(See also
bibliography
to vol.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05
Some Principles of Elizabethan Staging.
Modern Philology,
vol. 11, pp. 581-614; vol. III, pp. 69–97, April and June 1905.
Sackville-West, R. W. The Works of Thomas Sackville, with Biographical
Memoir. 1859.
Schelling, F. E. The Life and Writings of George Gascoigne. Publications
of the University of Pennsylvania. 1893.
The English Chronicle Play. 1902. (Table and Play List, pp. 276-286. )
Elizabethan Drama (Especially chaps. Xin and Xiv and Biblio-
graphical Essay. )
Schmidt, H. Seneca's influence upon Gorboduc. Mod. Lang. Notes, vol. II,
pp. 56-70.
Smith, L. T. Gorboduc. With Introductory Essay. Heilbronn, 1883.
Thorndike, A. H. Tragedy. Boston and New York, 1908.
Tilley, M. P. Shakespeare and his Ridicule of Cambyses. Mod. Lang. Notes,
December 1909, pp. 244-7.
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Chapter V
401
CHAPTER V
EARLY ENGLISH COMEDY
GENERAL AUTHORITIES.
Bale, John. Scriptorum illustrium majoris Britanniae Catalogus. 1548.
2nd ed. 1557-9. New ed. by Poole, R. L. and Bateson, M. 1902.
Bond, R. W. Early Plays from the Italian. Supposes, The Buggbears,
Misogonus. Oxford, 1911.
Brand! 's Quellen.
Brotanek, R. Die Englischen Maskenspiele. Vienna, 1902.
Chambers, E. K. Court Performances before Queen Elizabeth. Mod.
Lang. Rev. vol. 11, 1, 1906.
The Mediaeval Stage. 1903. (Vol. 11, Appendix x, Texts of Mediaeval
Plays and Early Tudor Interludes, contains valuable lists and biblio
graphies. )
Notes on the History of the Revels Office under the Tudors. 1906.
Collier.
Collins, J. Churton. The Predecessors of Shakespeare. (Essays and Studies. )
1895.
Courthope.
Creizenach.
Cunningham, P. Extracts from the Accounts of Revels at Court in the
Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James. Shakespeare Society.
1842.
Feuillerat, A. Documents relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of
Queen Elizabeth. Bang's Materialien, xxi, 1908. Of King Edward VI
and Queen Mary. Ibid. XLIV, 1914.
Fleay's English Drama.
Chronicle of Stage.
Gayley, C. M. An Historical View of the Beginnings of English Comedy,
being the Introduction to Representative English Comedies from the
Beginnings to Shakespeare. New York, 1903.
Greg's List of Plays.
List of Masques.
Hazlitt's Handbook.
A Manual for the Collector and Amateur of Old English Plays. 1892.
Herford's Literary Relations.
Hunter, J. Chorus Vatum. British Museum MSS, Add. 24487–92.
Langbaine.
Manly's Specimens.
Schelling's Elizabethan Drama.
Smith, G. Gregory. Elizabethan Critical Essays. Ed. with an Introduction.
2 vols. Oxford, 1904. (For individual essayists see bibliography to
vol. III, chap. xiv. )
Stationers' register.
Symonds, J. A. Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama. 1884.
New ed. 1900.
Tudor Facsimile Texts.
Wallace, C. W. The Evolution of the English Drama up to Shakespeare.
Berlin, 1912.
Ward.
[In the following bibliographies, only those non-dramatio writings of the
authors are mentioned that are closely allied to their comedies. No plays are
included among the texts which were originally printed later than 1589. Rpts
E. L. V.
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402
Bibliography
in modernised spelling are distinguished by the bracketed abbreviation
(mod. s. ).
For some details acknowledgment is due to the Bibliographical Essay
appended to Schelling's Elizabethan Drama, vol. 11. )
RICHARD EDWARDS.
The excellent Comedie of two the moste faithfullest Freendes, Damon and
Pithias. Newly Imprinted, as the same was shewed before the Queenes
Majestie, by the Children of her Graces Chappell, except the Prologue
that is somewhat altered for the proper use of them that hereafter shall
have occasion to plaie it, either in Private, or open Audience. Made by
Maister Edwards, then beynge Maister of the Children. 1571.
The excellent Comedie of two the most faithfullest friends, Damon and
Pithias. . . . Anno 1582.
Edition of 1571 facsimiled in Tudor Facsimile Texts. Rptd in
Ancient B. D. vol. 1 (mod. s. ); in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. IV (mod. s. ); in
The Dramatic Writings of Richard Edwards, Thomas Norton, and
Thomas Sackville, ed. Farmer, J. S. , 1906 (mod. s. ).
Palamon and Arcite. (See bibliography to vol. vi, chap. XII. )
Bibliography and Criticism.
Bond, R. Warwick. The Complete Works of John Lyly. Vol. 11, pp. 238–241.
1902. (A critical estimate of Damon and Pithias. )
Durand, W. Y. Notes on Edwards. Journal of Germanic Philology,
vol. iv, 1901-2.
Wallace, C. W. The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars. pp. 64-5.
1597–1603.
(See also bibliography to vol. vi, chap. XI. )
GEORGE GASCOIGNE,
.
A Hundreth sundrie Flowres bounde up in one small Poesie. Gathered partely
(by translation) in the fyne outlandish Gardins of Euripides, Ovid, Petrarke,
Ariosto, and others: and partly by invention out of our owne fruitefull
Orchardes in Englande: Yelding sundrie sweete savours of Tragical,
Comical and Morall Discourses, bothe pleasaunt and profitable to the
well smellyng noses of learned Readers. . . . At London. Imprinted for
Richarde Smith. (n. d. ) (Contains, in addition to Jocasta and non-dramatic
works, Supposes: A Comedie written in the Italian tongue by Ariosto,
Englished by George Gascoygne of Grayes Inne Esquire, and there
presented. 1566. ]
Supposes is also contained in
(a) The Posies of George Gascoigne Esquire. Corrected, perfected,
and augmented by the Authour. 1575.
(6) The pleasauntest workes of George Gascoigne Esquyre: Newlye
compyled into one Volume, That is to say: His Flowers, Hearbes, Weedes,
the Fruites of warre, the Comedie called Supposes [etc. ]. 1587. (For a
fuller description of these two editions, each issued twice with varying
title-pages, see bibliography to vol. III, chap. x. )
Supposes is rptd in Origin of E. D. , vol. 111; in The Complete Poems
of George Gascoigne, vol. 1, ed. Hazlitt, W. C. , Roxburghe Library, 1869;
in Gascoigne's Supposes and Jocasta, ed. Cunliffe, J. W. (Belles Lettres
Series), 1906; and in The Works of George Gascoigne, ed. Cunliffe,
J. W. (Cambridge English Classics), vol. 1, 1907. See, also, above, Bond,
R. W. , under General Authorities.
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Chapter V
403
The Glasse of Governement. A tragicall Comedie so entituled bycause
therein are handled aswell the rewardes for Vertues, as also the punish-
ment for Vices. Done by George Gascoigne, Esquier. 1575. Blessed are
they that feare the Lorde, their children shalbe as the Braunches of Olive
trees rounde about their table. . . . Anno Domini. 1575.
Some copies of the edition have the following colophon: Imprinted At
London By H M for Christopher Barker at the signe of the Grassehopper
in Paules Churchyarde, Anno Domini. 1575. This is followed in these
copies by a list of seven 'Faultes escaped in the printe. '
Rptd in The Complete Poems of George Gascoigne, vol. II, ed. Hazlitt,
W. C. , 1870. Will be included in The Works of George Gascoigne,
vol. 11, ed. Cunliffe, J. W. , which is in the press.
The Princelye pleasures, at the Courte at Kenelworth. . . . In the yeare 1575.
(See bibliography to vol. III, chap. x. )
The tale of Hemetes the heremyte Pronounced before the Q. Majesty at
Woodstocke. 1575. Royal MSS, 18 A, XLVIII. A letter by Gascoigne,
dated 1 January 1576, presenting queen Elizabeth with translations
into Latin, Italian, and French of the Hermit's tale of Contarenus and
Gandina, 'pronounced' before her at Woodstock in September 1575. In
his letter Gascoigne speaks of the original English version, which he also
includes, as being the work of another hand than his. Rptd by Nichols, J. ,
in Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. I, and by Hazlitt in The Complete
Poems of George Gascoigne, vol. 11 (see also bibliography to vol. III,
chap. x).
The Queenes Majesties Entertainment at Woodstock. Printed for Thomas
Cadman. 1585.
The copy recently acquired by the British Museum lacks signature A.
It is an account, by a visitor, of the Woodstock festivities and includes the
English version of the Hermit's tale and also a play which forms a sequel
to it. This play bas been conjecturally attributed to Gascoigne, but it is
unlikely that if he wrote it, he should have made no allusion to it when
sending the queen his translations of the prose tale.
Rptd, in limited ed. , ed. Pollard, A. W. , 1910.
Biography, Sources, Criticism, etc.
Arber, E. Chronicle of the Life, Works, and Times of Gascoigne. 1868.
Ariosto, L. Comedia . . . intitolata Gli Soppositi. Venet. 1525. Prose version
of the comedy, acted 1509 at Ferrara.
I Suppositi. Venet. 1542. Revised form of the comedy in verse, acted
1519 at Rome.
Cunliffe, J. W. Introduction to edition of Supposes and Jocasta (see above).
Herford, C. H. Gascoigne's Glasse of Government in Engl. Stud. vol. ix,
pp. 201-9; also in his Literary Relations, pp. 149–164.
Schelling, F. E. The Life and Writings of George Gascoigne. (Publications
of the University of Pennsylvania. ) 1894.
Whetstone, George. A Remembraunce of the wel imployed life and godly end
of George Gaskoyne Esquire. 1577. Rptd by Arber, E. , 1868.
A Pleasant Conceited Historie, called The Taming of A Shrew. As it was sundry
times acted by the Right honorable the Earle of Pembrook his servants.
Printed at London by Peter Short and are to be sold by Cutbert Burbie, at
his shop at the Royall Exchange. 1594. Later editions in 1596 and 1607.
Facsimiles of the 1594 edition by Ashbee, E. W. , 1576, and Praetorius, C. ,
1886. Rptd by Amyot, T. (Shakesp. Soc. ), 1844; in Hazlitt-Collier,
Shakespeare's Library, part II, vol. II, 1875; and by Boas, F. S. (The
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404
Bibliography
Shakespeare Library), 1908 (mod. s. ). The debt of the underplot in this
play and in Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew to Gascoigne's Supposes
is discussed by Tolman, A. H. , in Publications of the Modern Lang. Ass.
of America, vol. v, 4; by Bond, R. W. , in the introduction to The Taming
of the Shrew (Arden Series); by Boswell-Stone, W. G. , in the introduc-
tion to The Taming of the Shrew (old-spelling Shakespeare), 1907, and
by Boas, F. S. , in the introduction to The Taming of a Shrew, 1908.
John HEYWOOD.
A mery play Betwene Johan Johan the husbande Tyb his wyfe & Syr Jhān
the preest. Imprynted by Wyllyam Rastell, the xii day of February the
yere of our lord. M. CCCCC and XXXIII.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts, ed. Farmer, J. S. , 1907. Rptd,
Chiswick Press, 1819 (? ); in Brandl's Quellen; ed. Pollard, A. W. , in
Gayley's R. E. C. ; ed. Farmer, J. S. , in The Dramatic Writings of John
Heywood (E. E. D. Publ. ), 1905 (mod. s. ), and in Two Tudor Shrew Plays
(The Museum Dramatists), 1908 (mod. s. ).
A mery Play betwene the pardoner and the frere, the curate and neybour
Pratte. Imprinted by Wyllyam Rastell the v. day of Apryll the yere of
our lorde. M. CCCC. XXXIII.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts, ed. Farmer, J.
vol. 11, pp. 581-614; vol. III, pp. 69–97, April and June 1905.
Sackville-West, R. W. The Works of Thomas Sackville, with Biographical
Memoir. 1859.
Schelling, F. E. The Life and Writings of George Gascoigne. Publications
of the University of Pennsylvania. 1893.
The English Chronicle Play. 1902. (Table and Play List, pp. 276-286. )
Elizabethan Drama (Especially chaps. Xin and Xiv and Biblio-
graphical Essay. )
Schmidt, H. Seneca's influence upon Gorboduc. Mod. Lang. Notes, vol. II,
pp. 56-70.
Smith, L. T. Gorboduc. With Introductory Essay. Heilbronn, 1883.
Thorndike, A. H. Tragedy. Boston and New York, 1908.
Tilley, M. P. Shakespeare and his Ridicule of Cambyses. Mod. Lang. Notes,
December 1909, pp. 244-7.
## p. 401 (#425) ############################################
Chapter V
401
CHAPTER V
EARLY ENGLISH COMEDY
GENERAL AUTHORITIES.
Bale, John. Scriptorum illustrium majoris Britanniae Catalogus. 1548.
2nd ed. 1557-9. New ed. by Poole, R. L. and Bateson, M. 1902.
Bond, R. W. Early Plays from the Italian. Supposes, The Buggbears,
Misogonus. Oxford, 1911.
Brand! 's Quellen.
Brotanek, R. Die Englischen Maskenspiele. Vienna, 1902.
Chambers, E. K. Court Performances before Queen Elizabeth. Mod.
Lang. Rev. vol. 11, 1, 1906.
The Mediaeval Stage. 1903. (Vol. 11, Appendix x, Texts of Mediaeval
Plays and Early Tudor Interludes, contains valuable lists and biblio
graphies. )
Notes on the History of the Revels Office under the Tudors. 1906.
Collier.
Collins, J. Churton. The Predecessors of Shakespeare. (Essays and Studies. )
1895.
Courthope.
Creizenach.
Cunningham, P. Extracts from the Accounts of Revels at Court in the
Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James. Shakespeare Society.
1842.
Feuillerat, A. Documents relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of
Queen Elizabeth. Bang's Materialien, xxi, 1908. Of King Edward VI
and Queen Mary. Ibid. XLIV, 1914.
Fleay's English Drama.
Chronicle of Stage.
Gayley, C. M. An Historical View of the Beginnings of English Comedy,
being the Introduction to Representative English Comedies from the
Beginnings to Shakespeare. New York, 1903.
Greg's List of Plays.
List of Masques.
Hazlitt's Handbook.
A Manual for the Collector and Amateur of Old English Plays. 1892.
Herford's Literary Relations.
Hunter, J. Chorus Vatum. British Museum MSS, Add. 24487–92.
Langbaine.
Manly's Specimens.
Schelling's Elizabethan Drama.
Smith, G. Gregory. Elizabethan Critical Essays. Ed. with an Introduction.
2 vols. Oxford, 1904. (For individual essayists see bibliography to
vol. III, chap. xiv. )
Stationers' register.
Symonds, J. A. Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama. 1884.
New ed. 1900.
Tudor Facsimile Texts.
Wallace, C. W. The Evolution of the English Drama up to Shakespeare.
Berlin, 1912.
Ward.
[In the following bibliographies, only those non-dramatio writings of the
authors are mentioned that are closely allied to their comedies. No plays are
included among the texts which were originally printed later than 1589. Rpts
E. L. V.
26
## p. 402 (#426) ############################################
402
Bibliography
in modernised spelling are distinguished by the bracketed abbreviation
(mod. s. ).
For some details acknowledgment is due to the Bibliographical Essay
appended to Schelling's Elizabethan Drama, vol. 11. )
RICHARD EDWARDS.
The excellent Comedie of two the moste faithfullest Freendes, Damon and
Pithias. Newly Imprinted, as the same was shewed before the Queenes
Majestie, by the Children of her Graces Chappell, except the Prologue
that is somewhat altered for the proper use of them that hereafter shall
have occasion to plaie it, either in Private, or open Audience. Made by
Maister Edwards, then beynge Maister of the Children. 1571.
The excellent Comedie of two the most faithfullest friends, Damon and
Pithias. . . . Anno 1582.
Edition of 1571 facsimiled in Tudor Facsimile Texts. Rptd in
Ancient B. D. vol. 1 (mod. s. ); in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. IV (mod. s. ); in
The Dramatic Writings of Richard Edwards, Thomas Norton, and
Thomas Sackville, ed. Farmer, J. S. , 1906 (mod. s. ).
Palamon and Arcite. (See bibliography to vol. vi, chap. XII. )
Bibliography and Criticism.
Bond, R. Warwick. The Complete Works of John Lyly. Vol. 11, pp. 238–241.
1902. (A critical estimate of Damon and Pithias. )
Durand, W. Y. Notes on Edwards. Journal of Germanic Philology,
vol. iv, 1901-2.
Wallace, C. W. The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars. pp. 64-5.
1597–1603.
(See also bibliography to vol. vi, chap. XI. )
GEORGE GASCOIGNE,
.
A Hundreth sundrie Flowres bounde up in one small Poesie. Gathered partely
(by translation) in the fyne outlandish Gardins of Euripides, Ovid, Petrarke,
Ariosto, and others: and partly by invention out of our owne fruitefull
Orchardes in Englande: Yelding sundrie sweete savours of Tragical,
Comical and Morall Discourses, bothe pleasaunt and profitable to the
well smellyng noses of learned Readers. . . . At London. Imprinted for
Richarde Smith. (n. d. ) (Contains, in addition to Jocasta and non-dramatic
works, Supposes: A Comedie written in the Italian tongue by Ariosto,
Englished by George Gascoygne of Grayes Inne Esquire, and there
presented. 1566. ]
Supposes is also contained in
(a) The Posies of George Gascoigne Esquire. Corrected, perfected,
and augmented by the Authour. 1575.
(6) The pleasauntest workes of George Gascoigne Esquyre: Newlye
compyled into one Volume, That is to say: His Flowers, Hearbes, Weedes,
the Fruites of warre, the Comedie called Supposes [etc. ]. 1587. (For a
fuller description of these two editions, each issued twice with varying
title-pages, see bibliography to vol. III, chap. x. )
Supposes is rptd in Origin of E. D. , vol. 111; in The Complete Poems
of George Gascoigne, vol. 1, ed. Hazlitt, W. C. , Roxburghe Library, 1869;
in Gascoigne's Supposes and Jocasta, ed. Cunliffe, J. W. (Belles Lettres
Series), 1906; and in The Works of George Gascoigne, ed. Cunliffe,
J. W. (Cambridge English Classics), vol. 1, 1907. See, also, above, Bond,
R. W. , under General Authorities.
## p. 403 (#427) ############################################
Chapter V
403
The Glasse of Governement. A tragicall Comedie so entituled bycause
therein are handled aswell the rewardes for Vertues, as also the punish-
ment for Vices. Done by George Gascoigne, Esquier. 1575. Blessed are
they that feare the Lorde, their children shalbe as the Braunches of Olive
trees rounde about their table. . . . Anno Domini. 1575.
Some copies of the edition have the following colophon: Imprinted At
London By H M for Christopher Barker at the signe of the Grassehopper
in Paules Churchyarde, Anno Domini. 1575. This is followed in these
copies by a list of seven 'Faultes escaped in the printe. '
Rptd in The Complete Poems of George Gascoigne, vol. II, ed. Hazlitt,
W. C. , 1870. Will be included in The Works of George Gascoigne,
vol. 11, ed. Cunliffe, J. W. , which is in the press.
The Princelye pleasures, at the Courte at Kenelworth. . . . In the yeare 1575.
(See bibliography to vol. III, chap. x. )
The tale of Hemetes the heremyte Pronounced before the Q. Majesty at
Woodstocke. 1575. Royal MSS, 18 A, XLVIII. A letter by Gascoigne,
dated 1 January 1576, presenting queen Elizabeth with translations
into Latin, Italian, and French of the Hermit's tale of Contarenus and
Gandina, 'pronounced' before her at Woodstock in September 1575. In
his letter Gascoigne speaks of the original English version, which he also
includes, as being the work of another hand than his. Rptd by Nichols, J. ,
in Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. I, and by Hazlitt in The Complete
Poems of George Gascoigne, vol. 11 (see also bibliography to vol. III,
chap. x).
The Queenes Majesties Entertainment at Woodstock. Printed for Thomas
Cadman. 1585.
The copy recently acquired by the British Museum lacks signature A.
It is an account, by a visitor, of the Woodstock festivities and includes the
English version of the Hermit's tale and also a play which forms a sequel
to it. This play bas been conjecturally attributed to Gascoigne, but it is
unlikely that if he wrote it, he should have made no allusion to it when
sending the queen his translations of the prose tale.
Rptd, in limited ed. , ed. Pollard, A. W. , 1910.
Biography, Sources, Criticism, etc.
Arber, E. Chronicle of the Life, Works, and Times of Gascoigne. 1868.
Ariosto, L. Comedia . . . intitolata Gli Soppositi. Venet. 1525. Prose version
of the comedy, acted 1509 at Ferrara.
I Suppositi. Venet. 1542. Revised form of the comedy in verse, acted
1519 at Rome.
Cunliffe, J. W. Introduction to edition of Supposes and Jocasta (see above).
Herford, C. H. Gascoigne's Glasse of Government in Engl. Stud. vol. ix,
pp. 201-9; also in his Literary Relations, pp. 149–164.
Schelling, F. E. The Life and Writings of George Gascoigne. (Publications
of the University of Pennsylvania. ) 1894.
Whetstone, George. A Remembraunce of the wel imployed life and godly end
of George Gaskoyne Esquire. 1577. Rptd by Arber, E. , 1868.
A Pleasant Conceited Historie, called The Taming of A Shrew. As it was sundry
times acted by the Right honorable the Earle of Pembrook his servants.
Printed at London by Peter Short and are to be sold by Cutbert Burbie, at
his shop at the Royall Exchange. 1594. Later editions in 1596 and 1607.
Facsimiles of the 1594 edition by Ashbee, E. W. , 1576, and Praetorius, C. ,
1886. Rptd by Amyot, T. (Shakesp. Soc. ), 1844; in Hazlitt-Collier,
Shakespeare's Library, part II, vol. II, 1875; and by Boas, F. S. (The
26-2
Hei
let's
o the
be the
For
Bus
## p. 404 (#428) ############################################
404
Bibliography
Shakespeare Library), 1908 (mod. s. ). The debt of the underplot in this
play and in Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew to Gascoigne's Supposes
is discussed by Tolman, A. H. , in Publications of the Modern Lang. Ass.
of America, vol. v, 4; by Bond, R. W. , in the introduction to The Taming
of the Shrew (Arden Series); by Boswell-Stone, W. G. , in the introduc-
tion to The Taming of the Shrew (old-spelling Shakespeare), 1907, and
by Boas, F. S. , in the introduction to The Taming of a Shrew, 1908.
John HEYWOOD.
A mery play Betwene Johan Johan the husbande Tyb his wyfe & Syr Jhān
the preest. Imprynted by Wyllyam Rastell, the xii day of February the
yere of our lord. M. CCCCC and XXXIII.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts, ed. Farmer, J. S. , 1907. Rptd,
Chiswick Press, 1819 (? ); in Brandl's Quellen; ed. Pollard, A. W. , in
Gayley's R. E. C. ; ed. Farmer, J. S. , in The Dramatic Writings of John
Heywood (E. E. D. Publ. ), 1905 (mod. s. ), and in Two Tudor Shrew Plays
(The Museum Dramatists), 1908 (mod. s. ).
A mery Play betwene the pardoner and the frere, the curate and neybour
Pratte. Imprinted by Wyllyam Rastell the v. day of Apryll the yere of
our lorde. M. CCCC. XXXIII.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts, ed. Farmer, J.
