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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
LOS ANGELES 




A MANUAL 



COLLECTOR AND AMATEUR 



OLD ENGLISH PLAYS. 



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EDITED 

FROM THE MATERIAL FORMED BY KIRKMAN, LANGBAINE. 

DOWXES, OLDYS, AND HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS, WITH 

EXTE.\S/]'E ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 

BY 

\V. CAREW HAZLITT. 




LONDON- 
PICKERING & CHATTO 

66. ^AV^r ARRET. ,>AV, 
1892 



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PREFACE. 



-5 When I proposed to myself the superintendence of a new edition of 
A' Langbaine,* with the additional matter published by Mr. Halliwell- 
^ Phillipps, F. R.S., F.S.A., etc., in iS6o, incorporated, I had no conception 

fthat beyond the entries and notes which I had gradually drawn together 
between i860 and 1S90, much would remain to be done. But during the 
process of amalgamating these insertions, I discovered on every page of the 
work a proof that my predecessor had discharged his task in a manner 
^ infinitely more negligent and perfunctory than I had supposed, and it 
^ became indispensable either to relinquish the undertaking, or to submit 
"^ to the onerous duty of revising the volume from beginning to end. 1 
.^j was too warmly interested in my self-imposed labour to throw it up, and I 
i_ had to face the sole honourable alternative. No one can even cursorily 
gj e.\amine the two impressions side by side without perceiving how entirely 
the text has been castigated and improved ; but, of course, it will be 
easy for many to point out where I have failed, or might have accom- 
plished more. 

^The Dictionary of Old English Fiays of i860 marked, of course, a 

great advance on Langbaine, but nothing in comparison with what it 

might have done in more careful and conscientious hands. There is, as 

the case stands, scarcely any form of error and misstatement from which 

the publication is free. The defects of every kind are rather those of 

the earlier book improperly retained than any for which Mr. Halliwell- 

\H Phillipps is directly answerable. But that gentleman seldom put his 

^ whole strength into work not immediately associated with Shakespear, 

^ and we have here, no doubt, the result of casual and desultory jottings 

in an interleaved copy of Langbaine. The mischief is that a project 

of this sort, where the public demand is special and limited, however 

imperfect it may be, fills the room of a worthier book, and deprives 

those whose studies or researches are in a dramatic direction of the 

advantage of possessing a really useful Manual on the subject. 

The weakest portion of the original work, as it has so far appeared 
from time to time in print, is that which deals with the earlier dramatic 
literature. The group of productions nearest in i)oint of date to Lang- 

* Langbaine originally printed his book in 16S7, under ihe liile of Monius 
T7-iiunphans ; then a second time, in l688, as A Nrui Cata/o<;itc of English Plays, 
etc. ; and thirdly, in 1 691, in the form in which it was adopted as the basis and 
groundwork of Mr. Hallivvell-Phillipps's Dictionary. 



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vi PREFACE. 

baine and his immediate followers is described with a fair degree of 
accuracy and completeness. But the remarkable feature in the edition 
of i860 is that Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps should have not even attempted 
to improve a section of the undertaking which more directly lay within 
his favourite researches and sympathy, and should have permitted the 
grossest absurdities, corruptions, and fabrications to remain. 

While the i860 volume fails to record a very considerable number 
of dramatic items of signal importance, and also omits essential particu- 
lars respecting many others which are given, a large amount of space is 
uselessly occupied by repetitions with slight differences of the same 
article under two or more heads, where a cross-reference at most would 
be sufficient ; and I may perhaps add that there is a great deal of 
inaccurate bibliographical detail, which is out of place in a descriptive 
catalogue of a literary cast, and can be obtained in a far more satisfactory 
shape in the present writer's Handbook and Collections and Notes, to 
which a Gefieral Index is nearly ready. 

It is as true of our dramatic literature, as it is of the general body 
of early English printed books, that the actual volume or output was 
not only far larger than our antiquaries in former days imagined, but 
that we shall probably never succeed in replenishing with all the 
treasures which it once possessed the old theatre and theatrical library, 
although it has fallen to our lot in the course of the last fifty years or so 
to regain much, which was either unknown or believed to be lost, both 
in type and in MS. 

The iniquitous holocaust of an extensive and valuable series of 
unique early dramatic MSS. by the cook of John Warburton, Somerset 
Herald, should have been ere this reduced to its probable dimensions. 
It was undoubtedly a grave, yet so far a happy, exaggeration on the part 
of the original narrator of the story ; the plays, supposed to have been thus 
irretrievaljly lost, have been already in several cases recovered, and there 
is no question that others will occur from time to time in Collections. 

Still, notwithstanding the periodical jetsam and salvage, which have 
restored to us so many relics of the past illustrative of the progress and 
development of the English drama, a vast store of material remains within 
the category of being, at all events, hitherto unrecovered ; and the titles 
of some of these productions seem to have been preserved to us in 
many cases to tantalize our imagination by a vision, which they afford, 
of literary dainties never to be enjoyed. Our only solace is that, when 
some mi'-sing play is accidentally brought to light, the estimate which 
we had formed of it from the description in a record or an old catalogue 
is seldom realized. 

One noticeable feature in the book as now reproduced is the removal 
in as many instances as ])()ssil)le of the loose i)ractice by which (as I 
have observed) the former editors admitted notices of the same i)lay 
under two or three different heads. This, no doubt, arose from many 
of our old dramas i)OSsessing more than one title, or being known at 
different peri(;ds under various names ; but a cro.ss reference seems to 
meet the difficulty, and to facilitate the study or commaiul of all the 
existing facts respecting a piece in one place. 

There are certain other entries as to which I entertained some doubt. 



PREFACE. vii 

I refer to those plays which do not appear to have been even composed 
or translated with a view to the stage, including the I^^^lizabethan 
academical versions of the tragedies of vSeneca. But wc; frequently 
remark, in turning over the pages of dramatic records, that such works, 
if not immediately transferred to the boards, were valuable to practical 
playwrights as the basis or plot of pieces better adapted for public 
representation. 

The exceedingly dull and narrow Academic dramas were scarcely, 
perhaps, worth registration, unless it had been my object to render the 
Catalogue as perfect as possible. They certainly form a curious and 
not a very proud contrast to the productions which do not belong to 
that series. 

An interesting and important branch of an inquiry into the genealogy 
of early dramatic work is the passage in many cases of the same play 
under different names through successive stages of development before 
it reached a printed shape. A commencement was made in the former 
editions of the present undertaking of an attempt to trace and note the 
progress of certain plays, as they received the alterations and additions 
of successive authors in the employment of the theatres during the 
reigns of Elizabeth and her immediate successors ; and I have aimed at 
carrying what appeared to be so material a feature in the Manual as 
much farther as I could vvith the assistance of later information and dis- 
covery. 

The principles of revision and adaptation of existing plays appear to 
have been carried out to a much greater extent than was at first supposed ; 
and this circumstance makes a dif^culty in connection with the forma- 
tion of collected editions of dramatic writers, where, by the light of fresh 
revelation, the responsibility for the authorship is seen to be so divided 
and so difficult in apportionment. 

The enrolment of players and other caterers for the public amuse- 
ment under the name and protection of a nobleman is partly explained 
by the state of the law in regard to vagrants within the verge of the 
metropolis, which once embraced nearly all the theatres of London. 
All such persons, on being ap])rehended and convicted, were adjudged 
to be "grievously whipped and burnt through the gristle of the right ear 
with a red-hot iron an inch in compass ; and this regulation and liability 
extended to those using subtle craft and unlawful games or plays, some 
of them feigning to have knowledge in physiognomy, palmistry, etc., and 
all fencers, bearwards, co/iimou players in ifiterli/des, and minstrels not 
belonging to any Baron of this realm, etc." 

It will be perceived that there are several entries of Antic-masques 
performed before royalty and at the Inns of Court. These exhibitions 
were for a time very popular ; and the idea is adopted by the compiler 
of the History of Friar Bacon, first published about 1620, where Bacon 
performs successively a masque of the Five Senses and an antic-masque 
of Apes. 

It would be ungrateful and improper to overlook the obligations 
under which every worker in this field must be to Mr. Fleay for his 
laborious work on the London Stage, 1890. I have been personally 
indebted to it for several useful elucidations, more especially in regard to 



viii PREFACE. 

the currency of the same drama under different names, and the survivor- 
ship, with a varied forefront, of pieces supposed to have perished. So 
far as it is becoming in me to do so, I cordially endorse all that 
Mr. Fleay says in condemnation of the negligence or dishonesty of 
many who have preceded us both in the present direction ; and after the 
exhaustion of all probable sources of intelligence, as well as of all 
means of scrutiny, one is apt to be far from sanguine that one has 
cleared the ground from the ramified mischief perpetrated by the 
bungler and the forger from the Elizabethan era downward. 

I could have wished, however, that Mr. Fleay had rendered his book 
less complex and obscure in its arrangement. He has fallen into the 
same error for which he blames Malone, though in a somewhat different 
way. 

The appropriation by Mr. Fleay and Mr. A. H. Bullen of anonymous 
productions to known authors is, I apprehend, to be received with 
caution and allowance, inasmuch as the acknowledged works of those 
writers almost invariably bear their names either on the title page, or at 
the foot of the dedication, or in the Diaries of Henslowe, Herbert, and 
others. 

In looking at a volume, such as that offered to the public in the 
present case, we have to recollect, and we must acknowledge, that, 
independently of its mere technical and literary interest, it recommends 
itself to our notice and regard as a rich source of political and social 
illustration, and during the whole period of time which it embraces, 
affords valuable side-lights upon the events and characters recorded in 
our annals. 

There is, in truth, scarcely any phase or turn of our early history 
which is not touched by this Dramatic Chronicle. 

A tolerably exhaustive body of information on the reduction of 
history, legend, and fancy to a dramatic form from the earliest infancy 
of our drama to the close of the seventeenth century ought to prove an 
acceptable companion to all lovers of such literature ; and the present 
may be regarded as the first attempt to carry out the design with even 
approximate completeness. The successive labourers in the field have, 
of course, contributed to the result now before the public, and without 
their cumulative work it might have been almost impossible to achieve 
so much, or to approach so many degrees nearer to finality. 

It may be desirable to consult for this matter, inter alia : Sir James 
Whitelocke's /.ider Fameliciis. ed. Bruce, p. 12 ; Arber's Introduction 
to Fish's Supplication for the Beggars (1529) ; and Manning's Memoirs of 
>ir Benjamin Ruddy ard, 1841, especially the Nodes Templarice there 
inserted. In the Anti(/uarian Repertory, ed. 1807, i. 171, will be 
found an account of masques performed before Robert Dudley, Earl 
of Leicester, in the Low Countries, in 1585. In MS. Ashmole 1729, 
art. 82, is a letter from the Lady Arabella Stuart to Mr. I'Mward Talbot, 
stating that she had been unjustly accused of contriving a comedy and 
he a tragedy. — 16 Feb. [no year]. 

A New Index of Names, Theatres, Theatrical Companies, City 
(iilds, and other leading matters, has been added, and will probably be 
found useful. 



A MANUAL 



OLD ENGLISH PLAYS. 



AbdelazaP ; or, the Moor's Revenge : Tragedy by Mrs. Aphra, or 
Afra, Behn. Acted at the Duke of York's Theatre, in 1671. 
4to, 1677. 

This play is an alteration of Lusfs Dominion, or the Lascivious Queen, or the 
Spanish Moors Tragedy. From it Young took the hint of his tragedy (jf the 
Revenge ; the death of a father, and loss of a crown, being the prime motives of 
resentment equally in Abdelazar and Zanga. A similar reluctance appears in 
both at the descending to acts of villainy for the gratification of it, and both alike 
declare the sum of their crimes at the completion of their revenge. Geneste 
observes that " Mrs. Behn has made some considerable changes in the fifth act, 
and improved the whole play. Abdelazar is a striking character ; the outlines of 
Zanga are evidently borrowed from it ; but the two parts differ in this : Zanga has 
one object only in view — revenge ; whereas Abdelazar is instigated not only by 
the desire of revenge, but also by jealousy, ambition, and love. The part of 
Zanga is admirably written, and uniformly supported throughout ; but, after all, 
Abdelazar is the more spirited character of the two ; we detest him, but cannot 
despise him, and must feel some sort of respect for his courage : he does not 
descend to the low arts that Zanga does. Abdelazar's avowal of his guilt in the 
last scene is an addition by Mrs. Behn." 

Abraham : An early mystery, edited from the MS. in Trinity College, 
Dublin, by J. P. Collier, 1836. 

Abraham and Lot : A Scriptural drama thus noticed in Henslowe's 
Diary; "received at Abrame and Lotte, the 9 of Jenevvary, 
1593, lij- ^f-" 

Abraham's Sacrifice : A tragedy of Abraham's Sacrifice, written in 
French by Theodore Beza, and translated into English by Arthur 
Gelding ; finished at Paul's Beauchamp, in Essex, the nth day of 
August, 1575. With woodcuts. 8vo, 1577. 

It is a very faithful translation from Beza. 

Absalom : A drama by John Bale. No longer known. 

Absalom : 

A Scriptural drama alluded to in Henslowe's Z'/ary, ed. Collier, p. 241 — "paid 
for poleyes and workmanshipp for to hange Absolome, xiiij;/." 

Absalom : See David and Bathsheba. 



2 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S ^L\NUAL. Ats-Ad 

Absalom : A Latin tragedy by Thomas Watson, Bishop of Lincoln, 
afterwards Bishop of Winchester, a MS. at Penshurst. 
It is alluded to in Ascham's Schoolmaster, written in 1563, ed. 1571, fol. 57, and 
in IVIeres' Palladis Taniia, 1598. 

Abuses : Containing both a Comedy and a Tragedy performed July 30, 

1606, before the Kings of Great Britain and Denmark by the 

Children of Paul's, to their Majesties' satisfaction. 

This seems to have been under the management of J. Hemyngs, and to have 

been one of the three plays which he was employed to present at Greenwicli and 

Hampton Court. 

The Academy ; or, the Cambridge Dons : A comedy by Joshua 
Barnes. I^IS. in the library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. 
It appears to have been written about the year 1675 ; and from circum- 
stances referred to it may be conjectured to have been acted somewhere in the 

University. 

Achademios : 

A comedy by Skelton, no copy of which is now known to exist. It is men- 
tioned in the Garlaiid of Laurel — " his commedy, Achademios callyd by name." 

Achilles ; or, Iphigenia in Aulis : Tragedy by Abel Boyer. Acted at 
Drury Lane. 4to, 1700. 
This is a translation from the Ipliigcnie of Racine. It was acted in December, 
1699, without any success. 

On the appearance of the Victim, by Charles Johnson, in 17 14, Boyer repub- 
lished this play, under the title of the Victim, or AcJiillcs and Iphigenia in Aulis, 
l2mo, and in the preface to it says that it passed the correction and approbation 
of Dryden. 

Acolastus : A translation or ecphrasis by John Palsgrave, for the use 

of children, of a Latin play of the same name, written by Fullonius, 

on the story of the Prodigal Son, and originally performed at the 

Hague in 1529. 4to, 1540. 

The dedication to Henry VIII. is reprinted entire in Hazlitt's Book of Prefaces, 

1874, pp. 1-12. 

Actseon and Diana : With a Pastoral Story of the nymph CT'.none, 
followed by the several conceited humours of Bumpkin the hunts- 
man, Hobbinal the shepherd. Singing Simkin, and John Swabber 
the seaman. 4to, no date, and 1656. 
The story is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses. In the edition of 1656 it is 
said to have been acted with great applause at the Red Bull. In this edition is 
the addition of Simpleton the Smith, not before extant. The piece was after- 
wards published in the IVits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672, and in Chetwood's 
Collection, 1750. 

Adam : 

An Anglo-Norman drama on this subject is noticed in Notes and Queries for 
April 9, 1870. 

Adam and Eve : See Creation of the World. 

Adelphoi : A Latin comedy, performed at Trinity College, Cambridge, 
I'chruary 27, with the Sycophant, and again ALarch 2, 1612-13, O" 
the occasion of Prince Charles and the Count Palatine visiting the 
University. M.S. in the library of Trinity College. 

The performance lasted six hours, and the Count slept during the greater 
portion of it. Another MS. cojiy is in a volume in the Ihiili ("ollertion. I'lnglish 
translations of the Adelphoi tikxn. included m I'ernard's, Iloole's and Echard's versions 
of the Plays. 



Ado-Aga PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 3 

Adopation of the Shepherds : 

'I'liis forms one of the Chester, Coventry, and Widkirk (or Towneley) series of 
miracle-plays. But see note to Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York, edited 
by Nicolas, p. 222. 

Adrasta : Or, The Woman's Sfjleen And Love's Concjuest : A tragi- 
comedy. Never acted. By John Jones. 410, 1635. 

The intrigue in the third act is taken from Boccaccio, Day 8, Novel 8. It has 
very little merit, and was refusetl by the actors. It is dedicated to Eugenius, by 
which name he desires to comprehend all his friends, subscribing himself 
Musopliilus. 

Adrastus Parentans sive Vindicta : A Lutin tragedy by Peter 
Mease, dechcated to Launcelot Andrews,. Bishop of Winchester. 
Heber's MSS., No. 864; now MS. Addit., British Museum, 10,417. 
The argument is taken from Herodotus. 

Adson's Masque : A [jerformance of the seventeenth century, otherwise 
called J/r. Adso/is Masque. Addit. MS., British Museum, 10,444. 

The Adventures of Five Hours : A paraphrase (as it is admitted) 
from the Spanish of Calderon, by Sir Samuel Tuke. Tol, 1663; 
4to, 1664, 1671, 1704. 

Downes, in his /xosciiis Anglicainis, says it was written by that gentleman and 
the Earl of Bristol. Tuke first meniions in the edition of 1671 that the piece had 
been recommended by King Charles II. ; it was acted at Court, and was played 
thirteen days successively at Lincoln's Inn Fields in January, 1663, with great 
applause, and has several copies of verses prefixed to it by Cowley, Evelyn, and 
other eminent men of that time. 

Echard, in the ])reface to his translation of Terence, snys, "This is one of the 
pleasantest stories that ever appeared upon our stage, and has as much variety of 
plots and intrigues, without anything being precipitated, improper, or unnatural, 
as to the main aciion." Dedicated 10 the Right Ilon. Henry Howard. Evelyn, 
under date of December 23, 1662, says : " I went with Sir George [Samuel] 
Tuke to hear the comedians con and repeat his new comedy, ... a play whose 
plot was taken out of the famous Spanish poet, Calderon." Pepys gives a curious 
notice of the first performance of this play on January S, 1662-63. The house was 
crammed to suffocation, and, " by its frequent plaudits, did show their sufficient 
approbation." Pepys thought highly of this drama, and considered it far superior 
to Othello. In Hazlitt's Dodsley. 

.Emilia : A comedy in Latin by [Edward] Cecil, of St. John's College, 
acted at Cambridge on the occasion of the visit of King James in 
March, 16 14-15. 

"The chief part consisted of a counterfeit Sir Edward Ratcliffe, a foolish tutor 
of physic, which proved but a lean argument ; and though it were larded with 
pretty shows at the beginning and end, and with somewhat too broad speech for 
such a presence, yet it was still dry"' (State Papers). — 'i^t^ Notes and Queries, 
3rd S., ix. 321. 

.ffi sop's Crow : 

A play performed before the Court in the sixteenth century, in which most of 
the actors were dressed as birds. It is mentioned by Baldwin in the Argument 
before Beware the Cat, 1570, 1584, etc. — See Hazlitt's Book of Prefaces, 
1870, p. 73. 

Against Momi and Zoili : A dramatic piece in two parts, by John 
Bale, Bishop of Ossory. 
Of this piece we have no remains but the bare mention of it by himself, in his 
account ol the Writers of Britain. 



4 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Aga-Aja 

Against Those who Adulterate the Word of God : A dramatic 
piece by the last-mentioned author. 

In all probability they were both written between 1530 and 1540. 

Ag'amemnon : The eighth tragedy of Seneca, intituled Agamemnon, 
tranblatcd out of Latin into English by John Studley, student in 
Trinity College, in Cambridge. 8vo, 1566, and in the 4to of 1581. 

Entered on the Stationers' Registers in 1565-66. Recommendatory verses are 
prefixed. In his dedication to Cecil, Studley says that he " was sometyme 
scholler in the Queenes Majesties grammer-schoole at Westminster." He has 
added a whole scene in the fifth act. 

Agamemnon : A tragedy written by Decker and Chettle. Acted by 
the Earl of Nottingham's Company in 1599. 

See Henslowe's Diary, p. 153. Not printed. 

Agamemnon and Ulysses : 

A play acted before the Court in 15S4, thus described in the Revels' Aeconnts, 
ed. Cunningham, p. 18S : '' The history of Agamemnon and Ulisses presented 
and enacted before her jSIajestie by the Earle of Oxenford his boyes on St. Johns 
daie at night at Grenewiche." 

Agio : See Egio. 

Aglaura : Tragi-comedy by Sir John Suckling. Acted at the private 
house in Black Fiiars. Fol., 1638; 8vo, 1646, 1648; and there is 
an early MS. copy in Royal MS., British Museum, 18 C. 25. 

The author has so contrived this play, by means of an alteration in the last act, 
that it may be acted either as a tragi-comedy or a perfect tragedy — a plan which 
was followed by Sir Robert Howard in his Vestal Virgin. The scene lies in 
Persia. The play was \ery successful. Brome wrote some verses " Upon 
Aglaura in folio," printed in J\/usarui/i Dclicicc, 1656. Pepys, however, notes it 
as " but a mean play ; nothing of design in it." The writer of a letter dated 
February 7, 1637, says that this " play cost three or four hundred pounds setting 
out ; eight or ten suits of new clothes he gave the players — an unheard-of 
prodigality." There is a memorandum that it was played at the Red Bull on 
February 27, 1661, "the tragical way." 

Agnes de Castro : Tragedy by Catharine Trotter, afterwards Cock- 
burne. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1696. 

It is founded on a French novel of the same name, translated by Mrs. Behn, 
and deservedly met with very good success. 

Agrippa, King of Alba ; Or, The False Tiberinus : As it was several 
times acted with great Applause before his Grace the Duke of 
Ormond, then Lord-l^it utenant of Ireland, at the 'Iheatre Royal in 
Dublin. From the French of AL Quinault. 4to, 1675. 
The initials of the translator arc J. D. 

Ajax and Ulysses : 

A ])lay under this title was acted at Court in the winter of 1571-72. "Ajax 
and Ulisses showen on New yeares daie at nighle by the Chiklrcn of W'ynsor." 
— Cunningham's KeveW Accounts, p. 13, 

Ajax Flagellifer : 

A Latin play, which was to have been acted before Queen Elizabeth at Cam- 
bridge ill 1564, but, owing to some unexplained cause, she did not hear it, "to 
the great sorrow, not only of the players, but of the whole university." It was, 
however, acted at Oxford in 1605. 



Ala-Alb PLAY-COLT.ECTOR'S MANUAL. 5 

Alaham : Tragedy by Fulke Greville, Lord Brook. Fol., 1633. 

The scene of this play is laid in Onniis, at the mouth of the Persian (]ulf, and 
tlie plot taken from history. The author has followed the model of the ancients ; 
the prologue is spoken by a ghost, who gives an account of every character ; and 
so strictly has he adhered to the rules of the drama, that he has not throughout intro- 
duced more tlian two s]ieakers at a time, excepting in the choruses between the acts. 

A Lamm for London ; Or, the Siege of Antwerp -. With the venturous 
acts and valorous deeds of the lame Soldier. As it hath been 
played by the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlain his Servants. 
4to, 1602. 

This tragi-comedy is not. divided into acts; the plot is taken from a volume 
entitled A/i Historical Discourse, or ralher, A Tragical History of the City of 
AntTverp [1586]. 

Alba : A Latin comedy, acted in Christchurch Hall, Oxford, before 
King James I., in 1605. 
In this dramatic piece, five men, almost naked, appearing on the stage as part 
of the representation, gave great offence to the Queen and maids of honour; while 
the King, whose delicacy was not easily shocked at other limes, concurred with 
the ladies, and availing himself of this lucky circumstance, peevishly expressed his 
wish to depart before the piece was half finished ; for he had already sat four 
hours in the morning ami afternoon, with infinite satisfaction, to hear syllogisms 
in jurisprudence and theology. The historian of this visit of the King says : 
" The performance began between nine and ten, and ended at one. The name 
of it was Alba, whereof I never saw reason. It was a pastoral, much like one 
which I have seen in King's College, Cambridge, but acted far worse. In the 
acting thereof they brought in five or six men almost naked, which were much 
disliked by the Queen and ladies, and also many rustical songs and dances, which 
made it seem very tedious ; insomuch, that if the Chancellors of both the 
universities had not entreated His Majesty earnestly, he would have been gone 
before half the comedy had been ended.'' — Baker's MSS., vol. xxxvi., p. 450. 

Alberte Galles : 

This is the title of a play written by Thomas Heywood and Wentworth Smith, 
and mentioned by Henslowe under 1602. Assuming Albert or Albertus to be the 
true word, the performance may have related to Albert of Austria, Viceroy of the 
Spanish Netherlands at this time. But Mr. Fleay suggests Archigallo, who is 
one of the principal characters in Nobody and Somebody (1606). 

Albertus Wallenstein : The tragedy of Albertus Wallenstein, late 
Duke of Fridland, and General to the Emperor Ferdinand the 
Second. Written by Henry Glapthorne. The scene, Egers. And 
Acted with good Allowance at the Globe on the Bankside by his 
Majesty's Servants. 4to, 1639, 1640. 
The plot is merely historical, being built on facts not very distant from the 
time of writing it. Dedicated to William Murray, Esq. Reprinted in Glap- 
thorne's Works. 
Albion and Albanius : An opera in three acts, by J. Dryden. Acted 
at the Theatre Royal, and at Dorset Garden. Fol., 1685; 4to, 
1 69 1. Set to music by Lewis Grabue. 

The subject of this piece is allegorical, being intended to expose the fanciful 
doctrines of Lord Shaftesbury and his adherents. Downes tells us that, happen- 
ing to be first performed at an unlucky time, being the very day on which the 
Duke of Monmouth landed in the West, and the kingdom in a great consternation, 
it ran but six nights, which, not answering half the charge the company had been 
at in getting it up, involved them very deeply in debt. Malone tliinks that the 
first performance of this drama was on the 3rd or 6th of June, and the last on the 
13th. Augusta, or the City of London, is discovered in a dejected posture, with 
an old useless charter, so as to show her sorrow and penitence for her offences. 
See further in Geneste's Account of the English Stage, i. 434. 



6 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Alb-Alc 

Albion Knight : A merry play both pithy and pleasant, of Albion Knight, 
licensed to Thomas Cohvell in 1565-6. 

No perfect copy is known, but a fragment of twelve pages is in the collection 
of the Duke of Devonshire ; and Douce had a single leaf (A 3). It is reprinted 
in theShakespear Society Papers. Albion Knight is a personification of England, 
the drama being a political one. — See Fleay, p. 14. 

Albion Queens : See Island Queens. 

Albion's Triumph : Personated in a Masque at Court. By the King's 
Majesty and his Lords, the Sunday after Twelfth Night, 1631. 
4to, 1 63 1. The scene, Albipolis, the chief city of Albion. 
Inigo Jones had a share in the invention of this masque. The words are by 
Aurelian Tovvnsend. The masquers' names are at the end. 

Albovine, King of the Lombards : A tragedy by Sir W. Davenant. 
4to, 1629. The scene, Verona. 
The story is found in Bandello and in Belleforest (tome iv., Nov. 19). This, 
which was Davenant's first play, is dedicated to the unfortunate Earl of Somerset, 
and the dedication is followed by eight copies of commendatory verses. There 
are some verses on this play in Sheppard's Ipigrains, 1 65 1. — See Fleay, p. 391, 
where he seems to identify this piece with the Colonel. 

AlbumazaP : A comedy presented before the King's Majesty at Cam- 
bridge, the 9th of Alarch, 16 14-15, by the gentlemen of Trinity 
College. 4to, 1615, 1634. In Hazlilt's Dodsley. 
This play was written by Thomas Tomkis, organist of the" Chapel Royal, and 
acted before King James on the day above mentioned. According to the title- 
page of ed. 1634, that edition was " newly revised and corrected by a spcciall 
hand." At the revival of it at Lincoln's Inn Fields, February 21, 1667-6S, Angel 
took the part of Trincalo, and in that character gave amu^^ement to Charles II., 
who was i^resent on the second night of the performance. Dryden, in a prologue, 
absurdly charged Jon>on with having borrowed the idea of his Alchemist from 
Tomkis, whereas the converse is more probable. — See infra. 

Alcamenes and Menalippa : A tragedy. 

Mears, in his Catalogue, ascrilies this play to William Philips. Chetwood, we 
believe, with his usual want of fidelity, has given it the date of 1668 ; but it may 
rather be assigned to 1698, or thereabouts. 

The Alchemist: Written by Ben Jonson. 4to, 1612. Dedicated to 
Lady Wroth. 
Pepys saw the Akhemisl performed at the Theatre Royal, on Wednesday, 
August 3, 1664, the night after the murder of Clun at Tottenham Court, on his 
way to his country house at Kentish Town, after the performance. Pepys con- 
sidered him one of the best actors in the company. 

Alcibiades : Tragedy by Thomas Otway. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 
4to, 1675, 1687. 
The story of this play is taken from Cornelius Neposand I'lutavch. The author 
has, however, considerably departed from the history, making his hero, Alcibiades, 
a man of the strictest honour, who chooses rather to lose his life than wrong his 
defender. King Agis, or abuse his bed ; whereas Plutarch gives him a quite 
different character. It was Ot way's first play, and is written in heroic verse. 
Dedicated to the Earl of Middlesex. 

Alcmaeon : 

A play under this litle was acted before the Court at Whitch.all in December, 
1573- " Alkmcon, playde by the Children of Powlcs on Saint Johns Daye at 
night there." — Cunningham's KeveW Accounts, \i. 51. 



Ale-Alf PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 7 

Alexander and Campaspe : A most excellent comedy of Alexander, 
Campas[)C, and Diogenes, played before the Queen's Majesty on 
New Year's Day at night, by her Majesty's Children and the 
Children of Paul's. 4to, 1584, 1591 ; in ^ix Court Comedies^ 8vo, 
1632, and in Lyly's Works, by Fairholt. 
Part of the plot is from Pliny's Nat. Hist., book xxxv. , ch. x. Two editions 
appeared in 15S4, with a variation in the title. 

Alexander and Lodowick ; A play by Martin Slaughter. First acted 
in January, 1597. 
" Received at elexsanderand lodwicke, the 14 of Janewarye, thefyrste tyme yt 
wasse playde, 1597, in parte, v. //." — Henslowe's Diary, p. 79. It was a suc- 
cessful play, and the author seems to have amended it with alterations in 1598. 
Webster, in his Diitcliess of Malfy (i. 2), p rope fine ?h, alludes to "the old tale of 
Alexander and Lodwick." A ballad on this subject is noticed in my Handbook, 
1867. It is the same story as Amis and Amiloim. What is supposed to be a 
Dutch translation of Slaughter's play appeared at Amsterdam, 4to, 1618. — See 
my Collections and Notes, 1876, p. 6. 

Alexander and the King* of Egypt : A mock-play performed by 

mummers. 

See Popular Antiquities of Great Bi-itaiji, 1870, i. 263. 
Alexander the Sixth : See Devil's Charter. 

The Alexandraean Tragedy : By William Alexander, Earl of Stirling. 
4to, 1605, 1607; 8vi), 1616 ; fob, 1637. 

The groundwork of this play is laid on the differences which arose among 
Alexander's captains, after his decease, about the succession. Jacob contradicts 
Langbaine for saying that it is written after the model of the ancients, yet con- 
demns the play for those very faults which could only arise from the author 
having followed that model, and consequently must be mistaken either on one 
side of the question or the other. The noble author has undoubtedly kept the 
ancient tragic writers perpetually in his eye, and even borrowed freely from their 
thoughts, several whole speeches being apparently little more than translations 
from Virgil, Seneca, and others. He has kept close to historical fact, even in his 
episodes, yet has neglected the very essence of the drama, viz., action — the first 
act being wholly employed by the ghost of Alexander (probably in imitation of 
Seneca's Thyestes) ; the second having but little to do with the main business of 
the play, beginning with the council held by Perdiccas, Meleager, and the rest of 
the commanders ; and through the whole remainder of the piece scarce one action 
is performed in the view of the audience, the whole being little more than a 
narration, thrown into the mouths of the several characters, of adventures 
achieved by themselves and others. The scene lies in Babylon, and the plot is 
to be found in Quintus Curtius, Diodorus Siculus, Orosius, etc. 

Alexias : Alexias, or the Chaste Lover : By P. Massinger. Acted by 

the King's Company on September 25, 1639. 

This is supposed to be the Bashful Lover, but it is in the list of the MS. plays 

of Warburton as " Alexias or the Chast Gallant, tragedy, P. Massinger." There 

is a MS. play in the Douce collection, 171, in which Alexis is the name of one of 

the characters. 

Alexis's Paradise : 

A dramatic opera, with this title, dated i68o, is inserted in some catalogues ; 
but I have not been able to meet with a copy. A strange piece, under the same 
title, was printed in 1722, and may be a revival or alteration of it. 

Alfred : Alfrede, or Right Re-inthron'd, being a tragi-comedy, 1659. 
Dedicated to Lady Blount by her brother, R. K. MS. Hodl., 
Rawl. Poet., 80. 



8 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Ali-AU 

Alice Pierce : 

This play is mentioned several times in Henslowe's Diary under 1597, and 
once under the title of Alls Perce. It is in the list of plays belonging to the Rose 
Theatre in 1598. 

All Fools : A comedy, presented at the Black Friars, and lately before 
his I\Lijesty. By George Chapman. 4to, 1605. In Collier's 
Dodsley, and (with the author's other plays) in the Works, 1873. 

The plot is founded on Terence's Flcaiitoji-timoriimenos. It was accounted an 
excellent play in those times, and was acted at the Black Friars with considerable 
applause. 

In a few copies of this play occurs a dedication to Sir Thomas Walsingham, of 
Chiselhurst, Kent, the same gentleman to whom Marlowe and Chapman's Hero 
and Leander is inscribed by Edward Blount, the publisher. But as All Fools is 
dedicated to Walsingham, Hero and Leander may have also been so at the instiga- 
tion of Chapman. Blount's name occurs as the publisher of the first and second 
sestyad in 1598, but not of the entire poem in the same year, although he signed 
the dedication. 

The otherwise lost play by Chapman of The World runs on Wheels appears, 
from Henslowe's Diary, 1599, to have received a fresh title, viz., All Fools but 
the Fool, and perhaps, after all, in the piece here registered we have one and the 
same production. 

All for Love ; or, the World Well Lost : Tragedy, by John Dryden, 
written in imitation of Shakespear's style, and acted at the Theatre 
Royal. 4to, 1678, 1692, 1703, 1709. Dedicated to the Earl of 
Danby. Entered at Stationers' Hall, January 31, 1677-S. 

This is generally considered as the most complete dramatic piece of the author. 
The plot and general design of it are undoubtedly borrowed from Shakespear's 
Antony and Cleopati-a. Dryden says he prefers the scene betvveen Anthony and 
Ventidius in the first act to anything he had written of the kind. 

All for Money : A moral and pitiful comedy, entitled All for Money, 
plainly representing the manners of men and fashion of the world, 
now-a-days, compiled by Thomas Lupton. 4to, 1578. 

The characters of this piece are, Theology, Science, Art, Money, Adulation, 
Godly Admonition, Mischievous Help, Pleasure, Pressed for Pleasure, Sin, Swift 
to Sin, Virtue, Humility, Charily, All for Money, Damnation, Satan, Pride, 
Gluttony, Learning with Money, Learning without Money, Money without 
Learning, Neither Money nor Learning, Moneyless, Moneyless and Friendless, 
Nychol, Gregory, Graceless, Mother Crook, Judas, Dives, William, and the two 
Wives. Reprinted in Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 
4to, 1S51. 

All is not Gold that Glisters : A play by Henry Chettle, produced 
in 1 60 1. 

The author received fd for the copyright of it. — See Fleay, p. no. 

All is True : 

From the prologue to Shakespear's Henry I'lll. it seems to me very likely that 
this was either the original title by which that drama was brought on the stage, or 
a second title, eventually dropped when printetl in 1623. It may have been revived 
in 1613, indeed, under the title here given. Wotton, in a letter to Sir Edmund iiacon, 
says, under date July 2, 1613 : " I will entertain you at the ]iresenl with what hath 
happened this week at the Banks side. The King's players had a new jilay, called 
All is true, rejirescnting some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, 
which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, 
even to the matting of the stage, the knights of tJie order with their Georges and 
garter, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like, sufficient in truth within 



All-Alp PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 9 

a while to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous. Now King Henry, 
making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons heing shot 
off at his entry, some of the ])aper or other stuff wherewith one of them was 
stopped, did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first hut an idle smoke, 
and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round 
like a train, consuming, within less than an hour, the whole house to the very 
ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrique, wherein yet nothing 
did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only one man had his 
breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not, by the 
benefit of a provident wit, put it out with bottle ale." 

All Mistaken : All Mistaken, or the Mad Couple, a comedy acted by 
his Majesty's Servants at the Theatre Royal. By the Hon. James 
Howard. 4to, 1672. Scene, Italy. 
Acted in December, 1667, when Hart and Nell Gwyn acted Philidor and 
Mirida, the mad couple. In Hazlitt's Dodsley. 

All Plot ; or, the Disguises : Comedy by W. Strode. Acted at Lin- 
coln's Inn Fields between 1662 and 167 1. 
This play is mentioned by Downes as having been performed only three times. 
It seems not to have been printed. It has been surmised that the idea of this 
piece may have been taken from one no longer known, acted at the Rose Theatre 
in 1595. See Disgitises. 

All's Lost by Lust : A tragedy called All's Lost by Lust. Written by 
William Rowley. Divers times Acted by the Lady Elizabeth's 
Servants. And now lately by her Majesty's Servants, with great 
applause at the Phoenix in Drury Lane. 4to, 1633. 

According to a MS. in the Lord Chamberlain's office, this play, in 1639, belonged 
to the Cock-pit company. It was revived at the Red Bull, March 23, 1661. 
Part of the plot is from the Unfortimate Lovers, Novel 3. 

All's One : See Yorkshire Tragedy. 

All's Well that Ends Well : By W. Shakespear. Fob, 1623. 

This play was originally taken from Boccaccio, but came immediately to 
Shakespear from Painter's " Giletta of Narbon," in the first volume of the Palace 
of Pleasure, 4to, 1566, p. 88. This is mentioned in the list at the end of the 
Old Law, 4to, 1656, as if it was then in print separately. No such edition is 
known. 

All Without Money : This is one of the five short dramatic pieces 
which are included in the Novelty, by P. Motteux, 1697. 

The Almanac : 

A play acted before the Court in the winter of 1611-12, by the Prince's players. 
— See the Revels' Accounts, ed. Cunningham, p. 211, Very doubtful. 

AlmanzoP and Almahide ; or, the Conquest of Granada : The 
second part, by John Dryden. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 
1672, 1687. 
Alphonso, King" of Naples : A tragedy by George Powell. Acted 
at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1691. Dedicated to the Duchess of 
Ormond. The scene, Naples. 
The story is founded on Neapolitan history, but a trifling portion is taken from 
the Young Admiral of Shirley. The prologue was written by Haines, the 
epilogue by Uurfey. 

Alphonsus : The comicall history of Alphonsus, King of Aragon, as it 
hath been sundry times acted. Made by R. G. 4to, 1599. 
Printed in Greene's Works, ed. Dyce, ii. 5. 

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10 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Alp-Ama 

Alphonsus : The Tragedy of Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany. As it 

hath been often acted with great applause at the Private House in 

Black Fryars, by his late Majesty's Servants. 4to, 1654. 

This seems to have been written before 1636, and refers to Richard, Earl of 

Cornwall, son to King John, and brother to Henry III., who, with Alfonso, King 

of Castile, was nominated in 1257 King of the Romans. Ascribed in the old 

copy to George Chapman. 

In order to cast an opprobrium on the latter prince, our author represents him 
as a bloody tyrant, and, contrary to other historians, brings him to an untimely 
end^supposing him to be killed by his own secretary, in resentment for the death 
of his father, who had been poisoned by him ; and, to complete his revenge, he 
makes him first deny his Saviour in hopes of life, and then stabs him, glorying 
that he had at once destroyed both soul and body. The story is related by 
Mariana, lib. xiii., c. 10, and other Spanish historians. There is a good deal of 
German interspersed throughout this play. In a list of plays acted before the 
King and Queen in 1636 is, "the 5th of May at the Blackfryers for the Queene 
and the prince Elector, — Alfonso." 

Alucius : A play so called, perhaps more properly Lucius, was acted 
before the Court at Whitehall, late in the year 1579. 
"A history of Alucius, shewed at Whitehall on St. John's daie at nighte, 
enacted by the Children of her Majesties Chappell." — Cunningham's Revels' 
Accounts, p. 154. 

Aluredus sive Alfredus : A Latin tragi-comedy, by William Drury, 
thrice performed by the youths at the College at Uoway in 1619. 
1 2 mo, 1620 ; and again with his Dramatic Poems, 1628 and 1641. 

It is dedicated to Count Gondomar, through whose mediation Drury appears 
to have been released from confinement. The subject of this piece is, the retreat 
of Alfred to the Isle of Athelney, in Somersetshire. The comic part is furnished 
by the cowardice of a Miles Gloriosus, who, like the Bobadil of Ben Jonson, is 
ever highest in valour when no danger is near ; with the quarrels of Strumbo, a 
rustic, with his mother, and their ridiculous behaviour when introduced at the 
palace. 

Amalasont, Queen of the Goths : A tragedy by John Hughes. 
Written in 1696. A MS. formerly in the possession of the Rev. 
John Duncombe. 

This, being a juvenile production of the author, whose age when he wrote it 
was only nineteen, was deemed too imperfect for publication, though some of the 
speeches an 1 scenes have evident marks of genius. In the Chetham Library is 
preserved "a song in the tragedy call'd Amalasont, Queen of the Goths, or Vice 
Destroys Itself, set by Mr. D. Purcell, sung by Mrs. Lindsey." 

The Amazonians' Masque : Seventeenth century. Addit. MS., 
Jiritish Museum, 10,444 (l-'i^' music only). 

The Amazons' and Knig-hts' Masque : Acted at Court before the 
Queen and the Erench Ambassador, January 11, 1579. 
See a long note of it in Cunningham's A'evcls' Accounts, p. 125. Also, ilu'd., 
p. 135, " to Bastyan for the hier of vj. plumes of feathers for Knightes in the 
Amasons maskc." See Fieay, p. 26. 

The Amazon Queen ; or, the Amours of 'I'halcstris and Alexander the 
(ircal : A tragicomedy in heroic verse, by J. Weston. 4I0, 1667. 
Licensed February 11, 1666-7. The story is from Quintus Curtius and Strabo. 
This play was never acted, by reason of the author hearing of two other plays on 
tlie same subject intended for the stage. 



Amb-Ami PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. ii 

The Ambitious Slave ; or, a Generous Revenge : Tragedy by Elkanah 
Settle. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1694. The scene is on 
the frontiers of Persia. 

The writer of a letter dated March 22, 16934, says : " We had another new 
play yesterday, called the Ambitious Slave. 1 never saw a piece so wretched, nor 
worse contrived. Settle pretends it is a Persian story, l)Ut not one body in the 
whole audience could make anythinn; of it. It is a mere Kabel, and will sink for 
ever. The poor poet, seeing the house would not act it for him, and give him 
the benefit of the third niglit, made a present of it to the women in the house, 
who act it, but without profit or encouragement." 

The Ambitious Statesman; or, the Loyal Favourite: Tragedy by 
J. Crowne. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1679. 

This play, though esteemed by the author as one of his best performances, met 
with very indifferent success. The scene lies in Paris ; and for the jjlot, see De 
Serres, Mezeray, etc. Dedicated to the Uuchess of Albemarle. The epilogue 
was spoken by Haines, who took the part of La Marre. 

The Ambitious Stepmother : Tragedy by Nicholas Rowe. 4to, 
1700; and again, 410, 1702, with the addition of a new scene. 
Acted with success at Lincoln's Inn Fields. 

The scene lies in Persepolis, and the characters arc made Persian ; but the 
design of the play seems to have been taken from the establishing of Solomon on 
the throne of David by Bathsheba, Zadock the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet. 

Amboyna ; or, the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants : 
Tragedy by J. Dryden. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1673, 
1691. Entered on the Stationers' Registers, June 26, 1673. Scene, 
Amboyna. 

This play was written in the second Dutch war in 1673. It is dedicated to 
Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, and was "contrived and written in a month." The 
plot is chiefly founded on history. See Wanley's History of Alan, lib. iv., c. 10 ; 
and Purchas's Pilgrituage, vol. iv., book lo, ch. 16. The rape of Isabinda by 
Harman is built on a novel of Giraldi Cinthio, Decad. 5, Novel 10. The 
play is, observes Dr. Johnson, a tissue of mingled dialogue in verse and prose. 
It was a temporary performance, written in the time of the Dutch war, to inllame 
the nation against their enemies ; to whom the author hopes, as he declares in his 
Epilogue, to make his poetry not less destructive than that by which Tyrtceus of 
old animated the Spartans. 

Amends for Ladies : A comedy. As it was acted at the Black Friars, 
both by the Prince's Servants and the Lady Elizabeth's. By 
Nat. Field. 4to, 1618, 1639. The scene, London. In Hazlitt's 
Dodsley. 

In the second edition was added to the title : With the merry pranks of Moll 
Cutpurse ; Or, the humours of roaring. A comedy full of honest mirth and wit. 

The plot of Subtle tempting the wife at the request of the husband seems 
founded on the novel of the Curious Impertinent in Don Quixote. 

This play was written by our author, by way of making the ladies amends for a 
comedy called A Woman is a Weathercock, which he had written some years 
before, and whose very title seemed to be a satire on their sex. The part of Moll 
Cutpurse, though introduced on the title-page of the second 4to, is not a prominent 
one. 

Aminta : A pastoral. 4to, 162S. Translated by John Reynolds 
from the Italian of Tasso, with Ariadne's Complaint^ in imitation of 
Anguilara. 



12 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Ami-Amp 

Aminta : A pastoral by Torquato Tasso. Translated by John Dancer. 
8vo, 1660. 

Amintas : A pastoral acted at the Theatre Royal, made English out of 
Italian from the A)ninta of Tasso, by John Oldmixon. 4to, 1698. 
It appears from the preface that this translation met with ill success on ilie 
stage. The prologue was written by Dennis. 

Amores Perinthi et Yanthes : A Latin comedy by William Burton, 
written in the year 1596 ; but neither acted nor printed. 

The Amorous Bigot, with the second part of Teague OT^ivelly : A 

comedy by Thomas Shadwell. Acted by their Majesties' Servants. 
4to, 1690. 
It is inferior to the first part, called the Late Lancashire Witches. Dedicated 
to the Earl of Shrewsbury. 

The Amorous Fantasme : Tragi-comedy by Sir William Lower. 8vo, 
Hague, 1660; in Three New Flays, 8vo, 1661. 
This play is translated from the Fantome Amouniix of Quinault, which 
appeared with great success on the French stage. Dedicated to the Princess 
Royal. 

The Amorous Gallant : See Amorous Orofitus. 

The Amorous Jilt : See Younger Brother. 

An Amorous Old Woman ; or, 'Tis well if it Take : A comedy by a 
person of honour [Thomas Duffet]. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 
4to, 1674. Reissued 4to, 16S4, under the title of the Fond Lady. 

Amorous Orontus ; or. Love in Fashion : A comedy in heroic verse 

by J. Eulteel. 4to, 1665. Reissued under the title of The 

Amorous Gallant, 4to, 1675. 

It is a translation of the Amour a la Mode of Corneille, the original plot of 

which is borrowed from a Spanish play, called El Amor al Uso, by Ant. 

de Solis. 

The Amorous Prince ; or, the Curious Husband : A comedy by 

Mrs. Behn. Acted at the Duke of York's Theatre. 4to, 1671. 

The plot of this play is built on the novel of the Curious Impertinent in Don 

Quixote, and on Davenport's City Ni;^lit-cap. Mrs. 15ehn has, however, greatly 

excelled that play, and even improved on the novel itself. Scene, the Court of 

Florence. 

The Amorous War: Tragi-comedy by Jasper Maine, D.D. 4to, 
1648; and again (with the City Watch), \\.o, 1659. 
The plot of this drama is inarlificially constructed, and at llie same time grossly 
imi>rol)al)lc. 

The Amorous Widow: A play by Betterton, taken from Moliere, 
and acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1670, but not printed until 
1706. 

Mrs. I'ctterton acted the Widow with great applause. 

Amphrisa ; or, the Forsaken Shcpherdesse : A jjastoral drama, by 
'J'iiomas I Icywood. Printed in his Flcasant Dialogues and Dramas. 
i2mo, 1637. 

The above is the title in the list of contents. In the book ittclf it is called 
I'elopira and A lope. 



Amp-And PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 13 

Amphytrion ; or, the Two Sosias : Comedy by J. Dryden. Acted at 
the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1690, 1691, 1694. 

This play, ns the author observes in his dedication, is founded on the two 
Aiii[)hytrions of I'laulus and IMoHere, more closely follcjwiifg the latter. The 
scene lies in Thebes, and the music of the scjn^s was composeil by I'urcell. Our 
author, as Thornton observes, " has tliou^^ht proper to distinguish the serious 
from the comic i)arts, by giving the first in verse and the other in prose, which it 
may be feared in the latter part has too often led him into such low and farcical 
stuff as neither his Latin nor his French original betrayed him into." Dedicated 
to Sir Levison Gower, Bart. 

Amphytrion : Comedy, translated from Plautus, by L. Echard. 8vo, 
1694. 

The Romans believed that this play made much for the honour of Jupiter ; 
therefore it was commonly acted in times of public troubles and calamities to 
appease his anger, 

Amyntas ; or, the Impossible Dowry : A pastoral by Thomas 
Randolph. Acted before the King and Queen at Whitehall. 
Printed in all the editions of the Works, 1638-68; and by Hazlitt, 

This is one of the finest specimens of pastoral poetry in our language, partaking 
of the best properties of Guarini's and Tasso's poetry, without being a servile 
imitation of either. 

The Anatomist ; or, the Sham Doctor : A comedy by Edward 
Ravenscfoft. 4to, 1697; i2mo, 1722. 

This is said to have been the first play sold at the theatres. To both editions 
a musical masque is annexed, or rather inserted in it, called, the Loves of Mars 
and Venus, written by Motteux. Acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields. In its original 
form it has been long laid aside ; but, the Doctor being translated into a French- 
man by the name of Mons. Le Medecin, and almost everything curtailed but the 
scenes between him, his maid Beatrice, and Crispin, it remained for some time in 
that mangled condition as one of our old standard farces. 

Andria : Terence in English, or the translation out of Latin into 
English of the first comedy of Terence, called Andria. 410, with 
the English and Latin in parallel columns, probably from the press 
of John Rastell (about 1530). 

See Warton's Hist, of English Poetry, 1871, iv. 323. 

Andria : The first comedy of Terence, in English, A Furtherance for 
the Attainment into the right Knowledge and true Propriety of the 
Latin Tongue. By Maurice Kyfifin. 4to, 15S8. 
There are two dedications ; the first, to the eldest, the second to the two other 
sons of Lord Buckhurst, to all of whom, probably, Kyffin had been tutor. In 
the latter of these dedications he tells us that seven years before he had trans- 
lated the most of this comedy into verse, but that now he had altered his course 
and turned it into prose, as a thing of less labour in show, and more liberty in 
substance, seeming withal most accordant to this comical kind of writing. It is 
recommended by five copies of verses in Latin, and one in English. Among the 
former number is one by the famous William Camden. 

The Andria in English was licensed for the press, with the Eunuch of Plautus, 
in 1 600, probably to form a volume together. 

Andria : Translated from Terence, by Richard Bernard, In all the 
editions of Bernard's work, 159S-1641. 

Andria : Newly Englished (with the Eunuch) by Thomas Newman. 
8vo, 1627. 
This translation was made for scholars' private representation in their schools. 



14 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. And-Ant 

Andpia : The First Comedy of Pub. Terentius, called Andria, or the 
Woman of Andres, English and Latin ; Claused for such as would 
write or speak the pure Language of this Author after any method 
whatsoever, but specially after the Method of Dr. Webb. 4to, 
1629. 

Wood calls this translation "very useful for school-boys." Translations of the 
AnJiia will also be found in Hoole's and Echard's versions, 1667 and 1694. 

Andromache : Tragedy by J. Crowne. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 
4to, 1675. 
This play is only a translation of Racine's Androntaqiic, by a young gentleman, 
chiefly in prose, and published with some alterations by Crowne. It was brought 
on the stage without success. 

Andromana ; or, the Merchant's Wife : Tragedy by J. S. 4to, 1660. 
The scene, Iberia. 
The plot is founded on the story of Plangus in Sydney's Arcadia. The title in 
the first page is " The Tragedy of Andromana ; or, the fatal End of Disloyalty 
and Ambition." In Hazlitt's Dodsley. 

Andronicus : A tragedy. Impiety's long Success, or Heaven's late 
Revenge. 8vo, 1661. Scene, Constantinople. 

For the plot see the Life of Andronicus in Fuller's Holy State. 

Andronicus Comnenus : Tragedy by J. Wilson. 4to, 1664. Scene, 
Constantinople. 
For the story, see Heylin's Cosmography., in the description of Greece. The 
truth of history is followed in this piece with considerable fidelity. 

The Ang-el King* : 

Sir Henry Herbert, in his Duity, under October 15, 1624, has an entry "for 
the Palsgrave's company, a new play called the Angell King." 

Anti-Christ : An ancient mystery of Antichrist and the Day of Doom 
is mentioned in a sermon against miracle-plays of the fifteenth 
century. 

Antigone : Sophoclis Antigone. Interprete Thomd \\'atsono. 4to, 
1581. 
It was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company on July 31 in that year. 

Antigone : The tragedy of Antigone, The Theban Princess. Written 
by T. M[ay]. 8vo, 163 1. Scene, Thebes. 

The plot is from the Antigone of Sophocles, Seneca's Thebais, etc. There is 
merit in the writing of this piece ; but it is litter for the closet than the stage. 
Dedicated to Endymion Porter. 

Antipo : The tragedy of Antii)o, by Francis Verney, 1622. Written 
in couplets, and divided into five acts. An unpublished 4to MS., 
formerly in the Lee Warly Collection, near Canterbury. 

Antipodes: A comedy. Acted in the year 1638 by the Queen's 
Majesty's Servants, at Salisbury Court in Fleet Street. The 
author, Richard Brome. 410, 1640. Dedicated to the Earl of 
Hertford. 

Verses l>y Robert Chamberlain, "to the author on his comedy the Antipodes," 
are prefixed. At the end is the following curious note : "Courteous Reacler, you 
shal find in this bookc more then was presented upon the Mage, and left out of 



Ant-Ant PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 15 

the presentation, for superduous lenj^th (as some of the players pretended) I 
thoght good al should be inserted according to the allowed original ; and as it 
was, at first, intended for the Cock-pit stage, in the right of my most deserving 
friend Mr. William ]5eeston, unto whom it properly apjiertained ; and so I leave 
it to thy perusal, as it was generally applauded, and well acted at .Salisbury Court, 
Farewell. Ri. IJkome." I'epys notes a pjrformance of it in August, 1661. 

The Antiquary : A comedy. Acted by her Majesty's Servants at the 
Cock-pit. Written by Shackerly Marmion. 410,1641. The scene, 
Pisa. In HazUtt's Dodsley. 

This is a very pleasing play. Aurelio declaring his marriage to the Duke and 
Leonardo, from his mistress Lucretia's lodgings, to which he had got admittance 
through the assistance of her maid, is an incident that has been made use of in 
several plays, particularly in Ram-Alky, the Parson's Wedding, and Woman'' s a 
Riddle. The character of the Antiquary, who cannot endure anything but what 
is old, is an admirable hint, original in its execution, and might, under the pen 
of an able writer, be turned to very great advantage. 

Some copies of this play have a contemporary bookseller's slip pasted in, to 
the following effect: "You may be furnish'd with most sorts of plays at the 
White Lion near Chancery-lane end in Fleet-street, by Thomas Dring." 

Antoninus Bassianus Caracalla : A Latin tragedy. MS. Bodl., 

Raw). C. 590. 

Antonio and Mellida : The History of Antonio and Mellida. The 
first part. As it hath been sundry times acted by the Children of 
Paul's. Written by J. M. 4to, 1602 ; in the collected volume of 
1633. Reprinted in Halliwell's and Ballen's editions of Marston. 

Antonio and Vallia : A comedy by Phihp Massinger. No longer 
known, and supposed to have been destroyed by Warburton's 
servant. 

It may have been an adaptation or alteration of an older performance. For in 
Henslowe's list of plays acted in 1595, June 20, there is one with this title. 

Antonio of RagUSa : This person is one of the characters in a title- 
less MS. comedy in the Bodleian (Rawl. Poet. 93). 

Antonio's Reveng'e ; or, the Second Part of Antonio and Mellida : 
Tragedy by J. Marston, acted by the Children of St. Paul's. 4to, 
1602. Reprinted in the editions of Marston's Works, 1633, 1856, 
and 1885. 

Antonius : A tragedy, written in French by Ro. Gamier. Done into 

English by the Countess of Pembroke. 4to, 1592 ; i2mo, 1595. 

In the second edition the piece is entitled The Tragedy of Antony. The first 

one is annexed to her ladyship's translation of De Mornay's Discourse of Life and 

Death. At the end of the play is this date — At Ramsbury, 26 of November, 1590. 

Daniel, in his dedication of Cleopatra, thus addresses the Countess on this play : 

" I, who (contented with an humble song) 

Made music to myself that pleas'd me best. 
And only told of Delia, and her wrong. 

And prais'd her eyes, and plain'd mine own unrest, 
A text from whence my muse had not digress'd, 

Madam, had not thy well-grac'd Anthony 
(Who all alone remained long) 

Requir'd his Cleopatra's company." 



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Antony and Cleopatra : Tragedy by Shakespear. Fol., 1623. 

There is no separate edition ; but it was licensed for the press May 20, 1608. 

Antony and Cleopatra : Tragedy by Sir Charles Sedley. 4to, 1677. 
Licensed April 24 in that year. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 
This play is founded on the same story with the last-mentioned one. 

Any Thing" for a Quiet Life : Comedy by Thomas Aliddleton. Acted 
at the Black Friars. 4to, 1662. 
In the old edition the whole play, observes Mr. Dyce, with the exception of a 
few lines here and there, is printed as prose ; and there is every reason to believe 
that the text is greatly corrupted. 

Aphrodysial : The Aphrodysial, or Sea Feast, a play by William 
Percy, 1602. Unpublished MS. in a private library. 

The Apocryphal Ladies : A comedy by Margaret, Duchess of New- 
castle. Fol., 1662. 

This play, like many other of her pieces, is irregular and unfinished, and is 
divided into twenty-three scenes, bat not reduced to the form of acts. 

Apollo and Daphne : Drama, by Thomas Heywood. See his Pleasant 
Dialogues and Dramas, i2mo, 1637, p. 177. 

Apollo Shroving" : A comedy by William Hawkins, schoolmaster of 
Hadleigh, in Suffolk. 8vo, 1627. 

The letters E. W. prefixed to it, are initials of the name of a person who 
occasioned the publication of this piece, which was written by Hawkins for the 
use of his scholars, and acted by them on Shrove-Tuesday, February 6, 1626-7. 

Appius and Virg'inia : A new Tragical Comedy of Appius and Virginia, 
AVherein is lively expressed a rare example of the virtue of Chastity, 
by Virginia's Constancy, in wishing rather to be slain at her own 
Father's hands, than to be dishonoured of the wicked judge Appius. 
4to, 1575- 

This seems to be the same piecj which was entered on the books of the 
Stationers' Company, 1567-8, by Richard Jones. Reprinted in Hazlitt's Dodsley ; 
the old text is almost hopelessly corrupt. 

Appius and Virg'inia : Tragedy by J. Webster. 4to, 1654. 

The scene lies in Rome, and the story is taken either from the older play on 
the same subject, or from a novel in Painter's Palace of Phasure. Tiie copies of 
the play vary in the imprint, but there seems to have liccn only one edition. 
This appears to be the Appitts and Virginia which bclonijcd to the Cock-pit 
company in 1639. An alteration by Bctterton, under the title of The Roman 
Virgin ; Or, Unjust Judge, as acted at the Duke's Tiieatre, was printed, 
4to, 1679. 

The Apprentice's Prize, etc. : A play by Richard Brome and 
Thomas Heywood. Entered on the books of the Stationers' Com- 
pany, April 8, 1654, but not printed. 

Aqua Triumphalis : Being a true Relation of the Honouiable the 
City of London entertaining their Sacred Majesties upon the River 
of Thames, and welcoming them from Hamjjton Court to White- 
hall ; expressed and set forth in severall Shews and Pageants, the 
23rd Day of August, 1662. Written by John Tatham. Fol., 1662. 

See Evelyn's Diary, October 23, 1662. 



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Arabia Sitiens : Arabia Sitiens, or a Dream of a Dry Year, a tragi- 
comedy by William Percy, 1601. An unpublished MS. in private 
hands. 

Arcades : By J. Milton. This is part of an entertainment presented 
to the Countess-dowager of Derby at Harefield, by some noble 
persons of her family. It is a mere fragment. Printed in the 
Poems, 1645. 

Arcadia : A Pastoral by James Shirley. Acted at the Phoenix in Drury 
Lane. 4to, 1640. Scene, Arcadia. 

The plot of this play is foun-ied on Sydney's Arcadia. 
The Arcadian Lovers : The Arcadian Lovers, or Metamorphosis of 
Princes, a drama. MS. Rawl. Poet. 3. 
The name of the author was probably Moore, for in the volume, written by the 
same hand as the play, is a dedication to Madam Honoria Lee from the " meanest 
of her kinsmen," Thomas Moore. A person of this name wrote A Brief Dis- 
course about Baptism, 1649. 

Arcadia Reformed : See Queen's Arcadia. 

The Arcadian Virg-in : A play by William Haughton and Henry 
Chettle. Acted in December, 1599. 

See Henslowe's Diary, p. 161. 
Archipropheta ; sive, Johannes Baptista : A Latin tragedy, written 
in 1547, by Nicholas Grimoald, one of the first students of Christ- 
church, Oxford, and probably acted in the refectory there. 8vo, 
Cologne, 1548. 
Dedicated to the Dean, Dr. Richard Cox. This play coincided with his plan 
of a rhetorical lecture, which he had set up in the college. A copy of it is 
preserved in Royal MS., B. M., 12. A. 46. 

Arden of Faversham : The Lamentable and True Tragedy of 
]\L Arden, of Faversham, in Kent, who was most wickedly 
murdered by the means of his disloyal and wanton wife, who, for 
the love she bore to one Mosbie, hired two desperate ruffins, Black- 
will and Shagbag, to kill him. 4to, 1592, 1599, 1633. 
Reprinted by Edward Jacob, 8vo, 1770, with a preface imputing it to Shake- 
spear, and by Bullen from the 4to of 1592. 

The plan of this play is formed on a true history, then pretty recent, of one 
Arden, a gentleman of Faversham, in the reign of Edward VL, who was 
murdered as he was playing a game at tables with the said Mosbie. The fact is 
related by Ilolinshed and Baker, in Beard's Theatre, and in Jacob's History oj 
Faversham. " They have the play in manuscript at Canterbury, but I never 
cou'd see it in print." — Oldys. In 1866, at any rate, the room in which this 
murder was committed was shown at Faversham, as well as the spot, or at least 
the lane, where Black Will at first tried to waylay Arden. 

A Relation of the late Royal Entertainment, given by the Right 
Honourable the Lord Knowles, at Cawsome House, near Reading, 
to our most gracious Queen, Queen Anne, in her progress toward 
the Bath, upon the 27th and 28th days of April, 1613. Where- 
unto is annexed, the Description, Speeches, and Songs of the 
Lords' Masque, presented in the Banqueting-house, on the mar- 
riage-night of the high and mighty Count Palatine and the 
royally descended, the Lady Elizabeth. By Thomas Campion. 
4to, 1 613. 

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Argalus and Parthenia : A tragi-comedy by Henry Glapthorne. 
4to, 1639. The plot is founded on the story in Sydney's Arcadia. 
The tille-page gives it "as it hath been acted at the Court before their 
xMajesties, and at the Private House in Drury-lane by their Majesties' Servants." 
Scene, Arcadia. It was revived, after the Restoration, on January 31, 1 660- 1. 
Pepys says of it under this date : " Indeed it is good, though wronged by my over 
great expectations ;" and under F"ebruary 5 he says : " Though pleasant for the 
"dancing and singing, I do not find good for any wit or design therein." But 
when he witnessed a performance of it on October 28, 1661, he was much better 
satisfied, perhaps because the woman, who acted Parthenia, came afterward on 
the stage in man's clothes, " and had the best legs that ever I saw." 

Ariadne ; or, the Marriage of Bacchus : Opera by P. P. 4to, 1674. 
This piece is a translation from the French, and was presented at the Theatre 
Royal in Covent Garden, by the gentlemen of the academy of music. Dedicated 
to Charles II. 

Ariodanto and Genevra : 

This is given in the Revels Accounts as the title of a play acted at Court in 
15S2, by the Merchant Taylors' boys : " a Historic of Ariodante and Geneuora 
shewed before her Majestic on Shrove Tuesdaie at night, enacted by Mr. 
Mulcaster's children." It was no doubt founded on a story in the fifth book of 
the Orlando Furioso. 

Aristippus ; or, the Jovial Philosopher : To which is added, the 

Conceited Pedlar, presented in a strange shew. By T. Randolph. 

4to, 1630 (two distinct editions), 1631, 1635 ; Dublin, Society of 

Stationers, n.d. ; and in the later editions of the Works. There 

is a copy of this play in MS. Sloane, B.M., 2531. The scene, 

Cambridge. 

The idea of the Pedlar was perhaps borrowed by Randolph from Autolycus, as 

the latter may have been from Newbery's Dives Pragiiiaticus, 1563. l)odsley 

acknowledges his obligations in the Toy-SIwp to this little piece. An early MS. 

of it was in a folio volume of poetical and dramatic miscellanies sold by Sotheby 

and Co. in March, 1872, among the Windham books. ' 

The Pedlar was entered separately by Robert Allot, February S, 1630, as the 
work of Robert Davenport. 

It is not very likely that this piece was ever performed. The curiosity of the 
Pedlar, in a literary point of view, we do not remember to have seen noticed. 
In addition to allusions to Muld-Sack, R<jbin Goodfellow, Taylor the water-poet, 
I5anks' horse, Scoggin's fleas, Skelton, Fcnnor, etc., iheie is a ridicule of the 
prologue of Shakespears 'Proilus and Cressida, and at p. 18 is a line which 
Mihon has nearly verbally copied in his poem oi T Allegro. 

The Arraig"nment of London : A piny by Cyril Tourncur and 

Robert i )al)orn. 

See Dodslcy's 0. /'., ed. 1825, iv. 2S3. 

The Arraignment of Paris : A Pastoral. Presented before the 
Queen's Majesty by the ('hildren of her Chnpel. 4to, 1584. 

That it was the work of George Pcelc is certain from the following passage in 
Nash's Address prefixed to (lieene's Mcnaplion, 15S9: "... for the last, 
though not the least of them all, I dare commend him [ I'eele] vnto all that know 
him as the chiefe supporter of pleasance now lining, ihe Atlas of poctrie, and 
primus verborum Ar/i/e.v ; whose first increase, tlic arraigncmcnt of Paris, might 
])leade to your opinions his pregnant dexterity of wit, and manifold vaiielie of 
inuention, wherein (vie itidicr) he gocth a steppe beyond all that write." 
Reprinted in Dyce's and Bullcn's editions of Peelc's Works. 



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Arthur : See Life of Arthur and Misfortioies of Arthur. 

King" Arthur; or, the Ikilibh Worthy: A dramatic opera, by John 
Dryden. Acted at the Queen's Theatre. 4to, 1691. 

This play is a kind of se(iuel to the Albion and AlOanius of tlie same author, 
and seems to have been written rather for the sake of the singing and machinery, 
than with any view to the more intrinsic beauties of the drama ; the incidents 
lieing all extravagant, and many of ihem very puerile. The whole affair of the 
enchanted wood, and the other woiu ers of Osmond's art, arc borrowed from 
lasso, who has made his RinaMo jierform everything that Arthur does in this 
play. The fabulous history of this prince is to be met with in Geoffrey of 
Monrrouth, ns also in the first volume of Tyrrel's History of Eiii^laini. The 
scene lies in Kent. Dowiies informs us that " it was excellently adorn'd with 
scenes and machines; the musical part set by famous Mr. Henry Purcell, and 
dances made by Mr. John Priest. The play and musick pleas'd the court and 
city, and, being well perform'd, 'twas very gainful to the company." Part of 
Purcell's music to this opera is preserved in M.S. Addit., P.M., 5333. 

Arthur's Show : This was possibly an interlude or masque played by 
archers, which actually existed, and was very popular in Shake- 
spear's age, and seems to have been compiled from Malory's 
Morte Arthur. 

It is mentioned by Justice Shallow in the Second Fart of King Henry the 
Fourth. 

Arvirag'US and Philieia : As it was acted at the Private House in 
Ijlackfriars, by his Majesty's Servants. The first and second part. 
By Lodovick Carlell. 121110, 1639. 

A, if not tlie, MS. of this play occurred in Quaritch's Catalogue, 1SS4, 
No. 21,886. 

The story is founded on some old romantic British History concerning 
Arviragus. It was afterwards revived, with a new prologue, written by Dryilen, 
and spoken by Hart. There is another prologue in London Drollery. iJolh 
parts were acted at the Cock-pit and at Hampton Court in the year 1636. 

As Merry as May Be : By Richard Hathway. Acted at Court. 
1602. 

As Plain as Can Be : A play performed before Queen Elizabeth and 
her Court in the year 1568. 
See a curious document in MS. Harl. 146, quoted in Collier's Annals of the 
Stage, i. 195. 

The Assembly : The Assembly, or Scotch Reformation : A comedy, 
first printed about 1690. 

The third edition appears to have been printed in 1 69 1. There are others in 
1722 and 1766, the latter taken from a MS. dated 1692. A transcript of ed. 
1691 is in Addit. MS., B.M., 11,503. 

The Assignation ; or, Love in a Nunnery : Comedy by J. Dryden. 
Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1673, 1678, 1692. 

This play, as the author confesses, "succeeded ill" in the representation, 
against the opinion of the best judges of the age, if wq believe its author ; but, 
truth to say, it is one of those hasty performances which, at limes, threw a cloud 
over the merit of that great poet. The incidents and characters are almost all 
borrowed, and are very strangely jumbled together. This is the play which the 
Duke of Buckingham has made Bayes boast of, for introducing a scene of a 
petticoat and the belly-ache : but when it is considered that this poet was abso- 
lutely constrained to write several plays in a year, will it not appear much more 



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amazing, that his pieces have any merit at all, than that they have no more ? 
The dedication of this comedy to Sir Charley Sedley is an elei;ant composition, 
but deplores, in rather unmanly terms, the hard treatment which its author 
received from the public. The two "wretched scribblers" alluded to were 
Elkanah Settle and Martin Clifford. "It was first acted in 1671 or before, the 
Rehearsal being first acted in December that year, wherein it is mentioned or 
referred to ; vid. Friendly Vindication of Mr. Dryden, 4to, 1673, wherein 'tis 
mentioned, p. 8, for exposing real persons, which might be the cause of its ill 
success." — Oldys. 

The Assumption of the Virg"in : A mystery performed by the 
citizens of Lincoln in the nave of the Cathedral there, June 7, 
1483. 

The circumstance is alluded to in one of the registers of Lincoln under that 
dale. 

Astrea ; Or, True Love's Mirror : A pastoral by Leonard Willan. 8vo, 
1651. 

The plot is from the romance by D'Urfe of the same name. Dedicated to 
Mary, Duchess of Richmond and Lenox. 

As You Like it : Comedy by Shakespear. Folio, 1623. 

The plot of this play is taken from Lodge's Rosalyiul, 410, 1590: and Shake- 
spear has followed it more exactly than is his general custom when he is indebted 
to such originals. He has even sketched some of his principal characters, and 
borrowed a few expressions from it. The characters of Jaques, the Clown, and 
Audrey, however, are entirely of the poet's own creation. 

On August 4 [? 1600] was entered at Stationers' Hall "As you like yt, a 
booke ;" but no such edition, if it ever appeared, has come down to us. See 
Dyce's 2nd ed. of Shakespear, ii. 72. It is to be remarked, moreover, that in the 
list of plays at the end of the "Old I/aw," 1656, this is mentioned with "All's 
well that emls well," as if it were then in print by itself. 

Atalanta : A Latin comedy in iambic verse, by Phillip Parsons, 161 2. 
Tiie scene, Arcadia. Dedicated to ^Villiam Laud, then President 
of St. John's College. MS. Harl. 6924. 

The Atheist ; or, the Second Part of the Soldier's Fortune : A comedy 
by Thomas Otway. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1684. 
Dedicated to Lord Elande. 

The plot between Heaugard and Portia is founded on Scarron's novel of the 
Invisible Mistress. The author died in the following year in great poverty ; and 
this was his last performance. 

The Atheist's Tragedy : Or the Monest Man's Revenge : As in divers 
places it hath often been Acted. \\' rilten by Cyril Tourneur. 4to, 
1611, 1612. 

The plot in the second act of Levidulcia conveying Sebastian and Fresco out 
of her chamber, when surprised by tlie coming of her husband Belleforest, is 
taken from Ijcjccaccio, Day 7, Novel 6. Tliis play possesses much interest, and 
is in several j^arts written witii great energy of thought. One sentnneut in it is 
worthy of Shakespear : " Patience is the honest man's revenge." 

Aug'Urs : The Masque of Augurs, with tlie several antimastiucs, pre- 
sented on Twelfth Night, 1621. l!y lien J(^nson. 410, 1621. 

Augustus Csesar : A play under this title is menlioned in a list of 
books printed for R. Beiitlcy in 1OS7. 






Aul-Bap PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 21 

The Auld Man and His Wife : An interlude by Sir David Lindsay, 
1602. 

Reprinted in Pinkerton's Scottish Poems, 17 12, vol. ii. 

Aulularia : 

Tliis play of Plautus was pertbrmed before Queen Elizabeth on her visit to 
Cambridge in 1564. It was doubtless in Latin, and was probably never primed. 

Aureng-e-zebe ; or, the Great Mogul : A tragedy by J. Dryden. Acted 
at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1676, 1692. This play is far Irom 
being the worst of the writings of our great poet. The scene lies 
at Agra, the capital of the Mogul's territories in India, and the 
plot may be found in Tavernier's Voyages, vol. i., part 2, chap. 2. 
Langbaine accuses the author of having borrowed his characters 
of Aurenge-zebe and Nourmahal from the Hippolytus and Ph^dra 
of Seneca, and also of having stolen several hints from Milton's 
Samson Agonistes. From the first of these charges, however, 
Jacob takes some pains to vindicate him. Dedicated to the Earl 
of Mulgrave. Entered on the Stationers' Registers on November 29, 
1675- 

A Bad Beginning" makes a Bad Ending* ; A play acted at Court 

in May, 1613. Not at present known. 

The Ball : A Comedy ; as it was presented by her Majesty's Servants at 

the Private House in Drury Lane. Written by George Chapman 

and James Shirley. 4to, 1639. 

Chapman is supposed to have completed this comedy after the death of 

Shirley, and Dyce thought that he had a chief hand in it. It was first acted 

in 1632. 

Band, Cuff, and Ruff : A Merry Dialogue between Bami, Cuffe, and 
Ruffe, done by an excellent Wit, and lately acted in a Shew, in the 
famous University of Cambridge, 16 15. This was reprinted the 
same year under the title of Exchange Ware at the Second Hand, 
and again under the old one in 1661. 
The second edition is reprinted in Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps's Contributions to 
Early English Literature, 410, 1849. 

The Banditti ; or, A Lady's Distress : A play by T. Durfey. Acted 

at the Theatre Royal. 410, 1686. Licensed on March i, 1685-6. 

The scene, Madrid. 

A part of the plot resembles a scene in Shirley's Sisters. This play met with 

some opposition in the performance from persons with catcalls ; on which 

account Durfey has prefixed to it a humorous dedication, in which he seems to 

aim at some particular character under the title of Sir Critic Catcall. 

The Banish'd Duke ; or, the Tragedy of Infortunatus : Acted at 
the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1690. The scene lies in a village in 
Belgium ; the character of Infortunatus is drawn for the Duke of 
Monmouth, and those of Romanus and Papissa for James II. and 
his Queen. 

The Baptism and Temptation [of Christ] : By John Bale. A 

play, probably in two parts. 

Mentioned by himself in the list of his works. Of the former we seem to have 
no other record ; for the latter see Temptation. 



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Baptistes ; Baptistes sive Calumnia, a Latin tragedy by George 
Buchanan. 8vo, London, 1577 ; 8vo, London and Edinburgh, 
1578 ; 8vo, Frankfort, 1579 ; 8vo, London or Antwerp, 1581. 
Another edition was pubHshed in London the same year. 

Si.e English Drama and Stage (Roxb. Library), pp. 197-8. 

In 1642 an English version of ii appeared under the title of Tyrannical 
Government Anatomized, scene, Judcea ; and it is stated that it was presented by 
the translator to Charles I. 

BarnaPdo and Fiammetta : A play acted at the Rose Theatre, on 
October 28, 1595, mentioned by Henslowe, who notices it in 
another place as Bernardo and Fiameta, and elsewhere simply as 
Barnardo. 

Barnveldt : The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnaveldt, Grand 
Pensionary of Holland, 1619. MS. Addit., B.M., 18,653, appar- 
ently the author's autograph, with corrections and additions. 

Printed by Eullen. The spot where this illustrious old man was beheaded is 
still shown at the Hague. 

This play is attributed to Fletcher and Massinger. It was acted by the King's 
Company in August, 1619. 

Bartholomew Fair: A comedy. Acted in the year 16 14. By the 
Lady Elizabeth's Servants. And then dedicated to King James, 
of most blessed memory. By the author, Benjamin Jonson. 

This play, which was first acted at the Hope Theatre, Bankside, October 31, 
1614, and, on the following day before the Court, has an infinite deal of humour 
in it, and is perhaps the greatest assemblage of charactei^s that ever was brought 
togeiher willim the compass of a single piece. It was first printed in the 
second volume of the Works, 1631. 

Pepys notes being at the theatre on September 7, 1661, in the following terms : 
" And here was Bartholomew Fayre, with the puppet-showe, acted to-day, which 
had not been these forty years, — it being so satyricall against Puritanism, they 
durst not till now, which is strange they should already dare to do it, and the 
king to countenance it — but I do never a whit like it the better for the puppets, 
but rather the worse." 

The Bashful Lover : Tragi-comcdy by P. Massinger. Acted at the 
Private House in Black Friars. 8vo, 1655. 

There are many beauties scattered through this piece ; but, as a whole, it is 
neither so correct in its construction, nor so interesting in its i)lot, as some other 
of Massinger's dramas. It was first acted in 1636, and was licensed on May 9, 
in that year. It met with fair success. 

Basileia : Basileia scu Bellum Gramiuaticale, tragico-comccdia, the 
W'arr of Grammar, a tragi-comedy acted by the scholars of Cran- 
brook School, 1666. Addit. MS., B.M., 22,725. 

It is stated that it was "acted more than once not without applause, in which 
the whole vulgar grammar, with something of the author's own, is fcstivously 
handled." The following lines occur in the Prologue : 

" We sing of wars to th' tune of bellowing drums, 
Like gerunds echoing back their di, do, dums." 

The Bastard : Tragedy by Cosmo Manuche. 4to, 1652. Scene, 
Seville. 

Some part, both f)f the plot and language, is borrowed from the loves of 
.Schiarra and Murelia in the English Lovers, and the incident of Catalina 



Bat-Bea PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 23 

supplying her mistress Mariana's room on the wedding-night, from the story of 
Roberto and Isidaura, in (krardo, the U)iJortuiialc Spaniard, p. 87. Coxeter 
seems to be perfectly justilicd in ascribing this play to Cosmo ^Ianuche, as it is 
given to him in the contemporary list accompanying the Old Law, 1656, 

Bateman's Masque, including the Turks' Dance, the Bears' Dance, 
and the Birds' Dance. Seventeenth century. Addit. MS., 13. AL, 
10,444. 

Battle of Afflictions : See Fathomachia. 

The Battle of Alcazar, fought in Barbary, between Sebastian, King 

of Portugal, and Abdehnelec, King of Morocco. With the death 

of Captain Stukeley. As it was sundry times played by the Lord 

High Admiral his Servants. By George Pcele. 4to, 1594. 

There is only one edition ; but copies present literal variations. Reprinted in 

the editions of the Poet. 

The Moor in this play is called Muly Mahatnet, and there appears to be ground 
for agreeing with Malone and Fleay in su]iposing the jiiece to be the same as 
that registered by Ilenslowe under Muly Molocco antl other corrupt names, 
lie quotes it as having been performed by the Lord Strange's men in February, 
1591-2. Shakespear has jiointed his ridicule at this play, in a parody on the 
words, "Feed, and be fat," etc. See Henry IV., part ii., act 2, scene 4. It is 
probable that Dryden might have taken the hint of his Don Sebastian from it. 
Reprinted in Dyce's and Bullen's editions of I'eele, and in England's J'arnassns, 
1600, are some lines fiom this tragedy. The oiiginal plot is preserved in MS. 
Addit., 10,449, ^nd was printed by lialliwell (with two others), i860, folio. 

The Battle of Hexham : A play by Barnabe Barnes. Not printed. 

A, or the, MS. was sold among Isaac Reed's books in 1S07. 

The Battle of Sedgrnoor : A farce of one short act, said by Coxeter 
to have been rehearsed at Whitehall. It was never acted, but 
injuriously fathered on the Duke of Buckingham, and printed 
among his Works, 1707, 17 14. The scene lies in a drawing-room 
at Whitehall. 

The Battle of the Vices against the Virtues : A Moral Play. 

MS. of the time of Charles I., folio ; in Thorpe's Catalogue of ]Manitscripts, 
1835, p. II. Probably, if genuine, a transcript of an older text. 

Baxter's [Barkstead's] Trag-edy : See Insatiate Countess. 

Bear a Brain [? Barabbin] : A play by Thomas Decker, to which this 

evidently corrupt name is given by Henslowe, was produced in 1599. 

"Lent unto Robart Shawe, the l of auguste, 1599, to paye Mr. Deckers for a 

boocke called beare a braine, the some of xxxx.5. in fulle payment." — Ilenslowe's 

Diary, p. 155. 

Mr. Collier informs us that the title of the play is interlined above Better Late 
than Never, which is struck through. Compareyt'tf of Venice. 

The Beau Defeated ; or, the Lucky Younger Brother : Comedy, acted 
at Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to, about 1700. 
The dedication to this play is signed by Mary Pix, as the author of it. Some 
of the catalogues ascribe it to Thomas Barker. It is partly a translation from the 
French, and was sometimes called the Beau Demolished. 

The Beauties : See Bird in a Cage. 

Beauty : See Characters. 



24 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Bea-Beg 

Beauty and Housewifery : " A comodie of Bewtie and Huswyfery 
shewed before her Majestie at Wyndesor on St. Johns dale at 
night [December 27, 1582], enacted by the Lord of Hundesdons 
Servauntes." 

Beauty in a Trance : A play by John Ford. Entered on the books 
of the Stationers' Company, September 9, 1653, and among those 
destroyed by Warburton's servant. 

Beauty in Distress : Tragedy by P. Motteux. Acted at Lincoln's Inn 
Fields. 4to, 169S. 

There are many fine lines in this drama, and a great variety of incidents ; 
indeed, so many, that Dryden, who wrote the prologue, and has complimented 
the author with a poetical epistle, says : 

" Thy incidents perhaps too thick are sown : 
But too much plenty is thy fault alone : 
At least but two can that good crime commit, 
Thou in design, and Wycherley in wit." 

He also applauds him for the preservation of time, action, and place, which 
Corneille himself might see witli envy. The scene is an antechamber in Don 
Vincentio's house in Lisbon, and the time of action from five to eight in the 
evening. This tragedy had considerable success ; and the author in his preface 
acknowledges tlie receipt of a present from the Princess Royal, afterwards Queen 
Anne, outweighing the benefit of a sixth representation. With proper curtail- 
ments, we think this piece might be made fit for the present stage. 

Prefixed to it is, "A Discourse of the lawfulness and unlawfulness of plays, 
lately written in French, by the learned P'ather Caffaro, divinity professor at 
Paris, sent in a letter to the author by a divine of the church of England." 

Beauty of Women : A new comedy in English in manner of an 
interlude right elegant and full of craft of rhetoric, wherein is 
showed and described as well the beauty and good properties of 
women, as their vices and evil conditions, with a moral conclusion 
and exhortation to virtue. Folio. 

This interlude on the story of Calisto and Meliboea was printed about the year 
1530; it was licensed to William Aspley, October 5, 1598. See Cclestina. 
Reprinted from Rastell's edition in Ilazlitt's Dodsley. The production is quoted 
in A Second and Third Blast of Retrait from Plates and 7/ieatres, 15S0. 

Beauty the Conquerour ; or, the Death of Mark Antony : A tragedy 
in imitation of the Roman way of writing, by Sir C. Sedley. 
First printed among his Miscellaneous Works, 8vo, 1702. 

Beauty's Triumph : A masque, by Thomas Duffet, represented by the 
scholars of Messrs. Hart and Ranister, at their boarding-school at 
Chelsea. 410, 1676. 

Beech's Tragedy : See Merry. 

The Beg'g'ar's Bush : A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol., 
1647 ; 4i(j, 1661, 1 71 7. Tile 4to of 1661 is the most correct. 

It was acted at Whitehall in 1622, and at Hampton Court in 1636 ; niul it 
was revived at Liiict>in's Inn Fields in November, 16C0. 

It was at a performance of this comedy, in the following January, that Pepys 
saw female actors for the first lime. Dr. Iknwnc, in MS. Sloanc 1900, notes it 
being acted in 1662 "at the King Playhouse in Cuvent Garden." • 



Bel-Bel PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 25 

Believe as You List : A comedy by P. Massinger. Acted by the 
King's Company, May 7, 1631. 

The license to it is signed by II. Herbert, and dated May 6, 1631. It was 
entered at Stationers' Hall, September 9, 1653, and June 29, 1660. 

Edited by Croker for the Percy Society, 1844, and included (with important 
corrections) in Cunningham's edition. The M.S. used by Croker was sold in the 
fifth part of Mr. Corscr's library in July, 1870, for ^17 ; it was a thin folio in 
indifferent preservation. 

Bellamira ; or, the Mistress : Comedy by Sir Charles Sedley. Acted 
by their Majesties' Servants. 4to, 1687. Licensed May 24, 1687. 
The scene, London. 

The plot is taken from the Eunuch of Terence. It was at the acting of it that 
the roof of the theatre fell down. Few were hurt except the author himself, 
which occasioned Sir Fleetwood Shepherd to say, " there was so much fire in his 
play, that it blew up the poet, house, and all." — "No," rejilied the author, "the 
play was so heavy, it broke down the house, and buried the poet in his own 
rubbish." It appears from the preface that he gave his third night to a friend, 
who, according to Malone, was .Shadweli. 

Bellamira her Dream ; or, the Love of Shadows : Tragi-comedy in 
two parts, by Thomas Killigrew, printed in the Works, 1664. 
These two plays were written during the time that the author was resident in 
Venice. 

Bell and the Dragon : A puppet-show exhibited at Holborn Bridge 
in 1643. 

See my English Drama and Stage, p. 262. 

Bellessa, the Shepherd's Queen : The scene, Galicia. An un- 
published and incomplete drama in prose and verse. P'ol. 

Bell in Campo : Tragedy in two parts, by Margaret, Duchess of 
Newcastle. It was never acted, but is printed among her works. 
Fob, 1 662. In the second part are several copies of verses, written 
by the Duke. 

Bellin Dun : See Henry I. 

Bellum Grammaticale : Sive, Nominum Verborumque Discordia 
Civilis, tragi-comedy acted before Queen Elizabeth, in Christ- 
church, Oxford, on Sunday the 24th of September, 1592. 121110, 

^635- 

The writer who mentions this representation says it was but meanly performed, 
though most graciously and with great patience heard by her Majesty. "Then 
for comedies," observes Sir John Harington, 1591, "how full of harmless myrlh 
is our Cambridge Pedantins, and the Oxiord Bcliitni Gravunatha/e." See Peck's 
Desiderata Ciiriosa, annexed to his Life of Oliver Cromivell, p. 21. The English 
adaptations were all derived from the work of Guarna of Salerno, printed in 
English as early as 1569, if not before. Compare Basileia and War of Gravwiar. 

The Belman of London : A play by Robert Daborne, written about 
the year 161 2. 

It is mentioned in Henslowe's Diary. Not printed. 

The Belman of Paris : 

'• For the Prince's players, a French tragedy of the Bellman of Paris, written 
by Thomas Dekkirs and John Day for the company of the Red Bull," Sir H. 
Herbert's Diary, July 30, 1623. 

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26 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Bel-Bla 

Belpheg'OP ; or, the Marriage of the Devil : Tragi comedy by John 
Wilson. Acted at Dorset Garden. 4to, 1691. Licensed October 13, 
1690. The scene, Genoa. 

The plot is taken from Machiavel or Straparola. It did not succeed on the 
stage. This play, observes Langbaine, " notwithstanding it was decryed on the 
stage, I think far surpasses many others that have lately appear'd there." It 
was the next new play after the Prophetess. 

Bendo and RichardO : See Brandimart. 

Benedick and Beatrice : See Much Ado about Nothing. 

The Benefice : Comedy by Dr. Robert Wild. 4to, 1689. 

The opinion which the Presbyterians, of whom this auihor was a veiy zealous 
one, entertain of the orthodox clergy, may be collected from this comedy. The 
design is taken from the Ket urn from Parnassus. This comedy is stated, on the 
title-page, to have been "written in his younger days, now made publick for 
promotmg innocent mirth." The editor asserts that he had had the MS. in his 
possession for several years before he published it. A portion of a MS. of this 
play, containing most of the three last acts, is preserved in MS. Lansd. 807, and 
is supposed to be the author's autograph. 

Better Late than Never : See Bear a Brain, supra. 

The Bird in a Cag'e : A Comedy. As it hath been presented at 

the Phoenix in Drury Lane. By James Shirley. 4to, 1633. Scene, 

Mantua. 

This is a good piece, and has prefixed to it an ironical dedication to the famous 

William Prynne, who was at that time a State prisoner. It is supposed to be 

the same as the Beauties. 

The Birth of Hercules : A drama in five acts, written about 1590. 
A folio MS. on paper now in the British Museum. 

The Birth of Merlin ; or, the Child has lost a Father : A tragi- 
comedy by William Rowley. 4to, 1662. The scene, Britain. 
The story is taken from Geoffrey of Monmouth. Shakespear, as the title-page 
informs us, assisted in this play, which is not very probable from the poorness of 
the composition. It was frequently acted with great applause. 

Black Bateman of the North : A play by Chettle, Wilson, Drayton, 

and Decker. Acted by the Lord Admiral's Servants in 1598. 

A second part, by Chettle and Wilson, was produced in the same year. 

The Black Dog* of Newg-ate : A play by Richard Hathwaye, assisted 

by John Day and Wentworth Smith. Acted in 1602. 

A .second jwrt of this piece was produced the same year, in which Hathwaye, 

Day, and Smith, were assisted by a fourth author, who is unknown. Not printed. 

This play was doubtless suggested by a tract so called, printed before 1600, and 

ascribed to Luke Ilutton, a son of the Archbishop. 

The Blackfriars' Masque : A masque of the seventeenth century. 
MS. i\ddit. li.^L, 10,444 (the tunes only). 

Black Joan : A play with this title is mentioned by Henslowe as be- 
longing to the stock of the Rose Theatre. 

It occurs in a "note of ail suche bookes as belong to the stockc, and sucii as I 
have l)ought since the 3d of March, 1598." 

The Black Lady : A play tmder this title was allowed by Sir Henry 
Herbert to be acted by the Lady Elizabeth's Servants, May 10, 1622. 



Bla-Blo PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 27 

The Black Man : An interlude atlribuled to Robert Cox the comedian, 
and printed in the second part of Sport upon Sporty 1673. 

Blackness : See Characters. 

The Black Prince : A tragedy by Roger, Earl of Orrery. Acted at the 
Duke of York's Theatre. Fol., 1669, 1672; 8vo, 1739. 
The story is taken partly from the Eni^lish historians. Thougli called a 
tragedy, this tedious play terminates happily. It was first acted in October, 
1667, in the presence of the Ivinj^ and the Duke of York, but with only partial 
success, the patience of the audience having been too severely ta.\ed by the 
reading of a long letter ; so much so, that afterwards the letter was printed 
separately for the use of the spectators, and only a slight reference made to it in 
the play. 

The Blacksmith's Daughter : A play mentioned in Gosson's School 
of Abuse, 1579. 

No copy of it is known to exist. 

The Black Wedding* : A play with this title was entered on the books 
of the Stationers' Company, November 29, 1653, but does not 
appear to have been printed. 

The Blazing" World : A fragment of a comedy by the Duchess of 
Newcastle. Fol, 166S. 

There are no more than two acts, the author having never finished it ; but it 
is printed with her other works. Even the second act is incomplete. 

The Blind Begg'ar of Alexandria, most pleasantly discourinL; his 
various humours in disguised shapes, full of conceit and pleasure. 
As it hath been sundry times publicly acted in London by the 
Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral, his 
Servants. By George Chapman. 4to, 1598. 
This was the author's first play, and is neither divided into acts nor scenes. 
It was produced on February 12, 1595-6. 

The Blind Beg'g'ar of Bednal Green, with the merry Humor of Tom 

Strowd, the Norfolk Yeoman. As it was divers times publicly 

acted by the Prince's Servants. By Henry Chettle and John Day. 

4to, 1659. 

For the plot, as far as it concerns history, consult the writers on the reign of 

Henry VL ; as Mr. Bullen points out, the dramatists do not follow the ballad, 

which may have been posterior. It was produced in 1600. A second and third 

part, by Haughton and Day, under the title of the Second and Third Part of 

Thomas Strowd, were acted in 1601. 

The Blind Eat many a Fly : A play by Thomas Heywood. Acted 
in 1602. 

The Blind Lady : A comedy by Sir Robert Howard, Printed with his 
Poems, Svo, 1660. The scene, Poland. 
The plot is taken from Heylin's Cosmography, lib. ii. The blind lady is an 
old woman who is inclined to incur the risks of matrimony for the seventh time. 

The Bloody Banquet : Tragedy by T. D. 4to, 1639. 

In some of the old catalogues ascribed to Tho. Barker. It was, however, 
probably written by Robert Davenport, being enumerated with some other of his 
pieces in a list of plays belonging to the Cock-pit Theatre in 1639. The letters 
T. D. were perhaps printed by mistake in the title-page instead of R. D. 



28 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Blo-Bon 

The Bloody Brother: By John Fletcher. 4to, 1639. 

This play was reprinted in the following year as The Tragedy of Roll Duke of 
N'ormaudy. Acted by his Majesty's Servants. Written by John Fletcher, gent. 
4to, Oxford, 1640. 

Langbaine, p. 207, cites it under the original name. It is, he observes, "a 
tragedy much in request, and notwithstanding Mr. Rymer's criticisms on it, has 
still the good fortune to please, it being frequently acted by the present company 
of actors at the Queen's play-house in Dorset Garden." It was acted at Hampton 
Court in January, 1636-7. 

After the death of Charles I. some of the actors united to form a company at 
the Cock-pit, and performed, among other pieces, this drama, for which they 
were seized and committed to temporary durance at Hatton House. See Fleay, 

P- 354- 

It is curious that on the title of the first 4to it is said to be " By J. B. r., as 
if the publisher had had some uncertainty as to the author. 

Blurt, Master Constable. Or the Spaniard's Night-walk : As it hath 
been sundry times privately Acted by the Children of Paul's. By 
Thomas Middleton. 4to, 1602. 

The scene is laid in Venice. All studies, it may be observed, casting any 
light on the early seventeenth-century relations between Venice and Spain are 
very interesting by reason of the obscurity hanging over the Spanish conspiracy 
against the Republic in 1618. Otway's Venice Preserved is founded on the 
same event. 

Boadicea, Queen of Britain : A tragedy by Charles Hopkins, acted 
at Lincoln's Inn Fields. Inscribed to Congreve. 4to, 1697. 
It was very profitable to the company. The story of this Queen, who is the 
same with Bonduca, is to be found in Tacitus and in the English historians, and 
is very well conducted in the play before us, more especially the discovery of 
Camilla's rape in the first scene of the fourth act. By the dedication to the same 
writer's Friendship Improved, 1 700, we find that Boadicea was well received. 
It would seem from the epilogue that the morality of the theatre was now 
imjDrovmg : 

" Once only smutty jests could please the town. 
But now, Heav'n help our trade, they'll not go down." 

The Boarding' School : 

A play "wrote by Mr. Durfy ; it took well, being justly acted." — Roscins 
Anglicamis, 1708. Dogget performed in it. 

The Boaster : 

A droll, taken from the First Part of Henry the Fourth, printed in the 
Theatre of Ingenuity, 1698, where it is entitled, " The Boaster, or Bully-huff 
catch'd in a Trap, in a dialogue between several freebooters." 

The Bold Beauchamps : 

A i:)lay written by Thomas Ileywood, probably not now extant, but mentioned 
in the Knight of the Burning Pestle, 1613, where the wife observes: "My 
husband hatli promised me any time this twelvemonth to carry me to the Bold 
Beauchamps, but in truth he did not." This drama is mentioned in several 
other old plays. It is also noticed by Suckling in the Goblins, written before 
1640, and by others. " As bold as Beauchamp " is an early proverb. 

The Bondman : An Ancient Story. By P. Massinger. Acted at the 
Cock-pit, Drury Lane, by the Princess Elizabclli her Servants. 4to, 
1624, 1638. 

This play is mentioned in Herbert's /->/Vz;j under the dale of Decend)er 3, 
1623 : " f(jr the Queen of Bohemia's Company, the Noble Bomlman, written i)y 



Bon-Bou PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 29 

Philip Massinger, gentleman ; this was allowed to be printed on March 12, 
1624." 

This is a very excellent tragedy. The scene lies at Syracuse. The plot of the 
slaves being incited to rebellion by Pisander, and reduced by Timoleon, and 
their flight at the sight of the whips, is borrowed from the story of the Scythian 
slaves' rebellion against their masters, in Justin, lib. i. , cap. 5. At the revival 
of this play after the Restoration, the chief part was acted very successfully by 
Bettertou. jVccording to Downes, this was the only play of Massinger revived 
after the Restoration, until Bettenon took a fancy to the part of I'aris in the 
Roman Actor. Dr. Browne, in a MS. note, dated 1662, mentions that it was 
acted in that year "at Salisbury or Dorset Court [Garden]." 

The Bond-Woman : This play was entered on the books of the 
Stationers' Company, September 23, 1653 ; but it does not appear 
to have been printed. 

Bonduca : A tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol., 1647. 

It was produced before March, 161 S-9. The groundwork of the play is taken 
from Tacitus. 

Bonduca ; or, the British Heroine : A tragedy, acted at the Theatre 
RoyaL 4to, 1696. 

This was published by George Powell, who says it was given him by a friend, 
and that it was revised and studied in one fortnight. It is a mere alteration from 
the foregoing play, with the character of Penius omitted, that of Petilius much 
shortened, and all that passes in the original play between Junius and the second 
daughter of Bonduca omitted. See further in Geneste's Accoioit of the English 
Stage, ii. 73. The songs were set to music by Purcell, and were published, on 
separate folio sheets, with the music. See Boadicea. 

Bonos Nochios [Buenas Noches] : An interlude, entered in the 
books of the Stationers' Company, by Jeffery Charlton, January 27, 
1608. No printed copy of it is known to exist. 

BoPbonne [Bourbon] : A play under this title is mentioned by 
Henslowe as amongst the stock of the Rose Theatre in 1598. 
Henslowe also mentions it with the title of Burbon, as having been 
acted at the Rose, on November 2, 1597. It may have been some 
dramatization, no longer known, of the stirring struggle in France, 
in which Henry IV., of Bourbon, was the chief actor. 

The Bosse of Billing'Sgate : A play by Richard Hathway, assisted by 
John Day. Not printed. 

The authors had £b for it in March, 1603. At the end of a tract called A 
Treatise of a Gallant^ printed about 1520, occurs a metrical piece entitled The 
Marriage of the Bosse of Billingsgate tuito Londoji Stone. 

Upon Both Marriag'eS of the King* : A Play by John Bale, Bishop 
of Ossory, not now known to exist. 

Bottom the Weaver : The merry-conceited Humours of Bottom the 
Weaver. 4to, 1661. 
An interlude taken from the Midsummer Night's Dream by Robert Cox. 
Printed in the Wits ; or, Sport tipon Sport, 1672. 

The Bouncing" Knig'ht : A droll made out of the comic scenes of 
Shakespear's Henry the Fourth. Printed in Sport upon Sport, 
1672. 



30 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Bra-Bri 

The Braggadocio ; Or, the Bawd Turn'd Puritan : A comedy written 
by a person of quality. 4to, 1691. The scene, London. 
This is not an unenterlaining play ; and the part of Flush is supposed 
to have been drawn from some living character of the time. There is both 
instruction and good satire in the piece. Flush is called " of good parts, but a 
rambling, hot-headed blade, and rails against his university through discontent." 
Faith, one of the female characters, is termed " Gullman's woman, a disciplin'd 
baggage." 

Brandimart : 

This play, which Henslowe misquotes as Brandynicr, and which was perhaps 
Greene's Orlando Furioso, was performed at the Rose Theatre, April 6, 159I1 
and in May of the following year. The manager, under the date of March 4, 
1 591 -2, registers the performance of Bcndo and Richardo, which he elsewhere 
calls Byndo and Rychardo ; this may point to the same piece, as Manclricard, 
King of Mexico, is another of the prominent persons in the play. 

Branhowlte : Compare BrtmhowUe. 

The Brazen Age, The first Act containing, The Death of the Centaur 
Nessus, The Second, The Tragedy of Meleager : The Third, 
The Tragedy of Jason and Medea. The Fourth, Vulcan's Net. 
The Fifth, The Labours and death of Hercules. By Thomas 
Heywood. 4to, 161 3. 

This is the third of the pieces founded on Ovid's Metamorphoses. In the 
Dramatic Works. 

Brennoralt : Compare Discontented Colonel. 

The Bridals : A comedy by the Duchess of Newcastle. Published 
among her works. Folio, 166S. 

The Bride : A Comedy. Acted in the year 1638, at the Private House 
m Drury Lane, by their Majesties Servants. The Author, Thomas 
Nabbes. 4to, 1640. Dedicated to the generality of his friends, 
gentlemen of the several honourable houses of the inns of court. 

The Bristol Merchant : 

Sir Henry Herbert, in his Diary \\x\<S.ftx October 22, 1624, has the following 
entiy : " For the Palsgrave's company, a new play called the Bristowe Merchant, 
written by Forde and Decker." 

The Bristol Tragedy : By John Day. Acted by the Lord Admiral's 
Servants, 1602. 

This, observes Mr. Collier, was probably the play issued anonymously in 1605, 
under the title of the Fair Maid of Bristol., which has been assigned to Day upon 
that supposition. 

Britannia's Honor : Brightly Shining in several Mngnificcnt Shows 
or Pageants, to cekbrate the Solenmity of the Right Honourable 
Richard Deane. At his Inauguration into the Mayoralty of the 
Honourable City of London, on ^\'edncs(]ay, October the 29111, 
1628. At the ])articular Cost and Charges of the Right Worshijifu), 
Worthy, and Ancient Society of Skinners. Invented by Tho. 
Dekker. 410, 1628. 



Bri-Bul PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 31 

Britannia Triumphans : A Masque, Presented at White Hall by the 
King's Majesty and his Lords on the Sunday after Twelfth-night, 
1637. By Inigo Jones, Surveyor of his Majesty's Works, and 
William Davenant, her ALijesty's S rvant. 4to, 1637; omitted in 
liie folio ot Davenant, 1673. 

The author of The Stage Condemned, 1698, gives a very particular account of it 
(pp. 12 to 31), as being then "very rare, and scarcely to be had; and being 
extraordinary, because of its having been acted on a Sabbath-day." 

The Broken Heart : A tragedy by John Ford, acted at the Black 
Friars. 4to, 1633. Dedicated to William Lord Craven, baron of 
Hamstead-Marshall. The scene, Sparta. 

The Brothers : A comedy by J. Shirley, acted at the Black Friars. 
8vo, 1652. Scene, Madrid. Dedicated to Thomas Stanley, Esq. 
Licensed November 4, 1626. 

Compare Dick of Devonshire. 

The BroxbOUrn-bury Masque : Seventeenth century, MS. Addit., 
J3.M., 10,444 {some of the music only). 

Brunhowlle : A drama now lost, but which appears to have belonged 
to Philip Henslowe in 1597-8, and to have been on the same story 
as Thierry and Theodoret. See Dyce's Beaiimo7it and Fletcher, 
i. 104. 

Brutus of Alba ; or, the Enchanted Lovers : Tragedy by Nahum Tate, 
acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1678. Dedicated to Charles, 
Earl of Dorset and Middlesex. Licensed July 15, 1678. 
The plan of this tragedy is partly founded on Geoffrey of Monmouth. 

Brutus of Alba ; or, Augusta's Triumph : An opera, acted at the 
Theatre in Dorset Garden. 4to, 1697. 

The scene of this piece lies mostly on the Thames, and is a kind of sequel to 
the last-mentioned play. It was published by George Powell and John Verbrug- 
gen. The dedication is dated October 16, 1696. 

The Bubble : A droll by Kirkman, made up out of the play of Green's 
Tu Quoque, 16 14, by John Cooke. Piintcd in the IVits, or Sport 
icpon Sport, 1672. 

Buckingham : A play, acted at the Rose Theatre, by the Earl of 
Sussex's Servants, December 30, 1593. Not printed. 

Perhaps in part on the same story as Shakespear's Richard III. 

The Buck is a Thief : Acted at Whitehall by the King's Company, 
1623. Not printed. 

" Upon Innocents night, falling out upon a Sonday, the Buck is a Thief, the 
king and prince being there ; by the King's Company at Whitehall." — Sir H. 

Herbert's Diary. 

The Bugbears : A comedy of the time of Queen Elizabeth, translated 
from some early Italian drama. MS. Lansd., 807. 

One of the characters in it is called 15iondello. A note at the end says 
"Johannes Jeffere scribebat hoc." He was probably only the scribe. 

The Bull Masque: Seventeenth century. Addit. MS., B.M., 10,444 
(music only). 



32 PLAY COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Bur-Byr 

The Burial of Christ : A mystery of the fifteenth century. Printed 
from the Bodleian MS. in Reliquia: AntiqucE, vol. ii., p. 124. 

The Burning" of John HUSS : A tragedy by Ralph Radcliff. Not 

printed. 
The Burning" of Sodom : A tragedy by Ralph Radcliff. Not printed. 
Bury Fair : A comedy by Thomas Shadwell. 4to, 1689. 

The characters of Old Wit and Sir Humphry Noddle, in this play, are 
apparently borrowed from Justice Spoihvit and Sir John Noddy, in the Duke of 
Newcastle's Ti-iumphant Widow, and that of La Roche, from the Precieuses 
Ridicules of Moliere. 

In the dedication to the Earl of Dorset, the author says that this play " was 
written during eight months' painful sickness ; wherein all the several days, in 
which I was able to write any part of a scene, amounted not to one month, 
except some few which were employed in indispensable business." Langbaine 
is of opinion that the character of La Roche has in this play "a more taking air 
than in any other play, and there is something in his jargon more diverting than 
in the original itself." 

Bussy d'Amhois : A Tragedy, as it hath been often presented at Paul's. 

4to, 1607, 1608, 1616, 1641, 1646, 1657. Entered on the Stationers' 

Registers, June 3, 1607. 

Reprinted in Chapman's Dramatic Works. This play, after the Restoration, 
was revived with success at the Theatre Royal. The plot is taken from the 
historians of the reign of Henry \\\. of France. 

Dryden has spoken of it in terms of unwonted severity. " I have sometimes 
wondered," he says, " in the reading, what was become of those glaring colours 
which amazed me in Bussy d\4?iibois upon the theatre ; but when I had taken 
up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I had been cozened with a jelly : 
nothing but a cold dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting, a 
dwartish thought dressed uj) in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, loose- 
ness of expression, and gross hyperboles ; the sense of one line expanded pro- 
digiously into ten : and, to sum up all, uncorrect English, and a hideous mingle 
of false poetry and true nonsense ; or, at best, a scantling of wit, which lay 
gasping for life, and groaning beneath a heap of rubbish. A famous modern 
poet used to sacrifice every year a Statius to Virgil's manes ; and I have indigna- 
tion enough to burn a d'Ambois annually to the memory of Jonson." 

Durfey says that, about 1675, he saw " the Bussy d'Ambois of Chapman acted 
by Hart, which in spight of the obsolete phrases and intolerable fustian with 
which a great part of it w^as cramm'd, had some extraordinary beauties which 
sensibly charmed me, which, being improved by the graceful action of that 
eternally renowned and best of actors, so attracted not only me, but the town in 
general, that they were obliged to pass by and excuse the gross errors in the 
writing, and allow it amongst the rank of the topping tragedies of that time." 

Bussy d'Ambois; or, the Husband's Revenge: A tragedy by T. Durfey. 
Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1691. The scene, Paris. Dedi- 
cated to Edward, Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Howard of Morpeth, etc. 
This is a revival of Chapman's jilay, with some improvement in the character 
of Tamyra. For the intrigue of Bussy and Tamyra see Rosset's Jlistoircs 
'J'rai^iijties, Hist, xvii., p. 303, under the feigned names of Lysis and Silvie. 
The principal character in it, formerly acted by Hart, was now successlully 
undertaken by Mounlfort. 

Byron : See Conspiracy. 

Byrsa Basilica : Byrsa Basilica, seu Regale ICxcambium, conicedia in 
honorem Thomas Greshami militis, auctore J. Rickets, 1570. MS. 
Podl., Tanner 207. 

A curious Latin play on the subject of the Koyal Exchange. 



Cas-Cal PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 33 

Caesar and Pompey : 

A play mentioned by Gosson in his ScJiool of Abuse, 1579. It is doubtless the 
" Story of Pompey" performed at Court by the Children of Paul's, January 6, 
1581. 

Caesar and Pompey : 

A play, in two parts, acted at the Rose Theatre in 1594-5. 

Caesar and Pompey : The Tragedy of Coesar and Pompey, or Caesar's 
Revenge. Acted by the Students of Trinity College, in Oxford. 
4to, n.d., 1607. 

In the edition without a date, there is no mention of it having been acted by 
the students of Trinity College. 

Caesar and Pompey : A Roman Tragedy, declaring their wars, out of 
whose events is evicted this proposition, only a Just ina?i is a free 
man. By Geo. Chapman. 4to, 1631, 1653. 

The plot of this play is taken from the Roman history. Scene, Rome and 
Pharsalia. In some of the copies of 1631 the title-page runs thus : "The Wars 
of Pompey and Ca?sar. Out of whose events," etc. 

Caesar Borgia, Son to Pope Alexander VL : Tragedy by Nat. Lee, 
acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 16S0. The scene, Rome. 

The plot is built on Guicciardini and Mariana, and Ricaut's Lives of the Popes. 
The play met with good success at first ; although it appears there was some 
difficulty in getting it represented. This is gathered from an allusion in the 
preface to Rome's Follies, 1681. The prologue was written by Dryden. 

Caesar's Fall : A play written by Munday, Drayton, Webster, and 
Middleton, in 1602. 

Money was advanced on it by Henslowe's company in the month of May in 
that year. 

Caesar's Tragedy : 

A play so called is in a list of dramas performed before the Court at Whitehall 
in May, 1613. It does not seem at all clear to which of the productions on this 
subject the entry refers. 

Caius Marius : The history and fall of Caius Marius, a tragedy by 
T. Otway, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1680, 1692, 1703. 

The scene of this play lies at Rome ; and the characters of Marius, jun., and 
Lavinia, are taken, and that even in many places vei'lmfii/i, from those of Romeo 
and Juliet. The character of Sulpitius is a bad imitation of Mercutio. The plot, 
into which the story of their love is thus interwoven, may be found in Plutarch's 
Life of Cains Jl/arins, and in Lucan's Pharsalia. This play was acted much 
about the time of the Popish plot, the author having introduced the dissensions of 
Marius and Sylla, and applied them to the factions in the reign of Charles II. 

Caligula, Emperor of Rome : A tragedy by J. Crowne, acted at the 
Theatre Royal. 4to, 1698. 
The scene lies in the imperial palace in Rome, and the plot is partly taken 
from Suetonius. Dedicated to the Earl of Romney. 

Calisto : A play of the seventeenth century, partly formed from Hey- 
wood's Golden and Silver Ages. Egerton MS., B.M., 1994. 

From the Charlemont Collection. The MS. contains many variations from 
the printed copies, according to Mr. A. H. Bullen, and a song omitted in them. 

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34 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S AL\NUAL. Cal-Can 

CalistO ; or, the Chaste Nymph : A masque, by J- Crowne. 4to, 
1675. The scene, Arcadia. 

This was written by command of King James II.'s Queen, when Duchess of 
York, and was performed at Court by persons of great quality. It has songs 
between the acts ; the duration of it is an artificial day ; and the plot is founded 
on Ovid's Metamorphoses, Lib. ii., Fab. 5, 6. It is dedicated to Lady Mary, 
afterwards Queen to William III., who, together with the Princess, afterwards 
Queen Anne, and the Duke of Monmouth, performed and danced in it. The 
dramatis personce and the names of the performers are prefi.xed. See a long 
account of it in Langbaine, ed. 1691, p. 92. It is advertised at the end of 
Durfey's Squire Oldsapp, 1679, as " a masque acted at Court by the Lady Mary, 
the Lady Anne, and many other persons of the greatest quality in England." 
Dryden wrote an epilogue, but it was rejected through the adverse influence 
exercised by Rochester. The prologue and choruses were pul)lished separately, 
1675- 

Calistus : See Beauty of IVomeji and Celestina. 

CambyseS : A Lamentable Tragedy, mixed full of pleasant mirth, of 

the Life of Cambyses. By Thomas Preston. 410, twice printed 

withotit a date, between 1570 and 1585. In Hazlitt's Dodsley. 

The story is taken from Herodotus and Justin. The running title is, A Comedy 

of King Cambises. This is the piece which gave rise to the phrase " King 

Cambyses' vein," employed by Shakespear. 

Cambyses, King of Persia : A tragedy by Elkanah Settle. Acte 1 at 

the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1671, 1675, 1692. 

This play is on the same story as the foregoing, and is written in heroic 

verse. The scene lies in Suza, and in Cambyses' camp near the walls of Suza. 

In a postscript, the author acknowledges that a fellow-student wrote about sixty 

lines near the commencement of the play. 

The Campaig'nePS ; or, the Pleasant Adventures at Brussels : 
Comedy by T. Durfey. 4to, 1698. Scene, Brussels. Time, 
thirty-five hours. 

Part of the plot is taken from a novel called Female Falsehood. Prefixed to 
this play is, '' A familiar Preface upon a late reformer of the stage (Collier). 
Ending with a satyrical fable of the Dog and the Otter." .Some of the music 
was composed by Purcell. 

Campaspe \ Compare Alexatider and Campaspe. 

Camp-bell, or the Ironmongers' Fair Field, at the installation of Sir 
'rhomas Campbell, October 29, 1609. By Anthony Munday. 
4to, 1609. 

Only a fragment of this pageant is at present known. 

Cancer : A Latin play supposed to have been acted before James I. in 
1622. It was printed, with others, i2mo, 1648. 

Candlemas Day, and the Killing of the Children of Israel, 1512 : An 
interlude, preserved in MS. Digby 133, and printed with other pieces 
of the same character. 4to, 1835. 

One John Parfrc was the transcriber of the MS. 

The Canterbury Guests ; or, a Bargain Broken : A comedy by E. 
Kavenscroft. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1695. Scene, 
Canterbury. 



Cap-Car PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 35 

The Captain: A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol., 1647. 
Acted before the Court in the year 1613. 

Captain Mario: A comedy by Stephen Gosson (about 1580). Not 
printed. 

" Since my publishing the School of Abuse," says Gosson, " two playes of my 
making were brought to the stage ; the one was a cast of Italian devises, called 
the comedie of Captain Mario." — I'lays Confuted. 

Captain Stukeley : The Life and Death of Captaine Thomas Stukeley, 
with his marriage to Alderman Curtis's Daughter, and valiant 
Ending of his Life at the Battle of Alcazar. As it hath been acted. 
4to, 1605. 

Captain Underwit : See Coimtry Captain. 

The Captives, Or, The Lost Recovered. By Thomas Heywood. 
1624. 

Printed from a MS. by Bullen. It was licensed for performance at the Cock- 
pit by the Queen of Bohemia's men, September 3, 1624. 

Cardenio : See Love's Pilgrimage. 

The Cardinal : A tragedy by James Shirley. Acted in Black Friars, 
and, after the Restoration, at the Cockpit. Licensed on Novem- 
ber 25, 1641, but not printed till 1652. 

Cardinal Wolsey : A play ascribed to Henry Chettle, and acted in 

1 60 1. A second part was performed in 1602 : both by the Earl of 

AVorcester's Servants. 

Not printed. Malone suspects that Chettle was not the original author, 

because he finds an account of money paid to him for "altering Cardinal 

Wolsey." 

Cards : The Play of Cards, an unpublished drama of the seventeenth 
century, mentioned in Harington's Apologie of Poetrie, 1591. 

" Sir John Harrington, in his Apology for Poetry prefixed to his translation of 
Orlando Furioso, having given the highest encomiums on tragedy in general, and 
particularly on that of Richard III., proceeds : ' Then for Comedies, how full of 
harmless mirth is our Cambridge Pedantius? and the Oxford Bellum Gram- 
MA'I'ICALE? or, to speak of a London comedy how much good matter of state is 
there in that Comedy called, The Play of the Cards? In which it showed 
how Four Para'-itical Knaves robbe the Four Principal Vocations of the realme, 
videl. The vocation of Souldiers, SchoUers, Marchants, and Husbandmen. Of 
which comedy I cannot forget the saying of a notable and wise counsellor that is 
now dead [Sir Francis Walsingham] who, when some (to sing Placebo) 
advised that it should be forbidden because it was somewhat too plain, and 
indeed, as the old saying is (sooth boord is no boord), yet he would have it 
allowed, adding it was fit " That they that do that they should not, should heare 
what they would not." ' " — Hazvkins, 1773. 

The Careless Lovers : A comedy by Edward Ravenscroft. 4to, 1673. 
Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 

This play was written after the time that Dryden had attacked this author's 
JMamamoiichi ; and in the epistle and prologue he has endeavoured to revenge 
his cause, by an attack on Dryden's Aliiianzor and Love in a Nunnery, and by 
retorting back on him the charge of plagiarism, which, notwithstanding what 
Ravenscroft says in his prologue, he is far from being clear of in regard to this 
vtry pitce ; as the sham scene in the fourth act, where Mrs. Breedwell and 



36 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Car-Cat 

Clapham bring in their children, and challenge marriage of the Lord de Boastago, 
is apparently stolen from iNIoliere's M. dc Pourceangnac, Act II., Scenes 7 and 8. 
\Yhatsoever of that comedy, moreover, the author had not made use of in his 
Mai/iaiiioiichi, he has transplanted into this piece. 

In the epistle to the reader, the author says that "it was written at the desire 
of the young men of the stage, and given them for a I/cnten play ; they asked it 
not above a week before Shrove-Tuesday. In three days' time the first three acts 
were made, transcribed, and delivered to them to write out in parts. The two 
last acts took me up just so much time : one week completed it." 

The Careless Shepherdess : A pastoral tragi-comedy by Thomas 

Goffe. 4to, 1656. 

This play was successfully acted before the King and Queen at Salisbury 

Court, where the preludium is laid. The general scene is laid m Arcadia. It 

was written many years previously to the date of publication. A pastoral called 

the Careless Shepherd, mentioned in some catalogues, is perhaps this play. 

The Carnival : A comedy by Thomas Porter. Acted at the Theatre 
Royal. 4to, 1664. Scene, Seville. 

Cartwrig'ht : A play, founded upon the murder by Francis Cartwright 
of a clergyman named Storr, written by William Haughton in 
1602. 

See Henslowe's Diary, p. 225. An" account of the incident was printed in 
1603 and 1613, and Cartwright published his own narrative in 1621. 

The Case is Alter'd. Ben : Jonson, His Case is Altered, As it hath 
been sundry times acted by the children of the Black Friars. 4to, 
1609 ; in the folio of 1692. 

There is no dedication or preface, and it is omitted in both the earlier folio 
editions. 

Jonson cites the Falladis Tamia of Meres in this play, and we may augur, as 
the latter is mentioned by Nash in his Lenten Stuff, 1599, as popular, and as 
Meres does not name it, it had acquired a rapid success. 

Cassandra ; or, the Virgin Prophetess : An opera, acted at the Theatre 
Royal. 4to, 1692. 

Castara ; or, Cruelty without Lust : A play, entered on the books of 
the Stationers' Company, November 29, 1653, but probably never 
printed. 

The Castle of Perseverance : One of the oldest moral-plays in the 

English language. A MS. formerly in the possession of Hudson 
Gurney. 
See an interesting account of it in Collier's History of Dramatic Poetry, ii. 279. 

The Cataclysm : See Noah's Flood. 

Catilina Triumphans : A Latin comedy of the seventeenth century, 
of which two coi)ies, one imperfect, are among the MSS. of Trinity 
College, Cambridge. 

Catiline's Conspiracy : By Stephen Gosson. Not known. 

It is mentioned by llie author in his School of Abuse, 1579, and must have been 
in existence at that date. It is possible that it was the drama performed at 
(liay's Inn in January, 15S7-8. 



Cat-Cha PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 37 

Catiline's Conspiracy : A play, by Robert Wilson and Henry Chettle. 
Acted 1598. Never printed. 

It is not improbable that Ben Jonson made some use of this piece. 

Catiline, His Conspiracy: A tragedy by Ben Jonson. 4to, 161 1, 
1635. Scene, Rome. 

It was revived in December, 1668, on which occasion, observes Pepys, it was 
produced " most fine in clothes, and a fine scene of the Senate, and of a fight, as 
ever I saw in my life." 

Celestina : The Tragi-Comedy of Celestina, wherein are discoursed in 
most pleasant style many philosophical sentences and advertise- 
ments, very necessary for young gentleuien, and discovering the 
sleights of treacherous servants, and the subtle carriages of filthy 
bawdes. Entered at Stationers' Hall, October 5, 1598, by William 
Aspley. 

Compare Beauty of Women. 

The Cenocephali : A play acted at Court in 1576-7 : "The historye 
of the Cenofalles, showen at Hampton Court on Candlemas-day at 
night, enacted by the Lord Chamberleyn his men." 

This was on the subject of the Cynocephali of India. 

Censure of the Judges : See Merairius Britamiicus. 

Chabot : The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France. As it was pre- 
sented by her Majesty's Servants at the private house in Drury 
Lane. Written by George Chapman and James Shirley. 4to, 
1639. 

The story of it is taken from the French historians, in their account of the 
reign of Francis I. Licensed on April 29, 1635. This is probably the piece 
advertised at the end of a History of the Changes of Govei-nment in England, 
l66o, as Chawbut. A play called The Fall of Chabot appears to have been in 
print before 1626. See Collier's Memohs of Alley n, p. 147. 

A Challenge at Tilt at a Marriage : A masque, by Ben jonson, 

1613. Fol., 1616, 1640. 

A Challenge for Beauty : As it haih been sundry times Acted by the 

King's Majesty's Servants at the Black Friars, and at the Globe on 

the Bankside. 4to, 1636. A tragi-comedy. Scene, Portugal. 

Reprinted in Heywood's Dramatic Works. 

Chance Medley : A play, by Wilson, Munday, Drayton, and Decker. 

This play is mentioned in Henslowe's Diary under the date of 1598. 

The Chances: A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fob, 1647. 
The scene, Bologna. 

The plot is taken from a novel of Cervantes, called The Lady Cornelia. It 
was revived at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane in 1662. 

The Chances : A comedy by the Duke of Buckingham. Acted at the 
Theatre Royal. 4to, 1682, 1692, 1705. 

This is only the preceding play altered and amended. Pepys notes under 
February 5, 1667 : "To the King's house, to see the Chances; a gootl play I 
find it, and the actors most good in it ; and pretty to hear Knipp sing in the play 
very properly, 'All night I weepe,' and sung it admiralily." 



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38 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Cha-Cha 

The Changeling" : A tragedy by Thomas Middleton and William 
Rowley. Acted at the private house in Drury Lane, and at Salis- 
bury Court. 4to, 1653, 1668. The scene, Alicant. It was acted 
before the Court at Whitehall, January 4, 1623-4, and was revived 
in January, 1661. 

This play met with ver)' great success. The principal foundation of the plot 
may be found in the story of Alsemero and Beatrice-Joanna, in Reynolds's Goifs 
J\ev£)ige against Murder, Book i., Hist, iv., a work which had then just recently 
appeared. Under date of January 23, 1660-1, Pepys says : " To the Playhouse, 
and there saw the Changeling, the first time it hath been acted these twenty 
years, and it takes exceedingly." It was also acted at the Cardinal's Cap in 
Cambridge in 1662, according to a memorandum in MS. Sloane, 1900. 

The Changeling : A comedy ascribed by Winstanley to MatthcA' Hey- 
wood. Not acted. 

The Change of Crowns : A play, by Edward Howard, apparently 
altered from the following piece. Not printed. 
Pepys notes under April 15, 1667 : " To the King's house by chance, where a 
new play ; so full as I never saw it. The play called the Change of Crownes, a 
play of Ned Howard's, the best that I ever saw at that house, being a great play 
and serious ; only Lacy did act the country-gentleman come up to Court, who do 
abuse the Court with all the imaginable wit and plainness about selling of places, 
and doing everything for money. The play took very much." Yet the King 
was so offended by the allusions, that he forbad its repetition. 

The Changes ; or, Love in a Maze : A comedy, by James Shirley. 
Acted at the private house in Salisbury Court, by the Company of 
his Majesty's Revels. 4to, 1632. Scene, London. 

Pepys saw it on its revival at the King's Theatre in 1662, and notes (May 22) : 
"The play hath little in it, but Lacy's part of a country-fellow, which he did to 
admiration. ' He saw it again, May i, 1607, shortly after the suppression of 
Howartrs version, and expressed the same judgment. 

The Characters of Two Royal Masques, the one of Blackness, the 
other of Beauty, Personated by the most Magnificent of Queens, 
Anne, Queen of Great Britain, etc., with her honourable Ladies, 
1605 and 1608, at Whitehall. Invented by Ben Jonson. 4to [1608]. 

The copy presented by the author to the Queen is in the British Museum. 
The former was presented on Twelfth Night, 1604-5; ^^^ latter, January 14, 
1607-8. The Masque of Blackness, in an early MS. copy in the British Museum, 
is (Royal MS. 17, B. 31) called the Twelfth Alight Revels. See the Shakespear 
Society's Iiiigo Jones volume, 1848. In the Revels'' Accounts it appears as the 
Moors^ Masque, according to Cunningham. In a MS. quoted by IlalliwcU, 
there is an account of the jierforniance at Oxford, in 1636, of what seems to be 
Jonson's work, a Mr. Moore taking ])art in it. 

Charity Triumphant ; or the Virgin Show : r^xhibited on the 29th of 
October, 1655, being the Lord Mayor [Alderman Dethicke'sj Day. 
[By Edm. Ciayton.] 4to, 1655. I'he Mercers' Pageant. 

Charles the First : The Famous Tragedy of King Charles the First 
basely butchered. 4to, 1649. 

Charles VIII. of France ; or, the Invasion of Na])les by the French : 
An historical play by John Crowne. Acted at the Duke of York's 
Theatre. 4to, 1672. The scene, Najilcs. 
The plot is taken from Guicciardini and some of the French hiblorians. It is 



Cha-Chi PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 39 

written in heroic verse. The Earl of Rochester, notwithstandinfj the compliment 
paid hiin by the writer, in tledicating this play to him, ridiculed the piece and its 
author in his imitation of the third of Boileau's Satires. A song from this piece 
is inserted in the second part of Westminster Drollery, 1672, p. 66. 

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside : A P.easant conceited Comedy never 
before printed. As it hath been often acted at the Swan on the 
Bankside by the Lady Elizabeth's Servants. By Thomas Middleton. 
4to, 1630. 

The Chaste Woman ag-ainst her Will : 

A comedy under this title is meniioneil in a list of " books in the presse, and 
ready for printing," as to be published by Nathaniel Brook at the Angel in Corn- 
hill, appended to the New World of English IVords, 1658. It is also advertised 
with others at the end of Wit and Drollery , 166 1. 

Chaucer's Melibeus : A Comedy, by Ralph Radcliff. Not printed. 

Chawhut : See Chabot. 

The Cheater Cheated : An interlude. Printed in the Wits, or Sport 
upon Sport, 8vo, 1672. 

The Cheats: A comedy by John Wilson, written in the year 1662. 
4to, 1664, 1671, 1684, 1693. 

To the fourth edition, 1693, there is the addition of a new song, near the end 
of the fifth act, and also a short prologue on its revival after it liad been sup- 
pressed by a faction. 

The Cheats of Scapin: A farce, by T. Otway. 4to, 1677. The 
scene, Dover. 

This farce is printed at the end of Titus and Berenice, which consists only of 
three acts, and was probably intended to be performed with it in the same manner 
as we have lately seen some pieces of irregular length destined for a joint per- 
formance. It is not much more than a translation of Moliere's Foitrberies de 
Scapin ; the plot of which, moreover, is borrowed from the Phormio of Terence. 

The Chester Plays : 

A large collection of English mysteries, written by a monk of Chester in the 
fourteenth century. They were exhibited in that city, in a somewhat modernized 
form, as recently as the year 1600. 

Five MSS. of these plays, all of a late date, have been preserved. The 
earliest, transcribed in 1591, is in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire ; 
another, dated 1592, is in MS. Addit., B.M., 10,305 ; the next, copied in 1600, is 
in MS. Harl. 2013 ; a fourth, dated 1604, is in MS. Bodl. 175 ; and a fifth, 
written in 1607, is preserved in MS. Harl. 2124. Edited with notes by Thomas 
Wright, 2 vols. 8vo, 1843-7. 

Chester's Triumph : Chester's Triumph in Honor of her Prince, as 
it was performed upon St. George's-day, 16 10, in the foresaid City. 
By Richard Davies. 4to, 1610. Reprinted in Nichols' Progresses 
of James /., ii. 291, and for the Roxburgh Club and Chetham 
Society. 

The pageant was produced at the cost of Robert Amerie, ex-Sherifif of 
Chester. 

The Chester Tragedy : Compare Randall, Earl of Chester. 

Chief Promises : See God's Promises. 



40 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Chi-Chr 

Chinon of England : A play so called is mentioned several times in 
Henslowe's Diary, and first under the date of January the 3rd, 
1595-6, as acted at the Rose Theatre on that day. It might have 
been founded on Christopher Middleton's version of the story. 

Chloridia : Rites to Chloris and her Nymphs. Personated in a masque 
at Court, by the Queen's IvLijesty and her Ladies, at Shrovetide, 
1630-1. By Ben Jonson. 4to, 1630. 

Christianetta : A play, by Richard Brome. Entered on the books 
of the Stationers' Company, August 4, 1640 ; but probably not 
printed. 

A Christian Turn'd Turk : Or, the Tragical Lives and Deaths of the 
two famous Pirates, Ward and Dansiker. As it hath been publicly 
acted. Written by Robert Daborne. 4to, 161 2. 

The story is taken from the accounts of the overthrow of those two pirates, 
printed in 1609, and mentioned by Hazlitt. The play is not divided into acts. 

Christmas Comes but Once a Year : A play by Heywood, Webster, 

Decker, and Chettle, written late in 1602, and acted at the end of 
the same year, or very early in 1603. 

See Henslowe's Dia7y, pp. 243, 244, 245. 

Christmas, his Masque, by Ben Jonson. Presented at Court on 
December 25, 1616. Fol., 1641. 

The Christmas Ordinary, A Private Show, Wherein is expressed the 
Jovial Freedom of that Festival. As it was acted at a Gentle- 
man's House among other Revels. By W. R., Master of Arts. 
4to, 1682. 

This piece was originally acted at Trinity College, Oxford, and was entered at 
Stationers' Hall on June 29, 1660. 

The Christmas Prince : A piece acted at St. John's College, Oxford, 
in 1607. 

Printed from a MS. in Jl/iscellatiea Antiqtia Anglicana, 1816. 

Christ Jesus Triumphant : A Latin comedy by John Fox, the 
Martyrologist. Svo, liasil, 1556 ; edited by Rev. Thomas Calvert, 
8vo, Lond., 1672. 

Translated into English by John Day, and printed by him, Svo, 1579, 1581, 
1607. 

Christ's Descent into Hell : A miracle-play represented before 
Henry the Seventh, in the year 1487, by the choir-boys of Hyde 
Abbey and St. Swithin's Priory. 

Christ's Passion : A mystery, written by Kyllor, an early Scotish 
writer, and performed at Stirling. 

Christ's Passion : A tragedy by George Sandys. Svo, 1640, 1687. 

This play was not intended for the singe, and is only a translation of the 
Christtis I'aticns of Hugo Orotius, with annotations. 



Chr-Cit PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 41 

Chrysanaleia : The Golden Fishing : Or, Honour of Fishmongers. 
Applauding the Advancement of Mr. John Leman, Alderman, to 
the Dignity of Lord ALiyor of London. Taking his Oath in the 
same Authority at ^Vestlninster on Monday, being the 29 Day of 
October, 16 16. Performed in hearty Love to him, and at the 
Charges of his worthy Brethren, the ancient and Right-vvorhhipful 
Company of Fishmongers. Devised and written by A[nthony] 
M[unday], Citizen and Draper of London. 4to, 1616. 

Chryso-Thriambos : The Triumphs of Gold. At the Inauguration of 
Sir James Pemberton, Knight, in the Dignity of Lord Mayor of 
London, on Tuesday the 29 of October, 161 1. Performed in the 
hearty Love, and at the Charges of the Right Worshipful, worthy, 
and ancient Company of Goldsmiths. Devised and written by 
A. M., Cittizen and Draper of London. 4to [161 1]. 

Cicilia and Clorinda ; or, Love in Arms : A tragi-comedy by Thomas 

Killigrew. Fol., 1663, 1664. 

This is formed into two plays, the first of which was written at Turin, about 

1650, and the second at Florence, in 1 651. The scene of both pieces lies in 

Lombardy ; and the characters of Amadeo, Lucius, and Manlius, seem copies of 

Aglatidas, Artabes, and Megabises, in the Grand Cyrus, Part i., Book 3. 

The Cid : A tragi-comedy by Joseph Rutter, acted at Court, and at the 
Cockpit, Drury Lane. In two parts, small 8vo, 1637-40. The 
former was reprinted, i2mo, 1650. 

It is a translation at large, and with some alterations, of the Cid of Corneille, 
and was undertaken, ihe first at the request of the Earl of Dorset, to whose son 
the author was tutor, and the second by the command of King Charles I., who 
was so well satisfied with the first translation as to order the second part to be 
put into Rutter's bands for the same purpose. 

" I to the Cock-pit, with much crowding and waiting, where I saw the Valiant 
Cid acted, a play I have read with great delight, but is a most dull thing acted." 
— Pcpys, December i, 1662. 

The Cid : A tragedy, translated from the French of Monsieur Corneille, 
1691, MS. Addit., B.M., 8888. Scene, Seville. 

The name of the translator is not known. The MS. itself appears to be in the 
handwriting of William Popple, nephew of Andrew Marvell. 

Circe : An opera, by Charles d'Avenant. Acted at the Duke of York's 
Theatre. 4to, 1677, 1685, 1703. 

The prologue is by Dryden, and was afterwards rewritten by him ; the epilogue 
by Lord Rochester, and the music by Bannister. The scene lies in Chersonesus 
Taurica. The songs in this opera were published separately in 1677. The piece 
met on its appearance with considerable success. 

The Citizen Turn'd Gentleman : A play by Ravenscroft, taken from 
Moliere, acted at Dorset Garden. 4to, 1672. It was afterwards 
printed under the title of Mamamouchi, q.v. 

The City Bride ; or, the Merry Cuckold : A comedy by Jos. Harris, 
acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to, 1696. 

This play is borrowed almost entirely from Webster's Cure for a Cuckold, 
several whole scenes being the same. 

The City Gallant : See Green's Tu Quoque. 

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42 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Cit-Cit 

The City Heiress ; or, Sir Timothy Treatall : A comedy by 
Mrs. Behn, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 16S2. Written in 
1681. 

This play was well received, but is in great measure a plagiarism, part of it 
being borrowed from Middleton's Mad JVorlJ, my Masters, and part from Mas- 
singer's Guardian. Mrs. Behn has also introduced into it a great part of the 
Inner-Temple Masque, by Middleton. The prologue was written by Otway. 

The City Lady ; or, Folly Reclaim'd : A comedy by Thomas Dilke, 
acted at Little Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to, 1697. Scene, Covent 
Garden. 

It was acted only three nights. 

The City Madam : A Comedy. As it was acted at the private house 
in Black Friars with great applause. Written by Philip Massinger. 
4to, 1658, 1659. 

It was first acted in 1632, by the King's company, as appears from an entry in 
Sir Henry Herbert's Diary, under the date of May 25 in that year. An altera- 
tion of it, under the title of the Cure of Pride, or Everyone in their IVay, exists 
in MS. 

The City Match : A comedy by Jasper INLiyne, D.D., fol., 1639 ; 4to, 
1658. This play was presented before the King and Queen at 
Whitehall in 1639. 

The scene lies in London. Pepys notes that at the King's Playhouse, in 
September, 166S, he "saw the City Match, not acted these thirty years, and but 
a sUly play." Reprinted in Hazhlt's Dodsley. Upon it and Rowley's Match at 
Midnight, Planche founded his Merchant's Wedding, i2mo, 1829. The City 
Match was altered by Mr. Bromfield, a surgeon, and performed under the title of 
the Schemers, and printed 8vo, 1755. 

The City Nig'htcap ; or, Crede quod habes, et habes : A tragi-comedy 
by Robert Davenoort. Acted at the Phoenix, Drury Lane. 4to, 
1661. 

This play met with very good success. It was first acted at the Cock-pit in 
1624. The plot of Lorenzo, Philippo, and Abstemia, according to Langbaine, 
is borrow'd from the novel of the Curious Im]iertinent in y)on Qidxot, and that 
of Lodovico, Francisco, and Dorothea, from Boccaccio, vii. 7, on which likewise 
part of Ravcnscroft's Zo«r/(?« Cuckolds \s built; ed. 1691, p. 117. Reprinted in 
Ilazlitt's Dodsley. 

City Politiques : A comedy by J. Crowne. 4to, 1675, 1683, 1688, 
1693. 

In 1683 was published a broadside entitled : "The Prologue and Epilogue to 
the City Politicks, the Prologue spoken by Mr. Smith, the I£pilogue spoken by 
Mr. Lee in the character of Bartaline, the old lawyer." Langbaine, p. 93, states 
that he had seen this play acted with applause. 

The City Shuffler : 

A ])lay in two parts, rcsjiecting the second of which the Salisbury Court 
company incurred the displeasure of the Master of the Revels, as a|ipears from 
the following entry in the ofiice-book of Sir Henry Herbert: "October, 1633, 
cxctiilion was taken by Mr. Sewster to the second part of the Citty Sluifllcr, 
which gave me occasion to stay tlie play till the company had givi'n him satis- 
faction, which was done the next day." A play so called is in the list of plays 
said to have been destroyed by Warburton's servant. 



Cit-Clo PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 43 

The City Wit ; or, the Woman wears the Breeches : A comedy by 
Richard Brome. In the Plays^ 1653, and in the modern edition, 

1873. 

The prologue is in prose and verse. Compare Ghost. 

Civil Wars of France : See First Civil Wars of France. 

Civitatis Amor : The City's Love. An entertainment by water, at 
Chelsea and White-hall. At the joyful receiving of that Illustrious 
Hope of Great Britain, the High and Mighty Charles, to be created 
Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Earl of Chester, etc. Together 
with the Ample Order and Solemnity of his Highness's creation, as 
it was celebrated in his Majesty's Palace of Whitehall, on Monday, 
the fourth of November, 1616. As also the Ceremonies of that 
Ancient and Honourable Order of the Knights of the Bath ; And 
all the Triumphs shown in honour of his Royal Creation. 4to, 
1616. 

Reprinted in Nichols's Progresses of King fames ^ vol. lii., p. 208, and in the 
editions of Middleton's Works. 

Claracilla : A tragi-comedy by Thomas Killigrew, acted at the Phcenix 
in Drury Lane. 121110, 1641 ; fol., 1664. 

It was performed at the King's House after the Restoration. 

Claudius : See Nero. 

Cleander : See Lovers^ Progress. 

Cleodora : See Qiiee?i of Arragon. 

CleomeneS ; or, the Spartan Hero : A tragedy by John Dryden, acted 
at the Theatre Royal. 410, 1692. 

The plot is professedly taken from Plutarch, but improved by the addition of 
Cassandra's love for Cleonienes, and by giving him a second wife. The scene 
lies in Alexandria, and in the port of that city ; and to all the editions is pre- 
fixed the life of Cleomenes. 

Cleopatra: A tragedy by Samuel Daniel. i2mo, 1594, i595) 1598 ; 
and in the Poetical Essays, 1599, etc. Scene, Alexandria. 
This play is founded on the story of Cleopatra in Plutarch's Lives of Antony 
and Pompey. It was very much esteemed in its time ; and in the posthumous 
edition of it, 1623, there are various alterations greatly to its advantage. 

Cleopatra, Queen of Eg-ypt, the Tragedy of, by Thomas May. 
121110, 1639, 1654. Eirst acted in 1626. Scene, Egypt. 
This is upon the same story as the foregoing ; and the author has throughout 
quoted in the margin the historians from whom he took the story, viz. Plutarch, 
Dion Cassius, Suetonius, Strabo, and Appian. 

Cleophilus : A Latin comedy, written by David ^Vaterhouse. 4to, 
1650, 1700. 

Cloridon and Radiamanta: A play acted at Court in 1571, when 
it was "showen on Shrove-Sundaye at nighte, by Sir Robert Lanes 
men." 

Clorys and OrgastO : Acted February 28, 1 59 1, at the Rose Theatre. 
The only known mention of it is in Plenslowe's Diary, p. 21. 



44 PLAY-COLLECTORS ^L\NUAL. Clo-Col 

Cloth Breeches and Velvet Hose : A moral, licensed conditionally 

to James Roberts, May 27, 1600. 
It purports to have been acted by the Lord Chamberlain's ser\-ants. 
Apparently suggested by Greene's Quip for an Upstart Courtier, 1 592. 

The Clouds : 

'• The Clouds of Aristophanes, added not as a comicall divertisement for the 
reader, who can expect little in that kind from a subject soantient and particular 
but as a necessary' supplement to the life of Socrates." By Thomas Stanley. 

Appended to the second part of the History of Philosophy, 1655. 

Club Law : A play made by the gownsmen of Cambridge in ridicule of 
the townsmen. 
Fuller describes it as " a merr}- but abusive comedy, which was acted at Clare- 
hall in 1597-8." Dr. Farmer possessed a MS., without title, which he con- 
jectured from its character was a copy of this play. 

Club-Men : A droll by Kirkman, taken from Beaumont and Fletcher. 
It is printed in the second part of the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 
1672. 

Clytophon : A Latin comedy by George Ains worth, preserved in MS. 
in the library of Emanuel College, Cambridge. At the end are 
written the names of Gulielmus Bretofius possessor, and Georgius 
Ai?is'ii'ortJiius scriptor. Probably founded on Achilles Tatius. 

The CobleP of Queenhithe : A play so called in the List of those 
belonging to the Rose Theatre in 1598. 
It is probably the piece, not otherwise known, which was acted in October, 
1597, by the Lord Admiral's and the Earl of Pembroke's Servants. 

The Cobler's Prophecy : An interlude or dramatic sketch by Robert 
Wilson. 4to, 1594. 

Cockle-de-Moy : See Dutch Courtezan. 

CceIo and Olympo : A play mentioned by Henslowe as acted March 5, 
1594-5. Compare Golden Age. 

COBlum Brltannlcum : A Masque, at White- Hall in the Banquetting- 

House on Shrove-Tuesday-Night, the 18 of February, i633[-4]. 

4to, 1634; and in all the editions of Carew. 

This masque was written at the command of the King, and performed by his 

Majesty and the nobles. The decorations were by Inigo Jones, and the music by 

II. Lawes. See an interesting note in Fleay, p. 318. 

The Coffee House : See Tarugds Wiles. 

Colas Fury ; Or, Lirenda's Misery : A tragedy, by Henry Birkhead. 
4to, 1646. 
The subject of this play is the Irish rebellion which broke out in October, 1641 ; 
and the principal personages vvho had any concern in the transactions of that 
time are distingui.-hed under fictitious names : viz., Duke of Ormond, Osiris ; Sir 
John LJorlase, IJerosus, etc., as may be easily discovered by referring to Temple's, 
liorlase's, and Clarendon's Histories. 

This tragedy was never acted, but is commended, in most extravagant terms, 
in two copies of verses prefixed to it. Lircnda is an anagram of hxlanJ. 

The College of Canonical Clerks : 

All interlude willi lliis title \s.is entered liy John Charlewood on the books of 
the Stationers' Company in 1566-7. 



Col-Com PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 45 

The Collier : The History of the CoUier, a play acted by Lord 
Leicester's men at Court, December 30, 1576, and on the following 
Sunday. 
Possibly Fulwell's play of Like -will to Like, though it was an old piece, having 
been printed in 1568. 

The Colonel : This play was entered on the books of the Stationers' 
Comjiany, by l^i)liraim Dawson, January i, 1629-jo, as the work of 
William Davcnant. Compare A/bovine. 

Comaedise Aliquot Sacrse : By Gawin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld. 
Mentioned by Bishop Bale. 

Comaediolse : By sir Thomas More. No longer known. 

Warton thinks that these were merely the allegorical hangings with verses 
which he composed while in his father's house. — //. E. P., iii., 386-7, ed. 1824. 

The Combat of Love and Friendship : A comedy, by Robert Mead. 

4to, 1654. 

This play was presented, during the author's lifetime, by the gentlemen of 
Christ Church College, Oxford, but was not published till after his decease. 
lie was a member of that college. 

The Comedy of Errors: By William Shakespear. Fob, 1623. 

The plot of this play is founded on the Menuc/iDii of Plautus, translated by 
W. W. 4to, 1595. It is inserted in the list at the end of the Old Laiu, 1656, 
as if it then existed separately in print. 

Come See a Wonder : See IVofider of a Kingdom. 

The Comical Hash : A comedy, by the Duchess of Newcastle. In 
the Plays, 1662. 

The Comical Reveng'e ; or. Love in a Tub : A comedy by Sir George 
Etherege, acted at the Duke of York's Theatre. 4to, 1669, 
1689. 

It was licensed for printing on July 8, 1664. 

The Committee : A comedy, by Sir Robert Howard. Fob, 1665, 
1692. 

This comedy, which has had the second title of the Faithful Irishman added 
to it, was written not long after the Restoration. Pepys saw it acted at the 
Royal Theatre, on June 12, 1663, and describes it as "a merry but indifferent 
play, only Lacy's part, an Irish footman, is beyond imagination." It was written 
in ridicule of the puritanical party. 

The Committee Man Curried : A comedy in two parts, represented 
to the view of all men, by S. Sheppard. 4to, 1647. 

" A piece discovering the Corruption of Committee Men and Excise Men ; 
the unjust Sufferings of the Royal Party ; the devilish Hypocrisy of some Round- 
heads ; the Revolt for Gain of some Ministers. Not without pleasant mirth and 
Variety." These two plays have much more zeal than wit ; yet at the same 
time are most barefaced pieces of plagiarism ; there being scarcely anything of 
Sir John Suckling's, either in prose or verse, which has escaped the plunder of 
this dramatic adapter, exclusive of what he has borrowed from the first and third 
Satires of Juvenal, as translated by Sir Robert Stapylton. Though styled by the 
writer comedies, neither of them is much longer than one act of a play. 



46 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Corn-Con 

Common Conditions : A new and pleasant comedy or play after the 
manner of common conditions, licensed July 27, 1576, to John 
Hunter. 

The only copy known to exist, which is now in the collection of the Duke of 
Devonshire, wants the title-page. See an interesting account of it in Collier's 
History of Dramatic Poetry, ii. 376. 

A Commonwealth of Women : A play by 1'homas Durfey, acted at 
the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1686. Scene, Covent Garden. Licensed 
vn September 11, 1685. 
This play is a mere alteration from Fletcher's Sea Voyage, and is very in- 
differently executed ; for, as Langbaine observes, " what is either alter'd or 
added may be as easily discern'd from the original, as patches on a coat from the 
main piece." 

Comus : A ALasque presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634 : On Michaelmas 
Night, before the Right Honourable John, Earl of Bridgewater, 
Viscount Brackly, Lord President of Wales, and one of His 
Majesty's most honourable Privy Council. By John Milton. 4to, 
1637 ; in the edition of the Poems, 1645. 

There is a MS. of it in the Ellesmere Collection, edited by Todd, 8vo, 1798. 
Milton was doubtless indebted for the first hint of this production, as well as for 
much general help, to the Coinus of Puteanus, of which there was an edition at 
Oxford, i2mo, 1634. 

The Concealed Fancies : A play by the Lady Jane Cavendish and 
Lady Elizabeth Brackley ; MS. Bodl., Rawl. Poet. 16. 

Concealed Royalty, Or the May Queen: A pastoral, 1674, by R. Carle- 
ton, a MS. formerly in the possession of F. W. Fairholt. 
It was written for private representation, and in the winter time, as appears 
from the prologue, which was " spoken by the Right Honourable the Lady 
Christian Bruce." In this play, kings, queens, and nobles, crossed in love, retire 
to the fields, and enact shepherd life. The principal parts were performed by 
Lord Bruce and four ladies of his family. 

The Conceited Duke : A play, which belonged to the Cock-pit 
Theatre in 1639. 

The Conceited Pedlar : See AHstippus. 

The Conceits : A play ; entered on the books of the Stationers' 
Company, by R. Alarriot, November 29, 1053, but probably not 
printed. 

Confessor : A Latin drama by T. Sparowe, written about the year 1666. 
MS. Bodl., Rawl. Poet. 77. 

There was a Thomas Sparow% admitted 15. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, 
1673. It is dedicated to a Bishop not named. 

The Conflict of Conscience : An excellent new Comedy, entitled the 
Contlict of Conscience, by Nathaniel Woodes, minister in Norwich. 
4to, 1 58 1. 

This jiiecc is in six acts, and relates to the events of the life of Francis Spira, 
who was converted to Popery, and who is referred to in the character of 
Philologus. 

Spira's death by his own hand, in consc(|ucncc of his mental distress at his 
abandcjnment of Protestantism, jiad occurred al)oul 1548. The ballad of " Master 
Francis, an Italian, a Doctor of Law, who ilenicd the Lord Jesus," in 1587, may 
have been founded on the play. 

In Hazlitt's Dodsley. 



Con-Con PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 47 

Connan, Prince of Cornwall : A play, by Michael Drayton, in con- 
junction with 'I'homas Decker. Written in October, 1598. 

The Conquest of Brute : A play by John Day, assisted by Cheitle, 
mentioned in Henslowe's Diary, Jli'Y, 1598, as "the Conqueste of 
Brute with the first fyndinge of the Bathe," that is, the hot-springs 
at Bath. 

The Conquest of China : 

A tragedy with this title appears to have been written by Sir Robert Howard, 
and was intended to be revised by Diyden. It was, however, never either acted 
or printed, and is now proliably lost. See Johnson's Life of Dry den. 

The Conquest of China by the Tartars : A tragedy by E. Settle, 
acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1676. 

This play is written in heroic verse, and the plot founded on history. Dovvnes, 
in his Rosciiis Anglicanus, p. 45, relates a curious anecdote of Jevon the actor in 
connection with this play. 

The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards : A tragedy, in two 
parts, by J. Dryden, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1672, 1678, 
i68t. 

These two plays met with great success when performed ; but Langbaine, who 
was strongly prejudiced against this poet, has taken pains to point out how much 
he has borrowed for the forming of these pieces from the celebrated romances of 
Alma/nde, Grand Cyrus, Ibrahim, and Guzman; although the mode in which 
he has made use of these materials is only that usually adopted by the old 
English dramatists — Langbaine, ed. 1691, p. 157. The prologue to the first 
part was spoken by Nell Gwyn in a broad brinim'd hat and waist-belt : 
" This jest was first of t'other house's making. 

And five times try'd has never fail'd of taking ; 

This is that hat whose very sight did win ye. 

To laugh and clap as tho' the devil were in ye. 

As then for Nokes, so now I hope you'll be 

So dull, to laugh once more for love of me." 
Nokes having appeared in some play in an enormous hat which pleased the 
audience so much, as to help off a bad play merely by the effect of it, Dryden 
caused a hat to be made of the circumference of a coach wheel, and when Nell 
Gwyn appeared in that strange dress, the house was immediately in convulsions ; 
the King wanted but little of being suffocated with laughter. — Appiiidix to 
Downes. Durfey made some additions to a later representation of this play. 

The Conquest of Spain : See John of Gaunt. 

The Conquest of the West Indies : A play, by William Haughton, 
in conjunction with Wentworth Smith and John Day. Acted in 
1601. 

The Conscientious Lovers : A comedy by C. Shadwell. 

This play is included in Mears's Catalogue ; but we are doubtful whether it 
was ever printed. 

The Conspiracy: A tragedy by Henry Killigrew. 4to, 1638; fol., 
1653. Scene, Crete. 

This piece was intended for the entertainment of the King and Queen at York 
House, on occasion of the nuptials of Lord Charles Herbert with Lady Mary 
Villiers, and was afterwards acttd on the Black Friars stage. It was written at 
seventeen years of age, and the commendation bestowed on it by Ben Jonson and 
Lord Falkland created the author some envy amon;:; his contemporaries. 



48 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Con-Con 

The edition of 163S was a surreptitious one, published while Killigrew was 
abroad, and without his consent or knowledge ; and he was so much ashamed of 
it that, to prevent it being known as the same piece, he altered the name to 
Fallantiis and Eiidora, on republishing it in 1653. 

The Conspiracy ; or, the Change of Government : A tragedy by 
W. \Vhitaker, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1680. The 
scene, Turkey. 
This play is written in rhyme, the epilogue composed by Ravenscroft. 

The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron, 

Marshal of France. Acted lately in two plays at the Black Friars. 

Written by George Chapman. 410, 160S, 1625. 

These pieces are both founded on history ; and their plots may be seen in 
Mezeray, D'Avila, and other historians on the reign of Henry IV. of France. 
Dedicated " to my honorable and constant friend. Sir Thomas Walsingham, 
Knight, and to my much-loved from his birth, the right toward and worthy 
gentleman, his son, Thomas Walsingham esquire." Entered on the Stationers' 
Registers, June 5, 160S. These plays, as originally written, were objected to by 
the French Ambassador, and certain incidents were consequently omitted. 

Henry Oxinden, of Barham, inserts, probably in error, in his MS. Common- 
place Book, 1647, "Byron's Conspiracy," 1594. Under the name of Byj-on, 
Buronc, etc., it occurs in Henslowe's Diary under 1602, the probable date of its 
composition. 

The Constant Couple ; or, a Trip to the Jubilee : A comedy by G. 
Farquhar, acted at Drury Lane. 4to, 1700. 

This was one of the most successful plays ever produced on the English stage. 
The author's biographers assert that it was acted, in the year of its production, 
fifty-three times at Drury Lane, and twenty-three times at Dublin. Farquhar 
had three benefits at the theatre on account of its great success. 

In the preceding year, 1699, was published a small volume entitled "The 
Adventures of Covent Garden, in Imitation of Scarron's City Romance," a piece 
without the slightest degree of merit ; yet thence our author took the characters 
of Lady Lurewell and Colonel Stantiard, and the incidents of Beau Clincher and 
Tom Errand's change of clothes, with other circumstances. 

Constantine : A play mentioned in Henslowe's Diary, p. 23, as having 
been acted on March 21, 1591. 

Constantine the Great ; Or the Tragedy of Love : A play by 
N. Lee, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1684. Scene, Rome. 

The epilogue was written by Dryden, and published separately, with the pro- 
logue, in 1683. Lee's prologue includes the oft-quoted couplet respecting the 
unmerited neglect of Spenser, Cowley, and Butler : 

" Therefore all you who have male issue born, 
Under the starving sign of Capricorn ; 
Prevent the malice of their stars in time, 
And warn them early from the sin of rhyme ; 
Tell 'em how S]icnscr starv'd, how Cowley mourn'd, 
How Butler's faith and service were return'd." 

The Constant Maid : A comedy by James Shirley, acted at the 
Nursery in Hatton Garden. 410, 1640. Scene, London. 

Republished, 4to, 1661, under the title of " Love will find out the Way," and 
with the initials T. B. ; it was again iniblislied, 4to, 1667, as "The Constant 
Maid ; or. Love will find out tin- \Vny." 'I he unsold copies of 1640 were 
reissued with the author's " St. I'atnck lor Ireland," with a fresh title, 410, 1657. 



Con-Con PLAY-COLLFXTOR'S MANUAL. 49 

The Constant Nymph; or, the Rambling Shepherd: A pastoral, 

acted at the Duke's Theatre. 410, 167S. 'I'he scene, Lucia in 

Arcadia. 

This piece was written by a person of quality, who tells us that it suftercd 

much through the defects of setting it off, when it came upon the stage. It was 

licensed on August 13, 1677. 

The Contented Cuckold ; or, the Woman's Advocate : A comedy by 
Reuben Bourne. 4to, 1692. Scene, London. 
It was never acted. 

The Contention Between Liberality and Prodig-ality : A 

pleasant Comedy, shewing the Contention between Liberality and 
Prodigality. As it was played before her Majesty. 4to, 1602. 
This .piece appears to have been written in the forty-third year of Queen 

Elizabeth's reign. In Hazlitt's Dodsley. 

The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses 

of York and Lancaster, with the death of the good Duke 

Humphrey ; and the banishment and death of the Duke of Suffolk, 

and the Tragical end of the proud Cardinal of Winchester, with 

the notable Rebellion of Jack Cade : and the Duke of York's first 

claim unto the Crown. 4to, 1594, 1600 (two issues); and (with 

Pericles added at the end) under the title of the Whole Coiitciiiion, 

n.d. [16T9]. 

This was the foundation -play of the Second Part of Henry the Sixth. On 

June 29, 1660, the Tragedy of Duke Hiintphrey was entered at Stationers' Hall 

as the work of Shakespear ; and Warburtoii the herald appears to have had a 

MS. copy. It was possibly an alteration of the Contention. Compare Wars of 

Lancaster. 

The Contention for Honour and Riches : See Ilouoria atid 

Mammon. 

The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of 

Achilles, As it was nobly represented by young Gentlemen of 
Quality at a private entertainment of some Persons of Honour : 
By James Shirley. Printed in a volume with Honoria a?td Mamjtion, 
8vo, 1659. 

The plot is taken from the thirteenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 

The Convent of Pleasure : A comedy by the Duchess of Newcastle. 
Fob, 1668. It does not appear that this piece was ever acted. 

The Conversion of Saul : A mystery of the early part of the sixteenth 
century, MS. Digby 133, in the Bodleian Library. First printed, 
4to, Edinb., 1835. 

The Converted Courtezan : See Honest TV/tore. 

The Converted Robber : A pastoral by George Wilde, acted at St. 
John's College, Oxford, 1637. Scene, Salisbury Plain. MS. Addit., 
B.M., 14,047. 

The Converts ; or, the Folly of Priestcraft : A comedy. 4to, 1690. 

Langbaine gives this piece high commendation ; allotting it, in point of 
ingenuity, the next rank to Wycherley's Plain Dealer, Some copies of it have 
the second title only. 

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COFiolanuS : A tragedy, by W. Shakespear. Folio, 1623. 

The plot of this play is taken from Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus. 

Cornelia: A tragedy, by Thomas Kyd. 4to, 1594; reissued, 4to, 
1595, as Pompey the Great his Faire Corneha's Tragedy, effected 
by her Father and Husband's Downcast, Death, and Fortune. 

This is a translation from Robert Garnier, who distinguished himself as a poet 
during the reigns of Charles IX., Henry III., and Henry IV., and died at Mans 
in 1602, in the fifty-sixth year of his age. The translation is in blank verse, with 
only now and then a couplet, by the way of closing a paragraph or long sentence, 
and choruses which are written in various measures of verse, and are very long 
and sententious. In Hazlitt's Dodsley. 

Cornelia : A play by Sir W. Bartley, acted in Gibbon's Tennis Court, 

Vere Street, Clare ISLarket, June ist, 1662. Not printed. 
Cornelianum Dolium : Comcedia lepidissima, optimorum judiciis 
approbata, et theatrali coryphseo, nee immerito, donata, palma 
chorali apprime digna. Auctore T. R. i2mo, 1638. 
Prefixed is a frontispiece, representing the sweating-tub, which, from the name 
of the patient, was sometimes called Cornelius's Tub. See some account of this 
curious play in the Etn-opean Magazine, xxxvii. 344. It was entered on the 
books of the Stationers' Company, March 30, 1638. 

Probably by Thomas Riley, of Trinity College, Cambridge. 

The Cornish Comedy : Acted at the Theatre Royal in Dorset Garden. 

4to, 1696. Scene, Cornwall. 

This play was published by George Powell, who, in a dedication to Christopher 

Rich, one of the patentees of his Alajesty's Theatre, says, it was the conception 

of a few loose hours, and committed by the author to his hands to dispose of in 

the world. 

Corona Minervse : Or a Masque Presented before Prince Charles his 
Highness, the Duke of York his Brother, and the Lady ]\Iary his 
Sister, the 27th of February, at the College of the Museum Minervae. 
By Sir Francis Kinaston. 4to, 1635. 

The Coronation: A comedy by J. Shirley. 4to, 1640. The scene, 

Epirus. 

This play was printed as Fletcher's ; but Shirley laid claim to it in a marginal 

note to his Cardinal (Six New Plays, 1653, sign. F. 4). The title-page gives 

it "as it was presented by Her Majesties Servants at the private house in Drury- 

lane." It was licensed on February 6, 1634-5. 

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, with the Restauration of the 
i'rotestant Religion, or the Downfall of the Pope, being a most 
excellent play, as it was acted both at Bartholomew and Soutlnvark 
Fairs this present year, 16S0, with great applause, and approved of, 
and highly commended by all, the Protestant nobility, gentry, and 
commonalty of I'^ngland, who came to be sj^ectators of the same. 
4to, 1680. 

This is a droll, in three acts, intended for a half-hour's performance. 
The Corporal : A play by Arthur Wilson, of Trinity College, Oxford. 
Jt was acted at the Black P'riars. Scene, Lorraine. 
Entered at Stationers' Ilall, September 4, 1646. 

Two MS. leaves of this play were sf)l(l with other fragments in a lot among 
Dr. iJandincl's books in 1S61. In Sir Iknry Hcrljcrt's Otlice Pook, under date 
of January 14, 1632, there is an entry of a jiaymenl of ;^2, or 40s., to the King's 
Company, for allowing the performance of it by my Lord of Essex his servants. 
No complete copy of it in print or MS. seems to bo known. 



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The Corruptions of the Divine Laws : See Three Laws. 

Cosmo : A comedy acted at the Rose Theatre, January 12, 1593. Not 
printed. 

The Costly Whore : A Comical History, Acted by the Company of 
the Revels. 410, 1633. The scene, Saxony. 
The play has considerable merit. 

The Councils of Bishops : A comedy by Bishop Bale. 
No copy of it is known. 

The Counterfeit Bridegroom ; or, the Defeated ^Vido\v : A comedy. 
4to, 1677. 

This is an alteration of Middleton's No IVit, No Help, like a IVoman's, in 
which the names of the characters are changed, and some new scenes added. 

The Counterfeits : A comedy acted at the Duke's Theatre. By J. 
Leanerd. 4to, 1679. The scene, Madrid. 

The plot is taken from a Spanish novel, called the Trepanner Trepanned. It 
was licensed in August, 1678. 

The Country Captain : A comedy by the Duke of Newcastle, acted 

with applause at Black Friars. i2mo, 1649. 

Pepys notes under October 26, 1661 : " My wife and I to the theatre, and 

there saw the Country Captaine, the first time it hath been acted this twenty-five 

years, a play of my Lord Newcastle's, but so silly a play as in all my life I 

never saw." 

An alteration of this piece, conjecturally by Shirley, is in Ilarl. MS. 7,650. 

The Country Girl : A comedy by Anthony Brewer. 4to, 1647. The 
scenes, London and Edmonton. 

This play was frequently acted with great applause. See Retrospective 
Review, xvi. , where some ground is shown for supposing it and the Merry 
Devil of Edmonton to have come from the same pen. The Country Girl was 
appropriated by John Leanerd, and reproduced in 1677 as the Country Innocence ; 
or, the Chambermaid turned Quaker. 

The Countryman : A play entered on the books of the Stationers' 
Company, September 9, 1653 ; but probably not printed. 

The Country Wake: A comedy by Thomas Dogget. 4to, 1696, 
and n.d. 

This play was acted with applause at Little Lincoln's Inn Fields. It was 
altered into a farce under the title of Hob in the Well. 

The Country Wife : A comedy by William "Wycherley, acted at the 
Theatre Royal 4to, 1675, 1688. 

Davies observes, that in this play is to be found a more genuine representation 
of the loose manners, obscene language, and dissolute practices, of Charles the 
Second's reign, than in any other drama known. But it is chiefly taken from 

Moliere's Ecole des Femmes. 

The Country Wit : A comedy by J. Crowne, acted at the Duke's 
Theatre. 4to, 1675, 1693. Scene, the Pall ALill, in the year 

1675- 

This play contains a good deal of low humour, and was a great favourite with 
King Charles II. Parts, both of the plot and language, are borrowed from 
Moliere's Sicilien, on, I' Amour Pcintre. 



52 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Cou-Cox 

Courage, Kindness, Cleanness : 

A fragment of an early interlude, in which these were three of the persons, is 
prtserved in MS. ; it was printed with Redford's Play of Wit and Science for the 
Shakespear Society. 

The Courag'e of Love : See Love and Honour. 

The Courageous Turk ; or, Amurath the First : A tragedy by Thomas 
Goffe. 4to, 1632; 8vo, 1656. 

The plot is from the histories of the Turkish empire in the reign of Amurath. 
It was acted by the Siudents of Christ Church, Oxford, of whom the author was 
one. Compared with the ranting absurdities of this piece, the tragedies of Lee 
are sober declamations. Our hero, on the appearance of a comet, addresses the 
following question to the stars : 

" How now, ye Heav'ns ! grow you 

So proud, that you must needs put on ciirl'd locks, 
And clothe yourselves in periwigs of fire !" 

The Coursing" of the Hare ; or, the Madcap : A comedy by WiUiam 
Hemniinges, 1632-3. 

This was never printed. It was probably acted at the P'ortune Theatre. 
Compare Madcap. 

The Court Beggar : A comedy acted at the Cock-pit by his Majesty's 
Servants anno 1632, written by Richard Brome. 8vo, 1653. 
The author alludes to himself, in the prologue, as " full of age and care." 

The Court of Augustus Caesar : See Gloria7ia. 

The Court Secret: A tragi-comedy by James Shirley. 8vo, 1653. 
This play was prepared for the stage at Black Friars. The scene, 
Madrid. 
I\Irs. Pepys saw it acted in August, 1664, observing that it was " the worst that 
ever she saw in her life." It is dedicated to the Earl of Strafford. 

Courtship a La Mode : A comedy by David Crauford, acted at Drury 
Lane. 4to, 1700. 

Dedicated to John Le Neve, Esq., by William Pinkethman, the player, to 
whom the care of the publication had been left. The prologue is by Farcjuhar. 
In the preface, the play is said to have been written in ten mornings. 

Covent Garden : A Pleasant Comedy: Acted in the year 1632. By 
the Queen's Majesty's Servants. The Author, Thomas Nabbes. 
4to, 1638, 1639. 

Dedicated to Sir John Suckling. 

The Coventry Plays : Ludus Coventrix, a Collection of Mysteries 
formerly represented at Coventry on the Feast of Corpus Christi. 
Edited by J. O. HalUwell from a MS. of 146S in the British 
Museum, 8vo, 1841. 
It is one of the four large collections of English mysteries known to exist. 

The Coxcomb : A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Folio, 1647. 
Il was performed at Court about March, 1613, and revived after the Restora- 
tion ; it was acted at the King's I'layhousc in March, 1669. 

Cox of Collumpton : See /«?//// Cox of Collumpton. 



Cra-Cra PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 53 

Crack Me this Nut : 

A play, acted at the Rose Theatre, Septemher 5, i ';95, and several times 
afterwards. It is jirobalily identical with the " I'lay of the Nut," mentioned by 
Ilenslowe under Ueceniher, 1601. Not printed. 

The Cradle of Security : 

An interlude mentioned in Sir Thomas More (M.S. Harl. 7,368), in Greene's 
Arhasto, 1584 ; Patient Grisscl, 1603 ; John Taylor's Works, 1630, etc., but not 
printed, nor now probably in existence. The date of this piece may be placed 
between the years 1560 and 1570. 

The following interesting account of it is extracted from a work, published in 
his seventy-lifth year, by an eye-witness of the rejiresentation : " In the city of 
Gloucester the manner is, as I think it is in other like corporations, that when 
players of enterludes come to towne, they first attend the mayor, to informe him 
what nobleman's servants they are, and so to get licence for their publike playing ; 
and if the mayor like the actors, or would shew respect to their lord and master, 
he appoints them to play their first play before himselfe, and the aldermen and 
common counsell of the city ; and that is called the mayor's play, where every 
one that will comes in without money, the mayor giving the players a reward as 
bee thinks fit, to shew respect unto them. At such a play my father tooke me 
with him, and made mee stand betweene his leggs as he sate upon one of the 
benches, where wee saw and heard very well. The play was called the Cradle 
of Security, wherein was personated a king, or some great prince, with his 
courtiers of severall kinds : amongst which three ladies were in speciall grace 
with him ; and the), keeping him in delights and pleasures, drew him from his 
graver counsellors, hearing of sermons, listening to good counsell and admoni- 
tions, that in the end they got him to lye downe in a cradle upon the stage, 
where these three ladies, joyning in a sweet song, rocked him asleepe that he 
snorted againe ; and in the mean time closely conveyed under the cloaths, where- 
withal! he was covered, a vizard, like a swine's snout, upon his face, with three 
wire chains fastened thereunto, the other end whereof being holden severally by 
those three ladies, who fall to singing againe, and then discovered his face, that 
the spectators might see how they had transformed him, going on with their 
singing. Whilst all this was acting, there came forth of another doore, at the 
farthest end of the stage, two old men, the one in blew, with a serjeant at armes, 
his mace on his shoulder ; the other in red, with a drawn sword in his hand, and 
leaning with his other hand upon the other's shoulder ; and so they two went 
along in a soft pace round about by the skirt of the stage, till at last they came to 
the cradle, when all the court was in the greatest jollity ; and then the foremost 
old man with his mace stroke a fearfuU blow upon the cradle ; whereat ail the 
courtiers, with the three ladies and the vizard, all vanished ; and the desolate 
prince starting up barefaced, and finding himselfe thus sent for to judgement, 
made a lamentable complaint of his miserable case, and so was carried away by 
wicked spirits. This prince did personate in the morall the wicked of the world ; 
the three ladies, Pride, Covetousnesse, and Luxury ; the two old men, the end of 
the world and the last judgment. This sight tooke such impression of me, that 
when I came to man's estate it was as fiesh in my memory as if I had seen it 
newly acted." — Willis's Mount Tahor, 1639. 

The phrase itself is used by many of our old writers as a familiar expression. 
See also Collier's H.E.D.P., 1831, ii. 273. 

Craft upon Subtlety's Back : An interlude, entered by Jeffrey 
Charlton on the books of the Stationers' Company, January 27, 
1608 ; but not otherwise known. 

The Crafty Merchant : 

In Sir Henry Herbert's manuscript Diary, under the date of September 12, 
1623, is the following entry : " For the Lady Elizabeth's players, a new comedy 
called the Crafty Merchant, or Come to my Country-house, written by William 
Bonen." It was entered at Stationers' Hall, June 29, 1660, as the Soldier'd 
Citizen ; or. The Crafty Merchant. It is in Warburton's list, and may be pre- 
sumed to be the same piece as The Crafty Merchant ; or, the Soldier d Citizen, 
ascribed to Marmion, but not otherwise known. 



54 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Cre-Cru 

The Creation of Eve : A mystery played by the Guild of Grocers at 
Norwich, 25 Henry VIIL Printed by Fitch. 8vo, 1856. 

It is entitled in the MS. " the story of the Creacion of Eve, with the expellyng 
of Adam and Eve out of Paradyce.' 

The Creation of the World : See Fassio?i of Christ. 

The Creation of the World : A drama written in the Cornish language 
by ^^■illiam Jordan, 161 1, and existing in MS. in the Bodleian. 
Printed in 1827, and again, more correctly, by Norris in his 
Aticieiit Cornish Drama, 1859, although the latter editor admits 
that his text is not quite trustworthy. A translation into English, 
in Harl. MS., 1867, was made by John Ktigwin, of Moushole, in 
Cornwall, at the request of Trelawney, Bishop of Exeter. 

The work is referred to by T. Heywood in his Apology fo)- Aitojs, 1612. But 
it appears that a drama with this title was performed at Skinners' Well, 
4 Richard II. See Shakespear Societyi's Papers, iii. 43. 

The Creation of the World : A piece so called was licensed by Sir 
Henry Herbert in 1624. It had, perhaps, some connection with 
the following article. 

The Creation of the World. 

This was a droll which was very popular at Bartholomew Fair at the close of 
the seventeenth, and commencemtnt of the eighteenth, century. It concluded 
with a scene of " Noah and his family coming out of the aik, with all the beasts, 
two by two, and all the fowls of the air seen in a prospect sitting upon the trees." 
This droll is alluded to in Wit and Drollery, Jovial Poems, 16S2, and is there 
called the World' s Creation. 

Crispin and Crispianus : An old popular drama frequently played 
by the Shoemakers' Guilds before 1643. 

It is mentioned by Dr. William King (Works, 1776, i. iSo). 

Croesus: A tragedy by W. Alexander, Earl of Stirling. 410, 1604, 
1607; and fol., 1637. Scene, Sardis. 

The plot is borrowed from Herodotus, Justin, and Plutaich, with an episode 
in the fifth act from Xenophon's Cyropedeia. 

Cromwell's Conspiracy : A tragi-comedy relating to our latter times, 
beginning at the death of King Charles L, and ending with the 
happy restoration of King Charles II. ^^'ritten by a person of 
(quality. 4to, 1660. 

The Cruel Brother: A tragedy by Sir W. Davenant. 4to, 1630. 
I'rcsented at the Ulack Friars. The scene, Italy. 
This tragedy is written in prose. 

The Cruel Debtor : " A ballett intituled, An Interlude of the Cruel 
Detter, by [William] Wager," licensed to 'i'homas Colwell in 

15^5-6- 

A leaf (sign, c iii.) of the original edition is among l?agford's Collections. 
Among the characters are Basilcus, Flattery, Kigour, and Simulation. 

This is in the lists accom|)anying the Old Law, 1656, and 'J'oiii Tyler and his 
Wife, 1661. It is curious that copies of so early a drama should have been on 
sale so long afterwards, unless a reprint of it, at present unknown, is meant. 
Tom 'Tyler itself was originally published about the same time, and republished 
in 1 66 1. 



Cru-Cup PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 55 

The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru : Expressed by instrumental 

and vocal music, and by art of perspective in scenes, by Sir William 
Davenant, rei)resented daily at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane, at three 
afternoon i)unctually. 4to, 1658. 

This operatic exhibition was contrived in order to evade the prosecutions against 
actinp; and actors. It perhaps is alluded to l)y Evelyn, under the date of May 6, 
1659, as "a new opera, after the Italian way, in recitative music and scenes, 
much inferior to the Italian composure and magnificence." 

The Cruelty of a Stepmother, " shewen at Richmond on Inno- 
centes dale at night, enacted by the Lord Chamberlaynes Servauntes, 
furnished in this ofiice with sondrey thinges," a play acted at Court 
in December, 1578. — Hcve/s' Accounts. 

Cuckold's Haven ; or, an Aldennan no Conjuror : A farce by N. Tate, 
acted at Dorset Gardens. 4to, 1685. 

The plot of this piece is borrowed partly from East-card Hoe, and partly from 
Jonson's Dt'vil is a/i Ass. 

The Cuckolds' Masque : Seventeenth century. Add. MS., B.M., 
10,444 (t^he music only). 

The Cuck-Queans and Cuckolds Errants, or the Bearing Down the 
Inn, a comedy by William Percy, 1601. 

The prologue is supposed to be spoken by Tarlton's ghost. Edited for the 
Roxburghe Club, 1S24. The original MS. is in private hands. 

The Cunning" Lovers: A comedy by Alexander Brome. 4to, 1654. 
The scene, Verona. 

This piece was acted at Drury Lane with considerable applause. For the 
plot, see the .Seven IVise Masters of Nome, and a novel called the Fortunate 
Deceived, and Unfortunate Lovers. The play belonged to the Cock-pit company 
in 1639. 

Cupid : The Masque of Cupid and other Shows. By Thomas Middle- 
ton, 1613. 

See Dyce's Aliddleton, i., xix.-xx. 

Cupid's Banishment : A masque presented to her Majesty by young 

gentlewomen of the Ladies' Hall in Deptford at Greenwich, the 

4th of May, 16 17. By Robert White. Printed from the original 

MS. in Nichols' Progresses of King James I. 

It was probably borrowed by Nichols from Wootton, and never returned. It 

was sold among Mr. R. S. Turner's books in 1881. 

Cupid his Coronation : In a masque, as it was presented, with good 
approbation, at the Spittle, divers times, by Masters, and young 
Ladies that were their scholars, in the year 1654. Written by T. J. 
MS. Bodl., Rawl. B., 165. 

Cupid and Death : A masque by James Shirley. 4to, 1659. 

This was presented before the Portuguese ambassador, on March 26, 1653. 
The music was composed by Matthew Lock and Christopher Gibbons, and a 
MS. copy of it, in the autograph of the former, entitled, "the instrumental! and 
vocall musique in the morall representation att the millitary ground in Leicester 
Fields, 1659," is in MS. Addit. B.M. 17,799. 

Cupid and Psyche : See Golden Ass. 



56 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S AL^NUAL. Cup-Cut 

Cupid's Mistress : A play or masque by Thomas Heywood, not 

printed. 
In his Dialogues and Dramas, 1637, p. 238, is a prologue "spoken to the 
King and Queene at the second time of the author's play cald Cupids Mistresse 
or Cupid and Psiche presented before them." The epilogue is given at p. 240, 
where we are informed that the masque concluded " with a stately measure of 
the gods and planets, they all standing about him bending." 

Cupid's Reveng'e : A tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, acted by the 
Children of the Revels. 4to, 1615, 1630, 1635. 
It was entered on the Stationers' books, April 24, 1615. The original per- 
formance by the Children of the Revels under Rossiterwas on January i, 1612-13. 
It was acted after the Restoration, under the title of Love Despised. " Thence 
to the Duke of York's House, and there saw Cupid's Revenge under the new 
name of Love Despised." — Pepys' Diary, August, 166S. 

Cupid's Sacrifice : A Country Tragedy in Vacuniam, or Cupid's 
Sacrifice, by W. Percy, 1602. An unpublished MS., in private 
hands. 

Cupid's Vag'aries : See Hymen's Holiday. 

Cupid's Whirlig'ig' : As it hath been sundry times Acted by the 
Children of the King's Majesty's Revels. By Edward Sharpham. 
4to, 1607, 1616, 1630. 
Licensed by Tilney on June 29, 1607. The conveyance of the captain out of 
the lady's chamber is founded on Boccaccio, Day 7, Novel 6. 

A Cure for a Cuckold : A Pleasant Comedy. As it hath been 
several times Acted with great Applause. Written by John Webster 
and William Rowley. 4to, 1661. 

This play was published by Kirkman, but it must have been acted many years 
before it was printed. Reprinted in Webster's Works. 

The Cure of Pride : See CUy Madam. 

The Custom of the Country: A tragi-comedy by Beaumout and 
Fletcher. Folio, 1647. Acted in 1628. 
The plot is taken from Malespini's Novels, Day 6, Novel 6 ; and has 
been largely used by C. Johnson, in his Country Lasses, and by C. Gibber, 
in his Lo7)e Makes a Man. The idea is the alleged ancient feudal jiractice of 
Droit de Seignenr, as to which see a volume by Raepsaet, printed at Chent, 8vo, 
1817. The scene lies sometimes at Lisbon, and sometimes in Italy. The follow- 
ing notice of it occurs in Pepys' Diary, January 2, 1667 : "Alone to the King's 
House, and there saw the Custom of the Country, the second time of its being 
acted, wherein Knipp does the Widow well ; but of all the plays that ever I did 
see, the worst, having neither jdot, language, nor anything in the earth that is 
acceptable ; only Knipp sings a song admirably." 

Cutlack : A play acted by the Lord Admiral's Servants in May, 1594, 
and often subsequently. 
It was a favourite piece, and the principal character in it was played success- 
fully by Edward Alleyn. Guilpin thus alludes to his ]icrsonification of Cutlack 
in S)iialetheia, 1 59S : 

"Cludius, mclhinkcs, lookes passing big of late, 
With Dun^tans browes, and Aliens Cullack's gate." 

Cutter of Coleman Street : A comedy by Abraham Cowley. 4to, 
1663. 

At the beginning nf the civil war, says Dr. Johrson, as the prince passed 
through Cambridge in his way to York, he was entertained with the represcnta- 



Cut-Cyr PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 57 

tion of the Giiaj-dian, a comedy, which Cowley says was neither made nor acted, 
but rough-drawn by him, and repeated by the scholars. That this comedy was 
printed during his absence from his country, he appears to have considered as 
injurif)us to his reputation ; though, (huing the su]-)])ression fjf the theatres, it was 
sometimes privately acted with suflicient appro!)ation. When the King was 
restored, the neglect of the Court was not our author's only mortification : having 
by such alteration as he thought proper fitted his old comedy of the Guardian 
for the stage, he produced it at the Duke of York's theatre, under the title of 
Cutter of Coleman Street. It was treated on the stage with severity, and was 
afterwards censured as a satire on the King's party. 

Pepys, undtr December 16, 1661, notes: " After dinner to the Opera, where 
there was a new jilay. Cutter of Coleman Street, made in the year 1658, with 
reflections much upon the late times ; and it being the first time, the ])ay was 
doubled, and so, to save money, my wife and I went into the gallery, and there 
sat and saw very well ; and a very good play it is — it seems, of Cowley's 
making." 

Cutwell [or, The Irish Knight] : A play acted by the Earl of War- 
wick's men at the Bell in Gracechurch Street, in February, 1577, 
and prepared for performance at Court at Shrovetide, but with- 
drawn. 

" For the cariadge of the partes of the counterfeit well from the Bell in 
Gracious Strete to St. John's to be performed for the play of Cutwell." — 
Cunningham's Revels' Accounts, p. 120. 

Cymbeline : A tragedy by Shakespear. Folio, 1623. 

Cynthia and Endymion ; or, the Loves of the Deities : A dramatic 
opera, in rhyme and in five acts, by T. Durfey. 4to, 1697. 

This piece was designed to be acted at Court, before Queen Mary II. ; and, 
after her death in 1695, was performed at the Theatre Royal, where it met with 
good success. The story is taken from Ovid's JMctamorphoscs and Apuleius's 
Golden Ass. The scene lies in Ionia and on Mount Latmos. Dogget acted 
Collin, a country fellow who rails against the gods. 

Cynthia's Revels : See Fountain of Sclf-Love. 

Cynthia's Reveng'e ; or, M^nander's Extasy : A tragedy by John 
Swallow. 4to, 1613. The narne oi John ^/('//w/^ is on the title- 
page of some copies as the author. It has introductory poems by 
Ben Jonson and others. 
This play runs mostly in verse, and is one of the longest dramatic pieces that 
ever was written, and, as Langbaine says, withal the most tedious. The plot is 
from Lucan's Pharsalia and Ovid's Metamorphoses. The dedication is signed 
J. S., and the following lines in one of the commendatory poems leave little doubt 
that Swallow was the author : 

" One Swallow makes no summer most men say, 
But who disproves that proverbe made this play." 

The Cyprian Conqueror ; Or Faithless Relict : A play. The scene, 
Ephesus. MS. Sloane B.M., 3,709. 

Cyrus the Great ; or, the Tragedy of Love : By John Banks, acted 
at Little Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to, 1696. The scene, the Camp 
near Babylon. 

This play was at first forbidden ; but afterwards came on, and met with very 
good success. Downes says, that Smith, having a long part in it, fell ill upon 
the fourth day, and died. This occasioned it *o be laid aside, and it was not 
acted afterwards. The plot is taken from Scudery's romance of the Grand 
Cyrus. 

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58 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Cyt-Dar 

Cytherea ; or, the Enamouring Girdle : A comedy by John Smith. 
4to, 1677. Scene, the city of York. 

This play was never acted. 

Dame DobSOn ; or, the Cunning Woman : A comedy by E. Ravenscroft, 
acted at the Duke's Theatre. 410, 1684. 
This is translated from La Devineresse ; on, les faux Eiichajjtemens. Mrs. 
Currer in the prologue says that the London Cnckolds pleased the town and 
diverted the Court, but Ijecause some squeamish females had taken offence at it, 
Ravenscroft had made this play dull and civil. — Genest, i. 408. The prologue 
and epilogue were published separately in 1683. 

The Damoiselle ; or, the New Ordinary : A comedy by Richard Brome. 
8vo, 1653. Scene, London. 
This seems to have been one of the author's earliest productions, and to have 
been written several years before it was published. 

The Damoiselles a La Mode: A comedy by R. Flecknoe. i2mo, 
1667. The scene, Paris. 

The plot, as the author himself confesses, is borrowed from the Precieiises 
Ridicules, the Ecole des Fenii/ies, and the Ecole des A/aris, of Moliere. It was 
never acted. 

Damon and Pithias : The excellent comedy of two the most faith- 

fullcst Friends, Damon and Pithias. Newly imprinted as the same 

was shewed before the Queen's Majesty by the children of her 

Grace's chapel ; ex( ept the prologue, that is somewhat altered to 

the proper use of them that hereafter shall have occasion to play 

it, either in private or open audience. Made by Master Edwards, 

then being master of the children, 1571. 4to, and again in 1582. 

Scene, Syracuse. 

This play is from a story in Valerius Maximus. Entered on the registers of 

the Stationers' Company in 1567-8 as "a boke intituled the tragecall comodye of 

Daniondeand Pethyas " ; but the impressions of 1 57 1 and 1582 are the only ones 

now known. In Ilazlitt's Dodsley. 

Damon and Pythias : A play by Henry Chettle, written in 1599. 

This was probably an alteration of the foregoing piece. It is frequently men- 
tioned in Ilenslowe's Diary. 

A Danish Tragedy: By Henry Chettle. Acted in 1602. Not now 
extant. 
The only notice of it occurs in Ilenslowe's Diaiy : "Lent unto Thomas 
Downton the 7 of Julye, 1602, to geve unto Ilarye Cliettell, in carnestc of a 
tragedy called a Danyshe trageclye, the some of xx.^." 

Darius : A Pretty new Interlude, both ])ithy and pleasant, of the story 
of King Darius. Being taken out of the third and fourth Chapter 
of the third liook of Esdras. 4to, 1565. 

There are twenty-one characters, but we are informed by the autlior that 
" sixe persons may easely play it." 

Darius: A tragedy by the Earl of Stirling. 4to, Edinburgh, 1603; 
410, London, 1604, 1607; i2mo, 1616; and in the collectecl 
edition of 1637. 

Tliis was one of his Lordship's first jicrformanci's, and was originally written 
in a mixture of the Scottish and Lnglish dialects ; but the author afterwards not 
only polished tiic language, but even very considerably alteied the play itself. 



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Darius King* of Persia: A tragedy by J. Crowne, acted by their 
Majesties' Servants. 4to, 1688. 

It is dedicated to Sir Geo. Hcwytt, P.art., proliabiy the person afterwards 
called I!eau Ilevvit. The scene lies in the plains and town of Arhela in I'ersia ; 
and the plot of this play, as well as of Lord Stirling's, is borrowed from the 
historians of the life of Alexander. 

David and Absolom : A tragedy, in five acts, by Bishop Bale, not 
mentioned in the catalogue of his Works. 

A MS. copy of this play, supposed to be in the author's handwriting, and 
certainly contemporary, cont.aining 62 pages in quarto, is among the Stowe MSS. 
Mr. Fleay conjectures that it may be the play of the 'J'wo Sins 0/ King David. 

The Dead Man's Fortune : Not Printed. 

The Plat sold for a considerable price at the sale of George Steevens's library 
in 1800; it was edited (with two others) by Ilalliwell Thiliipps, folio, i860. 
See an account of it in Collier's History of Dramatic Poctiy, iii, 402. It belongs 
to the reign of Elizabeth. 

The Death of the Black Prince : A tragedy. Beber's MSS. 

The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntington : Otherwise called 
Robin Hood of merry Sherwood : A\'ith the honourable Tragedy 
of Chaste Matilda, his fair maid Marian, poisoned at Dunmow by 
King John. Acted by the Right Honourable the Earl of Notting- 
ham, Lord High Admiral his Servants. By Anthony Munday and 
Henry Chettle. 4to, 1601. 

It is mentioned by Henslowe under February, 1597-8, as the second part of 
the play of Robin Hood. Reprinted in Ilazlitt's Dodsley. 

The Debauchee ; or, the Credulous Cuckold, a comedy acted at the 
Duke of York's Theatre. 4to, 1677. 

Though there is no author's name to this comedy, yet whatever difference 
there is between it and Richard Brome's Mad Couple locll Matclid (of which it is 
little more than a revival) is the work of Mrs. Behn. The prologue and epilngue 
were written by Lord Rochester, as we learn from an advertisement at the bottom 
of the title-page to the Triumphs of Virtue. It was licensed on February 23, 
1676-7, and published at the price of one shilling. 

The Deceiver Deceived : A comedy by Mary Pix. 4to, 1698. 
Scene, Venice. Dedicated to Sir Robert Marsham, Bart. Acted 
at the Theatre in Little Lincoln's Inn Fields. 

There are two dialogues in this play, one in the fourth act by D'Uifey, and the 
other in the last by Motteux, both set to music by Eccles. These dialogues are 
separately printed, after the prologue. It had little success. 

A Brief Declaration of the shows, devices, speeches, and inventions, 
done and performed before the Queen's Majesty and the French 
Ambassadors at the most valiant and worthy Triumph, attempted 
and executed on the Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun week last, 
Anno 1 58 1. Collected, gathered, penned, and published by Henry 
Goldwell. 8vo [1581]. 
Reprinted by Nichols. These were apparently " the devices to receive the 
French," 1580, mentioned by Mr. Fleay. 

Delfrigus : 

Apparently a piece performed in the country by one of the Companies (Lord 
Pembroke's), and mentioned in Nash's Preface to Greene's Menaphon, 1589. 



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Delig"ht : See Play of Plays. 

The Delivery of Susannah : A tragedy written in the sixteenth 
century by Ralph Radchff. Not printed. 

The Delug'e : See Noah's Flood. 

Demetrius and Marsina ; or, tlie Imperial Impostor and Unhappy 
Heroine. A tragedy, formerly in the possession of John Warburton, 
and sold by auction among his books and ]\ISS. about the year 1759. 
Not printed. 

Deorum Dona: A masque by Robert Baron. 8vo, 1647. Scene, 
Nicosia. 
Performed before Flaminius and Clorinda, King and Queen of Cyprus, at 
their regal palace in Nicosia. This piece is part of a romance, called the 
Cyprian Academy ; but he has been in some measure guilty of piracy ; the ditty 
which is sung by Neptune and his train being made up from Waller's poem to 
the King on his Navy ; and part of act ii., scene i, nearly transcribed from 
another by the same author on Lady Isabella playing on her lute. 

Descensus Astrsese : The Device of a Pageant borne before M. 
William Web, Lord Mayor of the City of London, on the Day he 
took his Oath, being the 29 of October, 1591. Whereunto is 
annexed, a Speech delivered by one clad like a Sea Nymph, who 
presented a Pinnace on the Water, bravely rigged and manned, to 
the Lord Mayor, at the time he took Barge to go to Westminster. 
Done by G. Peele, Master of Arts in Oxford. 4to, 1591. 
The Salters' Pageant. Reprinted in the editions of Peele. 

The Description of a Masque : Presented in the Banquetting House 
at Whitehall, on St. Stephen's Night last, at the marriage of the 
Right Honourable the Earl of Somerset, and the Right Noble the 
Lady Erances Howard. Written by Thomas Campion. Where- 
unto are annexed divers choice airs composed for this masque, that 
may be sung with a single voice to the lute or bass-viol. 4to, 1614. 
This was the Masque of Squires. Some of the music is in Addl. MS., B.M., 
10,444. 

The Deserving" Favorite : As it was lately Acted, first before the 
King's Majesty, and since publicly at the Black Eriars, by his 
Majesty's Servants. Written by Lodovick Carlell. 4to, 1629. 

The Destruction of Jerusalem : By 1'homas Legge. 

This piece, which was written in the time of Queen Elizabeth, is mentioned in 
Kirkman's Catalogue, 1661 ; but, we believe, it was never printed. A play 
so called was acted at Coventry about 1577. 

The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus and Vespasian : A 

tragedy in two jiarts, by J. Crowne, acted at the Theatre Royal. 
4to, 1677, 1703. 

The foundation of the historical part of these ])lays is to be met with in 
Joseplius. 

The Destruction of Troy : A tragedy by John ]5anks, acted at the 
l)uke's 'I'healre. 4to, 1670. Ejrst acted in 1678. Dedicated to 
Lady Katherine Roos. 



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A Device of a Masque for the Right Honourable the Lord 
Mountacute, to celebrate two marriages : between his son and 
heir and the daughter of Sir William Dormer, and between the 
son and heir of Sir William Dormer and the daughter of Lord 
Mountacute [Anthony Browne, Viscount Montagu (1554-92)]. Hy 
George Gascoigne. In his Posies, 1575; Flowers, xliii. (Hazlitt's 
Gascoigne, 1. 77.) 

The Device of the Pageant borne before Sir Wolstone Dixie, Lord 
Mayor of London, October 29, 1585. By George Peele. 4to, 

1585; 

Reprinted in Strype's edition of Slowe's Survey, folio, 1720, book v., ]>p. 136, 
137; in Nichols' Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, ii. 221, and in the editions of 
Peele's Works. This pageant is curious and valuable ; not only for the poetry, 
but because it describes the flourishing state of the metroi^oiis in the days of 
Queen Elizabeth. The dramatis pcisoiuc, represented by the children of the 
pageant, are, London, Magnanimity, Loyalty, the Country, the Thames, the 
Soldier, the Sailor, Science, and first, second, third, and fourth Nymphs, who 
have all appropriate speeches assigned to them. 

The Device before the Queen's Majesty at her Court at Green- 
wich, the i2ih November, 1588 : Entered on the Stationers' 
Registers, but not otherwise known. 

The Device of the Pageant borne before the Right Hon. Martyn 
Colthorpe, Lord Mayor of the City of London, 29 October, 1588 : 
Licensed for the press this year, but not at present known. 
The Drapers' Pageant. See my Handbook, i86j, p. 450. 

The Device of the Pageant : set forth by the Worshipful Company 
of the Fishmongers for the right honorable John Allot, estab- 
lished Lord Mayor of London, and Mayor of the Staple . . . ., 
1590: By T. Nelson. 4to, 1590. 

Reprinted entire in the Atitiqtiary, xiii. 54-56.* 

The Device for the Queen's Day [November 17], 1592.1 

The Device for the Queen's Day, 15 95 4 

The Device to entertain Her Majesty at Harefield, the house of 
Sir Thomas Egerton, Lo. Keeper, and his Wife, the Countess of 
Derby [in July, 1602]. 

Printed from the Conway MS. in the Shakespear Society's Papers, ii. 

The Device for the Queen's Day, 1590: A masque, sui)posed to 
have been performed in the Tiltyard at Westminster, 17 November, 
1590, to celebrate Elizabeth's succession. Printed by W. Hamper, 
4lo, 1820, from a MS. of the time belonging to the Ferrers family 
at Baddesley-Clinton, co. Warwick. In three parts. 
The production opens with Sir Henry Lee's Cartel, and includes the Supplica- 
tion of the Old Knight, the JMarrias;e of the Damsel of the Queen of Fairies, the 
Old Knighi's Tale, the Ladies' Thanksgiving for their Delivery from Uncon- 

* See my Collections attd Notes, 3rd Series, p. 160. 

t See Bacon's Conference of Pleasure, ed. Spedding, Introd. 

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stancy. The third part contains the Second Day's Work, where the Chaplain 
makes the delation, and the list concludes with the Legacy of the Manor of Love, 
with the appurtenances thereunto. 

Devices to be shown by way of Masques before the Queen's Majesty 
at Nottingham Castle after the meeting of the Queen of Scots, 1562. 
Lansdowne MSS., No. 5. 

These devices were not exhibited. See Fleay, p. 15 

The Devil and His Dam : See Grim the Collier. 

The Devil is an Ass : A comedy by Ben Jonson, acted in 1616 ; and 
printed in the folio of 1641, and in the later editions. 

The Devil of a Wife; or, a Comical Transformation, a farce by 
Tnomas Jevon. Acted at the Theatre, Dorset Garden. 4to, 1686, 
1693. 1695. 

This little piece met with much success in the representation. The plot, 
however, is a very unnatural one, but is borrowed from the story of Mopsa in 
Sydney's Arcadia. A droll under the title of the Devil of a Wife, perhaps taken 
from Jevon's play, was acted at Bartholomew Fair in 1699. 

The Devil of Dowg'ate ; or, Usury put to Use : A comedy by J. 
Fletcher, acted by the King's Servants, October 17, 1623. 

See Dyce's Beaumont and Fletcher, xi.. Introduction to the Night- Walker, of 
which Weber conjectures that the present play was an alteration by Shirley. 
But compare Wit at Several Weapons. 

The Devil's Charter : A Tragedy, containing the Life and Death of 
Pope Alexander the Sixth. As it was played before the King's 
Majesty upon Candlemas night last : by his Majesty's Servants. 
But more exactly reviewed, c(jrrected, and augmented since by 
the Author, for the more pleasure and profit of the Reader. By 
Barnaby Barnes. 4to, 1607. 

The author has very closely followed Ouicciardini, and seems also to have 
formed his play, in some measure, after the model of Pericles. It was entered 
at Stationers' Hall, October 15, 1607. 

The Devil's Law-Case ; or, When Women go to Law, the Devil is 
full of Business: A tragi-comedy by John Webster. 4to, 1623. 
Dedicated to Sir Thomas Finch, Bart. 

The circumstance of Romelio stabbing Contarino from malice, and if turning 
out to his preservation, seems borrowed from the story of Pha^reus Jason, related 
by Valerius Maximus, lib. i., c. 8. This is probably the piece licensed, 
November 29, 1653, as The Laiv Case. 

A Dialog'Ue (or Contention) betwixt a maid, a widow, and a v\ife : By 
Sir John Davies. 
This was presented, we learn, on the visit of Elizabeth to Sir Robert Cecil at 
his new house in the Strand, December 6, 1602, and the maid preferred. It is 
inserted in Davison's Poetical Rhapsody, cd. 1826, p. 12. 

The Dialog-ue of Dives : 

.\ dramatic production alluded to in Greene's Groats7vorth of Wit, 1592, 
where the player says : " It was I that penned the Moral of Man's Wit, the 
Dialogue of Dives, and for seven years' space was absolute interpreter of the 
puppets." 



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Demetrius and Enanthe : A pleasant comedy written by John 
Fletcher, Gent. See Humorous Lieutenant. 

Printed liy Dyce from a MS. under this title, supposed to have been written 
about 1625, and containing passages not in the early printed copies ; 8vo, 1830. 

[The Device of the Pag'eant borne before Sir Christopher Draper, 
Ironmonger, at his initiation into the Mayoralty, 29 October, 1566. 
At the cost of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. By 
James Peele.] 

No printed copy of this work is known ; but it appears that Peele or Pele 
received 30s. for it, and whereas he also supplied the company with seven pairs 
of gloves for the children in the Show at 6d. a pair, he may have been of the 
Glovers' Company. There is very little doubt that he was the father of the 
dramatist, who received from him his literaiy bent. 

Like that of 1590, this pageant may hereafter be found. That it was printed 
is established by the following entry in the Ironmongers' books : 

" Paide to the prynter for printing poses, speeches, and songs, that 
were spoken and songe by the children of y® pagent ... ... v**." 

Whence we are entitled to infer that the tract was, in the same way as the Fish- 
mongers' referred to below, privately printed for the company, and perhaps only 
a few struck off. 



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Diana's Grove ; or, the Faithful Genius : A tragi-comedy, never 
acted. 

A MS. in private hands. 

Dick of Devonshire : A curious old i)lay of the seventeenth century. 
Printed by Mr. A. H. Biillen from the Charlcmont MS. now Egerton MS. 
B.M., 1994. Mr. Fleay identitied it with Shirley's Brothers, and with the play 
of the Politic Father. 

Dick Scorner : See Hick Scomer. 

Dido : A I^atin tragedy, acted before Queen Elizabeth in the magnificent 
chapel of King's College, Cambridge, when she honoured that 
university with a visit in 1564. 

It appears from a Latin account of her Majesty's reception at Cambridge, 
written by Nicholas Robinson, afterwards Bishop of Ban^jor, that this opus 
Tenustiitn et elegans, as it is styled, was composed by one of the fellows of King's 
College. See MSS. Baker, 7037, p. 203. This we may suppose to have been 
John Rightwise, who was elected fellow of King's in 1507 ; and, according to 
A. Wood, "made the tragedy of Dido out of Virgil, and acted the same with the 
scholars of his school (St. Paul's, of which he was appointed master in 1522) 
before Cardinal Wolsey, with great ap|jlause." Hatcher, in his MS. collections 
in the Bodleian Library, assigns it to Edward Halliwell, who was admitted a 
fellow of King's College in 1532. 

It is not perfectly clear to me that the Dido exhibited before the Queen at 
Cambridge in 1564, and that variously assigned to John Rightwise and Edward 
Halliwell, are identical. Was the Latin play of 1564 the one originally per- 
formed under Rightwise's direction at St. Paul's School in 1529, and subsequently 
revised by Halliwell, who was not admitted at King's College, Cambridge, till 
1532? 

Dido : A Latin tragedy by William Gager, presented in Christchurch 
Hall, Oxford, by some of the scholars of that society and of St. 
John's College, before Albertus de Alasco, a Polish Prince Palatine, 
in 1583 ; the scenery of which is described as follows by Holinshed, 
iii., 1355, "wherein the Queene's banket (with Eneas narration of 
the destruction of Troie) was livelie described in a marchpaine 
patterne ; there was also a goodlie sight of hunters with full crie of 
a kennel of hounds ; Mercuric and Iris descending and ascending 
from and to an high place ; the tempest, wherein it hailed small 
confects, rained rosewater, and snew an artificial kind of snow; all 
strange, marvellous, and abundant." 

Dido : The tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage : Played by the 
Children of Her Majesty's Chapel. Written by Christopher 
Marlowe, and Thomas Nash, Gent. 4to, 1594. 

Dyce, in his edition of Marlowe, 1S50, refers to the alleged Elegy on Marlowe, 
by T. Nash, prefixed to Dido, but not found with any extant copy known 
(i., xxxix.). This drama was not written by Marlowe and Nash in conjunction, 
but completed by the latter after Marlowe's death in June, 1593. 

At p. 28 of Edmund Rudiard's 7'hiiiiderl'olt of Gocfs IVrath, 1618, occurs an 
account of " Marlin, a Cambridge scholler, who was a poet, and a filthy Play- 
maker." 

Dido and ^neas : A play acted by the Lord Admiral's Servants, 
1597-8. This was perhaps an alteration of Marlowe's play on the 
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Dido and ^neas : An interlude performed at Chester. 
See Warton's i^.^./l, 1871, iv. 311-12. 

Diocletian : By Thomas Decker. Performed by the Lord Admiral's 
men, at the Rose, November 16 and 22, 1594. 
Compare Virgin Martyr: 

Diog-enes : 

" An Interlude of Diogenes " is mentioned in the dedication of S. Daniel's 
Worthy Tract of Pciniiis Joz'iiis, 1585. Can Daniel refer to Lyly's Comedy of 
Alexander, Catnpasfe, and Diogenes, 15 84? 

Dionysius the Tyrant : A comedy acted at Dundee in or about 1 540. 
By James Wedderburn. 

See Irving's Scotish Poetry, by Carlyle, ch. i., and Laing's repr. of the Dundee 
Psalms, 1 868, x. 

Diphilo and Granida : This is one of six pieces which are published 
in the second part of Sport 7ipon Sport, 1672, and are attributed to 
Robert Cox. 

The Disappointed Ladies : A Court masque, produced in the reign 
of James L 

The Disappointment ; or, the Mother in Fashion : A comedy by 
Thomas Southerne, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 16S4. The 
scene, Florence. 

Part of the plot resembles thestory of the Curious Impertinent in Don Quixote. 
The prologue was written by Dryden. It is dedicated to the Earl of Ossory. 

The Discontented Colonel : By Sir John Suckling. The scene, 
Poland. 4to, n.d. 

This piece was subsequently printed with the editions of the Fragmenta Aitrea, 
etc., 1646-96, with corrections and additions, under the title of " Brennoralt. 
A tragedy. Presented at the private house in Black Friars by his Majesty's 
Servants." Revived at the Theatre Royal, 1661. 

This piece appears to have been written about the time of the Scottish rebellion 
in 1639; as is proved by the continual satire on rebels, under the name of 
Lithuanians. One of the characters oddly says : " Kill me, if 't be but to pre- 
serve my wits." 

A Discourse of the Queen's Majesty's Entertainment in Suffolk and 
Norfolk : With a description of many things then i)resently seen. 
Devised by Thomas Churchyard, Cent, ^^'ith divers shows of his 
own invention set out at Norwich. And some rehearsal of her 
Highness's return from Progress. 4to [1579]. 

These shows were prepared by Churchyard himself, Henry Goldingham, and 
Bernard Garter. 

The Disg'uises : A play, acted at the Rose Theatre, October 2, 1595. 

Not i)rinted. 

The Disobedient Child : A ])rctty and merry new interlude, compiled 
by 'I'homas Ingelend, late Student in Cambridge. 4to [about 

This ])iccc is written in verse often syllable^. Reprinted in Ilazlitt's Dodsley, 
where it is pointed nut that the piece cxhihils no ordinary literary merit. Com- 
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[The Distracted Emperor] : A titleless play of the seventeenth 
century, of which Mr. Mcay is disposed to ascribe the authorship 
to Nathaniel Field. Egerton MS., B.AT., 1994. 

From the Charlemont sale in 1865. Printed by A. II. Bullcn. 

The Distracted State: A tragedy by J. Tatham, written in 1641. 
4to, 1 65 1. The scene, Sicily. 
The author's hatred to the Scots is apparent throughout ; he introduces a 
Scotch mountebank undertaking to poison Archias, the elected king, at the 
instigation of Cleander. Dedicated to Sir William Sidley, Bart. 

Distressed Innocence ; or, the Princess of Persia : A tragedy by 
Elk. Settle. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1691. 
This play was received with great ajiplause. The plot is founded on the 
History of Isdegerdes, King of Persia ; and the author declares that whatever 
fictions he may elsewhere have interwoven, the distresses of his principal 
characters Hormidas and Cleomira are true history, lie likewise acknowledges 
great assistance in it from Betterton and Mountford, the latter of whom wrote 
the last scene and the epilogue. Langbaine gives it the date of 1690. 

The Distresses : A tragi-comedy by Sir William Davenant. Printed 
in the folio of 1673. Scene, Cordua. 

Dives and Lazarus : A comedy by Ralph Radcliff. Not printed. 

A moral-play so called is mentioned in the Elizabethan play of .SVr Thomas 
More, and again in Greene's Groatszaorth of IVit, 1592. 

Dives and Lazarus : A droll acted at Bartholomew Fair in the seven- 
teenth century. It is mentioned in JVit and Drollery, 1682, and in 
the Second Part of the Pleasant Musical Companion, 1687. 
The Divine Comedian : See Soul's Warfare. 

The Divorce : A play entered on the books of the Stationers' Com- 
pany, November 29, 1653, but not printed. 
Doctor Faustus : The Tragical History of D. Faustus. As it hath 
been Acted by the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham his 
Servants. Written by Chr. Marlowe. 4to, 1604. Reprinted, 4to, 
1609, 1611, 1616, 1620, 1624, 1631, 1663, as The Tragical History 
of the Horrible Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. 

Licensed to Thomas Bushell, January 7, 1600-1, and again to John Wright, 
September 13, 1610. The scenes at Rhodes and Wittemberg, and the plot, 
have been said to be founded on Camerarius, Wierus, and other writers on magic. 
The additions which occur in the later quartos are discarded by Dyce ; yet 
Decker and others were paid to augment the play as early as 1597-1602. It was 
probably completed by Marlowe in 1592, and arose from his study of the prose 
tract then (1592) newly issued, and tlie ballad previously (15S9) licensed, rather 
than from a resort to foreign works. 

There seems to be no registration of the play before 1601. A friend proposes 
to give reasons for thinking that Shakespear owed to Faustus some hint for his 
own I'rospcro in the Tciiipest, the two names being obviously of co-ordinate sense. 
It may be here observed that Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (1423-47), 
was addicted to divining practices, etc., but I scarcely know how Shakespear 
could have heard of him, unless it were by tradition. 

In one scene the author is apparently indebted to the old poem of Dan Hew 
Monk of Leicester, printed about 1570. From a passage in Rowlands' Knave 
of Club's, originally published in 1600, it appears that Edward AUeyn played the 
principal part : 

" The gull gets on a surplice, — with a crosse upon his breast, 
Like Allen playing Faustus, — in that manner was he diest." 

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66 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S AL\NUAL. Doc-Don 

■Marlowe's Faustus is not the Faustus of German history and folk-lore, any 
more than Goethe's. In both cases the dramatist created a new hero under the 
old name, with nothing but the general idea and outline in common. See my 
volume oi National English Legends, 1S91. 

DoetOP Faustus, The Life and Death of, with the Humours of 
Harlequin and Scaramouch ; as they were acted by Lee and Jevon. 
A farce by W. jMountford. Acted at the Queen's Theatre in 
Dorset Gardens, and revived at the Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. 
4to, 1697. 

It was first acted between 16S4 and 1688. See Genest, i. 450. 

The Doctors of Dulhead CoUeg'e : A droll by Kirkman, taken from 
Fletcher's Alonsieur TJiomas. Printed in the second part of the 
Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672, and separately by Halliwell, 12 mo, 
i860. 

Don Carlos Prince of Spain : A tragedy by Thomas Otway, acted at 
the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1676, 1679. 

This play is written in heroic verse, was the second work of the author, and 
met with very great applause. The plot is taken from a novel of the same name, 
by Saint Real, i2mo, 1674, and also from the Spanish Chronicles in the Life of 
Philip II. Its success may be gathered from the following lampoon of Rochester, 
in his Trial of the Poets for the Bays : 

"Tom Otway came next, Tom Shadwell's dear zany. 
And swears, for heroicks, he writes best of any : 
Don Carlos his pockets so amply had till'd, 
That his mange was quite cur'd, and his lice were all kill'd, 
But Apollo had seen his face on the stage, 
And prudently did not think fit to engage, 
The scum of a playhouse for the prop of an age." 

Don Horatio : See Spanish Tragedy. 

Don Japhet of Armenia : A Comedy by Monsieur Scarron. 
Englibhed by S'' William Lower, Knight, 1657. A 4to MS. in the 
British Museum. Not printed. 

A MS. of this play, possibly the same, is said to have been preserved at 
Skeffington Hall. 

Don Quixote : "The History of Donquixiot, or the Knight of the ill- 
favoured face, a comedy." Advertised at the end of the New 
JTorid of English JVords, 165S, and of IVit and Drollery, 1661, as 
in the press. Not at present known. 

The Comical History of Don Quixote : As it was Acted at the 
Queen's Theatre in Dorset Gardens, by their Majesties Servants. 
By Thomas Durfey. In Three Parts. 4to, 1694-6. The Songs to 
Part III, were printed separately, folio, 1696. 

In the First Part the Epilogue was spoken by Dogget as Sancho. All the 
parts were well rcccivctl ; but the third i)egan to grow wearisome, although it 
was enlivened by the Marriage of Mary the Buxom. 

Don Sebastian, King of Portugal ; A tragedy by J. Dryden, acted 
at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1690, 1692. 



Dou-Duk PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 67 

The Double Dealer : A comedy by W. Congreve, acted at the Theatre 
Royal. 4to, 1694. 

A person who saw this acted early in 1694 thus notices it in a letter dated 
March 22 : " It has fared with that play, as it p;enerally does with beauties 
officiously cried up ; the mighty expectation which was raised of it made it sink 
even beneath its own merit." 

The Double MarPiag-e : A play by Beaumont and Fletcher. Folio, 
1647. Scene, Naples. 

It was revived after the Restoration. See a prologue in Covenl Garden 
Drollery, p. 14. 

The Doubtful Heir: A iragi-comedy by James Shirley. 8vo, 1652. 
Scene, Murcia. 

In his Poems, 1646, is a "Prologue at the Globe to his Comedy called the 
Doubtful Heir, which should have been presented at the Blackfriars." 

The Downfall of Robert Earl of Hunting-ton, afterwards tailed 

Robin Hood of merry Sherwood ; with his love to Chaste Matilda, 
the Lord Fitzwater's Daughter, afterward his fair maid Marian. 
Acted by the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham, T^ord 
High Admiral of England, his Servants. By Anthony Munday. 
4to, t6oi. 

This and the Death of Robert Earl of Hiiiitingtoii are cited by Henslowe under 
February, 1 597-8, as the First ami Second Parts of Rol>iii Hood. On November 18, 
1598, Chettle received a payment for "mending" the former. The play was 
apparently further altered for performance at Court. Reprinted in Ilazlitt's 
Dodsley. Compare Robin Hood and Metropolis Corouata. 

The Duchess of Suffolk : The Life of the Duchess of Suffolk. As 
it hath been divers and sundry times acted with good apjjlause. 
4to, 1631. Scene, London. 

The plot is founded on Fox's Book of Martyrs. In Sir Henry Herbert's Diary 
is the following entry, under January 2, 1624-5 • " For the Palsgraves company, 
the History of the Dutchess of Suffolk, which, being full of dangerous matter, 
was much reformed by me ; I had two pounds for my pains ; written by 
Mr. Drew." It was licensed for the press as the work of Thomas Drue, 
November 13, 1629. 

The Duke : See Humorous Courtier. 

A Duke and no Duke : A farce by N. Tate. Acted by their Majesties' 
Servants. 4to, 1685, 1693. 

The scene of this piece lies in Florence, and the plot is taken from Trappolin 
Suppos'd a Prince. A preface " concerning farce " is prefixed. 

Duke Humphrey : See Contention. 

The Duke of Guise : By Henry Shirley. 

This play was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, September 9, 
1653, but is not otherwise known. Compare Guise and Massacre at Paris. 

The Duke of Guise : A tragedy by Dryden and Lee. Acted by their 

Majesties' Servants. 4to, 1683, 1687. 

The object of this play evidently was to serve the Duke of York, whose 

succession was opposed. The plot is taken from Davila, Mezeray, and other 

writers on the reigns of Henry HI. and Charles IX., and the Siory of Malicorn 



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the conjurer, from Rosset's Histoires Tragiques. Dr}'den wrote only the first 
scene, the whole fourth act and the first half, or somewhat more, of the fifth. 
All the rest of the play is Lee's. 

Dryden was severely attacked for this piece, which was considered as levelled 
at the then enemies of the English Court ; on which he declares, in his Vindica- 
tion, that it was at Lee's earnest request that he joined him in writing it ; nor 
was it in his thought to expose any person living. "After the wiiting of 
QLdipiis" says he, " I passed a promise to join with him in another ; and he 
happened to claim the performance of that promise just upon the finishing of a 
poem, when I would have been glad of a little respite before the undertaking of 
a second task." Several passages in this play are borrowed from Lee's Massacre 
of Paris. 

The Duke of Lerma : 

A play to which Sir R. Howard refers in the preface to his own, 4to, l668, as 
having been shown to him, and as being unfit fur the stage. He does not name 
the writer. Compare Great Favourite and Spanish Duke of Lerma. 

The Duke of Milan : A tragedy. As it hath been often acted by his 
Majesty's Servants at the Black Friars. Written by Philip Massinger. 
4to, 1623, 1638. Dedicated to Lady Stanhope. 
The plot is taken partly from Guicciardini, book 8, and partly from Josephus. 

The Duke of Milan and the Marquis of Mantua : A play acted 
at \Vhitehall on St. Stephen's day at night, 1579, by the Lord 
Chamberlain's Servants. 

The Duke's Mistress : A tragi-comedy by James Shirley, acted at the 
private house, Drury Lane. 410, 1638. Scene, Parma. It was 
first acted in 1636. 

The Dumb Bawd : By Henry Shirley. Not printed ; it was entered 
on the books of the Stationers' Company, September 9, 1653. 

The Dumb Knight : The dumb-Knight. A pleasant Comedy, acted 
sundry times by the Children of his ISLajesty's Revels. Written by 
Jervis Markham [and Lewis Machin]. 4to, 1608, 1633. The 
scene, Cyprus. 

There were two issues in the former year, in the later of which the play is 
descrilied as "A Historical Comedy," and the writer's names do not appear. 
This title is followed in the 4to of 1633. In Ilazliit's Dodslcy. 

The most essential incidents of the plot are taken from Bandello, and are 
similar to those in the Queen ; or., the Excellency of her Sex. Though this play 
was acted several times, it found many enemies, as we may perceive from the 
preface, where the author says the play was misconstrued. 

He also says that, in the composition of the play, he had "a partner whose 
worth had been often ajiproved ;" and as the name of Markham is found in some 
copies in the place of ALacliin, perha]:)s it is the joint production of those two 
writers. It was entered at Stationers' Hall, October 6, 1608. 

The Dumb Lady ; or, the Farrier made Physician : A comedy by 

John Lacy. Acted with success at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1672. 

Dedicated to tiie Earl of Southampton. The scene, London. 

The plot and much of the language of this play are from Molicre's iMidecin 
malgrc ltd. 

The Durance Masque : Seventeenth century. Addit. MS., British 
Museum, 10,444 (ll^t; music only). 



Dut-Ear PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 69 

The Dutch Courtezan : As it was played in the lilack Friars by the 
Children of her Majesty's Revels. Written by John Mirston. 
4to, 1605. 
This play is mentioned in the Black Yeare, i6o6, as " corrupting English con- 
ditions." Reprinted in ihe editions of Marston. The incident of Cockle iemoy's 
cheating Mrs. Mulliijrul), the vintner's wife, of the gohlet and the salmon, is 
taken from the story related in the Palace of Pleasure. Compare The 
Revenge, etc. 

The Dutch Lover: A comedy by Mrs. Behn. Acted at the Duke's 
Theatre. 4to, 1673. The scene, Madrid. 
The plot is founded on the stories of Eiifemie and Theodore, Don Jame and 
Frederic, in the .Spanish novel, called Do)i P'enise. Mrs. I5ehn, in her address 
to the reader, begins thus : " Good, sweet, honey, sugar-candied reader, which 
I think is more than any one has call'd you yet." There is an epilogue, but no 
prologue, the latter having been " by misfortune lost." 

The Duchess of Fernandina : A tragedy by Henry Glapthorne. 

This piece was entered at Stationers' Hall, June 29, 1660, but has not been 
published. The MS. is in the list of those said to have been destroyed by 
Warburton's servant. 

The Trag'edy of the Duchess of Malfy, as it was presented 
privately at the Black Friars, and publicly at the Globe, by the 
King's Majesty's Servants. 4to, 1623, 1640, and n.d. (about 
1660). 

The scene lies at Amalfi, Rome, etc., and the story of it is well known in 
history. Lope de Vega wrote a play on the same subject, called El Ufayoniomo 
de la Duquessa de Amalfi ; and besides the historians of Naples, Goulart has 
given this tale a place in his Histoires Admirables ; Bandello has worked it up in 
one of his novels ; and it is found in an English dress in Painter's Palace of 
Pleasure. 

The first edition of this play is described in the title-page as " the perfect and 
exact Coppy, with diverse things Printed that the length of the Play would not 
bear in the presentment." Burbage, Taylor, Lowin, and other eminent actors, 
performed parts in this tragedy. It was revived with alterations, and printed in 
4to, 1678, 1708. 

The Dutch Painter and the French Brank : A play so called was 
licensed by Sir Henry Herbert, June 10, 1622, for performance by 
the Prince's Servants at the Curtain, 

Dyccon of Bedlam : A play under this title was entered on the books 
of the Stationers' Company, by Thomas Colwell, in 1562. This 
play, I believe, was never published. It seems to have been the 
first sketch of Gammer Gurton's Needle, which appeared in 1575, 
from the same printer, or perhaps is the play itself. 

The Earl of Gloucester : The honorable life of the humorous Earl 
of Gloster, with his conquest of Portugal, acted by the Lord 
Admiral's Servants. A play mentioned by Henslowe under 1601 
as written by Anthony Wadeson. 

Earl Goodwin and his Three Sons : A play by Robert \\ ilson, in 
conjunction with Drayton, Chettle, and Dekker. Acted in 1598. 
A second part of the above play, by the same authors, was acted 
the same year by the Lord Admiral's Servants. Neither of them 
was printed. 



70 PLAY-COLI.ECTORS MANUAL. Eas-Edw 

Eastward Hoe : As it was played in the Black Friars. By the 
Children of her Majesty's Revels. Made by Geo: Chapman, 
Ben: Jonson, Joh: Marston. 4to, 1605; in Chapman's Works, 

1873- 

There were no fewer than three different editions in 1605. It is said that, for 
writing this comedy, wherein the authors were accused of reflecting on the Scots, 
they were committed to prison, and were in danger of losing their ears and noses. 
They, houever, received pardons ; and Jonson, on his release from prison, gave 
an entertainment to his friends, among whom were Camden and Selden. The 
offensive parts are omitted in all but a few copies of the first issue. Curiously 
enough, on January 25, 1614, the play was acted at Court. 

See Chapman's Homer, by Hooper, i. 32. The piece was revived at Drury 
Lane in 1751, under the title of Eastward Hoe ; or, The Prentices. 

Edg'ar ; or, the English Monarch : An heroic tragedy, by T. Rymer, 
4to, 1678; and again, 4to, 1691, under the title of the English 
Monarch. 

This play is written in heroic verse. It was licensed in September, 1677. 
The scene is fixed in London ; the unity of time is so well preserved that the 
w hole action lies between twelve at noon and ten at night ; and the plot is from 
William of Malmesbury and other old English historians. 

King" Edg'ar and Alfreda : A tragi-comedy, by E. Ravenscroft, acted 
at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1677. 

This play is on the same story as the preceding one ; but the plot of it seem- 
ingly borrowed from a novel called the Annals of Love. The scene lies in 
Mercia, or Middle England ; and there is prefixed to it a Life of Edgar. 

Edmund Ironside : The English King. [A second title :] A True 
Chronicle History called War hath made all friends. A play of the 
seventeenth century. Folio. Egerton MS. B.M., 1994. 

Edward the Confessor : A play recorded by Henslowe under 
the doubtless erroneous title of Richa7-d the Confessor, as having 
been performed by the Earl of Sussex's men, December 31, 1593. 
It immediately precedes a notice of the presentation of William 
the Conqueror. 

Edward Longshanks: "An Interlude called Edward Longshanks " 
was licensed to T. Pavicr in 1600. In the MS. list of the plays in 
the possession of Henry Oxinden, of Barham, in 1647, iri his 
MS. Commonplace Book, Pecle's Ed7c>a?-d J. is so termed ; see 
Henslovve's ffiajy, p. 55, where it is stated that a piece of this 
name was performed at the Rose Theatre in August, 1595. 

Edward the First : The famous Chronicle of King Edward the 
J'irst, sirnamed Longshanks, with his Rcturne from the Holy 
Land. Also the Life of Lkuellen, Rebel in Wales. Lastly, the 
sinking of Queen Elinor, who sunk at Charing Cross, and rose 
again at Potters-hith, now named Qucen-hith. By George Peele. 
4^0, 1593, 1599. 

Part of the story is taken from Ilolinshed. Reprinted in the editions of rcele. 
Both the old editions are very carelessly printed, containing passages that defy all 
attempts at conjectural emendation. 



Edw-Eld PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 71 

Edward the Second : The troublesome reign and lamentable death 
of Edvvanl tlie Second, King of England : with the tragical fall of 
proud Mortimer. As it was sundry times played in the honourable 
City of London, by the right honourable the Earl of Pembroke 
his Servants. By C. Marlow. 8vo, 1594; 4to, 1598, 1612, 1622. 
It was entered at Stationers' Hall, July 6, 1593. 

This play is very far from a had one. The scene lies partly in England, and 
partly in France, and the story keeps very close to history. 

Edward the Third: The Reign of King Edward the Third, as it 
hath been sundry times played about the City of London. 4to, 
1596, 1599- 
Reprinted in Capell's Prolusions, 8vo, 1760. See Ayrer's Collection, 1607. 

Edward the Third, with the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March : An 
historical play. 4to, 1691. 

Coxeter attributes this play to John Bancroft, who, as he says, made a present 
of it to Mountfort the actor. The scene lies at Nottingham, and the plot is from 
the English history, with a comic underplot, and from a novel called La Conitesse 
de Salisbury, by U'Argence, 8vo. , 16S2. 

Edward the Fourth : The First and Second Parts of King Edward 
the Fourth. Containing his merry pastime with the Tanner of 
Tamworth, as also his love to fair mistress Shore, her great promo- 
tion, fall, and misery, and lastly the lamentable death of both her 
and her husband. Likewise the besieging of London by the 
Bastard Falconbridge, and the valiant defence of the same by the 
Lord Mayor and the Citizens. As it hath been divers times 
publicly played by the right honourable the Earl of Derby his 
Servants. By Thomas Heywood. 4to, 1600, 1605, 1613, 1619, 
1626. 
Reprinted in the editions of Heywood's Dramatic Works. Compare Shore, 

Edwardus (Sanctus) Confessor : A play which is conjectured to 

have been oerformed before James L at one of the Universities. 
Heber's MSS.., 1091. 

Eg'io or Agio : An interlude, written about the year 1560. 

At pp. 27-8 of Alley's Poor Man's Library, 1571, are certain verses which are 
recited in an interlude called Agio. 

EyKVKXoxopaa ; Or, Universal Motion. Being part of that ALignificent 
Entertainment by the noble Prince de la Grange, Lord Lieutenant 
of Lincoln's Inn. Presented to Charles II. on Friday, the 3rd of 
January, 1662-3. 4^o, 1662. 

One of the entertainments of the Prince d'Amour. In M.S. Ashmole 826, 
art. 31, is a Writ of Privy Seal of the Christmas Prince of the Middle Temple, 
subscribed: Pi: Pr : de P Amour. "To our trusty and vvell-beloved servant, 
Mr. John Garrett, desiring his attendance at Court." 

The Elder Brother : A comedy by John Fletcher, acted at the Black 
Friars. 4to, 1637, 1651, 1661, 1678. 

The first and third editions have the name of Fletcher alone. In the second 
Beaumont is joined with him. An early copy is in M S. Egerton 1994, 



72 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S T^IANUAL. Ele-Enc 

ElectPa of Sophocles : Presented to Her Highness the Lady Eliza- 
betii : with an epilogue. By Christopher Wase. 8vo, 1649. 

Elvipa : Or, The Worst not ahvays true. A Comedy. Written by a 
Person of Quahty. 4to, 1667, 16S5. The scene, Valencia. In 
Hazlitt's Dodsley. 

Downes mentions a play by George Digby, Earl of Bristol, called 'Z?V Better 
than it was, as acted at the Duke of York's Theatre between 1662 and 1665, and 
as taken from the Spanish. It was not improbably the present production. 

Emilia: x\ tragi-comedy. 8vo, 1672. The scene, Messina. Dedicated 
to the only feiv. 
In this dedication the anonymous author confesses that the hint of his plot was 
taken from the Costanza di Kosainonda of Aurelio Aureli. 

The EmperOP of the East : A Tragi-comedy. As it hath been 
divers times acted at the Blackfriars and Globe Playhouses by the 
King's Majesty's Servants. Written by Philip i\Lissinger. The 
scene, Constantinople. 4to, 1632. Licensed on March 11, 1630-1. 
Dedicated to Lord Mohun. 

The EmpePOP of the Moon : A farce, by Mrs. Behn, acted at the 

Queen's Theatre. 4to, 1687, 1688. 

This piece is taken from Arlcqiiin Eiiipereitr dans le Monde de la Ltinc, which 

was originally translated from the Italian, and acted in France eighty times 

successively. Mrs. Behn, however, has made great alterations, and rendered it 

full of whimsical and entertaining business. 

The Empipic : A droll formed out of Ben Jonson's Alcliemisf, and 
printed in the JVits, or Sport iipon Sporty 1672. 

The Emppess of MopoccO : A tragedy by Elk. Settle, acted at the 

Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1673. 

This play is the first that was adorned with sculptures, of which there are five, 
representing scenes in the tragedy, and a frontispiece. 

It was republished in 1687, witliout the plates. The frontispiece is supposed 
to be a portrait of Harris the actor in the part of Morena. 

Dryden makes the following severe observations on this play : "So the favours 
of persons of honour and generosity cast on ingenious men, encourage them to 
produce excellent things, and are bestowed for the advantage of the world ; but 
thrown away on such unimprovable dunces as this, only produce such things as 
they say are bred of sun and slime in /I'lgypt, things half mud and half monster, 
and such another thing is this play, a thing made up of fustian and non-sense, 
v.'hich with much ado, after two years painful hatching, crawl'd out of the muddy 
head where it was eiigcndrcd." 

The Emppess of MopocCO : A farce, acted at the Theatre Royal. By 
Thomas Duffet. 4to, 1674. 
This is a burlesque of the preceding piece, and forms part of a volume, the 
rest being occupied by a travestie of the witch scene in Afact>eth. 

The Enchanted LovePS : A pastoral, by Sir William Lower. i2mo, 
1658. The scene, the Island of Erithrea, Portugal. 

Enchiridion Chpistiados: A twelve days' task, or twelve verdicts 
and visions upon Christ, his Incarnation, Nativity, Circumcision, 
etc., presented for a Christmas masque to A\'illiam Paston, Esq., 
High Sheriff of Norfolk, and the Lady Katharine his wife, by John 
Cayworth, 1636. MS. Addit., B.M., 10,311. 



Enc-Eng PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 73 

The Encounter: A droll formed out of Beaumont and Fletcher's 

Xnio/a of the Burning Pestle, and printed in the Wits, or Sport upon 
Sport, 1672. 

Endimion, the Man in the Moon : Played before the Queen's Majesty 

at Greenwich on Candlemas day at night by the Children of Paul's. 

[By John Lyly.] 410, 1591. 

The story is from Lucian's Dialogue l)L't\veen Venus and the Moon, and the 

piece is pointed out l)y Mr. Fieay as allegorizing the marriage of Leicester and 

Lady Essex. 

Endymion, the Man in the Moon : A masque, of three pages only, 
printed at the end of a comedy, called Imposture Defeated, 1698. 

Eng^land's Comfort, and London's Joy, expressed in the Royal, 
Triumphant, and Magnificent Entertainment of King Charles L at 
his blessed Return from Scotland on Thursday the 25 November, 
1 641, by the Right Honourable Sir Richard Gurney, Knight, Lord 
Mayor, and the Recorder, Sir Thomas Gardner, who were at that 
present both knighted, together with the manner and form how the 
State is to be observed and performed by the severall Companies 
on Horseback and Foot, etc. By John Taylor. 4to, 1641. 

England's Farewell to Christian the Fourth, famous King of 
Denmark : With a Relation of such Shows and several Pastimes 
presented to his Majesty as well at Court the fifth day of August 
last past, as in other places since his honourable passage through 
the City of London. The most Honourable Entertainment of his 
Highness aboard his Majesty's ships in the road of Gillingham, 
near the City of Rochester in Kent, etc. By Henry Roberts. 4to, 
1606. 

England's Joy : By Richard Vennar or Vennard. In two parts, 
1601-2. 
In the library of the Society of Antiquaries is preserved a broadside entitled, 
"The plot of the play called lingland's Joy, to be playd at the Swan this 6 of 
November, 1602." It was, says Mr. Collier, an allegorical exhibition of some of 
the principal events of the reign of Elizabeth, who was personated under the 
character of England's Joy. See Taylor's Works, 1630, ii. 158-9. Suckling, in 
the Goblins, thought the performance had a touch of Shakespear : " Poet. The 
last was a well-writ piece, I assure you. A Briton, I take it, and Shakespear's 
very way. I desire to see the man." — Hazlitt's Suckling, ii. 53. 

Englebert : By Joshua Barnes. A MS. in the library of Emmanuel 
College, Cambridge. 
This piece is in rhyme, and is part tragedy and part opera. From the pro- 
logue prefixed to it, it appears to have been, or at least intended to have been, 
acted. 

English and Danes ; A drama so called purports to have been per- 
formed before Queen Elizabeth, at Kenilworth, in 1575, in com- 
memoration of the victory over the Danes in 1002. It further 
appears that the celebrated Captain Cox managed these theatricals. 

The English Friar ; or, the Town Sparks : A comedy by J. Crowne, 
acted by their Majestie's Servants. 4to, 1690. Scene, London. 
It was first acted in 1689, and was directed against the Roman Catholics. 

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74 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Eng-Ent 

The Eng'lish Fugitives : A play by William Haughton, acted in 
1600, but not printed. 

The English Lawyer : A comedy by E. Ravenscroft, acted at the 
Theatre Royal. 4to, 1678. The scene, Bordeaux. 

This is an adaptation, in English, of Ruggles's Jgnoravnis. 

Eng'lishmen for my Money : Or, A Woman will have her Will. A 
comedy, written in 1598 by William Haughton, and licensed for 
the press, August 3, 1601. 4to, 1616, 1626, 1631. Scene, 
Portugal. 

This is said to have been acted divers times with applause. In Hazlitt's 
Dodsley. 

The English Monarch : See Edgar. 

The English Monsieur: A comedy by James Howard. 410, 1674. 
Scene, London. 
Pepys saw this pla}' acted in 1666, and was particularly pleased with the per- 
formance of "little Nelly," who no doubt acted Lady Wealthy. 

The English Moor ; or, the Mock Marriage : A comedy, as it was 
often acted with general applause by her Majesties Servants. By 
Richard Brome. 8vo, 1659. Scene, London. 

A ^NIS. copy of this play is in the library of Lichfield Cathedral. 
The English Princess ; or, the Death of Richard the Third : A 
tragedy by J. Caryl. 4to, 1667, 1674. Acted at the Duke of 
York's Theatre. 
The plot is from Holinshed, Speed, etc., and the scenes are laid in the head- 
quarters of King Richard and the Earl of Richmond, while they are in the sight 
of each other. There is nothing in it borrowed from Shakespear. Pepys saw 
this play acted on March 7, 1667, and describes it as "a most sad, melancholy 
play, and pretty good." 

The English Rogue : A New Comedy. As it was acted before several 
Persons of Honour with great applause. Written by T[homas] 
T[hompson]. 4to, 1668. Scene, Venice. 

The English Traveller : As it hath been publicly acted at the Cock- 
pit in Drury La;ie by her Majesty's Servants. By Tho. He\wood. 
4to, 1633. Dedicated in a very interesting epistle to Sir Henry 
Appleton. 
The plot and language of young I.yonel and Reginald are taken from the 
Mostellajia of Plautus ; but as to the story of old AMncote and his wife, Gcraldine 
and Delavil, the author, in his IJistoiy of IVoviai, lib. 4, p. 269, where he has 
related it more at large, affums it to be an absolute fact. 

Enough's as Good as a Feast ; This piece is mentioned as a comedy 
by Kirkman, but without either date or author's name. 

The Entertainment : See Muses' Looki/ig-GIass, 

The Entertainment of the High and Mighty Monarch Charles, 

King of Great Britain . . . into his ancient and royal City of 
Kdinl)urgh, Jime 15, 1(^533. 4to, Edinb., 1633. 

The Relation of his Majesty's Entertainment passing through 
the City of London to his Coronation : with a Description 
of the Triumphal Arches and Solemnities. By John Ogilby. 
Folio, 1 66 1. 



Ent-Ent PLAY-COLT.ECTOR'S MANUAL. 75 

The Entertainment of his Most Excellent Majesty Charles II. 
in his Passage throug-h the City of London to his Corona- 
tion: containing an exact AccomiJt of the whole S'^knit.ity ; tlie 
triumphal Arclies, and Cavalcade, delineated in Sculpture, the 
Speeches and Impresses illustrated from Antiquity. To these are 
added, a brief Narrative of His Majesty's solemn (.Coronation : with 
his magnificent Proceeding and Royal Feast in Westminster Hall. 
By John Ogilby. Folio, 1672. 
This is an enlarged account of the proceedings as narrated in the previous article. 

The Entertainment of King- James and Queen Anne at Theo- 
balds, wlun die house was delivered up with the possession to the 
Queen by the Earl of Salisbury, May 22, 1607, the Prince Janville 
[Prince de Joinville], brother to the Duke of Guise, being then 
present. By Ben Jonson. 

The Entertainment performed at the Theatre Royal in Dorset 
Garden at Drawing- the Lottery, called the AVheel of Fortune : 
Being the Speeches addressed to the Spectators as Prologues and 
Epilogues. 4to, 1698. 

This was in connection with the Penny Lottery so called. 

The Entertainment of the Two King-s of Great Britain and 

Denmark at Theobalds, July 24, 1606, by Ben Jonson. 
This entertainment is very short, and consists chiefly of epigrams. 
This and other pieces were printed in the folio of 1616. .See Penates. 

The Honourable Entertainment g-iven to the Queen's Majesty 

in Progress at Elvetham in Hampshire, by the right Honourable 
the Earl of Hertford, 159 1. 4to, 1591. With a plate. The same, 
newly corrected and emended, 4to, 1591. 
Reprinted by Nichols. 

A Particular Entertainment of the Queen and Prince their 
Hig"hnesses at Altliorp, at the Right Honourable the Lord 
Spencer's, on Saturday, June 25, 1603, as they came first into the 
Kingdom. By Ben Jonson. 4to, 1603; folio, 1616. 

A Relation of the late Royal Entertainment given by t'e Right 

Hon. the Lord Knuwles, at Cawsome House near Reading, to our 
most gracious Queen Anne, in her progress toward the Bath, upon 
the 27th and 28th days of April, 1613. Whereunto is annexed, the 
Description, Speeches, and Songs of the Lords Masque, presented 
in the Banqueting-house, on the marriage-night of the high and 
mighty Count Palatine and the royally descended the Lady Eliza- 
beth, by Thomas Campion. 4to, 1613. 

The most Royal and Honourable Entertainment of the Famous 
and Renowmed King-, Christiern the Fourth, King- of Den- 
mark, who with a Fleet of gallant Ships arrived on the 16 of July, 
1606, in Tilbury Hope, near Gravesend, with a Relation of his 
meeting by our Royal King, the Prince, and Nobles of our realm. 



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the Pleasures sundry times shewed for his gracious welcome and 
most famous Entertainment at Theobald's, with the Royall Passage 
the 31 July through the City of London, and Honorable Shewes 
there presented them, and manner of their passing. By Henry 
Roberts. 4to, 1606. 

B. Jon : His Part of King* James his Royal and Mag^nificent 
Entertainment throug'h his Honourable City of London, 

Thursday the 15 of March, 1603: As much as was presented in 
the first and last of their Triumphal Arches, etc. 410, 1604 ; folio, 
1640. 

This piece consists only of congratulatory speeches, spoken to his Majesty at 
Fenchurch, Temple Bar, and in the Strand, in his way to the coronation, with 
the author's comments to illustrate them. Printed with the account of the 
, reception at Althorp supra. 

A Relation of the Royal, Magnificent, and Sumptuous Enter- 
tainment, given to the High and Mighty Princess, Queen Anne, 
at the renowned City of Bristol by the JNLiyor, Sheriffs, and Alder- 
men thereof: in the month of June last past, 1613, together with 
the Oration, Gifts, Triumphs, Water-Combats, and other Shows 
there made. By Robert Naile. 410, 1613. 

Epicoene ; or, the Silent Woman : A comedy by Ben Jonson, acted 

by the King's Servants. 4to, 1609, 161 2, 1620. 

The following memorandum occurs in the notes of Ben Jonson's Conversations 

at Hawthornden : " When his play of a Silent Woman was first acted, ther was 

found verses after on the stage against him, concluding that that play was well 

named the Silent Woman, ther was never one man to say Plaudite to it." 

Epidicus : A comedy translated from Plautus, by Laurence Echard, 
with critical remarks, but never intended for the stage. 8vo, 1694. 
The scene, Athens. The time about five or six hours. 

Epsom Wells : A comedy by T. Shadwell, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 
4to, 1673, 1676, 1693, 1704. 
This piece continued popular for many years. Diyden improperly accuses the 
author of it with plagiarism : 

" But let no alien Sedley interpose, 
To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose." 

An Equal Match : 

Tills is a (lr(]ll formed out of Beaumont and Fletcher's Rule a IVifc and Have 
a Wife, and printed in the Wits, or Sport tipon Sport, 1672. 

Erminia ; or, the Fair and Vertuous Lady : A tragi-comedy by Richard 
i'ltcknoe. i2mo, 1661, 1665. 

In the later impression Erminia is described as the Chaste Lady. 

Error : " The historic of Error, showen at Hampton Court on New- 
yeres daie at night [January 1, 1577], enacted by the Children of 
Powles." — Revels Accounts^ 1576-7. 
The " Historic of Ferrar," supposed to be miswriltcn for this play, is stated to 
have been acted at Windsor early in 1583. 



Eso-Eve PLAY-COT.LECTOR'S MANUAL. 77 

Esop : A comedy in two parts, by Sir J. Vanbrugh, acted at Drury Lane. 
4to, 1697. 

This play is taken from a comedy of Boursuult's, written about six years before 
it; but the characters of Sir I'olidorus Ilogstye, the IMaycrs, the Senator, and 
the Beau— in a word, part of the fourth, and the whole of the fifth act, are 
original. 

The Essex Antic Masque : A masque produced about 1620. Addit. 
MS., li.M., 10,444. 

The Eunuch : A translation from Terence, by Richard Bernard. In 
the editions of his version, 4to, 1598-1641. 

The Eunuch : A comedy translated from Terence, by Thomas New- 
man. 8vo, 1627. 

The Eunuch : A comedy translated from Terence, by Charles Hoole. 
8vo, 1663. 

The Eunuch : A comedy translated from Terence, by L. Echard. Svo, 
1694. 

The Eunuch : See Fatal Contract. 

EuphOPmuS Sive Cupido AdultUS, a Latin comedy by George 
Wilde, acted at St. John's College, Oxford, February 5, 1634-5. 
MS. Addit., B.M., 14,047. 

Euribates : A Latin drama of the seventeenth century, written by 
Grouse, of Caius College, Cambridge. A MS. in the library of 
Emmanuel College. 

Europe's Revels for the Peace and His Majesty's happy Return : 
A musical interlude, by P. Motteux. 4to, 1697. 

This piece was written on occasion of the Peace of Ryswick, and was per- 
formed at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Annexed to it is a panegyric 
poem, which was spoken by way of prologue to it. The music was by Eccles. 

An Evening" Adventure ; or, A Night's Intrigue : A comedy from the 
Spanish. 1680. 

Compare Feigned Courtezans and Have at all. 

An Evening''s Love ; or, the Mock Astrologer : A comedy by J. 
Dryden, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1671, 1691. 
This play met with good success, when first acted in 1668. The principal plot 
is built on Corneille's Feinct Astrologiie, and the rest taken from Moliere's Depit 
Anioiireiix and Les Precietises Ridicules, and Quinault's L'Aiiiatit Indiscret, 
together with some hints from Shakespear. The scene, Madrid, and the time 
the last evening of the Carnival in 1665. 

Every Man, The Summoning" of : A Treatise how the high Father 
of Heaven sendeth death to summon every creature to come and 
give account of their lives in this world, and is in manner of a 
moral play. 4to. With woodcuts. 

It was twice printed by Pynson, and twice by Skot. In Ilazlitt's Dodsley, 
where the four editions are collated. The piece was probably produced about 
1520. 



78 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S ^L\NUAL. Eve-Fai 

Every Man in his HumoUP : As it hath been sundry times publicly 
acted by the right honourable the Lord Chamberlain's Servants. 
Written by Ben Jonson. 4to, 1601 ; fol'o. 1616. 

^^'halley observes that in this play, as originally written, "the scene was at 
Florence, the persons represented were Italians, and the manners in great 
measure conformable to the genius of the place ; but in this very play, the 
humours of the under-characters are local, expressing not the manners of a 
Florentine, but ihe gulls and bullies of the times and country in which the poet 
lived ; and as it was thus represented on the stage, it was published in t6oi. 
When it was printed again in the collection of his works, the scene was trans- 
ferred to London ; the names of the persons were changed to English ones ; and 
the dialogue, incidents, and manners, were suited to the place of action." The 
edition ot 1601 should therefore be compared. 

Every Man out of his Humour : The Comical Satire of Every Man 
out of his Humour. As it was first composed by the Author, 
B. J., containing more than hath been Publicly Spoken or Acted. 
With the several Characters of every Person. 4to, 1600. Two 
editions the same year. 

Acted in 1.599. 

Every Woman in her Humour : A comedy. 4to, 1609. 

The Example : A comedy by James Shirley, acted at the private house, 
Drury Lane. 410, 1637. 

This play was licensed on June 24, 16.34. 

Exehang"e Ware at the Second Hand : See Band, Cuff, and Ruff, 

The Excommunicated Prince ; or, the False Relick : A tragedy by 
Captain William Bedloe. Fol., 1679. 
To this play the publisher, without the author's concurrence or knowledge, 
added in the title these words : " Being the Popish Plot in a Play." This 
induced the public to imagine they should find the design of it to be a narrative 
of that plot which Captain Bedloe had so considerable a hand in discovering. 
They found themselves, however, disappointed, the plan of this play being built 
on a story related by Heylin in his CosDiography. The scene lies at Cremen in 
Georgia, and the play was wholly written in two months' time. Some ascribe it, or at 
least the greater part of it, to Thomas Walter, a scholar of Jesus College, Oxford. 

The Extravag'ant Shepherd : A pastoral comedy, by T. R. 4to, 
1654. 

This piece was translated from the French of T. Corneille, and is founded on a 
romance called Lysis ; 07; tlic Extrm^agaitt Shcphcard, 1654. The translator, in 
a dedication addressed to Joanna Thornhill, relers to the prohibition of plays by 
the Puritans, as having interfered with the success of his piece on the stage. 

Ezechias or Hezekiah : A play by Nicholas Udall, acted before Queen 

Elizabeth at Cambridge, 1564. 
"This day (Aug. 8) was nothing done publique, save that at 9 of the clocke at 
night an English play called Ezekias, made by M. Udal, nnd handled by King's 
College men onlye." — Nichols's IVogi-csscs of Queen Elizabeth, vol. iii., p. 117. 
It is no longer known. 

The Fabii : See Foicr Sons of Fabius. 

The Factious Citizen ; or, the Melancholy Visioner : A comedy acted 
at the Duke's 'Iheatre. 4to, 1685. Scene, Moorfields. 

The Fair Anchoress of Pausilippo : See Prisoner. 



Fai-Fai PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 79 

Fair Constance of Rome : A play in two parts by Anthony Munday, 
in conjunction with Hathway, Drayton, and Dckkcr. Produced in 
May-June, 1600. Not printed. 

See Fleay, p. 109. 

Fair Em : A pleasant comedy of Fair Em, the Miller's daughter of 
Manchester : with the love of William the Conqueror. As it was 
sundry times publicly acted in ths honourable City of London by 
the right honourable Lord Strange his Servants. 4to, n.d., and 
1631. 
This piece is not divided into acts. Reprinted in Ciictwood's CoUeclion, 1750. 

The Fair Favourite: A tragi-comedy by Sir W. Davenant. Fob, 
1673. 

A play so called is mentioned in the list of ]\IS.S. said to have been destroyed 
by Warburton's Servant. 

The Fair Foul One : By Went worth Smith. 

This play is mentioned in Sir Henry Herbert's Diary, under the date of 
November 28, 1623 : " For a strange comp ;ny at the Red Bull, the Fayre Fowle 
One, or the Bayting of the Jealous Knight, written by Smith." 

The Fair Maid of Bristol : As it was played at Hampton before the 
King and Queen's most excellent Majesties. A comedy. 4to, 
1605. 

Collier ascribes this play to John Day. Roxburghc Ballads, 1847, p. 335. 

The Fair Maid of the Exchang-e : with the pleasant Humours of 
the Cripple of Fanchurch. Very delectable, and full of mirth. 
By Thomas Heywood. 410, 1607, 1625, 1634, 1637. 
This play was licensed April 22, 1607. 

The Fair Maid of the Inn : A tragi-comedy by Beaumont and 
Fletcher. Fob, 1647. 

The plot of Mariana disowning CDSsario for her son, and the Duke's injunction 
to marry him, is related by (Jaussin in his Holy Court, and is transcribed by 
Wanley in his History of Man, 1678, book iii., ch. 26. The scene lies in 
Florence. 

The Fair Maid of Italy : A play, acted by the Earl of Sussex's Men, 
January 12, 1593-4. Not now known. 

The Fair Maid of London : A play under this title was licensed by 
Tilney in 1598. 

The Fair Maid of the West ; or, A Girl worth Gold : A comedy in 
two parts, by Thomas Heywood. 4to, 163T. Reprinted in Hey- 
wood's Dramatic Works. 

Both these pieces met with general approbation, and were favoured with the 
presence of the King and Queen. The scene lies at Plymouth. According to 
MS. Sloane 1900, it was performed at the King's Arms, Norwich, in 1662. 

The first part of the comedy is dedicated to John Othow, a barrister, and the 
second part to Thomas Hammon, a friend of the former gentleman. This play 
was formed into a Novel by John Dauncey, 8vo, 1662, under the title of The 
English Lovers, Or, A Girl Worth Gold. 



8o PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Fai-Fai 

A Fair Quarrel : A comedy, with new adiiitions of Mr. Chaugh's and 

Trimtram's Roaring, and the Baud's Song. Never before printed. 

Acted before the King by the Prince's servants ; written by Thomas 

Middleton and WiUiam Rowley, Gent. Twice printed in 4to, 1617, 

and again in 1622. Scene, London. 

The first issue of 1617 does not contain on the title any allusion to the 

Additions. Dedicated to the nobly-disposed, virtuous, and faithful-breasted 

Robert Grey, Esq. Part of the plot, viz. the story of Fitz-Allen, Russel, and 

Jane, may be found in a book called the Complaisant Companion ; and the 

incident of the physician tempting Jane, and afterwards accusing her, is borrowed 

from Cinthio, Dec. 4, Nov. 5. 

Fair Rosamond : A droll acted at Bartholomew Fair in the seven- 
teenth century. 

It is mentioned in an old song on the subject of that fair. 

The Fair Spanish Captive : A tragicomedy. 

This play was advertised at the end of Wit and Drollery , Jovial Poems, 1661, 
as then in the press ; and it is also noticed in a list of " books in the presse and 
ready for printing " at the end of the N'eui World of En^^lish Words, 1658, and 
of Loveday's Letters, 1662. It is sometimes called the Fair Captive. 

The Fair Star of Antwerp : 

A play which is thus mentioned in Sir Henry Herbert's manuscript Diary, 
under the date of September 15, 1624 : "For the Palsgrave's company, a tragedy 
called the Faire Star of Antwerp." 

The Fairy Knight : 

Sir Henry Herbert, in his manuscript Diary, under the date of June 11, 1624, 
mentions "a new play called the Fairy Knight, written by Forde and Decker." 

The Fairy Masque [or Masque of Fairies] : A masque produced at 
Court about 1620. Addit. MS., B.M., 10,444. 

The Fairy Pastoral, or, Forest of Elves : By William Percy. 4to, 
1601. 

Edited from the author's original MS. dated 1601, by Joseph Haslewood. 

The Fairy Queen : A play, in the list of those said to have been de- 
stroyed by \\'arburton's servant. 

The Fairy Queen : An anonymous opera, acted at the Queen's Theatre. 
4to, 1692. 

This piece is from Shakespear's Midsummer Nii:;ht's Dream. The music is by 
Purccll. It pleased the town ; but, on account of the great expense in dresses, 
decorations, and machinery, was not very |irolitable to tliose concerned. It was 
republished in 1693, with "alterations, adilitions, and several new songs." 

The Faithful Friends : A comedy wrongly attributed to Beaumont 
and Fletcher. A MS. in the Dyce Collection. 

This play was entered on the books of the Siationeis' Company, June 29, 1660, 
but was not printed uniil 1812, when it was published by Weber from the above- 
mentioned MS. ; it is incUuled in Dyce's Beaumont and Fletcher, vol. 4, p. 201. 

The Faithful Servant : Sec Grateful Servant. 
The Faithful Shepherd : See Pastor f'ido. 



Fai-Fam PTAV-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 8i 

The Faithful Shepherdess: By Jolm Fletcher. 4to, n.d., 1629, 
1634, 1656, 1665. 

This is the prodiRtion of Fletcher alone. On its first appear.ince in 1610 it 
met with an ill reception, but was afterwards represented before the King and 
Queen on Twelfth Niyht, 1633-4, and as the title-page to the third edition says, 
divers times since with great applause, at the private house in ISlack Friars. It 
was introduced by a dialogue song, written by Sir W. Davenant, between a 
priest and a nymph, and closed with an epilogue, which was spoken by the Lady 
Mary Mordaunt. 

A Latin version of this drama appeared in a volume published in 1658 by Sir 
Richard F'anshawe. 

The Faithless Relict : See Cyprian Conqtteror. 

Fallacy ; or, the Troubles of Cireat Hermenia : An unpublished 
allegorical play by R[ichard] Z[ouch ?], 1631, in MS. Harl. 686g. 
At the end is the date, August 13, 1631, followed by a cypher of C K. 

The Fall of Chabot : See Chabot. 

The False Count ; or, A New Way to Play an old Game : A comedy 
by Mrs. Behn, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1682. 
The hint of the haughty Isabella being readily imposed upon by the chimney- 
sweeper, whom Julia's lover Carlos had equipped out as a count, is borrowed 
from the Precieiises Ridicules of Moliere. 

The False Favourite Disg'rac'd, and the Reward of Loyalty : A 
tragi-comedy by George Gerbier d'Ouvilly. T2mo, 1657. 

The scene is laid in Florence, from the history of which, in the time of the 
Medici, the story is formed. The plot turns on the treachery of Ilippolito, the 
False Favourite, by whose unfounded accusations and perfidious intrigues 
Pausanio is banished ; the mutual attachment between Duke Cosmo and Luce- 
bella, the daughter of Pausanio, nearly defeated (with a view to the F'avourite 
gaining her hand), and Martiano her brother driven into rebellion. These 
artifices are at length discovered ; Flippolito is forgiven ; and all terminates 
happily. 

The False Friend ; or, the Fate of Disobedience : A tragedy by Mary 
Pix, acted at Little Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4 to, 1699. 

The False Heir : See Scornful Lady. 

The False One : A tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol., 1647, 
Scene, Egypt. 

The story of this play is founded on the adventures of Julius Ca\sar in Egypt, 
as found in Suetonius, Plutarch, and other historians. 

The Family of Love : Acted by the Children of his Majesty's Revels. 

By Thomas Middleton. 4to, 1608. Scene, London. 

This play is cited by Sir Thomas Barnwell in Shirley's Lady of Pleasure, 

Act I., Scene i. It was entered at Stationers' Ilall, October 12, 1607. The 

author regrets in the Preface some faults in the text, and also the decline in the 

public interest since the representation. 

The Famous History of the life and death of Captain Thomas 
Stukeley : With his marriage to Alderman Curtis's daughter, and 
valiant ending of his life at the Battle of Alcazar. As it hath been 
Acted. 4to, 1605. 

Ilenslowe notes the performance o^ Stjikeley, December 11, 1596. 

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82 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Fam-Fat 

The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth : Containing the 

Honourable Battle of Agincourt. As it was played by the Queen's 
]\Iajesty"s Players. 4to, 1598. As it was Acted by the King's 
Majesty's Servants. 4to, 161 7. 
This drama was written and performed about 1585, and Tarlton, who died in 

1588, took part in it. It was licensed for the press May 14, 1594. Reprinted 

in Hazlitt's S/takesfears Library. Compare Henry I'. 

The Famous Wars of Henry the First and the Prince of Wales : 

A play by Drayton, Decker, and Chettle, written in 1598. 
Compare Henry I. 

The Fancies Chaste and Noble : A tragicomedy by J- Ford, acted 
at the Phoenix, Drury Lane. 4to, 1638. 

Fancy's Festivals : A masque in five acts, by Thomas Jordan. 4to, 

1657- 

This piece is said in the title-page to have been privately presented by many 
civil persons of quality, and at their request printed, with many various and 
delightful new songs, for the further illustration of every scene. 

Far-Fetched and Dear Bought is good for Ladies : A plav 
entered on the books of the Stationers' Company by Thomas 
Hacket, 1566. 

Fast and Welcome : A comedy by Philip Massinger, entered at 
Stationers' Hall, June 29, 1660; it is one of those said to have 
been destroyed by Warburton's servant. 

Fast Bind Fast Find : A play by Thomas Hey wood, mentioned in 
Cabriel Harvey's Pierce's Siij>ererogaiio?i, 1593. 

The Fatal Brothers : A tragedy by Robert Davenport, entered at 
Stationers' Hall, June 29, 1660. 

The Fatal Contract : A French Tragedy, by A\'illiam Hemings. 4to, 

1653- 

This play met with great success at its first representation, and was revived 
twice after the Restoration, under different titles ; viz., first under that of Lo'ie 
and Krocnge ; and afterwards, in the year 1687, under that of the Eunucli. The 
scene lies in France ; and the plot is taken from the French history of the 
Merovingian period. 

The Fatal Discovery ; or, Love in Ruins : A tragedy acted at Driiry 
Lane. 4to, 1698. 

The scene of this play lies in Venice ; but the original design of the plot seems 
taken from the story of Gidipus and Jocasta. The preface contains an answer 
to a copy of verses written by Uryden, and prefi.xed to the tragedy of Heroie 

Love. 

The Fatal Dowry : A tragedy by Ph. Massinger and Nathaniel l''icld, 
acted at the Black Friars. 4to, 1632. 

The pious behaviour of Charolois, in voluntarily giving up himself to imprison- 
ment as a ransom for the corpse of his father, in order to obtain for it tlie rites 
f)f interment, is taken from the story of Cimon the Athenian, related by Valerius 
Maxinnis, lib. v., cnp. 4. 

The Fatal Friendship : A play by Burroughes, entered at Stationers' 
Hall, September 4, 1646, but never printed. 



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Fatal Friendship : A tragedy by Cath. 'i'rotlcr, afterwards Cock- 
burne. 4to, 1698. Acted at Little Lincoln's Inn Fields with 
great applause. 
It may be worth remarking that, in some copies of the first edition of liii.:> 
tragedy, the iiead-line in some pages is given as the Fatal Marria^t^e. 

The Fatal Jealousy : A tragedy acted at the Duke's Theatre, liy 
Nevil Payne. 4to, 1673. The scene, Naples. 

The plot is borrowed from Beard's Thealre, tiie Unforlunate Lovers, etc. 
The character of Jasper seems to be a bad copy ot lago. Among the Dramatis 
Fersoiuc, we find Nat. Lee the poet, wiio performed tlie small pari of the Captain 
of the Watch. Mrs. Betterton was one of the actresses. This play was licensed 
in November, 1672. 

Fatal Love : A French tragedy, by George Chapman. Entered at 
Stationers' Hall, June 29, 1660. 
A play so called is in Warburton's list ; but it is probably the same as the one 
sold among Ileber's MSS. 

Fatal Love ; or, the Forc'd Liconstancy : A tragedy by Elk. Setde, 
acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1680. 
The plot of this play may be traced to its origin by reading the fifth book of 
the Cliiophon and Lencippe of Achilles Tatius. It does not appear to have had 
any success. 

The Fatal Marriag'e ; or, A Second Lucretia : A folio MS. of the 
seventeenth century, sold aniong the Cliarlemont books in 1865. 
Now Egerton MS. B.M. 1994. 

The Fatal Marriage ; or, the Innocent Adultery : A tragedy by 

Thomas Southerne, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1694. 

The scene lies in Brussels ; and the plot is, by the author's own confession, 

taken from a novel by Mrs. Bebn, called The Nun; or, the Fair Vow-breaker ; 

and the incident of Fernando being persuaded to believe that he had been dead, 

buried, and in purgatory, is borrowed from Boccaccio, Day iii., Nov. 8. 

A Fatal Mistake ; or, the Plot Spoil'd : A play by Joseph Haines. 
4to, 1692, 1696. 

According to Gildon, the attribution to Haines is incorrect. 

The Fate of Capua: A tragedy by Thomas Southerne, acted at Lin- 
coln's Inn Fields. 4to, 1700. Scene, Capua. The prologue is by 
Charles Boyle, the epilogue by Col. Codrington. 
The plot is partly taken from Livy. 

Father's own Son : See Monsieur Tkoi/ias. 

Fatum Vortigerni, sen miserabilis vita et exitus ^'^ort^gcrni Regis 
Britanniae, una complectens adventum Saxonum sive Anglorum in 
Britanniam. An early Latin play in MS. Lansd. 723. 

A Fault in Friendship : Acted at the Curtain in 1623. 

Dr. Anderson informs us that a play of this name was written by Benjamin, 
the eldest son of the famous Ben Jonson, in conjunction with Richard Brome. 
This statement was probably taken from the manuscript Diary of .Sir Henry 
Herberl, who mentions, under date of October 2, 1623: "lor the Prince's 
Companyc a new comedy called a Fault in Friendship, written by young Johnson 
and Broome, 



84 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Fei-Fem 

The Feign'd Astrolog'ep : A comedy. 4to, 1668. 

This is translated from Corneille, who borrowed his piece from Calderon's 
El Astrolo;^o finzido. Thj same plot is made use of by Scudery, in his novel of 
the Illustrious Bassa, where the French Marquis takes on himself the fictitious 
character of an Astrologer. 

The FeigTl'd Courtezans ; or, A Night's Intrigue : A comedy by 

Mrs. Behn, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1679. Dedicated 

to Nell Gwyn. 

This play met with very good success, and w as generally esteemed the best 

that she had written. The scene lies in Rome, and the play contains a vast deal 

of business and intrigue ; the contrivance of the two ladies to obtain their 

differently disposed lovers, both by the same means, viz., by assuming the 

characters of courtezans, being productive of great variety, whatever may be 

thought of its delicacy. 

Feigll'd Friendship ; Or, the ALid Reformer, a comedy acted at Little 
Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1699. 4to, n.d. Scene, the Park and 
houses adjoining. 

The Feign'd Innocence : See Sir Martin Mar-all. 

Felix and Felismena : " The history of Felix and Philiomena, shewed 
and enacted before her highnes by her Majesties servauntes on the 
Sondaie next after newe yeares daie at night, at Grenewiche, whereon 
was ymploied one battlement and a house of canvas." — Revels' 
Accounts, 1584-5. 

The Female Academy : A comedy by the Duchess of Newcastle. 
Fol., 1662. 

The Female Anchoress : A tragedy by Chettle and Robinson, acted 
in 1602. 
.^ee Henslowe's Diary, ed. Collier, p. 225, where it is cited as Feiiielanco. 
The authors had £(i for it. Compare Prisoner. 

The Female Prelate, being the History of the Life and Death of 

Pope Joan : A tragedy by Elk. Settle, acted at the Theatre Royal. 

4to, 1680, 1689. 

The plot of this play, which is said to be an older one altered by Settle, is 

taken from I'latina's Lives of the Popes, and Cooke's Pope Joan, 1610. It is 

dedicated to the Earl of Shaftesbury. In the 4to of 1689 it is said to be written 

by "a person of quality. " 

The Female Rebellion : A tragi-comedy in five acts, seventeenth 

century. 
A MS. in the Ilunterian Museum at Glasgow, jirinted by Mr. Alexander 
.Smith, 4to, 1872. 

The Female Virtuosos : A comedy by Thotnas Wright, acted at the 
Queen's Theatre. 4to, 1693. 
This play, wliich was performed witli great applause, is an improved translation 
uf the l-'ciiuncs Siwautes of Molierc. 

The Female Wits; or, the Triumvirate of Poets at Rehearsal. 4to, 
1697. With the letters W. M. in the title. 

This piece was acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, for several days 
successively, and with applause. It consists of three acts, is written in the manner 
of a rehearsal, and was intended as a banter on Mrs. Manlcy, Mrs. I'ix, and 
Mrs. Trotter. 



Fen-Fin PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 85 

FennOP's Descriptions, or a true relation of certain and divers 
speeches, spoken before the King and Queen's most excellent 
Majesty, the Prince his highness, and the Lady Elizabeth's Grace. 
Py William Fennor, his Alajesty's Servant. 4to, 16 16. 

Ferrex and Porrex : A tragedy set forth without addition or altera- 
tion, but altogether as the same was shewed on the stage before the 
Queen's Majesty about nine years past, viz., the i8th day of 
January, 156 1-2, by the Cientlemen of the Inner Temple. 8vo, 
about 1570. 

This is the only j^^enuine text; the play had been orijjinally printc 1 in 1565, 
under the title of the Trai;cdy of Gorhoditc, and this edition was republished in 
1590. The Shakespear .Society reproduced the impression of 1565 in 1847. 
riearne, who possessed a copy, values it in his catalogue at 2s. 6d. 

The first three acts of this play were written by Thomas Norton ; the two 
last by Thomas .Sackville, afterwards Lord Buckhurst. The plot is from the 
English chronicles. This may be truly styled the first regular historical play in 
the English language. Its first appearance was at a grand Christmas, celebrated 
with unusual magnificence, as may be seen by the description of it in Uugdale's 
Origines Juridiciales, p, 150. 

Ferrex and Porrex : A play by William Haughton, probably an 
alteration of the foregoing, and acted about 1600. 

Fidele and Fortunio : "Fidele and Fortun[io], the Deceipts in Love 
discoursed in a Comedie of two Italyan Gentlemen, translated into 
Englishe, 4to [1584]." Dedicated by A. Munday to John Heard- 
son, Esq., with a Prologue in verse, spoken before the Queen. 
Licensed to Thomas Hacket, November 12, 1584. 

Only two copies of this play are known to exist, and both of them unfortu- 
nately want the title-page ; but the running title is The Two Italian Gentlemen. 
See further in Collier's Hist. Dram. Poet., iii., 242, and in Ilazlitt's Handbook, 
1S67, V. MiDiday. Extracts from the drama are given in Halli well's Literature 
of t/ie Sixteenth and Seventeenth. fienturies Illustrated, 1851. 

Fiestas de Aranjuez : See Querer per solo Que re r. 

Filli di Sciro. Or, Phillis of Scyros. An excellent pastoral, written in 
Italian by C. Giudabaldo de Bonarelli, and translated into English 
by J. S. Gent. 4to, 1655. 

By some verses prefixed to this translation, it appears to have been made near 
twenty years before. 

Fillis [or Phillis] of Sciros : A pastorall, written in Italian by Count 
Guidabaldo de Bonarelli, and translated into English by Sir George 
Talbot. Dedicated to King Charles the Second. 

The autograph manuscript of this translation, with Sir (leorgc Talbot's correc- 
tions, is preserved in MS. Addit. B.M. 12,128; and there is another copy of it 
in MS. Bodl. Rawl. Poet., 130. 

A Fine Companion: A comedy b> Shakerley Marmion. 4I0, 1633. 
Acted before the King and Queen at Whitehall, and at the Theatre 
in Salisbury Court. 



86 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Fir-Flo 

Fire and Brimstone ; or, the Destruction of Sodom : A drama by 
George Lesly. 8vo, 1675, 1684. 

The First Civil Wars in France : A play by Michael Drayton, in 

conjunction with Thomas Decker. It is more than once recorded 

by Henslowe under 1598-9. 

This subject proved very interesting to English readers, as may be judged from 

tlie numerous publications of books and tracts on it, which appeared in the form 

of original works or translations. 

The First Day's Entertainment at Rutland House, by declama- 
tions and music, after the manner of the Ancients, by Sir ^^^ 
Davenant. Small 8vo, 1657. 

The vocal and instrumental music was composed by Dr. Charles Coleman, 
Capt. Henry Cook, Mr. Henry Lawes, and Mr. George Hudson. This piece 
contains curious notices of London localities. Rutland House was in Aldersgate 
Street. 

Five Plays in One : See Seven Deadly Sins. 

The Five Witty Gallants : See Your Five Gallants. 

Flattery, Deceit, and Falsehood mislead King Humanity : An inter- 
lude. By Sir David Lyndsay. 4to (with other pieces), 1602. 

The Fleire : As it hath been often played in the Black Friars by the 
Children of the Revels. By Edward Sharpham. 4to, 1607, 1610, 
1615, 1631. 

The scene of tliis play lies in London. It was entered by John Trundle at 
Stationers' Hall, May 6, 1606. 

The Floating" Island : A tragi-comedy by William Strode. 4to, 
1655- 

This ])lay vva- not published till many years after the author's death, but was 
jjerfornied by the students of Christ Church on August 29, 1636, before the 
King, for whose diversion it was purposely written at the request of the Dean and 
Chapter. It contained too much morality to suit the taste of the Court ; yet it 
]jleased the King so well, that he soon after bestowed a Canon's dignity on the 
author. The airs and songs were "set by Mr. Henry Lawes, servant to his late 
Majesty in his pul)lick and private musick." In an advertisement of the book 
at the end of the Ne'iv World of English Words, 1658, the author is termed 
"that renowned wit." 

Flora's Vag"aries : A comedy by Richard Rhodes. 410, 1670, 1671. 

This amusing play was written while the author was a student at Oxford, and 
was publicly acted by his fellow-students in Christ Church, January 8, 1O63, and 
afterwards at the Theatre Royal. The scene lies in Verona ; and |)art of the 
plot, viz. the circumstance of Otrante making use of tiie friar in carrying on her 
intrigues with Lodovico, is founder 1 on lioccacio, Day iii.. Novel 3. 

I'ejiys says : " 1664, Aug. 8ih, my wife and I abroad to the King's jilay-house ; 
here we saw Flora's l-igarys ; I never saw it before ; and, by the most ingenious 
performance of the young jade Mora, it seemed as jiretty a pleasant ))lay as ever 
I saw." 

The Florentine Friend : A play with this title was entered on the 
hooks of the Stationers' C(Mnpany, November 29, 1653, but was 
not printed. 



Flo-Foo PLAY-COTJ.ECTOR'S MANUAL. 87 

The Florentine Ladies : A Play call'd the Florentine Ladies, played 
in the night by gentlemen. 

This seems to be known only from the Prologue inserted in Jordan's Nursery 
of Novelties and his Royal Arbor of Loyal J'oesy, 1664 (the two works being 
the same). 

Florimene : The Argument of the Pastoral of I'lorimene, with the 

Description of the Scenes and Intermedii. Presented by the 

Queen's commandment before the King at Whitehall, on St. 
Thomas's Day, the 21 of December, 1635. 410, 1635. 

" The pastorall of Florimene, with the description of the sceanes and inter- 
ludes, as it was sent mee by Mr. Inigo Jones, I allowed for the press this 14 of 
Decemb. 1635 ; the pastorall is in French, and 'tis the argument only, put into 
English, that I have allowed to be printed." — Sir //. Herbert's Diary. In M.S. 
Lansd. 1171 is preserved Inigo Jones's original " profyle of the stage for the 
proportioning the shortning sydes of sceanes with triangular frames when there 
is but one standing sceane, comparted by the sceane of the Pastorall of Florimene 
in the hall at Whitehall, 1635," with another ground-plot referring lu the 
same play. 

Flowers : The Masque of Llowers, presented by the Cjcntlemen of 
Gray's Inn, at the Court at Whitehall, in the Banquetting House, 
upon Twelfth Night, 1613. Being the last of the Solemnities and 
Magnificences which were performed at the marriage of the Earl 
of Somerset with the Lady Frances, daughter to the Earl of Suffolk. 
4to, 16 14. 

The Flying* Voice : A play by Ralph Wood. One of those destroyed 
by Warburton's servant. 

The Folly of Priestcraft : See Converts. 

The Fond Husband ; or, the Plotting Sisters : A comedy by T. Durfey, 
acted at Drury Lane, and at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1676, 1677, 
1678, 1685, 1711. 

The author, in his dedication to the Duke of Ormond, says : " For the play I 
can say nothing, only that it was my own, though some are pleas'd to doubt the 
contrary, — the Scotch Song excepted, a part of which was not mine, nor do I 
desire any reputation from it." There is a MS. copy of this play in MS. Bodl. 
Kawl. Poet. 52. 

The Fond Lady : See Amorous Old Woman. 

A Fool and her Maidenhead soon Parted : 

A play under this title was entered at Stationers' Hall, November 29, 1653. 
It was probably written by Robert Davenport ; being eriumerated, with the rest 
of his pieces, in a catalogue of dramas belonging to the Cock-pit Theatre, 1639. 

The Fool Transformed : 

This comedy is noticed in a list of " books in the presse and ready for printing," 
at the end of the Ncv World of Em^lish Words, 1658, and of Wit ami Drollery, 
1661. 

The Fool Turn'd Critic : A comedy by T. Durfey, acted at the 'J'heatre 
Royal. 4to, 1678. 

The characters of Old Winelove, Trim, and Small Wit, resemble those of Simo, 
Asotus, and Balio, in Randolph's yiw^z/.s- /.overs. The prologue is the same as 
that to Lord Orrery's Master Anthony. 



88 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Foo-For 

The Fool without Book : A play by William Rowley, entered on the 
books of the Stationers' Company, September 9, 1653. 

The Fool would be a Favourite ; or, the Discreet Lover : A tragi- 
comedy by Lodowick Carlell. 8vo, 1657. Acted with great 
applause. The scene, Milan. 

The Fools' Masque : Produced at Court about 1620. Addit. MS., 
B.^L, 10,444. 

A Fool's Preferment ; or, the Three Dukes of Dunstable : A comedy 
by T. Durfey, acted at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden. 4to, 
1688. 

This play is an alteration of Fletcher's l\cble Goitleniau, the blank verse of 
which Durfey has transformed into prose. The music to the songs was ccmposed 
by Purcell. 

The Forc'd Lady : See Mwerva's Sacrifice. 

The Forc'd Marriage ; or, the Jealous Bridegroom : A tragi-comedy 
by Mrs. Behn. 4to, 167 1, 1688. 

This play was acted at the Queen's Theatre, and is supposed by Langbaine to 
have been the first of this lady's productions. Scene, the Court of France. 

Forced Valour : 

A droll formed out of Beaumont and Fletcher's Humorous Lieutenant, and 
printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 

The Foresters' Masque : Played at Court in 1574. 

For the Honour of Wales : An anti-masque by Ben Jonson. 1619. 
In the folio of 1692. 

The Fortitude of Judith : A tragedy by Ral])h Radcliff. Not 
printed. 

The Fortunate General : A f>ench history. By Richard Hathwaye. 
Acted in 1602. 

The Fortunate Isles, and their Union, celebrated in a masque 
designed for the Court on Twelfth Night, 1624. By Benjamin 
Jonson. 

Inigo Jones's original sketches for the costume of the characters in this masque 
were published by the Shakespear Society, 8vo, 1848. \Vhat is called A Coiitcdy 
is inserted in the list at the end of the Old Laios under the same title. 

FortunatUS : See Old Forttamtus. 

Fortune : A Play of Fortune, to know each one his conditions and 
gentle manners, as well of women as of men \ licensed to T. Purfoot 
in 1566. 

In the Revels' Accounts, is an entry of a jiayinent " to Robert Baker for drawing 
of patternes for the playe of Fortune." lias this drama any connection with 
that printed under the title of Common Conditions? 

Fortune by Land and Sea : A Tragi-Comedy. As it was acted with 
great applause by the Queen's Servants. By Thomas llcywood 
and W. Rowley. 4to, 1655. The scene, London. 

Reprinted in I ley wood's Hramalic Works. 



For-Fou PLAV-COLI, ECTOR'S MANUAL. 89 

The Fortune-Hunters ; or, Two Fools well Met : A comedy by James 
Carlisle, acted by His Majesties Servants. 4to, 1689. The scene, 
Covent Garden. 

This play is not without merit ; Ijut Spruce niistal<ing (tiiough drunk) the liand 
of another for the handle of a pump, and orange flower for pump water, is too 
absurd. Downes tells us that it expired on its third day. 

Fortune's Task; or, the Fickle Fair One: By John Home, M.A., of 
New College, Oxford, 1684. Not printed. 

Home took his M.A. degree June 30, 1677. 

Fortune [of or at] Tennis : A play or interlude by rhomas Decker. 

Mentioned by Heiislowe under the name of Forleion Tennis. 

Com^^xc Set at Tennis z.r\A IVorld tossed at Tennis. 

The Fountain of New Fashions : A play by G. Chapman, acted in 
1598. 

Not printed ; but the, or a, MS. of it, under this title, was sold among Heber's 
MSS. It is first mentioned by Ilenslowe under the date of September 31, 1598. 
Compare Monsieur D' Olive. 

The Fountain of Self-love ; or, Cynthia's Revels : By Ben Jonson. 
4to, 1 60 1. 

It was privately acted by the Children of the Chapel in 1600, and on May 23 
in that year was entered at Stationers' Hall as /Narcissus, the Foujitaine of Selfe- 
love ; and, curiously enough, " Narcissus, the Fountain of Love," was assigned 
to John .Spencer at Stationers' Hall, June 30, 1630. But was this Shirley's poem 
of Narcissus, originally licensed in 1618, or Jonson's play? Jonson's play is, no 
doubt, the N'anissus, to which Heywood alludes in his Apology for Actors, 1612. 

Four Honoured Loves : A comedy by William Rowley. Entered on 
the books of the Stationers' Company, June 29, 1660, but not 
printed. It was among those said to have been destroyed by 
Warhurton's servant. 

The Four Inns of Court : See Triumph of Peace. 

The Four Kings : 

A play of this name was acted by the Lord Admiral's servants, in 1598. 

Four Plays in One : 

A piece so called is mentioned by Henslowe under 1 591. 

Four Plays in One ; or, Moral Representations, by Beaumont and 
Fletcher. Fol., 1647. 

These four pieces are entitled as follows : I. The Triumph of Honour. This 
is founded on Boccaccio, Day lo. Novel 5. Scene near Athens, the Roman 
army lying there. II. The Triumph of Love. This is taken from the same 
author, Day 5, Novel 8, and the scene laid in Milan. III. The Triumph of 
Death. This is from Part 3, Novel 3, of the Fortunate, Deceiv'd, and Un- 
fortunate Lovers. The scene, Anjou. IV. The Triumph of Time. The plot of 
this seems to be the invention of the authors. 

Whether this medley of dramatic pieces was ever performed or not, does not 
plainly appear. It is composed as if acted at Lisbon, before Emmanuel, King of 
Portugal and his Queen Isabella, at the celebration of their nuptials ; that Court 
being introduced as spectators, and the King, Queen, etc., making remarks upon 
each representation. 

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90 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Fou-Fra 

The Four PP. : A new and a very merry interlude of a I'almer, a 
Pardoner, a Potecary, and a Pedlar, by John Heywood. 4to, by 
■\^^ Middleton, n.d., by W. Copland, n.d., and by John Allde, 

15^9- 
This is written in metre, and not divided into acts. In Hazlitt's Dodsley. 

The Four Prentices of London. With the Conquest of Jerusalem. 
As it has been divers times acted at the Red Bull by the Queen's 
Majesty's Servants. By Thomas Heywood. 4to, 1615, 1632. 
Dedicated " to the honest and high-spirited prentises, the readers." 

The plot is founded on the exploits of the famous Godfrey of Bulloigne, an 
ample account of which is to be seen in Tasso and in Fuller's Holy War. This 
drama is alluded to in the Knight of the Bunting Pestle, written about 1610 ; it 
was in t^xislcncQ some years before it was printed. In the collected edition of the 
dramatist. We may perhaps take it to be the piece entered at Stationers' Hall, 
June 19, I594i as Godfrey of Boiilo^^ue, with the Conijuest of Jerusalem, of which 
a second part was performed by the Lord Admiral's men at the Rose Theatre, 
July 19, the same year. 

The Four Seasons : A masque, edited from a MS. of the time of 
James L, for the Shakespear Society. 8vo, 1848. 

The Four Seasons ; or, Love in every Age : A musical interlude, by 
P. Motteux. 4to, 1699. 
This little piece was set to music by Jeremy Clarke, and is printed with the 
nnisical entertainments in the opera of the Island Prineess ; or, the Generous 
Portuguese. It does not belong to that opera ; having been designed, as is ex- 
pressly said by the author, " for another season, and another occasion." It was, 
however, performed at the end of the last act. 

The Four Sons of Aymon : 

A j)lay by Robert Shawe, on which £2. was lent by Henslowe's Company, i6o2; 
to be re|)aid the following year by the author, if the play " be not played by the 
Company of the Fortune, nor noe other Company by n)y leave." 

It is mentioned in Herbert's Diary, under January 6, 1624 — "for the Princes 
Company, the Four Sons of Anion, being an old playe, and not of a legible 
hand." I conclude that this may have been the play slated by T. Heywood, in 
his Apology for Actors, 1612, to have been performed by an English company in 
Holland. 

The Four Sons of Fabius : 

A play which is mentioned in \.\\c Revels' Accounts ^i: performed by the Children 
,of Windsor for Mr. Farrant on Twellth Day at night, 1574, and again by the 
Earl of Warwick's men at Whitehall on New Year's Day at night, 1579-80. 

It is doubtless the piece mentioned in Gosson's School of Abuse, 1579, as 
the Fabii. 

Fratrum Concordia Sseva, sen Zeno : A Latin tragedy by Joseph 
Simon, Provincial of the Jesuits in England (i 594-1 671). Printed 
with his Mercia, 8vo, Roma3, 1648. 

A M.S. copy is preserved in MS. Ilarl. 5024. It is written in iambic verse. 
The first speaker is Umbra Basilisci Tyranni, Simon published five of his 
dramatic pieces in a volume at Liege, 8vo, 1657. 

Fraus Honesta : Comccdia, Cantabrigins olim acta, authore Magistro 
[I'liilippyJ Stubbc, Collegii Trinitatis Socio. 8vo, 1632. Scena est 
I'loreniia decimo die Feb., 1616. 

In a M.S. copy, in Emmanuel College library, the names of the jierformers arc 
placed opposite the characters. It was performed at Trinity College. 



Fra-Fri PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 91 

Fraus Pia : 

A Latin play, apparently by an English writer of the seventeenth century, MS. 
Sloane 1855. The scene, London. 

Frederic and Basilea : A play, first acted at the Rose Theatre in 
June, 1597. 

The original plot of this drama is still ])resLMved, Ilcher's M.SS., No. 1640, 
and was printed by Halliwell, folio, i860. Tliecharacieis include Kinc; Frederic, 
Athanasia, Ileraclius, Seliastian, etc. 

The Freeman's Honour : A play by Wentworth Smith. 

It is only nieniiuncd in the epistle dedicatory of the Hector of Gcniiaiiy, 1615. 
This play, however, is said to have been "acted by the servants of the King's 
Majesty, to dignify the worthy Company of Merchant Taylors." It was possibly 
a mere civil pageant. 

Free Will : A tragedy by F. Negri or Neri, of Bassano, translated by 
Henry Cheeke. 410 [London, about 1560]. 

The original Italian ajipeared, 410, 1546 ; and there is a Latin version, by the 
author himself, printed at Geneva, 8vo, 1559. 

The French Comedy : Acted at the Rose Theatre by the Lord 
Admiral's Servants, February 11, 1595. Not now known. 

The French Conjurer : A comedy by T. P., acted at the Duke of 
York's Theatre. 4to, 1678. Licensed in August, 1677. 
The plot of this play is composed from two stories in the Spanish Ros^ue : the 
one called Doiido and Clorinia, the other the Merchant of Seville ; and the scene 
is laid in Seville. 

The French Dancing-Master : A play performed by Killigrew's 
company, March 11, 1661-2. 

The French Dancing'-Master : 

A droll formed out of the Duke of Newcastle's play of Variety, and printed in 
the IVils, or Spot t 11 foil Sport, 1672. 

Pepys under the date of May 21, 1662, says : " The i>liy pleased us very well, 
but Lacy's part, the dancing mistress, the best in the world." Pepys misnames 
the piece tlie French Dancing- Alistress. Lacy was originally a teacher of 
dancing. 

The French Doctor : Acted by the Lord Admiral's Servants at the 
Rose Theatre, October 18, 1595. Not now known. 
It may have supplied the prototype of Dr. Caius. 

The French Schoolmaster : 

A comedy so called is advertised at the end of the Wits, 1662, as sold by 
Henry Marsh at the Prince's Arms in Chancery Lane. No copy of it is now 
known to e.xist. 

Friar Bacon : 

A droll acted at Dogget's show at Bartholomew Fair in 1699. It included, 
amongst its characters, the friar, the devil, a cheating miller, and his son Ralph, 
an idiot. 

Friar Bacon and Friar Bung-ay : The Honourable History of Friar 
Bacon and Friar Bongay. As it was played by Her Maje>ty's 
Servants. Made by Robert Greene, master of arts. 4to, 1594, 
^599) 1630, 1655, 1666. The plot of this drama is chiefly taken 
from the prose history of Friar Bacon. Reprinted in Greene's 
Works. 



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PLAY COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Fri-aal 



Friap Fox and Gillian of Brentford : A play by Thos. Downton, 

in conjunction with Samuel Rowley, 1592-3. 

See Hazlitt's Dodsley, viii. 19. This play appears to have been acted 
January 5, 1592-3. It is again mentioned by Henslowe, under February, 1598-9. 

Fpiar Francis : A play acted at the Rose Theatre by the Earl of 
Sussex's Servants, January 7, 1593. 
Not now known, but some account of it will be found in Heywood's Apology 
for Actors, 1612. 

Friar Spendleton : Acted at the Rose Theatre, October 31, 1597. 
Not printed. 
It is also mentioned in Henslowe's Diary under tlie title of Friar Peiidelton. 

Friendship Improved ; or, the Female Warrior : A tragedy by 
Charles Hopkins, acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to, 1700. 

To this play is prefixed a humorous prologue, on the subject of the author 
commencing merchant, and accumulating wealth, if it may be in the power of a 
poet so to do. 

Friendship in Fashion ; A comedy by Tho. Otway, acted at the 
Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1678. 

The Frolick ; or, the Lawyer Cheated : A comedy by Elizabeth 
Polwhele, "an unfortunate young woman haunted with poetic 
devils," 1671. Dedicated to Prince Rupert. It is divided into 
acts and scenes. Not printed. 

FUCUS, Sive Histriomastix : A Latin drama. By John Rainolds 
Written in answer to Gager's Meleager, 1592. Lambeth MS. 838. 
Another copy is in the Bodleian library. 

Fuimus Troes, -ffineid 2. The True Trojans : Being a story of the 
Britons' Valour at the Romans' first Invasion : publicly represented 
by the Gentlemen Students of Magdalen College, in Oxford. By 
Jasper Fisher. 4to, 1633. 

In Hazlitt's Dodsley. It commences with an episode of " Mercury conduct- 
ing the ghosts of Brennus and Camillus in complete armour, and with swords 
drawn." 

Fulg-ius and Lucrelle : 

By this name is a piece mentioned in the List at the end of the Old l.a'u', 1656, 
as " Fulgius and Lucrell, C, i.e., Comedy," and by Kirkman in his Catalogue, 
1661. The author of the British Theatre calls it Fiilgnis and Lucrett, and says 
it was a pastoral from the Italian, 1676. This .statement is probably apocryphal. 

The Furies' Masque : Performed at Court about 1624. 

Galathea : As it was played before the Queen's Majesty at Greenwich 
on New Year's Day at night, by the Children of Paul's. By John 
Lyly. 4to, 1592. 

In the editions of the Plays, 1632 and 1858. The characters of Galathea and 
Phillida are borrowed from Iphis and lanihe, in the ninth book of Ovitl's Meta- 
morphoses, while, oddly enough, the scene is Laid in the North of Lincolnshire. 

It was licensed to Gabriel Cawood, April i, 1585, as "A Commediai' of Titirus 
and Galathea." 



Gal-Gen IM.AV-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 93 

Galeazzo : 

A play first acted at the Rose Theatre, June 26, 1594. It is not now extant. 
It was probal)ly on some Italian story. 

The Game at Chess : A comedy by Thomas Middleton, sundry times 
acted at the Globe, on the Bank Side. 

Three editions without date are known, the engraved title to the third varying 
from the two former. A copy with a printed title, dated 1625, is noted by 
Collier. It is possible that the imprint of Lydden or Leyden is fictitious, or that 
the frontispiece is ihe only ]iortion executed there. Besides the MS. copy in 
Lansdowne M.S. 690, there is an imperfect one at Bndgewaler House, and a 
third was in one of Stewart's catalogues, with a dedication io Mr. W. Hammoiia 
— ? the W. H. of Shakespear's Sonnets. 

The play was first jierfornied in the summer of 1624. It is a sort of religious 
controversy ; the game being played between one of the church of England and 
another of the church of Rome, wherein the former in the end gets the victory ; 
Ignatius Loyola sitting by as a spectator. The scene, London. Owing to the 
King of Spain being one of the characters, and thus a suiijiosed ridicule being 
cast on a reii^ning sovereign, the players were summoned before the Piivy Council 
in August, 1624, and the further performance of the comeily forbidden. 

Compare the interesting account in Fleay, p. 267-8. 

The Gamester : As it was Presented by Her Majesty's Servants at the 
Private House in Drury Lane. By James Shirley. 4to, 1637. 

According to Langbaine, ed. 1691, p. 479, the intrigue between Wilding and 
his kinswoman, his wife and Hazard, is borrowed from one of the novels of 
Malespini. Licensed November 11, 1633. In Sir H. Herbert's /?/<7;-_j' there is 
the following interesting entry : " On Thursday night 6 of Febru. i633[-4]. The 
Gamester was acted at Court, made by Sherley out of a plot of the king's, given 
him by mee ; and well likte. The king said it was the best play he had seen for 
some years." 

Gammer Gurton's Needle : A comedy by Mr. S., Master of Arts, 

/>., John Still, afterward Bishop of Bath and AV'ells. 4to, [57s, 
1661. 

The plot of this play, which is written in metre, in live regular acts, is nothing 
more than Cammer Gurton's having mislaid the needle with which she was 
mending her man Hodge's breeches against the ensuing Sunday, and which, by 
way of catastrophe to the piece, is, after much search, great altercation, and some 
battles in its cause, at last found sticking in the breeches themselves. Reprinted 
in Hazlitt's Dodsley. 

Garliek : A jig or merriment of the early part of the seventeenth 
century. 

It seems to be referred to in the Hog hath lost his Pearl, 1614 (Hazlitt's 
Dodsley, xi. 434), and it is mentioned in '2 he World's Folly, by J. II., 1615. 

The General : A play by Lord Broghill, afterward Earl of Orrery. 

Pepys mentions it under dates of September 28 and October 4, 1664, in very 
disparaging terms. 

The General : A tragi-comedy by James Shirley, printed from a MS. 
formerly in the Farmer and Reed Collections. 4to, 1853. 

It is mentioned in the Poems of Shirley, 1646. Pepys saw it acted, April 24, 
J 669, and was pleased with it. There is no early printed edition. 



94 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Gen-Geo 

The Generous Choice : A comedy by Francis Manning. 4to, 1700. 
This piece was acted, but without success, at Little Lincoln's Inn Fields. 
Scene, \'a]encia in .Spain. 

The Generous Enemies ; or, the Ridiculous Lovers : A comedy by 
y. Corey, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1672. The scene, 
Seville. Licensed in 167 1. 

This play is one piece of plagiarism ; the principal design being borrowed from 
Quinault's La Geitireuse Ingratitude ; and that of the Ridiculous Lovers from 
Corneille's Don Bcrtiani de Ciganal. Bertram's testy humour to his servants, in 
the third act, is partly borrowed fiom Randolph's Mnsei' Looking Glass ; and 
the quarrel between him and Robatzi, in the tiftli, is taken from the Loves 
Pilgrimage of Beaumont and Fletcher. 

The Generous Portug-uese : 

" To the King's playhouse, and saw the Generous Portugalls, a play that pleases 
me better and better every time we see it." — Pepys' Diary, April 23, 1669. 

The Gentle Craft : See Shoemaker's Holiday. 

The Gentleman Cully: 4to, 1702. 

This seems to have been formed into a droll under the title of The Brag- 

g'adorliio ; or, His Worship the CiiUy [Strollers Pacquet Opened, 1742). 

The Gentleman Dancing-Master : A comedy by ^^■ . U'ycheriey, 

acted at the Duke's Theatre. 410, 1673, 1693, 1702. 

This play was not very successful, and was only acted six times. 

The Gentleman of Venice : A Tragi-comedy presented at the Private 
House in Salisbury Court by her Majesty's Servants. By James 
Shirley. 4to and 8vo, 1655. The scene, Venice. 

The plot of one of the incidents is taken from Gayton's Feslivous Notes on Don 
Qjiixotc, book iv. ch. 6. Dedicated to .Sir Thomas Nightingale, Bart. 

The Gentleman Usher : .A. comedy by George Chapman. 4to, 
1606. 

This appears to have been performed, and perhaps it was written, in 159S, and 
to have originally borne the title of 7 he Will of a Woman. An early ^^S. copy 
under this name was sold among Heber's M.SS. In the Dramatic Works, 1873. 

The Gentlemen's Masque : Acted at Court in Decembt-r, 1613. 

Of Gentleness and Nobility : A Dialogue between the Merchant, 
the Knight, and the Ploughman, disputing who is a very Gentle- 
man, and who is a Nobleman, and how Men should come to 
Autliority, compiled in Manner of an Literlude, with divers Toys 
and Jests added thereto to make merry pastime and disport. 
Printed by John Rastell (about 1530), small folio. In two part.s, and written 
in metre. 

George A Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield : A comedy attributed 
to Robert (Greene, acted by the ]%arl of .Sussex's Servants. 4to, 
1599- 

Hcnslowe notices a jierformance of it in Janunry, 1593-4 ; and from MS. 
Sloare 1900, it seems to have been iicrformed, jicrhaps vviih alterations, at the 
King's Arms, Norwich, as late as 1O62. The plot is founded on an old popular 
history, and the scene lies at Wakedeld in N'orkshirc. In Dycc's editions of 
Greene, ii. 163. 



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George Scanderbeg' : the true History of (ieorge Scandcrbeg, as it 
was lately played by the Right Honourable the Earl of Oxfjrd his 
servanis. Entered by Edward Allde at Stationers' Hall, July 3, 
1 60 1, 

The drama was doubtless pion)i)ted by the recently published liisturical account 
of George Castriot, called Scaitde/iii\^. 

The German Princess : See IVi/fy Combat. 

Gesta Grayorum : Or, The History of the High and x\Ii-hty Prince, 

Henry Pruice of Purpoole, Arch-Djke of Siapulia and Bernardia, 

Duke of High and Nether Holborn, Marquis of St. Giles and 

Tottenham, Count Palatine of Bloomsbury an(i Clerkenwell, etc., 

who reigned and died a.d. 1594. Together with a masque, as it 

was presented (by his Highness's Command) for the entertainment 

of Queen Elizabeth, who, with the Nobles of both Courts, was 

present thereat. Published by W. Canning. 410, 1688. 

The Masque here mentioned was probably the same as that attributed under 

the title of the Grays Inn Masque, and with the same date (1594) to Francis 

Davison. Only the first part appeared in 1688, the second is in M.S. Addit., 

B.M., 5956 ; but both are printed in Nichols's Progresses of Elizabeth. Compare 

AIoiDiti'banks Masque infra. 

The introduction into the piece of the title of Purpoolis, explained by the fact 
that Gray's Inn stood on part of the ancient manor of Portyponl. 

The ballad of " The New Mad Tom of Bedlam " is directed to be sung to the 
tune of the Gray's Inn Masque. 

The Ghost ; or, the Woman Wears the Breeches : A comedy written 
in 1640. 4to, 1653. Scene, Paris. 

This seems to be the same piece which was printed in 1655 undc; the title of 
the Gossifs Brawl ; or, the Woman Wears the Breeches. 

The Ghosts : A Comedy. By T. Holden. Acted at the Duke's 
Tneatre between 1662 and 1665. Not printed. 

See Roscius Anglicanus, p. 26. Pepys notices a performance of it in April, 
1665. calling it " a very simple play."' See Htitnourists. 

The Gipsy : 

" Upon the fifth of Novembre att Whitehall, the prince being there only, tlie 
Gipsye, by the Cock-pitt company." — Herbert's Diary, 1623. 

Giraldo the Constant Lover : By Henry Shirley. 

This play was entered at Stationers' Hall, September 9, 1653. 

A Girl Worth Gold : See Fair Maid of the West. 

Gismund : A tragedy founded on Boccaccio, Day 4, Novel i, and 
written by five gentlemen of the Inner Temple, where it was per- 
formed before Queen Elizabeth in 1562. 
Subsequently altered by Wilmot. Thorpe, in his catalogue of M.SS. 1836, 
p. 107, advertised a fragment of the text. Compare Tancred and Gismunda. 
In the British Museum, M.S. Lansd. 786, is a copy of this play, entitled Gismond 
of Salem in Love; and a second more modern copy is in MS. Margrave 205. 
Bacon, in his Conference of Pleasure, ed. Spedding, xix., speaks of Asinund and 
Cornelia, apparently an error for Gismund and Cornelia, two different produc- 
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Give a Man Luck, and Throw Him into the Sea : 

A play with this title wa>; entered at Stationers' Hall, with the Maufs Meta- 
morphosis, July 24, 1600. It does not appear to have been printed. 

The Glass of Government : A tragical comedy, so entituled, because 
therein are handled as well rewards for Virtues, as also the punish- 
ment for Vices. Done by George Gascoigne, Esquire. 4to, 1575. 
There were two editions or issues in 1575. Dedicated to Sir Owen Ilopton, 
Lieutenant of the Tower. In Hazlitt's Gascoigne. 

Gloriana ; or, the Court of Augustus Caesar : A tragedy in rhyme by 

N. Lee, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1676. 

The plot of this atisurd but curious drama is more founded (m romance than 

history, as may be discovered by comparing it with the first, fifth, and seventh 

parts of the celebrated romance of Cleopatra, under the characters of Cassario, 

Marcellus, and Julia. Scene, the palace of Augustus Ci^^sar at Rome. 

Glory's Resurrection, being The Triumphs of London Revived, for 
the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Francis Child, 
Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing the 
Description (and also the Sculptures) of the Pageants and the whole 
Solemnity of the Day. All set forth at the Cost and Charge of the 
Honourable Company of Goldsmiths, Published by Authority. 
[By Elkanah Settle.] Folio, 1698. Price Six Pence. ^Vith four 
copper plates. 

The Goats' Masque: A masque acted at Court about 161 1. Addit. 
MS., B.M., 10,444. 

The Goblins : A comedy by Sir John Suckling, acted at the Black 
Friars. 8vo, 1646. 
In the editions of the F^-agiiienta Aurea, and in the works by Hazlitt. The 
scene lies in Francelia ; and the author, in the execution of his design, has pretty 
closely followed the footsteps of Shakespear, of whom he was a professed 
admirer ; his Reginella being an open imitation of Miranda in the Tempest ; and 
his Goblins, though counterfeits, being only thieves in disguise, seem to be copied 
from characters in the same play. It was revived in January, 1667-8, at the 
Duke's Theatre. 

Godfrey of Boulogne : See Four PreiUkes of London. 

God Speed the Ploug-h : 

A play so called was acted at the Rose Theatre by the company of the Earl of 
Sussex in December, 1593. 

God's Promises : A tragedy or interlude manifesting the chief 
Promises of God unto man by all Ages in the Old Law, from the 
fall of Adam to the Incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ. Com- 
piled by John Bale, An. Do. 1538. 4to [1538], 1577. In Hazlitt's 
Dodsley. 
It is remarkable that the publisher of tlie4lo()f 1577 should have been ignorant 
of the existence of a yirior edition. 

The Golden Ag'e : or The Lives of Juinter and Saturn, with the 
defining of the Heatlien Gods. As it hath been sundry times acted 
at the Red Bull by the Queen's Majesty's Servants. By Thomas 
Ht-ywood. 4to, 161 1. 

This piece the author himself calls the Eldest JJrolher of three ages that had 
adventured the stage ; in all of which he has introduced Homer as the ex- 



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jjositor of oacli dumb show, in the same manner as .Shakcs|jcar has done by 
Gower, in his Pcrides. Vox the story, we need only consult the mytliolojjisls. 
Reprinted in tlic Dramatic Worlds. 

The Golden Ag-e RestOP'd, in a ALiS(iue at Court, at Christmay, 1615, 
by the Lords and Gentlemen the King's Servants, by iJen Jonson. 
Folio, 1616, 1641. 

The Golden Ass (Or Cupid and Psyche) : A play written by Henry 
CJhettle, in conjunction with Thomas JJecker and John Day. 
It is mentioned in Ilenslowe's Diary, iGoo. Gosson, in his /'lays ConJuUil, 
1581, mentions an old English play on the same subject as having been acted by 
the scholars of St. Paul's. 

The Goldsmith's Jubilee : Or, London's Triumjjhs. Containing A 
Description of tin; several Pageants: On which are Represented 
Emblematical Figures, Artful Pieces of Architecture, and Rural 
Dancing : With the Speeches spoken on each Pageant. Performed 
Octob. 29, 1674, for the Entertainment of the Right Ilonourable 
and truly Noble Pattern of Prudence and Loyalty, Sir Robert 
Vyner, K' & Bart., Lord Mayor of the City of London : At the 
Proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Cold- 
smiths. Tne King's Most Sacred Majesty and his Royal Consort, 
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York, Prince 
Rupert, the Duke of Monmouth, several Foreign ICmbassadors, 
Chief Nobility, and Secretaries of State, honouring the City with 
their Presence. Composed by Thomas Jordan. 4to, 1674. 

A Good Beginning" may have a Good End : See An III Bc^inniui^. 

Gorboduc : See Fen-ex and Porrex. 

The Gopdian Knot Unty'd, 1691 : 

This comedy was not printed, Imt appears to have been acteil in the before- 
mentioned year. Motteux, in the Gentleman s Journal, January, 169 1 -2, says, 
" You have often asked me who was the author of the Gordian Knot Unty\l ; 
and wondered with many more why it was never printed. I hear that gentleman, 
who writ lately a most ingenious dialogue concerning women, now translated into 
French, is the author of that witty play ; and it is almost a sin in him to keep it 
and his name from the world." 

The Dialogue Concerning Women, in Defence of the Sex, was written to 
Eugenia, and was published, 8vo, 1691, with a preface by Dryden, who sjjeaks of 
the author as a young acquaintance, Ijut does not name him. 

The Gossip's Brawl ; Or, the Women Weare the Preeches : A mock 
Comedy. 4to, 1655. 
Amongst the actors' names are Nick-pot, a tapster ; Doll Crabb, a lish- 
vvoman, etc. This was not intended for representation. Compare Ghost. 

The Governor : A tragi comedy written by Sir Cornelius Formido, 
1656. Scene, Barcelona. MS. Addit. B.M. 10,419. 
It was entered on the books of the Stationers" Company on Se])tember 9, 1653 ; 
and, according to Sir Henry Herbert, it was performed by the King's company, 
February 17, 16367. 

Gowry : 

"The tragedy of Gowry, with all action and actors, hath been twice represented 
by the King's players, with exceeding concourse of all sorts of people ; but 

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whether the matter or manner be not well liandled, or that it be thought unfit 
that princes should be played on the stage in their lifetime, I hear that some 
great councellurs are much displeased with it, and so "t is thought it shall be 
forbidden." — Letter frovi John Chamberlain to Sir Ralph lVi}i7vood, December 1 8, 
1604. 

The Grateful Servant : A comedy by James Shirley, acted at the 
Private House, Drury Lane. 4to, 1630, 1637, 1660. Scene, 
Savoy. 
This play met with great applause when acted. Lodowick's contrivance to 
have his wife Artella tempted by Piero, in order that he may procure an oppor- 
tunity of divorcing her, is the same \\ith Contarini's humour and contrivance in 
the Humorous Courtier. This appears to be the play licensed in 1629 as the 
Faithful Servant. 

The Grave-Makers : A droll formed by Kirkman out of the tragedy 
of Hamlet, and printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 

The Gray's Inn Masque; By F. Davison, 1594. See Gesta 
Grayorum. 

The Gray's-Inn Antic Masque : Seventeenth century. Addit. MS. 
B.AL 10,444. 

The Great Duke of Florence : A Comical History. As it hath been 
often presented with good allowance at the Phceni-K in Drury Lane. 
By P. Massinger. 4to, 1636. 

This play met with very good success, and is recommended, in two copies of 
verses, by George Donne and John Ford. Sannasaro, giving the duke a false 
account of the beauty of Lidia, seems to be a near reseml)lance to the story of 
Edgar and Elfrida ; the same incident was a traditional fact in connection with 
Henry VIII. and Anne of Cleves. 

The Great Favourite ; or, the Duke of Lerma : A tragedy by Sir 
Robert Howard, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1668; folio, 
1692. 

Some scenes of this play arc written in blank verse, and some in rhyme ; the 
scene lies at Madrid ; and the yVA is taken from Mariana, Turquet de Mayern, 
and other historians. 

I'epys thus notes in his Diary, February 20, 1667-8: "Dined, and by one 
o'clock to the King's hou.se ; a new play, the Duke of Lerma, of Sir Robert 
Howard's: where the king and court was ; and Knipp and Nell spoke the pro- 
logue m(^sl excellently, especially Knipp, who spoke beyond any creature I ever 
heard. The play designed to reproach our king with his mistresses, that I was 
troubled for it, and expected it should be interrupted ; but it ended all well, 
which salved all." 

Pepys probably means this i)lay, where he speaks under date of January il, 
1667-8, of the Dul^e of Lorraine. 

The Great Man : 'I'his tragedy is in Warburton's list. 

The Grecian Comedy : A play acted by Henslowe's company on 
December i, 1594, and several limes afterward. 
Compare Turkish Mahomet. 

The Greek Maid : 

"A iast(;rell or historic of a Grcckc .Maide showen at Richmond on llie 
.•^ondaic rexl after New N'cares dale enacted by the ll.ulr of Leicester his 
scrvaunlcs." — Revels' Accounts^ '579- 



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The Greeks and Trojans : An old l^nglish play, mentioned in 
Gayton's Notes on Don Quixote, 1654, p. 271. 

Green's tu Quoque, Or, The City Gallant : As it hath been divers 
times acted by the Queen's Majesty's Servants. Written by 
Jo. Cooke. 4to, 16 14, 1622, and no date. 

We are told by Thomas Ileyvvood, who was the editor of lliis play, llial it 
passed the test of the stage witli general ajiplause. It was for some years performed 
by the latter title only ; Init tlie inimitable acting of Crcen, a celebiatetl comedian 
of that time, in the part of Bubble of the City (jallant who, in answer to every 
compliment, comes out with the words Tu quoqiie, occasioned the author, out of 
regard to him, to add to it the present first title. ICach of the editions has a 
figure of Green on the title-page, with a label out of his mouth, Tu quoijuc, to 
you. Sir ! On the back of the preface are four lines by W. Rowley on the 
actor's death. In Ilazlitt's Dodsley. It was revived in 1667 with alterations by 
Davcnant. 

Greenwich Park: A comedy by W. Mountfort. 4to, 1691. Acted 
at Drury Lane. 

Grim the Collier of Croydon ; or, The Devil and his Dame : With 
the Devil and Saint Dunstan. By J. T. i2mo, 1662 (in a volume 
called Gratice Tlieatrales). In Hazlitt's Dodsley, viii. 

This is probably a modernized text of a drama, which may be rightly identified 
with one mentioned by Henslowe under date of March 6, i6oo-i, when he pays 
William Haughton "in respect of a book which he would call Tlie Devil and his 
Dame.'" 

The plot is to be found in Machiavel's Mairiage of Belphcgor. 

Gripus and Heg'io ; or, the Passionate Lovers : A pastoral by Robert 
Baron. 8vo, 1647. 

This play, which is annexed to the Cyprian Academy, consists of three acts, 
and is mostly borrowed from Waller's Poems and Webster's Duchess of Afalfy. 

Grobiana's Nuptials : An old English play preserved in MS. Bodl. 30. 

The Grove ; or. Love's Paradise : An opera by J- Oldmixon. 4to, 
1700. Performed at Drury Lane. 

The scene is a province of Italy, near the Gulf of Venice. The music was by 
Purcell, and the epilogue by Farquhar. 

The Guardian, a Comical History, as it hath been often acted at the 
Private House in Black Friars by his late Majesty's Servants, with 
great applause. By Philip Massinger. 8vo, 1655. Licensed in 
1633. Scene, Naples. 

The Guardian : A comedy by A. Cowley, acted before Prince Charles 
at Trinity College, Cambridge, the 12th of March, 1641. 4to, 1650. 
Scene, London. 

The Guelphs and Ghibbelines : 

An old English play mentioned in Gayton's Notes on Don Quixote, 1654, 
p. 271. 

GuidO : A drama produced at the Rose Theatre in 1597. 



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Guise : 

A play mentioned by Webster in his dedication of the DeviPs La-u Case, 1623, 
to Sir Thos. Finch : " Some of my other works, as the White Devil, the Dutchess 
of Malfi, Guise, and others, you have formerly seen." The Duke of Guise seems 
to have been named with four other plays by Marlowe in Nash's elegy on his 
friend prefixed to Dido, in a copy seen by T. Warton in Osborne's shop, and 
described in his catalogue for 1754. See Dyce's Marlowe, 1850,!. 39. Compare 
J/assarre at Paris and Duke of Guise. 

Gustavus, King of Swethland, by Thomas Decker. Not printed, 
but entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, June 29, 

1660. 

The " King of Swedland " is in Warburton's list. 

Guy, Earl of Warwick : By John Day and Thomas Decker. 
Licensed to John Trundle, January 15, 1619-20, and transferred 
to Thomas Langley, December 13, 1620. 

Guy, Earl of Warwick : The Tragical History, Admirable Achieve- 
ments, and Various Events of Guy Earl of Warwick. \\'ritten by 
B. J. 4to, 1661. 
The initials were perhaps added to lead to the idea that the piece was 
Jonson's. 

Guzman : A comedy by Roger, Earl of Orrery. Fol., 1693. 

The scene of this play lies in Spain, and the plot is from a romance of the 
same name. It was first acted at the Duke of York's Theatre, in April, 1669, 
but without success. 

Haliblude : 

The mystery of the Haliblude, or Holy Blood, was performed at Aberdeen in 
1445, as appears from an entry in the records of that city. 

Hamlet : 

A play with this title was acted at Newington Theatre, by the Lord Admiral's 
and Lord Chamberlain's men, June 9, 1594. It preceded Shakespear's tragedy, 
and is several times alluded to by contemporary writers. 

Hamlet: (i.) The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. 
By 'William Shake-spear. As it hath been divers times acted by his 
Highness's servants in the City of London: as also in the two 
Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and elsewhere. 4to, 1603. 
(ii.) The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. By 
William Shakespear. Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as 
much again as it was, according to the true and perfect Copy. 
4to, 1604, 1605 (are-issue), 1611, n.d., 1637. 

There are also several editions of it printed after the Restoration, 4I0, \()']G, 
1683, 1695, 1703. 

Of the 4to of 1603, a copy is entered in the list of plays in the possession of 
Henry O.xinden, of Barham, in his MS. Commonplace Book, 1647. 

Hampton Court Masque : See Vision of the Iwelve Goddesses. 

Hannibal : 

Sonic short piece, probably, as I only find an allusion to it .is having been per- 
ff)rmed in a barn somewhere in Cork. The epilogue is preserved in Thalia, 
folio, 1705, ]). 33. 



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Hannibal and Hermes, Or, Worse Afeard than Hurt : A play by 
Robert \\'ilson, in conjunction with Decker and I )rayton. Acted 
in 159S. 

Hannibal and ScipiO : A play by ^\'i^iam Rankins, in conjunction 
with Richard Hathwaye. Acted in 1600. Not printed. 

Hannibal and Scipio : An Historical Tragedy, acted in the year 1635 
by the Queen's Majesty's Servants at their Private house in Drury 
Lane. By Thomas Nabbes. 4to, 1637. 

This play was acted before women appeared upon the stage, tlie part ol 
Sophonisba being [)erformed by Ezekiel Fennc. It is addressed in verse 
l)y the author to the ghosts of Hannibal and .Scipio, with an answer in their 
names directed to him. The plot may be traced in Cornelius Nepos and 
PkUarch. The scene of the first act lies in Capua, of the second at the court 
of .Syphax, of the third at Utica, of the fourth at Carthage, and of the fifth in 
Bithynia. 

Hans Beer Pot, His Invisible Comedy of See me, and See me Not : 
Acted in the Low Countries by an honest Company of Health- 
Drinkers. By Dawbridge-Court Belchier. 410, 16 18. 

Phillips, in his Tlieatruin Poelanon, 1675, ascriljes to T. Nash a play called 
See me, ami See me Not — doubtless by error. 

Hardicanute : A Play acted at the Rose Theatre in 1597. 

Hard Shift for Husbands : A comedy by Samuel Rowley, 1623. 

This play is mentioned in Sir ITenry Herbert's Diary, under the date of 
October 29, 1623: "For the Palsgrave's players, a new comedy called Hard 
Shifte for Husbands, or Bilboes the Best Blade, written by Samuel Rowley." 

Harry of Cornwall : 

A piece with this title was acted, according to Henslowe, February 25 and 
March 23, 1591-2, and April 29 and May 13, 1592, at the Rose Theatre. 

Harry the Fifth : See He^iry V. 

Harry the First : Compare Henry I. 

Have at All ; or, the Midnight Adventures : A ccmedy by Josejfh 
Williams, acted at Drury Lane in May, 1694. 

This piece is mentioned in Motteux's Gentleman's Journal, but was never 
printed. Compare An Evening s Adventure and Feigned Courtezans. 

The Haymakers' Masque : Performed at Court about 1623. Addit. 
MS. B.M. 10,444. 

Heautontimorumenos : A comedy by Terence, translated by Rich. 
Bernard. 4to, 1598-1641. Also in the versions by Hoole, 1667, 
and by Echard, 1694. 

The Hector of Germany. Or the Palsgrave, Prince Elector: A 
New Play, An Honourable History, by ^Vent\vorth Smith. 4to, 
1615. 

This play, which is not divided into acts, was performed at the Red Bull and 
at the Curtain by a company of young men of the City, and was the last that we 
hear of as being acted at the latter theatre. It was written in 1613. 



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The Hectors : Or the False Challenge. A comedy written in the year 
1655. The scene, London. 4to, 1656. 

Langbaine speaks well of this piece. Ascribed by Phillips and Winstanley to 
Edmund Prestwich. 

Hecuba : Translated front the Greek of Euripides by Archibald Hay. 
See Warton's H.E.P., 1S24, iii. 147. 

Hecyra : A comedy translated from Terence by Richard Bernard. 4to, 
i598-i64r. 

The Heir: A comedy by Thomas May, acted by the Company of 

Revels, 1620. 410, 1633. There is a second impression of the 

same year, with the sole difference of those words on the title. 

Scene, Syracuse. 

The plot, language, and conduct of this play are all admirable, and many ot 

the situations interesting ; it met with great applause, and is highly commended 

in a copy of verses by Carew. The epilogue consists of only four lines. The 

piece itself will be found in Hazlitt's Dodsley. The demand of the king, that 

Leucothoe shall yield to his desires, as the sole condition upon which he would 

spare the life of her lover, appears to be borrowed from Shakespear's Measure 

Jor Measure ; as the constable and watch who seize Eugenio seem to have had 

their language and manners from those in the same author's Much ado about 

Nothing ; and the enmity of the two houses reminds us of Komeo and Juliet. 

The Heir of Morocco, with the Death of Gayland : A tragedy by 
Elk. Settle, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 16S2, 1694. Scene, 
Algiers. 

The Heiress : A play by the Duke of Newcastle, acted at the King's 
Playhouse in January, 1669, 

See notices of it in Pepys' Diary, February i and 2, 1668-9. 

The Life and Death of Heliog'abalus : An interlude, entered by 
John Danter, June 19, 1594, on the books of the Stationers' Com- 
pany, but not printed. 

Hemetes : The tale of Hemetes the hermit, Pronounced before the 
Queen's Majesty at Woodstock. 1575. Py George Gascoigne. 

Printed by Abraham Fleming at the end of his translation of Synesius, Svo, 
'579) ^nd again in the Queen's Majesty's Eiitertaiuinent at Woodstock, 410, 15S5. 
An early copy, with drawings, is among the Royal MSS., B. M., and has been 
given by Ilazlitt in his edition of the Poet, 1869-70, with facsimiles of the illus- 
trations. 

Heng"ist : See Afayor of Quinlwrough. 

Henry of Richmond : A play in two parts by Robert Wilson. The 
second part of it was written in 1599. 

Henry L : The famous Chronicle of Henry the first, 'with the Life and 

JJeath of Be//in Dun, the first thief that was ever hanged in 

England. Licensed to Thomas Gosson, May 17, 1594. 

But what seems to be the same production was entered to William Blackwall, 

Xovemlier 24, 1595, A'ufus being substituted for Henry. Several notices of this 

piece, which seems to have been popular, occur in Hcnslowe's Diary. It was 

acted at the Rose Theatre, June 8, 1594, by the Lord Admiral's men, i)cing then 

a new play. It is probably the piece noticed as Harry the First under date of 

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Henry the First and Henry the Second : liy \\illia'n Shakcspear 
and Robert Davenport. 

In the books of the StatioiiLTs' t^jinpaiiy, SciJtcnihcr 9, 1653, an entry is made 
of the above tiile ; but what species of drama it was, or whether one or two 
performances, are facts not ascertained. Whatever it might be, it is said to liave 
suffered in tlie general liavock made i)y Warburton's servant. Sir II. Herbert 
records the licensing of Davenport's play of "the Ilistorye of Henry the First " 
in the year 1624. See Collier's Hist, of Dram. Poetry, 1831, iii. 90-I. 

Henry the Second, King* of Eng-land, with the Death of Rosamond. 

4to, 1693. 

The story of this play may be found in the Knglish historians, and represents 
chiefly that part of this prince's life which relates to Rosamond. The scene lies 
in Oxford ; and the epilogue was written by Dryden. The dedication is signed 
by Mountfort, who was, however, dead when this tragedy was published. It is 
generally attributed to Bancroft. 

Henry the Third of France, Stabbed by a Friar : with the Fall of 
the Guise. A tragedy. Acted at the Theatre Royal. By Thomas 
Shipman. 410, 1678. 

The story of this play is borrowed from Davila and the Life of Ihe Duke of 
Espenioti, The scene, Blois, but removed in the third act to the camp at 
St. Cloud near Paris. Written in rhyme. 

Henry the Fourth : 

A play ; in which was introduced the deposing of Richard II. It was prior to 
Shakespear's Henry IV., and was performed at Lord Essex's house the night 
before his insurrection. 

Henry the Fourth : An historical i)lay by Shakespcar in two parts : 
(i.) The History of Henry the Fourth: With the ]3attle at Shrews- 
bury between the King and Lord Henry Percy, sinnamed Henry 
Hotspur of the North. With the humorous conceits of Sir John 
Falstaff. 4to, 1598, 1604, 1608, 1613, 1622, 1632, 1639. The 
impressions of 1598 and 161 3 exhibit variations, and the former 
appears to have been printed twice, (ii.) The Second Part of 
Henry the Fourth, continuing to his death and the Coronation of 
Henry V. With the humours of Sir John Falstaff and Swaggering 
Pistol. As it hath been sundry times publicly acted by the Lord 
Chamberlain's Servants. Written by William Shakcspear. 4to, 
1600. Sheet E should have six leaves. 
Compare Hotspur. 

Henry the Fourth, with the Humours of Sir John Falstaff: A tragi- 
comedy, altered by Thomas Betterton. Acted at Little Lincoln's 
Inn Fields. 4to, 1700. 

Henry IV. [of France] : A tragedy by Thomas Shipmin. 

See Shipman's Carolina, 1683, p. 169. He refers to his Henry III. at p. 206. 

Henry the Fifth : See Fumous Victories. 

This is different from Shakespear's play, and is one of which he availed himself 
in the composition of his own. Ilenslowe records its performance May 14, 
1592. 



104 I'LAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Hen-Her 

Henry the Fifth : 'I'he Chronicle Hibtoiy of Henry the Fifth, With 
his Battle fought at Agin Court in France. Together with Ancient 
Pistol. As it hath been sundry times played by the Right honour- 
able the Lord Chamberlain his Servant?. By ^^^ Shakespear. 4to, 
1600, 1602, 1608. 

This is an imperfect copy of Shakespears play, first printed in full in the folio 
of 1623. The late Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps met with a fragment, which he 
supposed to be anterior to 1600; hut it yielded no readings of importance. 

Henry the Fifth : A tragedy by the Earl of Orrery. Folio, 1669, 1672, 
1690. Scene, France. 

This may be traced in the English chronicles of that prince's leign, and in the 
French ones of that of Charles \'I. It was acted at the Duke of York's Theatre 
with great success ; the characters being very splendidly dressed, particularly 
King Henry, Owen Tudor, and the Duke of Burgundy. It was also acted at 
Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1664. There is a MS. copy in the Bodleian Library, 
Rawl. Poet. 2. 

Henry the Sixth : 

A play called Hciiiy the Sixth was produced at the Rose Theatre, March 3, 
1 59 1 -2, and is supposed by Malone to be the First Part of .Shakespear's historical 
dramas on the incidents of that reign. 

Henry VI. : By W. Shakespear. 

Parts I and 2 were registered by Thomas Pavier, April 19, 1602, and as is. 
was paid for them, they were doubtless separate tracts. They are, in fact, 
described as "two books." The three jsarts were first printed together in 1623. 

Henry the Sixth, the First Part, with the Murder of Humphrey, Duke 
of Glocester : A tragedy by J. Crowne, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 
4tu, 1681. Scene, the Court at Westminster. 

Part of this play is borrowed from Shakespear. 

Henry the Sixth, the Second Part : See Misery of Civil War. 

Henry the Eig"hth : A play by Shakespear. Fol., 1623. 

"An interlude of Henry \TII."' was, it seems, awaiting license on February 12, 
1604-5 ' ^^^ .Singer's ."^hakesjiear, introduction. But perhaps this was Samuel 
Rowley's play, mistermed an interlude. Compare All is True and Wlien You 
See Jlle, You Know Me. 

Heraclius, Emperor of the East : A tragedy by Lodowick Carlell. 
4to, 16O4. 'i'he scene, Constantinople. 
This is little more than a translation from the I/cracliiis of Corneille. It was 
intended for the stage, but was never acted, another translation having been 
preferred to it by the performers, and this jjiece not returned to the author 
till the day that the other was acted at the Duke's Theatre. The ))lot of it is 
from Baronius' Lcclcsiastiial Annals, but the original I'rencli author has not 
strictly tied himself down to historical truth. 

Hercules : A play, in two parts, by Martin Slaughter, acted by the Lord 
Admiral's Servants. 
The first part was produced in -May, 1595, and the second about the same 
time. 

Hercules : CJ!ompare Birtli oj Hercules and Twelve Labours. 

An interlude of HerciiUi (Ktcns is mentioned in the list at the end of the Old 
Law, 1656. Vincent, in h\v, Discovery 0/ Errors, etc., 1622, lefers in his epistle 
to York Herald to " Hercules in a i>lay, that made monsters of straw for himself 
to subdue.' 



Her-Her PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 105 

Hercules : A masque by P. Motteux, being one of the dramatic pieces 
in the Novelty ; or, Every Act a Play, 1697. The scene, the 
Lydian Court. 

Hercules Furens : The First Tragedy of Lucius Annoeus Seneca, 
entitled Hercules Furens, newly perused, translated by Jasper 
Heywood, Student in Oxford, lamo, 1561 ; 4to, 15^1. 

The Hermit's Oration at Theobalds, delivered by Sir Robert Cecil 
to the Queen. \Vritten by George Peele. 1591. 

vSce Dyce's Greene and Peek, 1861, p. 576. In Joseph Ames's Catalogue, 1760, 
No. 150, what purports to be a MS. copy of this is dated 1594, and is said to be 
penned by Sir Robert Cecil. Elizabeth was again at Theobalds in the latter 
year, and this speech was then referred to. See Speeches. 

The Hermit's Tale : See Hemetes. 

Hermophus : A Latin comedy by George Wilde. It was several times 
acted, but was never printed. 

Hero and Leander : The Tragedy of Hero and Leander, by Sir 
Robert Stapylton. 4to, 1669. 

Whether this play was ever acted or not seems to be a dubious pohit, although 
. the prologue and epilogue so imply. The plot is partly taken from Ovid and 
Musi^us. The scene, Sestos and Abydos. 

Herod and Antipater : The True Tragedy of Herod and Antipater, 
with the Death of Fair Mariam. According to Josephus, the 
learned and famous Jew. As it hath been divers times publicly 
acted with great applause at the Red Bull by the Company of His 
Majesty's Revels, By Gervase Markham and AVilliam Sampson. 
4to, 1622. 
This drama was registered at Stationers' Hall in 1633 as the unassisted pro- 
duction of Markham. 

Herod and Mariamne : A tragedy by Samuel Pordage. 4to, 1673, 
1674. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 

The plot is from Josephus, from the story of Tyridates in Cleopatra, and from 
the Unfortunate Politic, or the Life of Herod, translated from the PVench, 1638. 

Herod the Great : A tragedy by the Earl of Orrery, 

This play was never acted, but was printed in folio, 1694. Ghosts are intro- 
duced, two appearing to Mariamne, and numbers of them to Herod. The plot is 
from Josephus. 

Herodes : A Latin tragedy by William Goldingham ; MS. in the 
University Library, Cambridge, dedicated to Thomas Sackville, 
Lord Buckhurst. 

Herodes : A Latin tragedy by Patrick Adamson, Archbishop of St. 
Andrew's. Written in or about 1572. Not printed. 

Heroic Love ; or, the Cruel Separation : A tragedy by Lord Lansdowne. 
4to, 1698. 

This play was acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields with great applause. The plot is 
taken from the separation of Achilles and Briseis in the first book of the Iliad ; 

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io6 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Her-Him 

and the scene lies in the Grecian fleet and camp before Troy. The conclusion of 
this play was altered after the first representation, his lordship's reasons for which 
may be seen in his preface. The prologue was written by Lord Eolingbroke, 
and the epilogue by Bevii Higgons. 

The Heroic Lover ; or, the Infanta of Spain : A tragedy by George 
Cartwright, of Fulham. 8vo, 1661. The scene, Poland. 
The author calls it a poem, consisting more of fatal truth than flying fancy ; 
penned many years ago, but not published till now. It was probably never 
acted. 

Herpetulus : " Herpetulus the blue knight, and Perobia, played by my 
Lord Clinton's servants the third of January " — Reve/s' Accounts, 
1573-4- 

Hester and Ahasuerus : 

A Scriptural drama, a performance of which, on June 3, 159-], is noticed by 
Ilenslowe. In the Prospectus of the New Shakespear Society it is said to 
survive in a German translation. 

Hester and Ahasuerus : An interlude by Robert Cox, written about 
1656. 

Printed in the Wits ; or. Sport upon Sport, 1672. 

Hey for Honesty, Down with Knavery : A pleasant comedy. 
Translated out of Aristophanes his Plutus by Tho. Randolph. 
Augmented and Published by F. J. 4to, 165 1. 

The scene lies in London ; and it is introduced by a dialogue between Aristo- 
phanes, the translator, and Cleon's ghost. It does not appear to have been ever 
performed. The following preface is rather curious; "This is a pleasant 
comedy, though some may judge it satyrical : 'Tis the more like Aristophanes 
the father : besides, if it be biting, 'tis a biting age we live in ; then biting for 
biting. Again, Tom Randal, the Adopted Sonne of Ben Johnson, being the 
tianslator hereof, followed his Father's steps ; they both of them loved sack, and 
harmlesse mirth, and here they shew it ; and I (that know my self) am not averse 
from it neither. This I thought good to acquaint thee with." 

This is said to be a translation from the Phttiis of Aristophanes, but is merely 
built on the same model. The F. J. of the dedication is Francis Jaques, who 
had the space for the patron's name left blank to be filled up in MS. 

Hie et Ubique ; or, the Humours of Dublin : A comedy by Richard 
Head. 4to, 1663. Scene, Dublin. 
This eccentric piece is said to have been acted privately with general applause. 

Hick Scorner : An Interlude produced about 1520. 4to, W. de 
VVorde, n.d., and John ^Valey, n.d. In Hazlitt's Dodsley. 

Kirkman, in his Catalogue, misquotes it as Dick Scorucr ; and in the list at the 
end of the Old law, 1656, it is termed " a Comedy." Two leaves of one of the 
editions were sold among Mr. Bright's books in 1845 5 ^l^^y were those where 
the characters Perseverance, Iiiiagiiialio)i, Coiiteniplatioii, and Free IVill appear 
on the scene. The fragment in the British Museum may be the same. 

The Hig-hway to Heaven : 

.•\ play mcntinned in (jrccn-e's Groats'worth of Wit, I5<j2 : "The Twelve 
Labours of Hercules have I terribly thundered on the stage, and played three 
scenes of the devil in the Highway to Heaven." 

Himatia-Poleos : The Triumphs of Old Drapery, or the Rich Cloth- 
ing of I'^ngland. Performed in affection, and at the charges of the 
right worthy and first honoured Company of Drapers, at the instal- 



Hip-Hog PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 107 

ment of Sir Thomas Hayes on Saturday, being the 29 of October, 
1614. Devised and written by A[nthony] ]\I[unday], Citizen and 
Draper of London. 4to, 1614. 

Hippolytus : A tragedy translated from Seneca by John Studley. 4to, 
1581. 

This was registered separately by Henry Denham in 1566-7, and by Richard 
Jones in 1579, as the "fourth part of Seneca's Works"; but no copy has 
occurred. 

Hippolytus : Translated out of Seneca by Edmund Prestwich. 1 2mo, 
1651. 

This is a translation from Seneca, made entirely in rhyme, with comments on 
every scene, and six copies of recommendatory verses l)y .Shirley, Cotton, etc. 

Hispanus : A Latin comedy by a writer named Morrell, acted at 
Cambridge in 1596. A MS. written in 1600 is in the Bodleian 
Library (Douce 234). 

The History of Flattery : 

Ilenslowe records the possession, under date of March, 1598-9, of a piece 
which he evidently quotes with his accustomed illiteracy as Shirgflattery, and 
which I thus translate. He probably intended to write Story Flattery. 

The History of Sir Francis Drake : Expressed by Instrumental and 
Vocal Musick, and by Art of Perspective in Scenes. The Pirst 
Part. Represented daily at the Cockpit in Drury-Lane at Three 
Afternoon punctually. 4to, 1659. 

No second part is known. 

Histriomastix ; or, the Player Whipp'd : 4to, 16 10, 

This comedy was written in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, probably in 1599, as 
appears from a speech at the conclusion. 

Hit the Nail O' the Head : An interlude mentioned in the tragedy of 
Sir Thomas More, printed for the Shakespear Society from SiS. 
Harl. 7368. 

Hock Tuesday : Compare English and Danes. 

Hoffman : The Tragedy of Hoffman ; Or, A Revenge for a Father. 

As it hath been divers times acteii at the Phoenix in Drury-lane. 

By Henry Chettle. Dedicated by the publisher, Hugh Perry, to 

Master Richard Kilvert. 4to, 1631. 

It was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, by John Grove, 

February 25, 1629-30; and it appears from Henslowe's Diaty, p. 229, that it 

was written in 1602. 

Collier {H.E.D.P., iii. 231) states that it could not be older than 1598, because 
it mentions the Mirror of Knighthood, which was translated by Margaret Tiler, 
and printed in that year. But the fact is that the work named was only in part 
translated by M. Tiler, and appeared at intervals between 1579 and 1601. 
The character of Lucibella in this piece bears a strong resemblance to Ophelia, 
but Lucibella takes a more prominent part. 

The Hog" hath Lost his Pearl : A Comedy. Divers times publicly 
acted by certain London Prentices. By Robert Tailor. 4to, 1614. 
In Hazlitt's Dodsley. 

The part of the plot from which the piece derives its name, is the elopement of 
the daughter of one Hogge, a usurer, who is one cf the principal characters in 



io8 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S AL\NUAL. Hol-Hon 

the play. The scene lies in London. It was first acted at the Whitefriars early 
in the year 1613. It \vas supposed at the time that the editor intended a refer- 
ence to the name of the Lord Mayor, Sir John Swinnerton. A curious notice of it 
appeared in \}[\& Letters of Sir Henry IVotton to Sir Ediiuind Bacon, 1661, p. 155 ; 
or, Reliquia Wottoniame, ed. 1672, p. 402. 

The Hollander: A Comedy written 1635. The Author, Henry 
Glapthorne. And now Printed as it was Acted at the Cockpit in 
Drury lane by their Majesties Servants with good allowance. 
And at the Court before both their Majesties. 4to, 1640. Scene, 
London. 

Holland's Leag'Uer : An Excellent Comedy, as it hath been lately 

and often acted with great applause by the High and mighty 

Prince Charles his Servants, at the private house in Salisbury 

Court. Written by Shackerley Marmion, ALA. 4to, 1632. 

The author has borrowed several circumstances from Petronius Arbiter, 

Juvenal, and other of the classic writers. Certain reformations were demanded, 

at all events, on it being licensed for the press to John Grove, January 26, 1631-2. 

See Arber's Transcript of the Stationers Register, iv. 236. A prose tract by 

Nicholas Goodman came out with the same title this year ; but I do not think 

the two productions are connected. 

Holofernes : An interlude acted at Hatfield in 1556. 

Holofernes : A play performed at Derby in 1572. 

Homo : A Latin tragedy written about 1612 by Thomas Atkinson, who 
dedicates it to Laud, then President of St. John's College. Karl. 
MS. 6925. 

The Honest Lawyer : Acted by the Queen's Majesties Servants. 
Written by S. S. 4to, 1616. Scene, Bedford. 
In Mr. Mitford's copy the initials on the title were explained to stand for 
S. Siinson. 

The Honest Man's Fortune : A tragi-comedy by Beaumont and 
Fletcher. Folio, 1647. Acted first in 1613. Scene, Paris. 

The incident of Lamira preferring Montaigne to be her husband in the time of 
his greatest adversity, and when he had the least reason to expect it, is similar to 
one in Heywood's History of Women, book ix. 

There is an old MS. of this play, at the end of which is Sir II. Herbert's 
license, dated Februarys, 1624-5, allowing it as a play which had been brought 
to him by Taylor, the actor of the King's Company : " For the king's company, 
an old play called the Honest Man's l'"ortune ; tlie original being lost, was re- 
allowed by me, at Mr. Taylor's intreaty, and on condition to give me a book," 
that is, a co])y of it. 

The Honest Whore : With the Humours of the Patient ISLan and the 
Longing \\'ifc. A comedy. By Thomas Dekker, assisted by 
Thomas Middleton. 4to, 1604, 1605, 1615, 1616, 1635. 

The headline in some copies of 1604 is The Converted Courtezan, under wirch 
title Drummond of Ilawthornden (juotcs it. See Aicluvologia Scotica, iv. 68. 
The 4to of 1605 is of unusual importance and interest as correcting the very 
numerous and material errors of that of 1604. It was probably revised by the 
authors, or by one of them. The edition of 1616 is only a re]irinted title to the 
slock of 161 5. 



Hon-Hor PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 109 

The Second Part of the Honest Whore, With the Humours of 

the Patient Man, the Impatient Wife; the Honest AN'hore per- 
suaded by strong Arguments to turn courtezan again ; her brave 
refuting those Arguments, And lastly, the comical passages of an 
Italian Bridewell, where the scene ends. 4to, 1630. 
Licensed in i6o8. The incident of the jiatient man and his impatient wife going 
to tight for the breeches, may be found in Sir John Ilarington's Epi\;raiiis, i. l6. 

Honourable Entertainments Composed for the Service of this 

Noble City. Some of which were fashioned for the Entertainment 
of the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, 
upon the Occasion of their late Royal Employment. Invented by 
Thomas Middleton. 8vo, 162 1. 

Sotheby's, March 19, iSSS, No. 114, where occurs the following long and 
interesting note on this item : 

" No other copy of any edition is known, and even the title is unrecorded by all 
bibliographers and editors of Middleton. It is dedicated to the Lord Mayor 
Sir Francis Jones, the Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Recorder, all of whose names 
are given. The titles of the ' Enteitainments,' ten in number, are as follow: 
(i) 'On Monday and Tues<lay in Easter weeke 1620 the first Entertainment, at 
the house of the right worthy Sir WilHam Cokaine the L. Mayor which on the 
Saturday following was fashioned mto Seruice for the Lords of his Majesties 
most ho'''^' Prluy Councell ; upon which day, that noble Marriage was celebrated 
betwixt the Right IIo'''«^ Charles L. Howard, Baron of Effingham, and Mary, 
eldest Daughter of the said S^ William Cokaine, then L. Mayor of London, and 
L. Generall of the Military forces.' (2) 'At Bun-hill on Shooting day ; Another 
habited like an Archer did thus greet the L. Mayor and Aldermen after they were 
placed in their tent.' (3) ' Upon the renewing of that worthy and Laudable 
Custome of Vi-iiting the Springs and Conduite Heads, for the Sweetnesse and 
Health of the City.' (4) 'A speech intended for the generall Training, being 
appointed for the Tuesday next ensuing the visitatioii of the Springs, but upon 
some occasion, the day differed.' (5) ' Upon Simon and Judes day following, 
being the last great Feast of the Magistrates Veare, and the expiration of his 
Pretorship.' (6) 'The Last Will and Testament of 1620 finishing for the City.' 
(7) 'At tiie House of the Right Honorable Sir Francis J hones, the First Enter- 
tainment at his first Great Feast preparde to giue Welcome to his Owne Noble 
Fraternitie the Company of Haberdashers.' (8) 'For the Celebration of the 
Joyful! Fea-^t of Christmas last.' (9) ' For the Solemne feast of Easter last, upon 
the Times of that blessed and laudable Custom of Celebrating the memory of 
Pious Workes in this Cittie, at Saint Mary Spittle.' (10) 'Here followes the 
worthy and Noble Entertainments of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable 
Privy Councell ; at the Houses of the Lord Mayor, and Sheriffes.' " 

Honoria and Mammon : 8vo, 1659. By James Shirley. The scene, 
Metropolis, or New Troy. 

This is an enlargement of the author's masque of the Contention for Ilonoitr 
and Niches, 4to, 1633. The plot is in the Decameron, 5th Day, Novel 8. The 
subject was afterwards treated poetically by Dryden. 

The Honoured Loves : See Four Honoured Loves. 

Honour in the End : 

Tliis comedy is mentiimed in Herbert's Diary, May 21, 1624, as acted by the 
Palsgrave's Company. It is advertised at the end of Naps Upon Parnassus, 165S, 
and Wit and D7-ollery, 1661, as in the press. 

The Honour of Women : See Spa?itsh Viceroy. 

Horace ; A tragedy by Charles Cotton. 4to, 1671. 

This is only a translation of the Horace of Corneille, with additional songs and 
chorases by the translator. It is, of course, founded on the early Roman legend 



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of the Horatii and Curiatii, and the frontispiece by Dolle represents Horatius 
stabbing the first of the Curiatii. There is only one edition ; but in Mr. West- 
wood's copy, subsequently Mr, Wallis's, the date is partly cut off. Cotton says 
in his preface that all the songs and choruses are his. 

Horace : A tragedy by Cath. Phillips. Folio, 1667, 1678. 

This is a translation of the same piece as the foregoing. The fifth act was 
added by Sir John Denham, and it was presented at Court by persons of quality, 
the prologue being spoken by the Duke of Monmouth. 

Horatius, a Roman Tragedy, by Sir ^^'illiam Lower, Knight. 4to, 
1656. The scene, Rome. 

This is also a translation from Corneille, but is not equal to either of the 
preceding two. 

The Hospital of Lovers : See Love's Hospital. 

Hot Anger soon Cold: A play, written in 1598 by Henry Chettle, 
in conjunction with Henry Porter and Ben Jonson. 

Hotspur : A play, probably formed out of the First Part of Shakespear's 
Henry IV., and acted at Court in May, 1613. 

How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad : 4to, 1602, 

1605, 1621, 1630, 1634. The scene, London. 

Editions of 1608 and 1614 have also been mentioned ; but I have never seen 
the latter, and the only one of 1608, with which I have met, had had the last 
figure of the date altered with the pen. Acted by the Earl of Worcester's 
servants. The foundation of this comedy is taken from Cynthio's Novels, 
Dec. 3, Nov. 5 ; but the mcident of Anselme saving young .Arthur's wife, by 
taking her out of the grave, and carrying her to his mother's house, is related 
in a novel, caller) Love in the Grave, in the Pleasant Coiiipanioii, and is the sub- 
ject of several plays. In the Garrick copy, this piece is ascribed in MS. to 
Joshua Cooke — probably John, author of Grceit's Tu quoqite. 

A Hue and Cry after Cupid : A masque by Ben Jonson, written for 
the celebration of the marriage of Lord Haddington with Lady 
Elizabeth Ratcliffe, on Shrove Tuesday, 1607. 

Humanity and Sensuality : One of the eight interludes by Sir David 
Lindsay, written in 1552. 4to, 1602. 

The Humorous Courtier, a comedy, as it hath been presented with 
good applause at th'j private house in Drury Lane. By James 
Shirley. 4to, 1640. Scene, Mantua. 

An Humorous Day's Mirth: A Pleasant Comedy, Intituled An 
Humorous Day's .Mirth. .\s it hath been sundry times ])ublicly 
acted by the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottmgham, Lord 
High Admiral, his Servants. By George Chapman. 4to, 1599. 

The Humorous Lieutenant : A tragi-comedy by ]k>aumont and 
Fletcher. Folio, 1647. Scene, Greece. 

'I'his is an exceedingly good play. It was the first that was acted, and that for 
twelve nights successively, at the opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane, April 8, 
1663 Ii was performed at the s:imc house, February 22, 171314, and 9s. is 
charged by the printer for the playbills. It was also reviveil in 1697, and there 
is a 4I0 of that tlate. 



Hum-Hus PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. m 

The Humorous Lovers : A comedy by the Duke of Newcastle, acted 

at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1677. 

This comedy is said by Langbaine to equal most comedies of the age. The 

scene lies in Covent Garden. " 1667, March 30th, to see tiie silly play of my 

Lady (?) Newcastle's, called the Humorous Lovers ; the most silly thing that 

ever came upon a stage." — Pcpys. There is a MS. copy in MS. Ilarl. 7367. 

The Humourists : A comedy by Thomas Shadwell, acted at Lincoln's 

Lin Fields. 4to, 167 1, 1672. 

The scene of this piece is laid in London in the year 1670, and the intention 

of it was to ridicule some of the vices and follies of the age. Li a copy of the 

first edition before me there is the subjoined early M.S. note: "This is Anne 

Boothby's Favourite Play." — T. Holden. As to Holden, see Ghosts. 

Humour out of Breath : A comedy by John Day, acted by the 
Children of the Revels. 4to, 1608. 
Entered on the registers of the Stationers' Company, April 12, 1608, and 
licensed on the same day. Reprinted for the Percy Library, and in Bullen's 
edition of Day. 

Humours: A comedy produced at the Rose Theatre in May, 1597. 
See Magnetic Lady. 

The Humours of Hobbinal : A droU, printed in the IViis, Or sport 
upon Sporty 1672. 

The Hungarian Lion : 

This play is mentioned in Sir Henry Herbert's Diary, under the date of 
December 4, 1623, "for the Palsgrave's players, the Hungarian Lion, written by 
Gunnel."' 

The Hunters' Masque : 

In the Revels' Accounts, 1573-4, is a charge for "six homes garnislil vvitli sylver 
for the Hunters' Mask on New Veres Nighte." 

The Hunting- of Cupid : By George Peele. Registered by R. Jones, 
July 26, 1591. 

A poem in England's Helicon, 1600, and some verses in Eiio land's Parnassus, 
1600, belong to this composition, which was doubtless printed pursuant to the 
foregoing entry. Drummond of Hawthornden tells us that he read it in 1609, 
referring apparently to a printed book ; he has made some extracts from it in his 
MSS. ; and these are reprinted in the editions of the poet by Dyce and Bullen. 

The Huntington Divertisement, Or, An Enterlude for the general 
Entertainment at the County Feast, held at Merchant Taylors' 
Hall, June 20, 1678. 410. 

This piece is dedicated by W. M. to the nobility and gentry of the county. 
The scene lies in Hinchinbroke grove, fields, and meadows. 

Huon of Bordeaux : Acted by the Earl of Sussex's men, December 28, 
1593- 

The Husband his own Cuckold : A comedy by John Dryden, the 
son of the great poet. Acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields. 410, 1696. 
The story on which this play is founded was an accident which happened at 
Rome. The author, however, has transferred the scene to F'ngland. The pro- 
logue is written by Congreve, and the preface and epilogue by Dryden himself; 
but, with all this advantage, the play had little success. It is dedicated by the 
author to his uncle, Sir R. Howard. 



112 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL Hyd-If 

Hyde Park : A Comedy, as it was presented by her Majesty's 
Servants at the private house in Drury Lane. By James Shirley. 
4to, 1637. 

Though not a perfect performance, being irregular and undramatic in its 
conduct, it contains some excellent sparks of humour. It is dedicated to Henry, 
Lord Holland. It was revived at the King's Plaj'house in 1668. 

It was when this drama was reintroduced in 1668, that the additions which 
occur in the 4to of that date were made by some other hand, and horses brought 
on the stage. The practice of holding horse races in Hyde Park was fashionable 
even in 1637. 

At Sign. G 2 verso of the 410, and at p. 46 of the Por/ns, 1646, occurs a song, 
which mentions "Bay Tarrall that won the Cup at Newmarket," and other 
famous horses of the day by their several names, perhaps the earliest reference of 
the kind. 

Hymensei ; or, the Solemnities of Masque and Barriers : Magnificently 

performed on the eleventh and twelfth Nights from Christmas at 

Court. By Ben: Jonson. 4to, 1606; folio, 161 6. 

To this piece, which was prepared to celebrate the marriage of the Earl of 

Essex and the Lady Frances Howard, the author has annexed many very curious 

and learned marginal notes for the illustration of the ancient Greek and Roman 

customs. 

Hymenaeus : A Latin comedy, acted at Cambridge. MS. in the 
library of St. John's College. 

Hymen's Holiday ; or, Cupid's Vagaries, by Samuel Rowley. Acted 
before the King and Queen at Whitehall, 1633. 

Not printed. It belonged to the Cock- pit Theatre in 1639. 

Hymen's Triumph : A Pastoral Tragi-Comedy. Presented at the 
Queui's Court in the Strand at her Majesty's magnificent entertain- 
ment of the King's most excellent Majesty, being at the Nuptials 
of the Lord Roxborough. By Samuel Daniel. 8vo, 16 15. 
Dedicated to her Majesty. It is introduced by a ])rologue, in which Hymen 
is opposed by Avarice, Envy, and Jealousy, the three greatest disturbers of matri- 
monial happiness. Entered on the Stationers' books, January 13, 1614-15. 

Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa : A tragedy, in heroic verse, by Elk. 
Settle, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1677, 1694. 

The plot of this play is taken from Scudery's romance of the same name, and 
the scene is laid in .Solyman's seraglio. 

Ibrahim XII., Emperour of the Turks : A tragedy by Mary Fix. 
4to, 1696. 

In the title-page, the liero is, by some mistake, called Ibrahim " the thirteenth 
Emperour of the Turks." The plot of this play is to be found in Sir Paul 
Ricaut's Continiiatiou of tlie Turkish History. 

If it be not Good the Devil is in it : A New Play. As it hath been 
lately acted with great applause by the Queen's Majesty's servants : 
at the Red Bull. Written by Thomas Decker. 410, 1612. Scene, 

Naples. 

The principal j)lot of this piece is liuilt on Machiavel's Marriage of Helpliegor, 
as well as perhaps on the Ifiilory of Friar Rush. The name is founded on a 
<iuii)blc, the Devil ])cing a principal character in the play. The author dedicates 
the piece tu his loving and loved friends and fellows llie CJuecn's Majesty's 
.Servants. 



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If you Know not Me, you Know Nobody ; or, the Troubles of 
Queen Elizabeth, in two parts, by Thomas Heywood. Part the 
first, 4to, 1605, 1606, 1608, 16 13, 1632. Part the second, 4to, 
1606, 1623, 1633. 

The second pari contains the building of the Royal Exchange, and the famous 
victory of Queen Elizabeth in the year 1588. In Ileywood's liramatic Works. 

This play was printed without the author's consent or knowledge, and that so 
corruptly, as not even to be divided into acts ; on which, at the revival of it at 
the Cock-pit, one-and-twenty years after its fust representation, he thought it 
necessary to write a prologue to it, inserted at p. 248 of his Dialoi^jies and Dramas, 
1637 ; in which he inveighs against, and disclaims, the imperfect copy. Lady 
Ramsey, one of the dramatis pe^-sona:, died in 1602. 

Pepys, who saw this play on August 16, 1667, does it very little injustice, when 
he calls it a most ridiculous one. But it was probably altered by some later 
hand, and the recent Dutch invasion had doubtless suggested its revival. 

Ig'noramus : Comoedia coram Regia Majestate Jacobi, Regis Angliae, 
etc. i2mo, 1630 (2 editions), 1659, 1668-70. 

Licensed to Walter Burre, April 18, 1615. An elaborate edition, with notes 
by Hawkins, was published in 8vo, 1787 ; it was translated into English by 
Robert Codrington, 4to, 1662. There are numerous MS. copies of it. 

This play was written by George Ruggle, of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and was 
acted before King James L on Thursday, March 8, 1614-15. 

It appears from a private letter dated 1615, written at London in the May of 
that year, that the lawyers were nettled because the King went to Cambridge to 
see this play, which ridiculed them. "In this year 1614, the King, by the 
entreaty of Somerset, goes to Cambridge, and there was entertained with great 
solemnity, but amongst the rest there was a play called by the name of Ignoramus, 
that stirred up a great contention betwixt the common lawyers and the scholars, 
insomuch that their flouts grew insufferable, but at the last it was staid by my 
Lord Chancellour." See also Correspondence of Sir Simonds D''Eives, ii. 399. 

An 111 Beginning' has a Good End, and a Bad Beginning" may 
have a Good End : A comedy by John Ford, entered at 
Stationers' Hall, June 29, 1660. 

It was performed at Court in 1613, and is in Warburton's list. 

The Image of Love : 

This is one of Bishop Bale's dramatic pieces, mentioned by himself in the list 
of his Works. 

Impatient Poverty : A New Interlude of Impatient Poverty, newly 
Imprinted. Four men may well and easily play it. Peace, Coll. 
Hassard and Conscience for one man. Impatient Poverty, Pros- 
perity and Poverty for one, Envy and Summoner for another man. 
4to, 1560. 

It is alluded to in the play of Sir Thomas More. 

The Imperial Tragedy: By Sir William Killigrew. Folio, 1669. 

Acted at the Nursery in Barbican. 

The greater part of this play is professedly " taken out of a Latin play, ami 
very much altered by a gentleman for his own diversion." Killigrew expressly 
claims the composition in a copy which he presented to the Earl of Anglesey, 
and which was sold by auction in 1884. The plot is built on the history of Zeno, 
the twelfth Emperor from Constantine, and the scene lies in Constantinople. 

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114 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Imp-Ind 

ImpePiale : A tragedy by Sir Ralph Freeman. 4to, 1639, 1655. 

The plot is taken from Beard's Theatre, Goulart's Hist. Admirahles, etc., and 
the scene is laid in Genoa. 

The Imposture : A tragi-comedy by James Shirley. Acted at the 
Private House, Black Friars. In Six New Flays, 8vo, 1652. 
Scene, Mantua. 

The Imposture Defeated ; or, A Trick to Cheat the Devil : A comedy 

by George Powell, acted at Drury Lane. 4to, 1698. The scene, 

Venice. 

The author says that "this trifle of a comedy was only a slight piece of scribble 

purely design'd for the introduction of a little musick (which was published 

separately), being no more than a short week's work, to serve the wants of a thin 

playhouse and long vacation." 

The Impostures of Thomas Beeket : A dramatic piece by Bishop 
Bale, no copy of which is known to exist. 

The Inconstant Lady ; Or, Better late than never : 

Mentioned in the Marriage of Wit and IVisdoin volume, Shakespear Society, 
p. 85. Compare Bear a Brain, of which the original title appears to have been 
Better Late than Never, Perhaps the Inconstant Lady had the priority in adopt- 
ing the name, and may be ascribed to some period antecedent to 1599. 

The Inconstant Lady : A comedy by Arthur Wilson, entered on the 
books of the Stationers' Company, September 9, 1653. 
Printed by Dr. Bliss from MS. Bodl. Rawl. Poet. 9; 4to, Oxford, 1814. 

The Incredulity of St. Thomas : One of the series of miracle-plays, 
acted by the Scriveners of York. Printed from the original MS. 
(fifteenth century) in Croft's Excerpta Antiqua, 1797, by Collier, 
in the Camden Miscellany, vol. iv., and in the collective edition of 
the Plays. 

The Indian Emperor ; or, the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. 
A tragi-comedy by J. Dryden. 4to, 1667, 1668, 1692, 1700. 

This play is a sequel to the Indian Queen. It was entered on the books of the 
Stationers' Company on May 26, 1665. There is a MS. copy of it in the library 
of Trinity College, Cambridge, noticed in Bernard's Catalogue, jl 102. 

Of this connection notice was given to the audience by printed bills, dis- 
tributed at the door ; an expedient which may be supposed to be ridiculed in the 
Rehearsal, when Bayes says that he shall take particular care to insinuate the 
plot into the boxes. It is written in heroic verse ; the plot is taken from the 
several historians who have written on this affair, and it met with great success 
in the representation. The scene lies in Mexico, and two leagues about it. 

The Indian Empress : A play performed by some young ladies at 
Greenwich. 
The epilogue, with two prologues, is printed in Floscitliiin Poetictim, by P. K., 
8vo, 1684. 

The Indian Queen : A tragedy by sir Robert Howard and John 
Dryden. Fol., 1665, 1692. 

This is in heroic verse, and met with great applause. It was produced in 1664 
with great splendour, with music composed by Purcell. Scene, near Mexico, 



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The Ingratitude of a Commonwealth ; or, the Fall of Caius Martius 
Coriolanus. A tragedy by N. Tate, acted at the Theatre Royal. 
4to, 1682. 

This play is founded on Shakespear's Coriolanus, and was chosen l)y tlie 
author, as he acknowledges, on account of the resemblance between the busy 
faction of his own time and that of Coriolanus. Scene, the cities of Rome and 
Corioli. Dedicated to Charles, Lord Herbert. The prologue was written by 
.Sir George Raynsford. 

Injured Love : See White Devil. 

The Injur'd Lovers ; or, the Ambitious Father : A tragedy by W. 
MoLintfort, acted at Drury Lane. 4to, 1688. 

The Injur'd Princess; or, the Fatal Wager: A tragicomedy by 
T. Durfey, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1682, 
The foundation and great part of the language of this play is taken from 
Shakespear's Cymbelinr, and the scene lies at Lud's Town, alias London, The 
author has also made use of the epilogue to the Fool Tiirn'd Critic, by way of 
prologue to this piece. Its running title is, " The Unequal Match ; or. The 
Fatal Wager. " 

The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn, Gray's Inn 

and the Inner Temple, presented before His Majesty, the Queen's 
Majesty, the Prince, Count Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth their 
Highnesses, in the Banquetting House, at Whitehall, on Saturday 
the twentieth day of February, 161 2. By Francis Beaumont. 
4to [1613]. 

This masque was represented with the utmost splendour and magnificence, and 
at a great expense to both the societies. It is reprinted in the folio of 1647, and 
in Beaumont's Poems, 1653, with omissions. 

The Inner Temple Masque ; or, Masque of Heroes : Presented as 
an Entertainment for many worthy Ladies, by Gentlemen of the 
same ancient and noble house. By Thomas Middleton. 410, 
1619. 

The Inner Temple Masque : By William Browne. Performed on 
the 13th of January, 16 13-14. Printed from a MS. at Emmanuel 
College, Cambridge, in Hazlitt's edition of the Poet. 

The Innocent Mistress : A comedy by Mary Pix. 4to, 1697. 

This play was acted at the theatre in Little Lincoln's Inn Fields, and in the 
summer, yet met with very good success. It is not, however, original, several 
incidents in it being borrowed from other plays, particularly from Sir George 
Etherege's Man of Mode. Scene, London. The prologue and epilogue were 
written by Motteux. 

The Innocent Usurper ; or, the Death of the Lady Jane Gray : A 
tragedy by J. Banks. 4to, 1694. 
This play was prohibited the stage on account of some mistaken censures and 
groundless insinuations that it reflected on the governm-mt. The author, in his 
dedication, "to my friend, the stationer, Mr. Kently," however, has vindicated 
himself from that charge, by setting forth that it was written ten year*; before, so 
that it could not possibly have been meant to cast a reflection on the then present 
government. Scene, the Tower of London. 



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The Insatiate Countess : A Tragedy : Acted in White-Friars. 
Written by John Marston. 4to, 1613, 1631. 

In the Devonshire copy the name of William Barkstead is given on the title- 
page as the author. 

The Intrigues at Versailles ; or, A Jilt in all Humours : A comedy 
by T. Durfey, acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to, 1697. The 
scene, Versailles. 

Tonnere disguising himself in woman's clothes, and his mistress's husband 
(Count Brissac) falling in love with him m that habit, are borrowed from a novel 
called the Double Cuckold ; and the character of Vandosme appears to be a 
mixture of Wycherley's Olivia in the Plain Dealer and Mrs. Behn's Myrtilla in 
the Amorous Jilt. 

The Invisible Knight : 

A play so called is mentioned in Shirley's Bird in a Cage, 1633. 

The Invisible Smirk : A droll formed out of the comedy of the 
Tivo Merry Milhnaids, and printed in the Wits, or Sport upon 
Sport, 1672. 

Iphigenia : 

A play on this theme is said to have been performed by the Children of Paul's 
at Court on Innocents' Day at night, \^T\. 

Iphigenia : A lost drama by George Peele. 

Iphigenia of Euripides, translated by Jane, Lady Lumley, daughter 
of Henry, Earl of Arundel (King's MSS., xv. A.). 
See Lysons' Environs, ist edition, i. 144-5. This lady died March 9, 1576-7. 
Not printed. 

A song belonging to some dramatic version of Iphigenia is in Lansd. MS. 807. 

Iphigenia : A tragedy by J. Dennis. 4to, 1700. 

This was brought out at Little Lincoln's Inn Fields, but was condemned 
without paying the expense of the dresses. The scene is a wild country on the 
top of a mountain before the temple of Diana Taurica. The epilogue was wriiten 
by Colonel Codrington. 

Iphis, ComOBdia : An unpublished drama of the seventeenth century, 
by Henry Bellamy, probably founded on the story in Ovid's Alctam. 
viii., and dedicated to Dr. Juxon, president of St. John's College, 
Oxford. MS. in 4to. 

Sotheby's (Bishop Percy), April 29, 1884, No. 88. 

Iphis and lanthe ; or, a Marriage Without a Man : A comedy. 
Entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, June 29, 1660, 
under the name of Shakcspear. It was never printed. Compare 
Galathea. 

Irena: 4to, 1664. 

This tragedy has a prologue and epilogue, but it does not appear to have been 
acted. 

The Irish Gentleman : 

A play mentioned in Shirley's Poems (Works by Dyce, vi. 4QI). 

The Irish Knight : Sec Cutwell. 



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The Irish Masque: By Ben Jonson. Acted at Court in 1613-14. 
Folio, 161 6, 1640. 

The Irish Rebellion : A play with this title was acted about 1623, but 
is not now known. 

Sir H. Herbert licensed a "new play " by John Kirke, under this title, June 8, 
1642. He notes having received from the same writer £z alraut the same time 
for another new play, which he burneil on account of " the ribaldry and offence " 
in it. 

The Iron Ag'e : Containing the Rape of Helen : The Siege of Troy : 

The Combat betwixt Hector and Ajax : Hector and Troilus slain 

by Achilles, etc. In two parts. 4to, 1632. 

The second part includes the deaths of Penthesilea, Paris, Priam, and Hecuba, the 

burning of Troy, and the deaths of Agcmemnon, .Menelaus, Ciytemnestra, Helen, 

Orestes, Egisthus, Pyiades, King Diomed, Pyrrhus, Cethiis, Synon, and Thersites. 

There should be a duplicate title to Part I. 

The Island Princess : A tragi-comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
Folio, 1647. 

The Island Princess : A tragicomedy by Nahum Tate, altered from 
Beaumont and Fletcher, and acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1687. 
Dedicated to Lord VValdegrave. 

The Island Princess ; or, the Generous Portuguese : An opera by 
P. Motteux. 4to, 1699, 1 701. 

This is only the principal parts of Fletcher's Island Princess formed into an 
opera, and performed at the Theatre Royal. The scene lies mthe Spice Islands; 
and the music was composed by Daniel Purcell, Clarke, and Leveridge. The 
original music to this opera is preserved in MS. Addit., B. M., 15,318. It is in 
full score, with the libretto, and is apparently the theatrical copy, as the names 
of several performers are prefixed to the songs, many of which were published 
separately. Compare Generous Portuguese. 

The Island Queens ; or, the Death of Mary Queen of Scotland : .A. 
tragedy by J. Banks. 4to, 1684. 

This piece was prohibited the stage ; for which reason the author thought 
proper to publish it, in defence of himself and his tragedy. It was reprinted in 
1704, with the title of The Albion Queens; or, the Death, etc. To this edition 
are the names added of Wilks, Booth, Oldfield, Porter, etc., in the dramatis 
persona. 

The Isle of Dog's : A comedy, written in 1597, but not published. By 
Thomas Nash. 
In his Lenten Stuff, 1599) Nash says, that having begun the induction and first 
act of it, the other four acts, without his consent, or the least guess at his drift or 
scope, were supplied by the players. What the nature of this piece was, we 
cannot learn ; but the consequence of it was very serious to poor Nash, who 
was, as he says, sequestered from the wonted means of his maintenance, and 
obliged to conceal himself for near two years, part of which time he resided at 
Yarmouth, and there wrote the pamphlet above-mentioned. The company who 
played it were also restrained. See Ilenslowe's Diary, p. 99 ; and Bacon's Con- 
ference of Pleasure, ed. Spedding, xiv. and xxii. 

The Isle of Gulls : As it hath been often played in the Black Friars, 
by the Children of the Revels. By John Day. 4to, 1606, 1633. 

This is a very good play, and met with great success. The plot is taken from 
Sydney's Arcadia. It derives its name from the circumstance of nearly all the 
characters in it being gulled. There were two issues in 1606. 



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Israel : An interlude performed at Cambridge on the subject of the 
Children of Israel, 1352. 

In the year 1352, the guild of Corpus Christi in Cambridge acted an interlude 
or play Filioruvi Israel, to the acting of which William de Lynne and Isabella 
his wife, both of that fraternity, gave half a mark. — Cole's MSi>. 

The Italian Husband : A tragedy by Edward Ravenscroft. 4to, 
1698. Acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields. The scene, Radiano in 
Italy. 

Besides the prologue, there is prefixed to this play what the author calls a 
prelude, being a dialogue between the poet, a critic, and a friend of the poet. 
The epilogue was written by Jo. Haines. The plot is taken from the history of 
Castruccio and Gloriana, in a collection of stories, entitled Tlie Glory of (Sod's 
Revenge agahtst Miirther, by Thomas Wright, 1685. 

The Italian Nig-ht Piece ; or, the Unfortunate Piety : By Philip 
Massinger. Licensed for the stage, June 13, 1631, and acted by 
the King's Company. 

It was entered at Stationers' Hall, .September 9, 1653, but is not at present 
known. It is in Warburton's list. 

Ite in Vineam ; or, The Parable of the Vineyard : A comedy by John 
Bourchier, Lord Berners. Written about 1525, and performed, 
according to Bishop Bale, at Calais. 

Ixion : A masque, included in Ravenscroft's play of the Italian Husband, 
J 698. 

Mears attributes it to W. Taverner. 

Jack and Gill : A play acted before Queen Elizabeth and her Court in 
1568, alluded to in MS. Harl. 146. 

See Collier, i. 193. 

Jack Drum's Entertainment. Or The Comedy of Pasquil and 
Katharine. As it hath been sundry times played by the Children 
of Paul's. 4to, 1601, 1616, 1618. 

It was licensed in July, 1600, as having been then already acted by the 
Children of Paul's. The incident of Mammon poisoning Katharine's face 
resembles Demagoras's treatment of Parthenia in Argalus and Parthenia. 
According to E. Pudseye's Note-Book, written in the early part of the seven- 
teenth century, this drama was the composition of John Marston. It has 
hitherto been regarded as anonymous. See Halliwell-Phillipps's sale catalogue, 
July, 1889, No. 1257. 

Jack Juggler : A New Interlude for children to play named Jack 
Juggler, both witty and very pleasant. Newly imprinted. 410 

[1563]- 

It was entered on the registers of the Stationers' Company in 1562-3. This 
and 7'hersites first occur, so far as I am aware, in a Catalogue of Jiooks and 
Tracts on sale by R. Triphook, St. James's Street, about 1820, Nos. 325-6, and 
again in a Catalogue of Rare Old Plays, sold at Sotheby's rooms, April 12, 1826, 
Nos. 141-2. I believe that they came from Lee Priory, the scat of Sir Egerton 
Brydges. Ilaslewood, in the introduction to his reprint of them both, for the 
Kf)xbiirgh Club, 1820, is very mysterious as to their then whereabouts. 

It is curious that in the only known cojiy there are two loose ilujilicate leaves, 
exhibiting slight literal differences. Reprinted in Ilazlitt's Uodsley. 



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Jack Straw : The Life and Death of Jack Straw, a notable Rebel in 

England, who was killed in Sniithfield by the Lord Mayor of 

London. 410, 1593, 1604. In four acts only. 

The plot is founded on the history of Jack Straw, as related in the chronicles. 

This play, which Mr. Fleay assigns to Peele, was entered on the registers of the 

Stationers' Company by John Danter, Octoljer 23, 1593. 

Jacob and Esau : A new, merry and witty Comedy or Interlude, 
newly imprinted, treating upon the History of Jacob and Esau, 
taken out of the 27th Chapter of the first Book of Moses, entitled 
Genesis. 4to, 1568. Written in metre. 

In the title-page are "The Partes and Names of the Players, who are to be 
considered to be Hebrews, and so should be apparailed with Attire." Reprinted 
in Hazlitt's Dodsley. 

James the Fourth : The Scottish History of James IV. slain at 
Flodden, intermixed with a pleasant Comedy presented by Oberon, 
King of Fairies. By Robert Greene. 4to, 1598. 

The design of this piece is taken from the history of that king, who lost his 
life at Flodden in 1513 ; for farther particulars of which, see Buchanan and other 
Scots historians. There is, probably, an earlier edition of this play, as it is 
entered on the books of the Stationers' Company by Thomas Creede, May 14, 
1594. In the editions of Cireene. Compare King of Fairies. 

King- James his Entertainment at Theobalds : with iiis Welcome 

to London. Together with a Salutatory Poem. By John Saviie. 
4to, 1603. 

Jane Shore : See Shore. 

Janus : A masque presented at Court in 1573. 

See a curious notice of it in Cunningham's Revels' Accounts, p. 35. 

Jason and Medea : 

In the Defence of Cony-Catching, 1592, the anonymous author seems to refer 
to the subject as if he had witnessed its performance on the stage. 

The Jealous Husbands : See Rambling Justice. 

The Jealous Lovers : A comedy by Thomas Randolph. Presented 

by the students of Trinity College, Cambridge. Scene, Thebes. 

4to, 1632, 1634, and in the collected editions. 

This play is commended by no fewer than four copies of English, and six of 

Latin, verses from the most eminent wits of both universities ; it was revived 

with great success in 1682. 

Jenkins' Love Course : A droll formed out of Shirley's School of 
Compliment, and printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 

Jephtha : 

A tragedy taken, says Warton, H.E.P. by Hazlitt, iii. 303, from the eleventh 




and Bishop of Chichester. It was, probably, composed as a Christmas play for 
the same society. 



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Jephtha : Jephihes sive Votum, Tragcedia, by George Buchanan, 
published at Paris in 1554. 
A French translation was made in 1556. An English translation of it, by 
W. Tait, appeared in 1750. 

Jephtha : A play by Anthony ISIunday and Thomas Decker, acted in 1 602. 

Compare yKif^e. 

Jephtha's Rash Vow : A puppet-show performed at Bartholomew 

Fair in 1698. 
Mentioned in Sorbiere's Journey to London in that year. In a notice of its 
performance, at the same fair in 1701, it is called JephiJia's Rash Vow, or the 

Virgin Sacrifice; and when it was pla\-ed in 1704, Penkethman and Bullock 
took the characters of Toby and Ezekiel. 

The First Part of JePOnimo : With the Wars of Portugal and the 
Life and Death of Don Andrrea. By Thomas Kyd. 4to, 1605. 
Reprinted in Hazlitt's Dodsley. 
It was written about the year 1588. See Collier's Hist. Dram. Poet., iii. 207. 

Jerusalem : 

A play acted at the Rose Theatre in 1591 and 1592. It may have been a first 
draft of Heywood's Four Prentices of London. 

The Jew : 

A play, the subject of which was the "greediness of worldly chasers, and the 
bloody minds of usurers," mentioned in Gosson's School of Abuse, 1579, as having 
been played at the Bull. Mr. Fleay thinks it was the same as the Three Ladies 
of London ; but it was too early for Wilson. 

The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta : As it was played 
before the King and Queen in His Majesty's Theatre at Whitehall, 
by Her Majesty's Servants at the Cock-Pit. Written by Christopher 
Marlowe. 4to, 1633, and in the Works. The scene, Malta. 

Edited by Thomas Heywood. Acted at the Rose Theatre, February 26, 
1591-2, and at the Newington Theatre in June, 1594. AUeyn played Barabas. 

This play was licensed for the press. May 17, 1594, but was not published till 
many years after the author's (k-ath, and we have the text, as it was presented 
before the King and Queen at Whitehall by the Cock-pit comjiany about 1625, 
at which time it met with very great and deserved applause, with the prologue 
and epilogue annexed to this edition of it. 

The Jew of Venice : By Thomas Decker. This play was entered at 
Stationers' Hall, September 9, 1653, but has not been ])rinted. 

The probability seems to be that tliis otherwise unknown drama is identical 
with that registered supra under the title of Bear a Brain, a corrupt misnomer, 
which we have presumed to translate or interpret Barahbin, perhaps the designa- 
tion of the Jew in tiie piece. Decker'syif-c of Venice was apparently anterior to 
Shakespear s production. 

The Jews' Tragedy ; or, their fatal and final Overthrow by Vespasian 
and Titus his Son : By William Heminge. 4to, 1662. 

This play was not printed till some years after the author's death. The plot is 
founded on Josephus. 

The Jeweller of Amsterdam ; or, the Hague : A play by John 
Fletcher, Nathaniel Field, and Philip Massinger. Entered at 
Stationers' Hall, April 8, 1654, but not printed. 
This drama may have related to the murder of John de Wely, merchant- 
jeweller of Amsterdam, in 1616, of which Hazlitt's Collections and Notes supjrly 
the particulars under Netherlands. The two assassins were executed at the Hague. 



Jew-Joh PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 121 

The Jewish Gentleman : A jjlay by Richard Brome, entered on ihe 
books of the Stationers' Company, August 4, 1640, but not 
printed. 

Joan is as Good as my Lady : A play by Thomas Hcywood, written 
late in the year 1598, but not printed. 

Job: 

A play which ColHer makes out to be "Jube the Sane" is described in one of 
the injured Cotton MSS. as having been perf(jrmed at the marriage of Lord 
Strange to the daughter of the Earl of Cumberland, temp. Edward VI. 

See Collier's Annals of the Stage, i. 146. The title should possibly be Job 
the Saitit. 

Job : The History of Job, by Robert Greene. Entered at Stationers' 
Hall, 1594, but not printed. 

This piece is in Warburton's list. 

Job's Afflictions : A tragedy by Ralph Radcliff. Not printed. 

Jocasta : A tragedy written in Greek by Euripides, translated and 
digested into Act by George Gascoigne and Francis Kinwelmershe 
of Gray's Inn, and there by them presented, 1566. A folio MS., 
dated 1568, formerly in the Guildford and Corser Collections. 

This is the earliest English version of the Plucnisscc. The scene, Thebes. It 
is preceded by "the order of the dumme shewes and musickes before every 
acte." In all the editions of Gascoigne. 

Jocondo and Astolfo : A comedy by Thomas Decker, entered at 
Stationers' Hall the 29th of June, 1660, but not printed. 
It occurs in the list of Warburton's MS. plays. 

John of Gaunt : " The famous historye of John a Gaunte, sonne of 

Kinge Edwarde the third, with his conquest of Spayne, and 

marriage of his 2 daughters to the Kings of Castile and Portugale." 

Licensed to Edward White in 1593. 

See Herbert's Ames, p. 1201. Not known in type. But in 1601 W. Rankins 

and R. Hathway received 43s. from Henslowe in part-payment of a play called 

I'he Conqiiest of Spain by John of Gaunt, which looks like a recension of the 

older piece, or, from the price paid, perhaps a new production on the 

subject. 

A Merry Play between John the Husband, Tyb his Wife, and 
Sir John the Priest, by John Heywood. Folio, 1533. 
A facsimile reprint has been made by Whittingham. 

The Book of John a Kent and John a Cumber : A comedy by 
Anthony Munday, 1595, printed from the Mostyn MS. by J. P. 
Collier, for the Shakespear Society, 1851. 

Mr. Fleay seems to recognise a performance of this drama under an entry by 
Henslowe of December 2, 1594, where he records a piece called the Wise Man oj 
Chester. Elsewhere the diarist repeats the piece as the Wise Man of West 
Chester. 

I breakfasted at Ihompton with Mr. IIalliwclirhiIlip])S, December 18, 1886, 
and he told me of the tine collection of old plays bouncl \\\i in volumes at Glod- 
daeth, a seal ol the Mostyns in North Wales, near Llandudno. 

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122 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Joh-Jou 

King' John : A dramatic piece, by Bishop Bale. 

The original MS. is preserved in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, 
and has been printed by Mr. Collier for the Camden Society, 1838, 4to. 

King" John : The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England, with 
the Discovery of King Richard Cordelion's base Son, vulgarly 
named the Bastard Fawconbridge ; also the Death of King John 
at Svvinstead Abbey. As it was (sundry times) publicly acted by 
the Queen's Majesty's players in the honourable City of London, 
etc. 4to, 1 59 1. 
In two parts. The second narrates the death of Arthur Plantagenet, the 
landing of Louis, and the poisoning of John at Swinstead. 

It was republished in 4to, 161 1 and 1622, with the letters W. Sh. prefixed to 
it, that it might be mistaken for the work of Shakespear, who has made very 
slight use of it in his play on the same subject. In Hazlitt's Shakespear s Library. 

King' John : A tragedy by Shakespear. Folio, 1623. 

King" John and Matilda : A Tragedy. As it was Acted with great 
Applause by her Majesty's Servants at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane. 
Written by Robert Davenport. 4to, 1655, 1662. 
Andrew Pennycuicke, the actor, who published the first edition, himself acted 
the part of Matilda. This play belonged to the Cock-pit Company in 1639. 

John Cox of Collumpton : A tragedy by William Haughton, assisted 
by John Day. AVriiten in 1599, and acted in November of that 
year, but not printed. 
See Collier, Hist, of Dram. Poetry, 183 1, iii., 50. The play was founded on 
a local murder. 

John SwabheP : I'he Humours of John Swabber, a droll printed in 
the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 

John the Baptist : A Brief Comedy or Interlude of John Baptist's 
Preaching in the Wilderness. Compiled Anno 15 38. By John 
Bale. 4to, n.d. Reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany, ed. Park. 

John the Baptist : A tragedy by James Wedderburn, acted at the 
West Port of Dundee in or about 1540. 

See Irving's Scottisli Poetry, 1861, ch. 21, and Laing's repr. of Dundee Psalms, 
1868, X. 

John the Baptist : A Latin tragedy by George Buchanan. See 
J^aptisics. 

Jonas : A tragedy by Ralph Radcliffe. Not printed. 

The Conversion of Sir Jonathas the Jew by the blessed Sacra- 
ments, acted at Croxton. A MS. miracle-play of the fifteenth 
century in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. 

Joshua : By Samuel Rowley. Acted by the Lord Admiral's Servants, 
1602. Not now known. 

The Jousts of the Month of May [and June] : Parfurnished and 

l)one by Charles UraiKloii, Tlioinas Knyvcli, (}iles Capell, and 
William Hussy. With their Aids against all comers. The xxii. 
year of the reign of our Sovereign lord King Henry the Seventh. 
4to [? W. de Worde or R. Pynson, 1508]. 

Reprinted in Hazlitt's Early Popular Poetry. 



Jov-Jul PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 123 

A Jovial Crew ; or, the Merry Begi^ars : Presented in a Comedy at 
the Cockpit in Drury Lane in the year 1641. Written by Richard 
Brome. 4to, 1652, 1684, 1686. 

Dedicated to Thomas Stanley. In Brome's Dramatic Works. 

The Joyful Receiving* of the Queen's most excellent Majesty 
into her Highness's City of Norwich : The things done in 
the time of her abode there, and the dolour of the City on her 
departure. AVherein are set down divers Orations in Latin pro- 
nounced to her Highness by Sir Robert Wood Knight, now Mayor 
of the said City . . . every of them turned into English. By 
Bernard Garter and others. 4to [1578]. 

Reprinted by Nichols. Compare Discourse of the Enieriainmeiit. 

Judas : A play written by Samuel Rowley and William Borne. Acted 
in 1 601. Not printed. 

The Judge : A comedy by Philip Massinger, acted by the King's Com- 
pany. 

Licensed, June 6, 1627. It is in Warburton's list. Was this an alteration of 
Jephtha ? 

Judicium, a Pageant, forming one of the Towneley or Widkirk Series 
of Mysteries. Edited for the Roxburghe Club by F. Douce. 
4to, 1822. 

Judith and Holofernes : A droll mentioned by John Locke, the 
celebrated philosopher, in a letter dated 1664, as acted at Bar- 
tholomew Fair. 

It was acted at the same fair at least as lately as 1732 ; and there is a picture 
of the booth, with some of the actors, in a curious fan of 1728, on which are 
represented some of the chief scenes of the fair. 

Jugurtha : A play written by William Boyle early in 1601. 

Ilenslowe advanced ^^3 los. to W. Bird to pay Boyle for it, February 9, 
1 600- 1, on the understanding that the money was returnable, if the piece was not 
approved. 

The following notice of it occurs in Sir Henry Herbert's Diary under May 3, 
1624: " An old play, called Jugurth, King of Numidia, formerly allowed by Sir 
George Bucke." This play, he adds, was destroyed by fire, with many others. 

The Tragedy of Julia Ag-rippina the Roman Empress : By 

Thomas May. i2mo, 1639, 1654. The scene, Rome. 
The plot is taken from Tacitus and Suetonius. It was acted in 1628. 

The Comedy of Julia and Julian : In rhyming couplets, and 
divided into acts and scenes. 
An unpublished MS. early seventeenth century, forming part of a common- 
place book in oblong i2mo, shown to me at Sotheby's, May 9, 1887, by Mr. 
John Bohn. 

Julian [or Gillian] of Brentford: Acted at the Rose Theatre, 
January 5, 1592-3. Not now known. 

Julian the Apostate : Acted at the Rose Theatre, April 29, 1596. 

A drama so called was acted in the seventeenth century at the Quarry, near 
Shrewsbury. 



124 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Jul-Kin 

Juliana, Princess of Poland. A tragi-comedy by John Crowne. 4to, 
167 1. Acted at the Duke of York's Theatre. 

This was the first, and indeed the most indifferent, of Crowne's pieces. The 
story is founded on history, and the scene laid at Warsaw in Poland, at the 
meeting of the Ban and Areer Ban, armed in the field, for the election of a king. 

Julius CaBSaP : A Latin tragedy by Dr. Geddes, Chaplain to Queen 
Elizabeth. Performed at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1582. 

Julius Caesar : 

Machyn, in his Diary, p. 276, has a passage, which has been interpreted (I 
think, wrongly) to mean that there was a play on this subject as early as 1562. 

Julius Caesar : A tragedy by Sir W. Alexander, Earl of Stirling. 4to, 
1604, 1607 ; and in the collected works, 1637, 1870. 

Julius Caesar: A tragedy by Shakespear. Folio, 1623. 

In Mr. Fowle's sale at Sotheby's, June 13, 1870, an imperfect MS. of Shake- 
spear's play on this subject, supposed to be a transcript made in the time of 
Charles II., was bought for Mr. Hallivvell-Phillipps. It was said to vary from 
the printed editions. 

Julius Caesar : A Latin tragedy by Thomas May. 

The original MS. of this play, which is in five short acts, was in the possession 
of Stephen Jones. The author has affixed his name at the conclusion of the 
piece. 

The Just General : A tragi-comedy, written by Major Cosmo 
Manuche. 4to, 1652. Dedicated to the Earl of Northampton 
and Isabella, his wife. Scene, Sicily. 

This piece does not appear to have been acted. 

The Just Italian : A tragi-comedy by Sir W. Davenant. Acted at the 
Black Friars. 4to, 1630. Scene, Florence. 

Justice Busy ; or, the Gentleman Quack : A comedy by J. Crowne, 
acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields about 1699. 

Not printed ; but the songs introduced into it were published separately, with 
the music. Downes, who alone mentions it, says it was " well acted, yet proved 
not a living play : however, Mrs. Bracegirdle, by a potent and magnetic charm 
in performing a song in it, caused the stones of the streets to fly in the tnen^s faces." 

Kermophus : A Latin play performed before the University of 
Oxford. 

The Kind Keeper ; or, Mr. Limberham : A comedy by J. Dryden, 
acted at the Duke's Theatre. 410, 1680. 

This play was intended as an honest satire against the crying sin of keeping. 
The author has borrowed some of his incidents from l-Vench and Italian novels ; 
f(jr instance, Mrs. .Saintly discovering Woodall in the chest, is taken from 
Cynthio's Novels, ])art i. Dec. 3, Nov. 3 ; and Mrs. Brainsick pinching and 
pricking him, from Bremond's Jriumph of Love over Fortune. Tiie scene lies 
at a ijoarding-house in London. 

A King" and no King* : A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. 410, 
1619, 1625, 1631, 1655. 

This drama was acted before the Court in 161 1 by the King's Players. It 
was also acted at the (jlobc and the Black I'riars. Scene, Iheria. 



Kin-Kna PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 125 

The King" and Queen's Entertainment at Richmond, after their 

Departure from Oxford ; in a Masque presenled by the most 
illustrious Prince, Prince Charles, September 12, 1636. 4to, 
1636. 

The occasion of this masque was the Queen's desire of seeing the Prince dance, 
who was then not much above six years old. The dances were composed by 
Simon Hopper, the music by Charles Colman ; and the parts of the Captain and 
Druid were performed l)y the then Lord Buckhurst and Edward .Sackville. 
Written in the Wiltshire dialect. 

The King" and the Subject : A play by Massinger, produced in June, 
1638, but the title afterward altered. 

Malone thought that it might have been the Tyrant under an altered title. 
See a note in Fleay, pp. 360-1. 

King" Freewill : A tragedy, translated from the French by Francis 
Bristovve, 1635. 

A MS. in private hands. 

The King of Fairies : 

This is mentioned as one of two pieces, with which Lord Pembroke's men (or 
Lord Worcester's) had ^^ ant i eked it up and down the country," in Nash's Preface 
to Greene's MenapJion, 1589. It was probably some short drama on the subject 
of Oberon, and may have afforded suggestions to Shakespear in his later pro- 
duction. Compare ya7//f5 IV. 

The King" of Scots : A tragedy performed before the Court in 1568. 

Collier's Annals of the Stage, i. 195. Compare Robert the Second. 

The King" of Swedland : See Gustavus. 

The King's Entertainment at Welbeek, in Nottinghamshire, a seat 
of the Earl of Newcastle, at his going to Scotland in 1633, by Pen 
Jon son. Folio, 1640. 

The King's Mistress : This play was entered on the books of the 
Stationers' Company, September 9, 1653, but seems not to have 
been printed. 
Some music for a piece so called is in Add. MS. B.M. 10,444, fol. 108. 

A Most Pleasant and Merry New Comedy Intituled a Knack to 
Know a Knave : Newly set forth, as it hath sundry times been 
played by Ed. Allen and his Company. With Kemp's applauded 
merriments of the men of Gotham, in receiving the Kmg into 
Gotham. 4to, 1594. Not divided into acts. In Hazlitt's Dodsley. 
This piece forms one of the links between the moralities and the comedy. 

Ilenslowe records a performance of it in 1592. The serious part is the story 

of Edgar, Athelvvold, and Elfridn. 

A Pleasant Conceited Comedy, called, A Knack to Know an 
Honest Man : As it hath been sundry times played about the 
City of London. 4to, 1596. The scene, Venice. 

The piece is not divided into acts. It was entered on the books of the 
Stationers' Company, November 26, 1596, by Cuthbert Burby. It was first 
acted in 1594. 



126 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Kna-Lab 

The Knave in Grain ; or, Jack Cottington : A play entered on the 
books of the Stationers' Company, June i8, 1639, but probably not 
printed. 
This drama, which was acted at the Red Bull between 1636 and 1639, may have 
had some connection with the famous chimney-sweeper, John Cottington, other- 
wise Miild Sack, of whom there is an account in Smith's Lives of Higlnvaymen, 
1 7 14, iii. 118. He figures in a tract of 1620. 

The Knave in Grain New Vampt : A witty Comedy acted at the 
Fortune many days together with great Applause. By T. D. 
4to, 1640. Scene, A'enice. 
The incident of Julio cheating his drunken guests is repeated by Head in his 
English Kogtie, part iii., ch. 13 ; and that of his cheating the countryman of the 
piece of gold is in the Account of the Hard Frost of 1684, Svo, p. 41. But, con- 
trary to the usual custom, these writers have taken those incidents from the play, 
instead of tlie play being founded on their writings. 

A Knave in Print ; or, One for Another : A comedy by William 
Rowley. Entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, 
September 9, 1653, but not now known to exist. 
See The Knaves. 

Knavery in all Trades ; or, the Coffee-House : A comedy. As it 
was acted in the Christmas Holidays by several Apprentices with 
great Applause. By John Tatham. 4to, 1664. 

The Knaves : A play, in two parts, by William Rowley, acted at 
Whitehall in 161 3 before the Count Palatine and the Lady 
Elizabeth. 

The History of the Knight in the Burning" Rock shown at 

Whitehall on Shrove-Sunday at night, enacted by the Earl of 

\Varvvick's servants, furnished in this office with sundry garments 
and properties. —AVr^/j-' Accounts, 1578. 

The Knig-ht of Malta : By Beaumont and Fletcher. Folio, 1647. 

The Knight of the Burning" Pestle : A Comedy. By Beaumont 
and Fletcher. 4to, 1613, 1635. 
From the dedication of the first edition of this play it appears to have been 
written in 161 1, and not well received when acted on the stage ; it is noticed in 
Davics's Scourge of Folly, supposed to have been published in that year. 

After the Restoration it was revived with a new prologue, spoken by Nell 
Gwyn, instead of the old one in prose, which was taken verbatim from that before 
Lyly's Sapho and J'hao. The citizen and his wife introduced on the stage in this 
play are probably in imitation of the four gossips, lady-like attired, in Ben 
Jonson's Staple of News, who remain on the stage during the whole action, and 
criticize each scene. The title-page of the edition of 1635 gives it "as it is now 
acted by her Majesties .Servants at the Private House in Drury Lane." 

A Masque of Knights, performed at Court in 1578. 

See a curious notice of it in Cunningham's R<-7>cls' Accotinis, p. 126. 

The Knot of Fools : A play acted at Whitehall in May, 161 3. 

The Labyrinth ; Or, The T'^atal Embarrassment : An adaptation from 
Corneille. 

\ play so called is noticed by I'epys, under May 2, 1664 : " l!y coach to tlic 
King's I'lny house, the Lal)yrinth, to see the prettiest jilay, methinks, thai ever I 
saw, there being nothing in it but the oild accidents that fell out by a lady's being 
bred u]i in man s apparel, and a man in woman's." 



Lab-Lad PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 127 

LabyPinthus Conioeclia, habita [1622] coram Serenisii. Regc Jacobo 
in Academia Cantabrigiensi. 121110, 1636. 
A M.S. in the public lil)rary al Cambridge ascribes this piece to Ilawkeswortli, 
a fellow of Trinity College. There are other copies of it in MS. Douce 315 ; 
MS. Cantab. Ee. v. 16; MS. Lambeth 838. 

Ladies a la Mode : 

" To the King's Playhouse, to see a new play, acted but yesterday, a translation 
out of French by Dryden called the Ladys a la Mode ; so mean a thing as, when 
they came to say it would be acted again to-morrow, both he that said it, Beeson, 
and the pit, f^^U a-Luighing, there being this day not a ([uarter of the pit full." — • 
I'epys' Diary, September 15, 1668. This performance does not seem to be 
otherwise known, or to have been printed, unless it was Flecknoe's Dainosclles a 
la Mode, 1667. 

The Ladies' Masque : The Masque of Ladies, ill three parts, conducted 
by Lady Hay. 

This masque was performed at Court early in the year 1618. See Add. MS. 
B.M. 10,444. 

The Ladies' Privilege : A comedy by Hen. Glapthorne, acted at 
Drury Lane, and twice at Whitehall, before their Majesties. 4to, 
1640. Scene, Genoa. 

Reprinted in Glapthorne's Works. 

The Ladies' Trial : A tragi-comedy by John Ford, acted at Drury 
Lane. 4to, 1639. The scene, Genoa. 
The prologue is subscribed by Bird ; but whether it was written, or only 
spoken, by him, is not apparent. This play was revived at the Duke's Theatre 
in 1669. 

Ladrones ; or. The Robbers Island : An opera in a Romansike ^Vay, 
by Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmoreland. Unpublished MS. of 
the seventeenth century, with a map drawn in pen and ink. 

Sotheby's, July 17, 1888, No. 1054. Among the dramatis persomt occur 
Magellan, Drake, Cavendish, etc. 

Lady Alimony ; or, the Alimony Lady : An Excellent Pleasant New 
Comedy duly Authorized, duly Acted, and frequently Followed. 
410, 1659. In Hazlitt's Dcdsley. 
By the words "daily acted " on the title, we are to understand that the play 
was a portraiture of practices in common vogue. 

Lady Barbara : 

" Lady Barbara showen on Saint Johns day at nighte by Sir Robert Lanes 
men." — Revels' Aecounts, 1571. 

The Lady Contemplation : xA comedy in two parts by the Duchess 
of Newcastle. Fol., 1662. 
Three scenes in the first, and two in the second part, were written by the 
Duke. 

The Lady Errant: A tragi-comedy by W. Cartwright. 8vo, 1651. 
The scene, Cyprus. 

Written before 1634. One scene is taken from Aristophanes. 

Lady Jane [Grey] : A play, in two parts, by Henry Chettle, ni con- 
junction with Decker, Heywood, Smith, and Webster. Both parts 
were acted in 1602. Not printed. 



128 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Lad-Lan 

The Lady Lucy's Masque : Seventeenth century. Addit. MS. B.U. 

10,444. 

Probably an entertainment superintended by Lucy, Countess of Carlisle. 

The Lady Mother : An anonymous piece of the seventeenth century. 
Egerton MS. B.M, 1994. 
The MS. was sold among Lord Charlemont's books at Sotheby's in 1865. 
Mr. A. H. Bullen ascribes it to Glapthorae. It appears to have been acted at 
Salisbury Court between 1633 and 1636. 

The Lady of Pleasure : A comedy by James Shirley, acted at the 

Private House, Drury Lane. 4to, 1637. Scene, the Strand. 

The incident of Kickshaw being with Aretina, and thinking her the devil, is a 

circumstance that this author has also introduced into his Grateful Se>~'ant, and 

Mrs. Behn has copied in her play of the Lucky Chance. This play was licensed 

in October, 1635, and met with great success on representation. 

The Lady of the May : A Masque by Sir PhiHp Sydney. 

This piece was presented to Queen Elizabeth, in the gardens at Wanstead in 
Essex, 157S, and is printed at the end of the Arcadia. Reprinted in Nichols' 
Progresses of Elizabeth, ed. 1823, ii. 94. 

Lselia : A Latin play, acted at Queen's College, Cambridge, in 1590. 
There is a copy of it in MS. Lambeth S3S. 

The Lame Commonwealth : A droll formed from Beaumont and 
Fletcher's Beggars Bush, printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 
1672. 

The Lancashire Witches, and Teague ODivelly the Irish Priest : 
A comedy by Thomas Shadsvell. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 
4to, 1682. 

This play was produced, according to Downes, in 1681. 

The Late Lancashire Witches : A comedy by Thomas Heywood, 
acted at the Globe. 4to, 1634. 
The author was assisted by Richard Brome in the composition of this play. 
The foundation of it in general is an old English novel ; but that part of it in 
which Whetstone, through the means of his aunt, revenges himself on Arthur, 
Shakstone, and Bantam, for having called him Bastard, is borrowed from the 
Histor)' of John Teutonicus, of Halberstadt, in Germany, who was a known 
bastard and a noted magician, and whose story is related at large by the author 
in his Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels, lib. viii., p. 512. 

Landg'artha : A Tragic-Comedy, as it was presented in the new Theatre 
in Dublin with good applause, being an Ancient Story, By Henry 
Burnell. 4to, Dublin, 1641. Scene, Suevia or Suethland. 

The plot of the play is founded on the Swedish history, being the conquest ol 
Fro (or Frnllo) King of Sweden, by Regner (or Reyner) King of Denmark, with 
the repudiation of Regner's Queen Landgartha. 

Landg'artha ; or, the Amazon Queen of Denmark and Norway : An 
Entertainment, designed for their Royal Highnesses the Prince and 
Princess of Denmark, by Joshua Barnes. 

MS. in the library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It is on the same 
story as the former, and the author has noted that it was finished May 29, i68j, 
almost a month before the nuptials of their Royal Highnesses. 



Lan-Lea PLAV-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 129 

The Landlady : A droll founded on the Chances of Beaumont and 
Fletcher, and printed in the IVits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 

Lasander [Lysander] and Calista : See Wandering Lovers. 

A New Trag-edy called, A Late Murther of the Son [Nathaniel 
Tyndale] upon the Mother : P^y John Ford and John Webster. 
Mentioned by Sir H. Herbert under September, 1624. 
See Hazlitt's Haiidlwok, v. Tyndale. 

The Late Revolution ; or, the Happy Change : A tragi-comedy acted 
throughout the English dominions, in the year 1688. 4to, 1690. 

The Launching of the Mary : Written by W. M. Gent in his return 
from East India, hp. 1632. Or the Seaman's honest wife. Egerton 
MS. B.M. 1994. 

The seaman's wife is called Dorothea Constance. 

Attached to this MS. was the original license by Sir Henry Herbert: "This 
Play, called y<= Seaman's honest wyfe, all y*^ oaths left out in y<= action as they 
are crost in y" booke, and all other Reformations strictly observed may be acted 
not otherwyse, this 27 June, 1633. — Henry Herbert." "I command your 
Bookeeper to present mee with a fairer cojiy hereof, and to leave out all Oathes, 
prophaness, and publick Ribaldry, as he will answer it at his perill. — 
H. Herbert." 

The Law against Lovers : A tragi-comedy by Sir W. Davenant. 
Folio, 1673. The scene, Turin. 

This play, which met with great success, is a mixture of the two plots of 
Shakespear's Measure for Measure and Much Ado about Nothing. The charac- 
ters, and almost the whole language of the piece, are borrowed from that author ; 
all that Sir William has done being to blend the circumstances of both plays 
together, so as to form some connection between the plots, and to soften and 
modernize those passages which appeared obsolete. 

The Law Case : See Devil's Law Case. 

The Laws of Candy : A tragi-comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
Folio, 1647. Scene, Candia. 

The Laws of Nature : See Three Laws of N'ature. 

Law Tricks or, Who Would have Thought it ? As it hath been divers 
times acted by the Children of the Revels. By John Day. 4to, 
1608. 
Herbert, who licensed this play in March, 1607-8, transposes the two titles. 

Lazarus Rais'd from the Dead : A comedy by Bishop Bale. 

This is one of those pieces mentioned in his own list of his writings. 

Leander : A Latin play, first acted at the University of Caitibridge in 
1598, and again in 1602. 

There are MS. copies in the University and Emmanuel College libraries at 
Cambridge; in the British Museum, MS. Sloane 1762; and in the Bodleian 
Library, MS. Rawl. Miscell. 341. The name of William Johnson, perhaps that 
of the author, occurs on the fly-leaf of the last copy. 

Lear: Acted at the Rose Theatre, April 6, 1593, by the Queen's men 

and Lord Sussex's together. 

This is the old play on the subject of Lear, previous to Shakespear's. The 

earliest known edition is entitled the True Chronicle History of King Leir, 4to, 

1605; but it appears to have been licensed to Edward White in 1593. See 

Herbert's Ames, p. 1201. 

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Leap : Mr. William Shakt-spear his true Chronicle History of the Life 
and Death of Kma; Lear and his three Daughters ; with the un- 
fortunate Life of Edgar, Son and Heir to the Earl of Gloucester, 
and his sullen and assumed humour of Ton of Bedlam. As it was 
played before the King's I\Lijesty at Whitehall upon St. Stephen's 
Nij'ht in Christmas Holidays. By His Majesty's Servants, playing 
usually at the Globe on the Bank Side. 410, 1608, 1655. 
There are two editioir^ of this play in 1608, the first having the puhlisher's 
address, and the other wiihout it ; the latter by far the rarer. It is a singular 
circumstance that no two copies of the first of these editions, of those few that 
are known to exist, agree precisely in their readings ; bat all the known copies of 
the other edition of 1608 are identical. The character of Cordelia may have 
been under obligations to that of An:igone in the I'hcnissit of Euripides, trans- 
lated in 1566 by Gascoigne. 

Leap : A tragedy by N. Tate, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1681. 

This is an alteration of Shakespear's Js^ing Lear. 

Leo Apmenus : Sive luJit in humanis divina poteniia rebus. A Latin 
tragedy. MS. in the University Library, Cambridge. 

The LiaP : See Mistaken Beauty. 

The LibePtine : A trageily by Thomas Shadwell, acted by their 
IMajesties Servants. 4to, 1676, 1692. 

This play, an adaptation from the Spanish, met with great success, although 
the author says that its compositioa scarcely occupied three weeks. Part of 
Purcell's music to this tragedy is preserved in MS. Addit. B. M. 5333. 

The Life of ApthUP : A play by Richard Hathway, written in 1598. 

He received twenty shillings of Henslowe on April II, in that year, "in 
earnest of a boake cald the Lyfe of Artur king of England, to be delivered one 
Thursday next following." In another place, it is called the Life and Death of 
King Arthur. 

Like Fathep, Like Son : 

In 16S2 was issued a broadside entitled, "A Prologue by Mrs. Behn to her 
new Play called. Like Father, Like Son, or the Mistaken IJrothers, spoken by 
Mrs. Butler." 

Like unto Like : A play acted at the Rose Theatre in 1600. 

An Inteplude, entituled, Like Will to Like, quoth the Devil to the 

CuUicr, very godly and full ot pleasant Mirth. Wherein is declared 
not only what i'uuishtnent foUowcth those that will rather follow 
licentious Living than to esteem and follow good Counsel ; and 
what great Benelits and Commodities they receive that apply them 
unto virtuous Living and good l^xercises. Made by Ulpian l-'ulwell. 
4to, 1568, 1587. In Ha/.liit's Dodsley. 

Ling'Ua ; or, the Combat of the Tongue and the five Senses for 
Superiority: A Pleasant Comedy. 4to, 1607, n.d., 1617, 1622, 
1632: 8vo, 1657; and in Hazlitt's Dodsley. The scene, Micro- 
cosmus, in a grove. 

Winstanley attributes it to Anthony Brewer, and tells us moreover that, on it 
being performed once at Trinity College, in Cambridge, Oliver Cromwell acted 
the part of Tartns in if, fiom wliich he fust imbibed his sentiments of ambition. 



Lit Lon IT.AY-COLLECTORS MANUAL. 131 

The Little French Lawyer : A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
Folio, 1647. The scene, France. 

The plot of this jilay is taken from Gitsvinii de Aljarache ; or, the Spanish 
I\Oi^uc ; the story of Dinant, ( leremont, and Laiiiira, hcing borrowed from that 
of Do>i Leiois de Castro and Don A'odcrigo dc Moiitalva. 

The Little Thief: See Night Walker. 

Locrine : The lamentable Tragedy of Locrine, the eldest Son of King 
Brutus, discoursing the wars of the Britons and Huns, with 
their discomfiture ; the Britons' victory, with their accidents ; and 
the death of Albanact. No less pleasant than profitable. Newly 
set forth, overseen, and corrected by W. S. 4to, 1595. 

This play has been incorrectly attribuied to Shakespear. The initials W. S. 
probably refer to Wentworth Smith ; but the author is supposed to have been 
Charles Tylney. See Hazbtt's Handbook, ii)67, v. Tylncy. 

Lodovick Sforza, Duke of Milan : A tragedy by Robert Gomersall. 
i2mo, 1628, 1632. The scene, Milan. 

The story of this play is to be found in Guicciardini, Philip de Coniines, and 
Mezeray, in the reign of Charles VIII. of France. 

Loiola : 12 mo, 1648. Scene, Ainsterdam. 

This Latin comedy may be ascribed to Dr. Racket, and by the prologues 
appears to have been acted first Feb. 28, 1622, and afterward before Kmg 
James I., March 12, 1622, at Cambridge. This play was written in ridicule of 
the Jesuits. 

The London Chanticleers : A Witty Comedy, full of various and 
Delightful Mirth. Often Acted with great applause, and never 
before Printed. 4to, 1659. 
This piece is rather an interlude than a play, but it is curious, the characters 
being London criers. In Hazlilt's Dodsky. It was probably written in 1636. 

The London Cuckolds : A comedy by Edward Ravenscroft, acted at 
the Duke's Theatre. 410, 1682. 
This play met with very great success, and was, till the year 1751, frequently 
presented on our stages ; particularly on Lord Mayor's day, in contempt and to 
the disgrace of the city. It appears from Poems by W. C, 8vo, 1684, that this 
drama was performed at Hull in November, 1683, the prologue bcii:g by the said 
W. C, and being included in his volume. 

The London Florentine : A play, in two parts, by Henry Chettie, 
assisted by T. Hey wood ; acted in 1602. Not now known. 

The London Gentleman : A comedy by Edward Howard, entered 
on the books of the Stationers' Company, August 7, 1667, but not 
printed. 

The London Merchant : A play by John Ford, entered on the books 
of the Stationers' (Company, June 29, 1660 : it is in Warburton's list. 
A play so called, however, is cited in the Knight of the Burning Peslle, 
written in or about 161 1. 

The London Prodigal : As it was played by the King's Majesty's 
Servants. By William Shakespear. 4to, 1605. 
Falsely attiibuted to Shakespear. 



132 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Lon-Lon 

London's Love to the Royal Prince Henpy, meeting him on the 

River of Thames, at his Return from Richmond, with a worthy 
Fleet of her Citizens, on Thursday the last of May, 1610. With a 
Brief Report of the Water Fight and Fireworks. 4to, 16 10. 

London's Tempe ; Or, The Field of Happiness. In which Field are 
planted several Trees of Magnificence, State, and Beauty, to cele- 
brate the Solemnity of the Right Honourable James Campbell, at 
his Inauguration into the Honourable Office of Pr^etorship or 
Maioralty of London, on Thursday the 29 of October, 1629. All 
the pirticular Inventions ... At the sole Cost and liberal Charges 
of the Right worshipful Society of Ironmongers. Written by 
Thomas Decker. 4to, 1629. 

London's Jus HonoraPium, expressed in sundry Triumphs, Pageants, 
and Shews, at the Initiation or entrance of the Right Honourable 
George Whitmore. . . . All the charge and expense being the sole 
undertaking of the Right Worshipful the Society of the Haber- 
dashers. By Thomas Heywood. 4to, 1631. 

Londini Artium et Scientiarum Origo : London's Fountain of 

Arts and Sciences; expressed in sundry Triumphs, Pageants and 
Shews, at the Initiation of the Right Honourable Nich. Raynton, 
ill the Majorahy of the famous and far-renowned City of London. 
All the Charge and Expense of the Laborious Projects, both by 
Sea and Land, being the sole Undertaking and Charge of the Right 
WorshipfuU Company of Haberdashers. Written by Thomas Hey- 
wood. 4to, 1632. 

Londini Emporia ; or, London's Mercatura, expressed in sundry 
Triumphs, Pageants, and Shows, at the Inauguration of the Right 
Hon. Ralph Freeman, all the charge and expense being the under- 
taking of the Right Worshipful Company of the Clothworkers. 
By 'P. Heywood. 4to, 1633. 

Londini Sinus Salutis ; or, London's Harbour of Health and Happi- 
ness : I^xpressed in sundry Triumphs, Pageants, and Shows, at the 
Initiation of the Right Honourable Christopher Clethrowe into the 
maioralty of the far renowned City London. All the charges and 
expenses of this present ovation being the sole undertaking of the 
Right Worshipful Company of the Ironmongers. Tne 29 of 
October, 1635. Written by Thomas Heywood. 8vo, 1635. 

An interesiing and curious account of the iieij;()ciation with the Ironmongers' 
Court for the jirdduction of this show, for wliich Heywood and another person, 
named John Christmas, received ;^i8o inclusive, may be found in the History of 
the Com|)any Ijy Nichol, edit. 1S66, pp. 222-3. The Comi)any was to have 500 
copies of the printed account. 

Londini Speculum ; or, London's Mirror, Mxprest in sundry Triumphs, 
Pag ants, and Shows, at the Initiation of the Right Honorable 
Richard Fenn, into the Maioralty of the famous and far renowned 
City London. All the Charge and Ivxpense of these labt)rioiis ])ro- 
jects both [)y Water and Land being the sole Undertaking of tlie 
Riglit Worshipftil Company of the Haberdashers. Written by Tho. 
Heywood. 410, 1O37. 



Lon-Lon TLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 133 

Londini Status Pacatus ; or, London's Peaceable Estate. Exprest 
in sundry Triumphs, Pageants, and Shews, at the Initiation of the 
Right Honourable Henry Garway into the M fjoralty of the famous 
and far renowned City London. All the Charge and Expence 
of the Liborious Projects, both by ^\'ater and Land, being the sole 
Undertakings of the Right Worshipful Society of Drapers. Written 
by Tiiomas Heywood. 4to, 1639. 

London's Triumph ; Or, The Solemn and Magnificent Reception 
of that Honourable Gentleman, Robert Tichborn, Lord Mayor : 
After his return from taking the Oath at Westminster, the morrow 
after Simon and Jude day, being October 29, 1656. With the 
Speeches spoken at Fosterlane-end and Soperlane-end. By J[ohn] 
B[ulteel]. 4to, 1656. 

This pageant was at the charges of the Skinners' Company. 

London's Triumphs : Celebrated the 29th day of this present month 
of October, 1657, In Honour of the truly Deserving Richard 
Chiverton, Lord Mayor of the City of London, at the Costs and 
Charges of the Worshipful Company of Skinners. By J. Tatham. 
4to, 1657. 

London's Triumph, Presented by Industry and Honour : with 

Other Delightful Scenes, appertaining to them : Celebrated in 
Honour of the Right Honourable Sir John [reton. Knight, Lord 
Mayor of the said City, on the 29th Day of October, 1658. And 
done at the Cost and Charges of the Worshipful Company of 
Clothworkers. By John Tatham. 410, 1658. 

London's Triumph, Celebrated October 29, 1659, in honour of the 
much honoured 'I'homas Allen, Lord Mayor of the said City, pre- 
sented and personated by an European, an Egyptian, and a Persian, 
and done at the Costs and Charges of the ever to be honoured 
Company of Grocers. By J. Tatham. 4to, 1659. 

London's Glory : Represented by Time, Truth, and Fame ; at the 
magnificent Triumphs and Entertainment of His Most Sacred 
Majesty Charles the II., the Dukes of York and Glocester, the 
Two Houses of Parliament, Privy Council, Judges, etc., at Guild- 
hall, on Thursday, being the 5th Day of July, 1660, and in the 
1 2th Year of His Majesties most happy Reign. Together with the 
Order and Management of the whole Day's Business. By J. Tatham. 
4to, 1660. 

London's Triumphs Presented in several delightful Sccenes, both 
on the Water and Land, and celebrated in Llonour to the deservedly 
honored Sir John Frederick, Knight and Baronet, Lord Mayor 
of the City of London. At the Costs and Charges of the Worship- 
full Company of Grocers. By John Tatham. 4to, 1661. 

London's Triumph : Presented In severall Delightful Sccenes, both 
upon the Water and Land : and Celebrated in Honour of the truly 
Loyal and known Deserver of Honour, Sir John Robinson, Knight 
and Baronet, Lord Mayor of the City of London. At the Costs 
and Charges of the \\'orshipt'ull Company of Clothworkers. 410, 
1662. 



134 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Lon-Lon 

Londinum Triumphans ; or, London's Triumph : Celebrated in 
Honour of the iruly-deserving Sir Anthony Bateman, Knight, 
Lord Mayor of London, and done at the Costs and Charges ot the 
Worshipful Company of Skmners, on the 29th of October, 1663. By 
John Tatham. 410, 1663. 

London's Triumphs: Celebrated the 29th of October, 1664; in 
Honour of the truly D. server of Honour, Sir John Liwrence, 
Knight, Lord Maior of the Honourable City of London ; and per- 
formed at the Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of 
Haberdashers. Written by John Tatham, Gent. 4to, 1664. 

London's Resurrection to Joy and Triumph : Expressed in 

sundry Shews, Shapes, Scenes, Speeches, and Songs in Parts. 
Celebrious to the much-meriting Magistrate Sir George Waterman, 
Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. At the peculiar and 
proper Expenses of the Worshi|jful Company of the Skinners. The 
King, Queen, and Duke of York, and most of the Nobility being 
present. Written by Thomas Jordan. 4to, 1671. 

Some copies were printed without a mention of the Court being present, and 
without the concludinL; leaf on which the account is given. 

London Triumphant ; or, the City in Jollity and Splendour ; Ex- 
pressed in various Pageants, Shapes, Scenes, Speeches, and Songs : 
Invented and performed for Congratulation and Delight of the 
Well-deserving Sir Robert Hanson, Knight, Lord ALiyor of the 
City of London. At the Cost and Charges of the Worshipful 
Company of Grocers : His Majesty gracing the Triumphs with his 
Royal Presence. Written by Tho. Jordan. 4to, 1672. 

Copies vary in the title, and some do not mention the King's presence. His 
Majesty dined after the proceedings at Guildhall. 

London in its Splendour ; consisting of Triumphant Pageants, 
whereon are represented many persons richly arrayed, properly 
habited, and significant to the Design. With several Speeches, 
and a Song, suitable to the Solemnity. All prepared for the 
Honour of the prudent ]\Ligistrate, Sir William Hooker, Knight, 
Lord Mayor of the City of London : at the peculiar Expenses of 
the Worshipful Company of Grocers. As also a description of his 
Majesty's Royal Entertainment at Guildhall, by the City, in a plenti- 
ful Eeast, and a glorious Banquet, ^^'rittcn by Tho. Jordan. 
4to, 1673. 

London's Triumphs : Express'd in sundry Representations, Pageants, 
and Shows, perlormed on Monday, October 30, 1676, at the 
Inauguration and Instalment of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas 
Davies, Kt., Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a true 
Description of the several Scenes and Habits of the Rejjresenters, 
with the Speeches s|)oken on each Pageant. All the Charge and 
Ex{)enses of the Industrious Designs being the sole Undertaking 
of the Ancient and Right Worshijjful Society of Drapers. Being the 
Second Year without Interruption. Devised and Composed by 
'I'ho. Jordan. 410, 1676. 



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London's Triumphs: illustrated with many Magnificent Structures 
and Pageants ; on which are orderly advanced several stately 
Representations of Poetical Deities, sitting and standing in great 
splendor on several Scenes in Proper Shafics. W^ith Pertinent 
Speeches, Jocular Songs (sung by the City Musick), and Pastoral 
Dancing. Performed October 29, 1677, for the Celebration, 
Solemnity, and Liauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Francis 
Chaplin, Kni^;ht, Lord Mayor of the City of London. All the 
charge and Ex])enses of the Industrious Designs, being the sole 
Undertaking of the Ancient and Right Worshipful Society of 
Clothworkers. Designed and composed by Tho. Jordan, Gent. 
4to, 1677. 

London in Lustre : Projecting Many Bright Beams of Triumph : dis- 
posed into several Representations of Scenes and Pageants. Per- 
formed with great Splendor on Wednesday, October 29, 1679. At 
the Liitiation and Instalment of the Right Honourable Sir Robert 
Clayton, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. Dignified 
with divers delightful Varieties of Presentors, with Speeches, 
Songs, and Actions, properly and punctually described. All set 
forth at the proper Cost and Charges of the Worshipful Company of 
Drapers. Devised and composed by Tho. Jordan, Gent. 4to, 1679. 

London's Glory ; or, the Lord Mayor's Show : Containing an Illus- 
trious Description of the several Triumphant Pageants on which 
are represented Emblematical Figures, Artful pieces of Architecture, 
and Rural Dancing, with the S|)eeches spoken in each Pageant : 
also Three new Songs ; the first in Praise of the Merchant Taylors ; 
the second, the Protestants' Exhortation ; and the third, the 
plotting Popish Litany ; with their proper Tunes, either to be 
sung or played. Performed on Friday, October 29, 1680, for the 
Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir Patience Warde, 
Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. At the proper Cost 
and Charges of the Right Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. 
Invented and composed by Tho. Jordan, Gent. 4to, 1680. 

London's Joy ; Or, The Lord Mayor's Show : Triumphantly Exhibited 
in Various Representations, Scenes, and Splendid Ornaments, with 
divers pertinent Figures and Movements. Performed on Saturday, 
October 29, 1681. At the Inauguration of the Right Honourable 
Sir John Moore, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. 
With the Several Speeches and Songs which were spoken on the 
Pageants in Cheapside, and sung in Guildhall during Dinner. All 
the Charges and Exj^enses of the industrious designs being the sole 
Undertaking of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. Devised and 
composed by Tho. Jordan, Gent. 4to, 1681. 

London's Royal Triumph for the City's Loyal Mag'istrate : In 

an Exact Description of several Scenes and Pageants, Adorned 
with many Magnificent Representations. Performed on Wednes- 
day, October 29, 1684. At the Instalment and Inauguration of the 
Right Honourable Sir James Smith, Knight, 1 -ord Mayor of London. 



136 PLAY-COLl.ECTOR'S MANUAL. Lon Lon 

Illustrated with divers Delightful Objects of Gallantry and Jollity, 
Speeches and Songs, Single and in Parts. Set forth at the proper 
Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. 
Devised and composed by Tho. Jordan, Gent. 4to, 1684. 

London's Annual Triumph : Performed on Thursday, October 29, 
16S5. For the Enteriamment of the Right Honourable Sir Robert 
Jeffreys, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. With a 
Description of the several Pageants, Speeches, and Songs, made 
proper for the Occasion. All set forth at the proper Costs and 
Charges of the Worshipful Company of Iron-mongers. Composed 
by Matt. Taubman. Printed and Published by Authority. 4to, 
1685. 

London's Yearly Jubilee: Performed on Friday, October 29, 1686, 
for the Entertainment of the Right Honouraole Sir John Peake, 
Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. With a Description 
of the several Pageants, Speeches, and Songs, made proper for the 
Occasion. All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of 
the Right Worshipful the Company of Mercers. Composed by 
j\I. Taubman. 4to, 1686. 

London's Triumph, Or The Goldsmith's Jubilee : Performed on 
Saturday, October xxix., 1687. For the Confirmation and Enter- 
tainment of the Right Honourable Sir John Shorter, Knight, Lord 
Mayor of the City of London. Containing a Description of the 
several Pageants and Speeches . . . together with a Song for the 
Entertainment of His Majesty. ... All set forth at the proper 
Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. 
By M. Taubman. Folio, 1687. With four etchings illustrative of 
the ceremony. 

London's Anniversary Festival : Performed on Monday, October 
29, 1688, for the Entertainment of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Chapman, 
Knt., Lord Mayor of the City of London ; being their great Year 
of Jubilee: with a Panegyric upon the Restoring of the Charter; 
and a Sonnet provided for the Entertainment of the King. By 
M. Taubman. 4to, 1688. 

The Mercers' Pageant. 

London's Great Jubilee, Restored and Performed on Tuesday, 
October the 29th, 1689, for the Entertainment of the Right 
Honourable Sir Thomas Pilkington, Kt., Lord Mayor of the City 
of London. Containing a Description of the several Pageants 
and Speeches, together with a Song, for the Entertainment of Their 
Majesties, who, with their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess 
of Denmark, the whole Court, and both Houses of Parliament, 
honoured his Lordship this Year with their Presence. All set forth 
at the i)ropcr Costs and Charges of the Right Worshipful Company 
of Skinners. By Matthew Taubman. 4to, 1689. 
This pageant was revived in 1761 on the occasion of the visit of George III. 

to the City, when Sir T. Fludyer entered on office, and it was printed the same 

year in 8vo. 



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Long" Meg" of Westminster: Acted at the Rose Theatre, by the 
Lord Admiral's men, Febriury 14, 1595. Not printed. 
Field, in his Amends for Ladies, i6l8, speaks of the play of Long Meg being 
acted at the Fortune. 

A very merry and pithy comedy called The Longer thou 

Livest, the more Fool thou art : A Mirror very necessary for 

Youth, and specially lor stich as are like to come to dignity and 

promotion. As it may well appear in the matter following. Newly 

compiled by W. Wager. 4to [1570]. 

Gosson, in his Plays Confuted (1581), seems to speak of this drama as then in 

course of performance, or as having been recently acted, and refers to " a bawdy 

song of a maid of Kent" as sung in it. Roxb. Lib., repr., p. 189. 

Long'Shank : See Edivard Longshanks. 

Look About You : A comedy acted by the Lord High Admiral's 
servants. 4to, 1600. 
This is a diverting play, and the plot of it is founded on the English historians 
of the reign of Henry 11. One of the characters is Robin Hood. In Hazlitt's 
Dodsley. 

Look to the Lady : A comedy by James Shirley, entered on the books 
of the Stationers' Company, March 10, 1639. 

A Looking'-Glass for London and England : A tragicomedy by 
Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene. 4to, 1594, 1598, 1602, 1617. 
The plot is founded on the story of Jonah and the Ninevites in sacred history. 
Henslowe records a performance of it, March 3, 159 1-2. 

Lord Cromwell : The Chronicle History of Thomas Lord Cromwell. 
4to, 1602, 1613. 
It is stated on the title-page of the second edition to be " written by W. S.," 
initials falsely attributed to Shakespear. 

The Lord and Lady of Hunting'don's Entertainment of their 
right noble mother, Alice, Countess Dowager of Derby, the first 
night of her Honour's arrival at the house of Ashby : Dedicated 
by John Marston to Alice, Countess of Derby. MS. at Bridgewater 
House. 

The Lord Hay's Masque : Seventeenth century. Addit. MS. B.M. 

10,444. 

The Lord Mayor's Show : Being a Description of the Solemnity at 
the Inauguration of the truly loyal and Right Honourable Sir 
William Prichard, Knt., Lord Mayor of the City of London, 
President of the Artillery Company, and a Member of the Wor- 
shipful Company of Merchant-Taylors. Performed on Monday, 
September 30, 1682, with several new loyal Songs and Catches. 
[By Thomas Jordan.] 4to, 1682. 

The Lord's Supper and Washing" the Feet : A comedy by Bishop 
Bale, mentioned by himself in the list of his works. 

The Lost Lady : A tragi-comedy by Sir William Barclay. Folio, 
1638. 

Reprinted in Hazlitt's Dodsley. See Shakespear Society, ed. of Marriage of 
Wit and Jl'isdonr, p. 85. 

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The Lost Lover ; or, the Jealous Husband : A comedy by Mrs. De la 
Riviere Manley, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1696. 

Louis the Eleventh : 

A play called, " the History of Lewis the eleventh King of France, a trage- 
comedy," is included in a list of books, " very lately printed, or now in the press 
now printing," by N. Brook, at the end of the New World of English Words, 
and A^afs upon Parnassic^, both published in 1658. It is also mentioned in a 
similar list at the end of Hit and Drollery^ 1661, and Lovedays Letters, 1662. 

Love : The Play of Love, an interlude by John Heywood. 4to, John 
Walty [about 1555]. 

No copy of an earlier edition has yet occurred. 

Love a la Mode : A comedy. As it was lately Acted with great 
Applause at Middlesex-House. Written by a Person of Honour. 
4to, 1663. 

This comedy, which was acted at Middlesex House with great applause, is 
said, in the title-page, to have been written by a person of honour, and, according 
to his preface, which is signed T. S., in the first year of the Restoration. The 
author was probably T. Southland, a relative of Sir R. Colbrand, Bart. 

Love and a Bottle : A comedy by Geo. Farquhar, acted at Drury 
Lane. 4to, 1699. 

The part of Mockmode seems to be borrowed from the Bourgeois GcutiUiovime 
of Moliere. It seems that, on the production of this play, " the facetious 
Jo. Haynes composed an epilogue, and spoke it in mourning." The scene is 
laid at London. 

Love and Fortune : See Rare Triumphs. 

Love and Friendship : A play by Sir William Killigrew. Folio, 1666. 

Love and Honour : A tragi-comedy by Sir W. Davenant, acted at the 
Black Friars. 4to, 1649. The scene, Savoy. 

This play deservedly met with very good success. It was originally called the 
Courage of Love, and also bare the title of the Noiipareillcs ; or, the JMatchless 
Maids. Downes tells us, that it was very richly clothed ; the King giving 
Betterton his coronation-suit, in which he acted the part of Prince Alvaro ; the 
Duke of York giving his to Harris, in which he performed Prince Prospero ; and 
Lord Oxford his to Price, who acted Leonel. 

In the folio edition, 1673, ^""^ several omissions and alterations. 

Love and Reveng'e : A tragedy by Elk. Settle, acted at the Duke's 

'Fheatre. 410, 1675. 

This play is in great measure borrowed from Ileminge's Fatal Contract, the 
plot of which, as well as of this piece, is founded on the French chronicles of 
Mezeray, De Serrcs, etc. Settle, in his postscript, very harshly attacks Shad- 
well, who has answered him as severely in his preface to the Libertine. There 
is a MS. copy, dated 1694, in MS. Harl. 6903. 

Love and Riches Reconciled : See Love's a Lotu-ry. 
Love and War : A tragedy by Thomas Meriton. 410, 1658. 

This i)iccc was never acted. 

Love at First Sig-ht : 

" Sir W. Pen and I to the Theatre, but it was so full that we could hardly get 
any room, so \vc went up to one of the boxes, and there saw Love at First Sight, 
a play of Mr. Kiiligrew's, and the first time that ii liaih been acted since bclore 



Lov-Lov PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 139 

the troubles, and great expectation there was, but I found the play to be a 
poor thing, and so I perceive every body else do." — I'epys' Diary, Novembc, 
1661. 

Love Crowns the End: A pastoral by John Tatham, 1632. Scene, 
a grove, wherein is Lover's Valley. 

This was acted by, and we suppose written for, the scholars of Bingham in 
Nottinghamshire, in the year 1632. It was printed at the end of Fancies Theatre, 
1640 and 1657, is very short, and not divided into acts. Prefixed to the volume 
are no fewer than thirteen copies of verses by Brome, Nabbes, etc. In the 
edition of 1657 it is called a tragicomedy. 

Love Despised : See Cupid's Revenge. 

Love for Love : A comedy by W. Congreve. 4to, 1695. 

The music to this comedy was composed by Eccles. It was performed at 
Lincoln's Inn Fields. 

Love for Money ; or, the Boarding-School : A comedy by The. Durfey, 
acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1691, 1696. Scene, Chelsea, by 
the river's side. 

Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly : A masque by Ben 
Jonson, acted before the Queen at Christmas, 1610. Folio, 161 6, 
1640. 

A curious account of the cost of this entertainment is printed in Cunningham's 
Life of Inigo Jones, p. 10. 

Love hath Found out His Eyes : A play by Thomas Jordan, entered 
on the books of the Stationers' Company, June 29, 1660. It is in 
^Varburton's list. 

Love in a Maze : See Chaiiges. 

Love in a Nunnery : See Assignation. 

Love in a Tub : See Comical Revenge. 

Love in a Wood ; or, St. James's Park : A comedy by ^V. Wycherley, 
acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1672, 1694, 17 11. 

Love in its Extasy ; or, the Large Prerogative : A dramatic pastoral 
by William Pcaps. 410, 1649. Scene, Lelybseus. 
This piece was composed by the author when a student at Eton, being then 
not seventeen years of age, but was never acted, and not printed till many years 
after. 

Love in the Dark ; or, the Man of Business : A comedy by Sir 
Fra. Fane, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1675. The scene, 
Venice. 

This is a busy and entertaining comedy, yet is the plot borrowed from various 
novels : the affair of Count .Sfcrza and Parthelia being from Scarron's Invisible 
Mistress; the affair of Bellinganna, Cornanto's wife, sending Scrutinio to 
Trivultio to check him for making love to her, from Boccaccio, Day iii., Nov. 3 ; 
which has also been made use of by 15en Jonson, in his Devil's an Ass, and by 
Mrs. Centlivre, in her Busy Body. Hircanio's wife catching him wiih Bell.n- 
ganna, is built on the story of Socrates and his wife Mirto, in the Loves of great 
Men, p. 59 ; and Trivultio seeming to beat Blelinganna, is grounded on 
Boccaccio, vii. 7. From the character of Intrigo Mrs. Centlivre seems to have 
borrowed the hint of her Marplot. 



I40 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Lov-Lo^ 

Love Lies a Bleeding" : See Phikuier. 

Love Lost in the Dark ; or, the Drunken Couple : A droll taken from 
Massinger, printed in the Ahtse of Newmarket, 4to, 1680. 

The Love of a Grecian Lady : See Turkish Mahomet 

The Love of King" David and Fair Bethsahe : With the Tragedy 
of Absolon. As it hath been divers Times played on the Stage. 
Written by George Peele. 4to, 1599. 

Hawkins observes that it abounds in luxuriant descriptions and fine imagery 
and that the author's genius seems to have been kindled by reading the Prophets, 
and the Song of Solomon. Tt is certainly a drama of considerable merit, and is 
of course included in Peele's Works. 

Love Parts Friendship : A play by Henry Chettle, assisted by Went- 
worth Smith. Acted in 1602. Not now known. 

Love Prevented: A play by Henry Porter. Acted in 1598. Not 
printed. 

Love Restor'd, in a Masque at Court : Acted by gentlemen the King's 
servants, Christmas, 16 13. By Ben Jonson. Folio, 1616, 1640. 
This was prepared to celebrate the marriage of the Earl of Somerset to Lady 
Essex. Compare Challenge at Tilt. 

Love will Find Out the Way : See Constant Maid. 

The Lover's Cure : 

According to Whincop, Chaves' comedy of the Cares of Love was so called. 
Chttwood and Baker give it under the same title, with the date of 1700. The 
Cares of Love, or a Night's Adventure, was published in 1705, without any 
indication of it having appeared earlier, or under a different title. The author 
speaks of it, in a dedication to Sir William Read, as "my first dramatic essay." 

The Lover's Luck: A comedy by Thomas Dilke. 4to, 1696. 
Acted at Little Lincoln's Inn Fields with general applause. 
Scene, London. 

The Lovers' Melancholy : A tragi-comedy by John Ford, acted at 
Black Friars and the Globe. 4to, 1629. 

This play is highly commended in four copies of verses by friends of the author ; 
in reference to which the following lines occur in one copy in a contemporary 
handwriting : 

"Jack Ford, these youngsters shew, methinks, great folly, 
In commending thy Lovers' IMelanclioIy." 

The Lovers of Ludgate : A play, included among those said to 
have been destio}ed by U'arburton's servant. 

The Lovers' Prog"resS : A tragi-comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, 
Fclio, 1647. The scene, France. 

The plot of this play, which is but an indifferent one, is founded on a French 
romance, called IJsaiutcr and Calista, vriiten by Daudiguier ; in its existing 
state it is a recension by Mnssinger. It af>pear> to be the same tlrama as CIcartder, 
licensed as Massinger's, May 7, 1637, and whiJi Henrietta Maiia had seen at 
I'lackfriars, May 18, 1634. It is also n'ost probably the jiicce cited in Sir 
Ihini|ihiey Mildmny's Diary under 1634 as Lasaiider\l ysandcr and Ca!is(a\ 

Love's Adventures: A comedy, in two paits, by the Duchess of 
Newcastle. I'ulio, 1662. 



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Love's Aftergame : See Proxy. 

Love's a Jest : A comedy by p. Motteux. 410, 1696. 

This piece was acted with success at the Theatre in Little Lincoln's Inn P'ielcls. 
In the two scenes in which love is made a jest, the author has introduced many 
passages from the Italian writers. The scene is laid in Hertfordshire. 

Love's a Lottery, and a Woman the Prize : A comedy by Joseph 
Harris, acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to, 1699. The scene, 
London. 

Annexed to this is a masque entitled Love and Riches Reconciled. 

Love's Changeling's Changed : A play of the seventeenth century 
founded on the story of Musidorus and Pyrocles in Sydney's Arcadia. 
Egerton MS. B.M. 1994. 

From the Charlemont sale in 1865. Printed by IJulkn. 

Love's Cruelty : A tragedy by James Shirley, acted at the Private 
House, Drury Lane. 4to, 1640. Scene, Ferrara. 

Licensed in November, 1631. The concealment of Hippolito and Ciariana's 
adultery from her servant, tlirough the contrivance of her husband Bcllamente, 
is taktn from the Ileftanieron, Day 4, Novel 6, and Cynthio's Hecato)nithi, 
Dec. 3, Nov. 6. 

Love's Cure ; or, the Martial Maid : A comedy by Beaumont and 
Fletcher. Folio, 1647. The scene, Seville. 

Love's Dominion : A dramatic piece by Richard Flecknoe. i2mo, 
1654. 

It is said in the title page to have been " written as a pattern for the Reformed 
Stage," and to be "full of excellent morality." The scene lies in Amathante, in 
Cyprus. 

Love's Hospital : As it was acted before the King and Queen's 
Majesties by the students of St. Jo. Baptist's College in Oxon, 
August 29, 1636. By George Wilde, LL.B. Scene, Naples. 
Addit. MS. B.M. 14,047. 

Probably the same as Tlie Lovers'' Hospital, noted at p. 85 of Shakesp. .Soc. 
ed. of Marriage of Wit and Wisdom. See also Corser's Collectaiiea, part vi., 
p. 461. 

The Love-Sick Court ; or, the Ambitious Politique : A comedy by 
Richard Brome. 8vo, 1658. The scene, Thessaly. 

The Love-Sick King : An English Tragical history, with the Life and 
Death of Cartesinunda, the Fair Nun of Winchester. By Anth. 
Brew'er. 410, 1655. 

The historical part of the plot is founded on the invasion of the Danes in the 
reigns of Ethelred and Alfred. The scene lies in Englan I. It was revived in 
1680 at the King's Theatre under the title of the Perjured Nun. 

The Love-Sick Maid; or, the Honour of Young Ladies: A comedy 
by Richard Brome. Entered on the books ot the Stationers' Com- 
pany, September 9, 1653, but not printed. 

It was licensed by Sir Henry Herbert, February, 162S-9, and acted at Court 
by John Hemings' Company in that year. 



142 PLAY COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Lov-Lov 

Love's King'dom : A pastoral tragi-comedy by Richard Flecknoe. 
Not as it was acted at the Theatre near Lincoln's Inn, but as it was 
written and since corrected, with a Short Treatise of the English 
Stage, etc. i2mo, 1664, 1674. Scene, Cyprus. 
This is little more than Loves Dominion, altered by its author, with the addi- 
tion of a new title. 

Love's Labour's Lost : A Pleasant Conceited Comedy Called, Love's 
Labour's Lost. As it was presented before her Highness this last 
Christmas. Newly corrected and augmented by W. Shakespear. 
Acted at the Black Friars and the Globe. 4to, 1598, 1631 ; folio, 
1623. 

Love's Labour's Won : See AlVs Well that Ends Well. 

Love's Labyrinth ; or, the Royal Shepherdess : A tragicomedy by 
Thos. Ford. 8vo, 1660. Scene, Arcadia. 
It is uncertain whether this play was ever acted or not. Part of it is borrowed 
from Gomersal's tragedy of SJorza. 

Love's Last Shift ; or, the Fool in Fashion : A comedy by C. Cibber, 
acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1696. 

This was the first attempt of Cibber as an author. 

Love's Load-Stone : See Pathomachia. 

Love's Martyr ; or, Wit above Crowns : A play by Mrs. Anne Wharton. 
Entered at Stationers' Hall, February 3, 1685, but probably not 
printed. 

The authoress, in her dedication, says that this play "never deserved nor was 
ever designed to be public." A M.S. in private hands. 

Love's Masterpiece : A comedy by Thomas Heyvvood. Entered at 
Stationers' Hall, May 22, 1640. 

Probably the same as Love's Mistress, See infrd. 

Love's Metamorphosis : A witty and courtly Pastoral, written by 

Mr. John Lyly. First played by the Children of Paul's, and now 

by the Children of the Chapel. 4to, 1601. 

Mr. Collier inclines to think this "was piobably the work of Lyly at an 

advanced period of life, and it has not the recommendation of the ordinary, 

though affected, graces of his style." 

Love's Mistress; or, the Queen's Masque: P>y Thomas Heyvvood. 
4to, 1636, 1640. 

This piny was three times jircscnted before both their Majesties, wiihin the 
space of eight days, in the piesence of several foreign anibassadors, besides b-jing 
publicly acted at the I'lKcnix, in Drury Lane. " When this ]ilay came tiie 
second time to the royal view," the author tells us, "her C.tacious Majisiy then 
entertaining his Ilij^hiiess at Deiiniaik House upon his liirthday, Mr. Inigo Jones 
gave an exlraordinary lustre to every act, nay almost to e»ery scene, by his 
excellent inventions ; upon every occasion chanj^ing the stage, to the admiiation 
of all the spectators." The doign of the plot is partly borrowed from Apukius's 
Golden Ass ; Apuleius and Mydas beginning the Jilay, and closing every act by 
way (j( a chorus ; hut the jiiere is said to have betn suggested by an ad\enture 
related in Pjurtoii's Analoniy of Mclanilioly, 1621, as having once happened to 
I'hili]) the Good, Duke of Burgundy, at Bruges. Reprinted in licywood's 
T)ramatic Works. 



Lov-Lov PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 143 

The Loves of Mars and Venus : By P. Motteux. Acted at Little 
Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to, 1696. 
The author in his preface owns the story lo be from Ovid, and that he has 
introduced a dance of Cyclopes which bears a resend)lance to, yet is very different 
from, Shadvvell's Psyche, which he says is borrowed almost verbatim from 
Mohere, who in his turn took his from an oKl Italian opera, called Le Nozze de 
gli Dei. The prologue, or introduction, and the first act, are set to music by 
Finger, and the second and third acts by Eccles. It was written to be inserted 
in Ravenscroft's Anatotnist. 

Love's Pilgrimage: By John Fletcher. Acted at Court in 16 13 
under a different name. In the folio of 1647. 

This is supposed by Mr. Fleay to be the same piece as The IVanderittg Lovers ; 
or, The Painter, licensed in 1623, and entered at Stationers' Hall, September 9, 
1653, as the work of Massinger, under the title of Cardenio. Probably the 
existing text exhibits Massinger's recension of Fletcher. 

The drama is founded on the novel of the T^vo Damsels by Cervantes. The 
scene between Diego of Ossuna and his ostler resembles one in Jonson's New 
Inn, and Mr. Fleay ascribes to the last-named dramatist the original alteration of 
the piece as first written by Fletcher, and performed under the title of Cardenio 
or Cardenas, and so licensed for the press in 1653. 

Love's Quarrel : 

" Creed and I to Salisbury Court, and there saw Love's Quarrel! acted the first 
time, but I do not like the design nor words." — Pepys' Diary, April 6, 1661. 

Love's Riddle : A pastoral comedy by Abraham Cowley. i2mo, 1638. 
Scene, Sicily. 

This piece was written by Cowley at a very early period of life. 

Love's Sacrifice : A tragedy by John Ford, acted at the Phoenix, 
Drury Lane. 4to, 1633. The scene, Pavia. 

This play was vvell received, and has a complimentary copy of verses prefixed 
to it by James Shirley. The author dedicates it " to my truest friend, my 
worthiest kinsman, John Ford of Gray es lone, esquire." 

Love's Triumph through Callipolis ; Performed in a Masque at 
Court, 1630, by his Majesty, with the Lords and Gentlemen assist- 
ing. The Inventors, Ben Jonson, Inigo Jones. 4to, 1630. In the 
folio of 1640. 

This masque was performed at Christmas. 

Love's Triumph ; or, the Royal Union : A tragedy by Edward Cooke. 
4to, 1678. 

This play is written in heroic verse. The plot is from the romance of Cassandra, 
part v., book 4, and the scene placed in the Palace of Roxana at Babylon. It 
never appeared on the stage. 

Love's Victory : A tragi-comedy by William Chamberlaine. 4to, 
1658. 

This play was written during the period of the civil wars. It was reproduced 
under the title of IVits Led by the Nose ; or, A Poet's Revenge, and acted at the 
Theatre Royal. 4to, 167S. 

Love's Victory : 

A pastoral drama under this title exists in MS., and copious extracts from it 
were printed in 410, 1S53. Compare Rosania. 



144 PLAV-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Lov-Luc 

Love's Welcome : The King and Queen's entertainment at Bolsover, 
at the Earl of Newcastle's. The thirtieth of July, 1634. By Ben 
Jonson, In the edition of 1640, etc. 

Love Tricks : See School of Compliment. 

Love Tpiumphant ; or, Nature will prevail : A tragi-comedy by J. 
Dryden. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1694. 
This piece was the last that Dryden wrote for the stage ; but it met with no 
success. The plot of it appears to be founded on the story of Fletcher's King 
and no King as altered by Rymer, 

Love will Find Out the Way : See Constani Maid. 

Love Without Interest ; or, the Man too hard for the Master : 
4to, 1699. 
Who was the author of this comedy is unknown ; but the dedication is sub- 
scribed by Penkethman, and is directed to six lords, six knights, and twenty-four 
esquires ; yet, notwithstanding this splendid patronage, it met with very little 
success on its appearance at the Theatre Royal. 

The Loving" Enemies : A comedy by Lawrence Maidwell, acted at 
the Duke of York's Theatre. 4to, 1680. The epilogue was written 
by Shadwell. Scene, Florence. 

The Loyal Brother ; or, the Persian Prince : A tragedy by Thomas 
Southern. 410, 1682. 

This was our author's first play. The plot of it is taken from a novel, called 
Tachnias, Prince of Persia. The prologue and epilogue are written by Dryden. 
The scene lies at Ispahan in Persia. 

The Loyal Citizens : A droll, formed out of Fhilaster, and printed in 
the IVits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 

The Loyal General : A tragedy by N. Tate. 4to, 1680. Acted at 
the Duke's Theatre. 

The Loyal Lovers : A tragi-comedy by Cosmo Manuche. 4to, 1652. 
The old committee-men and their informers are satirized in this play. 

The Loyal Subject : A tragi-comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
Folio, 1647. 

This play was licensed in 1618. It was revived before the Court in 1633. 
The scene lies at Moscow. 

Lucius : See Alucius. 

Lucius Junius Brutus, Father of his Country : A tragedy by 
Nathaniel Lee, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1681. The 
scene, Rome. 

The plot of it is partly from Florus, Livy, Dionysius Ilalicarnassus, etc., and 
partly from the romance of Clelia. The scene between V'indicius an.l the elder 
Brutus seems to bear a great resemblance to that between Hamlet and I'oloiiius. 

Giidon, in his jireface to the J^atriot, says that this play was forbidden, after 
the third day's acting, by Lord Chamberlain Arlington, as an antimonarchical 
play. 



Luc-Mac rLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 145 

The Lucky Chance ; or, An Aldermin's Bargain : A comedy by 
Mrs. Behn, acted by their Majesties Servants. 410, 1687. The 
scene, London. 

The jilot of this play is for the most part original, excepting only the incident 
of Gayman taking La<ly Fiillhank for Ihe devil, which is copied from Kickshaw 
and Aretina in the LaJy of Pleasure, by Shirley. 

Lud: 

A play of King Lud is noticed by llenslowc under the date of January 18, 
1593-4- 

Luminalia ; or, the Festival of Light : Personated in a mastitie at 
Court by the Queen's Majt:sty and her ladies, on Shrove Tuesday 
night, 1637. 4to, 1637. 

At her Majesty's command, Inigo Jone^^, who was surveyor of the board of 
works, took on himself the C(jntrivance of maciiinery for tliis mastjue, the inven- 
tion of which consisted princijjally in the contiast ot Light and Darkness, Night 
representing the anu-mas'iue or introduction, and the sul)ject of the main masque 
being Light. 

Lusiuncula : 

A Latin play, which is said to be constructed on the same story as that used in 
the tragedy of Alacbctli. 

Lust's Dominion : See Spanish Moor's Tragedy. 

An Interlude called Lusty Juventus, lively describing the Frailty 

of Youth : of Nature prone to Vice : by Grace and good Counsel 

trainable to Virtue. By R. Wever. 4to, by W. Copland, and 4to, 

by Abraham Vele [about 1560]. 

It was also licensed to John King in 1 560-1. Vele's edition exhibits corrections 

of the text. The piece was written in favour of the Reformation. Reprinted in 

Hazlitt's Dodsley. 

Lusty London : An interlude by George Puttenham, mentioned in his 
Arte of English Foesie, 1589. 

He says merely, " our interlude," and does not quite make out to my appre- 
hension that the piece was by him. Still it may be so ; for I see that elsewhere 
he applies a similar expression in referring to his own undoubted works. 

LUSUS Pastorales, newly compiled : 

Licensed to Richard Jones in 1565, but no longer known. I cannot, of course, 
say whether they were dramatic compositions or mere pastoral poems. 

Macbeth : An interlude performed before James L in 1605, at Oxford, 
and mentioned in Wake's Rex Flatonicus, 1607. 

Macbeth : A tragedy by Shakespear. Folio, 1623. 

Macbeth : A tragedy with all the alterations, amendments, additions, 
and new songs. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1674, 1687, 
1695, 1710. 

This alteration was made by Sir William Davenant. Dovvnes the prompter 
says, that Nat Lee having an inclination to turn actor, had the part of Duncan 
assigned to him on this revival, but did not succeed in it. His name, however, 
stands against the character in the printed copy. It was performed with great 
splendour. The admirable music by Lock is still retained and used in the per- 
formance of the unaltered tragedy. 

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146 PLAY COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Mac Mad 

Macbeth : E|jilogue, being a new Fancy after the old and most 
surprizing way of ALicbeth, Perform'd with new and costly Machines, 
which were invented an(i managed by the most ingenious Operator, 
Mr. Henry Wright, P.G.Q. 4to, 1674. 

This forms the latter part of the volume containing Duffett's farce of the 
Empress of Morocco, and is a sort of burlesque on the witch-scene in Shake- 
spear's play. 

Machiavel : A play acted at the Rose Theatre in 1591. 

Machiavel and ths Devil: By Robert Diborne. 1613. Not 
known. 

See Henslowe's Diary, ed. Collier, p. 22. 

Machiavellus : A Latin drama by D. Wiburne, acted at Cambridge in 
1597- 

There is a copy of it in MS. Douce 234, transcribed in the year 1600. 

The Mack : See Mawe. 

Madam Fickle ; or, the Witty False One : A comedy by Thorn is 
Darfey, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1677. The scene, 
Covent Garden. Licensed in November, 1676. 

The character of Sir Arthur Old-Love is a copy of Veterano, in the Antujuary ; 
as is also the incident of Zechiel creeping into the tavern bush, and Tilbarn 
being drunk under it, etc., of the scene of Sir Reverence Leniard and Pimpwcll, 
in the Walks of Islington and Hogsdon. There are also several hints in it 
borrowed from Marston's Parasitaster. 

The Madcap : 

A drama which is thus mentioned in Herbert's Diary, under the date of May 3, 
1624 : " For the Prince's Company a new play called the Madcap, written by 
[liarnaby] Barnes." 

A Mad Couple well Match'd : A comedy by Richard Brome. 8vo, 
1653- 

In a list of plays, belonging to the Cock-pit company in 1639, mention is made 
of one termed a Alad Couple IVell Met, which may be the same play. 

The Mad Lover : A tragi-comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Folio, 
1647. T'he scene, Paphos. 

This play is commended l)y Sir Aston Cokain, in his verses before the folio. 
The plot of Cleanthe suborning the priesiess to give a false oracle in favour ot 
her brother Syphax, is borrowed from the story of Mundus and Paulina, in 
Josephus, xviii. 4. 

The Madman's Morris : A play written by Robert Wilson in conjunc- 
tion with Decker and Drayton. Acted in 1598. Not printed. 

Mador : The History of Mador, King of Britain. By Francis Beaumont. 
l<'.ntcred on the books of the Stationers' Coinpany, June 29, 1660, 

but not printed. 

The Mad Pranks of Merry Moll of the Bankside : P>y John Day. 
Licensed in 1610. 
I conclude this to be identical with the Koarius^ Girl, printed in 161 1, and 
that Day had a share in its comjiosiiion. 



Mad-Mai PLAY-COLLECrOR'S MANUAL. 147 

Mad Tom of Bedlam ; or, the Distressed Lovers, with the Comical 
Humours of Squire Numskull : A droll by Thomas Dogget. Not 
l)rinted. 

The Mad Wooing-, Or A Way to win and tame a shrew, being the 
course a gentle. nan took to gain a young lady with a great foriune, 
on whom, by reason of her frowardnes^, none before would venture : 
A droll, extracted from the Taming of the Shrew. 

Printed in tlie Theatre of Ingenuity, 1698. 

A Mad World, My Masters : A comedy by Thomas Middletcjn. 
Acted by the Children ot Paul's. 4to, 1608, 1640. 

The title of etl. 1640 gives it "as it hath been often acted at the Private House 
in Sahsbury Court by her Majesty's servants." 

The Magnetick Lady; or, Humours Reconcil'd: A comedy by Ben. 
Jonson. Folio, 1640. 
It was licensed in October, 1632. 

" Ben Jonson (v\ho I thought had been dead) hath written a play against next 
term, called The Magnetick La ly." — Letter from John Pory to Sir The. Pucker- 
ing, September 20, 1632. 

Mag"niflcence : A Goodly Interlude and a merry, devised and made 
by Master Skelton, poet laureate, late deceased. Folio [1530]. 

Written some time after the year 1515; the poet died in 1529. Reprinted in 
Skelton's Works, ed. Dyce. 

The Magnificent Entertainment : Given to King James, Queen 

Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, upon the day of 

his Majesty's Triumphant Passage (from the Tower) through the 

Honourable City and Chamber of London, being the 15 of I^Larch, 

1603. As well by the English as by the Strangers: With the 

Speeches and Songs delivered at the several Pageants. By Tno. 

Decker. 4to, London, 1604; 410, Edinburgh, 1604. 

Of the English-printed text there were three issues, in one of which the tract 

is described as the IF/io/e MagnifuLiit Entertainment. It appears from a Notice 

to the Reader that some of the printed matter was not deliveied. 

Mahomet : See Turkish Mahomet. 

The Maiden's Holyday : A comedy by Christopher Marlowe and 
John Day. Entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, 
April 8, 1654. 

In Warburton's list it is assigned to Marlowe only. As Dyce points out in his 
Intro luction to Marlowe, 1850, it is not likely that Day wrote it in conjunction, 
though he may have completed it. 

The Maiden Queen : See Secret Love. 

A Maidenhead well Lost : A Pleasant Comedy, called a ALiidenhead 
well Lost. As u hatti been publicly Acted at the C\)ckpit in Drury 
Line with much Applause: By her Majesty's Servants. By Thomas 
Hey wood. 4to, 1634. 

The Maid in the Mill: A comedy by J. Fletcher, assisted by W. 
Rowley. Li the folio of 1647. Scene, Spain. 
This is an excellent play, and was one of those which, after the Restoration, 
were revived at the Duke of York's Theatre. But Pepys mentions witnessing 



I4S PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAI^ Mai-Mai 

the performance of three acts at Apothecaries' Hall, January 29, 1660-1, and 
being greatly pleased. 

It is mentioned in Herbert's Diary under the date of August 29, 1623, as per- 
formed at the Globe : " For the King's players, a new comedy called the Maid 
of the Mill, written by Fletcher and Rowley." 

The Maid of Honour : A tragi-comedy by Phil. Massinger, acted at 
the Phceni.x-, Drury Lane. 4to, 1632, 1638. 
This play, which has considerable merit, met with great applause, and has a 
copy of verses by Sir Aston Cokain prefixed. 

The Maid's Last Prayer ; or, Any Rather than Fail : A comedy by 
'I hoinas Southern, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1693. Scene 
London. 

There is a song by Congreve in this play. 

The Maid's Metamorphosis : As it hath been sundry times acted by 
the Children ot Paul's. 4to, 1600. 
Attributed in former Catalogues to Lyly. Reprinted by Bullen. The last 
leaf of the original edition contains only the printer's device. 

The Maid's Reveng'e : A Tragedy. As it hath been Acted with good 
Applause at the Private House in Drury Lane by her Majesty's 
Servants. By James Shirley. 41O, 1639. The scene, Lisbon. 
Licensed in 1626. 

The plot is taken from Reynolds's GoiVs Revenge against j\/u)-der, ii. 7. In 
the deHic.ition to Henry Osborne, Esquire, this is said to have been the second 

pLiy that Shirley wrote. 

The Maid's Trag'edy : By Beaumont and Fletcher. Acted at the 
Black P>iars. 4to, 1619, 1622, 1630, 1638, 1641, 1650, 1661. 
Scene, Rhodes. 

It was acted at Court in 1613. 

The Maid's Tragedy : An alteration of Beaumont and Fletcher by 
Edin. Waller. 8vo, 1690. 
In this play the catastrophe is rendered fortunate. Fenton observes that Lang- 
baine mistocjk in affirming that King Charles the Second would not suffer this 
play to appear on the stage ; being assured by Southern, that in the latter end of 
that reign he had seen it acted at the Theatre Royal, as originally written, but 
never with Waller's alterations. It forms a portion of " the Second Part of 
Mr. Waller's Poems," 8vo, 1690. 

Malcolm King* of Scots : A play by Charles Massey, acted in 1602. 

Not printed. 

The Malcontent: By John Marston. 4to, 1604. 

In the same year appeared a second 4^0 edition, entitled The Malcontent. 
Augmented by Marston. With the .Additions played by the King's Majesty's 
Servants. Written by John Webster, 1004. With a highly complimentary in- 
scription by Marston to I'en Jonson. The play appears to liave been srometimes 
known on the stage under the title of One for Another, 

The Mall ; or, the Modish Lovers: A comedy by J. D, acted at the 
Theatre Royal. 4to, 1674. 

This play has been ascribed to Drydcn ; but its style and manner bear little 
resemblance to those of that author. 

Malvolio : A play acted at Court early in 1623. 

It was perh.ips an adaptation or cuilailment of Ticc/ft/i Ni,i;/it. 



Mam-Mar PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 149 

Mamamouchi ; or, the Citizen tum'd Gentleman : A comedy by 
Edw. Ravenscroft. 410, 1675. 

This play is wholly borrowed, and without the least acknowledgment, from tlie 
Alonsieur Pouireaiiiiitac and the Bourgeois GoitiUioiiune of Moliere, 

Manhood and Wisdom : 

A piece so called, and described as a Comedy, is mentioned in the List at the 
end of the Old Law, 1656. 

Mankind : A moral play of the sixteenth century. MS. 

See an account of it in Collier's Hist. Dram. Poet., ii, 293. 

The Manner of the Triumph at Calais and Boulog-ne : 4to, 

Wynkyn de Worde [1532J. The same: '1 he second i)rinting. 
With more additions, as it was done indeed, 410, \\'. de Worde 
[1532]- 

The Man of Mode ; or, Sir Fopling Flutter. A comedy by Sir 
George Etherege, acted at the Dake's Theatre, 4to, 1676, 1684, 
1693. 

Dryden wrote an epilogue to this play. 

The Man of Newmarket : A comedy by the Hon. Edward Howard, 
acted at the Theatre Royil. 410, 1678. Scene, London. 

This play is preceded by a curious induction, in which the Prologue enters " at 
one door, and just as he addresses to speak, enter Shatterii and Haines at t'other." 
It was licensed in April, 1678. 

The Man's the Master : A comedy by Sir W. Davenant. 4to, 1669. 

This was the last play its author wrote, being finished not long before his 
death in 1668. The scene, Madrid. 

The plot is borrowed from two plays of Scarron, Jodelet, on Le Maitre Valet, 
and V Heritier Ridicule. The scene is laid throughout in one house. 

Man's Wit : A moral play of the sixteenth century, mentioned in 
Greene's Groatsworth oj Wit, 1592. 

The Man too Hard for the Master : See Love Without Interest. 

Marcelia ; or, the Treacherous Friend : A tragi-comedy by Mrs. Frances 
Booiliby, acted at the Theatre Royal. 410, 1670. The scene, 
France. 

Marciano ; Or, The Discovery : A Tragi-Comedy. .Acted with great 
applause, before His Majesty's High Commissioner, and others of 
the nobility, at the abbey of Holyrood House, on St. John's night, 
by a company of Gentlemen. By William Clarke or Gierke. 4to, 
1663. The scene, Florence. 

See ]\fei-ciiriiis Piiblicus, January 15, 1662-3. The author was one of the 
performers. 

Marcus Geminus : A Latin comedy, acted in Christchurch Hall, 
Oxford, before Queen Elizabeth, in 1566. 

Marcus Tullius Cicero, that famous Roman Orator, his Tragedy. 
4to, 1 65 1. The scene, Rome. 
It is uncertain whether this play was ever acted or not ; it is written in imita- 
tion of Ben Jonson's Catiline. The stcry may be found ni Plutarch's Life of 
Cicero, etc. 



15° PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Mar-Mar 

Mariam : The Tragedy of Mariam, ihe Fair Queen of Jewry. Written 
by that learned, virtuous, and truly noble Lady E[lizabeth] C[arew]. 
4to, 1613. 

This piece is written in alternate rhymes, and with a chorus composed of 
settines, or stanzas of six lines, the four hrst of which are interwoven, or rhyme 
alternately, the two last rhyininti; to each other, and forming a cuuplct in bass. 
In one or two copies there is a leaf of dedication by E. C. to "my worthy sister, 
Mi>tress Elizabeth Cary." 

Marius and Sylla : See Wounds of Civil War. 

Marriag-e a-la-Mode : A comedy by J. Dryden, acted at the Theatre 

Koyal. 4to, 1673, 1691, 1698. 

The serious part of this drama is apparently founded on the stor)- of Sesostris 
and Timareta, m the Grand Cyrus, ix. 3 ; the characters of Palamede and 
Rhodophil, on the history of Timmtes and Parthcnia, in the same romance, vi. i ; 
the character of Doralice, on Noj^aret, in \.\\& Annals of Love ; and the hint of 
Mclantha's making love to herself in Rhodophil's name, on Les Contcs if OuvilU, 
i- 3- 

The MaPPiag"e BPOkeP ; or, the Pander : A comedy by AL W. i2mo, 
1662. The scene, London, 

The plot of this piece, which is included in Gratiip Thealrales, is taken from 
the English chronicles in the reign of Sebert, Kmg of the West Saxons. The 
scene lies in London. 

The MaPPiag-e-HateP Match'd : A comedy by T. Durfev. acted at 
the 1 heatre Rcyal. 410, 1692. The scene, the Park, near 
Kensington. 

The admirable performance of a part in this play occasioned Dogget to be 
noticed as an actor of merit. It ajipears to have been acted six nights suc- 
cessively. See Motteux's Gentle/na}is Journal, Ychxnnxy, 1691-2. The time is 
thirty hours. 

The Mappiag-e of Mind and Measupe : 

"A Morall of the Marryage of Mynde and Measure shewen at Richmond on 
the Sondaie next after New yeres daie, enacted by the Children of Paw les." — 
Revels' Accounts, 1579. Mr. Fleay identifies it, perhaps rightly, with the 
Marriage of Wit and Wisdom, infrA. 

The MaPPiag'e Nig'ht : A tragedy by Henry, Viscount Falkland. 4to, 
1664. Scene, Castile. 

This play contains a great share of wit and satire, yet it is uncertain whether it 
was ever acted or not. 

In Hazlitt's Dodsley. Pepys cites it under the title of the Wedding Night. 

The Mappiag"e of Oceanus and Bpitannia : An Allegorical Fiction, 

really dcchiring J'^ngland's riches, glory, and puissance by sea ; to 
be rtj^resented in music, dances, and proper scenes. Invented, 
written, and composed by Richard Flecknoe. i2nio, 1659. 

The Mappiag"e of the Thames and the Rhine : A mascjue of the 

Inner 'l'emi)le and (iray's Inn, devi>ed by Sir Francis J5acon in 
1 61 3, on the marriage of the Prince Palaiine and the Princess 
Elizabeth, and |)erformed, I'Vhruary 20, 16 13. 

It had been originally fixed for the 161I1, but the Hall was so full that the 
masquers could not get in (I'leay, p. 181). 



Mar-Mar PLAY-COLI.ECTOR'S MANUAL. 151 

The Marriage of the Virgin : A pigeant, exhibited at Edinburgh in 
1503, in honour of the nuptials of Margaret, daugliter of Henry VII., 
to James IV. of Scodand. 

The Marriage of Wit and Science : By John Redford. 

A MS. first printed by tlie Shakespear Society, 1848. It is a distinct produc- 
tion from the next, wiiicli may ii.ive been, however, under some obligation to it. 

The Marriage of Wit and Science : A new and pleasant Interlude, 
entitled, the Marriage of Wit and Science. 4to [about 1570]. 
Divided into Acts and Scenes. 

The Players' names are : Nature, Wit, Will, Study, Diligence, with three 
other Women Singers, Science, Reason, Experience, Recreation, Shame, Idleness, 
Ignorance, Tetliousne.is, and Instruction. Licensed in 1569-70. In Ha.;liti's 
Dodsley. It was acted at Court in 1568 under the name of fFU and IVill. 

The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom : The Contract of a Marriage 
between Wit and Wisdom, veiy fruitful and mixed full of pleasant 
mirth as well for the beholders as the readers or hearers, never 
before imprinted, 1579. 

No early printed copy of this interlude is known to exist ; but a contemporary 
MS. of it, bearing the above title, is in AdJit. MS. B.M. 26,782, and was printed 
for the Shakespear Society, 8vo, 1S46. I find Wit and IVisdoiit allegorically per- 
sonified in Lanj^land's Poem on tlie deposition of Ricliard II., Camd. Soc. ed., 
p. 22. In the play of Sir Thomas More, about 15QO, an interlude is introduced 
with this title ; but it has no further resemblance. The idea occurs in Langland's 
Piers Ploughman, Passus lo, ed. 1856, p. 173 et seqq. 

At the end of the MS. occurs: Amen quoth Fra. Merhury ; but whether he 
was more than the transcriber is doubtful. 

The Married Beau ; or, the Curious Impertinent : A comedy by 
J. Crowne, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1694. 
This play was esteemed a good one, and was frequently acted with general 
approbation. The story of it is taken from Don Quixote, and the scene lies in 
Covent Garden. 

Marry Andrey [Merry Andrew] : 

"To Bartholomew Fair, and tliere did see a ridiculous obscene little stage- 
play called Marry Andrey, a foolish thing, but seen by everybody." — Pepys' 
Diary, 1668. 

The Marshal of Luxemburgh, upon His Death-Bed : A tragi- 
comedy done out of French, i2mo, 1695. 

This is said in the title-page to have been printed at Cologne, 1695, and to be 
reprinted in 17 10. 

Marshal Osrick : See Royal King. 

The Martial Queen : A tragedy by R. Carleton, 1675. 

Lord Bruce and four ladies of his family performed some of the principal parts 
in this drama. There is a MS. copy in MS. Bodl. Rawl. Poet. 126, and a second 
was formerly in F. W. Fairholt's possession. 

Martin Swart : 

A play called the Life and Death of Martin Swart is mentioned by Henslowe 
under the date of 1597. 

The Martyred Soldier : As it was sundry times acted with a general 
applause at the Private House in Drury-lane, and at other public 



152 PLAY-COLLECrOR'S MANUAL. Mar-Mas 

theatres, by the Queen's Majesty's Servants. The author, H. Shirley. 
4to, 163S. 

Dedicated to Sir Kenelm Digby by John Kirke. In some copies the dedica- 
tion is signed with Kirke's initials only. This is the only play by Henry Shirley 
that Mas printed, and even this was posthumous ; but he was the author of at 
least four others, entered on the books of the Stationers' Company in 1653. The 
author of the preface to the JMartyi-'d .S"<?/(//t'r (probably Kiike) speaks of it as 
" not the meanest of his labours." The plot may be found in the Ecclesiastical 
Annals of Baronius. 

Mary Mag'dalen : An English mystery, transcribed in the year 1512 ; 
MS. Bodl. Digby 133. 

Printed, 4to, Edinb., 1835. 

Mary Mag'dalen : A New Interlude, never before this Time imprinted, 
entreating of the Life and Repentance of Mary Magdalen : not 
only godly, learned, and fruitful, but also well furnished with 
pleasant mirth and pastime, very delectable for those which shall 
hear or read the same. Made by the learned clerk, Lewis Wager. 
4to, 1566, 1567. 

Mary Mag'dalen : A masque performed at Court, temp. James I. 
Some of the music is preserved in Addit. MS. B. M. 10,444. 

A Masque at Black Friars: Seventeenth century (about 1620). 
Addit. MS. B.M. 10,444. 

Into this piece were introduced the First, Second, and Third Lords' Dance, 
the First and Second Witches' Dance, and the Baboons' Dance. Compare p. 26. 

A Masque at the Lady Russell's in June, 1600, "of eight maides 
of honour and other gentlewomen in name of the Muses to seeke 
one of theire fellovves." 

Chamberlain's Letters, Camden Society, 1861, p. 83. 

A Masque of Knig-htS : Performed at Court in 1578. 

See Cunningham's levels'' Accounts, p. 126. 

The Masque of the Twelve Months : Printed from a MS. of the 
seventeenth century for the Shakespear Society, 1848. 

A Masque presented on Candlemas nig-ht at Cole-overton 
[Cole-orton] by the Earl of Essex, the Lord Willoughby, 
Sir Tho. Beaumont, etc. : 

Dyce, who possessed a transcrii^t of this, supposed it to have been written by 
Sir T. Beaumont, created Viscount Beaumont of Swords in 1622. 

A Masque presented to the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield 

at Bretbie, Derbyshire, 1640. Jiy Sir Aslon Cokain. 

Masques performed before Queen Elizabeth in 1590: 

See Device for the Queen's Day, 1 590. 

The Massacre at Paris : With the Death of the Duke of Guise. As 
il was jilayc'd by the Right Honourable the Lord High Admiral his 
•Servants. Written by Christopher Marlowe. 8vo [about 1594]. 



Mas-May PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 153 

The Massacre of Paris : A tragedy by Nat. Lee, acted at the Theatre 
Royal. 4to, 1690. The scene, Paris. 

The plot of this play is founded, like that of Marlowe, by which it was possibly 
suggested, on the massacre of the Protestants, which was perpetrated at Paris, 
on St. Bartholomew's dav, 1572, in the reign of Charles IX., for the particulars 
of which see De Serres, Mezeray, etc. 

MassaniellO : The Famous History of the Rise and Fall of Massaniello, 
in two parts. By Thomas Dtirfey. 4to, 1 699-1 700. 

This is on the same story as the Rebdlioii of Naples^ and partly borrowed 
from it. 

Master Anthony : A comedy by the Earl of Orrery. 4to, 1G90. 

This piece had been acted many years before at the Duke's Theatre, in 
Lincoln's Inn Fields, when Mr. Angel and Mrs. Long were among the per- 
formers. It had no success. 

Master Turbulent; or, the Melancholies. 4to, 1682. The scene, 
Moorfields. 

A Match at Midnig"ht : A comedy by William Rowley, acted by the 
Children of the Revels. 4to, 1633. In Hazlitt's Dodsley. 

Part of the plot of this pleasant comedy, viz. the design of Jarvis hiding Blood- 
hound under the widow's bed, is the same as an old story in the English Rogue, 
part 4, chap. 19. 

This play is thus mentioned in Herbert's Diary, under April 6, 1624 : " For 
the Fortune a new Comedy called a Match or no Match, written by Mr. Rowlye." 

Match Me in London : A Tragi-Comedy, called, Match Me in London. 

As it hath been often presented ; First at the Ball, in St. John's 
Street, and lately at the Private House in Drury Lane called the 
Phoenix. By Thomas Decker. 4to, 1631. Scene, Spain. 

This play is thus mentioned in Herbert's Diary, under August 21, 1623 : 
"For the Lady Elizabeth's Servants at the Cock-pit, an old play called Match 
Me in London, which had been formerly allowed by Sir George Bucke." 

Matilda ; See King John and Matilda. 

The Matrimonial Trouble, in two parts, by the Duchess of Newcastle. 
Folio, 1662. 

The first of these is a comedy, the second a tragi-comedy. 

The Maw : 

A play of this name, no doubt on the subject of the game at cards so called, is 
recorded in Henslowe's list, as having been acted on December 14, 1594. He 
elsewhere cites it as the Set at iMaw. But in the A'ez'els' Accounts, under 
December 26, 1582, we find an entry of what appears to be a similar, if not the 
same, production : " A Comedy or Moral devised on a game of the Cards on 
St. Stephen's Night by the Children of the Chapel." It is supposed by Collier 
to be the same as the Mack, noted by Henslowe as played February 21, 1594-5 ; 
and Fleay takes it to be Decker's IVoitderofa A'iiii^doni. 

May Day : A witty Comedy, sundry times acted at the Black Friars. 
By George Chapman. 4to, 161 1. Reprinted in Chapman's 
Dramatic Works. 

The May Lord : 

A pastoral by Ben Jonson, mentioned in the Conversations with Drummond, 
p. 27. No copy of it is known to exist. 



154 rLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. May -Mel 

The MayOP of QuinbOPOUgh : A comedy by Thomas Middleton, 
acted at the Black Friars. 4to, 1661. 

In some copies of the title-page of this edition, it is called a tragedy. Hens- 
lowe mentions it under the name of Henges as acted in 1597, and in one MS. it 
is called Ueagist King of Kent. 

The plot is taken from Stow, Speed, etc., in the reign of Voi tiger; and the 
author has introduced into the piece several dumb shows, the e.xplanation of 
which he pu!s into the mouth of Ralph Higden, monk of Chester, whose Poly- 
chroniton he has closely followed, bee Shakespear Society ed. of Marriage of 
Wit and Wisdom, p. 85. 

Measure for Measure : A play by William Shakespear. Folio, 1623. 

Measure for Pleasure ; or, Beauty the Best Advocate : A comedy by 
Charles Gildon, acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields. 410, 1700. 

An indiflerent alteration of Shakespear. It is said, on the title-page, to have 
been "written originally by Mr. Shakespear, and now very much altei'd, with 
additions of several entertainments of musick." The prologue was written by 
Oldmixon, and spoken by Betterton. The epilogue was also by Oldmixon. 

Medea : The Seventh Tragedy of Seneca. Translated by John Studley, 
of Trinity College, Cambridge. 8vo, 1566, and in the collected 
edition of 1581. 

Medea: A Litin tragedy by Thomas Hobbes, 1602. 

This was abo probably a translation from Seneca. 
Medea : A tragedy by Sir Edward Sherburne. 8vo, 1048, and in the 
collected edition, 1701 or 1702. 

This is also from Seneca, with annotations ; Irut it was never intended for 
the stage. In MS. Sloane, B.M. 911 is anotlier vcrsii^n, made about the same 
time ns Sherburne's (1648). 

A Medicine for a Curst Wife : A play by Thomas Decker, acted in 
1602. Not printed. 

Melanthe : Fabula Pastoralis, acta cum Jacobus, I\LagnK Brit. Franc, 
et Hiberniffi Rex, Cantabrigiani suam nuper inviserat, ihidemque 
musarum atque animi gratia dies quinque commorarctur. Egerunt 
Aluinni Coll. San. et individure Trinitatis Cantabrigiie. 4to, 1615. 

This play, written by S. Brookes, of Trinity College, was acted before King 
James I., Friday, March lO, 1614-5. A person who was present says, it was 
excellenily written, and as well acted, which gave great cnntentment, as well to 
the king as to the rest. In Dr. Pegge's copy, afterward Mitford's, were written 
in a hand of the time the names of the Masters of Arts, who originally acted in 
the piece. 

Meleager : Tragaedia nova. Bis Publice acta in A'Ac Christi Oxonia;. 
By W. Gager. 8vo, 1592. 

A tragedy acted at Christchurch College, Oxford, before Lord Leicester, Sir 
Philip Sydney, and oiher disiinguished persons, in 1581, "giving great delight," 
as Wood tells us. 

Meliboeus : A drama, doubtless in I,atin, by Ralph Radcliff, who 

pr(jbably founded it on Chaucer. 
Melise : A French (Jomedy, Acted by the French Company at the 

Cockpit at Whitehall, P'ebruary 17, 1635, before the King and 

Queen. 

See Fleay's London Stage, p. 339. It \xas apparently performed in French, 
and the company received £\0. 



Men Mer PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 155 

Mensechmi : A pleasant and fine conceited Comedy, taken out of the 
most excellent Witty Poet Plautus. Written in English by W. W. 
4to, 1595. 

In not a few places the author is imitated or abridged. The translator has 
been supposed to be Wdli.ini Warner. From this play the plot of the Comedy of 
Errors is borrowed. It is rejirinted in Hazliit's Shakespears Library. In the 

running-title it is called Mciicchnius. 

The Men of Gotham : See Knack to Ktww a Knave. 

The Merchant of Emden : Mentioned by Henslowe as having been 
acted Jtily 30, 1594. Nut printed. 

The Merchant of Venice : A comedy by William Shakesp \ar. 4to, 
Printed by J. Roberts, 1600; 4to, Printed by L R. lor Thomas 
Heyes, 1600; again, 4to, 1637, 1652. 

The Merchant's Sacrifice : 

A play mentioned originally in Warburton's list ; but the title of it was after- 
ward cancelled. It may have been the original title of the Crafty Alerchant. 

Mercurius Britannicus; or, the English Intelligencer: A tragi- 
comedy, acted at Paris with great applause. By Richard Brath- 
waite. 4to, 1641. Scene, Smyrna. 

There is a Latin version of it. The half-title to the first act is : The Censure 
of the Judges ; or, The Court Cure. 

This piece is wholly political, the subject of it being entirely on the ship- 
money, which was one of the points that occasioned the trouliles of King 
Charles I. 

Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court, by Gentle- 
men the King's servants, performed on Twelfth Night, 1615. By 
Ben Jonson. Folio, 1616, 1640. 

Merry : The tragedy of Thomas Merry, or Beech's Tragedy, by W. 
Haughton and John Day, mentioned by Henslowe as written in 1599. 

Compare livo Lamentable Tras^edics. 

Merry as may be : By John Day, Richard Hathway, and Wentworth 
Smith. Written in 1602. 
This is mentioned supra, p. 19, as the unassisted production of Hathway. 

The Merry Devil of Edmonton : As it hath been sundry times Acted, 
by his Majesty's Servants, at the Globe on the Bankside. 4to, 1608, 
1612, 1617, 1626, 1631, 1655. Scene, Edmonton. 

Of this charming comedy the plot is founded on the history of one Peter Fabel, 
of whom a prose account appears to have been printed as early as 1533, and of 
whom more particular mention is made in Fuller's Church IListory and in the 
Chronicles of Henry VI. 's reign. This comedy, in the origmal entry on the 
Stationers' books in 1608, is said to have been written by T. B., which letters 
have been rashly taken to stand for Tony or Anthony Brewer. The same letters 
are prefixed to that author's Country Girl. H. Moscley again entered it 
September 9, 1653, as the production of Shakespear ; but that statement is of 
no authority. The Alerry Devil of Edmonton is mentioned in the Black Book by 
T. M., 1604, as if it were then a popular comedy ; the Mirry IVanks of L'abyl, 
noticed by Weever {Anc. Fun. Mon., 1631, p. 334). above referred to, was seen 
by Wnrton in the study of Collins the Poet. In Hazlilt"s Dodsley. 



156 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Mer-Mic 

The Merry Milkmaid of Isling'ton, or the Rambling Gallants 
Defeated : A droll. Primed in the Muse of Newmarket, 4to, 
16S0. 

The Merry Wives of Windsor : A Most pleasant and excellent con- 
ceited Comedy, of Sir John Falstaff and the merry Wives of 
Windsor. Intermixed with sundry variable and pleasing humours 
of Sir Hugh the Welsh Knight, Justice Shallow, and his wise 
Cousin, W. Slender. With the swaggering vein of Ancient Pistol 
and Corporal Nym. By William Shakespear. As it hath been 
divers times Acted by the right honourable my Lord Chamberlain's 
Servants. 4to, 1602, 1619. 
The genuine play was first printed in the folio edition of 1623, and was 
reprinted in 410, 1630. 

Messalina : The Tragedy of Messalina, the Roman Empress. As it 

hath been divers times Acted with general applause by the Company 

of His INLijesty's Revels. By Nathaniel Richards. 12 mo, 1640. 

Scene, Rome. 

The plot of this play is from Suetonius, Pliny, Juvenal, etc. It is ushered in 

by six copies of verses. This is one of tlie few early plays containing a list of the 

actors, with the parts which they undertook. 

The Metamorphosed Gipsies : A masque by Ben Jonson, presented 

three times before James the First, 1621. A MS. copy, supposed 

to be in the author's autograph, was in the Heber collection. 

No. 603. 

In the folio of 1640, and at the end of Jonson's translation of Horace De Arte 

Foeticd, 8vo, 1640, under the title of The Masque of the Gypsies. 

Metropolis Coronata, The Triumphs of Ancient Drapery : Or, Rich 
Clothing of England : in a Second Year's Performance. In Honour 
of the Advancement of Sir John Jolles, Knight, to the high Office 
of Lord Mayor of London, and taking his Oath for the same 
Authority, on Monday, being the 30 Day of October, 16 15. Per- 
formed in hearty affection to him, and at the bountiful charges ot 
his worthy Brethren the truly Honourable Society of Drapers, 
the first that received such Dignity in this City. Devised and 
written by Anthony Munday, Citizen and Draper of London. 4to, 
1615. 

This pageant concludes with the Speech spoken by Earl Robert de la Ilude, 
coinnionly called Robin Hood, and the Song of Robin Hood and his Huntsmen. 

Michaelmas Term : As it haih been sundry times acted by the Children 
of Paul's. By Thomas Middleton. 4to, 1607, 1630. 
It was entered on the registers of the Stationers' Company, May 15, 1607. 
The 4to of 1630 purjjorts to be " newly corrected." 

MicrOCOSmuS : A Latin tragedy composed by Thomas Arthur, of St. 
John's College, Cambridge, in the sixteenth century. 

MicroCOSmus : A Moral Masque, Presented with general liking at the 
jitivaie house in Salisbury Court. By Thomas Nabbes. 410, 

i^^i7- 

This has two cpies of verses prefixed by Richard Brome and W. Cufaude. 
In the coliecteti edition uf .NabLes. 



Mid Mir PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 157 

Midas : Played before the Queen's Majesty, upon Twelfth Day at Night, 
by the Children of Paul's. A comedy. By John Lyly. 4to, 1592 ; 
1 2 mo, 1632. 

The story is related at large by Apuleius. 

The memorable Masque of the two honourable houses or Inns 
of Court, the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn ; presented 

before the King at Whitehall, on Shrove-Monday at night, February 
15, 1613. At the princely celebration of the most royal nui^tials of 
the Palsgrave and his thrice gracious Princess, I'rincess I'',lizabeth. 
With a description of this whole show in the manner of their march 
on horse-back to the Court, from the INLister of the Rolls his house : 
with all their right Noble Consorts and most showful attendants. 
Invented and fashioned with the ground and special structure of the 
whole work : By our Kingdom's most Artful and Ingenious Archi- 
tect, Inigo Junes. Supplied, Applied, Digested, and Written by 
Geo. Chapman. 4to [1614]. 
From Dugdale's Ortgines Juridiciales, p. 346, we learn that this masque cost 
the Society of Lincoln's Inn no less than ;,^2,400. 

A Midsummer Nig^ht's Dream : As it hath been sundry times publicly 
acted by the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlain's Servants. 
By W. Shakespear. 4to, for Thomas Fisher, 1600; 4to, by James 
Roberts, 1600. In the folio editions. 

The Miller : A play by Robert Lee, acted in 1598. 

Mind, Will, and Understanding" : An ancient moral-play. 

A large fragment is preserved in IMS. Bodl. Digby 133, and a complete copy 
in the Macro MS. The imperfect copy was printed, 4to, Edinb., 1835 ; and the 
remainder from the Macro MS., 410, Edinb., 1837. 

Minerva's Sacrifice ; or, the Forc'd Lady : A tragedy by Philip 
Massinger, entered at Stationers' Hall, September 9, 1653 ; it is in 
Warburton's hit. It was licensed in 1629. 

Minerva's Triumph : See Words Made Visible. 
The Mirror of Life : 

A play mentioned in Dyce's Shakespear, 2nd edition, i. 48. 

Mirza : A Tragedy really acted at Persia in the last age, illustrated with 
historical Annotations. Written by Robert Baron. 8vo [about 
1650]. 

The story of this play is the same as that which Denham made the groundwork 
of his Sophy, and which may be found in Sir Thomas Herbert's Travels ; yet 
Baron has handled it in a ditil'erent manner from that author, having finished 
three complete acts of this before he saw that tragedy ; nor found himself then 
discouraged from proceeding, on a consideration of the great difference in their 
respective pursuits of the same plan. Baron has made Jonson's Catiline in great 
measure his model, having not only followed the method of his scenes, but even 
imitated his language ; and anyone may perceive that his ghost of Emirhamze 
Mirza is an evident copy of that of Sylla in Catiline. It is, however, a good 
play, and is commended by five copies of verses by his Cambridge friends; but 
it does not seem to have been acted. 



158 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Mis-Mis 

The Miser : A comedy by Thomas Shadwell. 410, 1672, 1691. 

This play, by the author's own conftssion, i~ fuunded on the Avare of Moliere, 
which is itself built on the Aiilularia of Plautus. Shadwell, however, has by 
no means been a mere translator, but has added considerably to his original. 

The Miseries of Infopced Marriage : As it is now played l)y his 

Majesty's Servants. By George Wilkins. 4to, 1607, 1611, 1629, 
1637; in Hazlitt's Dodsley. This play was entered at Stationer^' 
Hall, July 31, 1607. 
If it be the case that "George Wilkins the poet," mentioned as having been 
buried August 19, 1603 (Collier's Bibl. Cat., i. 202), was the author of this play, 
it must have lain by for some years before publication. In the register of 
St. Leonard, Shoreditch, he seems to be expressly called the poet, so that we 
must presume it to be at least probable that he composetl this drama. ISut he 
must have left a descendant, perhaps a son, of botii his names, who joined with 
Decker in compiling a Jest-Book in 1607, a id in the following year published on 
his own account a novel founded on the play of Pericles, not as it was printed, 
but as he had seen it on the stage The question i^, after all, whether the elder 
Wilkins was not misdescril)ed as a poet in ihe parish-book, or whcthe-- his works 
were, as often happened, anonymous productions, to which we have lost the clue. 
.Saving that expression in tlie register, one hand might easily have written all that 
we possess under this name. Nor is there a' y other case, we believe, where 
father and son successively gave to the woild notable literaiy performances. 

The Misery of Civil War : A Tragedy, as it is acted at the Duke's 

Theatre by His Royal Highnesses Servants. By J. Crowne. 

4to, 1680. 

This is the alteration oi i\\f: Second Part of Henry the Sixth, originally published 

under a diffeient title. It was reprinted, 4to, 1681, as The Second /'art of 

Htiiiy VI : Ur, The Misery of Civil War. As it is acted at the Duke's Theatre. 

The Misfortunes of Arthur, Uter Pendragon's Son, reduced inio 
tragical notes by Thomas Hughes, one of ti.e Society of Gray's Inn. 
And here set down as it passed from tmder his hands, and as it was 
presented, excepting certain words and lines, where some of the 
actors either helpe>t their memories by brief omission, or fitted 
their acting by some alteration. With a note in the end of such 
speeches as were petmed by others in lieu of some of these here- 
after following. 

This dramatic piece constitutes the bulk of a volume, in which several writers 
and olheis, ihcluding Bacon, were concerned, and whiih benrs the foliowmg tide : 
"(eriaine Devises and shewes presented to Her IMaj' stie by the Gentlemen of 
(irayes Inne, at her Ilighnesse Court in (jreenwich, the twenty-eighth day of 
Feliruarie, in the thirtieth yeare of her Majesties most happy Raigne. " 8vo, 
1587. In Hazlitt's Dodsley. 

The original has many cancels, consisting of single words, half lines, and entire 
speeches, which are pasted over the cancelled passages. 

IlensJowe records the ]ierfoimance of a piece called Uter Tcndia:^oti, April 29, 
1597 ; but it is impossible to say whether it was connected or not with this. 

Misogonus : 

An early MS. play, transcribed at Kettering, November 20, 1577, liy Laurcntius 
Baricmna, with a Prologue by J. Rychnrdes. In the Devonsliire Collection. 
Mr. rieay describes it as mutilated. See I'leny, p. 58, and Collier, ii. 464. 

The Mistaken Beauty ; or, the Liar : A comedy acted at the Theatre 
Royal. 4to, 1685. 
It has been slated that it was acted ^nd printed in 1661 ; but I have seen no 
sucli edition. '1 his is little more than a uanslaiion of the Mevteur o{ Coineille, 



Mis-Moc PLAY-COLT.ECTOR'S MANUAL. 159 

which, says Dryden, though cried up in France, when it came on the Enjjlish 
stage, thout^h well translated, anil the part of Dorani (by Hart) acted with so 
much advantage as it had never received in its own country, yet met with no 
great success. 

The Mistaken Husband : A comedy by a person of quality, acted at 
the Theatre Royal. 4to, 1675. 

This play is founded on the Ampliytrion of Plautus, and is extremely farcical. 
It was adopted by Dryden, and enriched with one good scene from his hand. 
The name of the author is unknown. 

The Mistakes; or, the False Report: A tragi-comedy. 4to, 1691. 

This play was written by another person ; hut falling into the hands of Joseph 
Harris, he maile many alterat'oiis in it considerably for the worse ; yet Dryden 
bestowed a prologue on it, Taie an epilogue, and Mountfort a whole scene in the 
last act, and many other corrections. 

Mithpidates, King" of Pontus : A tragedy by Nath. Lee, acted at the 
Theatre Royal. 410, 1678, 1693. The scene, Sinope. 

This play is founded on history, for which see Appian, Florus, and Plutarch. 
The epilogue was written by Dryden. 

The Mock Duellist ; or, the French Valet : A comedy by P. B. 4to, 
1675. The scene, Covent Garden. 

This play was acted at the Theatre Royal with some success, and is, in con- 
sequence of the letters affixed to it, attributed by Langbaine and Jacob to Peter 
Belon. 

The Mock Marriag^e : A comedy by Thomas Scott, acted at Dorset 
Garden Theatre. 4to, 1696. Scene, London. 

Mock Pompey : 

This seems to have been a droll. It is mentioned as a rhyming farce, with 
Siiupldon the Smith, in Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco, 
1674, p. 23. 

The Mock Tempest ; or, the Enchanted Castle : By Thomas Duffet. 
4to, 1675. J- 1^6 scene, London. 

This piece was acted at the Theatre Royal, and written purposely in a burlesque 
style. The design of it was to draw away the audience from the other theatre, 
to which at that time there was a very great resort, attracted thither in con- 
sequence of the applause given to Dryden's al'eration of the Tempest, which was 
then in its full run: but it was intermixed with so much scurrility and libaldry, 
that although it met with some little success at first, it presently fell to the 
ground ; and when it came to be presented in Dublin, several ladies and persons 
of the best quality testified their dislike of such low and indecent stuff by quitting 
the house, before the performance was half over. Dryden says of »his piece : 

"The dullest scribblers some admirers found. 
And the Mock Tempest was a while renown'd : 
But this low stuff the town at last despis'd, 
And scorn'd the folly that they once had priz'd." 

In the half-title to the play it is called the New Tempest, or the F.nchanted 
Castle. Prospero is called, ''a duke, head-keeper of the Enchanted Castle." 

Mock Thyestes : A farce by John Wright. 12010, 1674. 

Thyestes, instead of returning with his three children, comes back with three 
cats in a bag. 



i6o PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Mon-Mor 

Money is an Ass : A Comedy, As it hath been Acted with good 
Applause. Written by Thomas Jordan. 4to, 1668. 

The part of Capt. Penniless, the principal character in it, was performed by 
the author. Langbaine surmises from the style, that it is older than the date of 
its publication. 

Monsieur d'Olive : A Comedy, as it was sundry times Acted by her 
Majesty's Children at the Black Friars. By George Chapman. 
4to, 1606. 

This play was esteemed a good one, and met with success. ]\Ir. Fleay identifies 
it with the piece called the Fountain of New Fashions. Reprinted in Chapman's 
Dramatic Works. 

Monsieur Thomas : A comedy by John Fletcher. Acted at the Black 
Friars and the Cock-pit. 4to, 1639. 

This comedy was published after Fletcher's death by Richard Brome, who 
dedicated it to Charles Cotton, as a great admirer of the author's works, and 
added a copy of verses. About 1660, it was reissued under the title of Fathers 
Own Son, by which it is mentioned indeed in the Lord Chamberlain's Accounts 
as early as 1639, and by Pepys who saw it acted in 1661. He calls it " a very 
good play." A droll was formed from it, and inserted in " Sport upon Sport," 
1672, under the name of The Doctors of Dullhead College. Compare Trick for 
Trick. 

The Montacute Masque : See Device. 

Monuments of Honor, Derived from remarkable Antiquity, and 
Celebrated in the Honorable City of London at the sole munifi- 
cent Charge and expenses of the Right Worthy and Worshipftil 
Fraternity of the Eminent Merchant Taylors. Directed in their 
most affectionate love at the Confirmation of their right worthy 
Brother John Goare, in his high Office of His Majesty's Lieutenant 
over this royal Chamber. . . . Invented and written by John Webster, 
Merchant Taylor. 4to, 1624, 

Moors' Masque : See Characters. 

More Dissemblers besides Women : A comedy by Thomas Middle- 
ton. 8vo, 1657. Scene, Milan. 

It is thus mentioned in Herbert's Diary, under the date of October 17, 1623 : 
" For the King's company, an old jilay called More Dissemblers besides Women, 
allowed by Sir George l')Ucke,and being free from alterations, was all owed by me." 

The Morning" Ramble: By Nevil Payne. 4to, 1673. The scene, 
London. 

This is a good comedy. Some copies are entitled : The Morning Ramble, or 
the Town Humours, a Comedy acted at the Duke's Theatre. 

Mors : A Latin comedy by ^Viiliam Drury, 1628. 

Printed in the Drainatica Pocniata, 1628, 1641. 

Mortimer his Fall : A Tragedy, Written by Ben. Jonson. In the folio 
of 1640. 

A fragment. At the end occurs: "He dy'd, and left it unfinished." It 
is referred to in the publisher's Preface to Suckling's Works, 1658, and may be 
connected with the Mortimer acted at the Rose Theatre in 1602. 



Mos-Muc PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANU.\L. r6i 

The Most Royal and mag-nificent Entertainment of the mig-hty 
Prince the Palsg-rave at the Hag-ue and other places in his 
journey for Eng-land : Liitnscd Otub^r ig, 1612. 

Was it dramatic ? 
Mother Bombie : As it was sundry times played by the Children of 

Paul's. 4to, 1594, 1598. in Lyly's Six Court Comedies, 1632, and 

in the Woiks by Pairholt. 
Mother Redcap : A play by Drayton and Munday, mentioned in 

Henslowe's Diary, under the date of December, 1597. 

Mother Rumming": A Come.ly mentioned in the List at the end ot" 

tlie Old Law, 1656. No author named. 

Mother Shipton: The Life of Mother Ship on. A New Comedy. 

As it was acted nineteen days together with great a[)|jlause. 
By Thomas Thompson. 4to, n.d. 
All the cliaraciers, exct-piinij those wh ch relate to Mother .Sliipton, are stolen 
fioin MassiriL; r's Cily Madam and Midul;. tun's Chaste Maid in Cheapside. 

The Mountebanks' Masque : The first antimasque of mountebanks, 
as it was performed at the Court, 16 February, 1617-18. MS. 
Addit. Brit. Mus. 5956. Tne Duke of Devonshire has a second 
early copy. 

Printed from the for.ner in the sec ind pait of the G<'sta Grayoruni in Xichols' 
Progr. of A//:., vul. 3, p. 352, ed. 1823, and from the latter for the Shake-pear 
Society, 1848. In the MSS., the " la'i song " aliogeiher difters, and at the end 
is added a numher of paradoxe-i which " were read at Gray's Inn, but left out at 
Court to avoid tediousness," most of which are included in the printed list. 
Extracts from this masque are printed among the characters annexed to the later 
editions of Overi)ury's Wife. 

The Mourning" Bride : A tragedy by W. Congreve, acted at Lincoln's 
Lm Fields. 410, 1697. Scene, Granada. 

This play mrt with great success. 

Mucedorus : A most pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus, the King's Son 
of Valentia, and Amadine, the Kind's Daughter of Arragon. With 
the merry Conceits of Mouse. Newly set forth, as it hath been 
sundry times played in the honourable City of London. 4'o, 1598, 
1606. (ii.) Amplified with new additions, as it w.is acted before 
the King's Mijesty at \\'hitehall, on Shrove-Sunday Night. By his 
Highnesb's servants, usually playing at the Globe: very delectaMe 
and full of conceitc-d mirth. 4to, 1610, 161 r, 1613. 1615, 1618, 
1619, 1626, 1634, 1668. There is also an edition w thout date. 

Codier thought that one pa=;sa^e in this piece, 44 lines, was from the jjen of 
Shal<espear. The IVandirino Prince and Princess ; or, Alutedo' tts and Amadine, 
is a ballad founded on it. See Rowe's 'I'ragi-Comcedia, 1653, for an acco nt of a 
catastrophe, which orcuired at Witney in Oxfordshire, v\hile bome rustics were 
performing Mncedoi-iis, or rather probably a scene from it. 

Much Ado about Nothing* : As it hath been sundry timrs i)uhlii ly 
acted by the Lord Ciiamberlain's servants. By \V. Shakespear. 
4to, 1600. 

It was performed at Court in May, 1613, under the title of Benedick and 
Beatrice, doubtless, as in the case of the First Part of I/enry IV., with 
curtaiments. 

A Dutch play on the same subject was performed in Holland, in 16 18, under 
^Q \\\\>t o{ Timbre dc Ca7-dotie endc f-eiiicie van Messiite. 

2 I 



i62 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. Mul-Mut 

Th3 MulbePPy-Garden : A Comedy. As it is Acted by His Majesty's 
Servants at the Theatre Royal. By Sir Charles Sedley. 4to, 1668, 
1675. Scene, the Mulberry Garden, near Saint James's. 

This was esteemed a very good comedy, and met with much succe'^s. There 
appeals, however, an evident similarity of Sir John Evtryouny; and Sir Samuel 
Forecast to tiie Sganerelle and Ariste of Molieie's Ecole des Maris. Pepvs. who 
announces its forthcoming appearance under January il, 1667-8, as the Pander- 
ing Ladies, saw it May iS, 1668, and was soinewhat disappointed. 

Mulleasses : See Turk. 

Mulmutius Donwallow : See Mufius. 

Muly MOIOCCO : See Baftk of Alcazar. 

MundUS : A [ilay. See U'^or/d and Child. 

Mundus Plumbeus : A Latin tragedy composed by Thomas Arthur, of 
St. John's College, Cambridge, in the sixteenth century. 

Mupdepous Michael : 

"The hi'^tory of Murderous Michael shewen at Whitehall on Shrovetuesdaie 
at night [March 3, 1579]. enacted by the Lord Chamberleynes servauntes." — 

Revels' Aaounts, 157S-9. 

The Muse of Newmapket : 4to, 16S0. 

This is only an assemblage of three drolls acted at Newmarket. 

The Muses' Looking-Glass : A comedy by Thomas Randolph, in- 
cluded in all the editions of his Works, 1638-68, and in Hazlitt's, 
1875. Scene, in the Blackfriars Thea're. 

It appears from some verses by Sir Aston Cokain that it was played occa'^ionally 
under the title of the Enterlainment. It was revived at Covent Garden Theatre 
in 1748 and 1749, and an alteration of it, called The Mirronr, was published, 
Svo, 1758. Compare Poikilo-Pln-onesis. 

Music; or, a Parley of Instruments: The First Part. 4to, 1676. 

Thir, little piece is no more than the composition of some master of music, for 
the use of his scholars at a bail. No more is known. 

Mustapha : A tragedy by Fulk Greville, Lord Brooke. 4to, 1609; 
folio, 1633. 

As this play is budt on the same foundation with the following one, it will be 
needless to refer to any other authorities than are there mentioned. The 4to of 
1609 may rather be called a fragment, an 1 probably came out without his Lord- 
ship's knowledge. 

Mustapha, the Son of Solyman the Magnificent : A tragedy by Roger, 
JCarl of Orrery. Folio, 1668, 1669, 1672, and 1690; Svo, 1739. 
The scene, Hungary, 

The foundation of the story is in Thuanus, lib. xii., Knolles's Turkish History, 
etc. A M.S. in o'd blue morocco binding is in the Hriii.^h Museum. It is con- 
temporary, and perhap-) the original. Old transcripts are common. It was first 
acted in 1665. 

Mutius Scoevola : 

" The historye of .Mutius Scevola showen at Hampton Court on Twelf daie at 
night [January 6, I577]> enacted by the Children of Windsore and the Chappell."' 
— Rii'ets' .Irconnfs, 1576-7. 



Mut-Neb PLAY-COLLECTOR'S ALVNUAL. 163 

Mutius OP Mucius [Scoevola] : 

Ilenslowe {Diary, ed. Collier, p. 135), speaks of a play called Miilmutius 
Doinvallow, as purchased of William Rankins by tlie Lord Admiral's men in 
October, 1598. The Diarist, who was profoundly ilhteiate, may have written 
the first syllable of Mtilmitlius, and have then found that AJiiliits was the word, 
and instead of scoring through the erroneous letters have added the true name to 
them. A play on the subject of Mucius Sctjcvola had been shown at Court, it 
seems, in 1576, and it is possible that this later piece was suggested by, if not 
founded on, it. Rankins, who adapted and altered other men's work, may have 
olytained the MS. of a production on this story by Marlouv, and completed it ; 
and the iMulmiitius Doiiuiallom of Henslowe may be translateable into (Mul) 
Mutius done by Marloio. It is a kind of legend which that dramatist would have 
adopted for treatment. 

Narcissus : 

" Narcissus showen on Twelfedaye at nighte by the Children of the Chappell." 
— Kevcls Accounts, 1 57 1. 

Compare Fountain of Self- Love. 

Natural Mag-ic : See Novelty. 

Nature : A goodly interlude of Nature, compiled by Master Henry 
Medwall, Chaplain to the Right Reverend Father in Cod, John 
Morion, sometime Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury. 4to, 
about 1520. 

It was written sometime before the year 1500, and is in two part>-. Tlie 
Garrick copy possesses signature C 1-2 in duplicate. 

The Nature of the Four Elements : A new interlude and a merry 
of the Nature of the Four Elements, declaring many proper points 
of philosophy natural, and of divers strange lands, and of divers 
strange effects and causes; which interlude, if the whole matter b(j 
played, will contain the space of an hour and a half; but if you li>t 
you may leave out much of the said matter, as the messengers part, 
and some of Nature's part, and some of Experience's part, and yet the 
matter will depend conveniently, and then it will not be past three 
quarters of an hour of length. 8vo [15 19]. 

Reprinted in Hazlilt's Dodsley. 

The only copy known, that formerly belonging to Garrick, wants a sheet in the 
middle and the conclusion ; it was bound up with the statutes published in 
1518-19. The authorship is uncertain, but it is by no means unlikely that it is 
an early work of John Hey wood. We have here one of the first specimens of 
humour in the shape of a string of nonsensical incongruities, introduced to nmuse 
the audience or readers. 

Nature's Three Daug-hters, Beauty, Love, and Wit : A comedy 

in two parts, by the Duchess of Newcastle. Folio, 1662. 

Naufragium Joculare, Comcedia : Publice Coram Academicis Acta, 
ill Cullegio S. S. et individiiae Trinitatis, 4to. Nonas Feb. An. 
Dom. 163S. Aulhore Abrahamo Cowley. i2mo, 163S. Scene, 
Dunkirk. 

This was published in a volume with Cowley's Loves Kiddle. 

Nebuchadnezzar : A p'ay first acted by the Lord Admiral's players 
in December, 1596. 

See Hcnslowc's Piary, ed. Collier, p. S3. 



t64 PLAY-COLLECTORS MANUAL. Nec-Ner 

NeCPOmanCGP : The Necromancer, a moral Interlude and a pithy, 
written by Master Skelton, laureate, and played before the King 
and other estates, at Woodstock, on Palm Sunday. 410, Wynkin 
de Worde, 1504. 

It must have been presented before King Henry VII. at the royal manor or 
palace at W'ooiistock, in Oxfordshire, now destroyed. The characters are, a 
Necromancer, the Devil, a Notary Public, Simony, and I'hilari^yria or Avarice. 
It is paitly a satire on some abuses in the church ; yet not without a due regard 
to decency and an ap|iarent respect for the dignity of the audience. The story 
or plot is the trial of Simony and Avarice : the Devil is the jud^e, and the 
Notary Pub ic acts as an assessor or scribe. The prisoners, as we may suppose, 
are found guilty, anil ordereci into hell miinediatcly. 

No copy of I his piece is at present known ; but it is described by Warton from 
one, which he saw iri the possession of Collins the poet at Chichester. 

NGCPOmantes : Or the Two Supposed Heads, a comical invention by 
Wiliiarn Percy, acted by the Children of Paul's. Written about 
1602. Not printed. 
NeCPOmantia : A dialogue of the Poet Lucian for his Fantasy feigned 
for a merry Pastime, and first by him compiled in the Greek. 
Tongue, and after translated out of the Greek into Latin, and now 
lately translate<1 out of Latin into English, for the erudition of 
them which be disposed to learn the Tongues. Folio, John Kastell, 
about 1520. 
As the author, whoever he was, has reduced this dialogue into English verse 
after the manner of an interlude, we have not hesitated to class it amon^ 
dramfit c peiforniances. If Rastell was only the printer of it, which may be 
doubte<l, we might lairly enough ascribe it to the festive genius of his brother in- 
law. Sir Thomas More. It is fiom this production that Collier in his History of 
Dramatic Poetry^ li>3l, extracts the dramatic dialogue oi i hiloinedes and JMeiiip- 
fiis, who are the interlocutors here. 

NectaP et AmbPOSia : A Latin tragedy by Edmund Campion. 
Neglected ViPtue ; or, the Unhappy Conqueror : A pla\, acted at the 

Theatre Ro)al by His Majest)'s Servants. By Charles Hopkms. 

4to, 1696. Scene, the capital ciiy of Par;hia. 

This play was published by Horden the ]>layer, into whose hands it was put, 
and v\ho \Arote the prologue to it, as did Mciteux the e[>ilogiie ; yet it had vciy 
litiie success. The comic uiider]jlol is bonoucd from the /'iti^!-iw. 

Neptune's Addpess to his most Sacped Majesty Chaples the 

Second, congrat'daiing hs happy Coronaaoir, celebrated tbe 
22 day of April, 1661. In Several Designs ard Shows upon the 
Water before Whi:ehall, at his ALtjesty's Return Irc.m the Land 
Triumphs. By John Tathum. F(;li(), 1661. 

Tathnm wrcte a second piece of the same character, which was accidentally 
overlooked in its [Jiopcr pla e : 

The Enteitainnient of the King and (^neen by the City of London on the 
Thame.-> exprest and set (01 th in several Shows and Pageants, the 23 of April, 
1662. 4t<i, 1662. 

Neptune's Tpiumph fop the Return of Albion : A mnscpic by 

Ben Joiison, peitormtd ai CoU't, al Chiisiiias, 1623, and on 
January the 9th, 1624-5. Folio, 1640. 

NePO : A Latin tragedy by Matthew (jwinnc, ALl)., fellow of St. John's 
Coliejie, Oxford. 4*0, 1603; 8\o, 1639. 



Ner-New PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. 165 

NeFO : The Tmgedy of Claudius Tiberius Nero, Rome's greatest Tyrant, 
truly represented out of the purest Records of those Times. 410, 
1607. Dedicated to Sir Arthur Mannering. 

la some copies, it is called the " Siatelie Tragedie." It was entered at 
Stationers' Hall on April 10, 1607. 

Nero: The Tragedy of Nero. Newly written. 4to, 1624, 1633. 
Licensed May 15, 1624. 

This play is, in the litle-pngc, called " newly written," possibly because it was 
written after ihat of Claudius Tiberius Nero, 1607 ; it hiis been ascribed to 
Massinger, and is sometimes found bound up with his pieces. 

NePO : The Tragedy of Nero, Emperor of Rome. As it is acted at 
the Tiientre Royal by His Majesty's Servants. By Nat. Lee. 4to, 
1675. Scene, Rome. 

This tragedy is written in a mixed style, chiefly in rhyme, but having a little 
both in prose and blank verse. The an hur has taken no pains to ailhere to 
hi torical truth. It was acted at the Duke's Theatre under the title of Fisos 
Conspiracy, and repiinted, 410, 1676. 

Nero : 

In a review (in the British Critic, September, 1793) of Nash's edition of 
Hudibras, it is mentioned ihat the editor had access to Butler's commonplace 
book, in which was part of an unhnishd tragedy under this title. 

The New Academy ; or, the New Exchange : A comedy by Richard 
Brome. 8vo, 1658. 

New Custom : A new Interlude, no less witty than pleasant, intituled 

New Custom; devised 01 late, and for diverse Causes now set forth. 

Never before this Time imprinted. [The placers' names.] Four 

may play this Interlude. 4to, 1573. 

The dramatis persona: are eleven in number, so that certain doubles had to be 

used ill the tasting of 11. It is in Englisii hexameter rh\ mes, and is in three 

acts. Two places are indicated, where songs were to be introduced ; liut they 

are not given. Wruten in support ot the Reformation. In Ilazlitt's Dodsley. 

A New Droll; or, The Counterscuffle : Acted in the middle of High 
Lent between the Gaolers and the Riisoners. By T. Jordan. 
4to, 1663. 

The New Inn ; or, the Light Heart : A comedy. As it was never 

acted, but most negligently played by some, the King's Servants. 
And more squeamishly bciield and censuied by otners, the King's 
Subjects, -1629. Now at last set at liberty to the Readers, his 
Majesty's Servants and Subjects, to be judged. Ay the Author, 
B. Jonson. 8vo, 1631, and in the second vol. of the Works, 
1631. 

A New Trick : A Pleasant and Witty Comedy : Called, A New Trick 
to Cneat the Devil. By Robert Davenport. 410, 1639. The 
scene, London. 

This play met with good success. Slightall's instructions to the gentlemen 
(Act I, Scene 2) are borrowed fiom Owd de Arte Amaiidi, lib. ii. ; and the 
incident of p'riar John uiscuverii g the intiigue bctv\een the coi. stable and the 
Woman, and pretending to coiijuie tor victuals at the husband's leiurn (Act 3, 
Scene ij, has not only been copied by M. D'Ouville, in his 'Jales, but has also 
been used by Kavenscroft in his 1 ouion Cuckolds. 



1 66 PLAY-COLLECTOR'S MANUAL. New-Nin 

A New Way to Pay Old Debts : A Comedy. As it hath been often 
acted at the Piicenix in Drury Lane by the Queen's Majesty's 
Servants. The Author, Philip xMassinger. 410, 1633. 

This play is very deservedly commended in two copies of verses by Sir Henry 
Moody and Sir Thomas Jay ; it is one of the best of the old comedies, and still 
Iceeps the sta^,e. 
A New Wonder, A Woman Never Vext : A pleasant conceited 
Comedy : Sundry times Acted : never i)efore printed. Written by 
WiUiam Rowley, one of His Majesty^ Servants. 4to, 1632. 
This is a diverting play, and n-.et with success. The circumNlance of the 
widow finding in the inside of a fish the ring which she had dropped in crossing 
the Thames, seems borrowed from Herodotus' story of Polycrates in his 7 halia. 
A similar stoy, however, is told by Fuller in his ll^v>//ai's ot one Anderson of 
Newcastle. Reprinted in Hazlitt's Dod.-ky. 

News from Plymouth : A comedy by Sir W. D^venant. Foho, 1673. 
Scene, Plymouth. 
This play was performed with good success at tlie Globe Thentre. It was 
licensed on August l, 1635. The scene was originally laid at Portsmouth. 

News from the New World Discover'd in the Moon : A Masque 

by Pen Jonson. Folio, 1640. 

Presented at Court before King James I., January, 1620. 

The New World's Trag-edy : A play acted at the Rose 1 heatre in 

1595- 
The Nice Valour ; or, the Passionate Madman : A comedy by Beau- 

n:unt arm Fletcher. Polio, 1647. Scene, Genoa. 
Nice Wanton : A Pretty Interlude called, Nice Wanton. 

" Wherein ye may see 
Three branches of an ill tree, 
The mother and her chikben three, 
Two naught and one godly." 
4to, 1560. 

The nine " personages " are named on the title. In Hazlitt's Dod>ley. Mr. 
Fleay notes a performance by the Cliikiren of Paul's, August 5, 1559. 

Nicomede : A Tragi-Comedy translated out of the French 01 Monsieur 
Corneille by John Dancer. As it was acted at the 'Pheaire Royal 
in Dublin. 4t(), 1671. The scene, Nicomedia. 

This is one of the pieces on which Corneille valued himself the most, and of 
which he has enumerated the beauties in an Exaiiwii. The story is from Justin, 
book xxxiv., clmpter the last. 

The Nig'ht Walker; or, the Little Thief: A comedy by John Fletcher. 
4to, 1640, 160 1. Scene, London. 

Acted at Couit in 1633, and at Drury I.an-. In the foli^) of Beaumont and 
Fletcher, 1679. Left incumelete by Fletcher, and finisiied, as it is supposed, by 
Shirley. See Dyce's B. and /''. , xi. 123. 

This was occasionally known and called by its subtitle : " So to White Fryars, 
an<l saw the Li lie Thiefe, which is a very nieiry and pietiy pkiy, ami the btile 
boy do very well." — Pepys' Diary, 1661. The /,////(,' 7 ///>/ also occurs in a list 
of plays acied at the King's Amis, Norwich, in 1662. 

Nig-ramansir : See Aciroma/urr. 
Nineveh's Repentance : 

This tragicomedy is m. nlioned in the Li^t anncxetl to the Carchss Shcplicrdcss, 
1650. 



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Ninus and Semiramis : The traize'ly of Ninus and S-miramis. the 
first Monarchs of the World. Entered at .Stationers' Hall, May 10, 
'595- 

It is alluded to in Ileywood's Apoh\i:;y for Actors, i6l2. 

Noah's Apk : An anrient mystery so called, acted at Newcastle by the 
Company of the .Shipwrights:. 

Prinled in Bourne's History of Ne~vcasllc upon Tync, 1736, p. 139. 

Noah's Flood : 

In 1662, a license was granted to Cleorge Bayley, of London, musitioner, to 
make show of a play called Noah's Flood. 

Noah's Flood ; or, the Destruction of the World : An Opera by I'Mward 

Ecclestone. 410, 1679. 

Rei'^sued, 4(0, 1684, under the title of The Cat