Outlines
of the Life of Shakespeare.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06
1640.
Playes, Maskes, . . . collected into one volume. 1639. This contains Micro-
cosmus, Hannibal and Scipio, Covent Garden, The Springs Glorie,
Totenham Court, The Unfortunate Mother, and The Bride.
The Works of Thomas Nabbes. Bullen's Old English Plays, N. S. vols. I
and 11.
## p. 458 (#476) ############################################
458
Bibliography
THOMAS RANDOLPH.
(See bibliography to chap. XII, post. )
THOMAS RAWLINS.
The Rebellion : A Tragedy: As it was acted nine dayes together, and divers
times since with good applause, by his Majesties Company of Revells.
1640.
Rptd in Ancient B. D. vol. in, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. XIV.
Rawlins wrote two comedies after the Restoration.
NATHANIEL RICHARDS.
The Tragedy of Messallina The Roman Emperesse. As it hath beene Acted
With generall applause divers times, by the Company of his Majesties
Revells. 1640.
Rptd by Skemp, A. R. , in Bang's Materialien. [The author was a
schoolmaster and poet and friend of Rawlins. His play is a meritorions
tragedy in the vein of Jonson's Sejanus. Cf. the account of him in
Dict. of Nat. Biogr, vol. XLVIII. ]
LEWIS SHARPE.
The Noble Stranger. As it was Acted at the Private House in Salisbury
Court, by her Majesties Servants. The Author, L. S. 1640.
EDWARD SHARPHAM.
Cupids Whirligig, As it hath bene sundry times Acted by the Children of
the Kings Majesties Revels. 1607. Other eds. : 1611, 1616, 1630.
The Fleire. As it hath beene often played in the Blacke-Fryers by the
Children of the Revells. Written by Edward Sharpham of the Middle
Temple, Gentleman. 1607. Other eds. : 1610, 1615, 1631.
HENRY SHIRLEY.
The Martyr'd Souldier: As it was sundry times Acted with generall applause
at the Private house in Drury lane, and at other publicke Theaters. By
the Queenes Majesties servants. The Author H. Shirley Gent. 1638.
Rptd in Bullen's Old English Plays, vol. 1. The author died 1627;
the play was probably later than Massinger's Virgin Martir, 1622, which
it echoes.
SIR John SUCKLING.
Aglaura. 1638.
The Discontented Colonell. Written by Sir John Sucklin. (n. d. This
is the first draft of Brennoralt. ]
Fragmenta Aurea. A Collection of all the Incomparable Peeces, Written
By Sir John Suckling. And published by a Friend to perpetuate his
memory. Printed by his owne Copies. 1646. [The plays included are:
Aglaura (in two versions, the second with a new Act v); The Goblins.
A Comedy; Brennoralt. A Tragedy. ] The 2nd and 3rd eds. appeared
in 1648, 1658.
The Last Remains of Sir John Suckling. Being a Full Collection of all his
Poems and Letters which have been so long expected and never till now
Published. With the Licence and Approbation of his Noble and Dearest
Friends. 1659. [In this appeared unfinished: The Sad One. A Tragedy. ]
The Works of Sir John Suckling. 1696.
The Goblins was reprinted in the earlier three eds. of Dodsley, in
vols. VII, X, x, respectively.
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459
The Poems and Plays of Sir John Sackling. Ed. by Hazlitt, W. C.
2 vols. 1874. 2nd ed. 1892.
Dissertation by Schwartz, H. 1881.
ROBERT TAILOR.
The Hogge hath lost his Pearle. A Comedy. Divers times Publikely acted,
by certaine London Prentices. 1614.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. III, VI, VI, XI, re-
spectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. 111.
PLAYS BY AUTHORS UNKNOWN.
(Distracted Emperor, the. A Tragi-Comedy. ] Printed for the first time
from Egerton MSS, 1994, by Bullen, Old English Plays, vol. II, where
the above title is given to the play, and it is ascribed to Marston or, possibly,
Cyril Tourneur. Fleay calls the play Charlimayne.
Everie Woman in her Humor. 1609.
Nero, the Tragedy of. Newly Written. . . . 1624. Another ed. : 1633.
Rptd by Bullen in his Old English Plays, vol. 1; and again, with
essay by Horne, H. P. , for the Mermaid Series, 1888, in Nero and
other Plays.
Sir Gyles Goosecappe. Knight. A Comedie presented by the Chil: of the
Chappell. 1606. Another ed. : 1636.
Rptd in Bullen's Old English Plays, vol. III, and in Bang's
Materialien, vol. XXVI. [The play dates from about 1601; Bullen and
Fleay suggest that it contains early work of Chapman. ]
The History of the tryall of Chevalry, With the life and death of Cavaliero
Dicke Bowyer. As it hath bin lately acted by the right Honourable the
Earle of Darby his servants. 1605.
Rptd in Bullen's Old English Plays, vol. II. (Bullen suggests
Chettle or Munday or both, as authors. ]
Valiant Welshman, the, Or The True Chronicle History of the life and
valiant deedes of Caradoc the Great, King of Cambria, now called Wales.
As it hath beene sundry times Acted by the Prince of Wales his servants.
Written by R. A. Gent. 1615.
Ed. with introduction and notes, by Kreb, V. , Münchener Beiträge,
vol. XXIII, Erlangen and Leipzig, 1902.
Wisdome, the, of Doctor Dodypoll. As it hath bene sundrie times Acted by
the Children of Powles. 1600.
Rptd in Bullen's Old English Plays, vol. 111.
CHAPTER X
THE ELIZABETHAN THEATRES
I. GENERAL ENGLISH THEATRICAL HISTORY.
Biographia Dramatica.
Boas, F. S. Shakspere and his Predecessors. 1896.
Chambers.
Collier.
Creizenach. Vols. II, III, iv, part 1.
Fleay, F. G. On the History of Theatres in London, from their first opening
in 1576 to their closing in 1642. [Privately printed. ]
Fleay's Chronicle of Stage.
English Drama.
## p. 460 (#478) ############################################
460
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Gayley's R. E. C.
Gildersleeve, Virginia C. Government Regulation of the Elizabethan
Drama. New York, 1908.
Review of the above by Cunliffe, J. W. , Journal of English and
Germanic Philology, vol. ix, no. 1, Urbana, Ill. , 1910.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. 0.
Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare. 2 rols.
7th ed. 1887.
Illustrations of the life of Shakespeare in a discursive series of essays.
1874.
Hastings, C. The Theatre. Its development in France and England, and
a History of its Greek and Latin Origins. E. tr. by Welby, F. A. 1901.
Jusserand's Th. en A.
Malone, E. The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, in ten volumes;
collated verbatim with the most authentick copies, and revised . . . to
which are added . . . a historical account of the English stage; and
notes; London, 1790. New ed. 1821.
Mantzius, K. A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times.
E. tr. by Cossel, L. von. Vol. : The Shakespearean Period in England.
1904.
Stow, J. Annales, a general Chronicle of England; begun . . . by J. Stow. . .
continued and augmented . . . unto the end of . . . 1631, by E. Howes. . .
1631-2.
Strutt, J. The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England from the
earliest period, including the rural and domestic recreations, May games,
mummeries, pageants, processions and pompous spectacles. . . . 1801. New
ed. Ed. Cox, J. C. (1903. ]
Thornbury, G. W. Shakespeare's England; or, Sketches of our Social History
in the reign of Elizabeth. 2 vols. 1856.
Ward.
II. CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS AND COLLECTIONS.
[A small selection only. For further references, see Malone, Collier,
Chambers, etc. , as above. ]
Baker, Sir Richard. Theatrum Redivivum, or the theatre vindicated by
Sir Richard Baker, in answer to Mr Pryn's Histrio-mastix. . . . 1662.
Bülow, G. von, and Powell, W. Diary of the journey of Philip Julius, Duke
of Stettin-Pomerania, through England in the year 1602. Transactions
of the Royal Historical Society, New Series, vol.
vi, p. 1. 1892.
Calendar of State Papers. Domestic Series. Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth, and
James I. 12 vols. Edd. Lemon, R. and Green, M. A. Everett. 1856–72.
Charles I, vols. 1-XVIII. Edd. Bruce, J. and Hamilton, W. D. 1858-97.
Collier, J. P. The Alleyn Papers. A collection of original documents
illustrative of the life and times of Edward Alleyn. Shakesp. Soc. Publ.
1843.
Cunningham, P. Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court, in the
Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I. Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1842.
Dasent, J. R. Acts of the Privy Council of England. New Series. 32 vols.
1890-1907.
Feuillerat, A. Documents relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of
Queen Elizabeth. Bang's Materialien, vol. xxi. Louvain, 1908.
Flecknoe, R. A Discourse of the English Stage. Rptd in Hazlitt's English
Drama and Stage.
Forman, Dr Simon. Autobiography and personal diary . . . from A. D. 1552
to A. D. 1602. From the unpublished manuscripts in the Ashmolean
Museum, Oxford. Ed. Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. 0. 1849.
## p. 461 (#479) ############################################
Chapter X X
461
.
Gosson, S. The School of Abuse, conteining a plesaunt invective against
Poets, Pipers, Plaiers, Jesters, and such like Catterpillers of a Comon-
welth . . . Printed at London, by Thomas Woodcocke. 1579.
The Schoole of Abuse . . . 1579 and 1585, dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney.
Rptd in Somers Collection of Tracts, 2nd ed. , ed. Scott, Sir W. , vol. III,
p. 552, 1810. Also, ed. Collier, J. P. , Shakesp. Soc. Publ. , vol. 11, 1841;
Arber, E. , English Reprints, 1868.
Playes confuted in five Actions, proving that they are not to be suffred
in a Christian common weale, by the waye both the cavils of T. Lodge,
and the Play of Playes, written in their defence, and other objections
of Players frendes are . . . aunsweared. Imprinted for Thomas Gosson.
[1590? ] Rptd in Hazlitt's English Drama and Stage.
[Guilpin, W. ] Skialetheia. Or, A shadowe of Truth, in certaine Epigrams
and Satyres. At London, Printed by I. R. for Nicholas Ling, and are to
bee solde at the little West doore of Poules. 1598.
[Halliwell-Phillipps, J. 0. ] A Collection of Ancient Documents respecting
the Office of Master of the Revels, and other papers relating to the Early
English Theatre, 1870.
Hazlitt's English Drama and Stage. (For documents. ]
Henslowe's Diary.
Henslowe Papers. Being Documents supplementary to Henslowe's Diary.
Ed. Greg, W. W.
Playes, Maskes, . . . collected into one volume. 1639. This contains Micro-
cosmus, Hannibal and Scipio, Covent Garden, The Springs Glorie,
Totenham Court, The Unfortunate Mother, and The Bride.
The Works of Thomas Nabbes. Bullen's Old English Plays, N. S. vols. I
and 11.
## p. 458 (#476) ############################################
458
Bibliography
THOMAS RANDOLPH.
(See bibliography to chap. XII, post. )
THOMAS RAWLINS.
The Rebellion : A Tragedy: As it was acted nine dayes together, and divers
times since with good applause, by his Majesties Company of Revells.
1640.
Rptd in Ancient B. D. vol. in, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. XIV.
Rawlins wrote two comedies after the Restoration.
NATHANIEL RICHARDS.
The Tragedy of Messallina The Roman Emperesse. As it hath beene Acted
With generall applause divers times, by the Company of his Majesties
Revells. 1640.
Rptd by Skemp, A. R. , in Bang's Materialien. [The author was a
schoolmaster and poet and friend of Rawlins. His play is a meritorions
tragedy in the vein of Jonson's Sejanus. Cf. the account of him in
Dict. of Nat. Biogr, vol. XLVIII. ]
LEWIS SHARPE.
The Noble Stranger. As it was Acted at the Private House in Salisbury
Court, by her Majesties Servants. The Author, L. S. 1640.
EDWARD SHARPHAM.
Cupids Whirligig, As it hath bene sundry times Acted by the Children of
the Kings Majesties Revels. 1607. Other eds. : 1611, 1616, 1630.
The Fleire. As it hath beene often played in the Blacke-Fryers by the
Children of the Revells. Written by Edward Sharpham of the Middle
Temple, Gentleman. 1607. Other eds. : 1610, 1615, 1631.
HENRY SHIRLEY.
The Martyr'd Souldier: As it was sundry times Acted with generall applause
at the Private house in Drury lane, and at other publicke Theaters. By
the Queenes Majesties servants. The Author H. Shirley Gent. 1638.
Rptd in Bullen's Old English Plays, vol. 1. The author died 1627;
the play was probably later than Massinger's Virgin Martir, 1622, which
it echoes.
SIR John SUCKLING.
Aglaura. 1638.
The Discontented Colonell. Written by Sir John Sucklin. (n. d. This
is the first draft of Brennoralt. ]
Fragmenta Aurea. A Collection of all the Incomparable Peeces, Written
By Sir John Suckling. And published by a Friend to perpetuate his
memory. Printed by his owne Copies. 1646. [The plays included are:
Aglaura (in two versions, the second with a new Act v); The Goblins.
A Comedy; Brennoralt. A Tragedy. ] The 2nd and 3rd eds. appeared
in 1648, 1658.
The Last Remains of Sir John Suckling. Being a Full Collection of all his
Poems and Letters which have been so long expected and never till now
Published. With the Licence and Approbation of his Noble and Dearest
Friends. 1659. [In this appeared unfinished: The Sad One. A Tragedy. ]
The Works of Sir John Suckling. 1696.
The Goblins was reprinted in the earlier three eds. of Dodsley, in
vols. VII, X, x, respectively.
## p. 459 (#477) ############################################
Chapter IX
459
The Poems and Plays of Sir John Sackling. Ed. by Hazlitt, W. C.
2 vols. 1874. 2nd ed. 1892.
Dissertation by Schwartz, H. 1881.
ROBERT TAILOR.
The Hogge hath lost his Pearle. A Comedy. Divers times Publikely acted,
by certaine London Prentices. 1614.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. III, VI, VI, XI, re-
spectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. 111.
PLAYS BY AUTHORS UNKNOWN.
(Distracted Emperor, the. A Tragi-Comedy. ] Printed for the first time
from Egerton MSS, 1994, by Bullen, Old English Plays, vol. II, where
the above title is given to the play, and it is ascribed to Marston or, possibly,
Cyril Tourneur. Fleay calls the play Charlimayne.
Everie Woman in her Humor. 1609.
Nero, the Tragedy of. Newly Written. . . . 1624. Another ed. : 1633.
Rptd by Bullen in his Old English Plays, vol. 1; and again, with
essay by Horne, H. P. , for the Mermaid Series, 1888, in Nero and
other Plays.
Sir Gyles Goosecappe. Knight. A Comedie presented by the Chil: of the
Chappell. 1606. Another ed. : 1636.
Rptd in Bullen's Old English Plays, vol. III, and in Bang's
Materialien, vol. XXVI. [The play dates from about 1601; Bullen and
Fleay suggest that it contains early work of Chapman. ]
The History of the tryall of Chevalry, With the life and death of Cavaliero
Dicke Bowyer. As it hath bin lately acted by the right Honourable the
Earle of Darby his servants. 1605.
Rptd in Bullen's Old English Plays, vol. II. (Bullen suggests
Chettle or Munday or both, as authors. ]
Valiant Welshman, the, Or The True Chronicle History of the life and
valiant deedes of Caradoc the Great, King of Cambria, now called Wales.
As it hath beene sundry times Acted by the Prince of Wales his servants.
Written by R. A. Gent. 1615.
Ed. with introduction and notes, by Kreb, V. , Münchener Beiträge,
vol. XXIII, Erlangen and Leipzig, 1902.
Wisdome, the, of Doctor Dodypoll. As it hath bene sundrie times Acted by
the Children of Powles. 1600.
Rptd in Bullen's Old English Plays, vol. 111.
CHAPTER X
THE ELIZABETHAN THEATRES
I. GENERAL ENGLISH THEATRICAL HISTORY.
Biographia Dramatica.
Boas, F. S. Shakspere and his Predecessors. 1896.
Chambers.
Collier.
Creizenach. Vols. II, III, iv, part 1.
Fleay, F. G. On the History of Theatres in London, from their first opening
in 1576 to their closing in 1642. [Privately printed. ]
Fleay's Chronicle of Stage.
English Drama.
## p. 460 (#478) ############################################
460
Bibliography
Gayley's R. E. C.
Gildersleeve, Virginia C. Government Regulation of the Elizabethan
Drama. New York, 1908.
Review of the above by Cunliffe, J. W. , Journal of English and
Germanic Philology, vol. ix, no. 1, Urbana, Ill. , 1910.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. 0.
Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare. 2 rols.
7th ed. 1887.
Illustrations of the life of Shakespeare in a discursive series of essays.
1874.
Hastings, C. The Theatre. Its development in France and England, and
a History of its Greek and Latin Origins. E. tr. by Welby, F. A. 1901.
Jusserand's Th. en A.
Malone, E. The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, in ten volumes;
collated verbatim with the most authentick copies, and revised . . . to
which are added . . . a historical account of the English stage; and
notes; London, 1790. New ed. 1821.
Mantzius, K. A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times.
E. tr. by Cossel, L. von. Vol. : The Shakespearean Period in England.
1904.
Stow, J. Annales, a general Chronicle of England; begun . . . by J. Stow. . .
continued and augmented . . . unto the end of . . . 1631, by E. Howes. . .
1631-2.
Strutt, J. The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England from the
earliest period, including the rural and domestic recreations, May games,
mummeries, pageants, processions and pompous spectacles. . . . 1801. New
ed. Ed. Cox, J. C. (1903. ]
Thornbury, G. W. Shakespeare's England; or, Sketches of our Social History
in the reign of Elizabeth. 2 vols. 1856.
Ward.
II. CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS AND COLLECTIONS.
[A small selection only. For further references, see Malone, Collier,
Chambers, etc. , as above. ]
Baker, Sir Richard. Theatrum Redivivum, or the theatre vindicated by
Sir Richard Baker, in answer to Mr Pryn's Histrio-mastix. . . . 1662.
Bülow, G. von, and Powell, W. Diary of the journey of Philip Julius, Duke
of Stettin-Pomerania, through England in the year 1602. Transactions
of the Royal Historical Society, New Series, vol.
vi, p. 1. 1892.
Calendar of State Papers. Domestic Series. Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth, and
James I. 12 vols. Edd. Lemon, R. and Green, M. A. Everett. 1856–72.
Charles I, vols. 1-XVIII. Edd. Bruce, J. and Hamilton, W. D. 1858-97.
Collier, J. P. The Alleyn Papers. A collection of original documents
illustrative of the life and times of Edward Alleyn. Shakesp. Soc. Publ.
1843.
Cunningham, P. Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court, in the
Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I. Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1842.
Dasent, J. R. Acts of the Privy Council of England. New Series. 32 vols.
1890-1907.
Feuillerat, A. Documents relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of
Queen Elizabeth. Bang's Materialien, vol. xxi. Louvain, 1908.
Flecknoe, R. A Discourse of the English Stage. Rptd in Hazlitt's English
Drama and Stage.
Forman, Dr Simon. Autobiography and personal diary . . . from A. D. 1552
to A. D. 1602. From the unpublished manuscripts in the Ashmolean
Museum, Oxford. Ed. Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. 0. 1849.
## p. 461 (#479) ############################################
Chapter X X
461
.
Gosson, S. The School of Abuse, conteining a plesaunt invective against
Poets, Pipers, Plaiers, Jesters, and such like Catterpillers of a Comon-
welth . . . Printed at London, by Thomas Woodcocke. 1579.
The Schoole of Abuse . . . 1579 and 1585, dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney.
Rptd in Somers Collection of Tracts, 2nd ed. , ed. Scott, Sir W. , vol. III,
p. 552, 1810. Also, ed. Collier, J. P. , Shakesp. Soc. Publ. , vol. 11, 1841;
Arber, E. , English Reprints, 1868.
Playes confuted in five Actions, proving that they are not to be suffred
in a Christian common weale, by the waye both the cavils of T. Lodge,
and the Play of Playes, written in their defence, and other objections
of Players frendes are . . . aunsweared. Imprinted for Thomas Gosson.
[1590? ] Rptd in Hazlitt's English Drama and Stage.
[Guilpin, W. ] Skialetheia. Or, A shadowe of Truth, in certaine Epigrams
and Satyres. At London, Printed by I. R. for Nicholas Ling, and are to
bee solde at the little West doore of Poules. 1598.
[Halliwell-Phillipps, J. 0. ] A Collection of Ancient Documents respecting
the Office of Master of the Revels, and other papers relating to the Early
English Theatre, 1870.
Hazlitt's English Drama and Stage. (For documents. ]
Henslowe's Diary.
Henslowe Papers. Being Documents supplementary to Henslowe's Diary.
Ed. Greg, W. W.
