The Tragedy of Orestes, Written by Thomas Goffe, Master of Arts, and
Student of Christs Church in Oxford: And Acted by the Students of the
same House.
Student of Christs Church in Oxford: And Acted by the Students of the
same House.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06
1638.
Another ed. appeared in 1700.
The Works of M' Abraham Cowley. Consisting of Those which were
formerly Printed: and Those which he Design'd for the Press. Now
Published out of the Authors Original Copies. To this Edition are added,
Cutter of Coleman-Street (etc. ) MDCXCIII.
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Abraham Cowley. Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses. Ed. Waller, A. R.
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AQUILA CRUSO.
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XXXIV, p. 318.
SAMUEL DANIEL.
The Queenes Arcadia. A Pastorall Tragi-comedie presented to her Majestie
and her Ladies, by the Universitie of Oxford in Christs Church, In August
last, 1605. 1606.
Certain Small Workes Heretofore Divulged by Samuel Daniel one of the
Groomes of the Queenes Majesties privie Chamber, & now againe by him
corrected and augmented. 1607. [The Queenes Arcadia is included in
this volume, in the later edition of 1611, and in The Whole Workes of
Samuel Daniel Esquire in Poetrie, 1623. ]
The Complete Works in verse and prose of Samuel Daniel. Ed. Grosart, A. B.
5 vols. 1885. (The Queenes Arcadia is in vol. 111. )
(See, also, bibliography of Daniel, vol. iv, chap. vii. )
RICHARD EDWARDS.
Palamon and Areyte. Not extant; but summary of plot is given by Bereblock,
J. , in his Commentarii (see Plummer's Elizabethan Oxford, ante).
(See, also, bibliography to vol. v, chap. v. )
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Marlowe, ed. Dyce, A. , Appendix 3 (1858). Synopsis of Brit. Mus. MS in
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THOMAS GOFFE.
The Raging Turke, Or, Bajazet the Second. A Tragedie written by Thomas
Goffe, Master of Arts, and Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and Acted
by the Students of the same house. August, 1631.
The Couragious Turke, Or, Amurath the First. A Tragedie. Written by
Thomas Goffe, Master of Arts, & Student of Christ-Church in Oxford,
& Acted by the Students of the same House. 1632.
The Tragedy of Orestes, Written by Thomas Goffe, Master of Arts, and
Student of Christs Church in Oxford: And Acted by the Students of the
same House. 1633.
Three Excellent Tragedies (the plays mentioned above). . . . The second
Edition, carefully corrected by a friend of the Authors. 1656.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHAM.
Herodes. MS in Univ. Lib. Cam. , Mm. 1. 24. Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv,
pp. 243–4.
NICHOLAS GRIMALD.
Archipropheta, Tragoedia jam recens in lucem edita. Autore Nicolao
Grimoaldo. Gymnicus. Cologne, 1548.
MS in Brit. Mus. Royal MSS, 12 A. 46.
Christus Redivivus. Comoedia Tragica, sacra, et nova. Authore Nicolao
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Bale, John. Catalogus. Vol. 1. 1557.
Herford's Literary Relations.
(See, also, bibliography to vol. , chap. VIII. )
MATTHEW GWYNNE.
Nero Tragoedia Nova Matthaeo Gwinne Med. Doct. Collegii Divi Praecursoris
apud Oxonienses Socio collecta è Tacito, Suetonio, Dione, Seneca. . . . 1603.
There was another issue, with a different dedication, later in the year, and
a third in 1639. Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 268,271.
Vertamnus sive Annus Recurrens Oxonii xxix Augusti, Anno, 1605. Coram
Jacobo Rege, Henrico Principe, Proceribus. A Joannensibus in Scena
recitatus ab uno scriptus, Phrasi Comica propè Tragicis Senariis. 1607.
(Appended to the play are the Latin hexameters greeting James as a
descendant of Banquo, recited in front of St John's college by three
youths attired as Nymphs. As the verses are signed M. G. , they are
evidently from Gwynne's pen. )
ЈонN HACKET.
Loiola. Scena est Amsterodami: à vesperâ ad vesperam peraguntur omnia.
1648.
MSS in Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 17. 9, `authore dno Hackett,' and R. 17. 10
(imperfect); Brit. Mus. Add. MSS, 26709 (without title, and imperfect. )
PETER HAUSTED.
The Rival Friends. A Comoodie, As it was Acted before the King and
Queens Majesties, when out of their princely favour they were pleased
to visite their Universitie of Cambridge, upon the 19. day of March. 1631.
Cryed downe by Boyes, Faction, Envie, and confident Ignorance, approv'd
by the judicious, and now exposed to the publique censure, by the Authour,
Pet. Hausted M* in Artes of Queenes Colledge. 1632.
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A true and faithfull relation of the risinge and fall of Thomas Tucker, Prince
of Alba Fortunata, Lord St Johns &c, with all the occurrents which
happened throughout his whole domination. MS in library of St John's
College, Oxford (1607-8].
See account in the text of this document, which includes the following
plays of unknown authorship:
Ara Fortunae; Saturnalia; Philomela; Time's Complaint; The
Seven Dayes of the Weeke; Philomathes; Ira seu Tumulus Fortunae;
Periander.
The narrative part of the MS, and the play, The Seven Dayes of the
Weeke, are printed in Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana, vol. 1, 7 (1816),
under the title, The Christmas Prince, As it was exhibited in the Uni-
versity of Oxford, in the year 1607.
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1904.
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Holyday, Master of Arts, and Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and
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Regin. Soc.
Another ed. appeared in 1700.
The Works of M' Abraham Cowley. Consisting of Those which were
formerly Printed: and Those which he Design'd for the Press. Now
Published out of the Authors Original Copies. To this Edition are added,
Cutter of Coleman-Street (etc. ) MDCXCIII.
Other eds. of The Works appeared in 1700, 1708 and 1710–11.
The two latter contain Naufragium Joculare as well as Cutter of Cole-
man Street.
Abraham Cowley. Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses. Ed. Waller, A. R.
(Cambridge English Classics. ) 1906. (Contains Cutter of Coleman
Street. )
Fortune in her Wits. A Comedy. 1705. (By Charles Johnson, An
English version of Naufragium Joculare. ]
AQUILA CRUSO.
Euribates Pseudomagus. MS in Emmanuel coll. Cam. 111. 1. 17. See Jahrbuch
XXXIV, p. 318.
SAMUEL DANIEL.
The Queenes Arcadia. A Pastorall Tragi-comedie presented to her Majestie
and her Ladies, by the Universitie of Oxford in Christs Church, In August
last, 1605. 1606.
Certain Small Workes Heretofore Divulged by Samuel Daniel one of the
Groomes of the Queenes Majesties privie Chamber, & now againe by him
corrected and augmented. 1607. [The Queenes Arcadia is included in
this volume, in the later edition of 1611, and in The Whole Workes of
Samuel Daniel Esquire in Poetrie, 1623. ]
The Complete Works in verse and prose of Samuel Daniel. Ed. Grosart, A. B.
5 vols. 1885. (The Queenes Arcadia is in vol. 111. )
(See, also, bibliography of Daniel, vol. iv, chap. vii. )
RICHARD EDWARDS.
Palamon and Areyte. Not extant; but summary of plot is given by Bereblock,
J. , in his Commentarii (see Plummer's Elizabethan Oxford, ante).
(See, also, bibliography to vol. v, chap. v. )
## p. 472 (#490) ############################################
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Fuimus Troes Æneid, 2. The True Trojanes, Being A Story of the Britaines
valour at the Romanes first invasion: Publikely represented by the
Gentlemen Students of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford. 1633.
Rptd Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. XII (mod. s. ).
PHINEAS FLETCHER.
Sicelides A Piscatory. As it hath beene Acted in Kings Colledge, in
Cambridge. 1631.
Sicelides : a Piscatorie made by Phinees Fletcher and acted in Kings Colledge
in Cambridge. Brit. Mus. Add. MSS, 4453.
Sicelides. Bodleian, Rawlinson Poet. MSS, 214.
[The texts of these three versions differ widely. ]
The Poems of Phineas Fletcher. Ed. Grosart, A. B. 4 vols. Fuller Worthies’
Library. 1869. (Vol. 11 includes a reprint of the edition of 1631. )
Giles and Phineas Fletcher: Poetical Works. Ed. Boas, F. S. Cambridge
English Classics. 2 vols. (Vol. 1 ncludes the text of celides, based
upon the edition of 1631, with emendations from the MSS, and with a
list of variants. )
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ABRAHAM FRAUNCE.
Victoria. MS in the library of Lord De L'Isle and Dudley at Penshurst,
Kent. The cover is inscribed 'Comædia Latina per Abrahamum Fran-
sum ad Philippum Sydneium. '
Ed. Smith, G. C. Moore. Bang's Materialien, vol. xiv. 1906.
Source: Il Fedele. Comedia del clarissimo M. Luigi Pasqualigo. 1575.
Keller, W. Review of Moore Smith's edition, with indication of the
source of the play. Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. III, no. 2.
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod.
Lang. Rev. vol. 11, no. 2.
WILLIAM GAGER.
Dido. MS in the library of Christ Church, Oxford. An imperfect MS, Brit.
Mus. Add. MSS, 22583, has been printed in The Works of Christopher
Marlowe, ed. Dyce, A. , Appendix 3 (1858). Synopsis of Brit. Mus. MS in
Jahrbuch, xxxiv, p. 238.
Meleager Tragoedia nova. Bis publice acta in aede Christi Oxoniae. 1592.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 234-6.
Panniculus Hippolyto Senecae Trogoediae assutus 1591. (Printed as an
appendix to Meleager. )
Oedipus. Brit. Mus. Add. MSS, 22583. (Imperfect. ) Synopsis in Jahrbuch,
XXXIV, pp. 236-7.
Ulysses Reduk. Tragoedia Nova. In aede Christi Oxoniae publice Aca-
demicis recitata, octavo Idus Februarii 1591/2. Oxoniae. Synopsis in
Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 239-241.
A Letter of William Gager to Dr John Rainolds, dated “the laste of
Julye 1592. ' MS in Corpus Christi college, Oxford, 352.
A Letter of Dr J. Rainolds to an unknown friend, dated Feb. 6, 1591/2.
MS in Corpus Christi college, Oxford, 352.
Rainolds, John. Th’ Overthrow of Stage-playes. 1599. 2nd ed. 1629.
Boas, F. S. A Defence of Oxford Plays and Players. Fortnightly
Review, August, 1907. (Contains an account, with extracts, of
Gager's letter to Rainolds. )
[Ward, R. ) Fucus Histriomastix. Ed. Smith, G. C. Moore. 1909.
pp. 98-99.
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Chapter XII
473
THOMAS GOFFE.
The Raging Turke, Or, Bajazet the Second. A Tragedie written by Thomas
Goffe, Master of Arts, and Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and Acted
by the Students of the same house. August, 1631.
The Couragious Turke, Or, Amurath the First. A Tragedie. Written by
Thomas Goffe, Master of Arts, & Student of Christ-Church in Oxford,
& Acted by the Students of the same House. 1632.
The Tragedy of Orestes, Written by Thomas Goffe, Master of Arts, and
Student of Christs Church in Oxford: And Acted by the Students of the
same House. 1633.
Three Excellent Tragedies (the plays mentioned above). . . . The second
Edition, carefully corrected by a friend of the Authors. 1656.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHAM.
Herodes. MS in Univ. Lib. Cam. , Mm. 1. 24. Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv,
pp. 243–4.
NICHOLAS GRIMALD.
Archipropheta, Tragoedia jam recens in lucem edita. Autore Nicolao
Grimoaldo. Gymnicus. Cologne, 1548.
MS in Brit. Mus. Royal MSS, 12 A. 46.
Christus Redivivus. Comoedia Tragica, sacra, et nova. Authore Nicolao
Grimoaldo. Gymnicus. Cologne, 1543.
Rptd (ed. Hart, J. M. ) in Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. Publications,
vol. xiv, no. 3, 1899.
Bale, John. Catalogus. Vol. 1. 1557.
Herford's Literary Relations.
(See, also, bibliography to vol. , chap. VIII. )
MATTHEW GWYNNE.
Nero Tragoedia Nova Matthaeo Gwinne Med. Doct. Collegii Divi Praecursoris
apud Oxonienses Socio collecta è Tacito, Suetonio, Dione, Seneca. . . . 1603.
There was another issue, with a different dedication, later in the year, and
a third in 1639. Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 268,271.
Vertamnus sive Annus Recurrens Oxonii xxix Augusti, Anno, 1605. Coram
Jacobo Rege, Henrico Principe, Proceribus. A Joannensibus in Scena
recitatus ab uno scriptus, Phrasi Comica propè Tragicis Senariis. 1607.
(Appended to the play are the Latin hexameters greeting James as a
descendant of Banquo, recited in front of St John's college by three
youths attired as Nymphs. As the verses are signed M. G. , they are
evidently from Gwynne's pen. )
ЈонN HACKET.
Loiola. Scena est Amsterodami: à vesperâ ad vesperam peraguntur omnia.
1648.
MSS in Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 17. 9, `authore dno Hackett,' and R. 17. 10
(imperfect); Brit. Mus. Add. MSS, 26709 (without title, and imperfect. )
PETER HAUSTED.
The Rival Friends. A Comoodie, As it was Acted before the King and
Queens Majesties, when out of their princely favour they were pleased
to visite their Universitie of Cambridge, upon the 19. day of March. 1631.
Cryed downe by Boyes, Faction, Envie, and confident Ignorance, approv'd
by the judicious, and now exposed to the publique censure, by the Authour,
Pet. Hausted M* in Artes of Queenes Colledge. 1632.
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performances; Brit. Mus. , Sloane 1762, which also gives the two texts
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838 (imperfect).
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 305-8; source: G. B. della Porta's
La Fantesca.
GRIFFIN Higgs.
A true and faithfull relation of the risinge and fall of Thomas Tucker, Prince
of Alba Fortunata, Lord St Johns &c, with all the occurrents which
happened throughout his whole domination. MS in library of St John's
College, Oxford (1607-8].
See account in the text of this document, which includes the following
plays of unknown authorship:
Ara Fortunae; Saturnalia; Philomela; Time's Complaint; The
Seven Dayes of the Weeke; Philomathes; Ira seu Tumulus Fortunae;
Periander.
The narrative part of the MS, and the play, The Seven Dayes of the
Weeke, are printed in Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana, vol. 1, 7 (1816),
under the title, The Christmas Prince, As it was exhibited in the Uni-
versity of Oxford, in the year 1607.
Schelling, F. E. The Queen's Progress, and other Elizabethan Sketches.
1904.
BARTEN HOLIDAY.
Texvoyapia : Or the Marriages of the Arts. A Comedie. Written by Barten
Holyday, Master of Arts, and Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and
acted by the Students of the same House before the Universitie, at Shrove-
tide. 1618. Another ed. in 1630.
Nichols, J. Progresses of James I. Vol. iv, pp. 1109-12.
:
WILLIAM JOHNSON.
Valetudinarium. MSS in Emmanuel coll. Cam. , I. 2. 32, 'Comoedia acta
coram Academicis Febr. 6° 1637. Authore Mr Guill. Johnson Coll.
Regin. Soc.
