An English Prologue and
Epilogue
to the Latin Comedy of Ignoramus.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06
1, 1875.
Churchill, G. B. Richard III bis Shakespeare. 1897. Enlarged in
Palaestra, vol. x, 1900.
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod.
Lang. Rev. vol. 111, no. 2.
Jahrbuch, XXXIV, p. 258.
JASPER MAYNE.
(See bibliography to chap. IX, ante. )
ROBERT MEAD.
The Combat of Love and Friendship, a Comedy, As it hath formerly been
presented by the Gentlemen of Ch. Ch. in Oxford. By Robert Mead
sometimes of the same Colledge. 1654.
PETER MEASE.
Adrastus parentans sive vindicta. Tragoedia. Brit. Mus. Add. MSS, 10417.
Source: Herodotus, bk. i. ch. 35.
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. In
Mod. Lang. Rev, vol. III, no. 2.
WILLIAM MEWE.
Pseudomagia. M88 in Emmanuel coll. Cam. , 1. 3. 16, `Authore Mro Mewe
Cant. Col. Eman. '; Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 17. 10.
THOMAS NEALE.
The Warde, a tragicomedy. . . . 16 Sept. 1637. MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson
Poet. 79. (This MS contains a number of works written by Neale
between 1637 and 1644. )
PHILIP PARSONS.
Atalanta M8 in Brit. Mus. Harl. 6924. (Contains dedication in Latin
elegiacs to Laud, as President of St John's coll. , Oxford, signed by the
author. )
I.
THOMAS RANDOLPH.
Aristippus; or, the Joviall Philosopher: Demonstrativelie prooving, that
Quartes, Pintes, and Pottles, Are sometimes necessary Authours in a
Scholers Library. Presented in a private Shew. To which is added,
The Conceited Pedler. 1630. Another ed, in same year, and in 1631
and 1635. An undated ed. also published in Dublin.
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:
The Jealous Lovers. A Comedie presented to their gracias Majesties at
Cambridge, by the Students of Trinity-Colledge. Written by Thomas
Randolph, Master of Arts, and Fellow of the House. Cambridge. 1632.
Later eds. in 1634 and 1640.
Poems with the Muses Looking-Glasse: and Amyntas. By Thomas Randolph
Master of Arts, and late Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge. 4to.
1638.
This volume was edited by Randolph, Robert, the poet's brother.
The 2nd ed. , enlarged, 12mo. , 1640, includes the 1640 edition of The
Jealous Lovers. Aristippus, to which the Pedler is added, does not
appear till the 4th ed. The 5th ed. was reached by 1664.
The Muse's Looking Glass was reprinted in the earlier three eds. of
Dodsley, in vols. VI, IX, ix, respectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
For a full discussion of Amyntas see Greg's Pastoral Poetry and
Pastoral Drama, 1906.
Poetical and Dramatic Works. Collected and edited by Hazlitt, W. C.
2 vols. 1875.
For an essay on Randolph see the Retrospective Review, vol. vi.
Kottas, K. Thomas Randolph, sein Leben und seine Werke. Wiener
Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie. 1909.
J. RICKETS.
Byrsa Basilica seu Regale Excambium à Sereniss. Regina Elizabetha in
personâ snå sic insignitum; Anno Dom: 1570. Mense Januar: 23. die,
Monumentum Mercuriale D. D. Thomae Greshami Militis et Negotiatoris
Regii; qui suis solius sumptibus e solo erexit, dicavitque tam Mercatori
quam Mercurio. MS in Bodleian, Tanner 207. (The name of the author
is on the last leaf. )
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 281-5.
THOMAS RILEY (? ).
Cornelianum Dolium. Comedia lepidissima optimorum judiciis approbata,
et theatrali coryphæo, nec immerito, donata, palma chorali apprime digna
Auctore T. R. 1638.
Assigned by Hazlitt, C. W. , to Thomas Riley of Trinity college, Cam-
bridge; possibly by Thomas Randolph.
Source: Boccaccio, G. : Decameron, 2nd Story of Seventh Day.
The European Magazine, vol. XXXVII, pp. 343–4 and 439.
GEORGE RUGGLE.
Ignoramus. Comedia coram Regia Magistate Jacobi Regis Angliæ &
Londoni. Impensis J. S. 1630.
. . . Secunda editio auctior & emendatior. Una cum Argumentis unicuique
Scenæ præpositis, ut melius totius fabulæ scopus, qui aliter obscurior
est, intelligatur. . . Sumptibus G. E. & J. S. 1630.
Comedia coram Rege Jacobo et Totius Angliæ Magnatibus per Aca-
demicos Cantabrigienses habita. Editio Tertia, locis sexcentis emendatior.
Cum Eorum supplemento quæ, causidicorum municipalium reverentia,
hactenus desiderabantur. Autore Mr Ruggle, Aulæ Clarensis A. M.
Later eds. in 1659, 1668, 1707, 1731, 1736 (at Dublin), 1737.
MSS in Bodleian, Tanner 306; Brit. Mus. , Harl. 6869 (imperfect), and
7042, f. 245 (cast only); and reference to MS, possibly Mr Ruggle's copy'
formerly at Clare Hall.
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477
Ignoramus. . . . Nunc denuo in lucem edita cum notis historicis et criticis, quibus
insuper praeponitur vita auctoris et subjicitur glossarum vocabula forensia
dilucide exponens accurate. Johanne Sidneio Hawkins Arm. 1787.
Abbreviatus. Comedia in schola Mercatorum Scissorum Habita, Anno
MDCCLXIII.
English versions :
Ignoramus: A Comedy As it was several times Acted with extraordinary
Applause, before the Magisty of King James With a Supplement which
(out of respect to the Students of the Common Law) was hitherto wanting.
Written in Latine by R. Ruggles sometimes Master of Arts in Clare
Colledge in Cambridge. And Translated into English by R. C[odrington]
sometimes Master of Arts in Magdalen Colledge in Oxford. 1662.
The English Lawyer, a Comedy, acted at the Royal Theatre; written by
Edward Ravenscroft, Gent. 1678.
An English Prologue and Epilogue to the Latin Comedy of Ignoramus.
With a Preface and Notes Relative to Modern Times and Manners. By
George Dyer, Late of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. 1797. (Written
for the performance of the play at Westminster school in 1794. )
Della Porta, G. B. La Trappolaria. 1596.
Cowell, John. The Interpreter. 1607.
Mullinger, J. B. The University of Cambridge, vol. II, pp. 529-540.
(Contains an analysis of the plot of the play. )
John SADLER.
Masquerade du Ciel. Presented to the great Queen of the little world:
a Celestial Map of the heavenly bodies the years 1639, 1640 by J. S. of
Emmanuel college, Cambridge.
GEORGE SALTERNE.
Tomumbeius sive Saltanici in Aegypto Inperii Eversio. Tragoedia nova
auctore Georgio Salterno Bristoënsi. Bodleian MSS, Rawlinson Poet. 75.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 247-9.
JOSEPH SIMEON.
Fratrum Concordia Sæva seu Zeno. Rome, 1648.
Leo Armenus sive Impietas Punita. (Included with Zeno in Simonis, J. ,
Tragediæ quinque quarum duæ prostremæ nunc primum lucem vident,
Liège, 1657. ) Later eds. in 1680 and 1697.
MSS of both plays in Univ. Lib. Cam. , Ii. vi. 35, and of Zeno in Brit.
Mus. , Harl. 5024.
[Simeon, 1594–1671, was Provincial of the Jesuits, and lived chiefly
in Rome and Liège. Zeno, according to the Retrospective Review, vol.
XII, 5, was acted at Cambridge in 1631. ]
Ladit in Humanis Divina Potentia Rebus sive Leo Armenus: Tragoedia.
MS in Univ. Lib. Cam. , Ii. vi. 35.
THOMAS SNELLING.
Thibaldus sive Vindictae Ingenium Tragoedia. Oxoniae. Anno Dom. 1640.
Reissued later as Pharamus sive Libido Vindex. Hispanica tragoedia.
Londini, 1650.
Bolte, J. Die Oxforder Tragödie Thibaldus. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol.
XXVII, pp. 228-9.
Madan, F. The Early Oxford Press. p. 223. 1895.
Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. Ed. Bliss, P. Vol. 111, p. 275.
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Confessor. MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson Poet. 77.
(Thomas Sparrowe, who dedicates the play to an unnamed Bishop,
matriculated as a pensioner of St John's college, Cambridge, on 22 March
1629/30, and graduated B. A. in 1632/3. See Smith, G. C. Moore, Notes
on some English University Plays in Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. 111, no. 2, p. 155. )
WILLIAM STEVENSON (? ).
(On the attribution of Gammer Gurtons Nedle to Stevenson see text. )
A Ryght Pithy, Pleasannt an(d) merie Comedie: Intytuled Gammer gurtons
Nedle: Played on Stage, not longe ago in Christes Colledge in Cambridge.
Made by Mr. S. Mr. of Art. Thomas Colwell. 1575.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts (1909). Rptd by Johnson, T, in
1661, with imprint 'Played on the stage near a hundred years ago in
Christs-Colledge in Cambridge'; in Origin of E. D. vol. 1; Dodsley
(1744), vol. 1 (mod. s. ); in Reed's Dodsley, vol. 11, in Collier's Dodsley,
vol. 11, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. 11; in Ancient B. D. vol 1 (mod. 8. );
in Old E. D. , vol. 1 (mod. s. ); in Manly's Specimens, vol. II; and ed.
Bradley, H. , in Gayley's R. E. C.
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John Still. ]
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Athenæum, 6 Aug. 1898.
Chambers. Vol. 11, p. 457.
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See bibliography to vol. III, chap. XVII.
(The author of these two Tracts speaks of John Bridges,
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:
WILLIAM STRODE.
The Floating Island: A Tragi-Comedy, Acted before his Majesty at Oxford,
Aug. 29. 1636. By the Students of Christ-Church. Written by William
Strode, late Orator of the University of Oxford, the Aires and Songs set
by M' Henry Lawes, servant to his late Majesty in his publick and private
Musick. 1655.
Rptd in The Poetical Works of William Strode, ed. Dobell, Bertram,
1907.
6
EDMUND STUB.
Fraus Honesta. Comoedia Cantabrigiæ olim acta, authore Magistro Stubbe,
Collegii Trinitatis Socio. 1632.
MS in Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 17. 10, ' Acta erat haec Comedia decimo die
Febr. A. D. 1618'; also R. 17. 9.
MS in Emmanuel coll. Cam. , III. 1. 17, with cast of the play, and note,
apparently in a different hand, 'Scæna est Florentiæ decimo die Februarii,
1616.
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod.
Lang. Rev.
Churchill, G. B. Richard III bis Shakespeare. 1897. Enlarged in
Palaestra, vol. x, 1900.
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod.
Lang. Rev. vol. 111, no. 2.
Jahrbuch, XXXIV, p. 258.
JASPER MAYNE.
(See bibliography to chap. IX, ante. )
ROBERT MEAD.
The Combat of Love and Friendship, a Comedy, As it hath formerly been
presented by the Gentlemen of Ch. Ch. in Oxford. By Robert Mead
sometimes of the same Colledge. 1654.
PETER MEASE.
Adrastus parentans sive vindicta. Tragoedia. Brit. Mus. Add. MSS, 10417.
Source: Herodotus, bk. i. ch. 35.
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. In
Mod. Lang. Rev, vol. III, no. 2.
WILLIAM MEWE.
Pseudomagia. M88 in Emmanuel coll. Cam. , 1. 3. 16, `Authore Mro Mewe
Cant. Col. Eman. '; Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 17. 10.
THOMAS NEALE.
The Warde, a tragicomedy. . . . 16 Sept. 1637. MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson
Poet. 79. (This MS contains a number of works written by Neale
between 1637 and 1644. )
PHILIP PARSONS.
Atalanta M8 in Brit. Mus. Harl. 6924. (Contains dedication in Latin
elegiacs to Laud, as President of St John's coll. , Oxford, signed by the
author. )
I.
THOMAS RANDOLPH.
Aristippus; or, the Joviall Philosopher: Demonstrativelie prooving, that
Quartes, Pintes, and Pottles, Are sometimes necessary Authours in a
Scholers Library. Presented in a private Shew. To which is added,
The Conceited Pedler. 1630. Another ed, in same year, and in 1631
and 1635. An undated ed. also published in Dublin.
## p. 476 (#494) ############################################
476
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:
The Jealous Lovers. A Comedie presented to their gracias Majesties at
Cambridge, by the Students of Trinity-Colledge. Written by Thomas
Randolph, Master of Arts, and Fellow of the House. Cambridge. 1632.
Later eds. in 1634 and 1640.
Poems with the Muses Looking-Glasse: and Amyntas. By Thomas Randolph
Master of Arts, and late Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge. 4to.
1638.
This volume was edited by Randolph, Robert, the poet's brother.
The 2nd ed. , enlarged, 12mo. , 1640, includes the 1640 edition of The
Jealous Lovers. Aristippus, to which the Pedler is added, does not
appear till the 4th ed. The 5th ed. was reached by 1664.
The Muse's Looking Glass was reprinted in the earlier three eds. of
Dodsley, in vols. VI, IX, ix, respectively; and in Ancient B. D. vol. 11.
For a full discussion of Amyntas see Greg's Pastoral Poetry and
Pastoral Drama, 1906.
Poetical and Dramatic Works. Collected and edited by Hazlitt, W. C.
2 vols. 1875.
For an essay on Randolph see the Retrospective Review, vol. vi.
Kottas, K. Thomas Randolph, sein Leben und seine Werke. Wiener
Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie. 1909.
J. RICKETS.
Byrsa Basilica seu Regale Excambium à Sereniss. Regina Elizabetha in
personâ snå sic insignitum; Anno Dom: 1570. Mense Januar: 23. die,
Monumentum Mercuriale D. D. Thomae Greshami Militis et Negotiatoris
Regii; qui suis solius sumptibus e solo erexit, dicavitque tam Mercatori
quam Mercurio. MS in Bodleian, Tanner 207. (The name of the author
is on the last leaf. )
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 281-5.
THOMAS RILEY (? ).
Cornelianum Dolium. Comedia lepidissima optimorum judiciis approbata,
et theatrali coryphæo, nec immerito, donata, palma chorali apprime digna
Auctore T. R. 1638.
Assigned by Hazlitt, C. W. , to Thomas Riley of Trinity college, Cam-
bridge; possibly by Thomas Randolph.
Source: Boccaccio, G. : Decameron, 2nd Story of Seventh Day.
The European Magazine, vol. XXXVII, pp. 343–4 and 439.
GEORGE RUGGLE.
Ignoramus. Comedia coram Regia Magistate Jacobi Regis Angliæ &
Londoni. Impensis J. S. 1630.
. . . Secunda editio auctior & emendatior. Una cum Argumentis unicuique
Scenæ præpositis, ut melius totius fabulæ scopus, qui aliter obscurior
est, intelligatur. . . Sumptibus G. E. & J. S. 1630.
Comedia coram Rege Jacobo et Totius Angliæ Magnatibus per Aca-
demicos Cantabrigienses habita. Editio Tertia, locis sexcentis emendatior.
Cum Eorum supplemento quæ, causidicorum municipalium reverentia,
hactenus desiderabantur. Autore Mr Ruggle, Aulæ Clarensis A. M.
Later eds. in 1659, 1668, 1707, 1731, 1736 (at Dublin), 1737.
MSS in Bodleian, Tanner 306; Brit. Mus. , Harl. 6869 (imperfect), and
7042, f. 245 (cast only); and reference to MS, possibly Mr Ruggle's copy'
formerly at Clare Hall.
6
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Chapter XII
477
Ignoramus. . . . Nunc denuo in lucem edita cum notis historicis et criticis, quibus
insuper praeponitur vita auctoris et subjicitur glossarum vocabula forensia
dilucide exponens accurate. Johanne Sidneio Hawkins Arm. 1787.
Abbreviatus. Comedia in schola Mercatorum Scissorum Habita, Anno
MDCCLXIII.
English versions :
Ignoramus: A Comedy As it was several times Acted with extraordinary
Applause, before the Magisty of King James With a Supplement which
(out of respect to the Students of the Common Law) was hitherto wanting.
Written in Latine by R. Ruggles sometimes Master of Arts in Clare
Colledge in Cambridge. And Translated into English by R. C[odrington]
sometimes Master of Arts in Magdalen Colledge in Oxford. 1662.
The English Lawyer, a Comedy, acted at the Royal Theatre; written by
Edward Ravenscroft, Gent. 1678.
An English Prologue and Epilogue to the Latin Comedy of Ignoramus.
With a Preface and Notes Relative to Modern Times and Manners. By
George Dyer, Late of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. 1797. (Written
for the performance of the play at Westminster school in 1794. )
Della Porta, G. B. La Trappolaria. 1596.
Cowell, John. The Interpreter. 1607.
Mullinger, J. B. The University of Cambridge, vol. II, pp. 529-540.
(Contains an analysis of the plot of the play. )
John SADLER.
Masquerade du Ciel. Presented to the great Queen of the little world:
a Celestial Map of the heavenly bodies the years 1639, 1640 by J. S. of
Emmanuel college, Cambridge.
GEORGE SALTERNE.
Tomumbeius sive Saltanici in Aegypto Inperii Eversio. Tragoedia nova
auctore Georgio Salterno Bristoënsi. Bodleian MSS, Rawlinson Poet. 75.
Synopsis in Jahrbuch, xxxiv, pp. 247-9.
JOSEPH SIMEON.
Fratrum Concordia Sæva seu Zeno. Rome, 1648.
Leo Armenus sive Impietas Punita. (Included with Zeno in Simonis, J. ,
Tragediæ quinque quarum duæ prostremæ nunc primum lucem vident,
Liège, 1657. ) Later eds. in 1680 and 1697.
MSS of both plays in Univ. Lib. Cam. , Ii. vi. 35, and of Zeno in Brit.
Mus. , Harl. 5024.
[Simeon, 1594–1671, was Provincial of the Jesuits, and lived chiefly
in Rome and Liège. Zeno, according to the Retrospective Review, vol.
XII, 5, was acted at Cambridge in 1631. ]
Ladit in Humanis Divina Potentia Rebus sive Leo Armenus: Tragoedia.
MS in Univ. Lib. Cam. , Ii. vi. 35.
THOMAS SNELLING.
Thibaldus sive Vindictae Ingenium Tragoedia. Oxoniae. Anno Dom. 1640.
Reissued later as Pharamus sive Libido Vindex. Hispanica tragoedia.
Londini, 1650.
Bolte, J. Die Oxforder Tragödie Thibaldus. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol.
XXVII, pp. 228-9.
Madan, F. The Early Oxford Press. p. 223. 1895.
Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. Ed. Bliss, P. Vol. 111, p. 275.
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478
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Confessor. MS in Bodleian, Rawlinson Poet. 77.
(Thomas Sparrowe, who dedicates the play to an unnamed Bishop,
matriculated as a pensioner of St John's college, Cambridge, on 22 March
1629/30, and graduated B. A. in 1632/3. See Smith, G. C. Moore, Notes
on some English University Plays in Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. 111, no. 2, p. 155. )
WILLIAM STEVENSON (? ).
(On the attribution of Gammer Gurtons Nedle to Stevenson see text. )
A Ryght Pithy, Pleasannt an(d) merie Comedie: Intytuled Gammer gurtons
Nedle: Played on Stage, not longe ago in Christes Colledge in Cambridge.
Made by Mr. S. Mr. of Art. Thomas Colwell. 1575.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts (1909). Rptd by Johnson, T, in
1661, with imprint 'Played on the stage near a hundred years ago in
Christs-Colledge in Cambridge'; in Origin of E. D. vol. 1; Dodsley
(1744), vol. 1 (mod. s. ); in Reed's Dodsley, vol. 11, in Collier's Dodsley,
vol. 11, and in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. 11; in Ancient B. D. vol 1 (mod. 8. );
in Old E. D. , vol. 1 (mod. s. ); in Manly's Specimens, vol. II; and ed.
Bradley, H. , in Gayley's R. E. C.
Biographia Dramatica. Vol. II. p. 257. [Attributes the play to
John Still. ]
Bradley, H. The Authorship of Gammer Gurton's Needle. The
Athenæum, 6 Aug. 1898.
Chambers. Vol. 11, p. 457.
Martin Marprelate Tracts: (1) The Epistle, (2) The Epitome. 1588.
See bibliography to vol. III, chap. XVII.
(The author of these two Tracts speaks of John Bridges,
dean of Salisbury, as the reputed author of the play. )
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xix, 1896. [Supports the attribution of the play to Bridges. ]
:
WILLIAM STRODE.
The Floating Island: A Tragi-Comedy, Acted before his Majesty at Oxford,
Aug. 29. 1636. By the Students of Christ-Church. Written by William
Strode, late Orator of the University of Oxford, the Aires and Songs set
by M' Henry Lawes, servant to his late Majesty in his publick and private
Musick. 1655.
Rptd in The Poetical Works of William Strode, ed. Dobell, Bertram,
1907.
6
EDMUND STUB.
Fraus Honesta. Comoedia Cantabrigiæ olim acta, authore Magistro Stubbe,
Collegii Trinitatis Socio. 1632.
MS in Trin. coll. Cam. , R. 17. 10, ' Acta erat haec Comedia decimo die
Febr. A. D. 1618'; also R. 17. 9.
MS in Emmanuel coll. Cam. , III. 1. 17, with cast of the play, and note,
apparently in a different hand, 'Scæna est Florentiæ decimo die Februarii,
1616.
Smith, G. C. Moore. Notes on some English University Plays. Mod.
Lang. Rev.
