1581 Lyly's
Campaspe
(1584).
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05
Oxford, 1821.
Life and Acts of J. Whitgift, Archbp. 3 vols. Oxford, 1822.
Life of E. Grindal, Archbp. Oxford, 1821.
Synge, M. B. A Short History of Social Life in England. 1906.
Thornbury, G. W. Shakspere's England; or, Sketches of our Social History
in the Reign of Elizabeth. 2 vols. 1856. 3rd ed. 1902.
Traill, H. D. Social England. Vol. III (Henry VIII to Elizabeth); vol. IV
(James I to Anne). 3rd ed. 1904.
Vatke, T. Culturbilder aus Alt-England. Berlin, 1887.
Wakeman, H. 0. The Church and the Puritans, 1570-1660. 1887. New
ed. 1902.
Ward, A. W. Introduction to Marlowe's Dr Faustus and Greene's Friar
Bacon and Friar Bungay. 4th ed. Oxford, 1901. (pp. xlviii ff. on popular
belief in witchcraft and magic in England, as reflected in the drama).
Watson, F. The English Grammar Schools to 1660: their Curriculum and
Practice. Cambridge, 1908. (Valuable bibliographical information. ]
Wheatley, H. B. London past and present. Based upon P. Cunningham's
Handbook of London. 3 vols. 1891.
Winter, W. Shakespeare's England. 1894,
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, 1872-8. References to this valuable, though
uncompleted, collection will be found in later volumes of the present work.
## p. 483 (#507) ############################################
TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
The following table is a list of the principal dates mentioned or referred
to in the present volume. It should be regarded as supplemented, from
their respective points of view, by the tables in vol. IV and vol. VI.
In the case of plays where one date precedes and another follows (in brackets)
the former is the date of the first performance, and the latter that of the
first extant edition. Where the former is not, even approximately,
ascertainable, the date of printing precedes (in brackets).
959-975 Concordia Regularis. 1495 (before) Every-man (1509-30).
c. 1110 Miracle of St Catherine. 1494-5 Visits of French Players to
A. 1125 Hilarius.
London,
1127-70 Guillaume Herman.
1495-1563 John Bale.
1170-82 London Miracles.
1497-c. 1580 John Heywood.
12th cent. Play of Adam.
c. 1500 L. Wager's Marie Mag-
c. 1250 The Harrowing of Hell.
dalene (1566).
(performed in 1487).
1505-56 Nicholas Udall.
1258 Prohibition of secular enter- 1509-47 Henry VIII.
tainments in monasteries.
1515 (after) Skelton's Magnificence
1264 Institution of Feast of Corpus (n. d. [1529-33]).
Christi.
1517 Rastell's (? ) The Nature of the
1265-1321 Dante.
Four Elements (1519).
1300 (before) Cornish Miracle Plays 1521 (or before) John Heywood's
(MS 15th century).
The pardoner and the frere
1313-75 Boccaccio (Decameron 1350).
(1533).
c. 1340-50 York Mysteries (MS 15th (c. 1530) Calisto and Melebea.
century).
1530 Fall of Wolsey.
1350 Towneley Mysteries (MS (1533) John Heywood's Play of
15th century).
the wether.
1390-1420 Chester Plays (MSS (1533) John Heywood's Play of
1591-1607).
love.
1416 Coventry Plays (MS 1468). (1533/4) John Heywood's Johan
1427 Recovery of twelve lost plays Johan.
by Plautus.
1538 Kirchmayer's Pammachius.
c. 1450 Macro Moralities.
1538 Bale's God's Promises written.
1469 Edward IV's Charter to 1540 Lyndsay's Satyre of the thrie
Minstrels.
estaitis (1602).
1485–1509 Henry VII.
(1540) Palsgrave's Acolastus.
1485-1509 Hyckescorner (n. d. [be- 1541 Cinthio's Orbecche.
fore 1534]).
1543 Prohibition of songs opposed
1485-1509 Interlude of Youth (n. d. to Church teaching.
(1555]).
(1543–7) John Heywood's The foure
1485-1509 (? ) The Worlde and the P. P.
chylde (1522).
c. 1547 Ingelend's Disobedient Child
1486–1500 Henry Medwell's Inter- (n. d. (1560 ? ]).
lude of Nature.
1547-53 Edward VI.
31-2
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Table of Principal Dates
mew.
1547-50 R. Wever's Lusty Juventus (1568) Fulwell's Like wil to like.
(c. 1550).
c. 1570 Preston's Cambises (entered
1548 Bale's Catalogus.
1567/8).
c. 1548 Bale's Kynge Johan.
1570-84 Preston's (? ) Syr Clyomon
1540-69 Tom Tyler and his Wife and Syr Clamydes (1599).
(1661 2nd imp. ).
1572 Massacre of St Bartholo-
1550 First complete edition of Hall's
Chronicle.
1573 Legge's Richardus Tertius
1553-8 Queen Mary.
(1579).
1553 Respublica.
1575 Gascoigne's The Glasse of
1553-1633 Anthony Munday.
Governement (1575).
1553-4 (1552-3? ) Udall's Ralph c. 1576 Erection of the first per-
Roister Doister (Stat. reg. manent theatre.
1566-7).
1576 Sack of Antwerp.
1553-8 Jacke Jugeler (1562-9). 1576 lic. George Pettie's Petite
1554 (? )-1606 John Lyly.
Pallace.
1554-1628 Fulke Greville.
c. 1577 Thomas Lupton's All for
1557 Stationers' company incor- Money (1578).
porated. (Confirmed 1559. ) 1577-80 Drake circumnavigates the
1557 lic. The Historie of Jacob and world.
Esau (1568).
(1578) Whetstone's Promos and
c. 1558-1625 Thomas Lodge.
Cassandra.
1558-94 Thomas Kyd.
1578 Holinshed's Chronicles of
c. 1558-c. 1597 George Peele.
England, Scotland and Ireland,
1558-1603 Queen Elizabeth.
including Harrison's Description
1558-92 Robert Greene.
of England.
1559 Political allusions in common 1578-9 Lyly's Euphues the Ana-
interlades' prohibited.
tomie of Wit.
1560-77 Misogonus (MS 1577).
1579 North's Plutarch.
1561 The Bugbears.
1579 Gosson's Schoole of Abuse.
1562 Norton and Sackville's Gor. 1580 Montaigne's Essays.
boduc (1565 incomplete, 1570).
c.
1581 Lyly's Campaspe (1584).
• c. 1563 R. B. 's Apius and Virginia (1581) Tenne Tragedies of Seneca.
(1575).
1581 Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie.
1563-1631 Michael Drayton.
C. 1582 Lyly's Sapho and Phao
1564 Shakespeare baptised.
(1584).
1564-1607 (or before) Henry Chettle. 1584 (before) Peele's Araygnement
c. 1564 Richard Edwards's Damon of Paris (1584).
and Pithias (1571).
1584 Munday's translation of Fedele
1564-93 Christopher Marlowe.
and Fortunio.
1565 Contention betweene Libe- 1585 Death of Pierre de Ronsard.
ralitie and Prodigalitie (1602). c. 1586 Kyd's Spanish Tragedie
1565 Cinthio's Hecatommithi.
(1594, an earlier ed. n. d. ).
1566 Richard Edwards's Palamon 1586 Licensing and Censorship of
and Arcyte (1566).
Plays.
1566 Gascoigne's Supposes (n. d. 1586 Arden of Feversham (1592).
[1566]).
1586-7 Trial and Execution of Mary
1566 Gascoigne's Jocasta (c. 1573). Queen of Scots.
1566 Albion Knight.
1587 (before) Faire Em (1631).
1566-7 Painter's Palace of Pleasure. (1587-8) Lyly's Endimion (1591).
1567 Pickeryng's Horestes (1567). 1587-9 Greene's Alphonsus (1599).
1567 Fenton's Tragicall Discourses. 1587 (? ) First Part of Jeronimo
1567-1601 Thomas Nashe.
(1605).
1567 Gismond of Salerne (Tancred 1587 Lodge's Wounds of Civill
and Gismund, 1591).
War (1594).
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485
1587 Hughes's Misfortunes of 1592 Plague revives in London.
Arthur (1587).
1592 Marlowe's Edward the second
1587-8 Marlowe's Tamburlaine (1598 (1594 imperfect]).
(1590).
1592 Nashe's Summer's last will
1588 (before) The Famous Victories and Testament (1600).
of Henry the fifth (1598).
c. 1592 Lord Cromwell (1602).
1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada.
1593 Marlowe's Massacre at Paris
1588 Death of Leicester.
(1596-1600).
1588 The Troublesome Raigne of 1593 The True Chronicle History
John (1591).
of King Leir (1605).
1588 Peele's David and Bethsabe (1593) Shakespeare's Venus and
(1599).
Adonis.
1588-9 Marlowe's Dr Faustus 1593-4 Shakespeare's Titus Andro-
(1604).
nicus (1594).
1588–9 Marlowe's Jew of Malta 1594 Shakespeare's Lucrece.
(1633).
1594 Shakespeare's Comedy of
1588-91 Greene's Orlando Furioso Errors (1623).
(1594).
1594 Munday's John a Kent (MS
1588 Kyd's Solimon and Perseda 1595). Pr. 1851.
(1599).
1594-9 Looke about you (1600).
1588-90 Marprelate Controversy.
1596-8 Porter's Two angry women
1588-92 Greene's George a Greene of Abington (1599).
(1599).
1597-1607 The Birth of Merlin
c. 1588 Greene's (? ) Selimus (1594).
(1662).
1589 Greene's Frier Bacon, and 1598 (before) Shakespeare's Sonnets
frier Bongay (1594).
(1609).
1589-90 Lyly's Midas (1592). 1598 (before) Shakespeare's Love's
1590 (before) Locrine (1595).
Labour's Lost (1598).
C. 1590 Lodge's (? ) Mucedorus
The Two Gentlemen of
(1598).
Verona (1623).
1590 Peele's Edwarde the first All's Well that Ends Well
(1593).
(1623).
1590 Lyly's Mother Bombie (1594).
The Taming of the Shrew
1590 Countess of Pembroke's An- (1623).
tonie (1592).
Romeo and Juliet (1597).
1590 First Part of the Contention A Midsummer Night's Dream
betwixt Yorke and Lancaster (1600).
(1594).
Merchant of Venice (1600).
1590 Lodge's Rosalynde.
Richard II (1597).
1590 Spenser's Faerie Queene, bks. King John (1623).
I-III.
Richard III (1597).
1590-1 Greene's James the fourth Henry IV (Part 1) (1598).
(1598).
1598 (before) Sir Thomas More
1590-5 Peele's Old Wives Tale (1844).
(1595).
1598 Meres's Palladis Tamia.
1590-6 Edward the third (1596). 1598 Death of Burghley.
1591 Marlowe's Dido (1594).
1598 Munday's Downfall of Robert,
1591-3 Lyly's Woman in the Moone Earle of Huntington (1601).
(1597).
1598 Munday and Chettle's Death
1592 (before) Greene and Lodge's of Robert, Earle of Huntington
A Looking Glasse for London (1601).
(1594).
1598 A warning for Faire Women
1592 (or before) Peele's Battell of (1599).
Alcazar (1594).
1598 (? ) Haughton's A Woman will
1592 Kyd's Cornelia (1594).
have her Will (1616).
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Table of Principal Dates
1598 (after) Shakespeare's The 1606 Middeton's (? ) The Puritane
Merry Wives of Windsor (1602) (1607).
Much Ado about Nothing 1607 Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
(1600).
(1623).
1598-1600 Sir John Oldcastle (1600). c. 1608/9 Coriolanus (1623).
1599 Shakespeare's, Henry V (1600).
c. 1608
Antony and Cleopatra
1599 Histriomastix revised by (1623).
Marston (1610).
1608 Pericles (1609).
c. 1600 Haughton's Grim The Collier 1610-13 The Tempest (1623).
(1662).
1610 or 1611 Cymbeline (1623).
c. 1600 Shakespeare's As You Like 1611 The Winter's Tale (1623).
It (1623). .
1612 Two Noble Kinsmen (1634).
1600 The Weakest goeth to the Wall 1612 Death of Prince Henry.
(1600).
1613 Shakespeare's Henry VIII
1601 (? ) Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1623).
(1623).
1613 The Globe Theatre burnt.
1601 Queen Elizabeth's Poor Law. 1616 Death of Shakespeare.
1601 Execution of Essex.
1620-30 German versions of English
1601/2 Shakespeare's Twelfth plays acted in Germany.
Night (1623).
1623 First Folio of Shakespeare.
1602 Chettle's Tragedy of Hoffman 1625-49 Charles I.
(1631).
1632 Second Folio of Shakespeare.
1602 Shakespeare's Hamlet (1603). 1637 Publication of plays without
1602/3 Shakespeare's Troilus and the players' consent prohibited.
Cressida (1608/9).
1642 Outbreak of Civil War. Closing
1603–25 James I.
of the Theatres.
1603 Florio's Montaigne.
1663 Third Folio of Shakespeare.
1604 (7) Shakespeare's Measure for 1685 Fourth Folio of Shakespeare.
Measure (1623).
1685 Revocation of Edict of Nantes.
1604 English actors at Fontainebleau. 1726 Theobald's Shakespeare Re-
1604 (or before) The Merry Devill of stored.
Edmonton (1608).
1730-42 Voltaire's adaptations from
1604 Shakespeare's Othello (1622). Shakespeare.
1604 Samuel Rowley's When you 1733 Voltaire's Lettres Philoso-
see me, You know me (1605).
phiques.
(1605) London Prodigall.
1741 Julius Caesar translated into
1605 (? ) Shakespeare's Macbeth(1623). German.
1605 A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608). 1759 Lessing Shakespeare
1605 Wilkins's The Miseries of (B. d. n. Lit. betr. )
Inforst Mariage (1607).
1797-1810 A. W. Schlegel's German
1605 Gunpowder Plot.
Translation of Shakespeare.
1606 Folke Greville's Mustapha 1809-11 A. W. Schlegel's Über
(1609).
dramat. Kunst und Literatur,
1606 Dec. Shakespeare's King Lear 1827 Victor Hugo's Cromwell.
(1608)
on
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INDEX OF NAMES
[Ff. after an entry implies that there are references to the same subject 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.
Life and Acts of J. Whitgift, Archbp. 3 vols. Oxford, 1822.
Life of E. Grindal, Archbp. Oxford, 1821.
Synge, M. B. A Short History of Social Life in England. 1906.
Thornbury, G. W. Shakspere's England; or, Sketches of our Social History
in the Reign of Elizabeth. 2 vols. 1856. 3rd ed. 1902.
Traill, H. D. Social England. Vol. III (Henry VIII to Elizabeth); vol. IV
(James I to Anne). 3rd ed. 1904.
Vatke, T. Culturbilder aus Alt-England. Berlin, 1887.
Wakeman, H. 0. The Church and the Puritans, 1570-1660. 1887. New
ed. 1902.
Ward, A. W. Introduction to Marlowe's Dr Faustus and Greene's Friar
Bacon and Friar Bungay. 4th ed. Oxford, 1901. (pp. xlviii ff. on popular
belief in witchcraft and magic in England, as reflected in the drama).
Watson, F. The English Grammar Schools to 1660: their Curriculum and
Practice. Cambridge, 1908. (Valuable bibliographical information. ]
Wheatley, H. B. London past and present. Based upon P. Cunningham's
Handbook of London. 3 vols. 1891.
Winter, W. Shakespeare's England. 1894,
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, 1872-8. References to this valuable, though
uncompleted, collection will be found in later volumes of the present work.
## p. 483 (#507) ############################################
TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
The following table is a list of the principal dates mentioned or referred
to in the present volume. It should be regarded as supplemented, from
their respective points of view, by the tables in vol. IV and vol. VI.
In the case of plays where one date precedes and another follows (in brackets)
the former is the date of the first performance, and the latter that of the
first extant edition. Where the former is not, even approximately,
ascertainable, the date of printing precedes (in brackets).
959-975 Concordia Regularis. 1495 (before) Every-man (1509-30).
c. 1110 Miracle of St Catherine. 1494-5 Visits of French Players to
A. 1125 Hilarius.
London,
1127-70 Guillaume Herman.
1495-1563 John Bale.
1170-82 London Miracles.
1497-c. 1580 John Heywood.
12th cent. Play of Adam.
c. 1500 L. Wager's Marie Mag-
c. 1250 The Harrowing of Hell.
dalene (1566).
(performed in 1487).
1505-56 Nicholas Udall.
1258 Prohibition of secular enter- 1509-47 Henry VIII.
tainments in monasteries.
1515 (after) Skelton's Magnificence
1264 Institution of Feast of Corpus (n. d. [1529-33]).
Christi.
1517 Rastell's (? ) The Nature of the
1265-1321 Dante.
Four Elements (1519).
1300 (before) Cornish Miracle Plays 1521 (or before) John Heywood's
(MS 15th century).
The pardoner and the frere
1313-75 Boccaccio (Decameron 1350).
(1533).
c. 1340-50 York Mysteries (MS 15th (c. 1530) Calisto and Melebea.
century).
1530 Fall of Wolsey.
1350 Towneley Mysteries (MS (1533) John Heywood's Play of
15th century).
the wether.
1390-1420 Chester Plays (MSS (1533) John Heywood's Play of
1591-1607).
love.
1416 Coventry Plays (MS 1468). (1533/4) John Heywood's Johan
1427 Recovery of twelve lost plays Johan.
by Plautus.
1538 Kirchmayer's Pammachius.
c. 1450 Macro Moralities.
1538 Bale's God's Promises written.
1469 Edward IV's Charter to 1540 Lyndsay's Satyre of the thrie
Minstrels.
estaitis (1602).
1485–1509 Henry VII.
(1540) Palsgrave's Acolastus.
1485-1509 Hyckescorner (n. d. [be- 1541 Cinthio's Orbecche.
fore 1534]).
1543 Prohibition of songs opposed
1485-1509 Interlude of Youth (n. d. to Church teaching.
(1555]).
(1543–7) John Heywood's The foure
1485-1509 (? ) The Worlde and the P. P.
chylde (1522).
c. 1547 Ingelend's Disobedient Child
1486–1500 Henry Medwell's Inter- (n. d. (1560 ? ]).
lude of Nature.
1547-53 Edward VI.
31-2
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Table of Principal Dates
mew.
1547-50 R. Wever's Lusty Juventus (1568) Fulwell's Like wil to like.
(c. 1550).
c. 1570 Preston's Cambises (entered
1548 Bale's Catalogus.
1567/8).
c. 1548 Bale's Kynge Johan.
1570-84 Preston's (? ) Syr Clyomon
1540-69 Tom Tyler and his Wife and Syr Clamydes (1599).
(1661 2nd imp. ).
1572 Massacre of St Bartholo-
1550 First complete edition of Hall's
Chronicle.
1573 Legge's Richardus Tertius
1553-8 Queen Mary.
(1579).
1553 Respublica.
1575 Gascoigne's The Glasse of
1553-1633 Anthony Munday.
Governement (1575).
1553-4 (1552-3? ) Udall's Ralph c. 1576 Erection of the first per-
Roister Doister (Stat. reg. manent theatre.
1566-7).
1576 Sack of Antwerp.
1553-8 Jacke Jugeler (1562-9). 1576 lic. George Pettie's Petite
1554 (? )-1606 John Lyly.
Pallace.
1554-1628 Fulke Greville.
c. 1577 Thomas Lupton's All for
1557 Stationers' company incor- Money (1578).
porated. (Confirmed 1559. ) 1577-80 Drake circumnavigates the
1557 lic. The Historie of Jacob and world.
Esau (1568).
(1578) Whetstone's Promos and
c. 1558-1625 Thomas Lodge.
Cassandra.
1558-94 Thomas Kyd.
1578 Holinshed's Chronicles of
c. 1558-c. 1597 George Peele.
England, Scotland and Ireland,
1558-1603 Queen Elizabeth.
including Harrison's Description
1558-92 Robert Greene.
of England.
1559 Political allusions in common 1578-9 Lyly's Euphues the Ana-
interlades' prohibited.
tomie of Wit.
1560-77 Misogonus (MS 1577).
1579 North's Plutarch.
1561 The Bugbears.
1579 Gosson's Schoole of Abuse.
1562 Norton and Sackville's Gor. 1580 Montaigne's Essays.
boduc (1565 incomplete, 1570).
c.
1581 Lyly's Campaspe (1584).
• c. 1563 R. B. 's Apius and Virginia (1581) Tenne Tragedies of Seneca.
(1575).
1581 Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie.
1563-1631 Michael Drayton.
C. 1582 Lyly's Sapho and Phao
1564 Shakespeare baptised.
(1584).
1564-1607 (or before) Henry Chettle. 1584 (before) Peele's Araygnement
c. 1564 Richard Edwards's Damon of Paris (1584).
and Pithias (1571).
1584 Munday's translation of Fedele
1564-93 Christopher Marlowe.
and Fortunio.
1565 Contention betweene Libe- 1585 Death of Pierre de Ronsard.
ralitie and Prodigalitie (1602). c. 1586 Kyd's Spanish Tragedie
1565 Cinthio's Hecatommithi.
(1594, an earlier ed. n. d. ).
1566 Richard Edwards's Palamon 1586 Licensing and Censorship of
and Arcyte (1566).
Plays.
1566 Gascoigne's Supposes (n. d. 1586 Arden of Feversham (1592).
[1566]).
1586-7 Trial and Execution of Mary
1566 Gascoigne's Jocasta (c. 1573). Queen of Scots.
1566 Albion Knight.
1587 (before) Faire Em (1631).
1566-7 Painter's Palace of Pleasure. (1587-8) Lyly's Endimion (1591).
1567 Pickeryng's Horestes (1567). 1587-9 Greene's Alphonsus (1599).
1567 Fenton's Tragicall Discourses. 1587 (? ) First Part of Jeronimo
1567-1601 Thomas Nashe.
(1605).
1567 Gismond of Salerne (Tancred 1587 Lodge's Wounds of Civill
and Gismund, 1591).
War (1594).
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485
1587 Hughes's Misfortunes of 1592 Plague revives in London.
Arthur (1587).
1592 Marlowe's Edward the second
1587-8 Marlowe's Tamburlaine (1598 (1594 imperfect]).
(1590).
1592 Nashe's Summer's last will
1588 (before) The Famous Victories and Testament (1600).
of Henry the fifth (1598).
c. 1592 Lord Cromwell (1602).
1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada.
1593 Marlowe's Massacre at Paris
1588 Death of Leicester.
(1596-1600).
1588 The Troublesome Raigne of 1593 The True Chronicle History
John (1591).
of King Leir (1605).
1588 Peele's David and Bethsabe (1593) Shakespeare's Venus and
(1599).
Adonis.
1588-9 Marlowe's Dr Faustus 1593-4 Shakespeare's Titus Andro-
(1604).
nicus (1594).
1588–9 Marlowe's Jew of Malta 1594 Shakespeare's Lucrece.
(1633).
1594 Shakespeare's Comedy of
1588-91 Greene's Orlando Furioso Errors (1623).
(1594).
1594 Munday's John a Kent (MS
1588 Kyd's Solimon and Perseda 1595). Pr. 1851.
(1599).
1594-9 Looke about you (1600).
1588-90 Marprelate Controversy.
1596-8 Porter's Two angry women
1588-92 Greene's George a Greene of Abington (1599).
(1599).
1597-1607 The Birth of Merlin
c. 1588 Greene's (? ) Selimus (1594).
(1662).
1589 Greene's Frier Bacon, and 1598 (before) Shakespeare's Sonnets
frier Bongay (1594).
(1609).
1589-90 Lyly's Midas (1592). 1598 (before) Shakespeare's Love's
1590 (before) Locrine (1595).
Labour's Lost (1598).
C. 1590 Lodge's (? ) Mucedorus
The Two Gentlemen of
(1598).
Verona (1623).
1590 Peele's Edwarde the first All's Well that Ends Well
(1593).
(1623).
1590 Lyly's Mother Bombie (1594).
The Taming of the Shrew
1590 Countess of Pembroke's An- (1623).
tonie (1592).
Romeo and Juliet (1597).
1590 First Part of the Contention A Midsummer Night's Dream
betwixt Yorke and Lancaster (1600).
(1594).
Merchant of Venice (1600).
1590 Lodge's Rosalynde.
Richard II (1597).
1590 Spenser's Faerie Queene, bks. King John (1623).
I-III.
Richard III (1597).
1590-1 Greene's James the fourth Henry IV (Part 1) (1598).
(1598).
1598 (before) Sir Thomas More
1590-5 Peele's Old Wives Tale (1844).
(1595).
1598 Meres's Palladis Tamia.
1590-6 Edward the third (1596). 1598 Death of Burghley.
1591 Marlowe's Dido (1594).
1598 Munday's Downfall of Robert,
1591-3 Lyly's Woman in the Moone Earle of Huntington (1601).
(1597).
1598 Munday and Chettle's Death
1592 (before) Greene and Lodge's of Robert, Earle of Huntington
A Looking Glasse for London (1601).
(1594).
1598 A warning for Faire Women
1592 (or before) Peele's Battell of (1599).
Alcazar (1594).
1598 (? ) Haughton's A Woman will
1592 Kyd's Cornelia (1594).
have her Will (1616).
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Table of Principal Dates
1598 (after) Shakespeare's The 1606 Middeton's (? ) The Puritane
Merry Wives of Windsor (1602) (1607).
Much Ado about Nothing 1607 Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
(1600).
(1623).
1598-1600 Sir John Oldcastle (1600). c. 1608/9 Coriolanus (1623).
1599 Shakespeare's, Henry V (1600).
c. 1608
Antony and Cleopatra
1599 Histriomastix revised by (1623).
Marston (1610).
1608 Pericles (1609).
c. 1600 Haughton's Grim The Collier 1610-13 The Tempest (1623).
(1662).
1610 or 1611 Cymbeline (1623).
c. 1600 Shakespeare's As You Like 1611 The Winter's Tale (1623).
It (1623). .
1612 Two Noble Kinsmen (1634).
1600 The Weakest goeth to the Wall 1612 Death of Prince Henry.
(1600).
1613 Shakespeare's Henry VIII
1601 (? ) Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1623).
(1623).
1613 The Globe Theatre burnt.
1601 Queen Elizabeth's Poor Law. 1616 Death of Shakespeare.
1601 Execution of Essex.
1620-30 German versions of English
1601/2 Shakespeare's Twelfth plays acted in Germany.
Night (1623).
1623 First Folio of Shakespeare.
1602 Chettle's Tragedy of Hoffman 1625-49 Charles I.
(1631).
1632 Second Folio of Shakespeare.
1602 Shakespeare's Hamlet (1603). 1637 Publication of plays without
1602/3 Shakespeare's Troilus and the players' consent prohibited.
Cressida (1608/9).
1642 Outbreak of Civil War. Closing
1603–25 James I.
of the Theatres.
1603 Florio's Montaigne.
1663 Third Folio of Shakespeare.
1604 (7) Shakespeare's Measure for 1685 Fourth Folio of Shakespeare.
Measure (1623).
1685 Revocation of Edict of Nantes.
1604 English actors at Fontainebleau. 1726 Theobald's Shakespeare Re-
1604 (or before) The Merry Devill of stored.
Edmonton (1608).
1730-42 Voltaire's adaptations from
1604 Shakespeare's Othello (1622). Shakespeare.
1604 Samuel Rowley's When you 1733 Voltaire's Lettres Philoso-
see me, You know me (1605).
phiques.
(1605) London Prodigall.
1741 Julius Caesar translated into
1605 (? ) Shakespeare's Macbeth(1623). German.
1605 A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608). 1759 Lessing Shakespeare
1605 Wilkins's The Miseries of (B. d. n. Lit. betr. )
Inforst Mariage (1607).
1797-1810 A. W. Schlegel's German
1605 Gunpowder Plot.
Translation of Shakespeare.
1606 Folke Greville's Mustapha 1809-11 A. W. Schlegel's Über
(1609).
dramat. Kunst und Literatur,
1606 Dec. Shakespeare's King Lear 1827 Victor Hugo's Cromwell.
(1608)
on
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INDEX OF NAMES
[Ff. after an entry implies that there are references to the same subject 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.
