With A short
apologie
of the schoole of abuse.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05
.
Non est, Lex Justior Ulla Quam Nescis Artifices
Arte perire sua. 1634.
Rptd in Bullen's Old English Plays, vol. 1.
MARY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE.
A Discourse of Life and Death. Written in French by Ph. Mornay. Antonius,
A Tragedie written also in French by Ro. Garnier Both done in English
by the Countesse of Pembroke. 1592.
The latter was ptd as The Tragedie of Antonie, in 1595; and ed. with
introduction by Luce, A. , in Literarhistorische Forschungen, vol. III,
Weimar, 1897.
ROBERT YARINGTON (? ).
Two Lamentable Tragedies. The one, of the Murther of Maister Beech A
Chaundler in Thames-streete, and his boye, done by Thomas Merry. The
other of a Young childe murthered in a Wood by two Ruffins, with the
consent of his Uncle. By Rob. Yarington. 1601.
Rptd in Bullen's Old English Plays, vol. iv.
Law, R. A. Yarington's Two Lamentable Tragedies. Modern
Language Review, April 1910.
vol. IV,
AUTHORS UNKNOWN.
The Weakest goeth to the Wail. As it hath bene sundry times plaide by
the right honourable Earle of Oxenford, Lord great Chamberlaine of
England his servants. 1600.
The 1618 ed. is rptd in The Dramatic Works of John Webster, ed.
Hazlitt, W. C. , 1857.
A Pleasant Commodie called Looke about you. As it was lately played by
the right honourable the Lord High Admirall his Servaunts. 1600.
Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. VII.
A Warning for Faire Women. Containing The most Tragicall and Lament-
able Murther of Master George Sanders, of London, Marchant, nigh
Shooters Hill. Consented unto By his owne wife, acted by M. Browne,
mistris Drewry, and Trusty Roger agents therein: with thier severall
ends. As it hath beene lately diverse times acted by the right Honorable
the Lord Chamberlaine his Servantes. 1599.
Rptd in Simpson, vol. II.
CHAPTER XIV
SOME POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE LATER
ELIZABETHAN AND EARLIER STEWART PERIOD
The following bibliography is not intended to suggest more than a selection
of works which may be of service to a student of the political and social aspects
of the Elizabethan age and that immediately following it, with special
reference to the reflection of these sides of the national life in contemporary
dramatic literature. For works on special sides of English life and society, see
several bibliographies in vol. iv of the present work, viz. : for agriculture
## p. 477 (#501) ############################################
Chapter XIV
477
and husbandry, industry and commerce, trade and finance, bibliography to
chap. xv; for London and popular literature (including Dekker's series of
tracts), bibliography to chap. XVI; for country pursuits, bibliography to chap.
XVII; for seafaring and travel, bibliography to chap. v; for the book-trade
and conditions of authorship, bibliography to chap. XVIII. As to schools and
universities, see bibliography to chap. xix of vol. III of the present work. For
a bibliography of the Marprelate controversy, see bibliography to chap. XVII
of the same volume. For paritan writings mainly directed against the theatre,
see bibliography to chap. xiv in vol. vi, post; and, for works referring to the
history of the theatre at large, see bibliography to chap. x in the same volume.
Short bibliographies of English social history are given in the useful,
though unavoidably unequal, volumes of Traill, H. D. , Social England, cited
below.
A historical bibliography of the later years of Elizabeth will be found in the
bibliography to chap. x of vol. 111 of the Cambridge Modern History. See, also,
for this and the ensuing period, besides the Calendars of State Papers, Domestic,
for the period in question, edited by Everett Green, M. A. , the Hatfield
Papers, Calendar of MSS published by the Historical MSS Commission, in
a series of parts, from 1883 onwards. See, also, the series of original letters
published by Sir H. Ellis, and the various collections of original letters pub-
Jished by the Camden Society. For details as to the Chronicles, see chap. XV
in vol. III of the present work.
Besides the particular tracts cited below, there are many others which
throw light on the social history of the period to be found in the Harleian
Miscellany, the Roxburghe Library, the Somers Tracts, the Tudor and the
Stuart Tracts (edited by Pollard, A. F. , and Firth, C. H. , respectively, rptd
from Arber, E. , An English Garner) and in the publications of the Percy
Society, the New Shakspere Society, the Early English Text Society, eto.
A. CONTEMPORARY PUBLICATIONS.
Bacon, Francis (Viscount St Alban). Constables. In Works (1857–9), vol. vii.
Essays. With introductory notes etc. by Abbott, E. A. 2 vols. 1876.
Also ed. by West, A. 8. , Cambridge, 1897, and by Wright, W. Aldis,
Golden Treasury Series, 1863.
Bansley, C. Treatise on the Pride and Abuse of Women. Rptd 1841.
Brathwaite, Richard. The Smoking Age, or The Man in the Mist. 1617.
Camden, William. Britannia. 1586. Tr. and ed. by Gough, R. 4 vols. 1806.
Cunningham, P. Account of Revels at Court, under Elizabeth and James.
Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1842.
Davies, J. Discourse of Law and Lawyers. In Works, ed. Grosart, A. B. ,
vol. II. 1876.
Dee, Dr John, The Private Diary of. Ed. Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. 0.
Camden Soc. Publ. 1842.
Digges, Dudley. The compleat Ambassador. Two treaties of the intended
marriage of Queen Elizabeth. 1655.
Earle, John (bishop of Salisbury). Microcosmographie. With introduction
and notes by West, A. S. Cambridge, 1897.
Egerton Papers, the. Public and private documents, chiefly illustrative of
the times of Elizabeth and James I. Ed. Collier, J. P. Camden
Soc. Publ. 1840.
Festive Songs of the 16th and 17th centuries, with an introduction by
Sandys, W. Percy Soc. Publ. (1848), vol. XXIII.
## p. 478 (#502) ############################################
478
Bibliography
Feuillerat, A. Documents relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of
Queen Elizabeth. Ed. with notes and indexes. Bang's Materialien,
vol. XXI.
Fugitive Tracts written in Verse which illustrate the condition of Religious
and Political Feeling in England etc. First Series: 1403-1600. Privately
ptd [for H. Huth]. 1875.
Gifford, George. A Dialogue of Witches and Witchcraft. Percy Soc. Pabl.
(1843), vol. VIII.
Gondomar, Count de. Cino Cartas, 1613-22. 1869. (These letters contain
many references to the state of English society at the time. ]
Gosson, Stephen. Pleasant quippes for upstart newfangled gentlewomen.
1596. Rptd 1841.
The School of Abuse. Ed. Collier, J. P. Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1841.
With A short apologie of the schoole of abuse. Ed. Arber, E. (English
Reprints). 1868.
[Hales, J. ) A Discourse of the Common Weal. Compendious examination
of complaints. 1581. Ed. Lamond, E. Cambridge, 1893.
Halle, John (Chyrurgyen). An Historicall Expostulation: against the
beastlye abusers, both of Chyrurgerie and Physyke in our time. Ed.
Pettigrew, T. J. Percy Soc. Publ. (1844), vol. XI. [Published as an
appendage to Lanfranc's Chirurgia Parva. ]
Harington, Sir John, and others. Nugae Antiquae. Ed. Harington, H. ,
with illustrative notes by Park, T. 2 vols. 1804.
Harrison, William. Harrison’s Description of England in Shakspere's
Youth: Being Books II and III of his Description of Britaine and England.
Ed. from the first two editions of Holinshed's Chronicle (1577, 1587) with
introduction, by Furnivall, F. J. Parts 1, II and II (Supplement). New
Shaksp. Soc. Publ. 1877-8. With Additions by Stopes, C. C. Part iv
(Supplement). (New Shakespeare Library. ) Selections from Books II
and m. Ed. under the title Elizabethan England by Withington, L. ,
with the introduction by Furnivall, F. J. (Scott Library. ) [1899. ]
Harvey, Gabriel. Letter-book (1573-80). Camden Soc. Publ. 1884.
Hentzner, Paul. Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Tr. by Horace, late Earl of Orford. (With Sir Robert Naunton's
Fragmenta Regalia. ) 1797. Also in Dodsley, Fugitive Pieces, vol. II.
1765. Abridged ed. by Morley, H. (Cassell's National Library. )
Hutton, Henry. Follies Anatomie, or Satyres and Satyricall Epigrams.
Ed. Rimbault, E. F. Percy Soc. Publ. (1842), vol. VI.
Inedited Tracts, illustrating the manners, opinions, and occupations of
Englishmen during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a
preface and notes [by Hazlitt, W. C. ]. Ptd for the Roxburghe Library.
1868. This collection comprises :
The English Courtier, and the Countrey-gentleman. Ptd by Richard
Jones. 1586.
[Markham, Gervase ? ] A Health to the Gentlemanly profession of
Servingmen; or, the Servingman's Comfort. Ptd by W. W. 1598.
[Breton, N. ] The Court and Country, or, A Briefe Discourse betweene
the Courtier and Country-man of the Manner, Nature, and Con-
dition of their lives. Also, necessary Notes for a Courtier. Written
by N. B. , Gent. 1618.
James I. A Counterblaste to Tobacco. Opera. 1689.
(Lane, John. ) Tom Tel-Troths Message and Complaint. Written by Jo. La. ,
Gent. 1600. New Shaksp. Soc. Publ. 1876. [Verse. ]
Lyrical Poems, selected from musical publications, 1589-1600. Ed. Collier,
J. P. Percy Soc. Publ. (1844), vol. XIII.
a
## p. 479 (#503) ############################################
Chapter XIV
479
Meeting, the, of Gallants at an Ordinarie, or The Walkes in Powles. 1604.
Ed. Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. 0. Percy Soc. Publ. (1841), vol. v.
Monmouth, Robert Carey, Earl of. Memoirs, written by himself. (With
Sir Robert Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia. ) 1808.
Monson, Sir W. Naval Tracts (1585-1603). 2 vols. 1902.
Naunton, Sir Robert. Fragmenta Regalia. (With Paul Hentzner's Travels
in England, tr. by Horace Walpole. ) 1797. Also (with Robert Carey
Earl of Monmouth's Memoirs) 1808.
Northbrooke, John. Treatise against Dicing, Dancing, Plays. Ed. , with
notes etc. , by Collier, J. P. Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1843.
Overbury, Sir Thomas. Miscellaneous works in verse and prose. With notes
and biographical account by Rimbault, E. F. 1856.
Parkes, W. Curtaine Drawer of the World, or The Chamberlaine of the
great Inne of Iniquity. Ptd for L. Becket. 1612. [Copy in the
Bodleian. ]
Peacham, H. The Compleat Gentleman. 1622. Rptd from ed. of 1624, and
ed. by Gordon, G. S. Oxford. 1905.
Polimanteia, or The meanes lawfull and unlawfull, to judge of the fall of a
commonwealth, against the frivolous and foolish conjectures of this age.
Whereunto is added, A letter from England to her three daughters,
Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, etc. Cambridge, 1595. [The latter
was rptd by Grosart, A. B. , in a limited number of copies. ]
Powell, Thomas. Tom of all Trades, or, The Plaine Path-way to Prefer-
ment. 1631. New Shaksp. Soc. Publ. 1876.
Prothero, G. W. Select Statutes (1559-1625). 2nd ed. 1898.
Rich, Barnabe. The honestie of this age (1614). With introduction by
Cunningham, P. Percy Soc. Publ. (1844), vol. XLIV.
Rowlands, Samuel. Complete Works, 1598 to 1628. 3 vols.
Arte perire sua. 1634.
Rptd in Bullen's Old English Plays, vol. 1.
MARY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE.
A Discourse of Life and Death. Written in French by Ph. Mornay. Antonius,
A Tragedie written also in French by Ro. Garnier Both done in English
by the Countesse of Pembroke. 1592.
The latter was ptd as The Tragedie of Antonie, in 1595; and ed. with
introduction by Luce, A. , in Literarhistorische Forschungen, vol. III,
Weimar, 1897.
ROBERT YARINGTON (? ).
Two Lamentable Tragedies. The one, of the Murther of Maister Beech A
Chaundler in Thames-streete, and his boye, done by Thomas Merry. The
other of a Young childe murthered in a Wood by two Ruffins, with the
consent of his Uncle. By Rob. Yarington. 1601.
Rptd in Bullen's Old English Plays, vol. iv.
Law, R. A. Yarington's Two Lamentable Tragedies. Modern
Language Review, April 1910.
vol. IV,
AUTHORS UNKNOWN.
The Weakest goeth to the Wail. As it hath bene sundry times plaide by
the right honourable Earle of Oxenford, Lord great Chamberlaine of
England his servants. 1600.
The 1618 ed. is rptd in The Dramatic Works of John Webster, ed.
Hazlitt, W. C. , 1857.
A Pleasant Commodie called Looke about you. As it was lately played by
the right honourable the Lord High Admirall his Servaunts. 1600.
Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. VII.
A Warning for Faire Women. Containing The most Tragicall and Lament-
able Murther of Master George Sanders, of London, Marchant, nigh
Shooters Hill. Consented unto By his owne wife, acted by M. Browne,
mistris Drewry, and Trusty Roger agents therein: with thier severall
ends. As it hath beene lately diverse times acted by the right Honorable
the Lord Chamberlaine his Servantes. 1599.
Rptd in Simpson, vol. II.
CHAPTER XIV
SOME POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE LATER
ELIZABETHAN AND EARLIER STEWART PERIOD
The following bibliography is not intended to suggest more than a selection
of works which may be of service to a student of the political and social aspects
of the Elizabethan age and that immediately following it, with special
reference to the reflection of these sides of the national life in contemporary
dramatic literature. For works on special sides of English life and society, see
several bibliographies in vol. iv of the present work, viz. : for agriculture
## p. 477 (#501) ############################################
Chapter XIV
477
and husbandry, industry and commerce, trade and finance, bibliography to
chap. xv; for London and popular literature (including Dekker's series of
tracts), bibliography to chap. XVI; for country pursuits, bibliography to chap.
XVII; for seafaring and travel, bibliography to chap. v; for the book-trade
and conditions of authorship, bibliography to chap. XVIII. As to schools and
universities, see bibliography to chap. xix of vol. III of the present work. For
a bibliography of the Marprelate controversy, see bibliography to chap. XVII
of the same volume. For paritan writings mainly directed against the theatre,
see bibliography to chap. xiv in vol. vi, post; and, for works referring to the
history of the theatre at large, see bibliography to chap. x in the same volume.
Short bibliographies of English social history are given in the useful,
though unavoidably unequal, volumes of Traill, H. D. , Social England, cited
below.
A historical bibliography of the later years of Elizabeth will be found in the
bibliography to chap. x of vol. 111 of the Cambridge Modern History. See, also,
for this and the ensuing period, besides the Calendars of State Papers, Domestic,
for the period in question, edited by Everett Green, M. A. , the Hatfield
Papers, Calendar of MSS published by the Historical MSS Commission, in
a series of parts, from 1883 onwards. See, also, the series of original letters
published by Sir H. Ellis, and the various collections of original letters pub-
Jished by the Camden Society. For details as to the Chronicles, see chap. XV
in vol. III of the present work.
Besides the particular tracts cited below, there are many others which
throw light on the social history of the period to be found in the Harleian
Miscellany, the Roxburghe Library, the Somers Tracts, the Tudor and the
Stuart Tracts (edited by Pollard, A. F. , and Firth, C. H. , respectively, rptd
from Arber, E. , An English Garner) and in the publications of the Percy
Society, the New Shakspere Society, the Early English Text Society, eto.
A. CONTEMPORARY PUBLICATIONS.
Bacon, Francis (Viscount St Alban). Constables. In Works (1857–9), vol. vii.
Essays. With introductory notes etc. by Abbott, E. A. 2 vols. 1876.
Also ed. by West, A. 8. , Cambridge, 1897, and by Wright, W. Aldis,
Golden Treasury Series, 1863.
Bansley, C. Treatise on the Pride and Abuse of Women. Rptd 1841.
Brathwaite, Richard. The Smoking Age, or The Man in the Mist. 1617.
Camden, William. Britannia. 1586. Tr. and ed. by Gough, R. 4 vols. 1806.
Cunningham, P. Account of Revels at Court, under Elizabeth and James.
Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1842.
Davies, J. Discourse of Law and Lawyers. In Works, ed. Grosart, A. B. ,
vol. II. 1876.
Dee, Dr John, The Private Diary of. Ed. Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. 0.
Camden Soc. Publ. 1842.
Digges, Dudley. The compleat Ambassador. Two treaties of the intended
marriage of Queen Elizabeth. 1655.
Earle, John (bishop of Salisbury). Microcosmographie. With introduction
and notes by West, A. S. Cambridge, 1897.
Egerton Papers, the. Public and private documents, chiefly illustrative of
the times of Elizabeth and James I. Ed. Collier, J. P. Camden
Soc. Publ. 1840.
Festive Songs of the 16th and 17th centuries, with an introduction by
Sandys, W. Percy Soc. Publ. (1848), vol. XXIII.
## p. 478 (#502) ############################################
478
Bibliography
Feuillerat, A. Documents relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of
Queen Elizabeth. Ed. with notes and indexes. Bang's Materialien,
vol. XXI.
Fugitive Tracts written in Verse which illustrate the condition of Religious
and Political Feeling in England etc. First Series: 1403-1600. Privately
ptd [for H. Huth]. 1875.
Gifford, George. A Dialogue of Witches and Witchcraft. Percy Soc. Pabl.
(1843), vol. VIII.
Gondomar, Count de. Cino Cartas, 1613-22. 1869. (These letters contain
many references to the state of English society at the time. ]
Gosson, Stephen. Pleasant quippes for upstart newfangled gentlewomen.
1596. Rptd 1841.
The School of Abuse. Ed. Collier, J. P. Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1841.
With A short apologie of the schoole of abuse. Ed. Arber, E. (English
Reprints). 1868.
[Hales, J. ) A Discourse of the Common Weal. Compendious examination
of complaints. 1581. Ed. Lamond, E. Cambridge, 1893.
Halle, John (Chyrurgyen). An Historicall Expostulation: against the
beastlye abusers, both of Chyrurgerie and Physyke in our time. Ed.
Pettigrew, T. J. Percy Soc. Publ. (1844), vol. XI. [Published as an
appendage to Lanfranc's Chirurgia Parva. ]
Harington, Sir John, and others. Nugae Antiquae. Ed. Harington, H. ,
with illustrative notes by Park, T. 2 vols. 1804.
Harrison, William. Harrison’s Description of England in Shakspere's
Youth: Being Books II and III of his Description of Britaine and England.
Ed. from the first two editions of Holinshed's Chronicle (1577, 1587) with
introduction, by Furnivall, F. J. Parts 1, II and II (Supplement). New
Shaksp. Soc. Publ. 1877-8. With Additions by Stopes, C. C. Part iv
(Supplement). (New Shakespeare Library. ) Selections from Books II
and m. Ed. under the title Elizabethan England by Withington, L. ,
with the introduction by Furnivall, F. J. (Scott Library. ) [1899. ]
Harvey, Gabriel. Letter-book (1573-80). Camden Soc. Publ. 1884.
Hentzner, Paul. Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Tr. by Horace, late Earl of Orford. (With Sir Robert Naunton's
Fragmenta Regalia. ) 1797. Also in Dodsley, Fugitive Pieces, vol. II.
1765. Abridged ed. by Morley, H. (Cassell's National Library. )
Hutton, Henry. Follies Anatomie, or Satyres and Satyricall Epigrams.
Ed. Rimbault, E. F. Percy Soc. Publ. (1842), vol. VI.
Inedited Tracts, illustrating the manners, opinions, and occupations of
Englishmen during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a
preface and notes [by Hazlitt, W. C. ]. Ptd for the Roxburghe Library.
1868. This collection comprises :
The English Courtier, and the Countrey-gentleman. Ptd by Richard
Jones. 1586.
[Markham, Gervase ? ] A Health to the Gentlemanly profession of
Servingmen; or, the Servingman's Comfort. Ptd by W. W. 1598.
[Breton, N. ] The Court and Country, or, A Briefe Discourse betweene
the Courtier and Country-man of the Manner, Nature, and Con-
dition of their lives. Also, necessary Notes for a Courtier. Written
by N. B. , Gent. 1618.
James I. A Counterblaste to Tobacco. Opera. 1689.
(Lane, John. ) Tom Tel-Troths Message and Complaint. Written by Jo. La. ,
Gent. 1600. New Shaksp. Soc. Publ. 1876. [Verse. ]
Lyrical Poems, selected from musical publications, 1589-1600. Ed. Collier,
J. P. Percy Soc. Publ. (1844), vol. XIII.
a
## p. 479 (#503) ############################################
Chapter XIV
479
Meeting, the, of Gallants at an Ordinarie, or The Walkes in Powles. 1604.
Ed. Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. 0. Percy Soc. Publ. (1841), vol. v.
Monmouth, Robert Carey, Earl of. Memoirs, written by himself. (With
Sir Robert Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia. ) 1808.
Monson, Sir W. Naval Tracts (1585-1603). 2 vols. 1902.
Naunton, Sir Robert. Fragmenta Regalia. (With Paul Hentzner's Travels
in England, tr. by Horace Walpole. ) 1797. Also (with Robert Carey
Earl of Monmouth's Memoirs) 1808.
Northbrooke, John. Treatise against Dicing, Dancing, Plays. Ed. , with
notes etc. , by Collier, J. P. Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1843.
Overbury, Sir Thomas. Miscellaneous works in verse and prose. With notes
and biographical account by Rimbault, E. F. 1856.
Parkes, W. Curtaine Drawer of the World, or The Chamberlaine of the
great Inne of Iniquity. Ptd for L. Becket. 1612. [Copy in the
Bodleian. ]
Peacham, H. The Compleat Gentleman. 1622. Rptd from ed. of 1624, and
ed. by Gordon, G. S. Oxford. 1905.
Polimanteia, or The meanes lawfull and unlawfull, to judge of the fall of a
commonwealth, against the frivolous and foolish conjectures of this age.
Whereunto is added, A letter from England to her three daughters,
Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, etc. Cambridge, 1595. [The latter
was rptd by Grosart, A. B. , in a limited number of copies. ]
Powell, Thomas. Tom of all Trades, or, The Plaine Path-way to Prefer-
ment. 1631. New Shaksp. Soc. Publ. 1876.
Prothero, G. W. Select Statutes (1559-1625). 2nd ed. 1898.
Rich, Barnabe. The honestie of this age (1614). With introduction by
Cunningham, P. Percy Soc. Publ. (1844), vol. XLIV.
Rowlands, Samuel. Complete Works, 1598 to 1628. 3 vols.
