The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome
containing
fifteen comedies now
first collected in three volumes.
first collected in three volumes.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06
Several Prologues and Epilogues.
4.
The Triumph of
Beautie (see sec. (i), ante). Ptd for Humphrey Mosely. 1646.
Via ad Latinam Linguam Complanata. The Way made plain to the Latine
Tongue. The Rules composed in English and Latine Verse. For the
greater Delight and Benefit of Learners. By James Shirley. 1649.
The Rudiments of Grammar. The Rules composed in English Verse, For the
greater Benefit and delight of young beginners, by James Shirley. 1656.
Manductio: or a leading of Children by the Hand Through the Principles of
Grammar. The second edition enlarged. By Ja: Shirley. 1660.
B. Modern Editions.
Dramatic Works and Poems, with notes by Gifford, W. , and additional
notes by Dyce, A. 6 vols. 1833.
Works. (Mermaid Series. ) Ed. Gosse, E. 1888. [Contains: The Witty Fair
One, The Traitor, Hyde Park, The Lady of Pleasure, The Cardinal, The
Triumph of Peace. ]
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452
Bibliography
The Tragedie of Chabot, Admiral of France, written by George Chapman
and James Shirley, reprinted from the quarto of 1639. Ed. Lehmann, E.
(Publ. of Univ. of Pennsylvania. ) Philadelphia, 1906.
C. Biographical and Critical.
Fleay, F. G. Annals of the Careers of James and Henry Shirley. Anglia,
vol. VIII, pp. 405-415. 1885.
Gärtner, 0. Shirley, sein Leben und Werken. (Diss. ) Halle, 1904.
Life and Writings of James Shirley. Quarterly Review, vol. XLIX, April 1833.
Nissen, P. James Shirley. Ein Beitrag zur Englischen Literatur-
geschichte. Hamburg, 1901.
Ritter, 0. Shirley's Amor und Tod. Engl. Stud. vol. XXXII, pp. 157-9. 1903.
Stiefel, A. L. Die Nachahmung spanischer Komödien in England unter den
ersten Stuarts. Romanische Forschungen, vol. v, 1890, pp. 193-220.
Swinburne, A. C. James Shirley. The Fortnightly Review, vol. XLVII,
New Series, pp. 461-478. April 1890.
Ward, A. W. Art. Shirley, James. Dict. of Nat. Biogr. vol. LII. 1897.
Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. Ed. Bliss, P. Vol. 111, pp. 737-744.
1817.
CHAPTER IX
LESSER JACOBEAN AND CAROLINE DRAMATISTS
ROBERT ARMIN.
The History of the two Maids of More-clacke. With the life and simple
maner of John in the Hospitall. Played by the Children of the Kings
Majesties Revels. Written by Robert Armin, servant to the Kings
most excellent Majestie. 1609.
The Works of Robert Armin, Actor, 1605-1609. Ed. Grosart, A. B. 1880.
BARNABE BARNES.
The Divils Charter: A Tragaedie Conteining the Life and Death of Pope
Alexander the sixt. As it was plaide before the Kings Majestie, upon
Candlemasse night last: by his Majesties Servants. But more exactly
renewed, corrected, and augmented since by the Author, for the more
pleasure and profit of the Reader. 1607.
Ed. from the quarto of 1607 by McKerrow, R. B. , Bang's Materialien,
vol. vi. [The play is a historical tragedy of considerable dramatic and
poetic power by the author of the fine sonnets and lyrics entitled
Parthenophil and Parthenophe (cf. vol. II, pp. 265 and 522, ante). ]
LODOWICK BARRY.
Ram-Alley: Or Merrie-Trickes. A Comedy Divers times here-to-fore acted,
By the Children of the Kings Revels. 1611. Other eds. : 1636, 1639.
Rptd in Reed's, Collier's and Hazlitt's Dodsley, vols. V, v, and x
respectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
SIR WILLIAM BERKELEY,
The Lost Lady. A Tragy Comedy. 1638.
Rptd in Dodsley (1744), vol. x, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. XII.
[This is a late heroic-romantic tragedy. Dorothy Osborne acted a part
in it; see her Letter Lxvi. ]
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453
WILLIAM BOWYER (? ).
The Valiant Scot. By J. W. Gent. 1637. (The dedication is signed William
Bowyer. ') An edition by Carver, J. L. , is promised in publications of the
University of Pennsylvania.
(A belated chronicle-history on the career of William Wallace. ]
RICHARD BROME.
The Northern Lasse, A Comoedie. As it hath beene often Acted with good
Applause, at the Globe, and Black Fryers. By his Majesties Servants.
1632. Other eds. : 1663, 1684.
The Antipodes: A Comedie. Acted in the yeare 1638, by the Queenes
Majesties Servants, at Salisbury Court in Fleet-street. 1640.
The Sparagus Garden: A Comedie. Acted in the yeare 1635 by the then
Company of Revels, at Salisbury Court. 1640.
A Joviall Crew: Or, The Merry Beggars. Presented in a Comedie, at The
Cock-pit in Drury-Lane, in the year 1641. 1652. Other eds. : 1661, 1684.
Rptd in Dodsley (1744), vol. vi, and in Reeds and Collier's Dodsley,
volg. x and x respectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. III.
The first eds. of these were printed in Brome's lifetime. After his death
appeared :
Five New Playes, (viz. ) The (Madd Couple well matcht. Novella. Court
Beggar. City Witt. Damoiselle). 1653.
Brome, Alexander, edited these plays, all but the first of which have a
separate title-page.
The Queenes Exchange, A Comedy Acted with generall applause at the
Black-Friers By His Majesties Servants. 1657. Again in 1661 as The
Royall Exchange.
Five new Playes, viz. The English Moor, or The Mock-Marriage. The Love-
Sick Court, or The Ambitious Politique. Covent Garden Weeded. The
New Academy, or The New Exchange. The Queen and Concubine.
1659.
Brome, Alexander, edited these plays, each of which has a separate
title-page.
The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome containing fifteen comedies now
first collected in three volumes. 1873. (Pearson's reprint. )
This ed, is reviewed by Symonds, J. A. , in the Academy, 1874.
Faust, E. K. R. Richard Brome. (Diss. ) Halle, 1887. [Ample and careful. ]
LODOWICK CARLELL.
The Deserving Favorite. . . . Written by Lodowicke Carlell, Esquire, Gentle-
man of the Bowes, and Groome of the King and Queenes Privie
Chamber. 1629, 1659.
Rptd with a biography of Carlell and a critical essay on his plays by
Gray, C. H. , Chicago, 1905.
Arviragus and Philicia. . . . The first and second Part. 1639.
The Passionate Lovers, A Tragi-Comedy, the First and Second Parts. 1655.
Two New Playes. Viz. 1. The Fool would be a Favourit: or, The Discreet
Lover. 2. Osmond, the Great Turk: or, The Noble Servant. 1657.
The plays were also issued separately in 1657.
Heraclius Emperour of the East. A Tragedy. Written in French by
Monsieur de Corneille. Englished by Lodowick Carlell, Esq. 1664.
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454
Bibliography
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT.
(See bibliography to chap. XII, post. )
JOHN COOKE.
Greene's Tu quoque, or, The Cittie Gallant. As it hath beene divers times
acted by the Queenes Majesties Servants. 1614. Another ed. : 1622; and
once undated.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. III, VII, VII, XI, re-
spectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
ROBERT DABORNE.
A Christian turn'd Turke: Or, The Tragicall Lives and Deaths of the two
Famous Pyrates, Ward and Dansiker. As it hath been publickly Acted.
Written By Robert Daborn, Gentleman. 1612.
The Poor-Mans Comfort. A Tragi-Comedy, As it was divers times Acted at
the Cock-pit in Drury lane with great applause. Written by Robert
Dauborne, Master of Arts. 1655. There is a manuscript copy of this in
Egerton MSS, 1994.
[An inferior dramatist, interesting chiefly for his extant letters to
Henslowe in the year 1613. He died dean of Lismore in 1628. ]
SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT.
The Tragedy of Albovine, King of the Lombards. By Wm. D'avenant. 1629.
For a discussion of the sources of this tragedy see Campbell, A. , in the
Journal of Germanic Philology, vol. iv, 1902.
The Cruell Brother. A Tragedy. 1630.
The Just Italian. 1630. [The author's name in these two plays appeare
after the dedication. ]
The Platonick Lovers. A Tragæcomedy. The Authour William D'avenant,
Servant to her Majestie. 1636.
The Witts. A Comedie. The Authour William D'avenant, Servant to Her
Majestie. 1636.
Rptd in Reed's Dodsley, vol. VIII, and Collier's Dodsley, vol. VIII;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. I.
The Unfortunate Lovers: A Tragedie; . . . The Author William Davenant,
Servant to Her Majestie. 1643, 1649.
Love and Honour. Written by W. Davenant Knight. . . . 1649.
Two Excellent Plays: The Wits, A Comedie. The Platonick Lovers, A
Tragi-Comedie. 1665.
The Works of S: William Davenant K. 1673. (In this there are consider.
able alterations in the case of some plays. ]
The Dramatic Works of Sir William Davenant, with prefatory memoir and
notes. Ed. by Maidment, J. and Logan, W. H. (Dramatists of the
Restoration. ) 5 vols. 1872-4.
(As to D'Avenant see, also, bibliography to chap. v of vol. VIII, post. )
ROBERT DAVENPORT,
A Pleasant and Witty Comedy: Called, A New Tricke to Cheat the Divell.
Written by R. D. Gent. 1639.
King John and Matilda, A Tragedy. As it was Acted with great Applause
by Her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane. Written by
Robert Davenport Gent. 1655. Another ed. : 1662, 'Written by W. Daven. '
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455
The City-Night-Cap: Or, Crede quod habes, et habes. A Tragi-Comedy.
As it was Acted with great Applause, by Her Majesties Servants, at the
Phoenix in Drury Lane. 1661.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. IX, XI, XI, XIII, respectively;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. III.
The Works of Robert Davenport. Bullen's Old English Plays, N. S.
vol. III.
For an essay on King John and Matilda see the Retrospective Review,
vol. iv.
John Day.
The Ile of Guls. As it hath been often playd in the blacke Fryars, by the
Children of the Revels. 1606. Another ed. : 1633.
Humour out of breath. A Comedie Divers times latelie acted, By the
Children of the Kings Revells. 1608.
Law-Trickes or, who would have Thought it. As it hath bene divers times
Acted by the Children of the Revels. 1608.
The Parliament of Bees, With their proper Characters. Or A Bee-hive
furnisht with twelve Honycombes, as Pleasant as Profitable. Being
an Allegoricall description of the actions of good and bad men in these
our daies. By John Daye, Sometimes Student of Caius Colledge in
Cambridge. 1641.
There is among the Lansdowne MSS (no. 725) a contemporary
transcript of The Parliament of Bees, probably written about 1639.
(With William Rowley and George Wilkins ? ) The Travailes of The three
English Brothers, Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony, Mr Robert Shirley. As it
is now play'd by her Majesties Servants. 1607.
The Works of John Day. Ed. Bullen, A. H. 1881.
The Parliament of Bees and Humour out of breath are included in Nero
and other Plays (Mermaid Series), 1888, with an introductory essay on Day's
plays in the volume by Symons, A.
For an essay on John Day by Swinburne, A. C. , see The Nineteenth
Century, October 1897.
NATHANIEL FIELD.
A Woman is a Weather-cocke. A New Comedy, As it was acted before the
King in White-Hall. And divers times Privately at the White-Friers,
By the Children of her Majesties Revels. 1612.
Amends for Ladies. A Comedie. As it was acted at the Blacke-Fryers,
both by the Princes Servants, and the Lady Elizabeths. 1618.
Beautie (see sec. (i), ante). Ptd for Humphrey Mosely. 1646.
Via ad Latinam Linguam Complanata. The Way made plain to the Latine
Tongue. The Rules composed in English and Latine Verse. For the
greater Delight and Benefit of Learners. By James Shirley. 1649.
The Rudiments of Grammar. The Rules composed in English Verse, For the
greater Benefit and delight of young beginners, by James Shirley. 1656.
Manductio: or a leading of Children by the Hand Through the Principles of
Grammar. The second edition enlarged. By Ja: Shirley. 1660.
B. Modern Editions.
Dramatic Works and Poems, with notes by Gifford, W. , and additional
notes by Dyce, A. 6 vols. 1833.
Works. (Mermaid Series. ) Ed. Gosse, E. 1888. [Contains: The Witty Fair
One, The Traitor, Hyde Park, The Lady of Pleasure, The Cardinal, The
Triumph of Peace. ]
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## p. 452 (#470) ############################################
452
Bibliography
The Tragedie of Chabot, Admiral of France, written by George Chapman
and James Shirley, reprinted from the quarto of 1639. Ed. Lehmann, E.
(Publ. of Univ. of Pennsylvania. ) Philadelphia, 1906.
C. Biographical and Critical.
Fleay, F. G. Annals of the Careers of James and Henry Shirley. Anglia,
vol. VIII, pp. 405-415. 1885.
Gärtner, 0. Shirley, sein Leben und Werken. (Diss. ) Halle, 1904.
Life and Writings of James Shirley. Quarterly Review, vol. XLIX, April 1833.
Nissen, P. James Shirley. Ein Beitrag zur Englischen Literatur-
geschichte. Hamburg, 1901.
Ritter, 0. Shirley's Amor und Tod. Engl. Stud. vol. XXXII, pp. 157-9. 1903.
Stiefel, A. L. Die Nachahmung spanischer Komödien in England unter den
ersten Stuarts. Romanische Forschungen, vol. v, 1890, pp. 193-220.
Swinburne, A. C. James Shirley. The Fortnightly Review, vol. XLVII,
New Series, pp. 461-478. April 1890.
Ward, A. W. Art. Shirley, James. Dict. of Nat. Biogr. vol. LII. 1897.
Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. Ed. Bliss, P. Vol. 111, pp. 737-744.
1817.
CHAPTER IX
LESSER JACOBEAN AND CAROLINE DRAMATISTS
ROBERT ARMIN.
The History of the two Maids of More-clacke. With the life and simple
maner of John in the Hospitall. Played by the Children of the Kings
Majesties Revels. Written by Robert Armin, servant to the Kings
most excellent Majestie. 1609.
The Works of Robert Armin, Actor, 1605-1609. Ed. Grosart, A. B. 1880.
BARNABE BARNES.
The Divils Charter: A Tragaedie Conteining the Life and Death of Pope
Alexander the sixt. As it was plaide before the Kings Majestie, upon
Candlemasse night last: by his Majesties Servants. But more exactly
renewed, corrected, and augmented since by the Author, for the more
pleasure and profit of the Reader. 1607.
Ed. from the quarto of 1607 by McKerrow, R. B. , Bang's Materialien,
vol. vi. [The play is a historical tragedy of considerable dramatic and
poetic power by the author of the fine sonnets and lyrics entitled
Parthenophil and Parthenophe (cf. vol. II, pp. 265 and 522, ante). ]
LODOWICK BARRY.
Ram-Alley: Or Merrie-Trickes. A Comedy Divers times here-to-fore acted,
By the Children of the Kings Revels. 1611. Other eds. : 1636, 1639.
Rptd in Reed's, Collier's and Hazlitt's Dodsley, vols. V, v, and x
respectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
SIR WILLIAM BERKELEY,
The Lost Lady. A Tragy Comedy. 1638.
Rptd in Dodsley (1744), vol. x, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. XII.
[This is a late heroic-romantic tragedy. Dorothy Osborne acted a part
in it; see her Letter Lxvi. ]
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453
WILLIAM BOWYER (? ).
The Valiant Scot. By J. W. Gent. 1637. (The dedication is signed William
Bowyer. ') An edition by Carver, J. L. , is promised in publications of the
University of Pennsylvania.
(A belated chronicle-history on the career of William Wallace. ]
RICHARD BROME.
The Northern Lasse, A Comoedie. As it hath beene often Acted with good
Applause, at the Globe, and Black Fryers. By his Majesties Servants.
1632. Other eds. : 1663, 1684.
The Antipodes: A Comedie. Acted in the yeare 1638, by the Queenes
Majesties Servants, at Salisbury Court in Fleet-street. 1640.
The Sparagus Garden: A Comedie. Acted in the yeare 1635 by the then
Company of Revels, at Salisbury Court. 1640.
A Joviall Crew: Or, The Merry Beggars. Presented in a Comedie, at The
Cock-pit in Drury-Lane, in the year 1641. 1652. Other eds. : 1661, 1684.
Rptd in Dodsley (1744), vol. vi, and in Reeds and Collier's Dodsley,
volg. x and x respectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. III.
The first eds. of these were printed in Brome's lifetime. After his death
appeared :
Five New Playes, (viz. ) The (Madd Couple well matcht. Novella. Court
Beggar. City Witt. Damoiselle). 1653.
Brome, Alexander, edited these plays, all but the first of which have a
separate title-page.
The Queenes Exchange, A Comedy Acted with generall applause at the
Black-Friers By His Majesties Servants. 1657. Again in 1661 as The
Royall Exchange.
Five new Playes, viz. The English Moor, or The Mock-Marriage. The Love-
Sick Court, or The Ambitious Politique. Covent Garden Weeded. The
New Academy, or The New Exchange. The Queen and Concubine.
1659.
Brome, Alexander, edited these plays, each of which has a separate
title-page.
The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome containing fifteen comedies now
first collected in three volumes. 1873. (Pearson's reprint. )
This ed, is reviewed by Symonds, J. A. , in the Academy, 1874.
Faust, E. K. R. Richard Brome. (Diss. ) Halle, 1887. [Ample and careful. ]
LODOWICK CARLELL.
The Deserving Favorite. . . . Written by Lodowicke Carlell, Esquire, Gentle-
man of the Bowes, and Groome of the King and Queenes Privie
Chamber. 1629, 1659.
Rptd with a biography of Carlell and a critical essay on his plays by
Gray, C. H. , Chicago, 1905.
Arviragus and Philicia. . . . The first and second Part. 1639.
The Passionate Lovers, A Tragi-Comedy, the First and Second Parts. 1655.
Two New Playes. Viz. 1. The Fool would be a Favourit: or, The Discreet
Lover. 2. Osmond, the Great Turk: or, The Noble Servant. 1657.
The plays were also issued separately in 1657.
Heraclius Emperour of the East. A Tragedy. Written in French by
Monsieur de Corneille. Englished by Lodowick Carlell, Esq. 1664.
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454
Bibliography
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT.
(See bibliography to chap. XII, post. )
JOHN COOKE.
Greene's Tu quoque, or, The Cittie Gallant. As it hath beene divers times
acted by the Queenes Majesties Servants. 1614. Another ed. : 1622; and
once undated.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. III, VII, VII, XI, re-
spectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
ROBERT DABORNE.
A Christian turn'd Turke: Or, The Tragicall Lives and Deaths of the two
Famous Pyrates, Ward and Dansiker. As it hath been publickly Acted.
Written By Robert Daborn, Gentleman. 1612.
The Poor-Mans Comfort. A Tragi-Comedy, As it was divers times Acted at
the Cock-pit in Drury lane with great applause. Written by Robert
Dauborne, Master of Arts. 1655. There is a manuscript copy of this in
Egerton MSS, 1994.
[An inferior dramatist, interesting chiefly for his extant letters to
Henslowe in the year 1613. He died dean of Lismore in 1628. ]
SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT.
The Tragedy of Albovine, King of the Lombards. By Wm. D'avenant. 1629.
For a discussion of the sources of this tragedy see Campbell, A. , in the
Journal of Germanic Philology, vol. iv, 1902.
The Cruell Brother. A Tragedy. 1630.
The Just Italian. 1630. [The author's name in these two plays appeare
after the dedication. ]
The Platonick Lovers. A Tragæcomedy. The Authour William D'avenant,
Servant to her Majestie. 1636.
The Witts. A Comedie. The Authour William D'avenant, Servant to Her
Majestie. 1636.
Rptd in Reed's Dodsley, vol. VIII, and Collier's Dodsley, vol. VIII;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. I.
The Unfortunate Lovers: A Tragedie; . . . The Author William Davenant,
Servant to Her Majestie. 1643, 1649.
Love and Honour. Written by W. Davenant Knight. . . . 1649.
Two Excellent Plays: The Wits, A Comedie. The Platonick Lovers, A
Tragi-Comedie. 1665.
The Works of S: William Davenant K. 1673. (In this there are consider.
able alterations in the case of some plays. ]
The Dramatic Works of Sir William Davenant, with prefatory memoir and
notes. Ed. by Maidment, J. and Logan, W. H. (Dramatists of the
Restoration. ) 5 vols. 1872-4.
(As to D'Avenant see, also, bibliography to chap. v of vol. VIII, post. )
ROBERT DAVENPORT,
A Pleasant and Witty Comedy: Called, A New Tricke to Cheat the Divell.
Written by R. D. Gent. 1639.
King John and Matilda, A Tragedy. As it was Acted with great Applause
by Her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane. Written by
Robert Davenport Gent. 1655. Another ed. : 1662, 'Written by W. Daven. '
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Chapter IX
455
The City-Night-Cap: Or, Crede quod habes, et habes. A Tragi-Comedy.
As it was Acted with great Applause, by Her Majesties Servants, at the
Phoenix in Drury Lane. 1661.
Rptd in the four eds. of Dodsley, in vols. IX, XI, XI, XIII, respectively;
and in Ancient B. D. vol. III.
The Works of Robert Davenport. Bullen's Old English Plays, N. S.
vol. III.
For an essay on King John and Matilda see the Retrospective Review,
vol. iv.
John Day.
The Ile of Guls. As it hath been often playd in the blacke Fryars, by the
Children of the Revels. 1606. Another ed. : 1633.
Humour out of breath. A Comedie Divers times latelie acted, By the
Children of the Kings Revells. 1608.
Law-Trickes or, who would have Thought it. As it hath bene divers times
Acted by the Children of the Revels. 1608.
The Parliament of Bees, With their proper Characters. Or A Bee-hive
furnisht with twelve Honycombes, as Pleasant as Profitable. Being
an Allegoricall description of the actions of good and bad men in these
our daies. By John Daye, Sometimes Student of Caius Colledge in
Cambridge. 1641.
There is among the Lansdowne MSS (no. 725) a contemporary
transcript of The Parliament of Bees, probably written about 1639.
(With William Rowley and George Wilkins ? ) The Travailes of The three
English Brothers, Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony, Mr Robert Shirley. As it
is now play'd by her Majesties Servants. 1607.
The Works of John Day. Ed. Bullen, A. H. 1881.
The Parliament of Bees and Humour out of breath are included in Nero
and other Plays (Mermaid Series), 1888, with an introductory essay on Day's
plays in the volume by Symons, A.
For an essay on John Day by Swinburne, A. C. , see The Nineteenth
Century, October 1897.
NATHANIEL FIELD.
A Woman is a Weather-cocke. A New Comedy, As it was acted before the
King in White-Hall. And divers times Privately at the White-Friers,
By the Children of her Majesties Revels. 1612.
Amends for Ladies. A Comedie. As it was acted at the Blacke-Fryers,
both by the Princes Servants, and the Lady Elizabeths. 1618.
