ley's A Faire
Quarrell
(1617).
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06
1580-2 Belleforest's Histoires Tra.
1566 Edwards's Palamon and Ar- giques.
cyte acted.
1580 (? )–1625 (²) John Webster.
1566-7 Painter's Palace of Pleasure. 1581 Gager's Meleager (1592).
1566-97 William Hunnis Master of 1581/2 Solymannidæ (MS).
the Chapel
1582 Gosson's Playes confuted in
1566–1626 Edward Alleyn.
five Actions.
1567 (? )–1619 Richard Burbage. 1582-3 The Plague in London.
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Table of Principal Dates
503
1583 (or before) Sidney's Apologie for 1599 Erection of the Globe Theatre.
Poetrie written (printed 1595). 1599 Jonson's Every Man out of
1583 Paris Garden disaster.
His Humour (1600).
1583 Gager's Dido (MS).
1599 Rainolds's Th Overthrow of
1583 Abraham Fraunce's Victoria Stage-playes.
(1906).
1599 (? ) Dekker's The Shomakers
1583 Stubbes's The Anatomie of Holiday (1600).
Abuses.
1599-1600 Club-Law performed at
1583 Queen's company formed.
Clare Hall.
1583-4 Parry's plot.
1599–1607 Massinger, Middleton and
1583-1640 Philip Massinger.
Dekker's (? ) The Old Law (1656).
1584 Lodge's Alarum against 1600 Opening of the Fortune.
Usurers.
1600 Jonson's Cynthia's Revels
c. 1585-1642 (? ) William Rowley.
(1601).
1585 (? )–1616 Francis Beaumont. c. 1600 Marston's Antonio and Mel-
1586–1640 (or after) John Ford.
lida (1602).
1587-1623 niel Field.
1601 Execution of the Earl of
1588 Defeat of Spanish Armada.
Essex.
1588 Death of the Earl of Leicester. 1601 (? ) Marston's The Malcontent
1588-90 Marprelate Controversy.
(1604).
1590 Spenser's The Faerie Queene, 1601 The Return from Parnassus,
Books 1-111.
Part 1 (1886).
1590 Laelia (1910).
1601 Jonson's Poetaster (1602).
1591 Tasso's Aminta printed in 1601 Middleton's Blurt Master-
London.
Constable (1602).
1591 Guarini's Il Pastor Fido 1601–2 ‘Poetomachia. '
printed in London.
1601-2 Dekker's Satiro-mastix
1591/2 Gager's Ulysses Redux (1592).
(1602).
c. 1592 Opening of the Rose in South- 1602 Dekker and Webster's Sir
wark.
Thomas Wyat (1607).
c. 1592 William Alabaster's Roxana 1602 The Returne from Pernassus,
(1632).
Part 11 (1606).
1593 The Plague in London, 1602 (? ) Heywood's The Royall King
1594 Thomas Heywood's King Ed- and The Loyall Subject (1637).
ward the Fourth (1600).
1602 (after) Tomkis's Lingua (1607).
1594 (? ) Heywood's The Foure 1602/3 Narcissus acted at St John's,
Prentises of London (1615).
Oxford (1893).
1594-1600 Erection of the Swan 1603 (before) Heywood's Fair Maid
Theatre.
Of The West (1631).
1596 Blackfriars Playhouse opened. 1603 (before) George Salterne's To-
1596 Dekker's Old Fortunatus mumbeius (MS).
(1600).
1603(or before) Heywood's A Woman
1596-1666 James Shirley.
Kilde with Kindnesse (1607).
Middleton's Mayor of 1603-25 James I.
Quinborough (1661).
1603 The Plague in London.
A. 1598-1627 Henry Condell. 1603 Stow's Survey of London.
1598 Meres's Palladis Tamia. 1603 Jonson's Sejanus (1605).
1598 The Pilgrimage to Parnassus 1604 Daniel's The Vision of the
(1886).
Twelve Goddesses (1610).
1598 Jonson's Every Man in His 1604 Hampton Court Conference.
Humour (1601).
1604 Abolition of private patronage
1598 (? ) Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois of players.
(1607).
1604 Fall of Ostend.
1599 (before) Chapman and Marston's 1604 Chapman's Revenge of Bussy
Histrio-Mastix (1610).
D'Ambois (1613).
c. 1596
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Table of Principal Dates
1604 Marston's Parasitaster (1606). 1610 Assassination of Henry IV of
1604 Marston's The Dutch Courte- France.
zan (1605).
1610 Jonson's The Alchemist (1612).
1604 Middleton and Dekker's The 1610 Middleton and Dekker's The
Honest Whore (1604) (1st Part). Roaring Girle (1611).
1604 Dekker's Whore of Babylon 1610 (after) Fletcher's Monsieur
(1607).
Thomas (1639).
1604 or 1608 Dekker's The Honest fl. 1610 Robert Armin.
Whore (1630) (2nd Part). 1610-19 Honoré D'Urfé's L’Astrée.
1604-5 Heywood's If you know not 1610 (? ) Beaumont and Fletcher's
me (1605).
The Coxcombe (1647).
1604-72 Jasper Mayne.
1610 (? ) Beaumont and Fletcher's
1604/5 Dekker and Webster's West- Philaster (1620).
Ward Hoe (1607).
1610-11 Field's Amends for Ladies
1605 James I's visit to Oxford.
(1618).
1605 Chapman, Jonson and Marston's 1611 Jonson's Oberon (1616).
Eastward Hoe (1605).
1611 Jonson's Catiline (1611).
1605 Chapman's Monsieur D'Olive 1611 Webster's The White Divel
(1606).
(1612).
1605 Day's The Ile of Guls 1611 (? ) Beaumont and Fletcher's
(1606).
The Maides Tragedy (1619).
1605 Don Quirote.
c. 1611 Chapman's Iliads completed.
1605 Daniel's The Queenes Arcadia 1611 lic. The Second Maiden's
(1606).
Tragedy (1824-5).
1605 Jonson's Masque of Black- 1612 Death of Henry Prince of
nesse (1608).
Wales.
1605 Gunpowder Plot.
1612 Jonson's Love Restored (1616).
1605/6 Jonson's Volpone (1607). 1612 Cervantes's Novelas exem-
1605–35 Thomas Randolph.
plares.
1605–7 Dekker and Webster's North- 1612 Heywood's Apology for Actors.
Ward Hoe (1607).
1612(? ) Fletcher and Shakespeare's
1606 Jonson's Hymenaei (1606).
The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634).
1606 The Puritane (1607).
1612/13 Beaumont's Masque of
1606-7 Tourneur's The Revengers Grayes-Inne and the Inner.
Tragoedie (1607).
Temple (n. d. (1613]).
1606-84 Pierre Corneille.
1612/13 Chapman's Masque of the
1606-68 Sir William D'Avenant.
Middle Temple and Lyncolnes
1607 Heywood and William Row- Inn (n. d. [1613]).
ley's Fortune by Land and Sea 1612–13 Middleton's A Chast Mayd
(1655).
in Cheape-side (1630).
1607-11 Tourneur's The Atheist's 1613 Marriage of Princess Elizabeth.
Tragedie (1611).
1613 Visit of Prince Charles and
1608 Chapman's Conspiracie, And the Elector Palatine to Cam-
Tragedie of Charles, Duke of bridge.
Byron (1608).
1613 Campion's The Lords Masque
1608 Fletcher's The Faithfull Shep-
(1613).
heardesse (c. 1610).
1613 Globe Theatre burnt.
1608 Jonson's Masque of Beauty 1614 (or before) Webster's The
(1608).
Dutchesse Of Malfy (1623).
1609 Jonson's Masque of Queenes 1614 (or before) Fletcher's Bonduca
(1609).
(1647).
1609 Jonson's The Silent Woman 1614 (or before) Fletcher's Valen-
(1616).
tinian (1647).
1609 (? ) Beaumont's Knight of the 1614 Jonson's The Sad Shepherd
Burning Pestle (1613).
(1641).
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Table of Principal Dates
505
1614 Jonson's Bartholomew Fayre 1623 Prince Charles and Backing-
(1631).
ham at Madrid.
1615 King James visits Cambridge. 1623 Massinger's The Bond-Man
1615 Ruggle's Ignoramus (1630). (1624).
1615 Tomkis's Albumazar (1615). 1623 Middleton and William Row-
1615 Jonson's Mercurie Vindicated ley's The Spanish Gipsie (1653).
from the Alchemists (1616). 1623 The Tragedy of Nero (1624).
1615 Phineas Fletcher's Sicelides 1623 Fletcher's The Lovers Pro-
(1631).
gress (1647).
c. 1615 Erection of the Cockpit. c. 1623 Middleton's The Witch (1778).
1616 Death of Shakespeare.
c. 1623
Middleton and William
1616 Overbury Murder Trial.
Rowley's The Changeling (1653).
A. 1616-36 Tirso de Molina.
1623 Spanish marriage negotiations
1616 First folio of Ben Jonson.
broken off.
1616 Middleton and William Row- 1624 War declared against Spain.
ley's A Faire Quarrell (1617). 1624 Massacre at Amboina.
1617 Fletcher and Massinger's 1624 Ford's The Sun's-Darling
Thierry and Theodoret (1621). (1656).
1618 Book of Sports published.
1624 Middleton's A Game at Chesse
1618 B. Holiday's Technogamia (1625).
(1618).
1624 lic. Fletcher's Rule a Wife
1618-48 The Thirty Years War.
And have a Wife (1640).
1618 Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh. 1625-49 Charles I.
1618 Synod of Dort.
1625 The Plagne in London.
1618 lic. Fletcher's The Loyal Sub- 1625-6 Fletcher's The Chances
ject (1647).
(1647).
1618/19 Jonson's Pleasure Recon. 1626 (before) Massinger's A New
ciled to Vertue (1640).
Way to Pay Old Debts (1633).
1619 Fletcher's The Humorous Lieu- 1626 Massinger's The Roman Actor
tenant (1647).
(1629).
1619 Massinger and Fields The 1627 Ford's Tis Pitty Shees a
Fatall Dowry (1632).
Whore (1633).
1619-20 Fletcher and Massinger's 1627 lic. Massinger's The Great
The Little French Lawyer (1647). Duke of Florence (1636).
1620 Thomas May's The Heire (1622). c. 1627 Heywood's The English
1620 lic. Massinger and Dekker's Traveller (1633).
The Virgin Martir (1622). 1628 Assassination of Duke of
Fletcher and Massinger's Buckingham.
The False One (1647).
1628 Ford's The Lovers Melancholy
c. 1620 Middleton and William (1629).
Rowley's The World tost at 1629 Erection of the Whitefriars
Tennis (1620).
Playhouse.
c. 1620 Webster's The Devils Law- 1629 Ford's The Broken Heart
case (1623).
(1633).
1620/1 Jonson's Newes from the New 1629 Randolph's Aristippus (1630).
World (1640).
1629 L. Carlell's The Deserving
1621 Fletcher's The Pilgrim (1647). Favorite (1629).
1621 Fletcher's The Wild-Goose 1631 Massinger's The Emperour of
Chase (1652).
the East (1632).
c. 1621
Ford and Dekker's The 1631 lic. Massinger's Believe as you
Witch of Edmonton (1658).
List (1849).
1622 (before) Fletcher and Massin- 1632 Death of Gustavus Adolphus.
ger's The Beggars Bush (1647). 1632 Prynne's Histriomastix.
1622 lic. Fletcher and Massinger's 1632 Charles I and Henrietta Maria
The Spanish Curate (1647).
visit Cambridge.
c. 1620
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Table of Principal Dates
1632 Randolph's The Jealous Lovers 1635 D'Avenant's The Platonick
(1632).
Lovers (1636).
1632 Randolph's The Muses Look- 1635 lic. Shirley's The Coronation
ing-Glasse (1638).
(1640).
1632 Shackerley Marmion's Hol- 1635 lic. Chapman and Shirley's
lands Leaguer (1632).
Chabot (1639).
1632 Chapman and Shirley's The 1636 Charles I visits Oxford.
Ball (1639).
1636 Corneille's Le Cid.
1632 lic. Shirley's Hide Parke 1636 Cartwright's The Royall Slave
(1637).
(1639).
1633 Book of Sports republished. 1636-40 Shirley in Ireland.
1633 Ford's Historie of Perkin A. 1636-65 P. Calderon de La Barca.
Warbeck (1634).
1637 Shipmoney judgment.
1633(? ) Heywood's The late Lanca- 1637 Suckling's Aglaura (1638).
shire Witches (1634).
1638 Cowley's Naufragium Jocu-
1633 lic. Shirley's The Gamester lare (1638).
(1637).
1638 Suckling's The Goblins (1646).
1633 lic. Shirley's The Bird in a 1639 Pacification of Berwick.
Cage (1633).
1640 Meeting of the Long Parlia-
1634 Milton's Comus (1637).
ment.
1634 T. Nabbes's Microcosmus (1637). 1640 Second folio of Ben Jonson.
1634 (after) H. Glapthorne's Al- 1640 Shirley's Honoria and Mam-
bertus Wallenstein (1639).
mon (1659).
1634 lic. Fletcher and Massinger's 1641 Irish Rebellion.
A Very Woman, or The Prince 1641 Execution of the Earl of
of Tarent (1655).
Strafford.
1634 lic. Shirley's The Opportunitie 1641-2 Cowley's The Guardian
(1640)
(1650).
1635 (before) Randolph's Amyntas 1641 Brome's A Joviall Crew (1652).
(1638).
1641 Day's The Parliament of Bees.
1635 Brome's The Sparagus 1641 lic. Shirley's The Cardinall
Garden (1640).
(1652).
1635 John Ogilby's theatre opened 1642 Aug. Outbreak of Civil War.
in Dublin.
1642 Sept. Closing of the theatres.
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VOL. V
p. 481, add at end of Bibliographies. An account of books and pamphlets prohibited
in England, from 1530 onwards, by royal proclamation, or suppressed by order
of the Star Chamber or the High Commission Court, or (as time went on) of
the House of Commons, or otherwise, will be found in W. H. Hart's Index
Expurgatorius Anglicanus, of which five parts appeared, 1872 to 1878. References
to this valuable, though uncompleted, collection will be found in later volumes of
the present work.
The index reference for Eastward Hoe under Dekker should be transferred to under
Chapman.
VOL. VI
p. 4, 1. 7, read: Cynthia's Revels and Poetaster, acted in 1600 and 1601 respectively
p. 12, note, for Soesgil read Soergel
p. 22, 1, 21, for Conmon read Common
p. 33, 1. 15, for Massacre of Paris read Massacre at Paris
p. 40, 1. 33, for Fungose read Fungoso
p. 70, 1. 5. As to an edition of this play by Stork, C. W. , after the text of this chapter
had passed through the press, see the bibliography to chap. II, p. 429.
p. 91, last line, for 1558 read 1585
p. 102, 1. 11 from bottom, for known to exist in print read printed
p. 102, note 4, for Naupagium read Naufragium
p. 146, 1. 14 from bottom, for 1844 read 1849
p. 162, 1. 8 from bottom, for innuendos, read innuendos.
p. 237, 1. 13, for 1642 read 1643
p. 238, l. 15, dele in
p. 238, 1. 11 from bottom, for 1846 read 1646
p. 239, l. 1, for 'stuck in 'read stuck in
p. 258, 1. 22 from bottom, for without, read without
p. 458, 1. 16, add Reasons for doubting the usually accepted identification of the
author of Messallina are given by G. C. Moore Smith in Notes and Queries,
12 June 1909, Ser. x, vol. xi, p. 461, where another Nathaniel Richards is
suggested as the author.
p. 460, 1. 19, add Murray, J. T. English Dramatic Companies, 1558–1642. 2 vols.
1910.
p. 468, 1. 17, add Mrs Stopes's William Hunnis and the Revels of the Chapel Royal
has been just added to Bang's Materialien.
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INDEX OF NAMES
[The letters ff. after an entry imply that references to the same subject occur on at
least two immediately succeeding pages. Birth and death dates are not, as a rule,
given in the case of writers whose work is considered in other volumes. The cross
references under the names of dramatists are intended to assist in finding plays
by two or more authors. ]
Abyndon, or Abingdon, Henry, 281
Academico, in The Returne from Per.
nassus, 313
Achilles, 106
Actors Remonstrance, The, 407
Adam, in As You Like It, 248
Adams, Clement, 282
Admiral's company, the, 83, 89, 90, 93,
245, 247, 249, 250, 255, 259, 269, 274
Adorni, in The Maid of Honour, 158, 164
Adurni, in The Ladies Triall, 194
Aecius, in Valentinian, 122, 129, 130
Aeglamour, in The Sad Shepherd, 11,
369, 370
Aeneas, James I described as the modern
us, in The Hue and Cry after Cupid,
347
Aeschylus, Persae, 92
Aeson, 163
Aesop, 250
Aethiopians, in The Masque of Black-
nesse, 342, 343
Affections, the, in Pathomachia, 324;
the four, in Hymenaei, 346
Ager, captain, in A Faire Quarrell, 73, 74
Agrippa, Cornelius, De incertitudine et
vanitate scientiarum, 377
Ajax, in Troilus and Cressida, 44
Ajax Flagellifer, 298, 317
Alabaster, William (1567-1640), Roxana,
266, 268, 302
Alba, 317
Albion, in The Masque of Blacknesse,
342
Alchemists, in Mercury Vindicated, 357,
358
Alcides, 163
Alcmena, in The Silver Age, 93
Alcon, in The Queenes Arcadia, 318
Aleman, M. , Guzman de Alfarache, 139
Aleppo, basha of, in The Renegado, 156
Alexander, William, 19
Alinda, in The Pilgrim, 123
Alken, in The Sad Shepherd, 370
All is True, 256
Allen, Giles, 252, 253
Alley, William (15107-1570), The Poore
Man's Librarie, 378
Alleyn, Edward (1566–1626), 41, 51, 87,
247, 249, 250, 255, 258, 278, 292
Almerine, in Brennoralt, 238
Almira, in A Very Woman, 156
Almond for a Parrat, An, 393
Alonzo, in The Bashful Lover, 158
Althorp, 4, 339
Alucius, History of, the, 286
Amaranta, in The Spanish Curate, 134
Amboina, 183
Amie, in The Sad Shepherd, 370
Amintor, in The Maides Tragedy, 120,
126 ff.
Amoretta, in The Ladies Triall, 194
Amoretto, in The Pilgrimage to Parnassus,
310; in The Returne from Pernassus,
313
Amorous La-Foole, Sir, in The Silent
Woman, 22, 152
Amorphus, in Cynthia's Revels, 41, 44
Amsterdam, 22, 324
Amyntas, in The Queenes Arcadia, 317
Anaides, in Cynthia's Revels, 18, 41
Ananias, in The Alchemist, 22
Anatomy of Wit, 394
Angelo, in The Virgin Martir, 54
Anne Boleyn, 335
lady, in Richard III, 129
of Denmark, queen consort of
James I, 83, 337, 339 ff. , 348, 350, 361,
366 ; companies of, 104, 254, 258
Anti-Christ, 374
Antigonas, in The Humorous Lieutenant,
122
Antiochus, Asiatic king, in Believe as you
List, 147 ff.
Antoninus, in The Virgin Martir, 154
Antonio, in Albumazar, 323
in The Corcombe, 133
in The Dutchessé Of Malfy, 181,
182
Antonius, in Ignoramus, 322
Apollo, 368
Apuleius, 82
in Loves Maistresse, 103
Aquitania, in The Masque of Blacknesse,
342
Ara Fortunae, 319
Arabia, 35
Arabian nights' tales, the, 103
Arbaces, in A King and no King, 120,
127
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508
Index of Names
Arcadia, 11, 317, 318, 341, 364, 368
Archas, in The Loyal Subject, 122, 130
Archer, William, 266, 269
Arcite, in Palamon and Arcyte, 299
Ardelia, in The Dukes Mistris, 200
Arden, 27
Arden of Feversham, 95
Argensola, Bart. de, 139
Aristophanes, 18, 24, 79, 315, 322, 327,
352, 362, 363; Eiphun or Pax, 294;
Plutus, 25, 294; Wasps, The, 25
Aristotle, 6, 225, 232, 296; Ethics, 233;
Poetics, 8
Armada, the, 27, 53, 92, 174
Armin, Robert (1564? -1612? ), 273
Foole upon Foole, 218
Italian Taylor and his Boy, The, 218
Nest of Ninnies, A, 218
Two Maids of More-clacke, The, 217
Arnold, Matthew, 57
Arthur, prince, son of Henry VII, 332,
333
Articles of Grievance and Oppression, 275
Ascham, Roger, 378; The Scholemaster,
295
Aspatia, in The Maides Tragedy, 120,
123, 126
Asper, in Every Man out of His Humour,
17, 39
Assyrian host, in Ezechias, 298
Astronomia, in Technogamia, 323
Athenaeus, Deipnosophia, 102
Athenais, in The Emperour of the East,
158, 163
Athens, 308
Atkinson, Thomas, 470
Atlas, in Pleasure Reconciled, 359 ff.
sign of, on the Globe theatre, 256
Atreus, Thyestes, 301
Attic drama, 232. See, also, Greek drama
Audax, in The Floating Island, 325
Auditus, in Lingua, 315
Aurelia, in The Prophetesse, 152
duchess of Siena, in The Maid of
Honour, 152, 155
Aurelio, in The Ladies Triall, 194
Auria, a Genoese, in The Ladies Triall,
194
Aurora, in The Penates, 341
Azores, the, 101
Baker, Sir Richard (1568–1645), Thea.
trum Redivivum, 406
Bale, John (1495–1563), 374
Ballada, in Fucus Histriomastix, 324
Banaster, Gilbert, 281, 283
Banbury, Roman amphitheatre at, 252
Bandello, 49, 99, 100, 123, 180
Bang, W. , 102
Banquo, in Macbeth, 318
Barabas, in The Jero of Malta, 250
Barkstead, Wm. (f.
1566 Edwards's Palamon and Ar- giques.
cyte acted.
1580 (? )–1625 (²) John Webster.
1566-7 Painter's Palace of Pleasure. 1581 Gager's Meleager (1592).
1566-97 William Hunnis Master of 1581/2 Solymannidæ (MS).
the Chapel
1582 Gosson's Playes confuted in
1566–1626 Edward Alleyn.
five Actions.
1567 (? )–1619 Richard Burbage. 1582-3 The Plague in London.
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Table of Principal Dates
503
1583 (or before) Sidney's Apologie for 1599 Erection of the Globe Theatre.
Poetrie written (printed 1595). 1599 Jonson's Every Man out of
1583 Paris Garden disaster.
His Humour (1600).
1583 Gager's Dido (MS).
1599 Rainolds's Th Overthrow of
1583 Abraham Fraunce's Victoria Stage-playes.
(1906).
1599 (? ) Dekker's The Shomakers
1583 Stubbes's The Anatomie of Holiday (1600).
Abuses.
1599-1600 Club-Law performed at
1583 Queen's company formed.
Clare Hall.
1583-4 Parry's plot.
1599–1607 Massinger, Middleton and
1583-1640 Philip Massinger.
Dekker's (? ) The Old Law (1656).
1584 Lodge's Alarum against 1600 Opening of the Fortune.
Usurers.
1600 Jonson's Cynthia's Revels
c. 1585-1642 (? ) William Rowley.
(1601).
1585 (? )–1616 Francis Beaumont. c. 1600 Marston's Antonio and Mel-
1586–1640 (or after) John Ford.
lida (1602).
1587-1623 niel Field.
1601 Execution of the Earl of
1588 Defeat of Spanish Armada.
Essex.
1588 Death of the Earl of Leicester. 1601 (? ) Marston's The Malcontent
1588-90 Marprelate Controversy.
(1604).
1590 Spenser's The Faerie Queene, 1601 The Return from Parnassus,
Books 1-111.
Part 1 (1886).
1590 Laelia (1910).
1601 Jonson's Poetaster (1602).
1591 Tasso's Aminta printed in 1601 Middleton's Blurt Master-
London.
Constable (1602).
1591 Guarini's Il Pastor Fido 1601–2 ‘Poetomachia. '
printed in London.
1601-2 Dekker's Satiro-mastix
1591/2 Gager's Ulysses Redux (1592).
(1602).
c. 1592 Opening of the Rose in South- 1602 Dekker and Webster's Sir
wark.
Thomas Wyat (1607).
c. 1592 William Alabaster's Roxana 1602 The Returne from Pernassus,
(1632).
Part 11 (1606).
1593 The Plague in London, 1602 (? ) Heywood's The Royall King
1594 Thomas Heywood's King Ed- and The Loyall Subject (1637).
ward the Fourth (1600).
1602 (after) Tomkis's Lingua (1607).
1594 (? ) Heywood's The Foure 1602/3 Narcissus acted at St John's,
Prentises of London (1615).
Oxford (1893).
1594-1600 Erection of the Swan 1603 (before) Heywood's Fair Maid
Theatre.
Of The West (1631).
1596 Blackfriars Playhouse opened. 1603 (before) George Salterne's To-
1596 Dekker's Old Fortunatus mumbeius (MS).
(1600).
1603(or before) Heywood's A Woman
1596-1666 James Shirley.
Kilde with Kindnesse (1607).
Middleton's Mayor of 1603-25 James I.
Quinborough (1661).
1603 The Plague in London.
A. 1598-1627 Henry Condell. 1603 Stow's Survey of London.
1598 Meres's Palladis Tamia. 1603 Jonson's Sejanus (1605).
1598 The Pilgrimage to Parnassus 1604 Daniel's The Vision of the
(1886).
Twelve Goddesses (1610).
1598 Jonson's Every Man in His 1604 Hampton Court Conference.
Humour (1601).
1604 Abolition of private patronage
1598 (? ) Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois of players.
(1607).
1604 Fall of Ostend.
1599 (before) Chapman and Marston's 1604 Chapman's Revenge of Bussy
Histrio-Mastix (1610).
D'Ambois (1613).
c. 1596
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Table of Principal Dates
1604 Marston's Parasitaster (1606). 1610 Assassination of Henry IV of
1604 Marston's The Dutch Courte- France.
zan (1605).
1610 Jonson's The Alchemist (1612).
1604 Middleton and Dekker's The 1610 Middleton and Dekker's The
Honest Whore (1604) (1st Part). Roaring Girle (1611).
1604 Dekker's Whore of Babylon 1610 (after) Fletcher's Monsieur
(1607).
Thomas (1639).
1604 or 1608 Dekker's The Honest fl. 1610 Robert Armin.
Whore (1630) (2nd Part). 1610-19 Honoré D'Urfé's L’Astrée.
1604-5 Heywood's If you know not 1610 (? ) Beaumont and Fletcher's
me (1605).
The Coxcombe (1647).
1604-72 Jasper Mayne.
1610 (? ) Beaumont and Fletcher's
1604/5 Dekker and Webster's West- Philaster (1620).
Ward Hoe (1607).
1610-11 Field's Amends for Ladies
1605 James I's visit to Oxford.
(1618).
1605 Chapman, Jonson and Marston's 1611 Jonson's Oberon (1616).
Eastward Hoe (1605).
1611 Jonson's Catiline (1611).
1605 Chapman's Monsieur D'Olive 1611 Webster's The White Divel
(1606).
(1612).
1605 Day's The Ile of Guls 1611 (? ) Beaumont and Fletcher's
(1606).
The Maides Tragedy (1619).
1605 Don Quirote.
c. 1611 Chapman's Iliads completed.
1605 Daniel's The Queenes Arcadia 1611 lic. The Second Maiden's
(1606).
Tragedy (1824-5).
1605 Jonson's Masque of Black- 1612 Death of Henry Prince of
nesse (1608).
Wales.
1605 Gunpowder Plot.
1612 Jonson's Love Restored (1616).
1605/6 Jonson's Volpone (1607). 1612 Cervantes's Novelas exem-
1605–35 Thomas Randolph.
plares.
1605–7 Dekker and Webster's North- 1612 Heywood's Apology for Actors.
Ward Hoe (1607).
1612(? ) Fletcher and Shakespeare's
1606 Jonson's Hymenaei (1606).
The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634).
1606 The Puritane (1607).
1612/13 Beaumont's Masque of
1606-7 Tourneur's The Revengers Grayes-Inne and the Inner.
Tragoedie (1607).
Temple (n. d. (1613]).
1606-84 Pierre Corneille.
1612/13 Chapman's Masque of the
1606-68 Sir William D'Avenant.
Middle Temple and Lyncolnes
1607 Heywood and William Row- Inn (n. d. [1613]).
ley's Fortune by Land and Sea 1612–13 Middleton's A Chast Mayd
(1655).
in Cheape-side (1630).
1607-11 Tourneur's The Atheist's 1613 Marriage of Princess Elizabeth.
Tragedie (1611).
1613 Visit of Prince Charles and
1608 Chapman's Conspiracie, And the Elector Palatine to Cam-
Tragedie of Charles, Duke of bridge.
Byron (1608).
1613 Campion's The Lords Masque
1608 Fletcher's The Faithfull Shep-
(1613).
heardesse (c. 1610).
1613 Globe Theatre burnt.
1608 Jonson's Masque of Beauty 1614 (or before) Webster's The
(1608).
Dutchesse Of Malfy (1623).
1609 Jonson's Masque of Queenes 1614 (or before) Fletcher's Bonduca
(1609).
(1647).
1609 Jonson's The Silent Woman 1614 (or before) Fletcher's Valen-
(1616).
tinian (1647).
1609 (? ) Beaumont's Knight of the 1614 Jonson's The Sad Shepherd
Burning Pestle (1613).
(1641).
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505
1614 Jonson's Bartholomew Fayre 1623 Prince Charles and Backing-
(1631).
ham at Madrid.
1615 King James visits Cambridge. 1623 Massinger's The Bond-Man
1615 Ruggle's Ignoramus (1630). (1624).
1615 Tomkis's Albumazar (1615). 1623 Middleton and William Row-
1615 Jonson's Mercurie Vindicated ley's The Spanish Gipsie (1653).
from the Alchemists (1616). 1623 The Tragedy of Nero (1624).
1615 Phineas Fletcher's Sicelides 1623 Fletcher's The Lovers Pro-
(1631).
gress (1647).
c. 1615 Erection of the Cockpit. c. 1623 Middleton's The Witch (1778).
1616 Death of Shakespeare.
c. 1623
Middleton and William
1616 Overbury Murder Trial.
Rowley's The Changeling (1653).
A. 1616-36 Tirso de Molina.
1623 Spanish marriage negotiations
1616 First folio of Ben Jonson.
broken off.
1616 Middleton and William Row- 1624 War declared against Spain.
ley's A Faire Quarrell (1617). 1624 Massacre at Amboina.
1617 Fletcher and Massinger's 1624 Ford's The Sun's-Darling
Thierry and Theodoret (1621). (1656).
1618 Book of Sports published.
1624 Middleton's A Game at Chesse
1618 B. Holiday's Technogamia (1625).
(1618).
1624 lic. Fletcher's Rule a Wife
1618-48 The Thirty Years War.
And have a Wife (1640).
1618 Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh. 1625-49 Charles I.
1618 Synod of Dort.
1625 The Plagne in London.
1618 lic. Fletcher's The Loyal Sub- 1625-6 Fletcher's The Chances
ject (1647).
(1647).
1618/19 Jonson's Pleasure Recon. 1626 (before) Massinger's A New
ciled to Vertue (1640).
Way to Pay Old Debts (1633).
1619 Fletcher's The Humorous Lieu- 1626 Massinger's The Roman Actor
tenant (1647).
(1629).
1619 Massinger and Fields The 1627 Ford's Tis Pitty Shees a
Fatall Dowry (1632).
Whore (1633).
1619-20 Fletcher and Massinger's 1627 lic. Massinger's The Great
The Little French Lawyer (1647). Duke of Florence (1636).
1620 Thomas May's The Heire (1622). c. 1627 Heywood's The English
1620 lic. Massinger and Dekker's Traveller (1633).
The Virgin Martir (1622). 1628 Assassination of Duke of
Fletcher and Massinger's Buckingham.
The False One (1647).
1628 Ford's The Lovers Melancholy
c. 1620 Middleton and William (1629).
Rowley's The World tost at 1629 Erection of the Whitefriars
Tennis (1620).
Playhouse.
c. 1620 Webster's The Devils Law- 1629 Ford's The Broken Heart
case (1623).
(1633).
1620/1 Jonson's Newes from the New 1629 Randolph's Aristippus (1630).
World (1640).
1629 L. Carlell's The Deserving
1621 Fletcher's The Pilgrim (1647). Favorite (1629).
1621 Fletcher's The Wild-Goose 1631 Massinger's The Emperour of
Chase (1652).
the East (1632).
c. 1621
Ford and Dekker's The 1631 lic. Massinger's Believe as you
Witch of Edmonton (1658).
List (1849).
1622 (before) Fletcher and Massin- 1632 Death of Gustavus Adolphus.
ger's The Beggars Bush (1647). 1632 Prynne's Histriomastix.
1622 lic. Fletcher and Massinger's 1632 Charles I and Henrietta Maria
The Spanish Curate (1647).
visit Cambridge.
c. 1620
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Table of Principal Dates
1632 Randolph's The Jealous Lovers 1635 D'Avenant's The Platonick
(1632).
Lovers (1636).
1632 Randolph's The Muses Look- 1635 lic. Shirley's The Coronation
ing-Glasse (1638).
(1640).
1632 Shackerley Marmion's Hol- 1635 lic. Chapman and Shirley's
lands Leaguer (1632).
Chabot (1639).
1632 Chapman and Shirley's The 1636 Charles I visits Oxford.
Ball (1639).
1636 Corneille's Le Cid.
1632 lic. Shirley's Hide Parke 1636 Cartwright's The Royall Slave
(1637).
(1639).
1633 Book of Sports republished. 1636-40 Shirley in Ireland.
1633 Ford's Historie of Perkin A. 1636-65 P. Calderon de La Barca.
Warbeck (1634).
1637 Shipmoney judgment.
1633(? ) Heywood's The late Lanca- 1637 Suckling's Aglaura (1638).
shire Witches (1634).
1638 Cowley's Naufragium Jocu-
1633 lic. Shirley's The Gamester lare (1638).
(1637).
1638 Suckling's The Goblins (1646).
1633 lic. Shirley's The Bird in a 1639 Pacification of Berwick.
Cage (1633).
1640 Meeting of the Long Parlia-
1634 Milton's Comus (1637).
ment.
1634 T. Nabbes's Microcosmus (1637). 1640 Second folio of Ben Jonson.
1634 (after) H. Glapthorne's Al- 1640 Shirley's Honoria and Mam-
bertus Wallenstein (1639).
mon (1659).
1634 lic. Fletcher and Massinger's 1641 Irish Rebellion.
A Very Woman, or The Prince 1641 Execution of the Earl of
of Tarent (1655).
Strafford.
1634 lic. Shirley's The Opportunitie 1641-2 Cowley's The Guardian
(1640)
(1650).
1635 (before) Randolph's Amyntas 1641 Brome's A Joviall Crew (1652).
(1638).
1641 Day's The Parliament of Bees.
1635 Brome's The Sparagus 1641 lic. Shirley's The Cardinall
Garden (1640).
(1652).
1635 John Ogilby's theatre opened 1642 Aug. Outbreak of Civil War.
in Dublin.
1642 Sept. Closing of the theatres.
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CORRIGENDA AND ADDENDA
VOL. V
p. 481, add at end of Bibliographies. An account of books and pamphlets prohibited
in England, from 1530 onwards, by royal proclamation, or suppressed by order
of the Star Chamber or the High Commission Court, or (as time went on) of
the House of Commons, or otherwise, will be found in W. H. Hart's Index
Expurgatorius Anglicanus, of which five parts appeared, 1872 to 1878. References
to this valuable, though uncompleted, collection will be found in later volumes of
the present work.
The index reference for Eastward Hoe under Dekker should be transferred to under
Chapman.
VOL. VI
p. 4, 1. 7, read: Cynthia's Revels and Poetaster, acted in 1600 and 1601 respectively
p. 12, note, for Soesgil read Soergel
p. 22, 1, 21, for Conmon read Common
p. 33, 1. 15, for Massacre of Paris read Massacre at Paris
p. 40, 1. 33, for Fungose read Fungoso
p. 70, 1. 5. As to an edition of this play by Stork, C. W. , after the text of this chapter
had passed through the press, see the bibliography to chap. II, p. 429.
p. 91, last line, for 1558 read 1585
p. 102, 1. 11 from bottom, for known to exist in print read printed
p. 102, note 4, for Naupagium read Naufragium
p. 146, 1. 14 from bottom, for 1844 read 1849
p. 162, 1. 8 from bottom, for innuendos, read innuendos.
p. 237, 1. 13, for 1642 read 1643
p. 238, l. 15, dele in
p. 238, 1. 11 from bottom, for 1846 read 1646
p. 239, l. 1, for 'stuck in 'read stuck in
p. 258, 1. 22 from bottom, for without, read without
p. 458, 1. 16, add Reasons for doubting the usually accepted identification of the
author of Messallina are given by G. C. Moore Smith in Notes and Queries,
12 June 1909, Ser. x, vol. xi, p. 461, where another Nathaniel Richards is
suggested as the author.
p. 460, 1. 19, add Murray, J. T. English Dramatic Companies, 1558–1642. 2 vols.
1910.
p. 468, 1. 17, add Mrs Stopes's William Hunnis and the Revels of the Chapel Royal
has been just added to Bang's Materialien.
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INDEX OF NAMES
[The letters ff. after an entry imply that references to the same subject occur on at
least two immediately succeeding pages. Birth and death dates are not, as a rule,
given in the case of writers whose work is considered in other volumes. The cross
references under the names of dramatists are intended to assist in finding plays
by two or more authors. ]
Abyndon, or Abingdon, Henry, 281
Academico, in The Returne from Per.
nassus, 313
Achilles, 106
Actors Remonstrance, The, 407
Adam, in As You Like It, 248
Adams, Clement, 282
Admiral's company, the, 83, 89, 90, 93,
245, 247, 249, 250, 255, 259, 269, 274
Adorni, in The Maid of Honour, 158, 164
Adurni, in The Ladies Triall, 194
Aecius, in Valentinian, 122, 129, 130
Aeglamour, in The Sad Shepherd, 11,
369, 370
Aeneas, James I described as the modern
us, in The Hue and Cry after Cupid,
347
Aeschylus, Persae, 92
Aeson, 163
Aesop, 250
Aethiopians, in The Masque of Black-
nesse, 342, 343
Affections, the, in Pathomachia, 324;
the four, in Hymenaei, 346
Ager, captain, in A Faire Quarrell, 73, 74
Agrippa, Cornelius, De incertitudine et
vanitate scientiarum, 377
Ajax, in Troilus and Cressida, 44
Ajax Flagellifer, 298, 317
Alabaster, William (1567-1640), Roxana,
266, 268, 302
Alba, 317
Albion, in The Masque of Blacknesse,
342
Alchemists, in Mercury Vindicated, 357,
358
Alcides, 163
Alcmena, in The Silver Age, 93
Alcon, in The Queenes Arcadia, 318
Aleman, M. , Guzman de Alfarache, 139
Aleppo, basha of, in The Renegado, 156
Alexander, William, 19
Alinda, in The Pilgrim, 123
Alken, in The Sad Shepherd, 370
All is True, 256
Allen, Giles, 252, 253
Alley, William (15107-1570), The Poore
Man's Librarie, 378
Alleyn, Edward (1566–1626), 41, 51, 87,
247, 249, 250, 255, 258, 278, 292
Almerine, in Brennoralt, 238
Almira, in A Very Woman, 156
Almond for a Parrat, An, 393
Alonzo, in The Bashful Lover, 158
Althorp, 4, 339
Alucius, History of, the, 286
Amaranta, in The Spanish Curate, 134
Amboina, 183
Amie, in The Sad Shepherd, 370
Amintor, in The Maides Tragedy, 120,
126 ff.
Amoretta, in The Ladies Triall, 194
Amoretto, in The Pilgrimage to Parnassus,
310; in The Returne from Pernassus,
313
Amorous La-Foole, Sir, in The Silent
Woman, 22, 152
Amorphus, in Cynthia's Revels, 41, 44
Amsterdam, 22, 324
Amyntas, in The Queenes Arcadia, 317
Anaides, in Cynthia's Revels, 18, 41
Ananias, in The Alchemist, 22
Anatomy of Wit, 394
Angelo, in The Virgin Martir, 54
Anne Boleyn, 335
lady, in Richard III, 129
of Denmark, queen consort of
James I, 83, 337, 339 ff. , 348, 350, 361,
366 ; companies of, 104, 254, 258
Anti-Christ, 374
Antigonas, in The Humorous Lieutenant,
122
Antiochus, Asiatic king, in Believe as you
List, 147 ff.
Antoninus, in The Virgin Martir, 154
Antonio, in Albumazar, 323
in The Corcombe, 133
in The Dutchessé Of Malfy, 181,
182
Antonius, in Ignoramus, 322
Apollo, 368
Apuleius, 82
in Loves Maistresse, 103
Aquitania, in The Masque of Blacknesse,
342
Ara Fortunae, 319
Arabia, 35
Arabian nights' tales, the, 103
Arbaces, in A King and no King, 120,
127
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508
Index of Names
Arcadia, 11, 317, 318, 341, 364, 368
Archas, in The Loyal Subject, 122, 130
Archer, William, 266, 269
Arcite, in Palamon and Arcyte, 299
Ardelia, in The Dukes Mistris, 200
Arden, 27
Arden of Feversham, 95
Argensola, Bart. de, 139
Aristophanes, 18, 24, 79, 315, 322, 327,
352, 362, 363; Eiphun or Pax, 294;
Plutus, 25, 294; Wasps, The, 25
Aristotle, 6, 225, 232, 296; Ethics, 233;
Poetics, 8
Armada, the, 27, 53, 92, 174
Armin, Robert (1564? -1612? ), 273
Foole upon Foole, 218
Italian Taylor and his Boy, The, 218
Nest of Ninnies, A, 218
Two Maids of More-clacke, The, 217
Arnold, Matthew, 57
Arthur, prince, son of Henry VII, 332,
333
Articles of Grievance and Oppression, 275
Ascham, Roger, 378; The Scholemaster,
295
Aspatia, in The Maides Tragedy, 120,
123, 126
Asper, in Every Man out of His Humour,
17, 39
Assyrian host, in Ezechias, 298
Astronomia, in Technogamia, 323
Athenaeus, Deipnosophia, 102
Athenais, in The Emperour of the East,
158, 163
Athens, 308
Atkinson, Thomas, 470
Atlas, in Pleasure Reconciled, 359 ff.
sign of, on the Globe theatre, 256
Atreus, Thyestes, 301
Attic drama, 232. See, also, Greek drama
Audax, in The Floating Island, 325
Auditus, in Lingua, 315
Aurelia, in The Prophetesse, 152
duchess of Siena, in The Maid of
Honour, 152, 155
Aurelio, in The Ladies Triall, 194
Auria, a Genoese, in The Ladies Triall,
194
Aurora, in The Penates, 341
Azores, the, 101
Baker, Sir Richard (1568–1645), Thea.
trum Redivivum, 406
Bale, John (1495–1563), 374
Ballada, in Fucus Histriomastix, 324
Banaster, Gilbert, 281, 283
Banbury, Roman amphitheatre at, 252
Bandello, 49, 99, 100, 123, 180
Bang, W. , 102
Banquo, in Macbeth, 318
Barabas, in The Jero of Malta, 250
Barkstead, Wm. (f.
