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Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth, 1547–1589. Ed. Lemon, R. 1856. Reign
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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 complementary to
that contained in volume V.
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.
1465-79(? ) Henry Abingdon Master c. 1570-1627 Thomas Middleton.
of the Chapel.
c. 1570-1637-1632 (or after) (? ) Thomas
1479 (? ) Gilbert Banaster appointed Dekker.
Master of the Chapel.
1572 Unattached companies of actors
1516-24 William Cornish Master of declared rogues and vagabonds.
the Chapel.
c. 1572-c. 1648 Thomas Heywood.
1526-45 William Crane Master of 1573 Bandello's Novelle, vol. iv.
the Chapel.
1573 (? )-1637 Ben Jonson.
1530 (? )–1611 Richard Mulcaster. 1574 Leicester's company formed.
1540 Grimald's Christus Redivivus 1575 (? )–1626 Cyril Tourneur.
(1543).
1576 Erection of the Theater.
1547 Grimald's Archipropheta 1576 (? )–1634 John Marston.
(1548).
1577 Opening of the Curtain.
1548-52 Hall's Chronicle.
1577-9 Northbrooke's Treatise &
1553 (before) Stevenson's(? ) Gammer gainst Vaine playes or Enter-
Gurtons Nedle (1575).
luds.
1553-8 Queen Mary I.
1578 Holinshed's Chronicle, includ-
1554 Bandello's Novelle, vols. I-III.
ing Harrison's Description of
1556 (? )-1630 John Heminge.
England.
1558-1603 Queen Elizabeth.
1578 Sidney's The May Lady.
1559 Licensing of plays by mayors
1579) Hymenaeus (1908).
enjoined by Elizabeth.
1579 Gosson's Schoole of Abuse.
1559 (? )–1634 George Chapman. 1579 Lodge's Honest Excuses.
1561-6 Richard Edwards Master of 1579 Gosson's Ephemerides of
the Chapel
Phialo.
1562-1635 Lope de Vega.
1579-1625 John Fletcher.
1564 Queen Elizabeth visits Cam- 1580 Legge's Richardus Tertius
bridge.
(1844).
1566 The Gowrie Conspiracy. 1580-1 Wingfield's Pedantius (1631).
1566 Queen Elizabeth visits Oxford. 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.
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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).
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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).
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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).