The
Parliament
of Bees, With their proper Characters.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06
: 1661, 1684.
Rptd in Dodsley (1744), vol. vi, and in Reeds and Collier's Dodsley,
volg. x and x respectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. III.
The first eds. of these were printed in Brome's lifetime. After his death
appeared :
Five New Playes, (viz. ) The (Madd Couple well matcht. Novella. Court
Beggar. City Witt. Damoiselle). 1653.
Brome, Alexander, edited these plays, all but the first of which have a
separate title-page.
The Queenes Exchange, A Comedy Acted with generall applause at the
Black-Friers By His Majesties Servants. 1657. Again in 1661 as The
Royall Exchange.
Five new Playes, viz. The English Moor, or The Mock-Marriage. The Love-
Sick Court, or The Ambitious Politique. Covent Garden Weeded. The
New Academy, or The New Exchange. The Queen and Concubine.
1659.
Brome, Alexander, edited these plays, each of which has a separate
title-page.
The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome containing fifteen comedies now
first collected in three volumes. 1873. (Pearson's reprint. )
This ed, is reviewed by Symonds, J. A. , in the Academy, 1874.
Faust, E. K. R. Richard Brome. (Diss. ) Halle, 1887. [Ample and careful. ]
LODOWICK CARLELL.
The Deserving Favorite. . . . Written by Lodowicke Carlell, Esquire, Gentle-
man of the Bowes, and Groome of the King and Queenes Privie
Chamber. 1629, 1659.
Rptd with a biography of Carlell and a critical essay on his plays by
Gray, C. H. , Chicago, 1905.
Arviragus and Philicia. . . . The first and second Part. 1639.
The Passionate Lovers, A Tragi-Comedy, the First and Second Parts. 1655.
Two New Playes. Viz. 1. The Fool would be a Favourit: or, The Discreet
Lover. 2. Osmond, the Great Turk: or, The Noble Servant. 1657.
The plays were also issued separately in 1657.
Heraclius Emperour of the East. A Tragedy. Written in French by
Monsieur de Corneille. Englished by Lodowick Carlell, Esq. 1664.
## p. 454 (#472) ############################################
454
Bibliography
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT.
(See bibliography to chap. XII, post. )
JOHN COOKE.
Greene's Tu quoque, or, The Cittie Gallant. As it hath beene divers times
acted by the Queenes Majesties Servants. 1614. Another ed. : 1622; and
once undated.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. III, VII, VII, XI, re-
spectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
ROBERT DABORNE.
A Christian turn'd Turke: Or, The Tragicall Lives and Deaths of the two
Famous Pyrates, Ward and Dansiker. As it hath been publickly Acted.
Written By Robert Daborn, Gentleman. 1612.
The Poor-Mans Comfort. A Tragi-Comedy, As it was divers times Acted at
the Cock-pit in Drury lane with great applause. Written by Robert
Dauborne, Master of Arts. 1655. There is a manuscript copy of this in
Egerton MSS, 1994.
[An inferior dramatist, interesting chiefly for his extant letters to
Henslowe in the year 1613. He died dean of Lismore in 1628. ]
SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT.
The Tragedy of Albovine, King of the Lombards. By Wm. D'avenant. 1629.
For a discussion of the sources of this tragedy see Campbell, A. , in the
Journal of Germanic Philology, vol. iv, 1902.
The Cruell Brother. A Tragedy. 1630.
The Just Italian. 1630. [The author's name in these two plays appeare
after the dedication. ]
The Platonick Lovers. A Tragæcomedy. The Authour William D'avenant,
Servant to her Majestie. 1636.
The Witts. A Comedie. The Authour William D'avenant, Servant to Her
Majestie. 1636.
Rptd in Reed's Dodsley, vol. VIII, and Collier's Dodsley, vol. VIII;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. I.
The Unfortunate Lovers: A Tragedie; . . . The Author William Davenant,
Servant to Her Majestie. 1643, 1649.
Love and Honour. Written by W. Davenant Knight. . . . 1649.
Two Excellent Plays: The Wits, A Comedie. The Platonick Lovers, A
Tragi-Comedie. 1665.
The Works of S: William Davenant K. 1673. (In this there are consider.
able alterations in the case of some plays. ]
The Dramatic Works of Sir William Davenant, with prefatory memoir and
notes. Ed. by Maidment, J. and Logan, W. H. (Dramatists of the
Restoration. ) 5 vols. 1872-4.
(As to D'Avenant see, also, bibliography to chap. v of vol. VIII, post. )
ROBERT DAVENPORT,
A Pleasant and Witty Comedy: Called, A New Tricke to Cheat the Divell.
Written by R. D. Gent. 1639.
King John and Matilda, A Tragedy. As it was Acted with great Applause
by Her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane. Written by
Robert Davenport Gent. 1655. Another ed. : 1662, 'Written by W. Daven. '
## p. 455 (#473) ############################################
Chapter IX
455
The City-Night-Cap: Or, Crede quod habes, et habes. A Tragi-Comedy.
As it was Acted with great Applause, by Her Majesties Servants, at the
Phoenix in Drury Lane. 1661.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. IX, XI, XI, XIII, respectively;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. III.
The Works of Robert Davenport. Bullen's Old English Plays, N. S.
vol. III.
For an essay on King John and Matilda see the Retrospective Review,
vol. iv.
John Day.
The Ile of Guls. As it hath been often playd in the blacke Fryars, by the
Children of the Revels. 1606. Another ed. : 1633.
Humour out of breath. A Comedie Divers times latelie acted, By the
Children of the Kings Revells. 1608.
Law-Trickes or, who would have Thought it. As it hath bene divers times
Acted by the Children of the Revels. 1608.
The Parliament of Bees, With their proper Characters. Or A Bee-hive
furnisht with twelve Honycombes, as Pleasant as Profitable. Being
an Allegoricall description of the actions of good and bad men in these
our daies. By John Daye, Sometimes Student of Caius Colledge in
Cambridge. 1641.
There is among the Lansdowne MSS (no. 725) a contemporary
transcript of The Parliament of Bees, probably written about 1639.
(With William Rowley and George Wilkins ? ) The Travailes of The three
English Brothers, Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony, Mr Robert Shirley. As it
is now play'd by her Majesties Servants. 1607.
The Works of John Day. Ed. Bullen, A. H. 1881.
The Parliament of Bees and Humour out of breath are included in Nero
and other Plays (Mermaid Series), 1888, with an introductory essay on Day's
plays in the volume by Symons, A.
For an essay on John Day by Swinburne, A. C. , see The Nineteenth
Century, October 1897.
NATHANIEL FIELD.
A Woman is a Weather-cocke. A New Comedy, As it was acted before the
King in White-Hall. And divers times Privately at the White-Friers,
By the Children of her Majesties Revels. 1612.
Amends for Ladies. A Comedie. As it was acted at the Blacke-Fryers,
both by the Princes Servants, and the Lady Elizabeths. 1618. Another
ed. : 1639, with the addition: With the merry prankes of Moll Cut-parse :
Or, the humonr of Roaring. A Comedy full of honest mirth and wit.
Both plays were ed. with illustrations and notes by Collier, J. P. , 1829,
and are rptd in Old E. D. vol. II, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. XI;
and, again, in Nero and other Plays in Mermaid Series, 1888, with an
essay by Verity, A. W.
On the share of Field in the Fatall Dowry, consult Fleay, Engl. Stud.
vol. XIII, and Boyle in the same periodical, vols. V-X.
The remonstrance of N. F. . . . addressed to a Preacher in Southwark, who had
been arraigning against the Players at the Globe Theatre, in the year
1616. Now first ed. from the original manuscript (by Halliwell-Phillippe,
J. O. ; only ten copies printed). 1865.
## p. 456 (#474) ############################################
456
Bibliography
HENRY GLAPTHORNE.
Argalus and Parthenia. 1639.
The Tragedy of Albertus Wallenstein, Late Duke of Fridland, and Generall
to the Emperor Ferdinand the Second. The Scene, Egers. . . . 1639, 1640.
Rptd in Old English Drama, vol. 11, 1825.
The Hollander. A Comedy written 1635. The Author Henry Glapthorne. 1640.
The Ladies Priviledge. 1640.
Rptd in Old English Drama, vol. 11, 1825.
Wit in a Constable. A Comedy written 1639. 1640.
The Lady Mother. Extant in Manuscript (Egerton MSS, 1994), rptd by
Bullen in Old English Plays, vol. 11, 1883.
The Plays and Poems of Henry Glapthorne, now first collected, with illustra-
tive notes and a memoir of the author. 2 vols. 1874. (Pearson's reprint. )
For an essay on Glapthorne see the Retrospective Review, vol. x.
WILLIAM HABINGTON.
The Queene of Arragon. A Tragi-Comedie. 1640.
Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. XIII. [The play is dramatically feeble,
but in sentiment and diction not unworthy of the author of Castara. ]
HENRY KILLIGREW.
The Conspiracy A Tragedy, As it was intended for the Nuptialls, of the Lord
Charles Herbert, and the Lady Villers. 1638. Another ed. of 1653
bears the title Pallantus and Eudora. A reprint is promised in Bang's
Materialien.
THOMAS KILLIGREW.
The Prisoner and Claracilla. Two Trago-Comedies. As they were presented
at the Phænix in Drury-Lane, by her Mties Servantes. Written by Tho.
Killigrew, Gent. 1641.
Comedies and Tragedies. Written by Thomas Killigrew, Page of Honour
to King Charles the First. And Groom of the Bed-Chamber to King
Charles the Second. 1664. Fol.
(See, also, bibliography to chap. v of vol. viii, post. )
GERVASE MARKHAM.
The dumbe Knight, A pleasant Comedy, acted sundry times by the children
of his Majesties Revels. Written by Jarvis Markham. 1608. There
are three impressions of this date and another of 1733. The preface
is signed by Lewis Machin.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley and in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
The true Tragedy of Herod and Antipater: With the Death of Faire
Marriam. According to Josephus, the learned and famous Jew. As it
hath beene, of late, divers times publiquely Acted (with great Applause)
at the Red Bull, by the Company of his Majesties Revels. Written by
Gervase Markham and William Sampson Gentlemen. 1622.
(See, also, bibliography to vol. iv, chap. XVII, p. 539. )
SHACKERLEY MARMION.
Hollands Leaguer. Written by Shackerley Marmyon, Master of Arts. 1632.
A Fine Companion. 1633.
The Antiquary. 1641.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols, vii, X, X, XIII, respectively;
also in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
## p. 457 (#475) ############################################
Chapter IX
457
The Dramatic Works of Shackerley Marmion, with prefatory memoir,
introductions, and notes. Edd. by Maidment, J. , and Logan, W. H.
(Dramatists of the Restoration. ) 1875.
THOMAS MAY.
The Heire an Excellent Comedie. As it was lately Acted by the Company
of the Revels. Written by T. M. Gent. 1622. Again, in 1633, when
1620 is given as the date of its first acting.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. VII, VIII, VIII, XI, re-
spectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. 1.
The Tragedy of Antigone, The Theban Princesse. Written by T. M. 1631.
The Tragedy of Cleopatra Queen of Egypt. By T. M. Acted 1626. 1639.
Another ed. : 1654.
The Tragedy of Julia Agrippina; Empresse of Rome. By T. M. Esq.
1639. Another ed. : 1654.
Cleopatra and Julia Agrippina were republished together in 1654.
The Old Couple. A Comedy. 1658.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. vii, X, X, XII, respectively;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. 111.
JASPER MAYNE.
Rptd in Dodsley (1744), vol. vi, and in Reeds and Collier's Dodsley,
volg. x and x respectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. III.
The first eds. of these were printed in Brome's lifetime. After his death
appeared :
Five New Playes, (viz. ) The (Madd Couple well matcht. Novella. Court
Beggar. City Witt. Damoiselle). 1653.
Brome, Alexander, edited these plays, all but the first of which have a
separate title-page.
The Queenes Exchange, A Comedy Acted with generall applause at the
Black-Friers By His Majesties Servants. 1657. Again in 1661 as The
Royall Exchange.
Five new Playes, viz. The English Moor, or The Mock-Marriage. The Love-
Sick Court, or The Ambitious Politique. Covent Garden Weeded. The
New Academy, or The New Exchange. The Queen and Concubine.
1659.
Brome, Alexander, edited these plays, each of which has a separate
title-page.
The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome containing fifteen comedies now
first collected in three volumes. 1873. (Pearson's reprint. )
This ed, is reviewed by Symonds, J. A. , in the Academy, 1874.
Faust, E. K. R. Richard Brome. (Diss. ) Halle, 1887. [Ample and careful. ]
LODOWICK CARLELL.
The Deserving Favorite. . . . Written by Lodowicke Carlell, Esquire, Gentle-
man of the Bowes, and Groome of the King and Queenes Privie
Chamber. 1629, 1659.
Rptd with a biography of Carlell and a critical essay on his plays by
Gray, C. H. , Chicago, 1905.
Arviragus and Philicia. . . . The first and second Part. 1639.
The Passionate Lovers, A Tragi-Comedy, the First and Second Parts. 1655.
Two New Playes. Viz. 1. The Fool would be a Favourit: or, The Discreet
Lover. 2. Osmond, the Great Turk: or, The Noble Servant. 1657.
The plays were also issued separately in 1657.
Heraclius Emperour of the East. A Tragedy. Written in French by
Monsieur de Corneille. Englished by Lodowick Carlell, Esq. 1664.
## p. 454 (#472) ############################################
454
Bibliography
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT.
(See bibliography to chap. XII, post. )
JOHN COOKE.
Greene's Tu quoque, or, The Cittie Gallant. As it hath beene divers times
acted by the Queenes Majesties Servants. 1614. Another ed. : 1622; and
once undated.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. III, VII, VII, XI, re-
spectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
ROBERT DABORNE.
A Christian turn'd Turke: Or, The Tragicall Lives and Deaths of the two
Famous Pyrates, Ward and Dansiker. As it hath been publickly Acted.
Written By Robert Daborn, Gentleman. 1612.
The Poor-Mans Comfort. A Tragi-Comedy, As it was divers times Acted at
the Cock-pit in Drury lane with great applause. Written by Robert
Dauborne, Master of Arts. 1655. There is a manuscript copy of this in
Egerton MSS, 1994.
[An inferior dramatist, interesting chiefly for his extant letters to
Henslowe in the year 1613. He died dean of Lismore in 1628. ]
SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT.
The Tragedy of Albovine, King of the Lombards. By Wm. D'avenant. 1629.
For a discussion of the sources of this tragedy see Campbell, A. , in the
Journal of Germanic Philology, vol. iv, 1902.
The Cruell Brother. A Tragedy. 1630.
The Just Italian. 1630. [The author's name in these two plays appeare
after the dedication. ]
The Platonick Lovers. A Tragæcomedy. The Authour William D'avenant,
Servant to her Majestie. 1636.
The Witts. A Comedie. The Authour William D'avenant, Servant to Her
Majestie. 1636.
Rptd in Reed's Dodsley, vol. VIII, and Collier's Dodsley, vol. VIII;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. I.
The Unfortunate Lovers: A Tragedie; . . . The Author William Davenant,
Servant to Her Majestie. 1643, 1649.
Love and Honour. Written by W. Davenant Knight. . . . 1649.
Two Excellent Plays: The Wits, A Comedie. The Platonick Lovers, A
Tragi-Comedie. 1665.
The Works of S: William Davenant K. 1673. (In this there are consider.
able alterations in the case of some plays. ]
The Dramatic Works of Sir William Davenant, with prefatory memoir and
notes. Ed. by Maidment, J. and Logan, W. H. (Dramatists of the
Restoration. ) 5 vols. 1872-4.
(As to D'Avenant see, also, bibliography to chap. v of vol. VIII, post. )
ROBERT DAVENPORT,
A Pleasant and Witty Comedy: Called, A New Tricke to Cheat the Divell.
Written by R. D. Gent. 1639.
King John and Matilda, A Tragedy. As it was Acted with great Applause
by Her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane. Written by
Robert Davenport Gent. 1655. Another ed. : 1662, 'Written by W. Daven. '
## p. 455 (#473) ############################################
Chapter IX
455
The City-Night-Cap: Or, Crede quod habes, et habes. A Tragi-Comedy.
As it was Acted with great Applause, by Her Majesties Servants, at the
Phoenix in Drury Lane. 1661.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. IX, XI, XI, XIII, respectively;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. III.
The Works of Robert Davenport. Bullen's Old English Plays, N. S.
vol. III.
For an essay on King John and Matilda see the Retrospective Review,
vol. iv.
John Day.
The Ile of Guls. As it hath been often playd in the blacke Fryars, by the
Children of the Revels. 1606. Another ed. : 1633.
Humour out of breath. A Comedie Divers times latelie acted, By the
Children of the Kings Revells. 1608.
Law-Trickes or, who would have Thought it. As it hath bene divers times
Acted by the Children of the Revels. 1608.
The Parliament of Bees, With their proper Characters. Or A Bee-hive
furnisht with twelve Honycombes, as Pleasant as Profitable. Being
an Allegoricall description of the actions of good and bad men in these
our daies. By John Daye, Sometimes Student of Caius Colledge in
Cambridge. 1641.
There is among the Lansdowne MSS (no. 725) a contemporary
transcript of The Parliament of Bees, probably written about 1639.
(With William Rowley and George Wilkins ? ) The Travailes of The three
English Brothers, Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony, Mr Robert Shirley. As it
is now play'd by her Majesties Servants. 1607.
The Works of John Day. Ed. Bullen, A. H. 1881.
The Parliament of Bees and Humour out of breath are included in Nero
and other Plays (Mermaid Series), 1888, with an introductory essay on Day's
plays in the volume by Symons, A.
For an essay on John Day by Swinburne, A. C. , see The Nineteenth
Century, October 1897.
NATHANIEL FIELD.
A Woman is a Weather-cocke. A New Comedy, As it was acted before the
King in White-Hall. And divers times Privately at the White-Friers,
By the Children of her Majesties Revels. 1612.
Amends for Ladies. A Comedie. As it was acted at the Blacke-Fryers,
both by the Princes Servants, and the Lady Elizabeths. 1618. Another
ed. : 1639, with the addition: With the merry prankes of Moll Cut-parse :
Or, the humonr of Roaring. A Comedy full of honest mirth and wit.
Both plays were ed. with illustrations and notes by Collier, J. P. , 1829,
and are rptd in Old E. D. vol. II, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. XI;
and, again, in Nero and other Plays in Mermaid Series, 1888, with an
essay by Verity, A. W.
On the share of Field in the Fatall Dowry, consult Fleay, Engl. Stud.
vol. XIII, and Boyle in the same periodical, vols. V-X.
The remonstrance of N. F. . . . addressed to a Preacher in Southwark, who had
been arraigning against the Players at the Globe Theatre, in the year
1616. Now first ed. from the original manuscript (by Halliwell-Phillippe,
J. O. ; only ten copies printed). 1865.
## p. 456 (#474) ############################################
456
Bibliography
HENRY GLAPTHORNE.
Argalus and Parthenia. 1639.
The Tragedy of Albertus Wallenstein, Late Duke of Fridland, and Generall
to the Emperor Ferdinand the Second. The Scene, Egers. . . . 1639, 1640.
Rptd in Old English Drama, vol. 11, 1825.
The Hollander. A Comedy written 1635. The Author Henry Glapthorne. 1640.
The Ladies Priviledge. 1640.
Rptd in Old English Drama, vol. 11, 1825.
Wit in a Constable. A Comedy written 1639. 1640.
The Lady Mother. Extant in Manuscript (Egerton MSS, 1994), rptd by
Bullen in Old English Plays, vol. 11, 1883.
The Plays and Poems of Henry Glapthorne, now first collected, with illustra-
tive notes and a memoir of the author. 2 vols. 1874. (Pearson's reprint. )
For an essay on Glapthorne see the Retrospective Review, vol. x.
WILLIAM HABINGTON.
The Queene of Arragon. A Tragi-Comedie. 1640.
Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. XIII. [The play is dramatically feeble,
but in sentiment and diction not unworthy of the author of Castara. ]
HENRY KILLIGREW.
The Conspiracy A Tragedy, As it was intended for the Nuptialls, of the Lord
Charles Herbert, and the Lady Villers. 1638. Another ed. of 1653
bears the title Pallantus and Eudora. A reprint is promised in Bang's
Materialien.
THOMAS KILLIGREW.
The Prisoner and Claracilla. Two Trago-Comedies. As they were presented
at the Phænix in Drury-Lane, by her Mties Servantes. Written by Tho.
Killigrew, Gent. 1641.
Comedies and Tragedies. Written by Thomas Killigrew, Page of Honour
to King Charles the First. And Groom of the Bed-Chamber to King
Charles the Second. 1664. Fol.
(See, also, bibliography to chap. v of vol. viii, post. )
GERVASE MARKHAM.
The dumbe Knight, A pleasant Comedy, acted sundry times by the children
of his Majesties Revels. Written by Jarvis Markham. 1608. There
are three impressions of this date and another of 1733. The preface
is signed by Lewis Machin.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley and in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
The true Tragedy of Herod and Antipater: With the Death of Faire
Marriam. According to Josephus, the learned and famous Jew. As it
hath beene, of late, divers times publiquely Acted (with great Applause)
at the Red Bull, by the Company of his Majesties Revels. Written by
Gervase Markham and William Sampson Gentlemen. 1622.
(See, also, bibliography to vol. iv, chap. XVII, p. 539. )
SHACKERLEY MARMION.
Hollands Leaguer. Written by Shackerley Marmyon, Master of Arts. 1632.
A Fine Companion. 1633.
The Antiquary. 1641.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols, vii, X, X, XIII, respectively;
also in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
## p. 457 (#475) ############################################
Chapter IX
457
The Dramatic Works of Shackerley Marmion, with prefatory memoir,
introductions, and notes. Edd. by Maidment, J. , and Logan, W. H.
(Dramatists of the Restoration. ) 1875.
THOMAS MAY.
The Heire an Excellent Comedie. As it was lately Acted by the Company
of the Revels. Written by T. M. Gent. 1622. Again, in 1633, when
1620 is given as the date of its first acting.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. VII, VIII, VIII, XI, re-
spectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. 1.
The Tragedy of Antigone, The Theban Princesse. Written by T. M. 1631.
The Tragedy of Cleopatra Queen of Egypt. By T. M. Acted 1626. 1639.
Another ed. : 1654.
The Tragedy of Julia Agrippina; Empresse of Rome. By T. M. Esq.
1639. Another ed. : 1654.
Cleopatra and Julia Agrippina were republished together in 1654.
The Old Couple. A Comedy. 1658.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. vii, X, X, XII, respectively;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. 111.
JASPER MAYNE.
