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See account in the text of this document, which includes the following
plays of unknown authorship:
Ara Fortunae; Saturnalia; Philomela; Time's Complaint; The
Seven Dayes of the Weeke; Philomathes; Ira seu Tumulus Fortunae;
Periander.
The narrative part of the MS, and the play, The Seven Dayes of the
Weeke, are printed in Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana, vol. 1, 7 (1816),
under the title, The Christmas Prince, As it was exhibited in the Uni-
versity of Oxford, in the year 1607.
Schelling, F. E. The Queen's Progress, and other Elizabethan Sketches.
1904.
BARTEN HOLIDAY.
Texvoyapia : Or the Marriages of the Arts. A Comedie. Written by Barten
Holyday, Master of Arts, and Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and
acted by the Students of the same House before the Universitie, at Shrove-
tide. 1618. Another ed. in 1630.
Nichols, J. Progresses of James I. Vol. iv, pp. 1109-12.
:
WILLIAM JOHNSON.
Valetudinarium. MSS in Emmanuel coll. Cam. , I. 2. 32, 'Comoedia acta
coram Academicis Febr. 6° 1637. Authore Mr Guill. Johnson Coll.
Regin. Soc. '; Univ. Lib. Cam. , Dd. 111. 73; St John's coll. Cam. , S. 59
(imperfect).
Thomas KIRCHMAYER (Naogeorgos).
Tragoedia nova, Pammachius, autore Thoma Naogeorgo Straubingensi. Cum
Præfatione laculenta. 1538.


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Cooper, C. H. Annals of Cambridge. Vol. 1, pp. 422–7. [Contains the
correspondence between Gardiner and Matthew Parker relative
to the performance of the play at Christ's college, Cambridge. ]
THOMAS LEGGE.
Richardus Tertius. MSS in Univ. Lib. Cam. , Mm. iv. 40, dated Comitiis
Bacchalaureorum A. D. 1579/80; Caius coll. Cam. , 62 (formerly 125), where
it is described as tragoedia trium vesperum, Habita in Collegio Divi
Johannis Evangelistae, Comitiis Bacchalaureorum Anno 1573 (a mistake
for 1579); Emmanuel coll. Cam. , 1. 3. 19, with list of actors, confirming
the date 1579/80; Clare coll. Cam. , Kk. 3. 12, dated'comitiis Bacchal. 1579';
Bodleian, Tanner 306 (first 'actio only) with note 'Acted in St John's
Hall before the Earle of Essex 17 March, 1582' (date probably mistaken);
Brit. Mus. , Harl. 2412 and 6926.
Printed in Shakesp. Soc. Publ. , 1844, and in Hazlitt-Collier, Shake-
speare's Library, 11. 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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Cornelianum Dolium. Comedia lepidissima optimorum judiciis approbata,
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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]
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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
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Della Porta, G. B. La Trappolaria. 1596.
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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,
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