )
Catiline his Conspiracy. 1611.
The Alchemist. -Neque, me ut miretur turba, laboro; Contentus paucis
lectoribus. 1612. (Stationers register, 1610. )
Epicæne, Or The silent Woman. A Comedie. Acted in the yeere 1609.
By the Children of her Majesties Revells. Horat. Ut sis tu similis
Coeli Byrrhique latronum, Non ego sim Capri, neque Sulci. Cur metuas
me? (1st folio. ) [The first extant quarto appeared in 1620, Stationers'
register, 1610; Biographia Dramatica mentions an edition of 1609, and
Gifford one of 1612, but neither are now known. ]
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Chapter 1
415
The New Inne. Or, The light Heart. A Comoedy. As it was never acted,
but most negligently play'd, by some, the Kings Servants. And more
squeamishly beheld and censured by others the Kings Subjects. 1629.
Now, at last, set at liberty to the Readers, his Maties Servants, and
Subjects, to be judg'd. 1631.
Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedie, Acted in the yeare, 1614. By the Lady
Elizabeths Servants. And then dedicated to King James, of most Blessed
Memorie. 1631 (2nd folio). [With motto from Horace, bk. II epist. I
11. 194-200. ]
The Divell is an Asse: A Comedie Acted in his yeare, 1616. By His Majesties
Servants. Hor, de Art. Poet. Ficta voluptatis Causa, sint proxima veris.
1631 (2nd folio).
The Staple of Newes. A Comedie Acted in the yeare, 1625. By his Majesties
Servants. Hor. in Art. Poet. Aut prodesse volunt, aut delectare poetae:
Aut simul et jucunda, et idonea dicere vitae. 1631 (2nd folio). (Stationers'
register, 1626. )
The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcild. A Comedy composed By
Ben: Johnson. Jam lapides suus ardor agit ferrumque, tenetur, Ille-
cebris--Claud. de Magnet. 1640 (2nd folio). (Stationers' register, 1632. )
A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy. Catul. -Inficeto est inficetior rure. 1640
(2nd folio). (Stationers' register, 1633.
Fleay, F. G. A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559-1642.
2 vols. 1891. (Fleay's English Drama. )
- A Chronicle History of the London Stage. 1890. [This earlier work
contains lists of performances and authors. ] (Fleay's Chronicle of
Stage. )
(Genest, J. ) Some Account of the English Stage, from the Restoration in
1660 to 1830. 10 vols Bath, 1832. (Genest. )
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412
Bibliography
Greg, W. W. A List of English Plays written before 1643 and printed
before 1700. Bibliographical Society. 1900. (Greg's List of Plays. )
A List of Masques, Pageants, &c. , supplementary to A List of English
Plays. Bibliographical Society. 1902. (Greg's List of Masques. )
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. 0. A Dictionary of Old English Plays. Being a
revision of Baker's Biographia Dramatica. 1860. (Halliwell's Dict. )
Hazlitt, W. C. Handbook to the Popular and Dramatic Literature of Great
Britain, with Supplements. 1867-90. (Hazlitt's Handbook. )
Langbaine, G. An Account of English Dramatic Poets. 1691. (Lang-
baine. ) Revised by Gildon, C. 1699.
Lowe, R. W. A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature.
1887. (Lowe. )
In addition to the above, the Catalogue of Printed Books in the British
Museum Library will of course be consulted, together with the following
catalogues of special collections :
Capell's Shakespeariana. Catalogue of the Books presented by Edward
Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge. Compiled by
Greg, W. W. Cambridge, 1903.
Chatsworth. A Catalogue of the Library at Chatsworth. (With preface by
Lacaita, Sir J. P. ) 4 vols. (Privately printed. ) 1879.
Dyce-Forster Collection. A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts
bequeathed by the Rev. Alexander Dyce and John Forster. 2 vols. 1879.
III. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH DRAMA.
Collier, J. P. History of English Dramatic Poetry. New ed. 3 vols. 1879.
(Largely superseded, especially in its earlier and in its concluding
portions, but still to some extent indispensable. ] (Collier. )
Jusserand, J. J. Le Théâtre en Angleterre jusqu'aux prédécesseurs im-
médiats de Shakespeare. 2nd ed. Paris, 1881. (Jusserand's Th. en A. )
Schelling, F. E. Elizabethan Drama. 2 vols. Boston and New York, 1908.
[Invaluable. ] (Schelling's Elizabethan Drama. )
Ward, A. W. History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of
Queen Anne. 2nd ed. 3 vols. 1899. (Ward. )
For F. G. Fleay's works, which possess an enduring critical as well as
historical value, notwithstanding the excessive amount of conjecture contained
in them, see under sec. II above.
Baker, H. Barton. History of the London Stage and its famous Players.
1904.
Chambers, E. K. The Mediæval Stage. 2 vols. Oxford, 1903. (Chambers. )
Coleridge, S. T. Literary Remains. Vols. 1-11. 1836. (Coleridge. )
Courthope, W. J. History of English Poetry. Vols. 1-III. 1895-1903.
(Courthope. )
Creizenach, W. Geschichte des neueren Dramas. Vols. 1-iv, Part 1.
Halle, 1893-1909. (A standard work. ] (Creizenach. )
Du Méril, E. Histoire de la Comédie. Période Primitive. Paris, 1864. (No
more published. ) (Du Méril. )
Hazlitt, W. C. The English Drama and Stage, under the Tudor and Stuart
Princes, 1543-1664. Illustrated by a series of Documents, Treatises and
Poems. Roxburghe Library, 1869. (Hazlitt's English Drama and':
Stage. )
Herford, C. H. Studies in the literary Relations of England and Germany
in the 16th century. 1886. (Herford's Literary Relations. )
## p. 413 (#431) ############################################
General Bibliography
413
Jusserand, J. J. Histoire Littéraire du Peuple Anglais. Vol. 1. Des Origines
à la Renaissance.
Vol. II.
De la Renaissance à la guerre Civile.
Paris, 1894-1904. Eng. trans. New ed. , amplified. 2 vols. 1907-9.
(Jusserand, E. Tr. )
Klein, J. L. Geschichte des Dramas. 13 vols. in 15 with index vol. Leipzig,
1865-86. [Vols. XII and xiii of this voluminous and wordy book, which
however contains a vast amount of independent research, treat of the
English drama to Marlowe. ] (Klein. )
Körting, G. Grundriss der Gesch. der engl. Litteratur von ihren Anfängen
bis zur Gegenwart. 4th ed. Münster, 1905. (Körting. )
Mantzius, K. A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times.
With an introduction by Archer, W. Authorised trans. by Cassel,
Louise von. 5 vols. 1903 ff.
Morley, H. English Writers. Revised and enlarged ed. 11 vols. 1887-95.
(Morley, H. )
Petit de Julleville, L. Histoire de la Langue et de la Littérature Françaises
des Origines à 1900. 8 vols. Paris, 1896–1900.
Histoire du Théâtre en France au Moyen Âge. 4 vols. Paris, 1880-6.
(Petit de Julleville. )
Prölss, R. Geschichte des neueren Dramas. 3 vols. 1881-3. [Vol. 11. 2 con-
cerns the English drama. ] (Prölss. )
Schlegel, A. W. von. Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst. (Schlegel's
Sämmtliche Werke, vols. V and vi. ) Eng. trans. by Black, J. , revised
by Morrison, A. J. W. 1846. (Schlegel, E. Tr. )
Taine, H. A. Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise. 4 vols. 1863-4 (and sub-
sequent editions). Eng. trans. 2 vols. 1872. (Taine, E. Tr. )
Ten Brink, B. Geschichte der Englischen Literatur. Ed. Brand), A. Vol. 1.
Strassburg, 1899.
Strassburg, 1893. Eng. trans. 3 vols.
1883-96. (Ten Brink, E. Tr. )
Warton, T. History of English Poetry. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 4 vols. 1871.
(Warton. )
Apart from English, American and foreign periodical publications devoted
to the discussion of English linguistic and literary subjects in particular
(including the publications of The Early English Text Society), or of subjects
appertaining to Germanic or to Modern Literature generally (including
Anglia, Englische Studien, the Journal of the Modern Languages Asso-
ciation, now The Modern Language Review, Modern Language Notes
(Baltimore)), mention should be made here of the Transactions and
Publications of the Shakespeare Society, 1844-53, and of the New Shak.
spere Society, 1874-96; as well as of the still flourishing Jahrbuch der
deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Weimar, from 1865. These publications,
which alike possess a signal and varied interest for the student of English
dramatic literature, are cited respectively under the headings of Shakesp.
Soc. , New Shaksp. Soc. , and Shakesp. Jahrb.
Vol. II.
CHAPTER I
BEN JONSON
Bibliographies are to be found in Castelain, Ben Jonson: l'Homme et
l'Euvre (see post under sec. III), as well as in Schelling's Elizabethan
Drama, and in his edition of Eastward Hoe in the Belles Lettres Series.
Lists of seventeenth century editions are given in Fleay's Chronicle of
Stage, and Greg's List of Plays and List of Masques.
## p. 414 (#432) ############################################
414
Bibliography
I. EARLY EDITIONS.
The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. 1616 (folio). Contains:
Every Man In His Humour.
The Alchemist.
Every Man Out Of his Humour. Catiline His Conspiracy.
Cynthias Revels, Or The Foun- Epigrammes.
tayne of selfe-Love.
The Forrest.
Poëtaster, Or His Arraignement. Entertaynments.
Sejanus his Fall.
Panegyre.
Volpone, Or The Foxe.
Masques.
Epicone Or The silent Woman. Barriers.
The first volume of the folio of 1640 was a reprint of the 1616 edition.
The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The second Volume. 1640. Contains :
Bartholomew Fayre.
Masques.
The Divell is an Asse.
Underwoods.
The Staple of Newes.
Mortimer his Fall. A Tragedie.
The Magnetick Lady: Or Humors (A fragment. ]
Reconcil'd.
Horace, His Art of Poetrie.
The Tale Of A Tub.
The English Grammar,
The Sad Shepherd : Or A Tale of Timber: Or Discoveries.
Robin Hood. [Unfinished. ]
The one volume folio of 1692 adds The New Inne and Leges Conviviales.
The following is a list of Ben Jonson's plays, masques and entertainments,
arranged chronologically: the date of licensing is given when it differs from
the year of publication. Those which appeared for the first time in the first
or second folio are in each case so marked.
a
A. Plays.
The comicall Satyre of Every Man Out of his Humor. As it was first com-
posed by the Author B. J. Containing more then hath been publikely
spoken or acted. With the severall Character of every person. 1600.
Every Man in his Humor. As it hath beene sundry times publikely acted
by the right Honorable the Lord Chamberlaine his servants. 1601.
(Stationers register, 1600. )
The Fountaine of Selfe-Love. Or Cynthias Revels. As it hath beene sundry
times privately acted in the Black-Friers by the Children of her Majesties
Chappell. 1601.
Poetaster or The Arraignment: As it hath beene sundry times privately
acted in the Blacke Friers, by the children of her Majesties Chappell.
Et mihi de nullo fama rubore placet. 1602. (Stationers' register, 1601. )
Sejanus his fall. 1605. (Stationers register, 1604. )
Ben: Jonson his Volpone Or The Foxe. 1607.
Ben: Jonson, his Case is Alterd. As it hath beene sundry times Acted by the
Children of the Blacke-friers. 1609 (two eds. )
Catiline his Conspiracy. 1611.
The Alchemist. -Neque, me ut miretur turba, laboro; Contentus paucis
lectoribus. 1612. (Stationers register, 1610. )
Epicæne, Or The silent Woman. A Comedie. Acted in the yeere 1609.
By the Children of her Majesties Revells. Horat. Ut sis tu similis
Coeli Byrrhique latronum, Non ego sim Capri, neque Sulci. Cur metuas
me? (1st folio. ) [The first extant quarto appeared in 1620, Stationers'
register, 1610; Biographia Dramatica mentions an edition of 1609, and
Gifford one of 1612, but neither are now known. ]
## p. 415 (#433) ############################################
Chapter 1
415
The New Inne. Or, The light Heart. A Comoedy. As it was never acted,
but most negligently play'd, by some, the Kings Servants. And more
squeamishly beheld and censured by others the Kings Subjects. 1629.
Now, at last, set at liberty to the Readers, his Maties Servants, and
Subjects, to be judg'd. 1631.
Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedie, Acted in the yeare, 1614. By the Lady
Elizabeths Servants. And then dedicated to King James, of most Blessed
Memorie. 1631 (2nd folio). [With motto from Horace, bk. II epist. I
11. 194-200. ]
The Divell is an Asse: A Comedie Acted in his yeare, 1616. By His Majesties
Servants. Hor, de Art. Poet. Ficta voluptatis Causa, sint proxima veris.
1631 (2nd folio).
The Staple of Newes. A Comedie Acted in the yeare, 1625. By his Majesties
Servants. Hor. in Art. Poet. Aut prodesse volunt, aut delectare poetae:
Aut simul et jucunda, et idonea dicere vitae. 1631 (2nd folio). (Stationers'
register, 1626. )
The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcild. A Comedy composed By
Ben: Johnson. Jam lapides suus ardor agit ferrumque, tenetur, Ille-
cebris--Claud. de Magnet. 1640 (2nd folio). (Stationers' register, 1632. )
A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy. Catul. -Inficeto est inficetior rure. 1640
(2nd folio). (Stationers' register, 1633.
