Rptd
privately
by Halliwell-Phillipps, J.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05
and Pollard, A.
W.
E.
E.
T.
S.
Extra
Ser. xci. 1904.
Mankind. (Macro' morality. ) Ptd in Brandl's Quellen; and part ptd in
Pollard, A. W.
Pride of Life, the. (Fragment. ) Ed. Mills, T. , in Proceedings of R. Soc. of
Antiquaries of Ireland. Dablin, 1891. Ptd in Brandl's Quellen.
Wisdom, who is Christ. Ed. from the Digby MS for the New Shaksp. Soc.
by Furnivall, F. J. 1882. [Ptd under the title Mind, Will and Under-
standing for the Abbotsford Club, 1837. )
Smart, W. K. Some English and Latin Sources and Parallels for the
Morality of Wisdom. Wisconsin, 1912.
O. Earlier Tudor Moralities.
[In chronological order. ]
The Nature of the Four Elements. Ptd in 1519 by John Rastell. Bptd in
vol. 1 of Hazlitt's Dodsley,
As to Rastell's authorship of this morality see Manly, T. , in Journal
of Germanic Philology, vol. II, p. 425, 1898.
The World and the Child. Ptd 1522. Rptd for Roxburghe Club, 1817; in
vol. xii of Collier's Dodsley; in vol. 1 of Hazlitt's Dodsley; and in
Manly's Specimens, vol. 1.
Hycke-Scorner. Ptd probably c. 1525. Rptd in vol. 1 of Origin of E. D. ; in
vol. 1 of Hazlitt's Dodsley; and in Manly's Specimens, vol. I.
Every-man. Ptd c. 1529. Four old edd. , two by Richard Pynson (1509-30);
one by John Skot (1521-37). Rptd by Greg, W. W. , from Skot's ed. in
Bang's Materialien, vol. iv, 1904; by Goedeke, K. , in Everyman, Homulus
und Hekastus, Hanover, 1865 (with a masterly introduction on the com-
parative history of the theme]; by Logeman, H. , under the title Everyman-
Elkerlijk, with the parallel Dutch text, Ghent, 1892; by de Raaf, K. H. ,
Groningen, 1897 (see Logeman's reply to de Raaf, Ghent, 1902); in vol. 1
of Origin of E. D. and in vol. 1 of Hazlitt's Dodsley; by Sidgwick, F. ,
1902; by Pollard, A. W. , in Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse, 1903;
and by Farmer, J. S. , in E. E. D. Publ. , 1906.
Skelton, John. Magnyfycence. Ptd by John Rastell (1529-33). Rptd in
vol. 1 of A. Dyce's ed. of Skelton's Works. 1843. Ed. Ramsay, R. L. ,
E. E. T. S. Extra Ser. XCVIII. 1906 (issued 1908). (For bibliography see
vol. III of the present work, pp. 480-1. ]
Nature. Ptd probably in 1538 in London. Bound copy in British Museum
lettered Medwell Nature. Assigned by Collier to Henry Medwell, chap-
lain to cardinal Morton. Rptd by Fischer, T. , with Introduction, in
Marburger Studien, vol. v, 1903, and in Brandl's Quellen.
Redford, John. Wyt and Science. [Written in reign of Henry VIII,
probably the later part of it. ] Old impression s. a. or title-page. Ed.
Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. O. , for Shakesp. Soc. 1848.
Bale, Bishop. Kynge Johan. c. 1548. Ed. Collier, J. P. , for Camden Soc. 1838.
[This work, though suggested, perhaps, by Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of
the thrie Estaitis, owes still more to T. Kirchmayer's Pammachius,
translated in 1538 by Bale. The influence of Pammachius shews itself
already in Bale's Three Lawes of Nature. ]
Wever, R. Lusty Juventus. Written under Edward VI; ptd c. 1550. Rptd
in vol. 1 of Origin of E. D. and in vol. 1 of Hazlitt's Dodsley.
Respublica. A merye enterlude entitled Respublica, made in the yeare of
our Lorde, 1553, and the first yeare of the moost prosperous Reigne of
our moste gracious soveraigne Quene Marye the first. Ptd in Brandl's
Quellen; also by Magnus, L. A. , in E. E. T. S. Extra Ser. xciv, 1905.
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Interlude of Youth. Written in Queen Mary's reign. Ptd by Waley, J.
(c. 1557); by Copland, W. (c. 1562); and earlier (see fragment in Lambeth
Palace library). Rptd in vol. 11 of Hazlitt's Dodsley; and, with Frag-
ments of the Play of Lucre and of Nature by Bang, W. and MoKerrow,
R. B. , in Bang's Materialien, voL xii, 1905.
D. Elizabethan Moralities.
[In chronological order. ]
Wealth and Health. Entered in Stationers' register, 1557. Edd. Greg, W. W.
and Simpson, P. Malone Soc. Reprints. 1907. Ed. Holthausen, F. Kiel,
1908.
The Nice Wanton. Entered in Stationers' register, 1560. Ptd in Hazlitt's
Dodsley, vol. 11.
Impatient Poverty. "Newlye imprinted,' 1560. (To be rptd in Bang's Mate-
rialien. )
A new Enterlude of Godly Queene Hester. Ed. from the quarto of 1562 by
Greg, W. W. , in Bang's Materialien, vol. v (1904).
King Darius. Ptd 1565.
Rptd privately by Halliwell-Phillipps, J. 0. , in
1860; and in Brandl's Quellen.
Albyon Knight. Entered in Stationers' register, 1565-6. Ptd by Collier in
vol. 1 of Shakespeare Society's Papers in Shakesp. Soc. Publ. , 1844.
Wager, L. The Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene. A morality play
rptd from the original ed. of 1566, ed. by Carpenter, F. J. New ed.
Chicago, 1904.
The Triall of Treasure. Ptd by Thomas Parfoote, 1567. Ed. for Percy Soc.
Publ. , vol. XXVIII, by Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. 0. , 1850, and rptd in
Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. III.
Fulwel, U. Like wil to Like quod the Devel to the Colier. Ptd by John
Allde in 1568 and by Edward Allde in 1587. Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley,
9
vol. III.
The Marriage of Witte and Science. Licensed 1569-70. Ptd by Thomas
Marshe. 8. a. Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. II.
The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom, Ed. Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. O. , Shakesp.
Soc. Publ. 1846.
Wager, William. The longer thou livest, the more Fool thou art. Ptd by
William How. s. a. Rptd by Brandl, A. , in Shakesp. Jahrbuch, vol.
XXXVI, 1900.
New Custome. Ptd 1573. Rptd in Reed's Dodsley, vol. 1; in Collier's
Dodsley, vol. 1, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. II.
Wapul, George. The Tide tarrieth no man. Ptd by Hugh Jackson in 1576.
Rptd by Bühl, E. , in Shakesp. Jahrbuch, vol. XLIII, 1907.
Lupton, Thomas. All for Money. Ptd 1578. Rptd in Halliwell-Phillipps,
J. O. , Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries illustrated, 1851; and,
with an Introduction by Vogel, E. , in Shakesp. Jahrbuch, vol. xl, 1904.
Woodes, Nathaniel. The Conflict of Conscience. Ptd in 1581. Rptd from
the ed. published for the Roxburghe Club by Collier, J. P. , in 1851, in
Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. II, with Collier's Introduction.
(Wilson, Robert, the actor? ) The Three Ladies of London. Ptd 1584, as
acted. Bptd in Five Old Plays, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. VI.
The Three Lords and the Three Ladies of London. Ptd 1590. Rptd in
Five Old Plays, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. vi.
Fernow, H. The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London. By
Robert) Wilson). London, 1590. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte
des Englischen Dramas. Hamburg, 1885.
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Bibliography
The Contention between Liberalitie and Prodigalitie. Acted before Queen
Elizabeth in 1600; probably the revision of an earlier work. Ptd in
Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. VIII.
Lyndsay, Sir David. Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis in commendation of
Vertew and Vituperation of Vyce. Ptd at Edinburgh in 1602. Rptd in
Chalmers's ed. of Lyndsay's Poetical Works, 3 vols. , 1866, and in D.
Laing's, 3 vols. , 1879; and ed. for the E. E. T. S. by Hall, Fitzedward, 1869.
Philotus. Ptd at Edinburgh in 1603. Rptd for Bannatyne Club. Edin-
burgh, 1835.
The Cradle of Security. An account of a performance of this play in
Willis, R. , Mount Tabor (1639) is rptd in Halliwell-Phillipps, J. 0. ,
Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare, 1887 (vol. I, p. 48).
[A moral play, of which some pages are rptd in Maitland, S. R. , A List of
some of the Early Printed Books in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth,
1843, p. 280, is nothing more than a translation of a French protestant
moralité, La Vérité Cachée. ]
CHAPTER IV
EARLY ENGLISH TRAGEDY
I. LATIN TRAGEDIES.
Buchanan, while a master at the Collège de Guyenne at Bordeaux,
1539-42, translated into Latin Euripides's Medea and Alcestis and wrote
two Latin tragedies, Jephthes and Johannes Baptistes, to be performed by
his pupils. They were printed, the former in 1554, and the latter, which is
described by the author as his primus foetus, in 1576. Several translations
exist, one of Baptistes, ascribed to Milton, others, more recent, by Gibb, A.
(1870) and Mitchell, A. Gordon (1902). Ascham, in a well known passage
of The Scholemaster, commends, together with Jephthes, Thomas Watson's
Absalon--perhaps the Latin tragedy preserved in Stowe MS 957 in the
British Museum. This Thomas Watson (1513-84) must be distinguished from
the author of the Latin translation of Sophocles's Antigone, printed in 1581,
of which Gabriel Harvey writes in his copy of Gascoigne in the Bodleian
library: ‘magnifice acta solenni ritu et verè tragico apparatu. Nicholas
Grimald's Archipropheta, a tragedy on the subject of John the Baptist,
was printed at Cologne in 1548, and, apparently, written in 1547, when its
author was elected a senior at Christ Church, Oxford. It is an adaptation of
Johannes Decollatus by Jacob Schoepper of Dortmund, ptd at Cologne in
1546. (A translation by Charles J. Tibbits was published in 1906. ) Beza's
tragedy of Abraham's Sacrifice (in which Satan appears as a monk) appeared
in a translation by Arthur Golding in 1577. (Edited by Wallace, M. W. ,
University of Toronto Studies, 1907. ) John Foxe's Christus Triumphans,
published in 1556, and translated into English by Richard Day (1578), is a
religious drama of an early type. A list of university plays in Latin is given
in Fleay's English Drama, vol. 11, p. 359, and a fuller list, prepared by
Churchill, G. B. and Keller, W. , in Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. xxxiv, p. 221. See
also Notes on some English University Plays, by Moore Smith, G. C. , in
The Modern Language Review, vol. II, p. 141. [See Spearing, E. M. , on The
Elizabethan Tenne Tragedies of Seneca, in vol. iv, 1908. ]
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II. EARLY PRINTED HISTORIES AND TRAGEDIES.
The following list is arranged according to date of publication. It does
not include translations or other plays not intended for stage representation.
In view, however, of the influence of Seneca on Early English Tragedy
details as to the collective edition of the ten Senecan tragedies, and the
original editions of translations of the several plays are given in a note
based on Greg's List of Plays1. Plays ascribed to Shakespeare or to his
leading contemporaries will be found under the bibliography of the par-
ticular author. As to Bale's Kynge Johan, an earlier Tudor morality
partaking largely of the nature of the chronicle history, see below under
sec. III and bibliography to chap. III, sec. III C.
The Tragedie of Gorboduc, whereof three Actes were wrytten by Thomas
Nortone, and the two laste by Thomas Sackvyle. Sett forthe as the
same was shewed before the Quenes most excellent Majestie, in her
highnes Court of Whitehall, the . xviii. day of January, Anno Domini
1561. By the Gentlemen of Thynner Temple in London. 1565. [Another
edition, 1590. ] See, below, under sec. IV, Canliffe, J. W.
1 Seneca His Tenne Tragedies, Translated into Englysh. 1581.
The dedication is signed by Thomas Newton, the editor of the volume, which
contains the following plays, with the names of the translators :
Hercules Furens
Jasper Heywood.
Thyestes
Jasper Heywood.
Thebais
Thomas Newton.
Hippolytus
John Studley.
Edipus
Alex. Nevyle.
Troas
Jasper Heywood.
Ser. xci. 1904.
Mankind. (Macro' morality. ) Ptd in Brandl's Quellen; and part ptd in
Pollard, A. W.
Pride of Life, the. (Fragment. ) Ed. Mills, T. , in Proceedings of R. Soc. of
Antiquaries of Ireland. Dablin, 1891. Ptd in Brandl's Quellen.
Wisdom, who is Christ. Ed. from the Digby MS for the New Shaksp. Soc.
by Furnivall, F. J. 1882. [Ptd under the title Mind, Will and Under-
standing for the Abbotsford Club, 1837. )
Smart, W. K. Some English and Latin Sources and Parallels for the
Morality of Wisdom. Wisconsin, 1912.
O. Earlier Tudor Moralities.
[In chronological order. ]
The Nature of the Four Elements. Ptd in 1519 by John Rastell. Bptd in
vol. 1 of Hazlitt's Dodsley,
As to Rastell's authorship of this morality see Manly, T. , in Journal
of Germanic Philology, vol. II, p. 425, 1898.
The World and the Child. Ptd 1522. Rptd for Roxburghe Club, 1817; in
vol. xii of Collier's Dodsley; in vol. 1 of Hazlitt's Dodsley; and in
Manly's Specimens, vol. 1.
Hycke-Scorner. Ptd probably c. 1525. Rptd in vol. 1 of Origin of E. D. ; in
vol. 1 of Hazlitt's Dodsley; and in Manly's Specimens, vol. I.
Every-man. Ptd c. 1529. Four old edd. , two by Richard Pynson (1509-30);
one by John Skot (1521-37). Rptd by Greg, W. W. , from Skot's ed. in
Bang's Materialien, vol. iv, 1904; by Goedeke, K. , in Everyman, Homulus
und Hekastus, Hanover, 1865 (with a masterly introduction on the com-
parative history of the theme]; by Logeman, H. , under the title Everyman-
Elkerlijk, with the parallel Dutch text, Ghent, 1892; by de Raaf, K. H. ,
Groningen, 1897 (see Logeman's reply to de Raaf, Ghent, 1902); in vol. 1
of Origin of E. D. and in vol. 1 of Hazlitt's Dodsley; by Sidgwick, F. ,
1902; by Pollard, A. W. , in Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse, 1903;
and by Farmer, J. S. , in E. E. D. Publ. , 1906.
Skelton, John. Magnyfycence. Ptd by John Rastell (1529-33). Rptd in
vol. 1 of A. Dyce's ed. of Skelton's Works. 1843. Ed. Ramsay, R. L. ,
E. E. T. S. Extra Ser. XCVIII. 1906 (issued 1908). (For bibliography see
vol. III of the present work, pp. 480-1. ]
Nature. Ptd probably in 1538 in London. Bound copy in British Museum
lettered Medwell Nature. Assigned by Collier to Henry Medwell, chap-
lain to cardinal Morton. Rptd by Fischer, T. , with Introduction, in
Marburger Studien, vol. v, 1903, and in Brandl's Quellen.
Redford, John. Wyt and Science. [Written in reign of Henry VIII,
probably the later part of it. ] Old impression s. a. or title-page. Ed.
Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. O. , for Shakesp. Soc. 1848.
Bale, Bishop. Kynge Johan. c. 1548. Ed. Collier, J. P. , for Camden Soc. 1838.
[This work, though suggested, perhaps, by Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of
the thrie Estaitis, owes still more to T. Kirchmayer's Pammachius,
translated in 1538 by Bale. The influence of Pammachius shews itself
already in Bale's Three Lawes of Nature. ]
Wever, R. Lusty Juventus. Written under Edward VI; ptd c. 1550. Rptd
in vol. 1 of Origin of E. D. and in vol. 1 of Hazlitt's Dodsley.
Respublica. A merye enterlude entitled Respublica, made in the yeare of
our Lorde, 1553, and the first yeare of the moost prosperous Reigne of
our moste gracious soveraigne Quene Marye the first. Ptd in Brandl's
Quellen; also by Magnus, L. A. , in E. E. T. S. Extra Ser. xciv, 1905.
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393
Interlude of Youth. Written in Queen Mary's reign. Ptd by Waley, J.
(c. 1557); by Copland, W. (c. 1562); and earlier (see fragment in Lambeth
Palace library). Rptd in vol. 11 of Hazlitt's Dodsley; and, with Frag-
ments of the Play of Lucre and of Nature by Bang, W. and MoKerrow,
R. B. , in Bang's Materialien, voL xii, 1905.
D. Elizabethan Moralities.
[In chronological order. ]
Wealth and Health. Entered in Stationers' register, 1557. Edd. Greg, W. W.
and Simpson, P. Malone Soc. Reprints. 1907. Ed. Holthausen, F. Kiel,
1908.
The Nice Wanton. Entered in Stationers' register, 1560. Ptd in Hazlitt's
Dodsley, vol. 11.
Impatient Poverty. "Newlye imprinted,' 1560. (To be rptd in Bang's Mate-
rialien. )
A new Enterlude of Godly Queene Hester. Ed. from the quarto of 1562 by
Greg, W. W. , in Bang's Materialien, vol. v (1904).
King Darius. Ptd 1565.
Rptd privately by Halliwell-Phillipps, J. 0. , in
1860; and in Brandl's Quellen.
Albyon Knight. Entered in Stationers' register, 1565-6. Ptd by Collier in
vol. 1 of Shakespeare Society's Papers in Shakesp. Soc. Publ. , 1844.
Wager, L. The Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene. A morality play
rptd from the original ed. of 1566, ed. by Carpenter, F. J. New ed.
Chicago, 1904.
The Triall of Treasure. Ptd by Thomas Parfoote, 1567. Ed. for Percy Soc.
Publ. , vol. XXVIII, by Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. 0. , 1850, and rptd in
Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. III.
Fulwel, U. Like wil to Like quod the Devel to the Colier. Ptd by John
Allde in 1568 and by Edward Allde in 1587. Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley,
9
vol. III.
The Marriage of Witte and Science. Licensed 1569-70. Ptd by Thomas
Marshe. 8. a. Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. II.
The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom, Ed. Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. O. , Shakesp.
Soc. Publ. 1846.
Wager, William. The longer thou livest, the more Fool thou art. Ptd by
William How. s. a. Rptd by Brandl, A. , in Shakesp. Jahrbuch, vol.
XXXVI, 1900.
New Custome. Ptd 1573. Rptd in Reed's Dodsley, vol. 1; in Collier's
Dodsley, vol. 1, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. II.
Wapul, George. The Tide tarrieth no man. Ptd by Hugh Jackson in 1576.
Rptd by Bühl, E. , in Shakesp. Jahrbuch, vol. XLIII, 1907.
Lupton, Thomas. All for Money. Ptd 1578. Rptd in Halliwell-Phillipps,
J. O. , Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries illustrated, 1851; and,
with an Introduction by Vogel, E. , in Shakesp. Jahrbuch, vol. xl, 1904.
Woodes, Nathaniel. The Conflict of Conscience. Ptd in 1581. Rptd from
the ed. published for the Roxburghe Club by Collier, J. P. , in 1851, in
Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. II, with Collier's Introduction.
(Wilson, Robert, the actor? ) The Three Ladies of London. Ptd 1584, as
acted. Bptd in Five Old Plays, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. VI.
The Three Lords and the Three Ladies of London. Ptd 1590. Rptd in
Five Old Plays, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. vi.
Fernow, H. The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London. By
Robert) Wilson). London, 1590. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte
des Englischen Dramas. Hamburg, 1885.
9
## p. 394 (#418) ############################################
394
Bibliography
The Contention between Liberalitie and Prodigalitie. Acted before Queen
Elizabeth in 1600; probably the revision of an earlier work. Ptd in
Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. VIII.
Lyndsay, Sir David. Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis in commendation of
Vertew and Vituperation of Vyce. Ptd at Edinburgh in 1602. Rptd in
Chalmers's ed. of Lyndsay's Poetical Works, 3 vols. , 1866, and in D.
Laing's, 3 vols. , 1879; and ed. for the E. E. T. S. by Hall, Fitzedward, 1869.
Philotus. Ptd at Edinburgh in 1603. Rptd for Bannatyne Club. Edin-
burgh, 1835.
The Cradle of Security. An account of a performance of this play in
Willis, R. , Mount Tabor (1639) is rptd in Halliwell-Phillipps, J. 0. ,
Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare, 1887 (vol. I, p. 48).
[A moral play, of which some pages are rptd in Maitland, S. R. , A List of
some of the Early Printed Books in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth,
1843, p. 280, is nothing more than a translation of a French protestant
moralité, La Vérité Cachée. ]
CHAPTER IV
EARLY ENGLISH TRAGEDY
I. LATIN TRAGEDIES.
Buchanan, while a master at the Collège de Guyenne at Bordeaux,
1539-42, translated into Latin Euripides's Medea and Alcestis and wrote
two Latin tragedies, Jephthes and Johannes Baptistes, to be performed by
his pupils. They were printed, the former in 1554, and the latter, which is
described by the author as his primus foetus, in 1576. Several translations
exist, one of Baptistes, ascribed to Milton, others, more recent, by Gibb, A.
(1870) and Mitchell, A. Gordon (1902). Ascham, in a well known passage
of The Scholemaster, commends, together with Jephthes, Thomas Watson's
Absalon--perhaps the Latin tragedy preserved in Stowe MS 957 in the
British Museum. This Thomas Watson (1513-84) must be distinguished from
the author of the Latin translation of Sophocles's Antigone, printed in 1581,
of which Gabriel Harvey writes in his copy of Gascoigne in the Bodleian
library: ‘magnifice acta solenni ritu et verè tragico apparatu. Nicholas
Grimald's Archipropheta, a tragedy on the subject of John the Baptist,
was printed at Cologne in 1548, and, apparently, written in 1547, when its
author was elected a senior at Christ Church, Oxford. It is an adaptation of
Johannes Decollatus by Jacob Schoepper of Dortmund, ptd at Cologne in
1546. (A translation by Charles J. Tibbits was published in 1906. ) Beza's
tragedy of Abraham's Sacrifice (in which Satan appears as a monk) appeared
in a translation by Arthur Golding in 1577. (Edited by Wallace, M. W. ,
University of Toronto Studies, 1907. ) John Foxe's Christus Triumphans,
published in 1556, and translated into English by Richard Day (1578), is a
religious drama of an early type. A list of university plays in Latin is given
in Fleay's English Drama, vol. 11, p. 359, and a fuller list, prepared by
Churchill, G. B. and Keller, W. , in Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. xxxiv, p. 221. See
also Notes on some English University Plays, by Moore Smith, G. C. , in
The Modern Language Review, vol. II, p. 141. [See Spearing, E. M. , on The
Elizabethan Tenne Tragedies of Seneca, in vol. iv, 1908. ]
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395
II. EARLY PRINTED HISTORIES AND TRAGEDIES.
The following list is arranged according to date of publication. It does
not include translations or other plays not intended for stage representation.
In view, however, of the influence of Seneca on Early English Tragedy
details as to the collective edition of the ten Senecan tragedies, and the
original editions of translations of the several plays are given in a note
based on Greg's List of Plays1. Plays ascribed to Shakespeare or to his
leading contemporaries will be found under the bibliography of the par-
ticular author. As to Bale's Kynge Johan, an earlier Tudor morality
partaking largely of the nature of the chronicle history, see below under
sec. III and bibliography to chap. III, sec. III C.
The Tragedie of Gorboduc, whereof three Actes were wrytten by Thomas
Nortone, and the two laste by Thomas Sackvyle. Sett forthe as the
same was shewed before the Quenes most excellent Majestie, in her
highnes Court of Whitehall, the . xviii. day of January, Anno Domini
1561. By the Gentlemen of Thynner Temple in London. 1565. [Another
edition, 1590. ] See, below, under sec. IV, Canliffe, J. W.
1 Seneca His Tenne Tragedies, Translated into Englysh. 1581.
The dedication is signed by Thomas Newton, the editor of the volume, which
contains the following plays, with the names of the translators :
Hercules Furens
Jasper Heywood.
Thyestes
Jasper Heywood.
Thebais
Thomas Newton.
Hippolytus
John Studley.
Edipus
Alex. Nevyle.
Troas
Jasper Heywood.
