Der Miles Gloriosus in
Englischen
Drama bis zur Zeit des Bürger-
krieges.
krieges.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05
A criticism of Swoboda's monograph.
Contains abstracts of, or quotations from, Pernet qui va au vin; D'un
pardonneur, d'un triacleur, et d'une tavernière; Dyalogue du fol et du
sage; Erasmus's Encomium Moriae, and discusses their relation to Hey-
wood's interludes.
THOMAS INGELEND.
A pretie and Mery new Enterlude: called the Disobedient Child. Compiled
by Thomas Ingelend late Student in Cambridge.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts. Rptd by Halliwell, J. O. , in
Percy Soc. Publ. , 1848; in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. 1 (mod. s. ); in The
Dramatic Writings of Richard Wever and Thomas Ingelend, ed.
Farmer, J. S. , 1905 (mod. s. ).
## p. 407 (#431) ############################################
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407
Source and Criticism.
Holthausen, F. Studien zum ältereren Englischen Drama. Engl. Stud.
vol. xxxi, 1901. Contains a comparison of The Disobedient Child with
the Dialogue of Textor on which it is based.
Textor, J. Ravisius. Juvenis, Pater, Uxor. In Dialogi. 1530.
Stymmelius, C. Studentes. Some episodes in The Disobedient Child, not
derived from Textor, may be based on this play. See BrandP's Quellen,
vol. LXXIII, contrasted with Malone Society Collections, vol. 1, part 11, p. 106.
JOHN PHILLIP.
The Commodye of pacient and meeke Grissill, Whearin is declared, the good
example, of her pacience towardes her Husband: and lykewise, the due
obedience of Children, toward their Parentes. Newly. Compiled by John
Phillip. Eight persons maye easely play this Commody. 1. Polliticke
Perswasion the Vice. The Epiloge. For one. 2. Preface. Marquis.
For another. 3. Fidence. Indigence. The second Paidge or Serving
man, The Sonne of Grissill. For another. 4. Reason. Dilligence. Countis
Mayd. Pacience, and the Daughters of Grissill. For another. 5. Sobrietie.
Countis of Pango. Comon people. Constancy. 6. Rumor. Jannickle.
7. Jannickells Wife. The first of the Pages. The Nursse. 8. Grissill.
The Midwife. Imprinted at London, in Fleetestreat beneath the Conduit,
at the signe of Saint John Evangelist by Thomas Colwell. (n. d. but prob-
ably licensed 1565-6 and 1568-9. ]
Rptd in Malone Society Reprints, 1909.
WILLIAM STEVENSON (? ).
Gammer Gurtons Nedle. (See bibliography to vol. vi, chap. XII. )
NICHOLAS UDALL.
Ezechias. (See bibliography to vol. vi, chap. XII. )
Floures for Latine spekynge selected and gathered out of Terence, and the
same translated in to Englysshe, together with the exposition and settynge
forthe as welle of suche latyne wordes, as were thought nedefull to be an-
noted, as also of dyvers grammatical rules, very profytable & necessarye
for the expedite Knowlege in the latyne tongue: compiled by Nicholas
Udall. T. Berthelet. M. D. XXXIII.
The preface is dated 28 Feb. 1534/5. Later editions in 1538, 1544 and
1560; with additions by Higgins, John, from three other comedies of
Terence in 1575 and 1581.
Verges and Dities Made at the Coronation of Queen Anne. Royal MS, 18 A,
LXIV. Hereafter ensuethe a copie of divers and sundry verses, as well in
Latin as in Englishe, devised and made partely by John Leland and
partely by Nicholas Uvedale, whereof sum were sette up, and sum other
were spoken and pronounced unto the Moste High and Excellent Queene,
the Lady Anne . . . in many goodely and costely pageantes, exhibited and
shewed by the Mayre and Citizens of the famous Citie of London . . . on
Whitson yeve, in the 25th yere of the reigne of our . . . Soveran Lorde.
Rptd in Nichols, J. , Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 1, 1788 (not
I
included in the edition of 1828); in Ballads from Manuscripts, ed.
Furnivall, F. J. (Ballad Society), 1870; the English verses are printed
in An English Garner, vol. 11, ed. Arber, A. , 1879 (mod. s. ).
Ralph Roister Doister. The unique copy in the Eton college library has no
title-page or colophon. The play was entered in the Stationers' register
to Thomas Hacket in 1566/7.
## p. 408 (#432) ############################################
408
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9
Rptd in limited edition, ed. Briggs, T. , 1818; by Marshall, F. , 1821; by
White, T. , in Old English Drama, vol. I, 1830 (mod. s. ); in Shakesp.
Soc. Publ. , ed. Cooper, W. D. , 1847; in English Reprints, ed. Arber, E. ,
1869; in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. III (mod. s. ); in Manly's Specimens,
vol. II; in Temple Dramatists, ed. Williams, W. H. and Robins, P. A. ,
1901 (mod. s. ); in Gayley's R. E. C. , ed. Flügel, E. , 1903; in The Dramatic
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and in Museum Dramatists, 1907 (mod. s. ), ed. Farmer, J. S.
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Teacher, Dramatist, Translator, Preacher, prefixed, with Introduction
and Bibliography, to his reprint of Ralph Roister Doister. 1869.
Bang, W. Udall-Studien (darin u. a. seine Floures for Latine Spekynge,
die Übersetzung von Erasmi Rot. Apophthegmes, Versuch eines Nach-
weises, dass Udall die Respublica und die Historie of Jacob and Esau
geschrieben hat). Announced as in preparation for Materialien.
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Gayley's R. E. C.
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Neuenglisches Lesebuch. Vol. 1. 1895.
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Der Miles Gloriosus in Englischen Drama bis zur Zeit des Bürger-
krieges. Schwerin, 1891.
Hales, J. W. The Date of the First English Comedy. Engl. Stud. vol. XVIII,
pp. 408-421, 1893.
Kempe, A. J. The Loseley MSS. MSS and Documents illustrative of some
of the more minute Particulars of English History, Biography and
Manners, from the reign of Henry VIII to that of James I, preserved
in the Muniment Room of James More Molyneux, Esq. , at Loseley
House, in Surrey. 1836.
(Feuillerat, A. , has prepared for Bang's Materialien a volume on
Documents concerning the Revels at Court, temp. Edward VI and Mary,
from the Loseley MSS, which it is proposed to print at an early
date. )
Maulsby, D. L. The Relation between Udall's Roister Doister and the
Comedies of Plautus and Terence. Engl. Stud. vol. XXXVIII, 1907.
Maxwell-Lyte, H. C. A History of Eton College, 1440–1898. 3rd ed. 1899.
Nichols, J. P. Progresses of Queen Elizabeth. 1788.
Wallace, M. W. The Birthe of Hercules. 1903.
Williams, W. H. and Robins, P. A. Introduction to edition of Roister Doister
in Temple Dramatists. 1901.
Williams, W. H. Ralph Roister Doister. Engl. Stud. vol. xxxvi, pp. 179-
186, 1906. [Supplementary notes and illustrations to the above edition. ]
Wilson, T. The rule of Reason, conteinyng the Arte of Logique, set forth in
Englishe by Thomas Wilson. p. 66 (3rd ed. ). 1553.
GEORGE WHETSTONE.
The Right Excellent And Famous Historye Of Promos and Cassandra:
Divided into Commical Discourses. In the Fyrste Parte is showne,
The unsufferable Abuse of a lewde Magistrate. The vertuous Behaviours
a
of a Chaste Ladye. The uncontrowled Leaudenes of a favoured Curtisan :
a
a
## p. 409 (#433) ############################################
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409
And the undeserved Estimation of a pernicious Parasyte. In the Second
Parte is discoursed, the perfect Magnanimitye of a noble Kinge, In
checking Vice & favouringe Vertue. Wherein is showne, The Ruyne
and overthrowe of dishonest Practices: with the Advauncement of
upright Dealing. The Worke of George Whetstones Gent. . . . Im-
printed . . . by Richarde Jhones, and are to be solde over agaynst Saint
Sepulchres Church without Newgate. August 20, 1578.
Rptd in Six Old Plays, vol. 1; in Hazlitt-Collier, Shakespeare's
Library, vol. vi, 1875.
Source, Criticism, etc.
Cinthio, G. B. De gli hecatommithi di M. Giovan battista Gyraldi Cinthio
nobile ferrarese parte prima, etc. 1565. Later editions in 1566, 1574,
1580, etc.
Whetstone, G. An Heptameron of Civill Discourses. Containing the
Christmasse Exercise of Sundrie well Courted Gentlemen and Gentle-
women. . . . Printed by Richard Jones, 3 Feb. 1582.
In the Fourth Dayes Exercise is contained in prose form The rare
Historie of Promos and Cassandra reported by Isabella, already treated
by Whetstone in his play. This prose version is rptd in Collier, J. P. ,
Shakespeare's Library, vol. 11, 1843, and Hazlitt-Collier, vol. 111, 1875.
à
ANONYMOUS INTERLUDES OF HEYWOOD'S PERIOD.
Calisto and Melebea
(Generally so called from the names of the hero and heroine).
A new comodye in englsyh in maner Of an enterlude ryght elygant & full of
craft of rethoryk wherein is shewd & dsycrybyd as well the bewte & good
propertes of women as theyr vycys & evyll cõdicios with a morall cõclusion
& exhortacyon to vertew. . . . Johēs rastell me imprimi fecit. n. d.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts. Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley,
vol. 1 (mod. s. ); Six Anonymous Plays, first series, ed. Farmer, J. S. , 1905
(mod. s. ); and in Malone Society Reprints, 1908.
Source and Criticism.
Rojas, Fernando de. Celestina. 1499. Enlarged edition, 1502. The play is
based on only the first four Acts of this dramatic novel. J. Mabbe's
translation of the novel, The Spanish Bawd represented in Celestina, or
the Tragicke-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea (1632), is rptd in Tudor
Translations, ed. Kelly, J. Fitzmaurice, 1894. Mabbe's version has also
been edited, 1908, by Warren, H. Allen, who shows, Appendix III, that
Calisto and Melebea is based on the original Spanish.
Rosenbach, A. W. 8. The Influence of the Celestina in the Early English
Drama. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. xxxix, 1903.
Gentylnes and Nobylyte.
Of Gentylnes & Nobylyte: a dyaloge betwen the marchaunt, the Knyght &
the plowman disputyng who is a verey gentylman & who is a noble man
and how men shuld come to auctoryte, compilid in maner of an enterlude
with divers toys & gestis addyd thereto to make mery pastyme and dis-
port. . . . Johannes Rastell fieri fecit. n. d.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts, 1908. Rptd in limited edition
by Burn, J. H. , 1829; in Early English Dramatists (together with Hey-
wood's The Spider and the Fly), ed. Farmer, J. S. , 1908.
}
## p. 410 (#434) ############################################
410
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The Play of Lucrece.
Black letter fragment in Bagford collection at British Museum. Harl. 5919
fol. 20, no. 98, probably from the press of John Rastell.
Facsimile in appendix to edition of Youth, by Bang, W. and McKerrow,
R. B. , in Bang's Materialien, vol. XII (1905). Rpt in Malone Society's
Collections, vol. 1, part 11, pp. 137-142. Halliwell-Phillipps (Outlines of the
Life of Shakespeare), referring, apparently, to the play, of which the
above fragment alone is now known, says: 'The most ancient English
secular drama which is known to exist was written about the year 1490
by the Rev. Henry Medwall, chaplain to Morton, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, and afterwards printed by Rastell under the title of—a godely
interlude of Fulgeus, Cenatoure of Rome, Lucres his doughter, Gayus
Flaminius and Publius Cornelius, of the Disputacyon of Noblenes. See,
also, Chambers, vol. 11, p. 458.
Thersites.
A new Enterlude called Thersytes. This Enterlude Folowynge Dothe
Declare howe that the greatest boesters are not the greatest doers. . . .
Imprinted at London by John Tysdale. n. d.
Facsimiles by Ashbee, H. S. (1876) and in Tudor Facsimile Texts.
Rptd in Two Interludes, Roxburghe Club, ed. Haslewood, J. , 1820; Four
Old Plays; Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. 1 (mod. s. ); English Miracle Plays, ed.
Pollard, A. W. (selections), 5th ed. , 1909; Six Anonymous Plays, ed.
Farmer, J. S. , 1905 (mod. s.
Contains abstracts of, or quotations from, Pernet qui va au vin; D'un
pardonneur, d'un triacleur, et d'une tavernière; Dyalogue du fol et du
sage; Erasmus's Encomium Moriae, and discusses their relation to Hey-
wood's interludes.
THOMAS INGELEND.
A pretie and Mery new Enterlude: called the Disobedient Child. Compiled
by Thomas Ingelend late Student in Cambridge.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts. Rptd by Halliwell, J. O. , in
Percy Soc. Publ. , 1848; in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. 1 (mod. s. ); in The
Dramatic Writings of Richard Wever and Thomas Ingelend, ed.
Farmer, J. S. , 1905 (mod. s. ).
## p. 407 (#431) ############################################
Chapter V
407
Source and Criticism.
Holthausen, F. Studien zum ältereren Englischen Drama. Engl. Stud.
vol. xxxi, 1901. Contains a comparison of The Disobedient Child with
the Dialogue of Textor on which it is based.
Textor, J. Ravisius. Juvenis, Pater, Uxor. In Dialogi. 1530.
Stymmelius, C. Studentes. Some episodes in The Disobedient Child, not
derived from Textor, may be based on this play. See BrandP's Quellen,
vol. LXXIII, contrasted with Malone Society Collections, vol. 1, part 11, p. 106.
JOHN PHILLIP.
The Commodye of pacient and meeke Grissill, Whearin is declared, the good
example, of her pacience towardes her Husband: and lykewise, the due
obedience of Children, toward their Parentes. Newly. Compiled by John
Phillip. Eight persons maye easely play this Commody. 1. Polliticke
Perswasion the Vice. The Epiloge. For one. 2. Preface. Marquis.
For another. 3. Fidence. Indigence. The second Paidge or Serving
man, The Sonne of Grissill. For another. 4. Reason. Dilligence. Countis
Mayd. Pacience, and the Daughters of Grissill. For another. 5. Sobrietie.
Countis of Pango. Comon people. Constancy. 6. Rumor. Jannickle.
7. Jannickells Wife. The first of the Pages. The Nursse. 8. Grissill.
The Midwife. Imprinted at London, in Fleetestreat beneath the Conduit,
at the signe of Saint John Evangelist by Thomas Colwell. (n. d. but prob-
ably licensed 1565-6 and 1568-9. ]
Rptd in Malone Society Reprints, 1909.
WILLIAM STEVENSON (? ).
Gammer Gurtons Nedle. (See bibliography to vol. vi, chap. XII. )
NICHOLAS UDALL.
Ezechias. (See bibliography to vol. vi, chap. XII. )
Floures for Latine spekynge selected and gathered out of Terence, and the
same translated in to Englysshe, together with the exposition and settynge
forthe as welle of suche latyne wordes, as were thought nedefull to be an-
noted, as also of dyvers grammatical rules, very profytable & necessarye
for the expedite Knowlege in the latyne tongue: compiled by Nicholas
Udall. T. Berthelet. M. D. XXXIII.
The preface is dated 28 Feb. 1534/5. Later editions in 1538, 1544 and
1560; with additions by Higgins, John, from three other comedies of
Terence in 1575 and 1581.
Verges and Dities Made at the Coronation of Queen Anne. Royal MS, 18 A,
LXIV. Hereafter ensuethe a copie of divers and sundry verses, as well in
Latin as in Englishe, devised and made partely by John Leland and
partely by Nicholas Uvedale, whereof sum were sette up, and sum other
were spoken and pronounced unto the Moste High and Excellent Queene,
the Lady Anne . . . in many goodely and costely pageantes, exhibited and
shewed by the Mayre and Citizens of the famous Citie of London . . . on
Whitson yeve, in the 25th yere of the reigne of our . . . Soveran Lorde.
Rptd in Nichols, J. , Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 1, 1788 (not
I
included in the edition of 1828); in Ballads from Manuscripts, ed.
Furnivall, F. J. (Ballad Society), 1870; the English verses are printed
in An English Garner, vol. 11, ed. Arber, A. , 1879 (mod. s. ).
Ralph Roister Doister. The unique copy in the Eton college library has no
title-page or colophon. The play was entered in the Stationers' register
to Thomas Hacket in 1566/7.
## p. 408 (#432) ############################################
408
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9
Rptd in limited edition, ed. Briggs, T. , 1818; by Marshall, F. , 1821; by
White, T. , in Old English Drama, vol. I, 1830 (mod. s. ); in Shakesp.
Soc. Publ. , ed. Cooper, W. D. , 1847; in English Reprints, ed. Arber, E. ,
1869; in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. III (mod. s. ); in Manly's Specimens,
vol. II; in Temple Dramatists, ed. Williams, W. H. and Robins, P. A. ,
1901 (mod. s. ); in Gayley's R. E. C. , ed. Flügel, E. , 1903; in The Dramatic
Writings of Nicholas Udall (Early English Dramatists), 1906 (mod. s. );
and in Museum Dramatists, 1907 (mod. s. ), ed. Farmer, J. S.
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Teacher, Dramatist, Translator, Preacher, prefixed, with Introduction
and Bibliography, to his reprint of Ralph Roister Doister. 1869.
Bang, W. Udall-Studien (darin u. a. seine Floures for Latine Spekynge,
die Übersetzung von Erasmi Rot. Apophthegmes, Versuch eines Nach-
weises, dass Udall die Respublica und die Historie of Jacob and Esau
geschrieben hat). Announced as in preparation for Materialien.
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Flügel, E. Critical Essay prefixed to edition of Ralph Roister Doister in
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presented to Dr Furnivall. 1901.
Neuenglisches Lesebuch. Vol. 1. 1895.
Fowler, T. History of Corpus Christi. (Oxford College Histories. ) 1898.
Graf, H.
Der Miles Gloriosus in Englischen Drama bis zur Zeit des Bürger-
krieges. Schwerin, 1891.
Hales, J. W. The Date of the First English Comedy. Engl. Stud. vol. XVIII,
pp. 408-421, 1893.
Kempe, A. J. The Loseley MSS. MSS and Documents illustrative of some
of the more minute Particulars of English History, Biography and
Manners, from the reign of Henry VIII to that of James I, preserved
in the Muniment Room of James More Molyneux, Esq. , at Loseley
House, in Surrey. 1836.
(Feuillerat, A. , has prepared for Bang's Materialien a volume on
Documents concerning the Revels at Court, temp. Edward VI and Mary,
from the Loseley MSS, which it is proposed to print at an early
date. )
Maulsby, D. L. The Relation between Udall's Roister Doister and the
Comedies of Plautus and Terence. Engl. Stud. vol. XXXVIII, 1907.
Maxwell-Lyte, H. C. A History of Eton College, 1440–1898. 3rd ed. 1899.
Nichols, J. P. Progresses of Queen Elizabeth. 1788.
Wallace, M. W. The Birthe of Hercules. 1903.
Williams, W. H. and Robins, P. A. Introduction to edition of Roister Doister
in Temple Dramatists. 1901.
Williams, W. H. Ralph Roister Doister. Engl. Stud. vol. xxxvi, pp. 179-
186, 1906. [Supplementary notes and illustrations to the above edition. ]
Wilson, T. The rule of Reason, conteinyng the Arte of Logique, set forth in
Englishe by Thomas Wilson. p. 66 (3rd ed. ). 1553.
GEORGE WHETSTONE.
The Right Excellent And Famous Historye Of Promos and Cassandra:
Divided into Commical Discourses. In the Fyrste Parte is showne,
The unsufferable Abuse of a lewde Magistrate. The vertuous Behaviours
a
of a Chaste Ladye. The uncontrowled Leaudenes of a favoured Curtisan :
a
a
## p. 409 (#433) ############################################
Chapter V
409
And the undeserved Estimation of a pernicious Parasyte. In the Second
Parte is discoursed, the perfect Magnanimitye of a noble Kinge, In
checking Vice & favouringe Vertue. Wherein is showne, The Ruyne
and overthrowe of dishonest Practices: with the Advauncement of
upright Dealing. The Worke of George Whetstones Gent. . . . Im-
printed . . . by Richarde Jhones, and are to be solde over agaynst Saint
Sepulchres Church without Newgate. August 20, 1578.
Rptd in Six Old Plays, vol. 1; in Hazlitt-Collier, Shakespeare's
Library, vol. vi, 1875.
Source, Criticism, etc.
Cinthio, G. B. De gli hecatommithi di M. Giovan battista Gyraldi Cinthio
nobile ferrarese parte prima, etc. 1565. Later editions in 1566, 1574,
1580, etc.
Whetstone, G. An Heptameron of Civill Discourses. Containing the
Christmasse Exercise of Sundrie well Courted Gentlemen and Gentle-
women. . . . Printed by Richard Jones, 3 Feb. 1582.
In the Fourth Dayes Exercise is contained in prose form The rare
Historie of Promos and Cassandra reported by Isabella, already treated
by Whetstone in his play. This prose version is rptd in Collier, J. P. ,
Shakespeare's Library, vol. 11, 1843, and Hazlitt-Collier, vol. 111, 1875.
à
ANONYMOUS INTERLUDES OF HEYWOOD'S PERIOD.
Calisto and Melebea
(Generally so called from the names of the hero and heroine).
A new comodye in englsyh in maner Of an enterlude ryght elygant & full of
craft of rethoryk wherein is shewd & dsycrybyd as well the bewte & good
propertes of women as theyr vycys & evyll cõdicios with a morall cõclusion
& exhortacyon to vertew. . . . Johēs rastell me imprimi fecit. n. d.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts. Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley,
vol. 1 (mod. s. ); Six Anonymous Plays, first series, ed. Farmer, J. S. , 1905
(mod. s. ); and in Malone Society Reprints, 1908.
Source and Criticism.
Rojas, Fernando de. Celestina. 1499. Enlarged edition, 1502. The play is
based on only the first four Acts of this dramatic novel. J. Mabbe's
translation of the novel, The Spanish Bawd represented in Celestina, or
the Tragicke-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea (1632), is rptd in Tudor
Translations, ed. Kelly, J. Fitzmaurice, 1894. Mabbe's version has also
been edited, 1908, by Warren, H. Allen, who shows, Appendix III, that
Calisto and Melebea is based on the original Spanish.
Rosenbach, A. W. 8. The Influence of the Celestina in the Early English
Drama. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. xxxix, 1903.
Gentylnes and Nobylyte.
Of Gentylnes & Nobylyte: a dyaloge betwen the marchaunt, the Knyght &
the plowman disputyng who is a verey gentylman & who is a noble man
and how men shuld come to auctoryte, compilid in maner of an enterlude
with divers toys & gestis addyd thereto to make mery pastyme and dis-
port. . . . Johannes Rastell fieri fecit. n. d.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts, 1908. Rptd in limited edition
by Burn, J. H. , 1829; in Early English Dramatists (together with Hey-
wood's The Spider and the Fly), ed. Farmer, J. S. , 1908.
}
## p. 410 (#434) ############################################
410
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The Play of Lucrece.
Black letter fragment in Bagford collection at British Museum. Harl. 5919
fol. 20, no. 98, probably from the press of John Rastell.
Facsimile in appendix to edition of Youth, by Bang, W. and McKerrow,
R. B. , in Bang's Materialien, vol. XII (1905). Rpt in Malone Society's
Collections, vol. 1, part 11, pp. 137-142. Halliwell-Phillipps (Outlines of the
Life of Shakespeare), referring, apparently, to the play, of which the
above fragment alone is now known, says: 'The most ancient English
secular drama which is known to exist was written about the year 1490
by the Rev. Henry Medwall, chaplain to Morton, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, and afterwards printed by Rastell under the title of—a godely
interlude of Fulgeus, Cenatoure of Rome, Lucres his doughter, Gayus
Flaminius and Publius Cornelius, of the Disputacyon of Noblenes. See,
also, Chambers, vol. 11, p. 458.
Thersites.
A new Enterlude called Thersytes. This Enterlude Folowynge Dothe
Declare howe that the greatest boesters are not the greatest doers. . . .
Imprinted at London by John Tysdale. n. d.
Facsimiles by Ashbee, H. S. (1876) and in Tudor Facsimile Texts.
Rptd in Two Interludes, Roxburghe Club, ed. Haslewood, J. , 1820; Four
Old Plays; Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. 1 (mod. s. ); English Miracle Plays, ed.
Pollard, A. W. (selections), 5th ed. , 1909; Six Anonymous Plays, ed.
Farmer, J. S. , 1905 (mod. s.
