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Merton College, Oxford, MS Register.
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Nichols, J. P. Progresses of Queen Elizabeth. 1788. 2nd ed. 1823.
Progresses of James I. 1828.
Plummer, C. Elizabethan Oxford. Reprints of Rare Tracts. Oxford Hist.
Soc. Publ. 1887.
Retrospective Review, the, vol. xii, 1, pp. 1-42. The Latin Plays acted before
the University of Cambridge.
Schelling's Elizabethan Drama. Vol. 11, chap. xiv, The College Drama.
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod. Lang.
Rev. vol. 11, no. 2. 1908.
Plays performed in Cambridge Colleges before 1585. In Fasciculus
J. W. Clark dicatus, pp. 265-273. 1909.
(See, also, post, under the headings of certain University plays. )
Wake, I. Rex Platonicus: Sive de Potentissimi Principis Jacobi Brittanni-
arum Regis ad illustrissimam Academiam Oxoniensem adventu, Aug. 27,
Anno, 1605 . . . 1607.
Ward. Vol. 11, pp. 630-642, and vol. III, pp. 174-188.
Watson, Foster. The English Grammar Schools to 1660: their Curriculum
and Practice. Cambridge, 1908. (Pp. 318-324: Excursus on Play-reading
and Play-acting in Schools. )
Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. 2nd ed. 1813-20.
(Reference should also be made to bibliography of vol. v, chap. v, section
on School and Prodigal Son Plays).
II. ENGLISH UNIVERSITY DRAMATISTS AND PLAYS.
The following list includes the English and Latin plays written before
1642, preserved in printed form, or in MSS which can be verified as still
extant. Plays known only by allusion are not recorded, except in a few
cases of special importance.
For information concerning Synedrium (by R. Worseley), Callidamus et
Callanthia and Susenbrotus, and for the titles of Jovis et Junonis nuptiæ
and Microcosmus, special acknowledgment is due to G. C. Moore Smith, who
has placed unpublished memoranda on Cambridge university plays at the
service of this bibliography.
WILLIAM ALABASTER.
Roxana Tragoedia olim Cantabrigiae acta in Col. Trin. Nunc primum in
lucem edita summaque cum diligentia ad castigatissimum exemplar
comparata. Cui accesserunt etiam Argumenta. 1632.


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The Lady Errant. The Royall Slave. The Ordinary. The Siedge or
Love's Convert. The Royall Slave is the second play in this volume,
with the imprint 'The Third edition. ' 1651. )
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and XII, respectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. III.
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Abraham Cowley. Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses. Ed. Waller, A. R.
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AQUILA CRUSO.
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SAMUEL DANIEL.
The Queenes Arcadia. A Pastorall Tragi-comedie presented to her Majestie
and her Ladies, by the Universitie of Oxford in Christs Church, In August
last, 1605. 1606.
Certain Small Workes Heretofore Divulged by Samuel Daniel one of the
Groomes of the Queenes Majesties privie Chamber, & now againe by him
corrected and augmented. 1607. [The Queenes Arcadia is included in
this volume, in the later edition of 1611, and in The Whole Workes of
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(See, also, bibliography of Daniel, vol. iv, chap. vii. )
RICHARD EDWARDS.
Palamon and Areyte. Not extant; but summary of plot is given by Bereblock,
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