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TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
The following table is a list of the principal dates mentioned or referred
to in the present volume. It should be regarded as complementary to
that contained in volume V.
In the case of plays, where one date precedes and another follows (in
brackets), the former is the date of the first performance, and the latter
that of the first extant edition.
1465-79(? ) Henry Abingdon Master c. 1570-1627 Thomas Middleton.
of the Chapel.
c. 1570-1637-1632 (or after) (? ) Thomas
1479 (? ) Gilbert Banaster appointed Dekker.
Master of the Chapel.
1572 Unattached companies of actors
1516-24 William Cornish Master of declared rogues and vagabonds.
the Chapel.
c. 1572-c. 1648 Thomas Heywood.
1526-45 William Crane Master of 1573 Bandello's Novelle, vol. iv.
the Chapel.
1573 (? )-1637 Ben Jonson.
1530 (? )–1611 Richard Mulcaster. 1574 Leicester's company formed.
1540 Grimald's Christus Redivivus 1575 (? )–1626 Cyril Tourneur.
(1543).
1576 Erection of the Theater.
1547 Grimald's Archipropheta 1576 (? )–1634 John Marston.
(1548).
1577 Opening of the Curtain.
1548-52 Hall's Chronicle.
1577-9 Northbrooke's Treatise &
1553 (before) Stevenson's(? ) Gammer gainst Vaine playes or Enter-
Gurtons Nedle (1575).
luds.
1553-8 Queen Mary I.
1578 Holinshed's Chronicle, includ-
1554 Bandello's Novelle, vols. I-III.
ing Harrison's Description of
1556 (? )-1630 John Heminge.
England.
1558-1603 Queen Elizabeth.
1578 Sidney's The May Lady.
1559 Licensing of plays by mayors
1579) Hymenaeus (1908).
enjoined by Elizabeth.
1579 Gosson's Schoole of Abuse.
1559 (? )–1634 George Chapman. 1579 Lodge's Honest Excuses.
1561-6 Richard Edwards Master of 1579 Gosson's Ephemerides of
the Chapel
Phialo.
1562-1635 Lope de Vega.
1579-1625 John Fletcher.
1564 Queen Elizabeth visits Cam- 1580 Legge's Richardus Tertius
bridge.
(1844).
1566 The Gowrie Conspiracy. 1580-1 Wingfield's Pedantius (1631).
1566 Queen Elizabeth visits Oxford. 1580-2 Belleforest's Histoires Tra.
1566 Edwards's Palamon and Ar- giques.
cyte acted.
1580 (? )–1625 (²) John Webster.
1566-7 Painter's Palace of Pleasure. 1581 Gager's Meleager (1592).
1566-97 William Hunnis Master of 1581/2 Solymannidæ (MS).
the Chapel
1582 Gosson's Playes confuted in
1566–1626 Edward Alleyn.
five Actions.
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503
1583 (or before) Sidney's Apologie for 1599 Erection of the Globe Theatre.
Poetrie written (printed 1595). 1599 Jonson's Every Man out of
1583 Paris Garden disaster.
His Humour (1600).
1583 Gager's Dido (MS).
1599 Rainolds's Th Overthrow of
1583 Abraham Fraunce's Victoria Stage-playes.
(1906).
1599 (? ) Dekker's The Shomakers
1583 Stubbes's The Anatomie of Holiday (1600).
Abuses.
1599-1600 Club-Law performed at
1583 Queen's company formed.
Clare Hall.
1583-4 Parry's plot.
1599–1607 Massinger, Middleton and
1583-1640 Philip Massinger.
Dekker's (? ) The Old Law (1656).
1584 Lodge's Alarum against 1600 Opening of the Fortune.
Usurers.
1600 Jonson's Cynthia's Revels
c. 1585-1642 (? ) William Rowley.
(1601).
1585 (? )–1616 Francis Beaumont. c. 1600 Marston's Antonio and Mel-
1586–1640 (or after) John Ford.
lida (1602).
1587-1623 niel Field.
1601 Execution of the Earl of
1588 Defeat of Spanish Armada.
Essex.
1588 Death of the Earl of Leicester. 1601 (? ) Marston's The Malcontent
1588-90 Marprelate Controversy.
(1604).
1590 Spenser's The Faerie Queene, 1601 The Return from Parnassus,
Books 1-111.
Part 1 (1886).
1590 Laelia (1910).
1601 Jonson's Poetaster (1602).
1591 Tasso's Aminta printed in 1601 Middleton's Blurt Master-
London.
Constable (1602).
1591 Guarini's Il Pastor Fido 1601–2 ‘Poetomachia. '
printed in London.
1601-2 Dekker's Satiro-mastix
1591/2 Gager's Ulysses Redux (1592).
(1602).
c. 1592 Opening of the Rose in South- 1602 Dekker and Webster's Sir
wark.
Thomas Wyat (1607).
c. 1592 William Alabaster's Roxana 1602 The Returne from Pernassus,
(1632).
Part 11 (1606).
1593 The Plague in London, 1602 (? ) Heywood's The Royall King
1594 Thomas Heywood's King Ed- and The Loyall Subject (1637).
ward the Fourth (1600).
1602 (after) Tomkis's Lingua (1607).
1594 (? ) Heywood's The Foure 1602/3 Narcissus acted at St John's,
Prentises of London (1615).
Oxford (1893).
1594-1600 Erection of the Swan 1603 (before) Heywood's Fair Maid
Theatre.
Of The West (1631).
1596 Blackfriars Playhouse opened. 1603 (before) George Salterne's To-
1596 Dekker's Old Fortunatus mumbeius (MS).
(1600).
1603(or before) Heywood's A Woman
1596-1666 James Shirley.
Kilde with Kindnesse (1607).
Middleton's Mayor of 1603-25 James I.
Quinborough (1661).
1603 The Plague in London.
A. 1598-1627 Henry Condell. 1603 Stow's Survey of London.
1598 Meres's Palladis Tamia. 1603 Jonson's Sejanus (1605).
1598 The Pilgrimage to Parnassus 1604 Daniel's The Vision of the
(1886).
Twelve Goddesses (1610).
1598 Jonson's Every Man in His 1604 Hampton Court Conference.
Humour (1601).
1604 Abolition of private patronage
1598 (? ) Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois of players.
(1607).
1604 Fall of Ostend.
1599 (before) Chapman and Marston's 1604 Chapman's Revenge of Bussy
Histrio-Mastix (1610).
D'Ambois (1613).
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1604 Marston's Parasitaster (1606). 1610 Assassination of Henry IV of
1604 Marston's The Dutch Courte- France.
zan (1605).
1610 Jonson's The Alchemist (1612).
1604 Middleton and Dekker's The 1610 Middleton and Dekker's The
Honest Whore (1604) (1st Part). Roaring Girle (1611).
1604 Dekker's Whore of Babylon 1610 (after) Fletcher's Monsieur
(1607).
Thomas (1639).
1604 or 1608 Dekker's The Honest fl. 1610 Robert Armin.
Whore (1630) (2nd Part). 1610-19 Honoré D'Urfé's L’Astrée.
1604-5 Heywood's If you know not 1610 (? ) Beaumont and Fletcher's
me (1605).