Pastoral
Poetry and Pastoral Drama.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06
Ed.
Smith, G.
C.
Moore.
1908.
Source: Boccaccio, G. : Decameron, 10th Story of Fourth Day.
Jovis et Junonis nuptiae.
[Jovis et Junonis nuptiæ. ] MS in Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 10. 4, perfect, but
without title. A Latin mythological play.
Laelia.
Laelia. MS in Lambeth Palace, 838.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, XXXIV, pp. 292–4. See also pp. 286–7.
Ed. by Smith, G. C. Moore. Cambridge, 1910.
Source: Gľ Ingannati (contained in the volume entitled Comedia del
Sacrificio degli Intronati. 1537).
Estienne, C. Les Abusez, Comedie faite à la mode des anciens
Comiques, premièrement composée en langue Tuscane . . . &
nommée Intronati, depuys traduite en Françoys par Charles
Estienne. 1549.
Furness, H. H. Twelfth Night (The Variorum Shakespeare). 1901.
(Contains, pp. 341-359, a translation of the chief scenes in GP
Ingannati, and pp. 359-361, an English version of the synopsis of
Laelia in the Jahrbuch. )
Mercurius Rusticans.
Mercurius Rusticans, comedia, cujus scena est Hinxey. MS in Bodleian,
Wood D, 18.
Narcissus.
A Twelfe Night merriment, anno 1602. MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson Poet. 212.
Narcissus A Twelve Night Merriment played by youths of the parish at the
College of S. John the Baptist in Oxford, A. D. 1602. Ed. Lee, Margaret L. ,
with introduction, appendices, and notes.
Collister, C. H. Narcissus plays distinguished. Modern Language
Notes, vol. xx. Baltimore, 1905.
Nottola.
Nottola. MS in Bodleian, Douce 47. A Latin comedy.
The Parnassus Trilogy.
[The Pilgrimage to Parnassus. ] MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson D, 398, No. 72.
[The Return from Parnassus, Part 1. ] MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson D, 398,
No. 72.
The Returne from Pernassus: Or The Scourge of Simony. Publiquely acted
by the Students in Saint Johns College in Cambridge. At London
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Printed by G. Eld, for John Wright, and are to bee sold at his shop at
Christ church Gate. 1606.
There is another edition with a similar title-page, but with a number
of variant readings; also a MS of the play in the Halliwell-Phillipps
collection, with other variants.
The Trilogy is printed as The Pilgrimage to Parnassus with the two parts of
the Return from Parnassus. Three comedies performed in St John's
College, Cambridge, A. D. MDXCVII-MDCI, ed. from MSS by Macray, W. D. ,
1886.
The Returne, Part 11, is rptd in Origin of E. D. vol. 11; Ancient B. D.
vol. 1 (mod. s. ), Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. ix (mod. s. ); the English Scholar's
Library, no. 6, ed. Arber, E. , 1880; the Temple Dramatists, ed. Smeaton, O. ,
1905 (mod. s. ).
Bullen, A. H. The Works of John Day. Introduction, pp. 31 ff.
Corney, B. The Return from Parnassus: Its authorship. Notes and
Queries, Ser. III, vol. ix, p. 387. (In favour of John Day's author-
ship. )
Fleay's English Drama. Vol. 11, pp. 347-355.
Hales, J. W. Review of Macray's edition of the Trilogy. The
Academy, 19 March 1887.
Three Elizabethan Comedies. Macmillan's Magazine, May 1887.
Macray, W. D. Preface to edition named above.
Mullinger, J. B. The University of Cambridge. Vol. 1, pp. 522-6.
Sarrazin, G. Thomas Kyd und sein Kreis. pp. 77-92. 1892. (Suggests,
inter alia, the identification of Studioso in the Trilogy with Kyd;
but see the Works of Thomas Kyd, ed. Boas, F. 8. , introduction,
pp. xcii-xciv. )
Smeaton, 0. Introduction and notes to edition named above.
Ward. Vol. 11, pp. 633-642 (including communication from Gollancz, I. ,
in favour of Day's authorship. )
Parthenia.
Parthenia. Comoedia pastoralis. MS in Emmanuel coll. Cam. , 1, 3. 16.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 320-2.
Source: Groto, L. Il Pentimento Amoroso. Venice, 1576.
Pastor Fidus.
Pastor Fidus. MSS in Univ. Lib. Cam. , Ff. 11. 9, and Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 3. 37.
The Cambridge Univ. MS has a note 'Il pastor fido, di signor Guarini. . .
recitata in Collegio Regali Cantabrigiæ. ' It has a prologue in the form
of a dialogue between Prologus and Argumentum. The Trinity MS
adds after the title “Tragicomoedia Pastoritia. ' It has the prologue,
slightly adapted, of the second version of Leander. Below the title, in
red ink, is Guliel. Quarles.
Synopsis of the Prologue in the Cam. Univ. MS in Jahrbuch, xxxiv,
p. 319.
Source: Guarini, G. -B. Il Pastor fido, tragi-comedia pastorale.
Venice, 1590.
Greg, W. W.
Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama. pp. 194-210 and
242-7, and 252 (note).
Pathomachia.
Pathomachia: or the Battell of Affections. Shadowed by a faigned Siedge
of the Citie Pathopolis. Written some yeeres since, and now first pub-
lished by a Friend of the deceased Author. 1630. (Has the running
title 'Love's Loode-Stone. ')
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486
Bibliography
Labopaxia. Or loves loadstone. MS in Brit. Mus. , Harl. 6869, and in Bod-
leian, Eng. Misc. e. 5 (imperfect).
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod.
Lang. Rev. vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 149–150.
Perfidus Hetruscus.
Perfidus Hetruscus. MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson C, 787.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 250-2.
Pysche et Filii ejus.
[Psyche et Filii ejus. ] MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson Poet. 171. A Latin alle
gorical play.
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod.
Lang. Rev. vol. II, no. 2, pp. 143-6.
Romeus et Julietta.
Romeus et Julietta. MS in Brit. Mus. , Sloane 1775, pp. 242-9 and 251-2
(imperfect).
Fuller, H. de W. Romeo and Juliette. Mod. Philology, vol. rv, no. 1,
Appendix 2. (Contains a synopsis of the fragment and discusses
its provenance. )
Sapientia Salomonis.
Sapientia Salomonis: Drama Comicotragicum. MS in Brit. Mus. , Add.
20061.
Synopsis, with prefatory critical remarks, in Jahrbuch, XXXIV, pp.
224-9; also p. 323.
Source: Xystus Betuleias: Drama comico-tragicum: Sapientia
Salomonis. 1555.
Silvanus.
Silvanus. MS in Bodleian, Douce 234. A Latin comedy. 'Acta haec fabula
13° Januarii an. dmi. 1596. The cast shows the performance was at
St John's, Cambridge. F. Rollinson, who played the title-part, may have
been the author.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 295–7.
Solymannidæ.
Solymannidæ. Tragoedia. MS in Brit. Mus. , Lansdowne 723. After dramatis
personae is added :
Solymānidæ
Lugubris exitus Mustaphæ & G[angerij 1581 Martii 5º.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 245-6.
Stoicus Vapulans.
Stoicus Vapulans. Olim Cantabrigiæ actus in Collegio S. Johannis Evan-
gelistæ Ab ejusdem Collegii Juventute. 1648.
An allegorical comedy acted at St John's coll. Cambridge, at Christ-
mastide, 1618. See College Life in the time of James the First, as illas
trated by an unpublished Diary of Sir Symonds D'Ewes, pp. 61-2, 1851.
Susenbrotus.
Susenbrotus Comoedia. Acta Cantabrigiæ in Collegio Trin. coram rege
Jacobo & Carolo principe, anno 1615. MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson Poet.
195, f. 79.
Another MS of the play with the title Fortunia, from the name of
the heroine, is in the possession of the earl of Ellesmere.
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Timon.
Timon. MS 52 in Dyce collection.
A Play. Now first printed. Ed. Dyce, A. Shakesp. Soc. 1842.
Wily Beguiled.
A Pleasant Comedie, Called Wily Beguilde. The Chiefe Actors be these :
A poore Scholler, a rich Foole, and a Knave at a shifte. 1606.
Later eds. in 1623, 1630, 1635; there is also an ed. of unknown date,
with a torn title-page, in the Brit. Mus.
Rptd in Origin of E. D. vol. 111, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. ix
(mod. s. ).
Boas, F. S. The Works of Thomas Kyd. Introduction, pp. xciv-xcv.
1901.
Sarrazin, G. Thomas Kyd und sein Kreis. pp. 75-77.
(Both the above discuss Kyd's influence on the play. )
Worke for Cutlers.
Worke for Cutlers. Or, A Merry Dialogue Betweene Sword, Rapier, and
Dagger. Acted in a Shew in the famous Universitie of Cambridge.
1615.
Rptd in Harleian Miscell. vol. x, pp. 200-3, ed. Park, T. , 1813 (mod. s. );
Miscell. Antiqua Anglicana, vol. 11, ed. Hindley, C. , 1872; ed. Sieveking,
A. F. , with historical Prologne and glossarial epilogue, 1904. (Sieveking
argues in favour of the authorship of Thomas Heywood. )
Zelotypus.
Zelotypus. MSS in Emmanuel coll. Cam. , III. 1. 17, and in Trin. coll. Cam. ,
R. 3. 9. From the cast given in both MSS it appears to have been acted
at St John's coll. Cambridge, in 1605/6. (See Smith, G. C. Moore, Notes
on some English University Plays in Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. nii, no. 2, p. 151. )
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 313-317.
CHAPTER XIII
MASQUE AND PASTORAL
I. MASQUE.
The titles of early editions of masques, pageants and entertainments are
given in Greg's List of Masques; and, less fully, in Fleay's English Drama.
The chief works on the masque have been mentioned already in the biblio-
graphy to chap.
Source: Boccaccio, G. : Decameron, 10th Story of Fourth Day.
Jovis et Junonis nuptiae.
[Jovis et Junonis nuptiæ. ] MS in Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 10. 4, perfect, but
without title. A Latin mythological play.
Laelia.
Laelia. MS in Lambeth Palace, 838.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, XXXIV, pp. 292–4. See also pp. 286–7.
Ed. by Smith, G. C. Moore. Cambridge, 1910.
Source: Gľ Ingannati (contained in the volume entitled Comedia del
Sacrificio degli Intronati. 1537).
Estienne, C. Les Abusez, Comedie faite à la mode des anciens
Comiques, premièrement composée en langue Tuscane . . . &
nommée Intronati, depuys traduite en Françoys par Charles
Estienne. 1549.
Furness, H. H. Twelfth Night (The Variorum Shakespeare). 1901.
(Contains, pp. 341-359, a translation of the chief scenes in GP
Ingannati, and pp. 359-361, an English version of the synopsis of
Laelia in the Jahrbuch. )
Mercurius Rusticans.
Mercurius Rusticans, comedia, cujus scena est Hinxey. MS in Bodleian,
Wood D, 18.
Narcissus.
A Twelfe Night merriment, anno 1602. MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson Poet. 212.
Narcissus A Twelve Night Merriment played by youths of the parish at the
College of S. John the Baptist in Oxford, A. D. 1602. Ed. Lee, Margaret L. ,
with introduction, appendices, and notes.
Collister, C. H. Narcissus plays distinguished. Modern Language
Notes, vol. xx. Baltimore, 1905.
Nottola.
Nottola. MS in Bodleian, Douce 47. A Latin comedy.
The Parnassus Trilogy.
[The Pilgrimage to Parnassus. ] MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson D, 398, No. 72.
[The Return from Parnassus, Part 1. ] MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson D, 398,
No. 72.
The Returne from Pernassus: Or The Scourge of Simony. Publiquely acted
by the Students in Saint Johns College in Cambridge. At London
## p. 485 (#503) ############################################
Chapter XII
485
8
♡
Printed by G. Eld, for John Wright, and are to bee sold at his shop at
Christ church Gate. 1606.
There is another edition with a similar title-page, but with a number
of variant readings; also a MS of the play in the Halliwell-Phillipps
collection, with other variants.
The Trilogy is printed as The Pilgrimage to Parnassus with the two parts of
the Return from Parnassus. Three comedies performed in St John's
College, Cambridge, A. D. MDXCVII-MDCI, ed. from MSS by Macray, W. D. ,
1886.
The Returne, Part 11, is rptd in Origin of E. D. vol. 11; Ancient B. D.
vol. 1 (mod. s. ), Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. ix (mod. s. ); the English Scholar's
Library, no. 6, ed. Arber, E. , 1880; the Temple Dramatists, ed. Smeaton, O. ,
1905 (mod. s. ).
Bullen, A. H. The Works of John Day. Introduction, pp. 31 ff.
Corney, B. The Return from Parnassus: Its authorship. Notes and
Queries, Ser. III, vol. ix, p. 387. (In favour of John Day's author-
ship. )
Fleay's English Drama. Vol. 11, pp. 347-355.
Hales, J. W. Review of Macray's edition of the Trilogy. The
Academy, 19 March 1887.
Three Elizabethan Comedies. Macmillan's Magazine, May 1887.
Macray, W. D. Preface to edition named above.
Mullinger, J. B. The University of Cambridge. Vol. 1, pp. 522-6.
Sarrazin, G. Thomas Kyd und sein Kreis. pp. 77-92. 1892. (Suggests,
inter alia, the identification of Studioso in the Trilogy with Kyd;
but see the Works of Thomas Kyd, ed. Boas, F. 8. , introduction,
pp. xcii-xciv. )
Smeaton, 0. Introduction and notes to edition named above.
Ward. Vol. 11, pp. 633-642 (including communication from Gollancz, I. ,
in favour of Day's authorship. )
Parthenia.
Parthenia. Comoedia pastoralis. MS in Emmanuel coll. Cam. , 1, 3. 16.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 320-2.
Source: Groto, L. Il Pentimento Amoroso. Venice, 1576.
Pastor Fidus.
Pastor Fidus. MSS in Univ. Lib. Cam. , Ff. 11. 9, and Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 3. 37.
The Cambridge Univ. MS has a note 'Il pastor fido, di signor Guarini. . .
recitata in Collegio Regali Cantabrigiæ. ' It has a prologue in the form
of a dialogue between Prologus and Argumentum. The Trinity MS
adds after the title “Tragicomoedia Pastoritia. ' It has the prologue,
slightly adapted, of the second version of Leander. Below the title, in
red ink, is Guliel. Quarles.
Synopsis of the Prologue in the Cam. Univ. MS in Jahrbuch, xxxiv,
p. 319.
Source: Guarini, G. -B. Il Pastor fido, tragi-comedia pastorale.
Venice, 1590.
Greg, W. W.
Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama. pp. 194-210 and
242-7, and 252 (note).
Pathomachia.
Pathomachia: or the Battell of Affections. Shadowed by a faigned Siedge
of the Citie Pathopolis. Written some yeeres since, and now first pub-
lished by a Friend of the deceased Author. 1630. (Has the running
title 'Love's Loode-Stone. ')
## p. 486 (#504) ############################################
486
Bibliography
Labopaxia. Or loves loadstone. MS in Brit. Mus. , Harl. 6869, and in Bod-
leian, Eng. Misc. e. 5 (imperfect).
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod.
Lang. Rev. vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 149–150.
Perfidus Hetruscus.
Perfidus Hetruscus. MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson C, 787.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 250-2.
Pysche et Filii ejus.
[Psyche et Filii ejus. ] MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson Poet. 171. A Latin alle
gorical play.
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod.
Lang. Rev. vol. II, no. 2, pp. 143-6.
Romeus et Julietta.
Romeus et Julietta. MS in Brit. Mus. , Sloane 1775, pp. 242-9 and 251-2
(imperfect).
Fuller, H. de W. Romeo and Juliette. Mod. Philology, vol. rv, no. 1,
Appendix 2. (Contains a synopsis of the fragment and discusses
its provenance. )
Sapientia Salomonis.
Sapientia Salomonis: Drama Comicotragicum. MS in Brit. Mus. , Add.
20061.
Synopsis, with prefatory critical remarks, in Jahrbuch, XXXIV, pp.
224-9; also p. 323.
Source: Xystus Betuleias: Drama comico-tragicum: Sapientia
Salomonis. 1555.
Silvanus.
Silvanus. MS in Bodleian, Douce 234. A Latin comedy. 'Acta haec fabula
13° Januarii an. dmi. 1596. The cast shows the performance was at
St John's, Cambridge. F. Rollinson, who played the title-part, may have
been the author.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 295–7.
Solymannidæ.
Solymannidæ. Tragoedia. MS in Brit. Mus. , Lansdowne 723. After dramatis
personae is added :
Solymānidæ
Lugubris exitus Mustaphæ & G[angerij 1581 Martii 5º.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 245-6.
Stoicus Vapulans.
Stoicus Vapulans. Olim Cantabrigiæ actus in Collegio S. Johannis Evan-
gelistæ Ab ejusdem Collegii Juventute. 1648.
An allegorical comedy acted at St John's coll. Cambridge, at Christ-
mastide, 1618. See College Life in the time of James the First, as illas
trated by an unpublished Diary of Sir Symonds D'Ewes, pp. 61-2, 1851.
Susenbrotus.
Susenbrotus Comoedia. Acta Cantabrigiæ in Collegio Trin. coram rege
Jacobo & Carolo principe, anno 1615. MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson Poet.
195, f. 79.
Another MS of the play with the title Fortunia, from the name of
the heroine, is in the possession of the earl of Ellesmere.
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Chapter XII
487
Timon.
Timon. MS 52 in Dyce collection.
A Play. Now first printed. Ed. Dyce, A. Shakesp. Soc. 1842.
Wily Beguiled.
A Pleasant Comedie, Called Wily Beguilde. The Chiefe Actors be these :
A poore Scholler, a rich Foole, and a Knave at a shifte. 1606.
Later eds. in 1623, 1630, 1635; there is also an ed. of unknown date,
with a torn title-page, in the Brit. Mus.
Rptd in Origin of E. D. vol. 111, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. ix
(mod. s. ).
Boas, F. S. The Works of Thomas Kyd. Introduction, pp. xciv-xcv.
1901.
Sarrazin, G. Thomas Kyd und sein Kreis. pp. 75-77.
(Both the above discuss Kyd's influence on the play. )
Worke for Cutlers.
Worke for Cutlers. Or, A Merry Dialogue Betweene Sword, Rapier, and
Dagger. Acted in a Shew in the famous Universitie of Cambridge.
1615.
Rptd in Harleian Miscell. vol. x, pp. 200-3, ed. Park, T. , 1813 (mod. s. );
Miscell. Antiqua Anglicana, vol. 11, ed. Hindley, C. , 1872; ed. Sieveking,
A. F. , with historical Prologne and glossarial epilogue, 1904. (Sieveking
argues in favour of the authorship of Thomas Heywood. )
Zelotypus.
Zelotypus. MSS in Emmanuel coll. Cam. , III. 1. 17, and in Trin. coll. Cam. ,
R. 3. 9. From the cast given in both MSS it appears to have been acted
at St John's coll. Cambridge, in 1605/6. (See Smith, G. C. Moore, Notes
on some English University Plays in Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. nii, no. 2, p. 151. )
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 313-317.
CHAPTER XIII
MASQUE AND PASTORAL
I. MASQUE.
The titles of early editions of masques, pageants and entertainments are
given in Greg's List of Masques; and, less fully, in Fleay's English Drama.
The chief works on the masque have been mentioned already in the biblio-
graphy to chap.
