DICTIONARY 
 
 OLD ENGLISH PLAYS.
 
 A DICTIONARY 
 
 OLD ENGLISH PLAYS, 
 
 EXISTING EITHER 
 
 IN PRINT OR IN MANUSCRIPT, 
 
 from: the earliest times to the close of the 
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 LATIN PLAYS WEITTEN BY ENGLISH AUTHORS 
 
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 s In the year 1691, there was published at Oxford, a work which, 
 for an age that offered small facility or encouragement to the 
 prosecution of researches in the field of early English Literature, 
 was one of extraordinary merit. It is a small octavo volume, never 
 one of great price, and even now to be obtained at the book-stalls 
 <^v of this metropolis for a very trifling sum ; and it bears the follow- 
 ed ing title, — " An Account of the English Dramatick Poets; or, 
 Some Observations and Remarks on the Lives and "Writings of 
 all those that have Published either Comedies, Tragedies, Tragi- 
 comedies, Pastorals, Masques, Interludes, Farces, or Opera's in 
 the English Tongue. By Gerard Langbaine. Oxford, Printed by 
 L, L. for George West and Henry Clements, An. Bom. 1691/' The 
 enumeration in this title exceeds, in comprehensiveness, even the 
 liberal summary of Polonius. But the subject well deserves it, for 
 the English of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were un- 
 questionably the best writers " in the world, either for tragedy, 
 history, comedy, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, 
 
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 tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral." They were, 
 indeed, "the only men;" and so Langbaine judiciously thought, 
 when he devoted some years to the compilation above mentioned, 
 notwithstanding that he considered it necessary to pay a deference 
 to the then public opinion, by apologizing, as became a Doctor of 
 Divinity, for occupying his leisure in such a frivolous undertaking. 
 Fortunately, in these days, most of us have candour enough to 
 recollect that even St. Paul quotes an " old play/' were any excuse 
 requisite for a devotion of time to the consideration of particulars 
 respecting some of the noblest efforts of human genius. 
 
 Gerard Langbaine has had but scanty justice meted out to him 
 by his successors. Although his work has been extensively used by 
 all of them, his name is rarely mentioned as the original compiler : 
 and a reader of the well-known Biographia Dramatica, first pub- 
 lished in 1764, and reprinted with additions in 1782 and 1812, 
 would scarcely, without examination, be prepared for the announce- 
 ment that much of the information in it respecting old plays, and 
 many of its blunders, are copied unreservedly and without acknow- 
 ledgment from the industrious Gerard. His hand may still be 
 traced, though less frequently, in the present volume, which is 
 grounded on the list of plays given in the last and best edition of 
 the Biographia Dramatica, 1812, though with such numerous 
 corrections, additions, and alterations, it has been promoted to the 
 dignity of bearing the title of a new work. It must, however, be
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 distinctly stated that the labours, and, in numerous instances, the 
 language of the compilers of that list, have been freely used in the 
 following pages. The four writers to whom I am chiefly indebted, 
 are, in the first place, Langbaine ; and next, the three editors of 
 the Biographia, namely, — David Erskine Baker, who originally 
 compiled it to the year 1764; Isaac Reed, who continued it to 
 1782; and Stephen Jones, who brought the work down to the end 
 of November, 1811. In a copy of this last edition, issued in 1812, 
 I have noted additions for nearly twenty years, and these, with 
 various alterations in the text, constitute the main features of the 
 present work. 
 
 The list now given is chiefly restricted to those plays Avhich are 
 known to exist either in print or manuscript, whether in English 
 written before the year 1700, or in Latin, if composed by English 
 authors. A few plays, not now known to exist, are mentioned, but 
 it was thought unnecessary to increase the size of the work by an 
 attempt to give a complete list of them, which would at best be of 
 doubtful utility. The enumeration of masques, entertainments, and 
 pageants, is also not pretended to be complete. They belong rather 
 to another branch of the subject, and those only have been inserted 
 which bear distinctive titles. It may also be mentioned that several 
 pieces, not in any way of a dramatic character, are mentioned as 
 plays by the editors of the Biographia Dramatica. No notice has 
 been taken of these.
 
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 It was not thought necessary to give more than very brief notices 
 of plays by well-known authors, whose works have been collected 
 by competent editors, such as those of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, 
 Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher, and others. This work is 
 not intended to supply the place of the valuable introductions of 
 Gifford, Dyce, or Collier ; but rather to furnish brief useful notes 
 respecting the miscellaneous early English dramas. 
 
 I have to acknowledge the receipt of some extracts respecting 
 pageants from the records of Wells, by Thomas Serel, Esq., and of 
 a few useful and interesting memoranda on old English plays by R. 
 Inglis, Esq., of Glasgow. The indices at the end of the volume 
 have been compiled by the publisher of the work. Nor must I 
 omit to notice the aid derived from an able article on Latin plays 
 by the Rev. C. H. Hartshorne, printed some years ago in the 
 Retrospective Review, to which essay I am indebted for useful and 
 interesting information respecting the Latin dramas which were 
 performed at Cambridge in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 
 
 April, 1860.
 
 A DICTIONARY 
 
 OLD ENGLISH PLAYS. 
 
 ABDELAZAR; 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 Lust's Dominion, or the Lascivious Queen, 
 q. v. From it Dr. Young took the hint of his tragedy of the Kevenge ; 
 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. 
 Genest observes that " Mrs. Behn has made some considerable changes in 
 the fifth act, and improved the whole play. Abdelazar is a striking cha- 
 racter ; 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 instituted 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." 
 
 ABDICATED PRINCE ; or, the Adventures of four Years. Tragi-comedy, 
 acted at Alba Regalis, by several persons of great quality. 4to. 1690. 
 This piece, v4iich was published anonymously, is entirely political, and 
 seems not to have been intended for the stage : it contains under feigned 
 names, the transactions of the English court and nation during the reign 
 of James II., with the abdication of that prince, the Duke of Monmouth 
 being made the hero ; and personal abuse following a popular scandal 
 in charging the King with the death of his brother, Charles the Second. 
 This play needs no key ; Alba Regalis evidently being meant for the 
 English court, and the very names of the personages so closely pointed to 
 real history, as to be obvious to any one acquainted with the public trans- 
 actions of that period. One of the characters observes of James that 
 
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 " certainly never man took such pains to win a kingdom, as this unhappy 
 prince does to lose one." 
 
 ABRAHAM AND LOT. A Scriptural drama thus noticed in Henslowe's 
 Diary, — "received at Abrame and Lotte, the 9 of Jenewary, 1593, lij. s." 
 Mr. Collier thinks that it may have been some modification of an old 
 miracle-play. 
 
 ABRAHAM'S SACRIFICE. A Tragedie of Abraham's Sacrifice, written 
 in French by Theodore Beza, and translated into English by A. G., 
 finished at Povvles Belchamp, in Essex, the 11th day of August, 1575 ; 
 with wood cuts. Printed by Vautrouillier. 18rno. 1577. The translator's 
 initials are those of Arthur Golding. It is a very faithful translation from 
 Beza. 
 
 ABSALOM. A Scriptural drama alluded to in Henslowe's Diary, ed. Collier, 
 p. 241, — "paid for poleyes and workmanshipp for to hange Absolome, 
 xiiij. d." Bale wrote a play on the subject, but it is hardly probable that 
 his work is the production here referred to. 
 
 ABSALON. A Latin tragedy by John Watson, afterwards Bishop of Win- 
 chester, a manuscript at Penshurst. It is alluded to in Meres' Palladis 
 Tamia, 1598. 
 
 ABUSES. On July the 30th, 1606, there was a play so called, which was 
 performed before the Kings of Great Britain and Denmark during the stay 
 the latter made in this country. According to a contemporary authority, 
 " the youthes of Paules, commonly called the children of Paules, plaide be- 
 fore the two Kings a play called Abuses, containing both a comedie and a 
 tragedie, at which the Kinges seemed to take delight, and be much pleased." 
 
 THE ACADEMIE ; or, the Cambridge Duns. Comedy by J. Barnes. This 
 play has never been published, but still remains in MS. in the library of 
 Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It appears to have been written about 
 the year 1675 ; and from circumstances 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 mentioned in the Garlande of Laurell, — " 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 Iphigenia of 
 Racine. It was acted in December, 1G99, without any success. On the 
 appearance of the Victim, by Charles Johnson, in 1714, Boyer republished 
 this play, under the title of the Victim, or Achilles and Iphigenia in Aulis, 
 12rao. ; and in the preface to it says, that it passed the correction and 
 approbation of Dryden.
 
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 ACOLASTUS. This play is no more than a translation, for the use of 
 children, of a Latin play of the same name, written by Fullonius, on the 
 story of the Prodigal Son. It is printed in black-letter, 4to., and dedicated 
 to the King, — " Joannis Palsgravii Londoniensis Ecphrasis Anglica in 
 Comediam Acolasti. — The comedy e of Acolastus, translated into oure 
 englyshe tongue, after such nianer as chylderne are taught in the grammar- 
 schole ; fyrst, worde for worde, as the Latyne lyeth ; and afterwarde, 
 accordynge to the sense and meanyng of the Latin sentences ; by shewing 
 what they do value and countervayle in our tongue, with admonitions set 
 forth in the margyn, so often as any such phrase, that is to say, kynde of 
 spekyng used of the Latyns, which we use not in our tonge, but by other 
 wordes expresse the said Latyn maners of speakinge, and also adages, 
 metaphores, sentences, or other fygures, poeticall or rhetoricall do require, 
 for the more perry te instructynge of the lerners, and to leade theym more 
 easilye to see ho we the exposition gothe ; and afore the seconde sceane of 
 the fyrst acte, is a brefe introductory to have some general knowledge of 
 the dyvers sortes of meters used of our auctour in this comedy. And afore 
 Acolastus balade is shewed of what kyndes of meters his balade is made of. 
 And afore the syxte sceane of the fourthe acte, is a monition of the rhe- 
 torycall composytion used in that sceane, and certayne other after it 
 ensuyinge. Interpreted by John Palsgrave, anno M. D. XL. Wylliam 
 Pullonius, the maker of this presente comedy, did set it forthe before the 
 bourgeses of Hagen in Holand, anno M. D. xxrx." 
 
 ACTION AND DIANA. An interlude, by Eobert Cox, with a pastoral 
 story of the nymph (Enone, followed by the several conceited humours of 
 Bumpkin the huntsman, 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 second edition, 8vo. 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. These drolls 
 were afterwards published in Kirkman's collection, called the Wits, or 
 Sport upon Sport, 1672. 
 
 ADELPME. A Latin comedy, performed at Cambridge, at Trinity College, 
 in 1612, on the occasion of Prince Charles and the Count Palatine visiting 
 the University, It exists in MS. in the library of Trinity College. The 
 performance lasted six hours, and the Count slept during the greater 
 portion of it. 
 
 ADELPHI. English translations of the Adelphi of Terence are included in 
 Bernard's Terence in English, 1598, 1607, 1614, 1629, 1641 ; in Hoole's 
 Six Comedies of Terence, 1668, 1670, 1676; and in the Comedies made 
 English by L. Echard and others, 169-4.
 
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 ADRASTA ; or, the Woman's Spleen and Love's Conquest. Tragi-comedy 
 by John Jones, never acted, but printed in 4to. 1635. The intrigue in the 
 third act is taken from Boccaccio, Day 8, Novel. 8. It has very little merit, 
 and was refused by the actors. Jt is dedicated to Eugenius, by which 
 name he desires to comprehend all his friends, subscribing himself, Muso- 
 philus; Langbaine, p. 281. 
 
 ADRASTUS PARENTANS. A Latin tragedy by Peter Mease, entitled 
 Adrastus Parentans sive Vindicta, dedicated to Launcelot Andrews, Bishop 
 of Winchester, was amongst Heber's MSS., No. 864. It is now preserved 
 in the British Museum, MS. Addit. 10417. The argument is taken from 
 Herodotus. 
 
 ADSON'S MASQUE. A masque of the seventeenth century. See a 
 collection of masque and dance tunes in the British Museum, MS. Addit. 
 10444. 
 
 ADVENTURES OP PIVE HOURS. Tragi-comedy by Sir Samuel Tuke, 
 Bart. Acted at Court. Pol. 1663; 4to. 1664, 1671, 1704. Downes, 
 in his Roscius Anglicanus, says, it was written by that gentleman and 
 the Earl of Bristol. It is translated from a Spanish play by Calderon, 
 recommended by King Charles II., was acted 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 emi- 
 nent men of that time. Echard, in the preface to his translation of Terence, 
 says, " this is one of the pleasantest stories that ever appeared upon our 
 stage, and has as much variety of plots and intrigues, without any thing 
 being precipitated, improper, or unnatural, as to the main action." 
 Dedicated to the Right Hon. Henry Howard. Evelyn, under date of 
 December 23rd, 1662, says, — " I went with Sir George 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 8th, 1662-3. 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 Dodsley's Collection. 
 
 iEMILIA. A comedy in Latin by Cecil, of St. John's College, acted at 
 Cambridge on the occasion of the visit of King James, in 1614. " 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 somewdiat too broad 
 speech for such a presence, yet it was still dry," State Tapers. 
 
 jPjSOP'S CROW. A play performed before the Court in the sixteenth
 
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 century, in which most of the actors were dressed as birds. It is mentioned 
 in a tract called, Beware the Cat, 1584. 
 
 AGAINST MOMUS'S AND ZOILUS'S. A dramatic piece in two parts, by 
 John Bale, Bishop of Ossory, one of the first English dramatic writers. 
 Of this piece we have no remains but the bare mention of it by himself, in 
 his account of the writers of Britain. 
 
 AGAINST THOSE WHO ADULTERATE THE WORD OF GOD. A 
 dramatic piece, by the last-mentioned author ; and of which we have 
 exactly the same kind of knowledge. Neither of them were ever acted or even 
 printed, but in all probability they were written between 1530 and 1540. 
 
 AGAMEMNON. Tragedy translated from Seneca, by John Studly, in 
 Queen Elizabeth's reign. He has, however, added a whole scene to 
 the fifth act. 12mo. 1566." 4to. 1581. See a futher notice in Langbaine, 
 p. 495. Entered on the Stationers' Registers in 1565-6. Recommenda- 
 tory verses are prefixed, and it is dedicated to Cecil. In this dedication 
 Studley says that he " was sometyme scholler in the Queenes Majesties 
 grammer-schoole at Westminster." He was afterwards a student at 
 Trinity College, Cambridge. 
 
 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 1584, 
 thus described in the Revels' Accounts, ed. Cunningham, p. 188, — "the 
 history of Agamemnon and Ulisses presented and enacted before her 
 Majestie by the Earle of Oxenford his boyes on St. Johns daie at night 
 at Grenewiche." 
 
 AGLAURA. Tragi-comedy by Sir John Suckling. Acted at the private 
 house in Black Pryars. Eol. 1638 ; 8vo. 1646. The author has so con- 
 trived 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 A r estal Virgin. The scene Hes in Persia. 
 This play was very successful. Brome wrote some verses upon it, which 
 are printed in the Muses Recreation. Pepys, however, notes it as " but 
 a mean play, nothing of design in it." The writer of a letter dated Peb. 
 7th, 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 27th, 1661, " the tragical way." There is an early MS. copy 
 of this play in the British Museum, MS. Bibl. Reg. 18 C. 25. 
 
 ACiN ES DE CASTRO. Tragedy by Catharine Trotter, afterwards Cockburne.
 
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 4to. Acted at the Theatre Royal, 1696. It is founded on a French novel 
 of the same name, translated by Mrs. Bclm, and deservedly met with very 
 good success. 
 
 AGRIPPA. Agrippa King of Alba, or the False Tiberinus, a tragi-comedy 
 in heroick verse, several times acted with great applause before his Grace 
 the Duke of Ormond, then Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, at the Theatre 
 Royal in Dublin, 4to. 1675. This play is translated from the French of 
 M. Quinault. 
 
 AHAZUERUS AND ESTHER. A short interlude, attributed to Robert 
 Cox, a great writer of drolls. It is printed in the second part of Kirk- 
 man's Wits or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 
 
 AJAX AND ULYSSES. A play under this title was acted at Court in the 
 winter of 1571-2. "Ajax and Ulisses showen on New yeares daie at 
 nighte by the Children of "YYynsor," Cunningham's Revels' Accounts, 
 p. 13. 
 
 AJAX FLAGELLIFER. In Latin. Proposed to be acted before Queen 
 Elizabeth at Cambridge in 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. 
 
 ALAHAM. Tragedy by Fulke Grevile, Lord Brook. Fol. 1633. The scene 
 of this play is laid in Ormus, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, and the plot 
 takeu from some incidents in Herbert's Travels. 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 introduced more than two 
 speakers at a time, excepting in the choruses between the acts. 
 
 ALARUM FOR LONDON ; or, the Siege of Antwerp : with the ventrous 
 Actes and valorous Deeds of the lame Soldier. Tragi-comedy. Acted by 
 the Lord Chamberlain's Servants. 4to. 1602. This play is not divided 
 into acts ; the plot is taken from the Tragical History of the City of 
 Antwerp. 
 
 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 times, 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 and afternoon, with infinite satisfaction, to hear syllogisms in 
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 " 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 Heywoodand 
 Smith, as it is spelt, probably erroneously, in Henslowe's Diary, p. 239, 
 under the date of 1602. 
 
 ALBERTUS WALLENSTEIN, late Duke of Fridland, and General to the 
 Emperor Ferdinand II. Tragedy by Henry Glapthorne. It was acted 
 at the Globe by the Bank Side. 4to. 1631; 4to. 1640. The scene lies 
 at Egers, and 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 the Old English Drama. 
 
 ALBION. An interlude mentioned by Kirkman, and probably the same 
 which is entered, by Thomas Colwell, in the Stationer's Company's books 
 of the years 1565-1566, under the title of" A Mery Play bothe pytthy and 
 pleasaunt, of Albyon Knighte." No perfect copy is known, but a fragment 
 of twelve pages is in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire. It is 
 reprinted in the Shakespeare Society Papers, ed. Collier. Albion Knight 
 is a personification of England, the drama being a political one. Oldys, 
 in his MS. notes, gives it the date of 1593. 
 
 ALBION AND ALBANIUS. Opera, in three acts, by J. Drydeii. Acted 
 at the Theatre Royal and at Dorset Garden. Fol. 1685 ; 4 to. 1691. 
 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, happening 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 thinks that the 
 first performance of this drama was on the third or sixth of June, and the 
 last on the thirteenth. 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 Genest's Account of the 
 English Stage, i. 434. 
 
 ALBION QUEENS. A tragedy mentioned in a " Catalogue of Plays sold
 
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 by Richard Wellington at the Dolphin and Crown in St. Paul's Church- 
 yard." It is the same with the Island Queens, published in 1684. 
 
 ALBION'S TRIUMPH. Albion's Triumph, personated in a Maske at Court, 
 by the King's Majesty and his Lords (all whose names are at the end), the 
 Sunday after Twelfth Night, 1681. 4to. The scene is Albipolis, the chief 
 city of Albion. Inigo Jones had a share in the invention of this masque. 
 The words are by Aurelian Townscud. 
 
 ALBOVINE, King of the Lombards. Tragedy by Sir W. Davenant. 4to. 
 1629. The story is found in Bandello, the Histoires Tragiques, torn. iv. 
 Nov. 19, and some of the historians of the Francs and Lombards. The 
 scene lies in Verona. 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 Epigrams, 1651. 
 
 ALBUMAZAR. Comedy presented before the King's Majestie at Cambridge, 
 the 9th of March, 1614, by the gentlemen of Trinity College. 4to. 1615, 
 1634. In Dodsley's Collection. This play was written by Tomkis, of 
 Trinity College ; and acted before King James on the day above mentioned. 
 Dryden, in a Prologue composed by him for the revival of it at the King's 
 House, considers it as the original of the Alchemist, and charges Ben Jonson, 
 in very positive terms, with plagiarism, but without any foundation, as this 
 play was neither acted nor printed until four years after that play. According 
 to the title-page of ed. 1634, that edition was " newly revised and corrected 
 by a speciall hand." At the revival of it at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1668, 
 Angel took the part of Trincalo, and in that character gave amusement to 
 Charles the Second, who was present on the second night of the performance, 
 22 Feb. 1667-8. 
 
 ALCAMENES AND MENALIPPA. Tragedy. Mears, in his Catalogue, 
 ascribes 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. Comedy by Ben Jonson. Acted by the King's 
 Servants. 4to. London, Printed by Thomas Snodham for Walter Burre, 
 and are to be sold by John Stepneth at the West-end of Paules, 1612. 
 Dedicated to Lady Wroth. Dryden intimates that this play was copied 
 from that of Albumazar. Pepys saw the Alchemist performed at the 
 Theatre Boyal on August 3rd, 1664, on which night Clun, one of the 
 actors, was murdered near Kentish Town. Pepys considered 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 Nepos
 
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 and Plutarch. The author lias, 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 
 Otway's first play, and is written in heroic verse. Dedicated to the Earl 
 of Middlesex. 
 
 ALCM/EON. A play under this title was acted before the Court at White- 
 hall in December, 1573. " Alkmeon, playde by the children of Powles on 
 Saint Johns Daye at night there," Cunningham's Revels' Accounts, p. 51. 
 
 ALEXANDER AND CAMPASPE. Comedy by John Lyly. Played before 
 Queen Elizabeth, on Twelfth-Night, by the children of Paul's. 4to. 1584, 
 1591 ; 12mo. 1632. In Dodsley's Collection, 1780. Part of the plot is 
 from Pliny's Nat. Hist, book xxxv. ch. 10. Two editions appeared in 
 1584, in one of which it is called the Comedie of Alexander, Campaspe, and 
 Diogenes, but in the other merely, Campaspe. 
 
 ALEXANDER AND LODOWICK. A play by Martin Slaughter. First acted 
 in January, 1597. " Received at elexsander and lodwieke, the 14 of Jane- 
 warye, the fyrste tyme yt wasse playde, 1597, in parte, v. li" Henslowe's 
 Diary, p. 79. It was a successful play, and the author seems to have 
 amended it with alterations in 1598. 
 
 ALEXANDER THE SIXTH. The Tragedie of Alexander the Sixt, as it 
 was played before his Majesty, was entered on the registers of the Station- 
 ers' Company, October 16th, 1607. Perhaps the following play. 
 
 THE ALEXANDRIAN TRAGEDY. By William Alexander, Earl of 
 Sterling. 4to. 1605, 16*07 ; fol. 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 condemns the play for 
 those very faults which could only arise from the author's 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 trans- 
 lations 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 
 
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 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, &c. 
 
 ALEXIS'S PARADISE. A dramatic opera, with this title, dated 1680, 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. 
 
 ALEXIUS. Alexius, or the Chaste Lover, by P. Massinger. Acted by the 
 King's Company on September 25th, 1639. This is supposed to be the 
 Bashful Lover, but it is in the list of the manuscript plays of Warburton 
 as, " Alexias or the Chast Gallant, tragedy, P. Massinger." It is most 
 probably a lost play. There is a MS. play in the Douce collection, 171, in 
 which Alexis is the name of one of the characters. 
 
 ALFRED. Alfrede, or Right Re-inthron'd, being a tragi-comedie, 1659. 
 Dedicated to Lady Blount by her brother, R. K. A manuscript in the 
 Bodleian Library, Rawl. Poet. 80. 
 
 ALICE PIERCE. This play is mentioned several times in Henslowe's 
 Diary under the date of 1597, and once under the title of Alls Perce, that 
 Christian name being the old short name for Alice. It is in the list of 
 plays belonging to the Rose Theatre in 1598. 
 
 ALL FOOLS. Comedy by George Chapman. 4to. 1605. In Dodsley's 
 Collection, 17 SO. The plot is founded on Terence's Heauton-timorumenos. 
 It was accounted an excellent play in those times, and was acted at the 
 Black-Friars with considerable applause. The following is an exact copy 
 of the title of the original edition, — " Al Fogies, a Comedy, Presented at 
 the Black Fryers, And lately before his Majestie. Written by George 
 Chapman. At London, Printed for Thomas Thorpe, 1605." The two 
 first words of this title-page are printed in a large peculiar type. It was 
 acted at Court on " new year's night," 1604-5. 
 
 ALL FOOLS BUT THE FOOL. A play by Chapman, mentioned in 
 Henslowe's Diary, 1599, as a new title for his World Runs on Wheels. 
 It may possibly be the same as All Fools. 
 
 ALL FOR LOVE ; or, the World Well Lost. Tragedy by John Dryden, 
 written in imitation of Shakespeare's style, and acted at the Theatre Royal. 
 4to. 1678, 1692, 1703, 1709. Dedicated to the Earl of Danby. Entered 
 at Stationers' Hall on January 31st, 1677-8. This is generally considered 
 as the most complete dramatic piece of this author. The plot and general 
 design of it are undoubtedly borrowed from Shakespeare's Antony and 
 Cleopatra ; Dryden says he prefers the scene between Anthony and Venti- 
 dius in the first act to anything he had written of the kind.
 
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 ALL FOR MONEY. "A moral and pitieful Comedie, intitled All for 
 Money, plainly representing the maimers of men and fashion of the world, 
 now-a-dayes," compiled by Thomas Lupton. 4to. 1578. The characters 
 of this piece are, Theology, Science, Art, Money, Adulation, Godly Admo- 
 nition, Mischievous Help, Pleasure, Pressed for Pleasure, Sin, Swift to Sin, 
 Virtue, Humility, Charity, All for Money, Damnation, Satan, Pride, 
 Gluttony, Learning with Money, Learning without Money, Money without 
 Learning, Neither Money nor Learning, Moneyless, Moneyless and Friend- 
 less, Nychol, Gregory, Graceless, Mother Crook, Judas, Lives, William, 
 and the two Wives ; Reprinted in Literature of the Sixteenth and Seven- 
 teenth Centuries, 4to. 1851. 
 
 ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLISTERS. A play by Henry Chettle, 
 produced in 1601. The author received four pounds for the copyright of 
 it. See Henslowe's Diary, p. 185. 
 
 ALL IS TRUE. W r otton says, under date July 2, 1613, " I will entertain 
 you at the present with what hath happened this week at the Bank's Side. 
 The King's players had a new play, called All is true, representing 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 mat- 
 ting of the stage, the knights of the order with their Georges and garter, 
 the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like, sufficient in truth 
 with 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 being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff where- 
 with one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where, being thought 
 at first but 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 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 provi- 
 dent wit, put it out with bottled ale." Of this piece there is no other 
 account on record. 
 
 ALL MISTAKEN. All Mistaken, or the Mad Couple, a comedy acted by 
 his Majestie's Servants at the Theatre Royal. By the Hon. James Howard. 
 4to. 1672. Sceue,Italy. Acted in December, 1667, when Hart and Nell Gwyu 
 acted Phdidor and Mirida, the mad couple. In Dodsley's Collection, 1744. 
 
 ALL PLOT ; or, the Disguises. Comedy by Stroude. Acted at Lincoln's Inn 
 Fields, between 1662 and 1671. This play is mentioned by Downes as 
 having been performed only three times. It seems not to have been printed. 
 
 ALL'S LOST BY LUST. Tragedy by Wilhain Rowley. Acted at the
 
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 Phoenix in Drury-lane, 1033. 4to. Part of its plot is from Novel 3, of 
 the Unfortunate Lovers. It was revived at the Red Bull on March 23rd, 
 1661. According to a manuscript in the Lord Chamberlain's Office, this 
 play, in 1639, belonged to the Cock-pit company. 
 
 ALL'S ONE ; or, One of the foure Plaies in One, called A Yorkshire 
 Tragedy, played by the King's Players. 4to. 1608; 4to. 1619. This is 
 one of the plays erroneously ascribed to Shakespeare, generally known as 
 the Yorkshire Tragedy. 
 
 ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL. Comedy by Shakespeare. Fol. 
 1623. This play, which is supposed to have been sometimes called Love's 
 Labour Wonne, was originally taken from Boccaccio, but came immediately 
 to Shakespeare from Painter's Giletta of Narbon, in the first volume of the 
 Palace of Pleasure, 4to. 1566, p. 88. 
 
 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. 
 
 ALMANZOR AND ALMAHIDE ; or, the Conquest of Granada. The second 
 part, by John Dryden. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1672; 4to. 1687. 
 
 ALPHONSO, KING OF NAPLES. Tragedy by George Powell. Acted 
 at the Theatre Royal, 1691. 4to. Dedicated to the Duchess of Ormond. 
 The scene lies in Naples, and the story is founded on Neapolitan history ; 
 but a trifling portion of the tragedy is taken from the Y r oung Admiral of 
 Shirley. The prologue written by Haines ; the epilogue by Durfey. 
 
 ALPHONSUS. Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany, tragedy by George 
 Chapman, often acted with great applause in Black Fryars. Printed in 
 4to. 1654. This play seems to have been written in honour of the 
 English nation, in the person of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, son to King 
 John, and brother to Hen. III., who was elected King of the Romans in 
 1257, at the same time that Alphonsus, the tenth King of Castile, was 
 chosen by other electors. In order to cast an opprobrium on this prince, 
 our author represents him as a bloody tyrant, and, contrary to other his- 
 torians, 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. This circumstance is indeed related 
 in Clark's Examples, and some other authors; but for the true story con- 
 sult Mariana de Reb. Hispan.lib. xiii. c. 10, and other Spanish historians. 
 There is a good deal of German interspersed throughout this play, which
 
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 is certainly not one of its author's best productions. 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." 
 
 ALPHONSLS. The Comicall Historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon, as it 
 hath bene sundrie times acted. Made by R. G. 4to. 1599. Printed 
 in Greene's Works, ed. Dyce, ii. 5. 
 
 ALUCIUS. A play so called 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 Chapped," Cunning- 
 ham's Revels' Accounts, p. 154. 
 
 ALUREDTJS sive ALFREDUS. Tragico-comoedia, ter exhibita in Seminario 
 Anglorum Duaceno, ab ejusdem Collegii Juventute, Anno Domini 1619, 
 authore Gulielmo Drureo, nobili Anglo. Duaci, ex officina Johannis Bogardi. 
 12mo, 1628. It is dedicated to the Count de Gondemar, through whose 
 mediation Drury appears to have been released from a state of 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. Tragedy by John Hughes. 
 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 and scenes have evident marks of genius. It was 
 written in 1696, and was in MS. in the possession of the late Rev. John 
 Duncoinbe. 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. Pureed, sung by Mrs. Lindsey." 
 
 THE AMAZONS' MASKE. Acted at Court before the Queen and the 
 French Ambassador in the winter of 1578-9. See a long note of it in 
 Cunningham's Revels' Accounts, p. 125. Also, ibid. p. 135, "to Bastyan 
 for the hier of vj. ploraes of feathers for Knightes in the Amasons maske." 
 A masque called the Amazonians' Masque was acted early in the seventeenth 
 century. 
 
 AMAZON QUEEN ; or, the Amours of Thalestris to Alexander the Great. 
 A tragi-comedy in heroic verse, by J. Weston. 4 to. 1667. Licensed 
 11 Feb. 1666-7. The story from Quintus Curtius and Strabo. This play 
 was never acted, by reason of the author's hearing of two other plays on the 
 same subject intended for the stage. 
 
 THE AMBITIOUS SLAVE ; or, a Generous Revenge. Tragedy by Elkanah
 
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 Settle. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1694. The scene is on the 
 frontiers of Persia. The writer of a letter dated March the 22nd, 1693-4, 
 sa y S) — " W e had another new play yesterday, called the Ambitious Slave. 
 I never saw a piece so wretched, nor worse contrived. Settle pretends it 
 is a Persian story, but not one body in the whole audience could make any- 
 thing of it. It is a mere Babel, 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 night, 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 in- 
 different success. The scene lies in Paris ; and for the plot, see De Serres, 
 Mezeray, &c. Dedicated to the Duchess of Albemarle. The epilogue was 
 spoken by Haines, who took the part of La Marre. 
 
 THE AMBITIOUS STEPMOTHER. Tragedy by Nicholas Rowe. 4to. 
 1700 ; 4to. 1702, with the addition of a new scene. Acted, with success, 
 at Lincoln's Inn Fields. The scene lies in Persepolis, and the characters 
 are 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; 4to. 1691. 
 Entered on the Stationers' Registers, June 26th, 1673, Scene, Amboyna. 
 The plot of this play is chiefly founded on history. See Wanley's History 
 of Man, lib. iv. c. 10 ; and Purchas's Pilgrimage, vol. iv. book 10, ch. 16. 
 The rape of Isabinda, by Harman, is built on a novel of Giraldi, Decad. 5, 
 Nov. 10. The play is, observes Dr. Johnsou, a tissue of mingled dialogue 
 in verse and prose. It was a temporary performance, written in the time 
 of the Dutch war, to inflame 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 Tyrtseus of old animated the Spartans. 
 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 mouth." 
 
 AMENDS FOR LADIES ; with the Merry Pranks of MoU Cutpurse ; or, 
 the Humours of Roaring. Comedy by Nat. Field. 4to. 1618; 4to. 1639. 
 Scene, London. Acted at the Blackfriars both by the Prince's and the 
 Lady Elizabeth's Servants. The plot of Subtle's tempting the wife at the 
 request of the husband, seems founded on the novel of the Curious Imper- 
 tinent in Don Quixote. This play was written by our author, by way 
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 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, is not a prominent one. Reprinted in the Supplement 
 to Dodsley. 
 
 AMINTA. A pastoral. 4to. 1628. Translated, it is supposed, by John 
 Reynolds, from the Italian of Tasso, with Ariadne's Complaint, in imitation 
 of Anguilara. 
 
 AMINTA. The famous 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 Aminta of Tasso, by John Oldmixon. 4to. 1698. It appears 
 from the preface that this translation met with ill success on the stage. 
 The prologue was written by Dennis. 
 
 AMORES PERINTHI ET TYANTES. A Latin comedy by William 
 Burton, written in the year 1596 ; but never acted nor printed. 
 
 AMOROUS BIGOT, with the second part of Teague O'Divelly. Comedy by 
 Thomas Shadwell. Acted by their Majesties' Servants. 4to. 1690. It is 
 inferior to the first part, called the Lancashire Witches. Dedicated to the 
 Earl of Shrewsbury. 
 
 AMOROUS FANTASME. Tragi-comedy by Sir William Lower. 12mo. 
 1658 and 1660. This play is translated from the Fantome Amoureux of 
 Quinault, which appeared with great success on the French stage. Dedicated 
 to the Princess Royal. 
 
 AMOROUS GALLANT; or, Love in Fashion. Comedy in heroic verse. 
 As it was acted. 4to. 1675. This play was sometimes entitled the 
 Amorous Orontus, q. v. 
 
 AMOROUS JILT. In a manuscript note to Langbaine, written by Thomas 
 Rud, 1698, this is given as the first title of Mrs. Behn's Comedy of the 
 Younger Brother, published in 1696. 
 
 AMOROUS OLD WOMAN ; or, 'Tis well if it Take. Comedy by a person 
 of honour, attributed by Langbaine to Thomas Duffet. Acted at the 
 Theatre Royal. 4 to. 1674. 
 
 AMOROUS ORONTUS ; or, Love in Fashion. Comedy in heroic verse, by 
 J. Bulteel, Gent. 4to. 1665. 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. This play has sometimes the title 
 of the Amorous Gallant, and the date of 1675. 
 
 AMOROUS PRINCE ; or, the Curious Husband. Comedy by Mrs. Behn. 
 Acted at the Duke of York's Theatre. 4to. 1671. The plot of this play
 
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 is built on the novel of the Curious Impertinent in Don Quixote, and on 
 Davenport's City Night-cap. Mrs. Behn has, however, greatly excelled that 
 play, and even improved on the novel itself. Scene, the Court of Florence. 
 
 AMOROUS WAR. Tragi-comedy by Jasper Maine, D.D. 4to. 1648 ; 8vo. 
 1659. Langbaine, ed. 1691, p. 337, mentions an edition printed at Oxford 
 in 1658, 4to. The plot of this drama is inartificially constructed, and at 
 the same time grossly improbable. 
 
 AMOROUS WIDOW. A play by Betterton, taken from Moliere, and acted 
 at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1670, but not printed until 1706. Mrs. Betterton 
 acted the Widow with great applause. 
 
 AMPHRISA ; or, the Forsaken Shepherdesse. Pastoral Drama, by Thomas 
 Hey wood. Printed in his Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas, 12 mo. 1637. 
 The above is the title in the list of contents. In the book itself it is called 
 Peloppea and Alope. 
 
 AMPHYTRION ; or, the Two Sosias. Comedy by J. Dryden. Acted at the 
 Theatre Royal. 4to. 1690, 1691, and 1694. This play, as the author 
 observes in his dedication, is founded on the two Amphytrions of Plautus 
 and Moliere, more closely following the latter. The scene lies in Thebes, 
 and the music of the songs was composed by Purcell. Our author, as 
 Thornton observes, " has thought proper to distinguish the serious from 
 the comic parts, 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. A translation from Tasso in hexameter verse, by Abraham 
 Fraunce. 4to. 1591. Dedicated to the Countess of Pembroke. 
 
 AMYNTAS ; or, the Impossible Dowry. Pastoral by Thomas Randolph. 
 Acted before the King and Queen at Whitehall. 4to. 1638 ; 12mo. 1 640 ; 
 12mo. 1668. 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. Comedy by Edward Ravenscroft. 
 4to. 1697. This is the first play stated to have been sold at the theatres. 
 It was afterwards published in 12mo. 1722. To both editions a musical 
 masque is annexed, or rather inserted in it, called, the Loves of Mars and 
 Venus, written by Motteux. Both pieces were acted at Liucoln's Inn
 
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 Fields. In its original form, however, it has been long laid aside ; but the 
 Doctor being translated into a Frenchman, by the name of Mons. Le 
 Medecin, and almost every thing curtailed but the scenes between him, his 
 maid Beatrice, and Crispin, it remains in that mangled condition as one of 
 our old standard farces. 
 
 ANDRIA. Terens in Englysh, or the translacyon out of Latin into Englysh 
 of the first comedy of Tyrens, callyd Andria. Black letter, but the text, 
 by the side of the translation, is printed in Roman characters. No date. 
 Supposed to be printed by Rastell. 
 
 ANDRIA. Comedy by Maurice Kyffin. 4to. 1588. This appears to be 
 the second translation in our language of any of Terence's works. It is 
 printed in the old black letter, and has the following full title : viz. " Andria, 
 The first Comcedie of Terence, in English. A Furtherance for the Attain- 
 ment unto the right Knowledge and true Proprietie of the Latin Tong," 
 &c. It has two dedications ; the first, to the eldest, the second to 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 translated 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. 
 
 ANDRIA. Comedy translated from Terence, by Richard Bernard. 4to. 
 159S, 1607, 1614, 1629. 
 
 ANDRIA. Comedy translated from Terence, by Thomas Newman. 8vo. 
 1627. This translation was made for scholars' private representation in 
 their schools. 
 
 ANDRIA. The first comedy of Pub. Terentius, called Andria; or, the 
 Woman of Andros ; 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. W r ebb. 4to. 1629. Wood calls this 
 translation " very useful for school-boys." Translations of the Andria 
 will also be found in Hoole's Six Comedies of Terence, 1663, and in the 
 Comedies made English by L. Echard, 1694. 
 
 ANDROMACHE. Tragedy by J. Crowne. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 
 4to. 1675. This play is only a translation of Racine's Andromaque, 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. 4to. 1660, by J. S. 
 The plot is founded on the story of Plangus, in Sir P. Sydney's Arcadia. 
 
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 The title in the first page is, " The Tragedy of Andromana ; or, the fatal 
 End of Disloyalty and Ambition." In Dodsley's Collection. Scene, 
 Iberia. 
 
 ANDRONICUS. Tragedy. Impietie's long Successe, or Heaven's late 
 Eevenge. 8vo. 1661. Scene, Constantinople. For the plot, see the Life 
 of Andronicus in Fuller's Holy State. 
 
 ANDRONICUS COMNENIUS. 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 ANGEL AND THE SHEPHERDS. A Newe Dialogue betwene the 
 Angell of God and the Shepherdes in the Felde concernynge the Nativitie 
 and Birthe of Jesus Christ our Lorde and Savyoure, no lesse Godlye than 
 swete and pleasante to reade, lately compyled by T. B., Imprynted by me 
 John Daye, n.d. This is a miracle-play. 
 
 THE ANGEL KING. Sir Henry Herbert, in his manuscript diary, under 
 the date of October 15th, 1624, has an entry " for the Palsgrave's company, 
 a new play called the Angell King." 
 
 ANNA BULLEN. In the Chetham Library at Manchester is preserved a 
 sheet containing the prologue to a new play called Anna Bullen, acted at 
 the Duke's House, and the epilogue to the same; London, printed for 
 Allen Banks, 1682. This was the play of Virtue Betray'd, printed in that 
 year. 
 
 ANTI-CHRIST. An ancient mystery of Antichrist and the Day of Dome is 
 mentioned in a sermon against miracle-plays of the fifteenth century. 
 
 ANTIGONE. A Latin version of the Antigone of Sophocles, by Thomas 
 Watson, printed by Wolfe in 1581. It was entered on the books of the 
 Stationers' Company on July 31st in that year. 
 
 ANTIGONE, THE THEBANE PRINCESS. Tragedy by Thos. May. 8vo. 
 1631. Scene in Thebes. The plot from the Antigone of Sophocles, Seneca's 
 Thebais, &c. There is merit in the writing of this piece ; but it is fitter 
 for the closet than the stage. Dedicated to Endymion Porter. 
 
 ANTIPODES. Comedy by Richard Brome. The scene, London. It was acted, 
 with great applause, by the Queen's Servants, at Salisbury Court, in Fleet 
 Street, 1638. Published, 4to. in Westminster, 1840. Dedicated to the 
 Earl of Hertford. Verses by Robert Chamberlain, " to the author on his 
 comedy the Antipodes," are prefixed. At the end is the following curious 
 note, — " Courteous Eeader, you shal find in this booke more then was 
 presented upon the stage, and left out of the presentation, for superfluous 
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 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 
 Beeston, unto whom it properly appertained ; and so I leave it to thy 
 perusal, as it was generally applauded, and well acted at Salisbury Court, 
 Farewell, Ri. Brome." Pepys notes a performance of it in August, 1661. 
 
 THE ANTIQUARY. Comedy by Shackerly Marmion. Acted at the 
 Cock-pit. 4to. 1611. In Dodsley's Collection, 1780. This is a very 
 pleasing play. Aurelio's 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-Alley, the Parson's Wedding, and 
 AVoman's a Riddle. The character of the Antiquary, who cannot endure 
 any thing 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 advan- 
 tage. The scene, Pisa. Some copies of this play have a contemporary 
 bookseller's bill 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." 
 
 THE TRAGEDIE OF ANTONIE. Done into English from the French, 
 by Mary, Countess of Pembroke. 12mo. and 4to. 1595. At the end of 
 the play is this date — At Ramsbury, 26 of November, 1590. An edition, 
 in 1592, is entitled Antonius. 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. 
 
 ANTONINUS BASSIANUS CARACALLA. A Latin tragedy on the 
 subject of this emperor, preserved in manuscript in the Bodleian Library, 
 MS. Rawl. C. 590. 
 
 ANTONIO AND MELLIDA. An historical play, in two parts, by John 
 Marston. 4to. 1602; 8vo. 1633. Reprinted in Marston's Works, ed. 
 1856, i. 1. 
 
 ANTONIO AND VALLIA. Comedy by Philip Massinger. Not printed. 
 This play was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, and was 
 one of those destroyed by Warburton's servant. In Henslowe's list of
 
 20 ANT—APP 
 
 plays acted in 1595, June 20, there is one with this title ; but as Massinger 
 could at that time be only eleven years of age, it could not possibly be his 
 play, but he may have adapted and altered it for the more modern stage. 
 In the Bodleian Library is a manuscript comedy, without title, MS. Bawl. 
 Poet. 93, in which Antonio of Raguaa is one of the characters. 
 
 ANTONIO'S REVENGE ; or, the Second Part of Antonio and Mellida. 
 Tragedy by J. Marston, acted by the children of St. Paul's, and printed in 
 4to. 1602; 8vo. 1633. Reprinted in Marston's Works, ed. 1856, i. 71. 
 
 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. Tragedy by Shakespeare. Eol. 1623. 
 There is no epiarto edition. 
 
 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. Tragedy by Sir Charles Sedley. 4to. 
 1677. Licensed April 24th in that year. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 
 This play is founded on the same story with the last-mentioned one. 
 
 ANYTHING EOR A QUIET LIEE. Comedy by Thomas Middleton. 
 Acted at the Black Friars. Printed in 4to. 1 662, the only edition of the 
 seventeenth century, the exact title being as follows, — " Any Thing For 
 A Quiet Life. A Comedy, Formerly Acted at Black-Fryers, by His late 
 Majesties Servants. Never before Printed. Written by Tho. Middleton, 
 Gent. London : Printed by Tho. Johnson for Francis Kirkman, and 
 Henry Marsh, and are to be sold at the Princes Arms in Chancery Lane." 
 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. This is an unpublished manuscript, preserved in a private library. 
 
 APOCRYPHAL LADIES. Comedy by Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, 
 Fol. 1662. This play is one of those which help to swell the bulk of 
 writing of this voluminous titled authoress. It is, like many other of her 
 pieces, irregular and unfinished, and is divided into twenty-three scenes, 
 but not reduced to the form of acts. 
 
 APOLLO AND DAPHNE. Drama, by Thomas Heywood. Printed in his 
 Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas, 12mo. 1637, p. 177. 
 
 APOLLO SHROVING. Comedy, 8vo. 1627. The letters E. W. pre- 
 fixed to it, are initials of the name of a person who, though not the author, 
 occasioned the publication of this piece, which was written by William 
 Hawkins, the schoolmaster of Hadleigh in Suffolk, for the use of his 
 scholars, and acted by them on Shrove-Tuesday, Feb. 6, 1626. 
 
 APPIUS AND VIRGINIA. Tragi-comedy, by R. P. 4to. 1576, in black 
 letter, and not divided into acts, wherein, as it is said in the title-page,
 
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 " is lively expressed a rare example of the vertue of chastity, in wishing 
 rather to be slaine at her owne father's hands, than to be defloured of the 
 wicked judge Appius." This seems to be the same tragedy of Appius 
 and Virginia, which was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, 
 1567-8, by Rycharde Jonnes. Reprinted inDodsley's Old Plays, vol. xii. 
 The first edition probably appeared in 1568. It continued to be popular 
 for a long time, and, as late as 1639, it was considered of sufficient im- 
 portance for its copyright to be claimed against piracy by the company 
 acting at the Cock-pit in Drury-lane. 
 
 APPIUS AND VIRGINIA. Tragedy by J. Webster. 4to. 1654. The 
 scene lies in Roine, and the story is taken either from the older play on the 
 same subject, or from a translated novel in Painter's Palace of Pleasure. 
 Some copies of the play are merely stated to be " printed in the year 1654 ; " 
 others to be "printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be Sold at the 
 Prince's Armes in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1659," both being really the same 
 edition with different title-pages. 
 
 THE APPRENTICE'S PRIZE, &c. A play, by Richard Brome and Thomas 
 Heywood. Entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, April 8, 
 1654 ; but not printed. 
 
 AQUA TRIUMPHALIS. Being a true Relation of the Honourable the 
 City of London entertaining their Sacred Majesties upon the River of 
 Thames, and welcoming them from Hampton Court to Whitehall ; expressed 
 and set forth in severall Shews and Pageants, the 23rd Day of August 
 1662, engraved by John Tatham, Gent. Folio. 1662. 
 
 ARABIA SITIENS. Arabia Sitiens, or a Dreame of a Drye Yeare, a 
 tragi-comocdye by William Percy, 1601. An unpublished manuscript in 
 private hands. 
 
 ARCADES. A kind of masque, by J. Milton. This is only part of an 
 entertainment presented to the Countess-dowager of Derby at Harefield, 
 by some noble persons of her family. It is very short and incomplete; 
 yet as it is the work of that poet, and is published among his poetical pieces, 
 we could not here pass it over unnoticed. 
 
 ARCADIA. Pastoral, by James Shirley. Acted at the Phoenix in Drury 
 Lane. 4to. 1640. The plot of this play is founded on Sir Ph. Sydney's 
 Arcadia. Scene, Arcadia. 
 
 THE ARCADIAN LOVERS. The Arcadian Lovers, or Metamorphosis of 
 Princes, a drama. Manuscript in the Bodleian Library, 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.
 
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 ARCADIA. REFORMED. In an account of the royal visit to Oxford, 1605, 
 it is stated, " there was an English play acted before the Queen and young 
 prince; it was penned by Mr. Daniel, and drawn out of Fidus Pastor, 
 which was sometimes acted by King's College men in Cambridge. I was 
 not there present, but by report, it was well acted, and greatly applauded. 
 It was named Arcadia Reformed." This was no doubt the Queen's 
 Arcadia of Daniel, printed in 1606. 
 
 ARCHIPROPHETA ; sive, Johannes Baptista. A Latin tragedy, written 
 in 1547, by Nicholas Grimald, one of the first students of Christchurch, 
 Oxford, which probably was acted in the refectory there. It is dedicated 
 to the Dean, Dr. Richard Cox, and was printed at Cologne. 8vo. 1548. 
 This play coincided with his plan of a rhetorical lecture, which he had set 
 up in the college. A manuscript of it is preserved in the British Museum, 
 Bibl. Reg. 12 A. 46. 
 
 THE ARCADIAN VIRGIN. Play, by William Haughton and Henry 
 Chettle. Acted in December, 1599. See Henslowe's Diary, p. 161. 
 
 ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM. The full title of this play is, " The lamentable 
 and true Tragedie of M. Arden of Feversham, in Kent, who was most 
 wickedlye murdered by the means of his disloyall and wanton wyfe, who, 
 for the love she bare to one Mosbie, hyred two desperat ruffins, Black- 
 will and Shagbag, to kill him." 4to. 1592; 4to. 1599; 4to. 1633; 
 and reprinted by Edward Jacob, 8vo. 1770, with a preface imputing it to 
 Shakespeare. The plan of this play is formed on a true history, then pretty 
 recent, of one Arden, a gentleman of Feversham, in the reign of Edward 
 VI., who was murdered as he was playing a game at tables with the said 
 Mosbie. The fact is related by Hollinshead, Baker, in Beard's Theatre, 
 and Jacob's History of Faversham. "They have the play in manuscript 
 at Canterbury, but I never cou'd see it in print," Oldys' MSS. 
 
 ARGALUS AND PARTHENIA. Tragi-comedy by Henry Glapthome. 
 4to. 1639. The plot of this play is founded on the story of those two 
 lovers in Sir P. Sydney's Arcadia. The title-page gives it " as it hath 
 been acted at the Court before their Majesties, and at the Private House 
 in Drury-lane by their Majesties' Servants." Scene, Arcadia. It was 
 revived, after the Restoration, on January 31st, 1660-1. Pepys says of 
 this play, " though pleasant for the dancing and singing, I do not find good 
 for any wit or design therein." 
 
 ARIADNE ; or, the Marriage of Bacchus. Opera, by P. P. 1674. 4to. 
 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 the Second.
 
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 ARTODANTE AND GENEUORA. This is given in the Revels' Accounts 
 as the title of a play acted at Court in 1582, — "a Historie of Ariodante 
 and Geneuora shewed before her Majestie on Shrove Tuesdaie at night, 
 enacted by Mr. Mulcaster's children." This was no doubt founded on a 
 story in the fifth book of the Orlando Furioso. 
 
 ARISTIPPUS ; or, the Jovial Philosopher. By T. Randolph, demonstra- 
 tivelie proveing that quartes, pointes, and pottles, are sometimes necessary 
 authors in a scholar's library : presented in a private shew ; to which is 
 added, the Conceited Pedler, presented in a strange shew. 4 to. 1631 ; 
 4to. 1635; 12mo. 1652; 12mo. 1668; ]2mo. 1688. Aristippus would 
 appear, from the quaintness of its title, to have been written humorously, 
 to excuse those excesses to which its author was too fatally attached, for 
 they killed him at the age of twenty-uine. It is not very likely that this 
 piece was ever performed. Its curiosity, in a literary point of view, we do 
 not remember to have seen noticed. In addition to allusions to Mulde- 
 Sack, Robin Goodfellow, Taylor the water-poet, Banks' horse, Scoggins' 
 fleas, Skelton, Fennor, &c, there is a ridicule of the prologue of Shakespeare's 
 Troilus and Cressida, and at p. 18 is a line which Milton has nearly verbally 
 copied in his poem of l'Allegro. There is a copy of this play in the British 
 Museum, MS. Sloane 2531, — "the shewe being condemned for former 
 abuses, is raised up by a conjurer." Scene, Cambridge. 
 
 THE ARRAIGNMENT OF PARIS. A dramatic pastoral, presented before 
 the Queen's Majesty, by the children of her chapel; and printed in 4to. 
 1584. Kirkman attributes this piece to Shakespeare; but on no founda- 
 tion, it being the work of George Peele ; as is certain from the following 
 passage in Thomas Nash's Address prefixed to Menaphon, 1587 : "I dare 
 commend George Peele unto all that know him, as the chief supporter of 
 pleasance now living, the Atlas of poetry, and primus verborum artifex ; 
 whose first increase, the Arraignment of Paris, might pleade to vour 
 opinions his pregnant dexteritie of wit, and manifold dexteritie of invention, 
 wherein, mejudice, he goeth a step beyond all that write." Reprinted in 
 Peele's Works, ed. Dyce, i. 5. 
 
 ARTHUR. See the Misfortunes of Arthur. Langbaine speaks of Nicholas 
 
 Trott as " an author who writ a tragedy call'd Arthur, which I never saw ; 
 
 neither can I give any account of the author himself, or the time he liv'd 
 
 'in," p. 504. Hathway wrote a play on the same subject, called the Life 
 
 of Arthur, q. v. 
 
 KING ARTHUR ; or, the British Worthy. A dramatic opera, by John 
 Dryden. Acted at the Queen's Theatre. 4to. 1691. This play is a kind 
 of sequel to the Albion and Albanius of the same author, and seems to have 
 been written rather for the sake of the singing and machinery, than with
 
 24 ART— ASS 
 
 any view to the more intrinsic beauties of the drama ; the incidents being 
 all extravagant, and many of them very puerile. The whole affair of the 
 enchanted wood, and the other wonders of Osmond's art, are borrowed 
 from Tasso, who has made his Rinaldo perforin every thing that Arthur 
 does in this play. The fabulous history of this prince is to be met with in 
 Geoffrey of Monmouth, as also in the first volume of Tyrrel's History of 
 England. The scene lies in Kent. Downes informs us that " it was ex- 
 cellently adovn'd with scenes and machines j the musical part set by famous 
 Mr. Henry Pureed, 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 the British Museum, MS. Addit. 5333. 
 
 ARTHTJFt'S SHOW. This was possibly an interlude, or masque, played by 
 archers, which actually existed, and was very popular in Shakespeare's age ; 
 and seems to have been compiled from Mallory's Morte Arthur. It is 
 mentioned by Justice Shallow, in the Second Part of King Henry the 
 Fourth. 
 
 ARVIRAGUS AND PHILICIA. Tragi-comedy in two parts, by Lodovick 
 Carlell. 12mo. 1639. Acted at the private house in Black Friars. The 
 story of this play is founded on some old romantic British History con- 
 cerning Arviragus. It was afterwards revived, with a new prologue, written 
 by Dryden, and spoken by Hart. There is another prologue in the London 
 Drollery. Both parts were acted at the Cock-pit and at Hampton Court in 
 the year 1636. Oldys, in his MS. notes, says, "it has not any author's 
 name to it in the copy of that date which I have seen." 
 
 AS MERRY AS MAY BE. Play, by Richard Hathwaye. 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, 
 printed at Edinburgh in 1766 from the original manuscript dated 1692. 
 There was an earlier edition of 1722, and a transcript in the British 
 Museum, MS. Addit. 11503, is said to be copied from a third edition of 
 1691. Another MS. has also the date last named. 
 
 THE ASSIGNATION; or, Love in a Nunnery. Comedy by J. Dryden. 
 Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1673; 4to. 1678; 4to. 1692. This 
 play, as the author confesses, " succeeded ill " in the representation, against 
 the opinion of the best judges of the age, if we believe its author ; but, 
 truth to say, it is one of those hasty performances which, at times, threw
 
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 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 con- 
 sidered that this poet was absolutely constrained to write several plays in a 
 year, will it not appear much more 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 elegant 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's MSS. 
 THE ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN. A mystery performed by the 
 citizens of Lincoln in the nave of the Cathedral there, June the 7th, 1483. 
 The circumstance is alluded to in one of the registers of Lincoln, under 
 that date. 
 
 ASTREA ; or, True Love's Mirrour. A pastoral by Leonard Willan. 8vo. 
 165 J. The plot is from a romance of the same name. Dedicated to Mary, 
 Duchess of Richmond and Lenox. 
 
 AS YOU LIKE IT. Comedy by Shakespeare. Fol. 1623. The plot of this 
 play is taken from Lodge's Rosalynd, or Euphues' Golden Legacye, 4to. 
 1590: and Shakespeare 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. 
 
 ATALANTA. A Latin comedy by Phillip Parsons, 1612, in iambics. De- 
 dicated to William Laud, then President of St. John's College. The only 
 known copy is preserved in the British Museum, MS. Harl. 6924. The 
 scene is in Arcadia. 
 
 THE ATHEIST ; or, the Second Part of the Soldier's Fortune. Comedy by 
 Thomas Otway. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1684. Dedicated to 
 Lord Elande. The plot between Beaugard and Portia is founded on 
 Scarron's novel of the Invisible Mistress; Langbaine, p. 397. The author 
 died in the following year, 1685, in great poverty; and this was his last 
 performance. 
 
 THE ATHEIST'S TRAGED1E; or, the Honest Man's Revenge. By Cyril 
 Tourneur. 4to. 1611 and 1612. The plot in the second act of Levidulcia's 
 
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 26 AUG—BJN 
 
 conveying Sebastian and Fresco out of her chamber, when surprised by the 
 coming of her husband Bellcforest, is taken from Boccaccio, Dec. 7, Nov. 6. 
 This play possesses much interest, and is in several parts written with 
 great energy of thought. One sentiment in it is worthy of Shakespeare — 
 " Patience is the honest man's revenge." 
 
 AUGURS. The Masque of Augures, with the several antimasques, presented 
 on Twelfth Night, 1621. By Ben Jonson. Published in 4to. 1621, a very 
 small volume. 
 
 AUGUSTUS CiESAR. A play under this title is mentioned in a list of 
 books printed for R. Bentley about 1691. It does not appear to have 
 been published. 
 
 THE AULD MAN AND HIS WIFE. An interlude by Sir David Lindsay, 
 1602. Reprinted in Pinkerton's Scottish Poems, 1712, vol. ii. 
 
 AURENGE-ZEBE ; or, the Great Mogul. Tragedy by J. Dryden. Acted 
 at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1676 ; 4to. 1692. This play is far from 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 Phsedra of Seneca, and also of having stolen several 
 hints from Milton's Sampson 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 29th, 
 1675. 
 
 A BAD BEGINNING MAKES A BAD ENDING. A play which is not 
 known to exist. It was acted before the English court in May, 1613. 
 
 THE BALL. Comedy by James Shirley. Acted in Drury Lane. 4to. 1639. 
 Chapman assisted Shirley in this comedy. It was first acted in 1632. 
 
 BAND, RUFF, AND CUFF. A Merry Dialogue between Band, Cuffe, 
 and Ruffe, done by an excellent Wit, and lately acted in a Shew, 1615. 
 This is more usually known by another title, — Exchange Ware at the 
 Second Hand. 
 
 THE BANDITTI; or, A Lady's Distress. A play by T. Durfey. Acted 
 at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1686. Licensed on March 1st, 1685-6. The 
 scene lies in Madrid, and 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 cha- 
 racter, under the title of Sir Critic Catcall.
 
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 BANISTI'D DUKE ; or, the Tragedy of Infortunatus. Acted at the Theatre 
 Eoyal. 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. 
 
 BAPTISM AND TEMPTATION. A Comedy by Bishop Bale. Of this 
 we know no more than the name, as mentioned by himself in the list of 
 his own works. 
 
 BAPT1STES. Baptistes sive Calumnia, a Latin Tragedy by George Bu- 
 chanan. 8vo. Edinb. 1578. Another edition was published in London 
 the same year. 
 
 BAPTISTES. A Scriptural drama, ascribed by Peck to Milton, but on 
 very uncertain grounds. It is, in fact, only a copy of Tyrannical Govern- 
 ment Auatomiz'd, 1612. In rive short acts. Scene, Judaea. 
 
 BARNARDO AND PHEAMETA. A play acted at the Rose Theatre, on 
 October 28th, 1595, mentioned by Henslowe, who notices it in another 
 place as Bernardo and Fiameta, and elsewhere simply as Barnardo. 
 
 BARNAVELT. The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt, a MS. in 
 the British Museum, MS. Addit. 18653, apparently the author's auto- 
 graph, with corrections and additions. 
 
 BARTHOLOMEW PAIR. Comedy by Ben Jonson. 4to. 1614. This 
 play, which was first acted at the Hope Theatre, Bankside, Oct. 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 characters that ever was 
 brought together within the compass of one single piece. Pepys notes 
 being at the theatre on September 7th, 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 Puri- 
 tanism, 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." 
 
 A BARTHOLOMEW FAIRING, new, new, new, sent from the raised siege 
 before Dublin, as a preparatory present to the great thanksgiving day. To 
 be communicated onely to Independants. This piece is a mere party affair, 
 and never was performed, but printed in 4to. in five short acts, 1649. It 
 chiefly relates to the restoration of the new park at Richmond to the public, 
 a park which had been formed by Charles I. by the enclosure of public 
 land. 
 
 THE BASHFUL LOVER. Tragi-comedy 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
 
 23 BAS—BAX 
 
 construction, nor so interesting in its plot, as some others of Massinger's 
 dramas. In some catalogues, this play is ascribed to Ben Jonson, but 
 without good authority. It was first acted in 1636, and was licensed on 
 May the 9th, in that year. It met with fair success. 
 BASILE1A. Basileia sen Bellum Grammaticale, tragico-comcedia, the Ware 
 of Grammar, a tragi-comedy acted by the scholars of Cranbrook School, 
 1666. A small manuscript volume, in private hands, in which 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 festivously 
 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. 4to. 1659. Some part, both of the plot and 
 language, is borrowed from the loves of Schiarra and Florelia in the Eng- 
 lish Lovers, and the incident of Catalina's supplying her mistress Mariana's 
 room on the wedding-night, from the story of Roberto and Isidaura, in 
 Gerardo, the Unfortunate Spaniard, p. 87. Scene in Seville. Coxeter 
 attributes this play to Cosmo Manuche, which appears to be a mere con- 
 jecture, and that not a very probable one. 
 
 BATEMAN'S MASQUE. A masque of the seventeenth century. See a 
 curious collection of masque and dance tunes in the British Museum, MS. 
 Addit. 10444. 
 
 THE BATTLE OF ALCAZAR, with Capt. Stukeley's death, acted by the 
 Lord High Admiral's Servants, 1594. 4to. The story relates to Sebas- 
 tian, King of Portugal, and Abdelmelech, King of Morocco. Shakespeare 
 has pointed his ridicule at this play, in a parody ou the words, " Feed, and 
 be fat," &c. See Henry IV. part ii. act 2, scene 4. It is probable that 
 Dryden might have taken the hint of his Don Sebastian from the present 
 tragedy. Attributed to Peele on uncertain grounds, and reprinted in 
 Peele's Works, ed. Dyce, ii. 87. In England's Parnassus, 1600, are, how- 
 ever, some lines from this tragedy, there assigned to Peele. The original 
 plot of this drama is preserved in the British Museum, MS. Addit. 10449. 
 
 BATTLE OF SEDGMOOR. 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, in 2 
 vols. 8vo. 1707, 1714. The scene lies in a drawing-room at Whitehall. 
 
 BATTLE OF THE VICES. Batayle of the Vices against the Virtues, a 
 Morall Play. Manuscript of the time of Charles the First, folio ; in 
 Thorpe's Catalogue of Manuscripts, 1835, p. 11. 
 
 BAXTER'S TRAGEDY. A play of this name was acted in 1602 ; but is 
 not now known to exist.
 
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 BEAR A BRAIN. A play by Thomas Decker, produced in 1599. "Lent 
 unto Robart Shawe, the 1 of auguste, 1599, to paye Mr. Deckers for a 
 boocke called bcare a braine, the some of xxxx.s. in fulle payment," Hen- 
 slovve'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. 
 
 THE BEAU DEFEATED; or, the Lucky younger Brother. Comedy, acted 
 at Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to. without a date, but about a.d. 1700. The 
 dedication to this play is signed by Mrs. Pix, as the author of it. Some 
 of the catalogues ascribe it to a Mr. Barker. It is partly a translation from 
 the French, and was sometimes called the Beau Demolished. 
 
 THE BEAUTIES. A play by James Shirley, licensed on January the 21st, 
 1632-3. No copy of it is known to exist. 
 
 BEAUTY. A masque by Ben Jonson, presented before the court at White- 
 hall, on January the 14th, 1607-8, the Sunday night after Twelfth Night. 
 Printed in 4 to. 1608. 
 
 BEAUTY AND HOUSEWIFERY. A comedy acted before the Court at 
 Windsor in 15 82, described as "a comodie of Bewtie and Huswyfery 
 shewed before her Majestie at Wyudesor on St. Johns daie at night, enacted 
 by the Lord of Hundesdons servauntes." 
 
 BEAUTY IN A TRANCE. A play, probably a tragedy, 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. 1698. There are many fine lines in this drama, and a great 
 variety of incidents ; indeed, so many, that Dry den, 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 
 Corueille himself might see with envy. The scene is an autiehamber 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 the receipt of a present from the Princess Royal, 
 afterwards Queen Anne, outweighing the benefit of a sixth representation. 
 With proper curtailments, we think this piece might be made fit for the 
 present stage. Prefixed to it is, " A Discourse of the lawfulness and un- 
 lawfulness of plays, lately written in French, by the learned Father Catfaro,
 
 SO BEA-BEL 
 
 divinity professor at Paris, sent in a letter to the author by a divine of the 
 church of England." 
 
 BEAUTY OF WOMEN. "Anew commodye in Englysh in inaner of an 
 enterlude ryght elegant and full of craft of rhcthoryk, wherein is shew'dand 
 dyscrybyd as well the bewte and good propertes of women, as theyr vycys 
 and evyll condicions, with a inorall conclusion and exhortacyon to vertew." 
 Folio. This curious interlude was printed by llastel about the year 1530. 
 
 BEAUTY'S TRIUMPH. A masque, by Thomas Duffet, represented by the 
 scholars of Messrs. Hart and Banister, at their boarding-school at Chelsea, 
 and printed in 4to. 1676. 
 
 BEECH'S TRAGEDY. A play mentioned in Henslowe's Diary, 1599. 
 Beech was a London merchant, who was murdered by his servant Merry. 
 It is elsewhere called the Tragedy of Merry. 
 
 BEGGAR'S BUSH. Comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol. 1647, 1661. 
 It was acted at Whitehall in 1622, and at Hampton Court in 1636. The 
 Beggar's Bush was revived at Lincoln's Inn Fields in November, 1660. 
 It was at a performance of this comedy, in the following January, that 
 Pepys saw female actors for the first time. Dr. Browne, in MS. Sloane 
 1900, notes its being acted in 1662 "at the King Playhouse in Covent 
 Garden." 
 
 BELIEVE AS YOU LIST. Comedy by P. Massinger. This play was acted 
 by the King's Company, May 7th, 1631. The license to it is signed by 
 H. Herbert, and dated the 6th of May, 1631. It was entered at Stationers' 
 Hall, Sept. 9, 1653, and June 29, 1660. This also was one of those sup- 
 posed to have been sacrificed by Warburton's servant, but it is fortunately 
 still preserved, and was edited by the late T. Crofton Croker for the Percy 
 Society, 1844. 
 
 BELL IN CAMPO. Tragedy in two parts. These two plays are the pro- 
 duce of that indefatigable authoress, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle. They 
 were never acted, but are printed among her works. Fol. 1662. In the 
 second part are several copies of verses, written by the duke. 
 
 BELLAMIRA; or, the Mistress. Comedy by Sir Charles Sedley. Acted by 
 their Majesties' Servants. 4to. 1687. Licensed on May the 24th, 1687. 
 The scene of this play lies in London, but the plot is taken from the Eunuch 
 of Terence. It was at the acting of this play 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," replied 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 Shad well.
 
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 BELLAMIRA HER DREAM ; or, the Love of Shadows. Tragi-comedy in 
 two parts, by Thomas Killigrew. These two plays were written during 
 the time that the author was resident in the state of Venice ; and wen: 
 printed with the rest of his works, in fol. 1664, dedicated to the Countess 
 of Essex. 
 
 BELLENDON. Acted at the Rose Theatre, June 8, 1504, by the Lord 
 Admiral's men. It was then a new play. Several other notices of it occur 
 in Henslowe's Diary, and it seems to have been popular. 
 
 BELLUM GRAMMAT1CALE. " Then for comedies," observes Sir John 
 Harington, 1591, "how full of harmless myrth is our Cambridge Pedantius, 
 and the Oxford Bellum Grammaticale." This was the " Bellum Gram- 
 maticale ; sive, Nomiunm Verborumque Discordia Civilis," tragi-comedy 
 acted before Queen Elizabeth, in Christ-church, Oxford, on Sunday the 
 24th of September, 1592. The writer who mentions this representation ^ 
 says, it was but meanly performed, though most graciously and with great 
 patience heard by Her Majesty. See Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, annexed 
 to his Life of Oliver Cromwell, p. 21. It' was printed in 12mo. 1635. 
 There was a later school-play under the same title, frecpiently performed in 
 schools even after the seventeenth century. 
 
 THE BELMAN OF LONDON. A play by Robert Daborne, written about 
 the year 1612. It is mentioned in Henslowe's papers. 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 Henry Herbert's MS. Diary, July the 30th, 
 1623. 
 
 BELPHEGOR; or, the Marriage of the Devil. Tragi-comedy by John 
 Wilson. Acted at Dorset Garden. 4to. 1691. Licensed October 13th, 
 1690. The plot of this play is taken from Machiavel or Straparola. The 
 scene, Genoa. It did not succeed on the stage. This play, observes Lang- 
 baine, " 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. A play mentioned in Henslowe's Diary as 
 acted at the Rose Theatre on March 4th, 1591. In another entry in the 
 same manuscript it is termed Byndo and Richardo. 
 
 BENEDICK AND BEATRICE. Shakespeare's play of Much Ado about 
 Nothing was performed at court, in May, 1613, under this title. 
 
 THE BENEFICE. Comedy by Dr. Robert Wild. 4to. 1689. The opinion 
 which the Presbyterians, of whom this author was a very zealous one, 
 entertain of the orthodox clergy, may be collected from this comedy. The
 
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 design is taken from another play, called the Return from Parnassus. Tlu9 
 comedy is stated on the title-page, to have been " written in his younger 
 days, now made publick for promoting innocent mirth." The editor asserts 
 that he had had the manuscript 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. A play by Decker. Mentioned by Hen- 
 slowe as having been acted in 1599. This seems to have been the original 
 title of his Bear a Brain. 
 
 THE BIRD IN A CAGE. Comedy by James Shirley. Acted with great 
 success, at the Phoenix, Drury Lane. 4to. 1633. Scene in Mantua. This 
 is a good piece, and has prefixed to it an ironical dedication to the famous 
 William Prynne, who had been a most furious antagonist to plays, but was 
 at that time a state prisoner for high misdemeanors. 
 
 THE BIRTH OF MERLIN ; or, the Child has lost a Father. Tragi-comedy 
 by William Rowley. The scene lies in Britain, and the story is taken from 
 Geoffrey of Monmouth. Shakespeare, as the title-page informs us, assisted 
 in this play, which is not very probable from the poorness of the composi- 
 tion. It was frequently acted with great applause, and was published in 
 4to. 1662. 
 
 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 NEWGATE. Play, by Richard Hathwaye, assisted 
 by John Day and W. Smith. Acted in 1602. A second part 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. 
 
 THE BLACKFRIARS' MASQUE. A masque of the seventeenth century. 
 See a curious collection of masque and dance tunes in the British Museum, 
 MS.Addit. 10444. 
 
 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 all suche 
 bookes as belong to the stocke, and such as I have bought since the 3d of 
 March, 1598." 
 
 THE BLACK LADY. A new play, called the Blacke Ladye, was allowed 
 to be acted by the Lady Elizabeth's Servants, 10th May, 1622.— Official 
 Register of Sir Henry Herbert, MS. 
 
 THE BLACK MAN. An interlude, attributed to Cox the comedian, and 
 printed in the second part of Sport upon Sport, 1659 ; also in 4to.
 
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 BLACKNESS. The Masque of Blackness, personated at the Court at 
 Whitehall on Twelfth-Night, 1604-5. Written by Ben Jonson. Printed 
 in 4to, 1609. A contemporary transcript, in the British Museum, is called 
 the Twelfth Night's Revels. 
 
 THE BLACK PRINCE. Tragedy by Roger, Earl of Orrery. Acted at the 
 Duke of York's Theatre. Fol. 1669 and 1672 ; 8vo. 1739. The story is 
 taken partly from the English historians. Though called a tragedy, this 
 tedious play terminates happily. It was first acted in October, 1667, in 
 the presence of the King and the Duke of York, but with only partial suc- 
 cess, the patience of the audience having been too severely taxed 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. In the Catalogue of the Heber MSS., p. 35, mention is made 
 of a tragedy called the Death of the Black Prince, but no date is given. 
 
 THE BLACKSMITH'S DAUGHTER. An old 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, Nov. 29, 1653, but does not appear to have 
 been printed. 
 
 THE BLAZING WORLD. A fragment of a comedy by the Duchess of 
 Newcastle. Pol. 1668. There are no more than two acts of this play, the 
 author having never finished it ; but it is printed with her other works. 
 Even the second act is incomplete. 
 
 THE BLIND BEGGAR OP ALEXANDRIA. A comedy most pleasantly 
 discoursing his various humours in disguised shapes, full of conceit and 
 pleasure, by George Chapman. It was published in 4to, 1598 ; was the 
 author's first play, and is neither divided into acts nor scenes ; but had 
 been "sundry times publicly acted in London, by the Lord High Admiral's 
 servants." It was produced on February 12th, 1595-6. 
 
 THE BLIND BEGGAR OF BETHNAL GREEN, with the merry Humour 
 of Tom Strowd, the Norfolk Yeoman. Comedy by John Day, divers times 
 publicly acted by the Prince's servants. 4to. 1659. For the plot, as far as 
 it concerns history, consult the writers on the reign of Henry VI. Chettle 
 assisted in this play. It was produced in 1600. A second part, by 
 Haughton and Day, was acted in 1601 ; and a third, by the same writers, 
 also in 1601. 
 
 THE BLIND EAT MANY A FLY. A play, by Thomas Heywood. Acted 
 in 1602. Not in print. 
 
 THE BLIND LADY. Comedy by Sir Robert Howard. 8vo. 1 600. The 
 scene lies in Poland, and the plot is taken from Heylin's Cosmography. 
 
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 34 BLO-BOA 
 
 lib. ii. This play is printed with divers other poems of the same author, 
 in a volume, which afterwards had a new title-page printed, with the date 
 of 1696. The blind lady is an old woman who is inclined to incur the 
 risks of matrimony for the seventh time. 
 THE BLOODY BANQUET. Tragedy printed in 4to. 1620, and 4to. 1639, 
 with the letters T. D., but is, in some of the old catalogues, ascribed to 
 Tho. Barker. It was however probably written by Bobert Davenport, being 
 enumerated with some other of his pieces in a list of plays that formerly 
 belonged to the Cock-pit theatre. The letters T. D. were perhaps printed 
 by mistake in the title-page instead of B. D. In 1639, the copyright 
 belonged to the company at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane. 
 THE BLOODY BBOTHER. Under this title the tragedy of Bollo was 
 originally published in 1639, and Langbaine, p. 207, cites it under the 
 same name. It is, he observes, " a tragedy much in request, and notwith- 
 standing Mr. Bymer'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. 
 THE BLOODY DUKE; or the Adventures of a Crown. Tragi-comedy 
 acted at the court of Alba Begalis, by several persons of great quality. 
 4to. 1690. This is a political piece, referring to the Popish plot, &c. and 
 is written by the author of the Abdicated Prince, q. v. 
 BLURT, MASTER CONSTABLE; or, the Spaniard's Night Walk. Comedy 
 
 by Thomas Middleton. Acted by the children of Paul's. 4to. 1602. 
 BOADICEA, QUEEN OF BRITAIN. 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 Friendship Improved, we find that Boadicea was well received. It would 
 seem from the epilogue that the morality of the theatre was now improving, — 
 
 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," Roscius Anglicanus. Dogget performed in this 
 comedy. 
 
 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."
 
 BOA—BOR 35 
 
 THE BOAST OF BILLINGSGATE. Play, by Richard Hathwaye, assisted 
 by John Day. Acted 1602. Not printed. 
 
 THE BOLD BEAUCHAMPS. A play written by Heywood, probably not 
 now extant, but mentioned in the Knight of the Burning Pestle, 1613, 
 where the wife observes, — " My husband hath promised me any time this 
 twelvemonth to carry me to the Bold Beauchamps, but in truth he did not." 
 This drama is also mentioned in several other old plays. 
 
 THE BONDMAN. An ancient story, by P. Massinger. Acted at the 
 Cock-pit, Drury Lane, by the Princess Elizabeth her servants, 4to. 1624; 
 4to. 1638. It was also acted before the Court at Whitehall, 1623. This 
 is a very excellent tragedy. The scene lies at Syracuse. The plot of the 
 slaves being seduced 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 Kestoration, the chief part was acted 
 very successfully by Betterton. According to Downes, this was the only 
 play of Massinger, revived after the Restoration, until Betterton took a 
 fancy to the part of Paris 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." 
 
 THE BOND-WOMAN. This play was entered on the books of the Sta- 
 tioners' Company, Sept. 23, 1653, but it does not appear to have been 
 printed. 
 
 BONDUCA. Tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol. 1647. It was 
 produced before March, 1618-9. The ground-work of the play is taken 
 from Tacitus. 
 
 BONDUCA ; or, the British Heroine. 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 Genest's Account of the English Stage, ii. 73. The songs were 
 set to music by Purcell, and were published, on separate folio sheets, 
 with the music. 
 
 BONOS NOCHIOS. An interlude, entered in the books of the Stationers' 
 Company, by Jeffery Charlton, Jan. 27, 1608. No printed copy of it is 
 known to exist. 
 
 BORBONNE. A play under this title is mentioned by Henslowe as
 
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 amongst the stock of the Rose Theatre, in 1598. It is no doubt the same 
 
 drama elsewhere called Eerowne, or Byron, q. v. Henslowe also mentions 
 
 it as the play of Burbon, as having been acted at the Rose, on November 
 
 2nd, 1597. 
 UPON BOTH MARRIAGES OF THE KING. Play by John Bale, Bishop 
 
 of Ossory, not now known to exist. 
 BOTTOM THE WEAVER. The merry-conceited Humours of Bottom the 
 
 Weaver. 4to. 1660. An interlude taken from the Midsummer Night's 
 
 Dream, printed also with other pieces ascribed to Robert Cox, comedian, 
 
 in the Wits, 1672. 
 THE BOUNCING KNIGHT. A droll by Kirkman made out of the comic 
 
 scenes of Shakespeare's play of Henry the Fourth. Printed in the Wits, 
 
 or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 
 
 THE BRAGGADOCIO ; or, Bawd Turn'd Puritan. Comedy written by a 
 person of quality. 4to. 1691. This is not an unentertaining play; and 
 the part of Flush, who, through discontent, rails against his university, 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." The scene is laid in London. 
 
 BRANDYMER. A play with this title was acted at the Rose Theatre, 
 
 April 6, 1591 ; and again in May, 1592. 
 BRANHOWLTE. A play mentioned in Henslowe's Diary under the date 
 
 of November, 1597. In a memorandum in the same book, dated in the 
 
 following year, it is called Brunhowlle. 
 THE BRAZEN AGE. A History by Thomas Heywood, in 4to. 1613. 
 
 The first act contains the death of 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 ; being all of them 
 
 stories taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses. 
 
 BRENNORALT; or, the Discontented Colonel. Tragedy by Sir J. Suckling, 
 acted at the private house, Black Fryars. This piece appears to have 
 been written about the time of the Scotch rebellion in 1639; as is proved 
 by the continual satire on rebels, under the name of Lithuanians. It 
 was first printed among his works in 8vo. 1646. Revived at the Theatre 
 Royal in 1661. One of the characters oddly says, — " kill me, if't be but 
 to preserve my wits." Scene, Poland. 
 
 BRIDALS. Comedy by the Duchess of Newcastle. Published among her 
 works. Folio, 1668.
 
 BRI—BUB 3 7 
 
 THE BRIDE. Comedy by Thomas Nabbes. 4to. 1640. Acted in the year 
 1638, at Drury Lane, by their Majesties Servants. 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 manuscript diary 
 under the date of October 22nd, lt;2+, has the following- entry, — "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 TRIUMPHANS. A masque, by Sir W. Davenant and Inigo 
 
 Jones. It was presented at Whitehall, by King Charles I. and his lords, 
 on the Sunday after Twelfth-night, 1637; and was printed in 4to. 1637, 
 but is not inserted in the folio edition of Sir William's works. The author 
 of the Stage Condemned, published in 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. Tragedy by John Ford, acted at the Black Friars. 
 4to. 1633. Dedicated to William Lord Craven, baron of Hamsteed-Mar- 
 shall. The scene, Sparta. 
 
 THE BROTHERS. Comedy by J. Shirley, acted at the Black Fryars. 8vo. 
 1652. Scene lies in Madrid. Dedicated to Thomas Stanley, esq. Licensed 
 Nov. 4th, 1626. 
 
 BROXBOURN-BURY MASQUE. The tune to a dance performed in this 
 masque is preserved in a manuscript of the seventeenth century, MS. Addit. 
 10444, in the British Museum. 
 
 BRUTUS OF ALBA ; or, the Enchanted Lovers. Tragedy by NahumTate, 
 acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1678. Licensed July 15th, 1678. 
 The plan of this tragedy is partly founded on Geoffrey of Monmouth. 
 Dedicated to Charles, Earl of Dorset and Middlesex. 
 
 BRUTUS OF ALBA; or, Augusta's Triumph. An opera, acted at the 
 Theatre in Dorset Gardens. 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 PoweU and John Yerbruggen. The dedication 
 is dated October 16th, 1696. 
 
 THE BUBBLE. A droll by Kirkman, made up out of the play of Greene's 
 Tu Quoquc by Cooke. It is printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 
 1672. 
 
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 33 BUC—BUS 
 
 BUCKINGHAM. A play, acted at the Rose Theatre, by the Earl of Sussex's 
 Servants, Dec. 30, 1593. Not printed. 
 
 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 Com- 
 pany at Whitehall," Herbert's Diary. 
 
 THE BUGBEARS. A comedy of the time of Queen Elizabeth, translated 
 from some early Italian drama. It is unpublished, but the original manu- 
 script of it is preserved in the British Museum, MS. Lansd. 807. One of 
 the characters in it is called Biondello. A note at the end says " Johannes 
 Jeffere scribebat hoc." He was probably only the scribe. 
 
 THE BULL MASQUE. A masque of the seventeenth century. See a 
 curious collection of masque and dance tunes in the British Museum, MS. 
 Addit. 10444. 
 
 THE BURIAL OF CHRIST. A mystery preserved in a manuscript of the 
 fifteenth century in the Bodleian Library. It is printed in the Reliquiae 
 Antique, vol. ii. p. 124. 
 
 THE BURNING OF JOHN HUSS. Tragedy by Ralph Radcliff. Not 
 printed. 
 
 THE BURNING OF SODOM. Tragedy by Ralph Radcliff. Not printed. 
 
 BURY FAIR. Comedy by Thomas Shadwell. 4to, 1689. The characters 
 of Old Wit and Sir Humphry Noddle, in this play, are apparently borrowed 
 from Justice Spoilwit and Sir John Noddy, in the Duke of Newcastle's 
 Triumphant 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 some- 
 thing in his jargon more diverting than in the original itself; " ed. 1691, 
 p. 445. 
 
 BUSSY D'AMBOIS. Tragedy by G. Chapman. 4to. 1607; 4to. 1608; 
 4to. 1616 ; 4to. 1641 ; 4to. 1657. Entered on the Stationers' Registers, 
 June 3rd, 1607. Reprinted in Dilke's Old Plays. This play was often 
 presented at Paul's, in the reign of James I., and after the Restoration was 
 revived with success at the Theatre Royal. The plot of it is taken from 
 the French historians of the reign of Henry III. of France. Dryden has 
 spoken of it in terms of unwonted severity. " I have sometimes wondered,"
 
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 he says, " in the reading, what was become of those glaring colours which 
 amazed me in Bussy d'Ambois 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 dwarfish thought dressed up in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, 
 looseness of expression, and gross hyperboles ; the sense of one line ex- 
 panded prodigiously 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 indignation enough to burn a d'Ambois annually to the 
 memory of Jonson." Durfey says that, about 1675, he saw "the Bussv 
 d'Ambois of Chapman acted by Hart, which in spight of the obsolete phrases 
 and intolerable fustian with which a great part of it was cramm'd, had 
 some extraordinary beauties which sensibly charmed me, which, being im- 
 proved 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. Tragedy by T. Durfey. 
 Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1691. This is a revival of Chapman's 
 play, with some improvement in the character of Tamyra. For the intrigue 
 of Bussy and Tamyra see Rosset's Histoires Tragiques, Hist. xvii. p. 303, 
 under the feigned names of Lysis and Silvie. The scene lies at Paris. 
 Dedicated to Edward Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Howard of Morpeth, &c. 
 The principal character in it, formerly acted by Hart, was now successfully 
 undertaken by Mountfort. 
 
 BYRON. A play whose title is spelt, in Henslowe's Diary, Berowne and 
 Burone, under the year 1602, maybe perhaps Chapman's Conspiracy and 
 Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron, printed in 1608. Byron was often 
 spelt Berown, as in the early copies of Love's Labour's Lost. 
 
 BYRSA BASILICA. Byrsa Basilica, seu Regale Excambium, comoedia in 
 honorem Thomas Greshami militis, auctore J. Rickets, 1570. In the 
 Bodleian Library, MS. Tanner 207. A curious Latin play on the subject 
 of the Royal Exchange. 
 
 CiESAR AND POMPEY. The Tragedy of Caesar and Pompey ; or Cesar's 
 Revenge. Acted by the Students of Trinity College, in Oxford, -ito. 1607. 
 Of this play there is, in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, another 
 edition, apparently an earlier one, without a date, and with no mention of 
 its having been acted by the students of Trinity College. There was also
 
 40 CJE—CAL 
 
 a very ancient play on this subject, entitled, the History of Cresar and 
 Pompey, exhibited before 1580. See Gosson's School of Abuse. A new 
 play, under the same title, was produced by Henslowc's company in 1594, 
 and a second part in the following year. 
 
 C2ESAB AND POMPEY. A Eoman Tragedy, declaring their wars, out 
 of whose events is evicted this proposition, only a just wan is a free man. 
 By Geo. Chapman. 4to. 1631. The plot of this play is taken from the 
 Roman history. Scene, Rome and Pharsalia. In some copies the title- 
 page runs thus : " The Warres of Pompey and Cresar. Out of whose 
 events," &c. This was perhaps a second title-page, issued for some trade 
 reason. Reprinted in 4to, 1653. 
 
 CESAR BORGIA, Son to Pope Alexander VI. Tragedy by Nat. Lee, 
 acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1680. The scene lies in Rome, and 
 the plot is built on the histories of 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. 
 
 CiESAR'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. 
 
 CESAR'S TRAGEDY. A play so called is a list of dramas performed 
 before the Court at Whitehall in May, 1613. It is supposed to be the 
 tragedy of Julius Csesar. 
 
 CAIUS MARIUS. The history and fall of Cains 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 verbatim, from those of 
 Romeo and Juliet. The character of Sulpitius is a bad imitation of Mer- 
 cutio. The plot, into which the story of their love is thus interwoven, may 
 be found in Plutarch's Life of Caius Marius, 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. 
 
 CALEDONIA. A tragi-comedy in verse, called Caledonia, or the Pedlar 
 turned Merchant. 4to. Lond. 1700. 
 
 CALIGULA. Emperor of Rome. 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's Life of that prince. It is 
 dedicated to the Earl of Rumney.
 
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 CALISTO ; or, the Chaste Nymph. A masque, by J. Crowne, 4to. 1675. 
 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 scene lies in Arcadia ; 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 per- 
 sonae, and the names of the performers, are prefixed. 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 for this play, but it was rejected 
 through the adverse influence exercised by Rochester. The prologue and 
 chorus were published separately, 1675. 
 
 CALISTUS. A tragi-comedy mentioned in a Second and Third Blast of Re- 
 trait from Plaies and Theatres, 1580, "wherein the baudress, Scelestina, 
 inflamed the maiden Melibea with her sorceries." This is supposed by Mr. 
 Collier to be the same play as the Beauty and Good Properties of Women, 
 printed about 1530. 
 
 CAMBYSES, King of Persia. A play in old metre, by Thomas Preston. 4to. 
 without a date, but printed about 1570.— Reprinted in Hawkins' Origin of 
 the English Drama. Its running title is, A Contedie of King Cambises ; 
 and its fuller one as follows ; "A lamentable tragedy, mixed ful of 
 pleasant mirth, conteyning the Life of Cambises, King of Percia, from the 
 beginning of his kingdome unto his death ; his one good deed of execution, 
 after the many wicked deeds and tirannous murders committed by and 
 through him. And last of all, his odious death, by God's justice appointed, 
 doon in such order as foloweth." The story is taken from Herodotus and 
 Justin. 
 
 CAMBYSES, King of Persia. A tragedy by Elkanah Settle. Acted at the 
 Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1671; 1675; 1692. This play is on the same 
 story with the foregoing, and is written in heroic verse. The scene lies in 
 Suza, and in Cambyses's 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 CAMPAIGNERS ; or, the Pleasant Adventures at Brussels. Comedy 
 by T. Durfey. 4to. 1698. Part of the plot is taken from a novel called 
 Female Falsehood. Scene, Brussels. Time, thirty-five hours. 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 to this play was composed by Purcell. 
 
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 42 CAM— CAR 
 
 CAMPASPE. Lilly's play of Alexander and Campaspe is called simply Cam- 
 paspe in one edition of 1584, in the third edition of 1591, and in the 
 reprint of 1632. 
 
 CANCER. A Latin play supposed to have been acted before James I. in 
 1622. It was printed, with other Latin plays, 1 2mo, 1648. 
 
 CANDLEMAS DAT. An ancient interlude on the subject of the Slaughter 
 of the Innocents, preserved in the Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 133, and 
 printed in Hawkins' English Drama, 1773. The manuscript bears the 
 date of 1512, and one John Parfre was the transcriber of it. The proper 
 title is, " Candelmas-day, and the Kyllyng of the children of Israeli." 
 
 CANTERBURY'S DIET. A political satire on Laud, termed a play, but 
 not intended for acting, appeared in 1644 under the title of " A Play called 
 Canterburie his Change of Diot ; which sheweth variety of wit and mirth. 
 Privately acted near the palace-yard, at Westminster." 
 
 THE CANTERBURY GUESTS ; or, a Bargain Broken. A comedy by E. 
 "Ravenscroft. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1695. Scene, Canterbury. 
 
 THE CAPTAIN. A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol. 1647. It was 
 acted before the Court in the year 1613. 
 
 CAPTAIN MARIO. "Since my publishing the School of Abuse, two 
 playes of my making were brought to the stage ; the one was a cast of 
 Italian devises, called the comedie of Captain Mario," Gosson's School 
 of Abuse, 1579. 
 
 CAPTAIN UNDERWIT. A curious play of the seventeenth century, pre- 
 served in the British Museum, formerly marked MS. Addit. 5001, but now 
 made MS. Harl. 7650, is placed under this conjectimd title, which i9 
 derived from the name of one of the characters. There is no title given 
 to it in the MS. itself. 
 
 CAPTAIN STUKELEY. The Life and Death of Captaine Thomas Stukeley, 
 with his marriage to Alderman Curteis Daughter, and valiant Ending of 
 his Life at the Battaile of Alcazar. As it hath been acted: Printed for 
 Thomas Pavyer, and are to be sold at his shop at the entrance into the 
 Exchange. 4to. 1605. 
 
 THE CAPTIVE. The following entry occurs in Sir H. Herbert's manu- 
 script Diary, under the date of September the 3rd, 1624, — "for the 
 Cock-pit Company a new play called the Captive or the Lost Recovered, 
 written by Hayward," that is, Heywood. 
 
 CARDENIO. A play so called was acted more than once at Court in the 
 year 1613. It is perhaps the same play which was entered on the registers 
 of the Stationers' Company, in 1653, as the History of Cardenio.
 
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 THE CARDINAL. A tragedy by James Shirley. 8vo. 1652. Acted iu 
 Black Friars. Scene, Navarre. It was also played at the Cock-pit 
 Theatre after the Restoration. Licensed on November 25th, 164-1. 
 
 CARDINAL WOLSEY. A play ascribed to Henry Chettle, and acted in 1 601. 
 A second part was performed in 1602 : both by the Earl of Worcester's 
 Servants. Not printed. Malone suspects that Chettle was not the ori- 
 ginal author, because he finds an account of money paid to him for 
 " altering Cardinal VVolsey." 
 
 CARDS. The Play of Cards, an unpublished drama of the seventeenth 
 century, mentioned in Harington's Apologie of Poetrie, 1591. 
 
 THE CARELESS LOVERS. A comedy by Edward Ravenscroft. This play 
 was written after the time that Dryden had attacked this author's Mama- 
 mouchi ; and in the epistle and prologue he has endeavoured to revenge 
 his cause, by an attack on Dryden's Almanzor and his Love in a Nunnery, 
 and by retorting back on him the charge of plagiarism, which, notwith- 
 sanding what Ravenscroft says in his prologue, he is far from being clear 
 of in regard to this very piece ; as the sham scene in the fourth act, where 
 Mrs. Breedwell and Clapham bring in their children, and challenge 
 marriage of the Lord de Boastago, is apparently stolen from Moliere's 
 M. de Pourceaugnac, Act ii. Scenes 7 and 8. Whatsoever of that comedy 
 moreover the author had not made use of in his Mamamouchi, he has 
 transplanted into this piece, which was acted at the Duke's Theatre ; 4to. 
 1673. 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 Lenten 
 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. It was written many years previously to the 
 date of publication. The scene lies in Arcadia. It has, however, a pre- 
 ludium, whose scene is placed in Salisbury Coui't ; and to the play is 
 annexed a catalogue, extremely defective and erroneous throughout, of all 
 the dramas which had before that time been printed in the English language. 
 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. 4 to. 1664. Scene, Seville. 
 
 CART WRIGHT. A play, founded upon a murder by one Cartwright of a
 
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 clergyman named Storr, written by William Haughton in the year 1602. 
 See Henslowe's Diary, p. 225. 
 
 THE CASE IS ALTER'D. A comedy by Ben Jonson. Acted by the children 
 of the Black Friars. 4to. 1609. Although printed in 4to. with Jonson's 
 name, there is no dedication or preface, which are customarily affixed to this 
 author's plays, and it is omitted in the folio edition printed in his lifetime, 
 and in the folio 1640. It was not written until after 1598, the date of 
 the Palladis Tamia. 
 
 CASSANDRA ; or, the Virgin Prophetess. An opera, acted at the Theatre 
 Royal. 4to. 1692. 
 
 CASTA RA ; or, Cruelty without Lust. A play, entered on the books of the 
 Stationers' Company, Nov. 29, 1653 ; but probably never printed. 
 
 THE CASTLE OE PERSEVERANCE. One of the oldest moral-plays in 
 the English language, existing only in a manuscript, now in the possession 
 of Hudson Gurney, esq. See an interesting account of it in Collier's 
 History of Dramatic Poetry, ii. 279. 
 
 THE CATACLYSM; or, the General Deluge of the World. 4to. 1685. This 
 is merely Ecclestone's opera of Noah's Flood, published in 1679, with a 
 new title. 
 
 CATILINA TRIUMPHANS. A Latin comedy of the seventeenth century, 
 preserved in manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. 
 
 CATILINE, HIS CONSPIRACY. A tragedy by Ben Jonson, 4to. 1611 ; 
 4to. 1635. 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." Scene, Rome. 
 
 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, which was also termed simply Catiline. A play on 
 the same subject, called Catiline's Conspiracies, written by Stephen Gosson, 
 is mentioned by that writer in his School of Abuse, 1579 ; and in January, 
 1587-8, the members of Gray's Inn performed a comedy in which Catiline 
 was one of the dramatis personse. 
 
 CELESTINA. " The Tragie Comedye of Celestina, wherein are discoursed 
 in most pleasant style many philosophicall sentences and advertisements, 
 very necessarye for younge gentlemen, and discoveringe the sleights of 
 treacherous servants, and the subtle cariages of filthye bawdes." This title 
 is entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, October 5, 1598, by 
 William Aspley ; but whether printed or not, we are unable to say. 
 
 THE CENOFALLES. A playacted at Court in 1576-7,— "the historye
 
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 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. This is one of the titles of Braithwait'a 
 tragi-comedy of Mercurius Britannicus, or the English Intelligencer, 16-H, 
 the half-title of that play, before the first act, being, " the Censure of the 
 Judges, or the Court Cure." 
 
 CHABOT, ADMIRAL OF FRANCE. A tragedy, by Ceo. Chapman and 
 James Shirley. Acted at Drury Lane. 4to. 1639. The story of it is 
 taken from the French historians, in their account of the reign of Francis I. 
 Licensed on April 29th, 1635. 
 
 A CHALLENGE AT TILT AT A MARRIAGE. A masque, by Ben 
 Jonson, 1613. Folio, 1616 ; 1640. 
 
 CHALLENGE FOR BEAUTY. A tragi-comedy by Thomas Heywood. 4to. 
 1636. Acted at the Black Friars and the Globe. Scene, Portugal. Re- 
 printed in Dilke's Old Plays, 1816. 
 
 CHANCE MEDLEY. A play, by Wilson, Munday, Drayton, and Decker. 
 This play is mentioned in Henslowe's Diary, under the date of 1598, but 
 no other notice of it has been discovered. 
 
 THE CHANCES. A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Folio, 1647. The 
 plot of this play is taken from a novel of Cervantes, called the Lady Cornelia. 
 The scene lies in Bologna. 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 gives the following note of its performance 
 under the date of Feb. 5th, 1667, — "to the King's house, to see the 
 Chances ; a good 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 admirably." 
 
 THE CHANGELING. A tragedy by Thomas Middleton. Acted at the 
 private house in Drury Lane, and at Salisbury Court. 4to. 1653; 4to. 
 1668. It was acted before the Court at Whitehall, Jan. 4th, 1623-4. 
 Rowley joined with our author in this play, which met with very great 
 success. The scene is Alicant, and the principal foundation of the plot may 
 be found in the story of Alseinero and Beatrice- Joanna, in Reynolds's God's 
 Revenge against Murder, Book i. Hist. iv. It was revived in February, 
 1661, "the first time," says Pepys, "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.
 
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 THE CHANGELING. A comedy ascribed by Winstanley to Matthew Hey- 
 wood. Not acted. 
 
 THE CHANGE OV CROWNES. A play, by Edward Howard. Entered 
 on the books of the Stationers' Company, but not printed. Pepys records 
 a performance of this play under the date of April 15th, 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." 
 
 CHANGES; or, Love in a Maze. A comedy, by James Shirley. Acted at 
 the private house in Salisbury Court, by the Company of his Majestie's 
 Bevels. 4to. 1632. Licensed Jan. 10th, 1631-2. Scene, London. Pepys 
 saw this play in May, 1662, noticing that it " hath little in it, but Lacy's 
 part of a country- fellow, which he did to admiration." See also Langbaine, 
 ed. 1691, p. 47*7. 
 
 CHARITY TRIUMPHANT; or, the Virgin Show. Exhibited on the 29th of 
 October, 1655, being the Lord Mayor's Day. By Edm. Gayton. 4to. 
 1655. This pageant was made on occasion of Alderman Dethicke's coming 
 to the civic chair. 
 
 CHARLES THE FIRST. A political play entitled, the Famous Tragedy of 
 King Charles the First basely butchered. 4to. 1649. 
 
 CHARLES VIII. OF FRANCE ; or, the Invasion of Naples by the French. 
 An historical play by John Crowne. Acted at the Duke of York's Theatre. 
 4to. 1672. The plot of this play is taken from Guicciardini, and some of 
 the French historians. Scene, Naples. It is written in heroic verse. 
 The Earl of Rochester, notwithstanding the compliment paid him by the 
 writer, in dedicating this play to him, ridiculed the piece and its author, 
 in his imitation of the third of Boileau's Satires. 
 
 A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE. A pleasant conceited comedy, by 
 Thomas Middleton. Acted at the Swan on the Bankside, by the Lady 
 Elizabeth's servants. 4to. 1630. According to Langbaine, this comedy 
 was very successful on the stage. 
 
 THE CHASTE WOMAN AGAINST HER WILL. A comedy, under this 
 title, is mentioned in a list of " books in the presse, and ready for printing," 
 as to be published by Nathaniel Brook at the Angel in Cornhill, appended 
 to the New World of English Words, 1658. It is also advertised with 
 others at the end of Wit and Drollery, 1661. 
 
 CHAUCER'S MELIBEE. Comedy, by Ralph Radcliff. Not printed.
 
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 CIIAWBUT. This title occurs in a list of plays in an advertisement appended 
 to an Exact History of the Several Changes of Government in England. 
 8vo. 16G0. It is no douht meant for Chabot, q. v. 
 
 THE CHEATER CHEATED. An interlude. 4to. This piece is printed 
 with some others, attributed to Robert Cox, in the Wits, or Sport upon 
 Sport, 8vo. Lond. 1672. 
 
 THE CHEATS. A comedy by John Wilson, written in the year 1662. 4to. 
 1664; 1671; 1684; 1693. To the fourth edition, which was printed in 
 
 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 had been suppressed by a 
 faction. 
 
 THE CHEATS OF SCAPIX. A farce, by T. Otway. 4to. 1677. This 
 farce is printed at the end of the tragedy of Titus and Berenice, which con- 
 sists 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 performance. It is not much more than a translation 
 of Moliere's Eourberies de Scapin ; the plot of which, moreover, is borrowed 
 from the Phormio of Terence. The scene, Dover. 
 
 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 modernised form, as recently as the year 1600. 
 Five manuscripts 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 the British Museum, MS. Addit. 
 10305 ; the next, copied in 1600, is in MS. Harl. 2013; a fourth, dated 
 1601, is in the Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 175 ; and a fifth, written in 
 1607, is preserved in MS. Harl. 2124. An excellent edition of this valu- 
 able collection has been produced by Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.SA., 
 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, 1610, in the foresaid Cittie. 4to. 
 Lond. 1610. A pageant of a dramatic cast, reprinted in Nichols' Pro- 
 gresses of James I., ii. 291. 
 
 CHESTER TRAGEDY. A play by Middleton, written in 1602, mentioned 
 by Henslowe in his Diary, p. 227. It is afterwards alluded to, in the same 
 record, as the play of Randolph Earl of Chester. 
 
 CHIEF PROMISES. In some catalogues this is quoted as the title of Bale's 
 rare play generally known as God's Promises, q. v. 
 
 CHINON. A play called Chinon of England is mentioned several times in
 
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 Henslowe's l)i;iry, and first under the date of January the 3rd, 1595-6, as 
 acted at the Rose Theatre on that day. 
 
 CIILOR1DIA ; or, Rites to Chloris and her Nymphs. A. masque, by Ben 
 Jonson, presented at Court, by the Queen and her Ladies, at Shrovetide. 
 4to. 1630. This date was really 1630-1. 
 
 CHR1STIANETTA. 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. A tragedy by Robert Daborne, 
 not divided into acts. 4to. 1612. The story is taken from an account of 
 the overthrow of those two pirates, by Andrew Barker, 4to. ] 609. 
 
 CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR. A play by Heywood, 
 Webster, Decker, and Chettle, written late in the year 1602, and acted at 
 the end of the same year or very early in 1603. See Henslowe's Diary, 
 pp. 243, 244, 245. 
 
 CHRISTMAS, his Masque, by Ben Jonson. Presented at Court on Twelfth 
 Night, 1616-7, and again on January 19th, the same year. Folio, 1641. 
 
 CHRISTMAS ORDINARY. A private Show, wherein is expressed the 
 jovial freedom of that festival. Acted at a gentleman's house among other 
 revels. 4to. 1682. This piece is written by a person who was Master of 
 Arts, and is signed with the letters W. R. It was originally acted at 
 Trinity College, Oxford, and it was entered on the registers of the 
 Stationers' Company on June 29th, 1660. 
 
 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 tragedy by George Sandys. 8vo. 1640, 1688. 
 This play was not intended for the stage, and is only a translation of the 
 Christus Patiens of Hugo Grotius, with annotations. 
 
 CHRIST TRIUMPHANT. A Latin comedy by John Fox, the Martyrolo- 
 gist. 8vo. Basil. 1556; Lond. 1672. It was translated into English by 
 JohnDaye, 16mo. 1579; 1607. 
 
 CHRYSANALEIA, the Golden Fishing; or, Honour of Fishmongers; 
 applauding the Advancement of Mr. John Leman, Alderman, to the Dignity 
 of Lord Maior of London. Taking his Oath in the same Authority at 
 Westminster on Tuesday, being the 29, Day of October, 1616. Performed 
 in hearty Love to him, and at the Charges of his worthy Brethren, the 
 ancient and Right -worshipfull Company of Fishmongers. Devised and
 
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 written by A. M. (Anthony Munday), Citizen and Draper of London. 4to. 
 Lond. 1616. 
 
 CHE YSO-TII RIAMBOS ; the Triumphes of Golde. At the Inauguration of 
 Sir James Peniberton, Knight, in the Dignity of Lord Maior of London, 
 on Tuesday the 29 of October, 1611. Performed in the harty Love, and 
 at the Charges of the Right Worshipfull, worthy, and ancient Company of 
 Goldesmithes. Devised and written by A. M. (Anthony Munday), Cittizen 
 and Draper of London. 4to. 1611. 
 
 CICILIA AND CLORINDA ; or, Love in Arms. A tragi-comedy by Thomas 
 Killigrew. Fob 1663, 1664. This is formed into two plays, the first of 
 which was written at Turin, about 1650, and the second at Florence, in 
 1651. The scene of both pieces lies in Lombardy; and the characters of 
 Amadeo, Lucius, and Manlius, seem copies of Aglatidas, Artabes, and Mega- 
 bises, in the Grand Cyrus, Part i. Book 3. 
 
 THE CID. A tragi-comedy by Joseph Butter, acted at Court, and at the 
 Cock-pit, Drury Lane. This play is written in two parts, both printed in 
 12mo. ; the first in 1637, and the second in 1640. They are translations 
 at large, and with some alterations, of the Cid of Corneille ; and were 
 undertaken, the 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 L, who 
 was so well satisfied with the first translation, as to order the second part 
 to be put into Butter's hands for the same purpose. 
 
 THE CID. A tragedy, translated from the French of Monsieur Corneille, 
 1691, in the British Museum, MS. Addit. 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. 
 
 CIBCE. An opera, by Dr. Charles d'Aveuant. Acted at the Duke of York's 
 Theatre, with considerable applause. 4to, 1677; 1685; 1703. Prologue 
 by Dryden, which he afterwards rewrote ; epilogue by Lord Bochester, and 
 the music by Bannister. The scene lies in Taurica Chersonesus. The 
 songs in this opera were published separately by Tonson in 1677. 
 
 CITIZEN TURN'D GENTLEMAN. A play by Bavenscroft, taken from 
 Moliere, acted at Dorset Garden. 4to. 1672. It was afterwards printed 
 under the title of Mamamouchi, q. v. 
 
 THE CITY BBIDE ; 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. " St. John night, a play called the City Gallant," 
 acted by the Queen's players, 1611. This was the play of Greene's Tu 
 Quoque, published in 1614. 
 
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 50 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 heing 
 borrowed from Middleton's Mad World my Masters, arid part from Mas- 
 siuger'a Guardian. Mrs. Behn has also introduced into this play a great 
 part of the Inner-Temple Masque, by Micldlcton. 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. 4 to. 1697. Scene, Co vent Garden. It 
 was acted only three nights. 
 
 THE CITY MADAM. A comedy by Philip Massinger, acted at the Black 
 Friars. 4to. 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 25th in that year. 
 
 THE CITY MATCH. A comedy by Jasper Mayne, D.D. This play was pre- 
 sented before the King and Queen at Whitehall, in 1639, and there is an 
 edition of it in folio the same year; another in 4to. 1658 ; and a third in 
 8vo. 1659. The scene lies in London. Pepys notes that at the King's 
 Playhouse, in September, 1668, he "saw the City Match, not acted these 
 thirty years, and but a silly play." Reprinted in Dodsley's Collection. 
 
 THE CITY NIGHTCAP ; or, Crede quod habes, et habes. A tragi-comedy 
 by Robert Davenport. Acted at the Phcenix, 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 Lang- 
 baine, "is borrow'd from the novel of the Curious Impertinent in romance 
 of Don Quixot, and that of Lodovico, Francisco, and Dorothea, from 
 Boccace's Novels, vii. 7, on which likewise part of Ravenscroft's London 
 Cuckolds is built; " ed. 1691, p. 117. Reprinted in Dodsley's Collection. 
 
 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 
 Epilogue 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 play in two parts, respecting the second of 
 which the Salisbury Court company incurred the displeasure of the Master 
 of the Revels, as appears from the following entry in the office-book of Sir 
 Henry Herbert. — "October, 1633, exception was taken by Mr. Sewster to 
 the second part of the Citty Shuffler, which gave me occasion to stay the 
 play till the company had given him satisfaction, which was done the next 
 day." A play so called is in the list of plays said to have been destroyed 
 bv Warburton's servant.
 
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 THE CITY WIT ; or, the Woman wears the Breeches. A comedy by Richard 
 Broine. 8vo. 1653. The prologue is a mixture of prose and verse. 
 
 CIVIL WARS OF FRANCE. A play by Decker, mentioned in Henslowe's 
 Diary, 1598-9, as " the first Introducyon of the Syvell Wares of France." 
 He was assisted in it by Drayton. They wrote a second and a third part 
 about the same time. The play is first mentioned in September, 1598, as 
 " the firste Syvell wares in Fraunce." 
 
 CIVITATIS AMOR. The Citie's Love. An entertainement by water, at 
 Chelsey and White-hall, at the joy full receiving of that Illustrious Hope 
 of Great Britaine, the High and Mighty Charles, to bee created Prince of 
 Wales, Duke of Cornewall, Earle of Chester, &c. Together with the Ample 
 Order and Solemnity of his Highnesse creation, as it was celebrated in his 
 Majesties 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 ; Aud all the Triumphs showne in honour of his Royall 
 Creation. London, Printed by Nicholas Okes for Thomas Archer, and are 
 to be sold at his shop in Popes-head- Pallace. 1616. 4to. Reprinted in 
 Nichols's Progresses of King James, vol. iii. p. 208 ; and in Middleton's 
 Works, ed. Dyce. 
 
 CLARICILLA. A tragi-comeily by Thomas Killigrew, acted at the Phoenix 
 in Drury Lane. 12mo. 1641; fol. 1664. It was performed at the King's 
 House after the Restoration. 
 
 CLAUDIUS. The Tragedie of Claudius Tiberius Nero, Rome's greatest 
 Tyrant, truly represented out of the purest Records of those Times. 4 to. 
 1607. Dedicated to Sir Arthur Mannering. In some copies, it is called 
 the " Statelie Tragedie." It was entered at Stationers' Hall on April 10th, 
 1607. 
 
 CLEANDER. A tragedy by Philip Massinger, licensed May 7, 1637; and 
 acted by the King's Company. The Queen saw this play at the Black 
 Friars' Theatre on May 13th, 1631. 
 
 CLEODORA. Sir Henry Herbert states that, on April the 9th, 1640, the 
 Lord Chamberlain " bestowed a play upon the King and Queen, called 
 Cleodora, Queen of Arragon, made by my cousin Abington." This was 
 Habington's play of the Queen of Arragon, printed in 1640. 
 
 CLEOMENES ; or, the Spartan Hero. A tragedy by John Dryden, acted 
 at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1692. The plot of this play is professedly 
 taken from Plutarch ; but improved by the addition of Cassandra's love for 
 Cleomenes, and by giving him a second wife. The scene lies in Alexan- 
 dria and in the port of that city ; and to all the editions is prefixed the life 
 of Cleomenes.
 
 52 CLE—CLT 
 
 CLEOPATRA. A tragedy by Samuel Daniel. 12mo, 1594; 8vo. 1598; 
 4 to. 1599 ; fol. 1601 ; 8vo. 1611; 4to. 1623. This play is founded on 
 the story of Cleopatra, in Plutarch's Lives of Antony and Pompey ; and 
 on a little French book, of which we have a translation by Otway, 
 entitled the History of the Three Triumvirates. This tragedy was very 
 much esteemed in its time ; and in the edition of it in 4to. 1623, the 
 author has made various alterations greatly to its advantage. Scene in 
 Alexandria. 
 
 CLEOPATRA, QUEEN OF EGYPT, her Tragedy, by Thomas May. 
 12mo. 1639; 12mo. 1654. First acted in 1626. Scene, Egypt. This 
 is upon the same story with 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 Waterhouse. 4to. 1650. 
 Another edition appeared in 1700. 
 
 THE CLERK AND THE MAIDEN. An ancient English interlocutory 
 poem, similar in its formation to the Harrowing of Hell, entitled in the 
 MS., Interludium de Clerico et Puella. It is printed in the Reliquiae 
 Antiquaa, i. 145. 
 
 CLORIDON AND EADI AM ANTA. A play acted at Court in 1 5 7 1 , when 
 it was " shovven on Shrove-Sundaye at nighte, by Sir Robert Lane's men." 
 
 CLORYS AND ORGASTO. Acted Feb. 28, 1591, at the Eose Theatre; 
 but not now in existence. The only known mention of it is in Henslowe's 
 Diary, p. 21. 
 
 THE CLOUDS. Translated by Thomas Stanley, and published in his 
 History of Philosophy, 1655, the second part, p. 67, where it is entitled 
 " the clouds of Aristophanes, added not as a comicall divertisement for the 
 reader, who can expect little in that kind from a subject so antient and 
 particular, but as a necessary supplement to the life of Socrates." 
 
 CLUB LAW. A play made by the gownsmen of Cambridge in ridicule of 
 the townsmen. Fuller describes it as " a merry but abusive comedy, which 
 was acted at Clare-hall in 1597-8." Dr. Farmer possessed a manuscript, 
 without title, which he conjectured 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, preserved in manuscript in the library of 
 Emanuel College, Cambridge. At the end is written the names of, Guliel- 
 mus Bretonus possessor, and Georgius Ainsworthius scriptor.
 
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 THE COBLER. This play, which is not extant, was acted in October, 1597, 
 by the Lord Admiral's and the Earl of Pembroke's Servants. There is a 
 play, possibly the same, called the Cobler of Queenhithe, mentioned in a 
 list of the plays belonging to the Rose Theatre in 1598. 
 
 THE COBLE ll'S PROPHECY. A comedy by Robert Wilson, first pub- 
 lished in 1594, 4to. There was another edition issued in 1655. 
 
 COCKLE-DE-MOY. A play presented at Court in the year 1613. It was 
 perhaps Marston's Dutch Courtezan. 
 
 CCELUM BR1TANNICUM. A masque, by Thomas Carew. 4to. 1634; 
 8vo, 1640; and published also at the end of his Poems, 12mo. 1642. 
 This masque was written at the command of the King, and performed 
 by his Majesty and the nobles, at the Banquetting House, at Whitehall, 
 Feb. 18, 1633. The decorations were by Inigo Jones, and the music by H. 
 Lawes. This piece was for some time erroneously ascribed to Sir William 
 Davenant. 
 
 THE COFFEE HOUSE. "1667, October, 15th, to the Duke of York's 
 house, where saw the Coffee House, the most ridiculous, insipid play that 
 ever I saw in my life, and glad we were that Betterton had no part in it," 
 Pepys' Diary. This is the play of Tarugo's Wiles, 4to. 1668. 
 
 COLA'S FURY; or, Lirenda's Misery. Tragedy, by Henry Burkhead. 
 4to. 1645. The subject of this play is the Irish rebellion which broke 
 out in October, 1641 ; and the principal personages who had any concern 
 in the transactions of that time are distinguished under fictitious names : 
 viz. Duke of Ormond, Osiris ; Sir John Borlace, Berosus, &c. as may be 
 easily discovered by referring to Temple's Borlace'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. Lirenda is an 
 anagram of Ireland. 
 
 THE COLLEDGE OF CANONICALL CLERKES. An interlude with 
 this title was entered by Johu Charlewood, on the books of the Stationers' 
 Company in the years 1566-7 ; but no copy of it is known to exist. 
 
 THE COLONELL. This play by William Davenant was entered on the 
 books of the Stationers' Company, by Eph. Dawson, Jan. 1, 1629; but 
 we believe, not printed. 
 
 THE COLLIER. A play acted at Court in 1576-7,— "the historie of the 
 Collyer showen at Hampton Court on Sundaie, enacted by therle of Leices- 
 ter's men." 
 
 COLUMBUS. A play written by John Marston, about the year 1602, and 
 alluded to by him in a note to Henslowe.
 
 54, COM— COM 
 
 THE COMBATE OP CAPPS. A masque, 1582. Such is the date given 
 to this piece by Chetwood ; which is certainly a forgery. Kirkman men- 
 tions it as a masque ; but it can scarcely be called a dramatic piece, being 
 only the skeleton or argument of a very absurd play, with a few songs 
 intermixed, published in 1648 under the title of Prineeps Rhetoricus, or 
 the Combat of Caps, 1648. 
 
 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. He was a member of that college. 
 
 THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, by William Shakespeare. Folio. 1623. 
 The plot of this play is founded on the Menrechmi of Plautus, translated 
 by W. W. 4to. 1595. 
 
 COME SEE A WONDER. In Sir Henry Herbert's manuscript Diary, 
 under the date of September 18th, 1623, is the following entry, — " for a 
 company of strangers, a new comedy called Come See a Wonder, written 
 by John Deye." 
 
 THE COMICAL HASH. A comedy, by the Duchess of Newcastle. Folio. 
 Lond. 1662. 
 
 THE COMICAL REVENGE ; or, Love in a Tub. A comedy by Sir George 
 Etherege, acted at the Duke of York's Theatre, 4to. 1669 ; 4to. 1689. 
 It was licensed for printing on July 8th, 1664. 
 
 THE COMMITTEE. A comedy, by Sir Robert Howard. Fol. 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 this play 
 acted at the Royal Theatre, on June 12th, 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 discover- 
 ing the Corruption of Committee Men and Excise Men ; the unjust 
 Sufferings of the Royal Party ; the devilish Hypocrisy of some Roundheads; 
 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 Stapleton. 
 Though styled by the writer comedies, neither of them are much longer 
 than one act of a play.
 
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 COMMON CONDITIONS. In 15 76, there was entered on the registers of 
 the Stationers' Company, " a new and pleasant comedie or plaie after the 
 manner of common condycions." The only copy of this drama 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 Thomas Durfey, 
 acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1686. Licensed on September 1 1th, 
 16S5. This play is a mere alteration from Fletcher's Sea Voyage, and is 
 very indifferently 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." Scene, Covent Garden. 
 
 COMUS. A masque, presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, on Michaelmasse 
 Night, before the Eight Honourable John, Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount 
 Brackly, Lord President of Wales, and one of His Majestie's most honour- 
 able Privie Counsel. By John Milton. 4to. 1637; 8vo. 1645. There 
 is a MS. of it in the Ellesmere collection, edited by Todd, 8vo. 1798. 
 
 THE CONCEALED FANCIES. The Concealed Fansyes, a play by the 
 Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley, a manuscript preserved 
 in the Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. Poet. 16. 
 
 CONCEALED ROYALTY. Conceal'd Royalty, or the May Queen, a pas- 
 toral, 1674, by R. Carleton, a manuscript in the possession of F. W. Fair- 
 holt, F.S.A. 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 famdy. 
 
 THE CONCEITED DUKE. A play, that belonged to the Cock-pit Theatre 
 in 1639. It is, however, probably no other than the Noble Gentleman of 
 Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 
 THE CONCEITED PEDLAR. A farce, by Thomas Randolph, printed at 
 the end of his play of Aristippus, 4to. Lond. 1630. Dodsley acknowledges 
 having taken the hint of his Toyshop from this little piece. 
 
 THE CONCEITS. A play ; entered on the books of the Stationers' Com- 
 pany, by R. Marriot, Nov. 29, 1653 ; but probably not printed. 
 
 CONFESSOR. A Latin drama by T. Sparowe, written about the year 1666. 
 There was a Thomas Sparowe admitted B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, 
 1673. It is dedicated to a bishop, not named. Preserved in manuscript 
 in the Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. Poet. 77. 
 
 THE CONFLICT OF CONSCIENCE. An excellent new Commedie, in-
 
 56 CON— CON 
 
 tituled the Conflict of Conscience, contayninge a most lamentable example 
 of the dolefull desperation of a miserable worldlinge, termed by the name 
 of Philologus, who forsooke the trueth of God's Gospel, from the feare of 
 the losse of lyfe, and worldly goods. Compiled by Nathaniel Woodes, 
 minister in Norwich. At London, printed by Richarde Bradocke, dwelling 
 in Aldermenburie, a little above the Conduet, anno 1581. This piece is in 
 six acts, and relates to the events of the life of Francis Spiera, who is re- 
 ferred to in the character of Philologus. Reprinted by J. P. Collier, for the 
 Roxburghe Club, 1851. 
 
 CONNAN, PMNCE OF CORNWALL. A play, by Michael Drayton, in 
 conjunction with Thomas Decker. Written in October, 1598. 
 
 THE CONQUEST OF BRUTE. A play by John Day, assisted by Chettle, 
 mentioned in Henslowe's Diary, July, 1598, as "the Conqueste of Brute 
 with the first fyndinge of the Bathe," that is, the hot-springs at Bath. 
 
 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. Downes, in his Roscius 
 Anglicanus, p. 45, relates a curious anecdote of Jevon the actor in connec- 
 tion with this play. 
 
 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 
 Dryden. It was, however, never either acted or printed, and is now pro- 
 bably lost. See Johnson's Life of Dryden. 
 
 CONQUEST OF GRANADA, BY THE SPANIARDS. A tragedy, in two 
 parts, by J. Dryden, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1672; 1678; 
 1681. 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 Almahide, 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. See Langbaine's Dramatick 
 Poets, ed. 1691, p. 157. The prologue to the first part was spoken by 
 Nell Gwin in a broad-brim'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. 
 
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 CON— CON 57 
 
 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 Gwyti appeared in that strange dress, the house was immediately 
 in convulsions; the King wanted but little of being suffocated with 
 laughter ; Appendix to Downes. Durfey made some additions to a later 
 representation of this play. 
 
 THE CONQUEST OF SPAIN. A play by Hathway and Rankens, written 
 in 1601. It is once mentioned in Henslowe's Diary as " the Conquest of 
 Spain by John of Gaunt." 
 
 THE CONQUEST OF THE WEST INDIES. Play, by William Haughton, 
 in conjunction with Wentworth, Smith, and John Day. Acted in 1601. 
 
 THE CONSCIENTIOUS LOVEES. 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. 1633. 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 acted 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 among 
 his contemporaries. The edition above mentioned is a surreptitious one, 
 published while Killigrew was abroad, and without his consent or know- 
 ledge. He afterwards, however, gave the world a more genuine one, in 
 fol. 1653 ; but was so much ashamed of this first edition, that, to prevent 
 its being known as the same piece, he altered the name of it to Pallantus 
 and Eudora, q. v. The scene lies in Crete. 
 
 THE CONSPIRACY; or, the Change of Government. A tragedy by W. 
 Whituker, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1680. This play is written 
 in rhyme, the epilogue composed by Ravenscroft, and the scene lies in 
 Turkey. 
 
 CONSPIRACY AND TRAGEDY OF CHARLES DUKE OF BYRON, 
 Marshal of France. Two plays, by George Chapman. Acted at the Black 
 Friars. 4to. 1 603 ; 4to. 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 con- 
 stant friend, Sir Thomas Walsingham, Knight, and to my much-loved from 
 his birth, the right toward and worthy gentleman, his sonne, Thomas 
 Walsingham esquire." Entered on the Stationers' Registers, June 5th, 
 1608. These plays, as originally written, were objected to by the French 
 Ambassadors, and certain incidents were consequently omitted. 
 
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 58 CON— CON 
 
 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 bio- 
 graphers 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 pre- 
 ceding year, 1699, was published a small volume, entitled "The Adven- 
 tures of Covent Garden, in Imitation of Scarron's City Romance," 12mo. 
 a piece without the slightest degree of merit ; yet from thence our author 
 took the characters of Lady Lurevvell and Colonel Standard, and the inci- 
 dents of Beau Cliucher and Torn Errand's change of clothes, with other 
 circumstances. 
 
 CONSTANTTNE. A play mentioned in Henslowe's Diary, p. 23, as having 
 been acted on March 21st, 1591. 
 
 CONSTANTINE THE GREAT. A play by N. Lee, acted at the Theatre 
 Royal. Its full title is, Constantine the Great, or the Tragedy of Love. 
 4to. 1684. The epilogue was written by Dryden, and published separately 
 with the prologue in 1683. Scene, Rome. 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 Spenser 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. 4to. J 640. Scene, Loudon. 
 
 THE CONSTANT NYMPH ; or, the Rambling Shepherd. A pastoral, acted 
 at the Duke's Theatre. Anonymous. 4to. 1678. This piece was written 
 by a person of quality, who tells us that it suffered much through the de- 
 fects of setting it off when it came upon the stage. The scene is Lucia in 
 Arcadia. It was licensed on August 13th, 1677. 
 
 THE CONTENTED CUCKOLD; or, the Woman's Advocate. A comedy 
 by Reuben Bourne. 4to. 1692. Scene, London. It was never acted. 
 
 THE CONTENTION BETWEENE LIBERALITIE AND PRODI- 
 GALITIE. A pleasant Comedie play'd before Her Majestie. 4to. 1602. 
 This piece is anonymous ; but, by a passage near the conclusion, it appears 
 to have been written in the 43d year of Queen Elizabeth's reign. 
 
 THE CONTENTION, &c. " The First Part of the Contention betwixt the
 
 CON— COR 59 
 
 two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, with the death of the 
 good Duke Humphrey; and the banishment and death of the Duke of 
 Suffolke, and the Tragical! cud of the proud Cardinal] of Winchester, with 
 the notable Rebellion of Iacke Cade : and the Duke of Y'orkes first claime 
 vnto the Crowne. London Printed by Thomas Creed, for Thomas Millington, 
 and are to be sold at his shop vnder Saint Peters Church in Cornwall. 
 1594." A small quarto, containing 32 leaves, A to H in fours. Reprinted 
 twice in 1 GOO, and with another play, under the title of the Whole Con- 
 tention, n.d. This was the foundation play of the Second Part of Henry 
 the Sixth. 
 
 CONTENTION FOR HONOUR AND RICHES. A masque, by James 
 Shirley. 4to. 1(533. This was originally no more than an interlude or 
 entertainment ; but was afterwards enlarged by the author to the bulk of a 
 comedy, with the title of Honoria and Mammon, q. v. 
 
 CONTENTION OF AJAX AND ULYSSES FOR THE ARMOUR OF 
 ACHILLES. An interlude, by James Shirley. 8vo. 1659. The plot is 
 taken from the 13th book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 
 
 THE CONVENT OF PLEASURE. A comedy by the Duchess of Newcastle. 
 Fol. 1605. It does not appear that this piece was ever acted. 
 
 THE CONVERSION OF SAUL. A mystery of the early part of the six- 
 teenth century, preserved in MS. Digby 133, in the Bodleian Library. 
 Printed in 4to, Edinb. 1835. 
 
 THE CONVERTED COURTEZAN. The first part of Decker's Honest 
 Whore was either originally printed under this title, or some copies of ed. 
 1604 of that play have the head-line altered. A copy now before me, 
 wanting title, is clearly the same book as the Honest Whore, 1604, but the 
 running title is, The Converted Curtezan ; and under this title Drummond, 
 in one of his manuscripts, quotes the play. See Ai'chseologia Scotica, 
 iv. 68. 
 
 THE CONVERTS; or, the Folly of Priestcraft. 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. 
 
 THE CONVERTED ROBBER. A pastoral acted at St. John's College, 
 Oxford, 1 637, written by George Wilde. The manuscript of it is preserved 
 in the British Museum, MS. Addit. 14047. Scene, Salisbury Plain. 
 
 CORIOLANUS. A tragedy by W. Shakespeare. Fol. 1623. The plot of 
 this play is taken from Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus. There is no early 
 quarto edition.
 
 60 COR— COR 
 
 CORNELIA. Kyd's Tragedy of Pompey the Great was originally published 
 under the title of Cornelia. 4to. 1504. 
 
 CORNELIA. A play by Sir W. Bartley, acted in Gibbon's Tennis Court 
 Vere Street, Clare Market, June 1st, 1662. Not printed. 
 
 CORNELIANUM DOLIUM. Comuedia lepidissima, optimorura judiciis 
 approbata,et theatrali corypha?o,nec immerito, donata, palma eliorali ap prime 
 digna. Auctore T. R. 12ino. 1638. Douce conjectures, and with great 
 probability, that this facetious drama was the production of Thomas 
 Randolph. 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 European Magazine, xxxvii. 344. 
 It was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, March 30, 1638. 
 
 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 the theatres 
 royal, says, it was the conception of a few loose hours, and committed by 
 the author to his hands to dispose of in the world. The title and prefa- 
 tory leaves are properly six in number, but two of the leaves are often 
 wanting. 
 
 CORONA MINERViE. A masque, "presented before Prince Charles, his 
 Highness the Duke of York his brother, and the Lady Mary his sister, the 
 27th of February, at the College of the Museum Minervse." 4to. 1635. 
 Chetwood ascribes this piece to Thomas Middleton ; but without founda- 
 tion. Park conjectures that it was written by Sir Francis Kinaston. 
 
 THE CORONATION. A comedy by J. Shirley. This play was printed in 
 4to. 1640, as John Fletcher's; but as Shirley laid claim to it, it is here 
 restored to his name. Scene, Epirus. The title-page gives it " as it was 
 presented by Her Majestie's servants at the private house in Drury-lane." 
 It was licensed on February 6th, 1634-5. 
 
 THE CORONATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. "The Coronation of 
 Queen Elizabeth, with the Restauration of the Protestant Religion, or the 
 Downfall of the Pope, being a most excellent play, as it was acted both at 
 Bartholomew and Southwark Fairs this present year, 1680, with great 
 applause, and approved of, and highly commended by all, the Protestant 
 nobility, gentry, and commonalty of England, who came to be spectators 
 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. 
 Entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 4th, 1646; 
 but not printed. It was acted at the Black Friars. Scene, Lorraine. 
 
 CORRUPTIONS OF THE DIVINE LAWS. A dramatic piece, mentioned 
 by Bishop Bale in the catalogue of his own works.
 
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 COSMO. A comedy acted at the Rose Theatre, Jan. 12, 1593. Not 
 
 printed. 
 THE COSTLY WHORE. A comical History, acted by the Company of 
 
 Revels. Anonymous. 4- to. 1633. This piece is by Philips attributed to 
 
 Robert Mead ; but without any foundation. The scene lies in Saxony, and 
 
 the play has considerable merit. 
 
 THE COUNCILS OF BISHOPS. A comedy of the sixteenth century, by 
 Bishop Bale. No copy of it is known to exist. 
 
 THE COUNTERFEIT BRIDEGROOM ; or, the Defeated Widow. Comedy. 
 4to. 1677. This is an alteration of Middleton's No Wit, No Help, in which 
 the names of the characters are changed, and some new scenes added. 
 
 THE COUNTERFEITS. A comedy acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1679. 
 J. Leanerd has been supposed, on no good authority, to be the author of 
 this play. The scene lies in 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, and printed at the Hague, and at London. 
 12mo. 1649. Pepys notes under October 26th, 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." 
 
 THE COUNTRY GIRL. A comedy by Anthony (or Tony) Brewer. 4to. 1647. 
 This play was frequently acted with great applause. The scenes are in 
 London and Edmonton. 
 
 COUNTRY INNOCENCE ; or, the Chambermaid turn'd Quaker. A comedy 
 by John Leanerd, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1677. This is only 
 Brewer's Country Girl reprinted, with scarcely any difference but that of 
 a new title. 
 
 THE COUNTRYMAN. A play entered on the books of the Stationers' 
 Company, Sept. 9, 1653 ; but probably not printed. 
 
 THE COUNTRY WAKE. A comedy by Thomas Dogget. 4to. 1696. 
 This play was acted with applause at Little Lincoln's Inn Fields. There 
 was also an undated edition of this play. 
 
 THE COUNTRY WIFE. A comedy by William Wycherley, acted at the 
 Theatre Royal. 4to. 1675 ; 4to. 18S8. 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. 
 
 THE COUNTRY WIT. A comedy by J. Crowne, acted at the Duke's
 
 62 COU—COV 
 
 Theatre. 4to. 1675; 1093. 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, C Amour 
 Peintre. Scene, the Pall Mall, in the year 1675. 
 
 THE COURAGE OF LOVE. This was the original title of Sir William 
 Davenant's play of Love and Honour. 4to. 1649. 
 
 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 
 Students of Christ Church, Oxford, of whom the author was one. Com- 
 pared 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 curl'd locks, 
 And clothe yourselves in periwigs of fire. 
 
 THE COURSING OF THE HAKE ; or, the Madcap. A comedy by 
 William Hemminges, 1632-3. This was never printed. It was probably 
 acted at the Fortune Theatre. 
 
 THE COURT BEGGAE. A comedie acted at the Cock-pit by his Majes- 
 ties Servants anno 1632, written by Richard Brome. 8vo. 1653. The 
 author alludes to himself, in the prologue, as " full of age and care." 
 
 COURT OF AUGUSTUS CiESAR,. A play under this first title is advertised 
 at the end of Squire Oldsapp by Durfey, 1679. It is Lee's tragedy of 
 Gloriana, published in 1676. 
 
 THE COURT SECRET. A tragi-comedy, by James Shirley. 8vo. 1653. 
 This play was prepared for the stage at Black Friars. The scene lies at 
 Madrid. Mrs. 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. It is 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 Farquhar. In the preface, the play is said to have 
 been written in ten mornings. 
 
 COVENT GARDEN. A comedy by Thomas Nabbes. 4to. 1638 ; 1639. 
 This piece was first performed in 1632, but w r as not printed till the time 
 above mentioned. The title implies where the scene is laid, and it is a 
 representation of the humours of that place at the period when it was 
 written. It is dedicated to Sir John Suckling.
 
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 THE COVENTRY PLAYS. Ludus Coventrise, a Collection of Mysteries 
 formerly represented at Coventry on the Eeast of Corpus Christi. 8vo. 
 1841. The manuscript, transcribed in 1468. is in the British Museum. 
 It is one of the few large collections of English mysteries known to exist. 
 
 THE COXCOMB. A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol. 1647. It 
 
 was performed at Court in November, 1612, and revived after the Rest ora- 
 tion, for it was acted at the King's Playhouse in March, 1609. 
 
 COX OF COLLUMPTON. A play by Day and Haughton, written in Nov. 
 1599. It related to a murder committed at that place. 
 
 CRACK ME THIS NUT. A play, acted at the Rose Theatre, Sept. 5, 1595, 
 and several times afterwards. Not printed. 
 
 THE CRADLE OF SECURITY. An interlude mentioned in the tragedy 
 of Sir Thomas More (MS. Harl. 7368), in the Comedy of Patient Grissel, 
 1603, &c, but not printed, nor now probably in existence. The date of 
 this piece may be placed between the years 1560 and 1570. The follow- 
 ing interesting account of it is extracted from a work by an eye-witness of 
 the representation. " 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 ser- 
 vants 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 aud master, he 
 appoints them to play their first play before hiinselfe, 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 hee 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 they, keeping him in 
 delights and pleasures, drew him from his graver counsellors, hearing 
 of sermons, listening to good counsell and admonitions, 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 agaiue ; 
 and in the meane time closely conveyed under the cloaths, wherewithall 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
 
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 doore, at the farthest end of the stage, two old men, the one in blew, with 
 a Serjeant at amies, 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 rame to the cradle, when all the court was in 
 the greatest jollity ; and then the foremost old man with his mace stroke a 
 fearfull blow upon the cradle ; whereat all 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 lament- 
 able 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 
 on me, that when I came to man's estate it was as fresh in my memory as 
 if I had seen it newly acted ; " Mount Tabor ; or, Private Exercises of a 
 penitent Sinner, by 11. Willis, published in theyeare of his age 75. 12mo. 
 1639. 
 
 CRAFTE UPON SUBTILTYES BACKE. An interlude, entered by Jeffrey 
 Charlton on the books of the Stationers' Company, Jan. 27, 1608 ; but not 
 printed. 
 
 CRAFTY CROMWELL. Two short political dramas, jiot intended for re- 
 presentation, published in 1648. The first part is termed, " Oliver ordering 
 our new State," and the second part, " Oliver in his Glory as King." 
 
 THE CRAFTY MERCHANT; or, the Souldier'd Citizen. A comedy by 
 Shakerly Marmion. Not printed. 
 
 THE CRAFTY MERCHANT. In Sir Henry Herbert's manuscript Diary, 
 under the date of September 12th, 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 acted at 
 the Red Bull, and licensed without my hand to itt, because they were none 
 of the four companyes." 
 
 THE CREATION. An Interlocutory Discourse concerning the Creation, 
 Fall, and Recovery of Man, by Samuel Slater. 8vo. 1679. This, which 
 is in dialogue, is a sort of sacred drama, giving a description of Adam's fall. 
 
 THE CREATION OF EVE. A mystery played by the guild of grocers at 
 Norwich, 25 Henry VIII. It is entitled in the MS. "the story of the 
 Creacion of Eve, with the expellyng of Adam and Eve out of Paradyce." 
 Printed by Robert Fitch, esq. 8vo. 1856. 
 
 THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. There is in the Bodleian library a
 
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 Cornish MS. play, dated in 1611, with this title; of which there is a 
 translation in the British Museum, MS. Harl. 1867. It is called a Cornish 
 play or opera, and said to be written by William Jordan. The translation 
 into English was made by John Keigwin, of Moushole, in Cornwall, at the 
 request of Trelawney, Bishop of Exeter. Printed, 8vo. 1827. 
 
 THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. This was a droll which was very 
 popular at Bartholomew Fair at the close of the seventeenth and commence- 
 ment of the eighteenth centuries. It concluded with a scene of " Noah and 
 his family coming out of the ark, 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 the Wit and Drollery, Jovial Poems, 1682, there called the 
 World's Creation. A show called the Creation of the World was licensed 
 by Sir Henry Herbert, as early as 1624. 
 
 CRISPIN AND CRISPIANUS. This is mentioned as an old popular drama 
 in a dialogue in Dr. King's Works, ed. 1776, i. 180. It was frequently 
 played by the Shoemakers' Companies of towns before 1643. 
 
 CRCESUS. A tragedy by W. Alexander, Earl of Sterling. 4to. 1 604 ; 1607 ; 
 and fol. 1637. The plot is borrowed from Herodotus, Justin, and Plutarch, 
 with an episode in the fifth act from Xenophon's Cyropedeia. The scene 
 lies in Sardis. 
 
 CROMWELL'S CONSPIRACY. A tragi-comedy relating to our latter times, 
 beginning at the death of King Charles I. and ending with the happy 
 restoration of King Charles II. Written by a person of quality. 4to. 
 Lond. 1660. 
 
 THE CRUEL BROTHER. A tragedy by Sir W. Davenant. 4to. 1630. 
 Presented at the Black Friars. The scene, Italy. This tragedy is written 
 in prose. 
 
 THE CRUEL DEBTOR. This interlude is entered on the books of the 
 Stationers' Company, by Thomas Colwell, in the years 1565-6, as, "A 
 ballett intituled, An Interlude of the Cruel Detter, by Wager." The date 
 put by Chetwood, 1669, is one of his forgeries. A small fragment only 
 of the original edition has been discovered. One of the characters in it is 
 named Basileus. 
 
 THE CRUEL WAR. A tragedy, printed in 4to. 1643. 
 
 THE CRUELTY OF THE SPANIARDS IX PERU. Expressed by in- 
 strumental and vocal music, and by art of perspective in scenes, by Sir 
 William Davenant, represented daily at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane, at three 
 in the afternoon punctually. 4to. 1658. This exhibition was contrived in 
 order to evade the prosecutions against acting and actors. This opera 
 
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 66 CRU—CUP 
 
 perhaps is alluded to by Evelyn, under the date of May 6th, 1659, as "a 
 new opera, after the Italian way. in recitative music and scenes, much in- 
 ferior to the Italian composure and magnificence." 
 
 THE CRUELTY OF A STEPMOTHER. A play acted at Court in 
 December, 1578, — "an history of the Creweltie of a Stepmother shewen at 
 Richmond on Innocentes daie at night, enacted by the Lord Chamberlaynes 
 servauntes, furnished in this office with sondrey thinges." 
 
 CUCKOLD'S HAVEN; or, an Alderman no Conjuror. A farce, by N.Tate, 
 acted at Dorset Gardens. 4to. 1685. The plot of this piece is borrowed 
 partly from Eastward Hoe, and partly from the Devil's an Ass, of Ben 
 Jonson. 
 
 THE CUCKOLDS' MASQUE. A masque, temp. Car. I. Not printed. 
 
 THE CUCK-QUEANS. The Cuck-queanes and Cuckolds Errants, or the 
 Bearing Down the Inne, a comsedye by William Percy, 1601. The pro- 
 logue is supposed to be spoken by Tarlton's ghost. Edited for the Rox- 
 burgh^ Club, 1824. The original manuscript is in private hands. 
 
 THE CUNNING LOVERS. A comedy by Alexander Brome. 4to. 1654. 
 This piece was acted at Drury Lane with considerable applause. The scene 
 lies in Verona. For the plot, see the Seven "Wise Masters of Rome, and 
 a novel called the Fortunate Deceiv'd, and Unfortunate Lovers. This play 
 belonged to the Cock-pit company in 1639. 
 
 CUPID'S BANISHMENT. A masque presented to her Majesty by younge 
 gentlewomen of the Ladies' Hall in Deptford at Greenwich, the 4th of 
 May, 1617. By Robert White. Printed from the original manuscript in 
 Nichols' Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, iii. 283. 
 
 CUPID HIS CORONATION. In a mask, as it was presented, with good 
 approbation, at the Spittle, diverse tymes, by Masters, and yong Ladyes 
 that were theyre scholers, in the yeare 1654. Written by T. J. A manu- 
 script in the Bodleian library, Rawl. B. 165. 
 
 CUPID AND DEATH. A masque, by James Shirley. 4to. 1659. This 
 was presented before the Portuguese ambassador, on the 26th of March, 
 1653. The music to this masque was composed by Matthew Locke and 
 Christopher Gibbons, and a MS. copy of it, in the autograph of the former, 
 entitled, " the instrumentall and vocall musique in the morall representation 
 att the millitary ground in Leicester Fields, 1659," is preserved in the 
 British Museum, MS. Addit. 17799. 
 
 CUPID AND PSYCHE. A play by Chettle, Decker, and Day, sometimes 
 also called the Golden Ass. It is mentioned in Henslowe's Diary, June 5th, 
 1600, under the cacography of " cuped and siches." A play on the same
 
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 subject is mentioned by Gosson, 1579, as having been acted by the scholars 
 of St. Paul's School. 
 
 CUPID'S MISTRESS. A play or masque by Thomas Heywood, not printed. 
 In his Dialogues and Dramas, 1637, p. 23S, 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, Cupid, they all standing about 
 him bending." 
 
 CUPID'S REVENGE. A tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, acted by the 
 Children of the Revels. 4to. 1615; 4to. 1630; 4to. 1635; 8vo. 1778. 
 Acted at Court in January, 1612. It was entered on the Stationers' books, 
 April 24, 1615. Acted, after the Restoration, under the title of Love 
 Despised. 
 
 CUPID'S SACRIFICE. A Country Tragsdye in Vacuniam, or Cupid's 
 Sacrifice, by W. Percy, 1602. An unpublished manuscript, in private 
 hands. 
 
 CUPID'S VAGARIES. This occurs in a list of plays which belonged to the 
 company of the Cock-pit theatre in 1639. See Hymen's Holiday. 
 
 CUPID'S WHIRLIGIG. A comedy, by E. S. Acted by the children of 
 the Revels. 4to. 1607; 4to. 1616; 4to. 1630. Licensed by Tilney on 
 June 29th, 1607. The letters E. S. were probably intended for Edward 
 Sharpham. The conveyance of the captain out of the lady's chamber is 
 founded on Boccaccio, Day 7, Nov. 6. 
 
 A CURE FOR A CUCKOLD. 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 
 Kirk man, but it must have been acted many years before it was printed. 
 Reprinted in Webster's Works, ed. Dyce, 1830. 
 
 THE CURE OF PRIDE. An unpublished comedy, existing in manuscript 
 in private hands. It is only an alteration of Massinger's City Madam. 
 
 THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY. A tragi-comedy by Beaumont and 
 Fletcher. Fol. 1647. Acted in 1628. The plot is taken from Malespina's 
 novels, Dec. 6, Nov. 6 ; and has been made considerable use of by C. 
 Johnson, in his Country Lasses, and C. Cibber, in his Love Makes a Man. 
 The scene lies sometimes at Lisbon, and sometimes in Italy. The following 
 notice of it occurs in Pepys' Diary, under the date of January 2nd, 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;
 
 68 CUT—CYN 
 
 but of all the plays that ever I did see, the worst, having neither plot, lan- 
 guage, 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 successfully by Allen. Guilpin thus alludes to Allen's per- 
 sonification of Cutlack in the very rare little poem entitled Skialetheia, 
 1598 — 
 
 Clodius, methinkcs, lookes passing big of late, 
 With Dunstan's browes, and Allen's Cutlack's gate. 
 
 CUTTER OF COLEMAN STREET. A comedy by Abraham Cowley. 4to. 
 1663. At the beginning of the civil war, says Dr. Johnson, as the prince 
 passed through Cambridge in his way to York, he was entertained with the 
 representation of the Guardian, 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 injurious to his reputation ; though, 
 during the suppression of the theatres, it was sometimes privately acted 
 with sufficient approbation. When the King was restored, the neglect of 
 the court was not our author's only mortification : having by such altera- 
 tion 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, under 
 the date of December 16th, 1661, notes, — "after dinner to the Opera, 
 where there was a new play, Cutter of Coleman Street, made in the year 
 1658, with reflections much upon the late times; and it being the. first 
 time, the pay 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. A play acted in 1576. " For the cariadge of the partes of the 
 counterfeit well from the Bell in Gracious Strete to St. John's to be per- 
 formed for the play of Cutwell," Cunningham's Revels' Accounts, p. 120. 
 
 CYMBELINE. A tragedy by Shakespeare. Fol. 1623. 
 
 CYNTHIA AND ENDYMION ; or, the Loves of the Deities. A dramatic 
 opera, by T. Durfey. 4to. 1697. This piece was designed to be acted 
 at Court, before Queen Mary II. ; and, after her death, was performed at 
 the Theatre Royal, where it met with good success. The story is taken 
 from Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Psyche, in Apuleius's Golden Ass. The 
 scene lies in Ionia and on Mount Latinos. Dogget acted Collin, a country 
 fellow who rails against the gods. This opera is in rhyme, in five acts.
 
 CYN—DAM 69 
 
 CYNTHIA'S REVELS ; or, the Fountain of Self-love. A comical satire by 
 Ben Jonson. This piece was acted in 1600, by the children of Queen 
 Elizabeth's Chapel. 4to. 1600. 
 
 CYNTHIA'S REVENGE; or, Mamander's Extasy. A tragedy by John 
 Stephens. 4to. 1613. The author's name is not on the title-page of some 
 copies. 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, in spite of the name of Stephens being sometimes found 
 on the title, the following lines in one of the commendatory poems would 
 seem to intimate that a person of the name of Swallow was the author, — 
 One Swallow makes no summer most men say, 
 But who disproves that proverbe made this play. 
 
 THE CYPRIAN CONQUEROR. The Cyprian Conqueror, or Faithless 
 Relict, a play preserved in a manuscript of the seventeenth century in the 
 British Museum, MS. Sloane 3709. Scene, Ephesus. 
 
 CYRUS THE GREAT ; or, the Tragedy of Love. A tragedy by John Banks, 
 acted at Little Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to. 1696. This play was at first 
 forbidden to be acted ; but afterwards came on, and met with very good 
 success. Downes, the prompter, says, that Smith, having a long part in it, 
 fell ill upon the fourth day, and died. This occasioned it to be laid aside, and 
 it was not acted afterwards. The plot is taken from Scudery's romance of 
 the Grand Cyrus. The scene, in the Camp near Babylon. 
 
 CYTHEREA; or, the Enamouring Girdle. A comedy by John Smith. 4to. 
 1677. This play was never acted. Scene, the city of York. 
 
 DAME DOBSON ; or, the Cunning Woman. A comedy by E. Ravenscroft, 
 acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1684. This is translated from a 
 French comedy, called, La Devineresse ; ou, lesfaux Enchantemens. Mrs. 
 Currer in the prologue says that the London Cuckolds pleased the town 
 and diverted the Court, but because some scpieamish 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 written several years before it was published. 
 
 THE DAMOISELLES A LA MODE. A comedy by R. Flecknoe. 12mo. 
 1667. The scene of this play is laid in Paris, and the plot, as the author 
 himself confesses, borrowed from the Precieuses Ridicules, the Ecole des 
 Femmes, and the Ecole des Maris, of Moliere. It was never acted.
 
 70 BAM— LAV 
 
 DAMON AND PITHIAS. " The excellent comedie of two the moste faith- 
 fullest Freendes Damon and Pithias. Newly imprinted as the same was 
 shewed before the Queenes Majestie by the children of her Grace's chappel ; 
 except the prologue, that is somewhat altered to the proper use of them 
 that hereafter shall have occasion to plaie it, either in private or open 
 audience. Made by Maister Edwards, then beyngc maister of the children, 
 1571. Printed by Richd. Johnes." 4to. n.d. ; also 4to. 1582. This play 
 is from a story in Valerius Maximus. It is reprinted in Dodsley's Col- 
 lection of old Plays. Scene, Syracuse. Entered on the registers of the 
 Stationers' Company in 1567 as "a boke intituled the tragecall comodye 
 of Damonde and Pcthyas." 
 
 DAMON AND PYTHIAS. A play by Henry Chettle, written in 1 599. This 
 was probably an alteration of the foregoing piece. It is frequently men- 
 tioned in Henslowe's Diary. 
 
 A DANISH TRAGEDY. By Henry Chettle. Acted 1602. Not now 
 extant. The only notice of it occurs in Henslowe's Diary, — " lent unto 
 Thomas Downton the 7 of Julye, 1602, to geve unto Harye Chettell, in 
 earneste of a tragedy called a Danyshe tragedye, the some of xx.s." 
 
 DARIUS. A tragedy by the Earl of Sterling. 4to. Edinburgh, 1603 ; 4to. 
 1604. This was one of his Lordship's first performances, and was originally 
 written in a mixture of the Scotch and English dialects ; but the author 
 afterwards not only polished the language, but even very considerably 
 altered the play itself. The first London edition of this piece was with his 
 Croesus, under the joint title of the Monarchick Tragedies, together with 
 the Aurora, containing the first fancies of the author's youth. 4to. 1604. 
 Fol. 1637. 
 
 DARIUS. A Pretie new Enterlude, both pithie and pleasaunt, of the story 
 of Kyng Daryus. Being taken out of the third and fourth Chapter of 
 the thyrd Booke of Esdras. Imprynted at London, in Fleet Street, beneath 
 the Conduite, at the sygne of St. John Evangelyst, by Thomas Colwell. 
 Anno Domini mdlxv. in October. There were twenty-one characters, but 
 we are informed by the author that " sixe persons may easely play it." 
 
 DARIUS KING OF PERSIA. A tragedy by J. Crowne, acted by their 
 Majesties servants. 4to. 1688. It is dedicated to Sir Geo. Hewytt, Bart., 
 probably the person afterwards called Beau Hewit. The scene lies in the 
 plains and town of Arbela in Persia ; and the plot of this play, as well as 
 of Lord Sterling's, is borrowed from Quintus Curtius, Plutarch, or other 
 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 manuscript copy of this play,
 
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 supposed to be in the author's handwriting, and certainly contemporary, 
 containing 62 pages in quarto, is in the Stowe collection of manuscripts, 
 now in the possession of Lord Ashburnham. 
 
 THE DEAD MAN'S FORTUNE. Not printed ; but the plot is preserved ; 
 and it sold for a considerable price at the sale of George Steevens's library. 
 See an account of it in Collier's History of Dramatic Poetry, iii. 402. It 
 belongs to the reign of Elizabeth. 
 
 DEATH OF DIDO. A masque, by E. C. 1621. It may be questioned 
 whether this piece was printed in 1621. If it had appeared at that time, 
 it would probably have been mentioned by either Kirkmau, Langbaine, or 
 Gildon; none of whom have taken notice of it. Jacob was the first who 
 gave the title to it ; and for the date we have no authority, or, which is 
 the same thing, only that of Chetwood. 
 
 DEATH OF ROBERT, EARL OF HUNTINGTON. An historical play 
 by Anthony Munday, assisted by Chettle, printed at London in 1601, 
 4to. It is mentioned by Henslowe as the second part of the play of Robin 
 Hood, and was otherwise called " Robin Hood of merry Sherwotle, with 
 the lamentable Tragedy of chaste Matilda, his fair Maid Marian, poisoned 
 at Duumow by the King." Eeprinted in Collier's Supplement to 
 Dodsley. 
 
 THE DEBAUCHEE ; or, the Credulous Cuckold, a comedy acted at the 
 Duke of York's Theatre. 4to. 167 7. Though there is no author's name 
 to this comedy, yet whatever difference there is between it and Richard 
 Brome's Mad Couple well Match'd (of which it is little more than a revival) 
 is the work of Mrs. Behn. The prologue and epilogue 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 23rd, 
 1676-7, and published at the price of one shilling. 
 
 THE DECEIVER DECEIVED. A comedy by Mary Pix. 4to. 1698. 
 Acted at the Theatre in Little Lincoln's Inn Fields. There are two dia- 
 logues in this play, one in the fourth act by D'Urfey, and the other in the 
 last by Motteux, both set to music by Eccles. These dialogues are sepa- 
 rately printed, after the prologue. Scene, Venice. It had little success. 
 Dedicated to Sir Robert Marsham, Bart. 
 
 DELIGHT. A comedy acted at Court in the year 1580, — "a comodie 
 called Delighte, shewed at Whitehall on St. Stephens daie at night, whereon 
 was ymploied newe, one cittie, one battlement, and xij. paire of gloves." 
 
 THE DELIVERY OF SUSSANAH. A tragedy written in the sixteenth 
 century by Ralph Radcliff. Not printed. 
 
 THE DELUGE. The Deluge; or the Destruction of the World, 1691.
 
 72 DEM—BEV 
 
 This is merely Ecclestone's opera of Noah's flood, published in 1679, with, 
 a new title. 
 
 DEMETRIUS AND MARSINA ; or, the Imperial Impostor and Unhappy 
 Heroine. A tragedy, formerly in the possession of John Warburton, and 
 sold by auction among his books and MSS. about the year 1759. This 
 play has not been printed. 
 
 DEORUM DONA. A masque by Robert Baron. 8vo. 1647. Performed 
 before Flaminius and Clorinda, King and Queen of Cyprus, at their regal 
 palace in Nicosia. This piece is part of a romance of this author's, 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 1, 
 nearly transcribed from another by the same author, on Lady Isabella 
 playing on her lute. Scene, Nicosia. 
 
 DESCENSUS ASTRiEiE. The Device of a Pageant borne before M. 
 William Web, Lord Maior of the Citie of London, on the Day he tooke his 
 Oath, beeing the 29 of October, 1591. Whereunto is annexed, a Speech 
 delivered by one clad like a Sea Nymph, who presented a Pinesse on the 
 Water, bravely rigd and mand, to the Lord Maior, at the time he tooke 
 Barge to go to Westminster. Done by G. Peele, Maister of Arts in Oxford. 
 Printed for William Wright. 4to. 1591. 
 
 THE DESERVING FAVOURITE. A tragi-comedy by Lodowick Carlell. 
 Scene, Spain. This piece, although of no literary merit, met with great 
 applause, and was acted several times before the King and Queen at 
 Whitehall, and at the Black Friars. It was first printed in 4to. 1629; 
 and afterwards, 8vo. 1659. 
 
 THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. By Thomas Legge. This 
 piece, which was written in the time of Queen Elizabeth, is mentioned in 
 Kirkman's Catalogue, 1661. Probably it was in MS. and he had then 
 thoughts of putting it to the press; but, we believe, it was never printed. 
 A play, under this title, was acted at Coventry about the year 1577. 
 
 THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY TITUS VESPASIAN. 
 A tragedy in two parts, by J. Crowne, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to t 
 1677; 1703. The foundation of the historical part of these plays is to 
 be met with in Josephus. 
 
 DESTRUCTION OF TROY. A tragedy by John Banks, acted at the Duke's 
 Theatre. 4to. 1670. First acted in 1678. Dedicated to Lady Katherine 
 Roos. 
 
 THE DEVICE OF THE PAGEANT borne before Sir Wolstone Dixie, Lord
 
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 Mayor of London, Oct. 29, 1585. Black Letter. 4to. by Edward Aide, 
 1585. By George Peele, M. A. Oxon. Reprinted in Strype's edition of 
 Stowe's Survey, folio, 1720, book v. p. 136, 137 ; and also in Nichols' Pro- 
 gresses of Queen Elizabeth, ii. 221, Sec. This pageant is curious and valuable ; 
 not only for the poetry, but because it describes the nourishing state of the 
 metropolis in the days of Queen Elizabeth. The dramatis personre, 
 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 DEVIL AND HIS DAM. "Lent unto William Ilarton, the 6 of 
 Marche, 1600, in earneste of a boocke which he wold calle the Devell and 
 his Dame, v.*," Henslowe's Diary, p. 169. Harton is a clerical error for 
 Haughton. 
 
 THE DEVIL IS AN ASS. A comedy by Ben Jonson, acted in 1616; 
 and printed in fob, 16-41. 
 
 THE DEVIL OF A WIFE; or, a Comical Transformation, a farce by 
 Thomas Jevon. Acted at the Theatre, Dorset Garden. 4to. 1686; 
 4to. 1693 ; 4to. 1695. This little piece met with much success in the re- 
 presentation. 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 Bartho- 
 lomew Fair in 1699. 
 
 THE DEVILL OF DOWGATE ; or, Usury put to Use. A comedy by J. 
 Fletcher, acted by the King's Servants, Oct. 17, 1623. No copy of this 
 play is known to exist. 
 
 THE DEVIL'S CHARTER. A tragedy by Barnaby Barnes. 4to. 1607. 
 This tragedy contains the life and death of Pope Alexander VI., in whose 
 history the author has very closely followed Guicciardiui, and seems also 
 to have formed this play, in some measure, after the model of Pericles. It 
 was first played before the King on Candlemas night. 
 
 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. The 
 circumstance of Romelio's stabbing Contarino from malice, and its turning 
 out to his preservation, seems borrowed from the story of Phsereus Jason, 
 related by Valerius Maximus, lib. i. c. 8. It i3 dedicated to Sir Thomas 
 Finch, Bart. 
 
 DIALOGUE OF DIVES. A dramatic production alluded to in Greene's 
 Groatsworth of Wit, 1592, where the player says, — " it was I that penned 
 
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 74 BIA—DLD 
 
 the Moral of Man's Wit, the Dialogue of Dives, and for seven years' space 
 was absolute interpreter of the puppets." 
 
 DIANA'S GROVE ; or, the Faithful Genius. A tragi-comedy, never acted. 
 In manuscript, in private hands. 
 
 DICK OF DEVONSHIRE. A curious old play of the seventeenth century, 
 existing in manuscript in a private library in Ireland. 
 
 DICK SCORNER. "A play mention'd in Mr. Kirkman's Catalogue, but 
 which I never saw, nor do I know what species of dramatick poetry it is,' 
 Langbaine, ed. 1691, p. 530. This title is no doubt an error for that of 
 the interlude of Hicke Scorner. 
 
 DIDO. A Latin 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 Bangor, that Dido was composed by one of the fellows of King's College. 
 See MSS. Baker, 7037, p. 203. The author of this opus venustum et elegans, 
 for so it is styled, 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 applause." 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. 
 
 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 Holinshead, 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 ; Mercurie and Iris descending 
 and ascending from and to an high place ; the tempest, wherein it hailed 
 small confects, rained rosewater, and snew an artificiall kind of snow ; all 
 strange, marvellous, and abundant." 
 
 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 same subject. 
 
 DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE. A tragedie, played by the children of 
 Her Maiesties chappell. Written by Christopher Marlowe, and Thomas 
 Nash, Gent. At London, printed by the Widdowe Orwin, for Thomas 
 Woodcocke, and are to be solde at his shop, in Paules Church-yeard, at the 
 signe of the Blacke Beare. 4to. 1594.
 
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 DIOCLESIAN. A play under this title was produced at the Rose Theatre in 
 November, 1594. It was possibly the foundation of the play on the same 
 subject by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 
 DIOCLESIAN ; or, the Prophetess. A dramatic opera by Thomas Betterton. 
 4to. 1690. This is only an alteration, with very little difference, of the 
 Prophetess of Beaumont and Fletcher, with an addition of some musical 
 entertainments and interludes to it. 
 
 DIPIIILO AND GRANIDA. This is one of six pieces which are published 
 in the second part of Sport upon Sport, 1672, and are attributed to Robert 
 Cox, the comedian. 
 
 THE DISAPPOINTMENT; or, the Mother in Fashion. A comedy by 
 Thomas Southerne, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1684. The scene 
 lies in Florence ; and part of the plot resembles the story of the Curious 
 Impertinent in Don Quixote. Prologue by Dryden. It is dedicated to the 
 Earl of Ossory. 
 
 THE DISCONTENTED COLONEL. By Sir John Suckling. 4to. 1642. 
 This is the first sketch of Brennoralt, q. v. 
 
 THE DISGUISES. A play, acted at the Rose Theatre, Oct. 2, 1595. It is 
 possible that Stroude's play of All Plot ; or, the Disguises, was taken from 
 this. Not printed. 
 
 DISAPPOINTED LADIES. A court masque, under this title, was pro- 
 duced in the reign of James the First. 
 
 THE DISOBEDIENT CHILD. A pretty and merry interlude, by Thomas 
 Ingeland. 4to. Without date. This author lived in the time of Queen 
 Elizabeth ; and his piece is written in verse of ten syllables, and printed in 
 the old black letter, by Thomas Colwell, in Fleet Street. Reprinted by the 
 Percy Society, 1848. 
 
 THE DISTRACTED STATE. A tragedy by J. Tatham, written in 1641, 
 and printed in double columns. 4to. 1651. The author's hatred to the 
 Scots is apparent throughout this play ; wherein he introduces a Scotch 
 mountebank undertaking to poison Archias, the elected king, at the insti- 
 gation of Cleander. The scene lies in Sicily. It is introduced by three 
 copies of recommendatory verses by J. R., R. D., and G. Lynn. 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 applause. The plot is fouuded 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
 
 76 BIS— DON 
 
 Honniclas and Cleomira are true history. He 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-eomedy by Sir William Davenant, printed in 
 the folio edition of that author's works, 1673. Scene, Cordua. 
 
 DIVES AND LAZARUS. A comedy, by Ralph Radcliff. Not printed. 
 A moral-play so called is mentioned in the play of Sir Thomas More, 1590, 
 and again in Greene's Groatsworth of Wit, 1592. 
 
 DIVES AND LAZARUS. A droll acted at Bartholomew Fair in the seven- 
 teenth century. It is mentioned in the Wit and Drollery, 1682; and in 
 the second part of the Pleasant Musical Companion, 1687. 
 
 THE DIVINE COMEDIAN; or, the Right Use of Plays, improved in a 
 sacred tragi-comedy by Richard Tuke. 4to. 1672. Dedicated to the 
 Countess of Warwick. This play is on a religious subject, and we imagine 
 was never acted. It was first printed in the same year, by the title of the 
 Soul's Warfare, and is intended to point out the danger the human soul 
 incurs in its probationary state in this world. 
 
 THE DIVORCE. A play, entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, 
 Nov. 29, 1653, but not printed. 
 
 DOCTOR FAUSTUS'S TRAGICAL HISTORY, by Christopher Marlowe. 
 4to. 1604; 1609; 1611; 1616; 1624; 1631; 1663. The last edition 
 of this play had additions of several new scenes and the actors' names. The 
 scene at Rhodes and Wertemberg, and the plot is founded on Camerarius, 
 Wierus, and other writers on magic. It was entered on the books of the 
 Stationers' Company, by Thomas Bushull, Jan. 7, 1607. In this play, 
 Edward Alleyn used to act the principal character ; as ajmears from the 
 following passage in Rowlands' Knave of Clubbs, 1611 : — 
 
 The gull gets on a surplice, — with a crosse upon his breast, 
 Like Allen playing Faustus, — in that manner was he drest. 
 
 DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Life and Death of, with the Humours of Harlequin 
 and Scaramouch; as they were acted by Lee and Jevon. A farce by W. 
 Mountford. 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 1684 and 1688. See Genest's Stage, i. 450. 
 
 THE DOCTORS OF DULHEAD COLLEGE. A droll by Kirkman, taken 
 from an unpublished play called the Father's Own Sou. It is printed in 
 the second part of the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 
 
 DON CARLOS PRINCE OF SPAIN. A tragedy by Thomas Otway, 
 acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to, 1676 ; 1679. This play is written in
 
 DON—BOU 77 
 
 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 S. Real, 
 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 fill'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. A play, acted at the Rose Theatre, Feb. 23, 1591. Not 
 now known. 
 
 DON JAP1IET OF ARMENIA. A comedy translated from Scarron in 1657, 
 by Sir William Lower, Knt. It was preserved in manuscript at Skeffing- 
 ton Hall. 
 
 DON QUIXOTE. In a list of "books sold by Nathaniel Brook at the 
 Angel in Cornhill," appended to the New World of English Words, 1658, 
 in the number of those " in the presse, and ready for printing," is one 
 entitled " the History of Donquixiot, or the Knight of the illfavoured face, 
 a comedy." It is also advertised with others as at the press in a list at 
 the end of Wit and Drollery, 1661 ; but it was never printed. 
 
 THE COMICAL HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE. By Thomas Durfey. 
 Acted, with success, at Dorset Gardens. 4to. 1694. The epilogue was 
 spoken by Dogget, as Sancho riding on his ass. 
 
 THE COMICAL HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE. By Thomas Durfey. 
 Acted at Dorset Gardens. Part II. 4to. 1694; 12mo. 1729. This also 
 was well received. 
 
 THE COMICAL HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE. The third part, with 
 the Marriage of Mary the Buxome. By Thomas Durfey. 4to. 1696; 
 12mo. 1729. This was not acted with the same success as the two former 
 parts. 
 
 DON SEBASTIAN, KING OF PORTUGAL. A tragedy, by J. Dryden, 
 acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1690 ; 4to. 1692. 
 
 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 22nd; "it has fared with that play, as
 
 78 DOU-DUK 
 
 it generally does with beauties officiously cried up ; the mighty expectation 
 which was raised of it made it sink even beneath its own merit." 
 
 THE DOUBLE MARRIAGE. A play, by Beaumont and Fletcher, first 
 printed in their Works, 1(147. It was revived after the Restoration. See 
 a prologue in the Covent Garden Drollery, p. 14-. Scene, Naples. 
 
 THE DOUBTFUL HEIR. A tragi-comedy by James Shirley. 8vo. 1652. 
 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." 
 Scene, Murcia. 
 
 THE DOWNFAL OF ROBERT EARL OF HUNTINGTON. An historical 
 play printed in 4to. 1601. It is mentioned by Henslowe as the first part 
 of the play of Robin Hood, and was otherwise called " Robin Hood of 
 merry Sherwode, with his love to the chaste Matilda, the Lord Fitzwater's 
 daughter, afterwards his fair maid Marian." It was written by Munday, 
 who was slightly assisted in its composition by Chettle. Reprinted in 
 Collier's Supplement to Dodsley. 
 
 THE DUCHESS OF SUFFOLK. An historical play by Thomas Drue. 
 4to. 1631. The plot is founded on history, as may be seen from Foxe's 
 Martyrs. Scene, London. In Sir Henry Herbert's manuscript Diary is 
 the following entry, under the date of January the 2nd, 1624, — "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." 
 
 THE DUKE. A play, by James Shirley. Licensed May 7th, 1631. Not 
 now known. 
 
 A DUKE AND NO DUKE. A farce, by N. Tate. Acted by their Majesties' 
 Servants. 4to. 1685 ; 4to. 1693. The scene of this piece lies in Florence, 
 and the plot is taken from Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince. A preface " con- 
 cerning farce " is prefixed to this play. 
 
 DUKE HUMPHREY. A tragedy. This play was among those destroyed 
 by Warburton's servant. It was entered on the books of the Stationers' 
 Company, June 29, 1660, as the work of Shakespeare. 
 
 THE DUKE OF GUISE. By Henry Shirley. This play has not been printed, 
 but was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 9, 1653. 
 
 THE DUKE OF GUISE. A tragedy by Dryden and Lee. Acted by their 
 Majesties' Servants. 4to. 1683 ; 4to. 1687. The object of this play 
 evidently was to serve the Duke of York, whose succession was opposed. 
 The plot is taken from Davila, Mazeray, and other writers on the reigns of 
 Henry III, and Charles IX. ; and the story of Malicorn the conjurer, from
 
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 Rosset's Ilistoircs Tragiques. Dryden 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 Vindication, 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 writing of CEdipus," snys he, "I passed a 
 promise to join with him in another ; and he happened to claim the perfor- 
 mance 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. Printed in fol. 1692. Pepys thus notes in his 
 Diary, February 20th, 1667-S, — " dined, and by one o'clock to the King's 
 house ; a new play, the Duke of Lenna, of Sir Robert Howard's : where 
 the king and court was ; and Knipp and Nell spoke the prologue most 
 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." This was the play of the Great Favourite. 4 to. 1668. 
 
 THE DUKE OF LORANE. A play alluded to by Pepys under the date of 
 January 11th, 1668. It is conjectured to be an error for the name of 
 the preceding drama. 
 
 THE DUKE OF MILAN. A tragedy by P. Massinger. Acted with good 
 success at Black Friars. 4to. 1623; 4to. 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 OE MANTUA. A 
 play acted at court in 1579, — " a history of the Duke of Millayn and the 
 Marques of Mantua, shewed at Whitehall on St. Stephens daie at nighte, 
 enacted by the Lord Chamberlayne's servauntes." 
 
 THE DUKE'S MISTRESS. A tragi-comedy, by James Shirley, acted at 
 the private house, Drury Lane. 4to. 1638. Scene, Parma. It was first 
 acted in 1636. 
 
 THE DUMB BAWD. By Henry Shirley. Not printed ; but entered on 
 the books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 9th, 1653. 
 
 THE DUMB KNIGHT. An historical comedy, by Lewis Machiu, acted 
 sundry times by the children of the Revels. 4to. 1608 ; 4to. 1633. The 
 scene of this play lies in Cyprus ; the most essential incidents of the plot 
 are taken from Bandello's Novels, and are similar to those in a play called 
 the Queen ; or, the Excellency of her Sex. Though this play was acted
 
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 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 hath been 
 often approved ;" and as the name of Markham is found in some copies in 
 the place of Machin, perhaps it is the joint production of those two 
 writers. It was entered on the Stationers' Registers, October Cth, 1608. 
 Reprinted in Dodsley's Collection. 
 
 THE DUMB LADY; or, the Farriar made Physician. A comedy by John 
 Lacy. Acted with success at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1672. Dedicated 
 to the Earl of Southampton. The plot and much of the language of this 
 play are from Moliere's Medecin malgrd ltd. The scene is laid in London. 
 
 DURANCE. A masque, temp. Car. I. Not printed. 
 
 THE DUTCH COURTEZAN. A comedy, by J. Marston. Played at the 
 Black Friars, by the children of the Revels. 4to. 1605. This play is 
 mentioned in the Black Yeare, 1606, as " corrupting English conditions." 
 Reprinted in Marston' s Works, ed. 1856, ii. 111. The incident of Cockle- 
 demoy's cheating Mrs. Mulligrub, the vintner's wife, of the goblet and the 
 salmon, is taken from the Conies du Monde, or else from the same story 
 related in the Palace of Pleasure. 
 
 THE DUTCH LOVER. A comedy by Mrs. Behn. Acted at the Duke's 
 Theatre. 4to. 1673. The scene of this play lies in Madrid, and the plot 
 is founded on the stones of Eufemie and Theodore, Don Jame and 
 Frederic, in the Spanish novel, called Don Fenise. Mrs. Behn, in her 
 address to the reader, prefixed to this play, 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 DUTCHESS 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 DUTCHESS OF MALFEY. A tragedy by John Webster, acted with 
 success at Black Friars and the Globe. 4to. 1623; 4to. 1640. The scene 
 lies at Malfy, Rome, &c, and the story of it is well known in history. 
 Lopez de Vega wrote a play on the same subject, called El Mayordomo 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
 
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 length of the play would not beare 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 PAINTEE. It is stated in Sir Henry Herbert's manuscript 
 Diary, under date of June 10th, 1622, that "a new play called the Duche 
 Painter and the French Branke was allowed to be acted by the Princes 
 Servants at the Curtayne." 
 
 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. 
 
 EARL OF GLOSTER. Anthony Wadeson, in 1601, wrote a play which is 
 mentioned in Henslowe's Diary, p. 183, under the title of, " the honor- 
 able lyfe of the humorous Earle of Gloster, with his conquest of Portugall." 
 It was acted by the Lord Admiral's servants. 
 
 EARL GOODWIN AND HIS THREE SONS. A play, by Robert Wilson, 
 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 ever printed. 
 
 EASTWARD HOE. A comedy by G. Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John 
 Marston, acted by the children of Her Majesties Revels, in the Black Friars. 
 4to. 1605 ; in Dodsley's Collection, 1780. There were no fewer than three 
 different editions all printed in 1605, 4to. 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, however, 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. 
 
 EDGAR; or, the English Monarch. An heroic tragedy, by T. Rymer. 
 4to. 1678; also in 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 whole action lies between twelve at noon and ten at night ; and the 
 plot is from William of Malmesbury, and other old English historians. 
 
 KING EDGAR 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 seemingly 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, King of the West Saxons. 
 
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 EDMUND IRONSIDE. A manuscript play, written about a.l>. 1617. 
 The only known copy is in a private library in Ireland. 
 
 EDWARD THE FIRST. An historical Play, by Geo. Peele. 4to. 1593 j 
 1599. The title at length runs thus: " The famous Chronicle of King 
 Edward the First, sirnamed Longsbankes, with his Returne from the Holy 
 Land. Also the Life of Lleuellen, Rebell in Wales. Lastly, the sinking of 
 Queen Elinor, who snnck at Charing Crosse, and rose again at Potters-hith, 
 now named Qneene-hith." Part of the story is taken from Holinshed. 
 Reprinted in Dodsley's Collection, and by Mr. Dyce. Both the old editions 
 are very carelessly printed, containing passages that defy all attempts at 
 conjectural emendation. 
 
 EDWARD THE SECOND. A tragedy by C. Marlow, acted by the Earl of 
 Pembroke's Servants. 4to. 1598; 1612; 1622. It was entered on the 
 books of the Stationers' Company, July 6, 1593. This play is very far from 
 a bad one, and contains the fall of Mortimer, and the life and death of 
 Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, and chief favourite of that unfortunate 
 prince, together with his own death, and the troublesome events of his 
 reign. The scene lies partly in England, and partly in France, and the 
 story keeps very close to history. 
 
 EDWARD THE THIRD. The Raigne of King Edward the Third, as it 
 hath bin sundrie times plaied about the Citie of London. 4to. 1596; 
 1599. Reprinted in Capell's Prolusions, 8vo. 1760. 
 
 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 the Countess of Salisbury. 
 
 EDWARD THE FOURTH. An historical play, in two parts, by Thomas 
 Heywood, " as it hath divers times beene publikely played by the Right 
 Honorable the Earle of Derbie his servants," imprinted at London by F. 
 K. for Humfrey Lownes and John Oxenbridge, 1600; a second edition, 
 printed by H. L. for Nathaniell l^osbrooke, 1605 ; another in 4to. 1613 ; 
 again in 4to. 1619 ; and one, also in 4to., 1626. There are also two early 
 undated editions of these plays. Reprinted, 8vo. 1842. 
 
 EGIO. An interlude, written about the year 1560. 
 
 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.
 
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 ELECTRA. A tragedy by C. W., viz. Christopher Wase. 8vo. 16 19. This 
 is a translation from Sophocles. 
 
 ELVIRA ; or, the Worst not always true. A comedy by a person of quality 
 (supposed to be Lord Digby). 4to. 1667. In Dodsley's Collection. The 
 scene lies in Valencia. 
 
 EMILIA. A tragi-comedy. 8vo. 1672. Dedicated to the only few. In 
 this dedication the anonymous author confesses that the hint of his plot 
 was taken from the Costanza di Rosamondo of Aurelio Aureli. The scene 
 lies in Micena. 
 
 THE EMPEROR OF THE EAST. A tragi-comedy by P. Massinger, acted 
 with success at the Black Friars and the Globe. 4to. 1632. Licensed on 
 March 11th, 1630-1. The scene is laid in Constantinople. It is dedicated 
 to Lord Mohun. 
 
 THE EMPEROR OF THE MOON. A farce, by Mrs. Behn, acted at the 
 Queen's Theatre. 4to. 1687; 1688. This piece is taken from Arlequin 
 Empereur dans le Monde de la Lime, 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 EMPIRIC. A droll formed out of Ben Jonson's play of the Alchemist, 
 and printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 
 
 THE EMPRESS OF MOROCCO. A tragedy by Elk. Settle, acted at the 
 Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1673. This play is the first that was adorned with 
 woodcuts, of which there are five, representing scenes in the tragedy, and 
 a frontispiece. It was republished in 1687, without the plates. Dryden 
 makes the following severe observations on this play, — " So the favours of 
 persons of honour and generosity cajt 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 JEgypt, things half 
 mud and half monster, and such another thing is this play, a thing made 
 up of fustian and non-sense, which with much ado, after two years painful 
 hatching, crawl'd out of the muddy head where it Avas eugendred." 
 
 THE EMPRESS OF MOROCCO. A farce, acted at the Theatre Royal. 
 4to. 1674. This is a burlesque of the preceding piece, and is said to have 
 been written by Thomas Duffet ; the epilogue, spoken by Hecate and the 
 three witches, being a new fancy, after the old and most surprising way of 
 Macbeth, which had then lately been revived, performed with new and 
 costly machines, which were invented and managed by the most ingenious 
 operator, Henry Wright.
 
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 THE ENCHANTED LOVERS. A pastoral, by Sir William Lower. 12mo. 
 1658. Printed at the Hague. The scene is laid in the Island of Erithrea, 
 Portugal. 
 
 ENCHIRIDION CHRISTIADOS. A twelve dayes taske, or twelve verdicts 
 and visions upon Christ, his Incarnation, Nativity, Circumcision, &c, 
 presented for a Christinas maske to William Paston, Esq., High Sheriff of 
 Norfolk, and the Lady Katharine his wife, by John Cayworth, 1636. 
 Preserved in the British Museum, MS. Addit. 10311. 
 
 THE ENCOUNTER. A droll formed out of Beaumont and Fletcher's play 
 of the Knight of the Burning Pestle, and printed in the Wits, or Sport upon 
 Sport, 1672. 
 
 ENDIMION, and the Man in the Moone. A comedy by J. Lilly. 4to. 1591. 
 Performed before Queen Elizabeth, at Greenwich, by the children of the 
 Chapel and of Paul's. The story is from Lucian's Dialogue between Venus 
 and the Moon, and other of the mythologists. 
 
 ENDYMION, the Man in the Moon. A masque, of three pages only, printed 
 at the end of a comedy, called Imposture Defeated, 1698. 
 
 ENGLAND'S COMPORT. England's Comfort and London's Joy, expressed 
 in the Royall Entertainment of King Charles I. at his blessed Return from 
 Scotland on Tuesday the 25 Nov., 1641, by Richard Gurney esquire, Lord 
 Mayor, and the Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Companies of this City of London, 
 together with the form how the state is to bee observed by the severall 
 Companies for conducting His Majesty and Royal Progeny to the Guildhall 
 to dinner, &c, 4to. 1641. This pageant was compiled by Taylor, the 
 Water-poet, whose name occurs at the end. 
 
 ENGLAND'S JOY. In the library of the Society of Antiquaries is preserved 
 a broadside entitled, "the plot of the play called England'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. 
 
 ENGLEBERT. By Joshua Barnes. A manuscript in the library of Emanuel 
 College, Cambridge. This piece is in rhyme, and is part tragedy and part 
 opera. From the prologue prefixed to it, it appears to have been, or at 
 least intended to have been, acted. 
 
 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. 
 
 THE ENGLISH FUGITIVES. A play, by William Haughton, acted in 
 1600; but not printed.
 
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 THE ENGLISH LAWYER. A comedy by E. Ravenscroft, acted at the 
 Theatre Royal. 4to. 1678. This is an adaptation, in English, of Rugglea's 
 Latin comedy, Ignoramus. The scene, Bordeaux. 
 
 ENGLISHMEN FOR MY MONEY ; or, A Woman will have her Will. A 
 comedy. 4to. 1(516; 1626; 1631. Scene, Portugal. This is said to 
 have been acted divers times, with applause. The title-page of the edition 
 of 1631, is only, "A Woman will have her Will;" the running-title is 
 double, as above. This play was written in 1598, by William Haughton. 
 
 THE ENGLISH MONARCH. Rymer's tragedy of Edgar, first printed in 
 167S under the title of Edgar or the English Monarch, was republished in 
 1691 under the latter title only. 
 
 THE ENGLISH MONSIEUR. A comedy, by James Howard. 4to. 1674. 
 Scene, London. Pepys saw this play acted in 1666, and was particularly 
 pleased with the performance of "little Nelly," who no doubt acted Lady 
 Wealthy. 
 
 THE ENGLISH MOOR; or, the Mock Marriage. A conioedy as it was 
 often acted with general applause by Her Majesties Servants, by Richard 
 Brome, Svo. 1659. Scene, London. A manuscript 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, &c. 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 
 Shakespeare. Pepys saw this play acted on March 7th, 1667, and describes 
 it as "a most sad, melancholy play, and pretty good." 
 
 THE ENGLISH ROGUE. A comedy by Thomas Thompson, acted (says 
 the title-page) before several persons of honour with great applause. 4to. 
 1668. Scene, Venice. 
 
 THE ENGLISH TRAVELLER. A tragi-comedy by Tho. Hey wood, acted at 
 the Cock -pit, Drury Lane. 4to. 1633. Dedicated to Sir Henry Appleton. 
 The plot and language of young Lyonel and Reginald are taken from the 
 Mostellaria of Plautus ; but as to the story of old Wincote and his wife 
 Geraldine and Delavil, the author, in his History of Women, lib. 4, p. 269, 
 where he has related it more at large, affirms it to be an absolute fact. 
 
 ENOUGH'S AS GOOD AS A FEAST. This piece is meutioned as a comedy 
 by Kirkman, but without either date or author's name. 
 
 THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THE QUEEN AND PRINCE at Lord 
 Spencer's at Althorpe, on Saturday, June 25, 1603, as they came first into 
 the kingdom, by Ben Jonson. 4to. 1603; fol. 1616.
 
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 ENTERTAINMENT AT KING JAMES THE FIRST'S CORONATION. 
 By Ben Jonson. 4to. 1 603 ; fol. 1640. This piece consists only of con- 
 gratulatory speeches, spoken to His Majesty at Fenchurch, Temple Bar, 
 arid in the Strand, in his way to the coronation, with the author's comments 
 to illustrate them. 
 
 THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THE KING AND QUEEN, on May Day 
 
 in the morning, 1604, at Sir \Y. Cornwallis's house at Highgatc, by Ben 
 Jonson. 
 
 THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THE TWO KINGS OF GREAT BRITAIN 
 AND DENMARK at Theobalds, July 24, 1606, by Ben Jonson. This 
 entertainment is very short, and consists chiefly of epigrams. 
 
 THE ENTERTAINMENT OF KING JAMES AND QUEEN ANNE at 
 Theobalds, when the house was delivered up with the possession to the 
 Queen by the Earl of Salisbury, May 22, 1607 , the Prince Janville, brother 
 to the Duke of Guise, being then present. By Ben Jonson. 
 
 THE ENTERTAINMENT given by the Right Hon. the Lord Knowles, 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 
 Maske, presented in the Bancpieting-house, on the marriage-night of the 
 high and mightie Count Palatine and the royally descended Lady Elizabeth, 
 by Thomas Campion. 4to. 1613. 
 
 THE ENTERTAINMENT OF KING CHARLES I. coming into Edinburgh, 
 June 15, 1663. 4to. Edinb. 1663. 
 
 THE ENTERTAINMENT AT RICHMOND. A masque, presented by the 
 most illustrious Prince Charles to their Majesties, 1634. 
 
 AN ENTERTAINMENT ON THE PRINCE'S BIRTH DAY. By Thomas 
 Nabbes. 4to. 1639. 
 
 AN ENTERTAINMENT AT RUTLAND HOUSE, by declamation and 
 music, after the manner of the ancients, by Sir W. Davenant. 4to. 1656. 
 The vocal and instrumental music composed by Dr. Charles Coleman, 
 Capt. Henry Cook, Mr. Henry Lawes, and Mr. George Hudson. This 
 piece contains curious notices of London localities. 
 
 THE ENTERTAINMENT OF HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY 
 CHARLES II. IN HIS PASSAGE THROUGH THE CITY OF LON- 
 DON TO HIS CORONATION : containing an exact Account of the whole 
 Solemnity ; the triumphal Arches, 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
 
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 magnificent Proceeding and Royal Feast in Westminster Hall. By John 
 Ogilby. Fol. 1661. This waa afterwards enlarged by the King's com- 
 mand, and republished with the title of the King's Coronation, &c. Fol. 
 Lond. 1685. 
 
 ENTERTAINMENT OF CHRISTIAN IV. The most Royall and Honour- 
 able Entertainment of Christian the Fourth, King of Denmarke, who with 
 a Fleet of gallant Ships arrived on the 16 of July, 1606, in Tylbery 
 Hope, with a Relation of his meeting by our King, the Prince, &c, 
 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 Loudon, and Honorable Shewes there presented them. 
 4to. Lond. 16U6. 
 
 EPICCENE; or, the Silent Woman. A comedy by Ben Jonson, acted 
 by the King's Servants. 4to. 1609. 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 Lawr. Echard, with 
 critical remarks ; but never intended for the stage. The scene of this 
 piece lies at Athens. The time about five or six hours. 8vo. 1694. 
 
 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. Dryden 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. This is a droll formed out of Beaumont and 
 Fletcher's play of Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, and printed in the Wits, 
 or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 
 
 ERMIXIA; or, the Fair and Vertuous Lady. A tragi-comedy by Richard 
 Flecknoe. 12mo. 1661. 
 
 ERROR. " The historie of Error, showen at Hampton Court on Newyeres 
 daie at night, enacted by the Children of Powles," Revels' Accounts, 1576-7. 
 The " Historie of Ferrar," supposed to be miswritten for this play, is stated 
 to have been acted at Windsor early in 15 S3. The Comedy of Errors is 
 called "the Plaie of Errors " in the Revels' Accounts for 1604-5. 
 
 ESOP. A comedy in two parts, by Sir J. Vanbrugh, acted at Drury Lane. 
 4to. 1697. This play is taken from a comedy of Boursault's, written about 
 six years before it; but the characters of Sir Polidorus Hogstye, the
 
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 Players, the Senator, and the Beau, in a word, part of the fourth, and the 
 whole of the fifth act, are original. 
 
 ESSEX ANTIC MASQUE. A masque produced about a.d. 1020. 
 
 THE EUNUCH. A comedy translated from Terence, by Charles Hoole. 
 8vo. 1663. 
 
 THE EUNUCH. A tragedy by William Heniinges. 4to. 1687. This is 
 only the Fatal Contract, by the same author, with a new title. 
 
 THE EUNUCH. A comedy translated by Thomas Newman. 8vo. 1627. 
 
 THE EUNUCH. A comedy translated by L. Echard. 8vo. 1694. 
 
 EUNUCHUS. A translation of one of Terence's comedies by Richard 
 Bernard. 4to. 1598; 1629. 
 
 EUPHORMUS. Euphormus sive Cupido Adultus, a Latin comedy by 
 George Wilde, acted at St. John's College, Oxford, February 5th, 1634-5. 
 There is a MS. copy of this play in the British Museum, MS. Addit. 14047. 
 
 EURIBATES. A Latin drama of the seventeenth century, written by Crouse 
 of Caius College, Cambridge. It is preserved in manuscript in the library 
 of Emmanuel College, in that university. 
 
 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 performed 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 by Eccles. 
 
 AN EVENING ADVENTURE ; or, A Night's Intrigue. A comedy from 
 the Spanish. 1680. 
 
 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 Astrologue, and the rest taken from Moliere's Depit 
 Amoureux, and Les Precieuses Ridicules, and Quinault's L'Amant Indiscret, 
 together with some hints from Shakespeare. The scene, Madrid, and the 
 time the last evening of the carnival in the year 1665. 
 
 EVERY MAN. 4to. No date. To this morality is prefixed the following 
 advertisement : " Here begynneth a Treatyse how the hye Fader of Heven 
 sendeth dethe to somon every creature to come and gyve a counte of theyr 
 lyves in this worlde, and is in maner of a moralle playe." It was first 
 printed by Pynson before 1531, and twice by Skot before 1537. Reprinted 
 in Hawkins' English Drama, i. 27. No perfect copy of Pynson's edition 
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 following colophon, — " Iinpryntcd at London, in Fletestrete, at the Sygne 
 of the George, by Richarde Pynson, pryntcr unto theKyngcs noble grace." 
 
 EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR. A comedy by Ben Jonson, acted by 
 the Lord Chamberlain's Servants, 1598. 4to. 1601; fol. 1616. Whalley 
 observes, that, in this play, as originally written, " the seene 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 the gulls and bullies of the times and country in which 
 the poet lived ; and as it was thus represented on the stage, it was pub- 
 lished in the same manner in 4to. in 1601. When it was printed again in 
 the collection of his works, it had a more becoming and consistent aspect. 
 The scene was transferred 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. And thus we now have it in the folio edition 
 of 1616, and in the several editions that have been printed since." Each 
 of the editions of 1601 and 1616 should, therefore, be read. 
 
 EVERY MAN OUT OF HIS HUMOUR. A comedy, by Ben Jonson, 
 acted 1599. Printed for Nicholas Linge, 1600; again, for William 
 Holme, 1600. This play is called Every One out of his Humour in a list 
 of plays acted in 1605. 
 
 EVERY WOMAN IN HER HUMOUR, A comedy, 4to. 1609. 
 
 THE EXAMPLE. A comedy by James Shirley, acted at the private house, 
 Drury Lane. 4to. 1637. This play was licensed on June 21th, 1634. 
 
 EXCHANGE WARE AT THE SECOND HAND; viz., Rand, Ruffe, and 
 Cuffe, lately out, and now newly dearned up ; or, A Dialogue, acted in a 
 Shew in the famous Universitie of Cambridge. Second edition, 4to. 1615. 
 
 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 the discovering. They 
 found themselves, however, disappointed ; the plan of this play being built 
 on a story related by Heylin, in his Cosmography. 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 Waiter, a 
 scholar of Jesus College, Oxford. 
 
 THE EXPOSURE. A pastoral, Hcensed in 159S. Sir H. Herbert mentions 
 a pastoral so called as acted in November, 1663. 
 
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 90 EXT—FM 
 
 THE EXTRAVAGANT 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; or, the Extravagant Shepheard, 1654. 
 The author, in a dedication addressed to Joanna Thornhill, appears to 
 
 intimate that the comedy had been unsuccessfully performed in its English 
 dress. 
 
 EZEOHIAS. A play, by Nicholas Udal, 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 
 Mr. Udal, and handled by King's College men onlye," Nichols's Progresses 
 of Queen Elizabeth, vol. iii. p. 177. 
 
 THE FABII. An ancient drama. Performed before the year 1580. See 
 Stephen Gosson's School of Abuse, 1579. This is perhaps the same play 
 as the Four Sons of Fabius, q. v. 
 
 THE FACTIOUS CITIZEN; or, the Melancholy Visioner. A comedy 
 acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1GS5. Scene, Moorfields. 
 
 THE FAIR ANCHORESS OF PAUSIL1PPO. A play by Massinger, 
 licensed on January 26th, 1639-40. It is not now known to exist. 
 
 FAIR CONSTANCE OF ROME. A play, in two parts, by Anthony 
 Munday, in conjunction with Hathwaye, Drayton, and Dekker. Acted in 
 1G00. Not printed. 
 
 FAIR EMM, the Miller's Daughter of Manchester, with the Love of William 
 the Conqueror. A pleasant comedy, acted by the Lord Strange's Servants. 
 4to. 1631. There is also an undated edition in quarto. This piece is not 
 divided into acts. 
 
 THE FAIR FAVOURITE. A tragi-comedy by Sir W. Davenant. Fob 
 1673. A play so called is mentioned in the list of MSS. said to have been 
 destroyed by Warburton's Servant. 
 
 THE FAIR FOUL ONE. This play is mentioned in Sir Henry Herbert's 
 manuscript Diary, under the date of November the 28th, 1623, — "for a 
 strange company 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 hath been played at Hampton 
 before the King and Queen. A comedy. 4to. 1605. In black letter. 
 
 THE FAIR MAID OF THE EXCHANGE, with the merry Humours and 
 pleasant Passages of the Cripple of Fanchurch, furnisht with Variety of 
 delectable Mirth. A comedy by Thomas Heywood. 4to. 1607 ; 1625 ; 
 1637. This play was entered on the registers of the Stationers' Company 
 on April 22nd, 1607.
 
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 THE FAIR MAID OP THE INN. A tragi-comedy by Beaumont and 
 Fletcher. Fol. 10 17. The plot of Mariana's disowning- Caesario for her 
 soil, and the duke's injunction to marry him, is related by Causin, in his 
 Holy Court; and is transcribed by Wanley, in his History oi' Man, fol. 
 book iii. ch. 26. The scene lies in Florence. 
 
 THE FA I R MAID OF ITALY. A play, acted by the Earl of Sussex's Men, 
 Jan. 12, 1593. 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 Hey wood. 4to. 1631. Reprinted by the SI 
 speare Society, ed. Collier, 1850. Both these pieces met with gen< ral 
 approbation, and were favoured with the presence of the king and queen. 
 The scene lies at Plymouth. 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. 
 
 A FAIRE QUARREL. A comedy, with new additions 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 William Rowley, Gent. 4to. 1617 ; 1622. Dedicated to the nobly- 
 disposed, virtuous, and faithful-breasted Robert Grey, esq. Part of the 
 plot of which, 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 
 Cyuthio's Novels, Dec. 4, Nov. 5. Scene, London. 
 
 FAIR ROSAMOND. A droll acted at Bartholomew Fair in the seventeenth 
 century. It is mentioned in an old song on the subject of that fair. 
 
 T HE FAIR SPANIS H CAP TIV E. A tragi-comedy. This play was adver- 
 tised at the end of Wit and Drollery, Jovial Poems, 12mo. 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 New World of English Words, 16 5 3. 
 
 THE FAIR STAR OF ANTWERP. A play which is thus mentioned in 
 Sir Henry Herbert's manuscript Diary, under the date of September 15th, 
 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 11th, 1624, mentions " a new play called the Fairy Knight, 
 written by Forde and Decker." 
 
 THE FAIRY MASQUE. A masque produced at Court about ad. 1620.
 
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 THE FAIRY PASTORAL. The Faery Pastorall; or Forrest of Elves, by 
 William Percy. A piny, edited from the author's original manuscript dated 
 1601, by Joseph Haslewood. 4to. 1824. 
 
 THE FAIRY QUEEN. A play, in the list of those said to have been 
 destroyed by VVarburton's servant. It was probably not printed. 
 
 THE FAIRY QUEEN. An opera, anonymous, acted at the Queen's 
 Theatre. 4to. 1692. This piece is from Shakespeare's Midsummer 
 Night's Dream. The music by Purcell. It pleased the town ; but, on 
 account of the great expense in dresses, decorations, and machinery, was 
 not very profitable to those concerned. It was l'epublished in 1693, with 
 " alterations, additions, and several new songs." 
 
 THE FAITHFUL FRIENDS. A comedy attributed to Beaumont and 
 John Fletcher. This play was entered on the books of the Stationers' 
 Company, June 29, 1660, but was never printed in the seventeenth century, 
 nor until 1812, when it was published by Weber from a manuscript, now 
 in the possession of Mr. Dyce, who has included it in his excellent edition 
 of Beaumont and Fletcher, vol. 4, p. 201. 
 
 THE FAITHFUL SERVANT. A play by Shirley, licensed in 1629. 
 
 THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERD. A pastoral comedy from the Italian, by 
 D. D. Gent. 12mo. 1633. This is taken from the Pastor Fido of Guarini. 
 Pepys notices a performance of this play in 1668. It is incorrectly attri- 
 buted to Marston by Winstanley. 
 
 THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS. A dramatic pastoral, by J. Fletcher. 
 4to. n.d., 4to. 1629 ; 4to. 1634. This is the production of Fletcher alone. 
 On its first appearance in 1610 it met with an ill reception ; but was after- 
 wards represented before the King and Queen on Twelfth Night, 1633-4, 
 and as the title-page to the third edition says, divers times since with great 
 applause, at the private house in Black 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 
 Mor daunt. 
 
 THE FAITHLESS RELICT. This is given as the first title of the play of 
 the Cyprian Conqueror in one part of MS. Sloane 3709. 
 
 THE FALLACY. Fallacy : or the Troubles of Great Hermenia, an unpub- 
 lished play in the British Museum, MS. Harl. 6869, written by R. Z. It is 
 an allegorical play. At the end is the date, Aug. 13, 1631, followed by a 
 cypher of C. R. 
 
 THE FALSE COUNT; or, A New Way to Play an old Game. A comedy 
 by Mrs. Belin, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1682. The hint of tht
 
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 haughty Isabella's being readily imposed upon by the chimney-sweeper, 
 whom Julia's lover Carlos had equipped out as a count, is borrowed from 
 the Precieusea Ridicules of Moliere. 
 
 THE FALSE FAVOURITE DISGRAC'D, and the Reward of Loyalty. A 
 tragi -comedy penned by George Gerbier d'Ouvilly. 12mo. 1657. The scene 
 is laid in Florence, from the history of which, in the time of the Medicis, 
 the story is formed. The plot turns on the treachery of Hippolito, the 
 False Favourite, by whose unfounded accusations, and perfidious intrigues, 
 Pausanio is banished ; the mutual attachment between Duke Cosmo and 
 Lucebella, the daughter of Pausanio, nearly defeated (with a view to the 
 Favourite's gaining her hand), and Martiano, her brother, driven into 
 rebellion. These artifices are at length discovered, Hippolito 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. 4to. 1699. 
 
 THE FALSE HEIR. This is a droll formed out of Fletcher's play of the 
 Scornful Lady, and printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 
 
 THE FALSE ONE. A tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol. 1647. 
 The story of this play is founded on the adventures of Julius Caesar while 
 in Egypt, and his amours with Cleopatra, as taken from Suetonius, Plutarch, 
 and other historians of those times. Scene, Egypt. 
 
 THE FAMILY OF LOVE. A comedy by Thomas Middleton, acted by the 
 Children of the Revels. 4to. Printed for John Helmes, and are to be 
 sold in Saint Dunstans Churchyard in Fleet-street, 1608. Scene, London. 
 This play is spoken of by Sir Thomas Barnwell, in Shirley's Lady of Pleasure, 
 act i. scene 1. It was entered on the registers of the Stationers' Company 
 on October 12th, 1607. 
 
 THE FAMOUS WARS OF HENRY THE FIRST AND THE PRINCE 
 OF WALES. A play by Drayton, Decker, and Chettle, written in 1598. 
 
 FANCIES CHASTE AND NOBLE. A tragi-comedy 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. 
 
 FARRE FETCHED AND DEAR BOWGHT YS GOOD FOR LADIES. 
 A play, entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, by Thomas 
 Hacked, 1566. 
 
 FAST AND WELCOME. A comedy by Philip Massinger, entered on the
 
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 books of the Stationers' Company, June 29, 1660; and was one of those 
 said to have been destroyed by Warburton's servant. 
 
 FAST BIND FAST FIND. A play by Heywood, mentioned in Gabriel 
 Harvey's Pierce's Supererogation, 1593. 
 
 THE FATAL BROTHERS. A tragedy by Robert Davenport, entered on 
 the books of the Stationers' Company, June 29, 1660, but not printed. 
 
 THE FATAL CONTRACT. A French Tragedy, by William Ilemings. 
 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 Love and Revenge; and afterwards, in the year 1687, under 
 that of the Eunuch. The scene lies in France; and the plot is taken from 
 the French history, in the reign of Childeric I. and Clotaire II. 
 
 THE FATAL DISCOVERY ; or, Love in Ruins. A tragedy acted at Drury 
 Lane. 4to. 1698. The scene of this play lies in Venice, but the original 
 design of the plot seems taken from the story of CEdipus and Jocasta. The 
 preface contains an answer to a copy of verses written by Dryden, and pre- 
 fixed to the tragedy of Heroic Love. 
 
 THE FATAL DOWRY. A tragedy by Ph. Massinger and Nathaniel Field, 
 acted at the Black Friars. 4to. 1632. The pious behaviour of Charolois, 
 in voluntarily giving up himself to imprisonment as a ransom for the corpse 
 of his father, in order to obtain for it the rites of interment, is taken from 
 the story of Cimon the Athenian, related by Val. Maxim, lib. v. cap. 4. 
 
 THE FATAL FRIENDSHIP. A play, by Burroughes; entered on the 
 books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 4, 1646, but never printed. 
 
 FATAL FRIENDSHIP. A tragedy by Cath. Trotter, afterwards Cockburne. 
 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 this 
 tragedy, the head-line in some pages is given as the Fatal Marriage. 
 
 THE FATAL JEALOUSY. A tragedy, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 
 1673. This play is ascribed by his contemporaries to Nevil Payne. The 
 scene of it is laid in Naples, and the plot borrowed from Beard's Theatre, 
 the Unfortunate Lovers, &c. The character of Jasper seems to be a bad 
 copy of lago, in Othello. Among the Dramatis Personam, we find Nat. 
 Lee the poet, who performed the small part of the Captain of the Watch. 
 Mrs. Betterton was one of the actresses. This play was bcensed in 
 November, 1672. 
 
 FATAL LOVE. A French tragedy, by George Chapman. Under this title 
 a play is entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, June 29, 1660 ;
 
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 but it was not printed. A play so called is in the list of manuscripts said 
 to have ' een destroyed by Warburton's servant. 
 
 FATAL LOVE; or, the Forc'd Inconstancy. A tragedy by Elk. Settle, 
 acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1G80. The plot of this play may be 
 traced to its origin by reading the fifth book of Tatius's romance of 
 Clitophon and Leucippe. It does not appear to have had any success. 
 
 THE FATAL MAKEIAGE; or, the Innocent Adultery. A tragedy by 
 Thomas Soulherne, 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 of Mrs. Behn's, called the Nun ; or, the Fair Vow-breaker ; 
 and the incident of Fernando's being persuaded to believe that he had 
 been dead, buried, and in purgatory, is borrowed from Boccaccio, Decame- 
 ron, Dec. iii. Nov. 8. 
 
 A FATAL MISTAKE ; or, the Plot Spoil'd. A play by Joseph Haines. 4to. 
 1692 ; 1696. According to Gildon, the attribution of the authorship to 
 Haines is incorrect. 
 
 THE FATE OF CAPUA. A tragedy by Thomas Southerne, acted at 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to. 1700. Scene, Capua. The prologue by 
 Charles Boyle ; the epilogue by Col. Codrington. The plot of this tragedy 
 is partly taken from Livy. 
 
 THE FATHER'S OWN SON. A play, formerly in the possession of the 
 company performing at the Cock-pit Theatre. It is mentioned in a MS. 
 dated 1639, preserved in the Lord Chamberlain's Office; and Pepys, who 
 saw it acted in 1661, notices it as "a very good play." A small portion 
 of it, formed into a droll under the title of the Doctors of Dullhead College, 
 is printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 
 
 FATUM VORTIGERNI. Fatum Vortigerni, seu miserabilis vita et exitus 
 "Vortigerni Regis Britannise, una complectens adventum Saxonum sive 
 Anglorum in Britanniam. An early Latin play in the British Museum, 
 MS. Lansd. 723. 
 
 A FAULT IN FRIENDSHIP. Acted at the Curtain in 1623. Dr. Ander- 
 son 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 Herbert, who mentions, under date of October 2nd, 1623, — " for 
 the Prince's Companye a new comedy called a Fault in Friendship, written 
 by young Johnson and Broome." 
 
 THE FEIGN'D ASTROLOGER. A comedy, anonymous. 4to. 1668. This 
 is translated from Corneille, who borrowed his piece from Calderon's El
 
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 Astrologo fingido. The same plot is made use of by M. Scudery, in hi9 
 novel of the Illustrious Bassa, where the French Marquis takes on himself 
 the fictitious character of an Astrologer. 
 
 THE FEIGN'D COURTEZANS ; or, A Night's Intrigue. A comedy by 
 Mrs. Bebn, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1679. This play met with 
 very good success, and was generally esteemed the best that she had written. 
 The scene lies in Home, 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. Its dedication is to Nell Gwyn. 
 
 FEIGN'D FRIENDSHIP; or, the Mad Reformer, a comedy acted at Little 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields, in 1699, printed without a date, in that year. Scene, 
 the Park and houses adjoining. 
 
 THE FEIGN'D INNOCENCE. "Aug. 16th, 1667, my wife and I to the 
 Duke's playhouse, where we saw the new play acted yesterday, the Feign 
 Innocence, or Sir Martin Marall, a play made by my Lord Duke of 
 Newcastle, but, as every body says, corrected by Dryden," Pepys' Diary. 
 This play is generally known under the title of Sir Martin Mar-all, q.v. 
 
 FELIX AND PHILIOMENA. " 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 PRELATE, being the History of the Life and Death of 
 Pope Joan. A tragedy by Elk. Settle, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 
 16S0. The plot of this play, which is said to be an older one altered by 
 Settle, is taken from Platina's Lives of the Popes ; and Cooke's Dialogue, 
 entitled Pope Joan. It is dedicated to the Earl of Shaftesbury. The 
 same play, with the same title, was printed 4to. 1689, except that it was 
 there said to be written by "a person of quality." 
 
 THE FEMALE YIRTUOSOES. A comedy by Thomas Wright, acted at the 
 Queen's Theatre. 4to. 1693. This play, which was performed with great 
 applause, is an improved translation of the Femmes Scavantes of Moliere. 
 
 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
 
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 applause. It consists of three acts, is written in the manner of a rehearsal, 
 and was intended as a banter on Mrs. Mauley, Mrs. Pix, and Mrs. Trotter. 
 
 FEMELANCO. A tragedy by Chettle and Robinson, acted in 1602. See 
 Henslovve's Diary, eel. Collier, p. 225. 
 
 FERREX AND PORREX. A tragedy set forth without addition or altera- 
 tion, but altogether as the same was shewed on the stage before the Queenes 
 Majestie about nine years past, viz. the 18th day of January, 1561-2, by 
 the Gentlemen of the Inner Temple. 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. It 
 was originally acted at the Inner Temple, and afterwards before Queen 
 Elizabeth. Its first appearance was at a grand Christmas, celebrated with 
 unusual magnificence, as may be seen by the description of it in Dugdale's 
 Origines Judiciales, p. 150. It was first printed in 1565, an edition re- 
 printed by the Shakespeare Society, 8vo. 1847, ed. W. D. Cooper. Other 
 editions appeared in 1569, 1571, and 1590. This play was sometimes 
 called the tragedy of Gorboduc. 
 
 FERREX AND PORREX. A play, by William Haughton, probably an 
 alteration of the foregoing, and acted about 1600. 
 
 FIDELE AND FORTUNATUS. In the books of the Stationers' Company, 
 November 12, 1584, is entered, " Fidele and Fortunatus, the Deceipts in 
 Love discoursed in a Comedie of two Italyan Gentlemen, translated into 
 Englishe." Only two copies of this play are known to exist, and both of 
 them unfortunately want the title-page ; but the running title is the Two 
 Italian Gentlemen. See further in Collier's Hist. Dram. Poet., iii , 242. 
 
 FIESTAS DE ARANJUEZ ; festivals represented at Aranwhez, before the 
 King and Queen of Spain, in the year 1623, to celebrate the birth-day of 
 that King, Philip IV. This is the description of a masque translated from 
 the Spanish of Don Antonio de Mendoza. By Sir Richard Fanshawe. 4to. 
 Lond. 1670. 
 
 FILLI DI SCIRO ; or, Phillis of Scyros. An excellent pastorall, written in 
 Italian by C. Giudubaldo 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 OF SCIRUS. 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 George Talbot's corrections, is preserved in the British Museum, 
 
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 MS. Addit. 12128; and there is another MS. copy of it in the Bodleian 
 
 Library, MS. Rawl. Poet. 130. 
 A FINE COMPANION. A comedy by Shakerley Marmion. 4to. 1633, 
 
 acted before the King and Queen at Whitehall, and at the Theatre in 
 
 Salisbury Court. 
 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, acted in 1598. 
 
 FIVE PLAYS IN ONE. " An invention called Fyve Playes in One, pre- 
 sented and enacted before her Majestic on Twelfedaie at night in the hall 
 at Grenewiche," Revels' Accounts, 1585. Henslowe mentions a play under 
 the same title, acted at the Rose Theatre in 1597. 
 
 THE FIVE WITTY GALLANTS. The Fyve Wittie Gallants, as it hath 
 been acted by the Children of the Chapell. Entered on the books of the 
 Stationers' Company, March 22nd, 1608. This is, in all probability, 
 Middleton's play of Your Five Gallants. y 
 
 FLATTERY. One of the interludes of Sir David Lindsay, printed in 4to. 1602, 
 is entitled, — " Flattery, Deceit, and Falshood mislead King Humanitie." 
 
 THE FLEIRE. A comedy by Edward Sharpham, acted at the Black Friars, 
 by the Children of the Revels. 4to. 1607; 1610; 1615; 1631. The 
 scene of this play lies in London. It was entered by John Trundel, on 
 the books of the Stationers' Company, May 6th, 1606. 
 
 THE FLOATING ISLAND. A tragi-comedy by William Strode. 4to. 
 1655. This play was not published till many years after the author's 
 death, but was performed by the students of Christ Church, on the 29th 
 of August, 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 pleased 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 
 publick and private musick." In an advertisement of the book at the end 
 of the New World of English Words, 1658, the author is termed "that 
 renowned wit." 
 
 FLORA'S VAGARIES. A comedy by Richard Rhodes. This amusing play 
 was written while the author was a student at Oxford ; and after being 
 publicly acted by his fellow-students in Christ Church, Jan. S, 1663, and 
 afterwards at the Theatre Royal, was printed in 4to. 1670, 1677. The 
 scene lies in Verona ; and part of the plot, viz. the circumstance of Otrante's
 
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 making use of the friar in carrying on her intrigues with Lodovico, is 
 founded on Boccacio's Decani., Day iii. Nov. 3. — " 1664, Aug. 8th, my 
 wife and I abroad to the King's play-house ; here we saw Flora's Figarys ; 
 I never saw it before ; and, by the most ingenious performance of the young 
 jade Flora, it seemed as pretty a pleasant play as ever I saw," Pepys' 
 Diary. 
 
 THE FLORENTINE LADIES. In Jordan's Nursery of Novelties, 1660, 
 is the " Prologue to a Play call'd the Florentine Ladies, played in the night 
 by gentlemen." 
 
 THE FLORENTINE FRIEND. A play with this title was entered on the 
 books of the Stationers' Company, Nov. 29, 1653; but was not printed. 
 
 FLORIMENE. A pastoral, presented by the Queen's commandment before 
 the King at Whitehall. 4to. 1635. "The pastorall of Florimene, with 
 the description of the sceanes and interludes, 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 11. Herbert's Diary. In MS. 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-plat referring to the 
 same play. 
 
 FLOWERS. A Masque of Flowers was presented by the gentlemen of Gray's 
 Inn, at the Court at Whitehall, in the Banquettiug House, upon Twelfth 
 Night, 1613, and was 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. Printed in 4to, 1614. 
 
 THE FLYING VOICE. A play, by Ralph Wood. One of those destroyed 
 by Warburton's servant. 
 
 FOLLY OF PRIESTCRAFT. An anonymous comedy, printed in 4to. 1690. 
 Some copies have this title only, but others were published under that of 
 the Converts, q. v. 
 
 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 the Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. Poet. 52. 
 
 THE FOND LADY. A comedy by a Person of Honour. 4to. 1684. This
 
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 is only the play of the Amorous Old Woman, 1674, issued with a new 
 title-page. 
 
 A FOOL AND HER MAIDENHEAD SOON PARTED. A play under 
 this title was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, Nov. 29, 
 1653 ; but was not printed. It was probably written by Robert Davenport ; 
 being enumerated, with the rest of his pieces, in a catalogue of dramas 
 belonging to the Cock-pit Theatre, 1639. 
 
 THE FOOL TRANSFORMED. This comedy was advertised as being in 
 the press, at the end of Wit and Drollery, Jovial Poems, 12mo. 1661, but 
 was not published. It is also noticed in a list of " books in the presse and 
 ready for printing," at the end of the New World of English Words, 1658. 
 
 THE FOOL TURN'D CRITICK. A comedy by T. Durfey, acted at the 
 Theatre Royal. 4to. 1678. The characters of Old Winelove, Trim, and 
 Small Wit, resemble those of Simo, Asotus, and Balio, in Randolph's Jea- 
 lous Lovers. The prologue is the same with that to Lord Orrery's Master 
 Anthony. 
 
 THE FOOLE WITHOUT BOOKE. A play, by William Rowley, entered 
 on the books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 9, 1653; but not printed. 
 
 THE FOOL WOULD BE A FAVOURITE; or, the Discreet Lover. A 
 tragi-comedy by Lodowick Carlell. Svo. 1657. Acted with great applause. 
 The scene, Milan. 
 
 THE FOOLS' MASQUE. A masque produced at Court about a.d. 1620. 
 
 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 Noble Gentleman, the blank verse 
 of which Durfey has transformed into prose. The music to the songs was 
 composed by Purcell. 
 
 THE FORC'D LADY. A tragedy by Massinger. It is in the list of the 
 manuscript plays said to have been destroyed by Warburton's servant ; and 
 it was entered on the registers of the Stationers' Company under the title 
 of Minerva's Sacrifice, or the Forc'd Lady. 
 
 THE FORC'D MARRIAGE; or, the Jealous Bridegroom. A tragi-comedy 
 by Mrs. Behn. 4to. 1671 ; 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 in the court of France. 
 
 FORCED VALOUR. A droll formed out of Beaumont and Fletcher's play 
 of the Humorous Lieutenaut, and printed in the Wits, or Sport upon 
 Sport, 1672. 
 
 THE FORESTERS' MASQUE. A Court masque, played in 1574.
 
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 FOR THE HONOUR OF WALES. An anti-masque, by Ben Jonson. No 
 date; but placed between those of 1619 and 1620. Fol. 1692. 
 
 THE FORTITUDE OF JUDITH. A tragedy by Ralph Radcliff. Not 
 printed. 
 
 THE FORTUNATE GENERAL. A French history by Richard Hathwaye. 
 Acted in 1602. Not printed. 
 
 THE FORTUNATE ISLES, and their Union, celebrated in a masque 
 designed for the Court on Twelfth Night, by Ben Jonson, 1624-5. Inigo 
 Jones's original sketches for the costume of the characters in this masque 
 were published by the Shakespeare Society, 8vo. 1848. 
 
 FORTUNATUS. Decker's play of Old Fortunatus is mentioned in Hen- 
 slowe's Diary, under the date of 1595-6, under the latter name only. 
 
 FORTUNE. In the Revels' Accounts, is an entry of a payment "to Robert 
 Baker for drawing of patternes for the playe of Fortune." There was 
 licensed to Purfoote in 1566 "a playe of Fortune, to knowe eche one hyr 
 condicions and gentle maners, as well of women as of men." 
 
 FORTUNE BY LAND AND SEA. A tragi-comedy by Thomas Heywood, 
 acted by the Queen's Servants. 4to. 1655. Our author was assisted by 
 Rowley in the composition of this play, which met with great applause in 
 the performance, but was not printed till after their decease. The scene 
 lies in London. One of the publishers of this comedy was "Robert 
 Pollard at the Ben Johnson's Head behind the Exchange." It was 
 reprinted by the Shakespeare Society, 8vo. 1845. 
 
 THE FORTUNE HUNTERS; or, Two Fools well Met. A comedy by James 
 Carlisle, acted by His Majesties Servants. 4to. 1689. This play is not 
 without merit; but Spruce's mistaking (though drunk) the hand 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. The scene is 
 in Covent Garden. 
 
 FORTUNE'S TASKE ; or, the Fickle Fair One. A play in MS., 1684, by 
 John Home, New Coll. M. A., June 30th, 1677. 
 
 THE FOUNTAIN OF NEW FASHIONS. A play, by G. Chapman, acted 
 in 1598. Not printed. It is first mentioned by Henslowe, under the date 
 of September 31st, 1598, as "the Founte of New Facianes." 
 
 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 destroyed by Warburton's servant. 
 
 THE FOUR INNS OF COURT. A royal masque of the Four Tnns of
 
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 Court, performed before the Court in 1633. Of this masque there is a 
 very full and interesting account in Whitelock's Memorials, 1732, p. 19. 
 
 THE FOUR KINGS. A play of this name was acted by the Lord Ad- 
 miral's servants, in 1598 ; but is now not known. 
 
 THE FOUR P'S. A merry interlude of a Palmer, a Pardoner, a Potycary, 
 and a Pedlar, by John Heywood. 4to. no date, and 4to. 1569. This is 
 one of the first plays that appeared in the English language ; it is written 
 in metre, and not divided into acts. The original edition is in black letter ; 
 it has been republished in Dodsley's Collection, 1780. 
 
 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 Boccacio, Day 10, Nov. 5. 
 Scene near Athens, the Roman army lying there. — II. The Triumph of 
 Love. This is taken from the same author, Hay 5, Nov. 8, and the scene 
 laid in Milan.— III. The Triumph of Heath. This is from Part 3. Nov. 
 8 of the Fortunate, Deceiv'd, and Unfortunate Lovers. The scene, 
 Anjou. — IV. The Triumph of Time. The plot of this seems to be 
 the invention of the author. Whether this medley of dramatic pieces 
 was ever performed or not, does not plainly appear. It is composed as if 
 acted at Lisbon, before Manuel, King of Portugal, and his Queen Isabella, 
 at the celebration of their nuptials ; that court being introduced as specta- 
 tors, and the King, Queen, &c, making remarks upon each representation. 
 In Henslowe's Hiary, 1591, mention is made of a dramatic performance 
 called Four Plays in One, which was probably four short plays acted on 
 the same night as one drama. 
 
 THE FOUR PRENTISES OF LONDON, with the Conquest of Jerusalem. 
 An historical play, by Thomas Heywood, divers times acted at the Red 
 Bull. 4to. 1615; 1632. Dedicated "to the honest and high-spirited 
 prentises, the readers." This piece is inserted in Dodsley's Collection, 
 second edition, 1780. The plot is founded on the exploits of the famous 
 Godfrey of Bulloigne, who released Jerusalem out of the hands of the 
 Infidels in 1099 ; an ample account of which is to be seen in Tasso's 
 Goffredo, and in Fuller's Holy War. 
 
 THE FOUR SEASONS ; or, Love in every Age. A musical interlude, by 
 P. A. Motteux. 4to. 1699. This little piece was set to music by Jeremy 
 Clarke, and is printed with the musical entertainments in the opera of the 
 the Island Princess ; or, the Generous Portuguese. It does not belong to 
 that opera ; having been designed, as is expressly said by the author, 
 " for another season, and another occasion." It was, however, performed 
 at the end of the last act of the Island Princess.
 
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 THE "FOUR SEASONS. A masque of the Four Seasons, edited from a 
 manuscript of the time of James I., reprinted by the Shakespeare Society, 
 Svo., 1848. 
 
 THE FOUR SONS OF AYMON. A play by Robert Shawe, on which £2. 
 was lent by Henslowe's Company, 1602, to be repaid the following year by 
 the author, if the play " be not played by the Company of the Fortune, nor 
 noe other Company by my leave." It is mentioned in Herbert's Diary, 
 under the date of January 0th, 1621, — "for the Princes Company, the 
 Four Sons of Anion, being an old playe, and not of a legible hand." 
 
 THE FOUR SONS OF FABIUS. " A history of the fonre sonnes of Fabyous, 
 shewed at Whithall on Newe yeares daie at nighte, enacted by the earle of 
 Warwicke's servants," Revels' Accounts, 1579-80. 
 
 FREDERIC AND BASILEA. A play, first acted at the Rose Theatre in 
 June, 1597. The original plot of this drama is still preserved. The 
 characters include King Frederic, Athanasia, Heraclius, Sebastian, &c. 
 
 FRATRUM CONCORDIA S/EVA, seu Zeno. A Latin tragedy, apparently 
 by an English author, preserved in the British Museum, MS. Harl. 5024. 
 It is written in Iambic verse. The first speaker is Umbra Basiiisci Tyranni. 
 
 FRAUS HONESTA. Comccdia, Cantabrigian olim acta, authore Magistro 
 Stubbe, Collegii Trinitatis Socio. 8vo. 1632. Scena est Florentia decimo 
 die Feb. 1616. In a MS. copy of this play, in Emmanuel College library, 
 the names of the performers are placed opposite the characters. It was 
 performed at Trinity College. 
 
 FRAUS PI A. A Latin play, apparently by an English writer of the seven- 
 teenth century, preserved in MS. Sloane 1855. The scene is laid at 
 London. 
 
 THE FREEMAN'S HONOUR. A play, by William Smith. It is only 
 mentioned in the epistle dedicatory of a subsequent one, written by the 
 same author, and entitled, the Hector of Germany. 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." 
 
 FREE WILL. A tragedy by Henry Cheeke. 4to. black letter, no date, 
 but about 1589. This is one of the old moral plays. Its full title 
 runs as follows ; "A eertayne Tragedie, wrytten fyrste in Italian, by 
 F. N. B. (Franciscus Niger Bassentinus), entituled Freewyl ; and trans- 
 lated into Englishe, by Henry Cheeke, wherein is set foorth, in manner of 
 a tragedie, the deuylish Deuise of the Popish Religion, &c." In the public 
 library at Cambridge is a copy of the original Italian, entitled, Tragedia 
 del Libero Arbitrio, 4to. 1546; and also a Latin version, by the author 
 himself, printed at Geneva, by John Crispin, 8vo. 1559. Niger is his
 
 104 FRE—FRI 
 
 name latinized ; his Italian name being Nero, as it is printed in a copy at 
 Trinity College library, 1547. 
 
 THE FRENCH COMEDY. Acted at the Rose Theatre, by the Lord 
 Admiral's servants, Feb. 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 romance of Gusman de Alfarache, 
 the Spanish Rogue ; the one called Dorido and Clorinia, the other the 
 Merchant of Sevil ; and the scene is laid in Sevil. 
 
 THE FRENCH DOCTOR. Acted by the Lord Admiral's servants, at the 
 Rose Theatre, Oct. 18, 1595. Not now known. 
 
 THE FRENCH DANCING-MASTER. A droll formed out of the Duke of 
 Newcastle's play of Variety, and printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 
 1672. There was a play under this title acted in 1661. 
 
 THE FRENCH DANCING MISTRESS. A play noticed by Pepys under 
 the date of May 21st, 1662. He says, — "the play pleased us very well, 
 but Lacy's part, the dancing mistress, the best in the world." 
 
 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 exist. 
 
 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 BUNGAY. The Honourable Historie of 
 Friar Bacon and Friar Bongay. As it was plaied by Her Majestie's 
 servants. Made by Robert Greeiie, maister of arts. 4to. 1594; 1599; 
 1630 ; 4to. 1655. The plot of this drama is chiefly taken from the prose 
 history of Friar Bacon. Reprinted in Greene's Works, ed. Dyce, i. 145. 
 
 FRIAR FOX AND GILL AN OF BRENTFORD. A play, by Thos. Down- 
 ton, in conjunction with Samuel Ridley. Acted in 1598. 
 
 FRIAR FRANCIS. A play, acted at the Rose Theatre, by the Earl of 
 Sussex's servants, Jan 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, Oct. 31, 1597. Not 
 printed. It is also mentioned in Henslowe's Diary under the title of 
 Friar Pendelton. 
 
 FRIENDSHIP IMPROVED ; or, the Female Warrior. A tragedy by Charles 
 Hopkins, acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to. 1700. To this play is pre-
 
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 fixed a humorous prologue, on the subject of the author's 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. 
 
 FRIENDSHIP OF TITUS AND GESIPPUS. A comedy by Ralph Radcliff. 
 Not printed. 
 
 THE FROLIC. The Frolick ; or, the Lawyer Cheated, a new comedy by E. P., 
 "an unfortunate younge woman haunted by poetick divills," 1671, dedi- 
 cated to Prince Rupert. In manuscript, and unpublished. 
 
 FUCUS, SIVE HISTRIOMASTIX. A Latin drama, of the seventeenth 
 century, preserved in manuscript in the Bodleian library. 
 
 FUIMUS TROES, ^NEID 2. THE TRUE TRO JANES. Being a story 
 of the Britaines Valour at the Romanes first Invasion : publikely repre- 
 sented by the Gentlemen Students of Magdalen Colledge, in Oxford. 4to. 
 1633. The author of this performance was Dr. Jasper Fisher. In 
 Dodsley's Collection. It commences with an episode of " Mercury con- 
 ducting the ghosts of Brennus and Camillus in compleate armour, and with 
 swords drawne." 
 
 FULGIUS AND LUCRELLE. By this name is a piece mentioned by 
 Langbaine, Jacob, Gildon, and Whincop, none of whom pretend to have 
 seen it, or to give any account of it. But the author of the British Theatre 
 is more particular in his description of it ; and, but for his numerous 
 forgeries, it would be reasonable to imagine he had met with the piece itself. 
 He differs from them all in the spelling of the second name, calling it 
 Fulgius and Lucrette, a pastoral, from the Italian, 1676. It is mentioned 
 by Kirkman in his Catalogue, 1661, and is probably very ancient. 
 
 THE FUNERAL OF RICHARD CCEUR DE LION. By Robert Wilson, 
 in conjunction with Chettle, Mundy, and Drayton. Acted in 1598. Not 
 printed. 
 
 THE FURIES' MASQUE. A masque performed at Court about a.d. 1624. 
 
 GALATHEA. A comedy by John Lyly. 4to. 1592 ; 12mo. 1632. Played 
 before Queen Elizabeth, at Greenwich, on New Year's Day at night. The 
 characters of Galathea and Phillida are borrowed from Iphis and Ianthe, in 
 the ninth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses ; while, oddly enough, the scene 
 is laid in the North of Lincolnshire. 
 
 GALFRIDO AND BERNARDO. A play recorded in Henslowe's Diary as 
 having been acted in Mav. 1595. It is supposed by Mr. Collier to be 
 
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 106 GAL— GEN 
 
 founded on Drout's poem entitled, " the Pityfull Historic of two loving 
 Italians, Gaulfrido and Bernardo le Vayne," 1570. 
 
 GALIASO. A play which was first acted at the Eose Theatre on June 26th, 
 1594. It is not now extant. 
 
 THE GAME AT CHESSE. A comedy by Thomas Middleton, sundry times 
 acted at the Globe, on the Bank Side. Two editions, 4to, no date, but printed 
 probably in 1625. The play was first performed 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 Bome, 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 supposed ridicule being cast on a reigning sovereign, 
 the players were summoned before the Privy Council in August, 1624, and 
 the further performance of the comedy forbidden. There is a manuscript 
 copy of this play in the British Museum, MS. Lansd. 690. 
 
 THE GAMESTER. A comedy by James Shirley, acted at Drury Lane. 4 to. 
 1637. According to Langbaiue, ed. 1691, p. 479, the intrigue between 
 Wilding and his kinswoman, his wife and Hazard, is borrowed from one 
 of the novels of Malespini. This play was acted at Court in February, 
 1634, and the king is said to have furnished the author with the plot. 
 
 GAMMER GUBTON'S NEEDLE. A comedy, by Mr. S., master of arts, i.e. 
 John Still, afterwards bishop of Bath and Wells. 4to. 1575 ; 1661. The 
 plot of this play, which is written in metre, in five regular acts, is nothing 
 more than Gammer Gurton's having mislaid the needle with which she wa3 
 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 them- 
 selves. Beprinted in Hawkins' English Drama, 1773. 
 
 THE GENEBAL. A tragi-comedy, printed from a manuscript in private 
 hands. 4to. 1853. It is conjectured, without evidence, to be the play so 
 named which is mentioned in the Poems of James Shirley. A play under 
 the same title, written by Lord Broghill, afterwards Earl of Orrery, is 
 mentioned by Pepys as acted in 1664 and in 1669. 
 
 THE GENEBOUS CHOICE. A comedy by Francis Manning. 4to. 1700. 
 This piece was acted, but without success, at Little Lincoln's Inn Fields. 
 Scene, Valencia in Spain. 
 
 THE GENEBOUS CULLY, 1691. A play under this title is noticed in 
 some catalogues, but is believed to be quoted in error for another entitled 
 the Gentleman Cully, 4to. 1702.
 
 GEN— GEO 107 
 
 THE GENEROUS ENEMIES ; or, the Ridiculous Lovers. A comedy by 
 J.Corey, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1672. Licensed in 1671. 
 This play is one piece of plagiarism ; the principal design being borrowed 
 from Qninault's La Genereuse Ingratitude; and that of the Ridiculous 
 Lovers from Corneille's Don Bertram de Ciganal. Bertram's testy humour 
 to his servants, in the third act, is partly borrowed from Randolph's Muses' 
 Looking Glass; and the quarrel between him and Robatzi, in the fifth, is 
 taken from the Love's Pilgrimage of Beaumont and Fletcher. The scene, 
 Seville. 
 
 T 11 E GENEROUS POETUG ALS. " 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 22nd, 1669. 
 
 THE GENTLE CRAFT. "Lent unto Samewell Rowley and Thomas 
 Downton, the 15 of Julye, 1599, to bye a boockeof Thomas Dickei-s, called 
 the Gentle Craft, the some of iij. li" Heuslowe's Diary. This was the 
 comedy afterwards printed under the title of the Shoemaker's Holiday, 1600. 
 
 THE GENTLEMAN DANCING-MASTER. A comedy by W. Wycherley, 
 acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1673 ; 1693 ; 1702. This play was 
 not very successful, and was only acted six times. 
 
 THE GENTLEMAN OF VENICE. A tragi-comedy by James Shirley, 
 acted at the Private House Salisbury Court. 4 to. 1655. The plot of one 
 of the incidents in this play is taken from Gayton's Festivous Notes on 
 Don Quixote, book iv. eh. 6, and the scene lies in Venice. Dedicated to 
 Sir Thomas Nightingale, Bart. 
 
 THE GENTLEMAN USHER. A comedy by George Chapman. 4to. 
 Lond. 1606. 
 
 THE GENTLEMEN'S MASQUE. Acted at Court in December, 1613. 
 
 OF GENTYLNES AND NOBYLYTE ; a Dialoge betwen the Marchaunt, 
 the Knyght, and the Plowman, dysputyng who is a verey Gentylman, and 
 who is a Nobleman, and how Men should come to Auctoryte, compilid in 
 Maner of an Enterlude, with divers Toys and Gestis addyd thereto to make 
 rnyri pastyme and disport. This piece is written in metre, in two parts, 
 and printed in black letter, by John Rastell, without date. 
 
 GEORGE A GREENE, THE PINDAR OF WAKEFIELD. A comedy 
 attributed to Robert Greene, acted by the Earl of Sussex's Servants. 4to. 
 1599. Henslowe notices a performance of it in January, 1593-4. The 
 plot is founded on an old popular history, and the scene lies at Wakefield 
 in Yorkshire. See Dyce's edition of Greene, ii. 163. 
 
 GEORGE GRANDERBURYE. The True Historic of George Grander-
 
 108 GEO— GIF 
 
 burye, as played by the Right lion, the Earl of Oxenforde's Servants. Not 
 printed. See Malone's Supplement, i. 78. 
 
 GEORGE SCANDERBAGE, the true History of, as it was lately played by 
 the Right Hon. the Earle of Oxenforde his servants. This play was entered 
 by Edward Aide on the books of the Stationers' Company, July 3, 1601 ; 
 but not printed. 
 
 THE GERMAN PRINCESS. A play under this title was performed at the 
 Duke's Theatre in Dorset Garden about 1669. Mary Carleton, an impostor, 
 who afterwards called herself a German princess, acted a part in it. It is 
 probably the same play which was afterwards issued under the title of the 
 "Witty Combat, q. v. 
 
 THE GHOST ; or, the Woman Wears the Breeches. A comedy written in 
 1640. Printed in 4to. 1653. Scene, Paris. 
 
 THE GHOSTS. A comedy by Holden. Acted at the Duke's Theatre between 
 1662 and 1665. Not printed. See Downes's Roscius Anglicanus, p. 26. 
 Pepvs notices a performance of it in April, 1665, calling it "a very simple 
 play." 
 
 THE GIPSIES. Jonson's masque of the Metamorphosed Gipsies was ori- 
 ginally called simply the Gipsies. Printed under the latter title in 12mo, 
 Loud. 1640. 
 
 THE GIPSY. " Upon the fifth of Novembre att Whitehall, the prince being 
 there only, the Gipsye, by the Cock-pitt company," Herbert's Diary, 1623. 
 
 GIRALDO THE CONSTANT LOVER. By Henry Shirley. This play was 
 entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 9, 1653; but pro- 
 bably was not printed. 
 
 A GIRL WORTH GOLD. This play is mentioned in MS. Sloane 1900 as 
 having been performed at the King's Arms, Norwich, in 1662. It is the 
 second title of Heywood's play of the Fair Maid of the West. 
 
 GISMOND. In Thorpe's Catalogue of Manuscripts, 1838, p. 107, mention 
 is made of a " fragment of the tragedy of Gismonde of Salerne, with sonnets 
 of the Queenes maides, 1568." It is probably part of a copy of the play 
 of Tancred and Gismund. In the British Museum, MS. Lansd. 786, is a 
 copy of this play, said to be in its unaltered state, entitled, Gismond of 
 Salem in Love. 
 
 GIVE A MAN LUCK, AND THROW HIM INTO THE SEA. A play 
 with this title was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, with 
 the Maid's Metamorphoses, July 24, 1600. It does not appear to have 
 been printed.
 
 GLA—GOL 109 
 
 THE GLASS OF GOVEENMENT. A tragi-comedy by George Gascoigne. 
 4to. 1575. This play is thus entitled, "because therein are handled as 
 well the reward for vertues as also the punishment for vices." 
 
 GLORIANA ; or, the Court of Augustus Caesar. A tragedy in rhyme, by N. 
 Lee, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1 fi 7 . The plot of this absurd but 
 curious drama is more founded on romance than history, as may be dis- 
 covered by comparing it with the first, fifth, and seventh parts of the cele- 
 brated romance of Cleopatra, under the characters of Cassario, Marcellus, 
 and Julia. Scene, in the palace of Augustus Caesar at Rome. 
 
 GLORY'S RESURRECTION, being the Triumphs of London Revived for 
 the Inauguration of Sir Francis Child, Lord Mayor, containing the Des- 
 cription, and also the Sculptures, of the Pageants and the whole Solemnity 
 of the Day, all set forth at the cost of the Honourable Company of Gold- 
 smiths, fol. 1698. 
 
 THE GOAT'S MASQUE. A masque acted at Court about 1611. 
 
 THE GOBLINS. A comedy by Sir John Suckling, acted at the Black Friars. 
 Svo. 1646. In Dodsley's Collection, 1780. The scene of this play lies in 
 Francelia ; and the author, in the execution of his design, has pretty closely 
 followed the footsteps of Shakespeare, 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, 
 at the Duke's Theatre. 
 
 GODFREY OF BULLOIGNE, WITH THE CONQUEST OF JERU- 
 SALEM. An interlude, entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, 
 by John Danter, June 19, 1594 ; but not printed. We may conclude that 
 this piece had been acted ; as a second part of it was performed by the 
 Lord Admiral's Servants, at the Rose Theatre, July 19th, 1594. 
 
 GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH. 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 tragedye or interlude manyfesting the chefe Promyses 
 of God unto man, 8vo. 1538; 4to. 1577. This curious interlude, written 
 by John Bale, is reprinted in Dodsley's Collection. 
 
 THE GOLDEN AGE ; or, the Lives of Jupiter and Saturn. An historical 
 play, by Thomas Heywood, acted at the Red Bull. 4to. 1611. This piece 
 the author himself calls the Eldest Brother of three ages that had adven- 
 tured on the stage ; in all of which he has introduced Homer as the exposi- 
 tor of each dumb show, in the same manner as Shakespeare has done by 
 Gower, in his Pericles. For the story, we need only consult Galtruchius,
 
 110 GOL-GOS 
 
 and other of the heathen mycologists. Reprinted by the Shakespeare 
 Society, 8vo. 1851. 
 
 THE GOLDEN AGE RESTOR'D, in a Masque at Court, at Christmas, 
 1615, by the Lords and Gentlemen the King's Servants, by Ben Jonson. 
 Folio, 1616 ; 1641. 
 
 THE GOLDEN ASS, AND CUPID AND PSYCHE. A play, written by 
 Henry Chettle, in conjunction with Thomas Decker and John Day. It is 
 mentioned in Henslowe's Diary under the date of 1600. Gosson, in his 
 Plays Confuted, 1581, mentions an old English play on the same subject. 
 
 THE GOLDSMITH'S JUBILEE; or, London's Triumphs; containing a 
 Description of the several Pageants : on which are represented emblematical 
 Figures, artful Pieces of Architecture, and rural Dancing : with the Pieces 
 spoken on each Pageant. Performed October 29, 1674, for the Entertain- 
 ment of the Right Hon. and truly noble Pattern of Prudence and Loyalty, 
 Sir Robert Vyner, Knt. and Bart., Lord Mayor of the City of London, at 
 the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. 
 The King's Most Sacred Majesty and his Royal Consort, their Royal High- 
 nesses the Duke and Duchess of York, Prince Rupert, the Duke of Mon- 
 mouth, several Foreign Embassadors, chief Nobility, and Secretaries of 
 State, honouring the City with their Presence. By Thomas Jordan. 4to. 
 Lond. 1674. 
 
 A GOOD BEGINNING MAY HAVE A GOOD END. A play by John 
 Ford, mentioned in Warburton's list of manuscripts. There is no doubt 
 it is the same play elsewhere called, An 111 Beginning, &c. 
 
 GORBODUC. " A tragedie of Gorboduc, where iij. actes were wretten by 
 Thomas Norton, and the laste by Thomas Sackvyle," was entered on the 
 books of the Stationers' Company in 1 565-6. This is the tragedy generally 
 known as that of Ferrex and Porrex, q. v. Reprinted by the Shakespeare 
 Society, 8vo. 1847. 
 
 THE GORDIAN KNOT UNTY'D, 1691. This comedy was not printed, but 
 appears to have been acted in the before-mentioned year. Motteux, in 
 the Gentleman's Journal, Jan. 1691-2, says, "You have often asked me 
 who was the author of the Gordian Knot Unty'd ; 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 GOSSIP'S BRAWL. The Gossips Braule, or the W r omen Weare the 
 Breeches, a mock Comedy, 4to. Lond. 1655. Amongst the actors' names
 
 GOV—GRE 111 
 
 are Nick-pot, a tapster; Doll Crabb, a fish-woman, S:c. This was not 
 intended for representation. 
 
 THE GOVERNOR. A tragi-comedy written by Sir Cornelius Formido. 
 This play was supposed to have been one of those destroyed by Warburton's 
 cook, but a manuscript of it, dated 1656. is still preserved, and is now in 
 the British Museum, MS. Addit. 101-19. Scene, Barcelona. It was 
 entered on the books of the Stationers' Company on September 9th, 1653 ; 
 and, according to Herbert, it was performed in February, 1636-7. 
 
 GO WRY. The mention of this tragedy we find in the following extract of a 
 letter from Chambcrlaine to Winwood, dated Dec. 18, 1604 : " 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 
 whether the matter or manner be not well handled, or that it be thought 
 unfit that princes should be played on the stage in their lifetime, I hear 
 that some great councellors are much displeased with it, and so 't is 
 thought it shall be forbidden." 
 
 THE GRATEFUL SERVANT. A comedy by James Shirley, acted at the 
 Private House, Drury Lane. 4to. 1630; 1637; 1660. 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 opportunity of 
 divorcing her, is the same with Contarini's humour and contrivance in the 
 Humorous Courtier. Scene, Savoy. 
 
 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 GREAT DUKE OF FLORENCE. A comical history, by P. Massin- 
 ger, acted at the Phoenix, Drury Lane. 4to. 1636. This play met with 
 very good success, and is recommended, in two copies of verses, by George 
 Donne and John Ford. Sanasarro's giving the duke a false account of the 
 beauty of Lidia, seems to be a near resemblance to the story of Edgar 
 and Elfrida. 
 
 THE GREAT FAVOURITE; or, the Duke of Lerma. A tragedy by Sir 
 Eobert Howard, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1668; fol. 1692. 
 Some scenes of this play are written in blank verse, and some in rhyme ; 
 the scene lies at Madrid ; and the plot is taken from Mariana, Turquet de 
 Mayern, and other historians of those times. 
 
 THE GREAT MAN. This tragedy was among the manuscripts said to have 
 been destroyed by Warburton's servant. 
 
 THE GRECIAN COMEDY. A play acted by Henslowe's company on 
 December 1st, 1594, and several times afterwards. 
 
 THE GREEK MAID. " A pastorell or historie of a Greeke Maide showen
 
 112 GRE—GUI 
 
 at Richmond on the Sondaie next after New Yeaves daie enacted by the 
 Earle of Leicester his servauntes," Revels' Accounts, 1579. 
 
 THE GREEKS AND TROJANS. An old English play, mentioned in 
 Gayton's Notes on Don Quixote, 1G54, p. 271. 
 
 GREEN'S TU QUOQUE ; or, the City Gallant. A comedy by John Cooke. 
 4to. no date; 4to. 1599; 1614. We are told, by Thomas Heywood, 
 who was the editor of this play, that it passed the test of the stage with 
 general applause. It was at first performed by the latter title only ; but 
 the inimitable acting of Green, a celebrated comedian of that time, in the 
 part of Bubble the City Gallant, who, in answer to every compliment, 
 comes out with the words Tu quoque, occasioned the author, out of regard 
 to him, to add to it the present first title. Both editions of it had a figure 
 of Green on the title-page, with a label out of his mouth, Tu quoque, to 
 you, Sir ! The piece itself is republished in Dodsley's Old Plays. 
 
 GREENWICH PARK. A comedy by W. Mountfort. 4to. 1691. This play 
 was acted at Drury Lane. 
 
 GRIM THE COLLIER OF CROYDON ; or, the Devil and his Dame, with 
 the Devil and St, Dunstan. A comedy by J. T., 12mo. 1662. The plot 
 of this play, which is much older than the date of publication, is founded 
 on Machiavel's Novel of the Marriage of Belphegor. The scene lies in 
 England. Reprinted in Dodsley's collection. 
 
 GRIPUS AND HEGIO ; or, the Passionate Lovers. A pastoral, by Robert 
 Baron. 8vo. 1647. This play consists of three acts, and is mostly bor- 
 rowed from Waller's Poems, and Webster's Duchess of Malfy. 
 
 GROBIANA'S NUPTIALS. A curious old English play preserved in the 
 Bodleian Library, 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 by Purcell, and the epilogue by Farquhar. 
 
 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 GUARDIAN, a Comical History, as it hath been often acted at the 
 Private House in Black Friars, by his late Majesties Servants, with great 
 applause. 8vo. 1655. This play, by Phillip Massinger, was licensed in 
 1633. Scene, Naples. 
 
 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.
 
 GUI— HAN 113 
 
 GUISE. Perhaps an unpublished play of Webster's, mentioned by him in 
 his dedication of the Devil's Law Case, 1623, to Sir Thos. Finch. " Some 
 of my other works, as the White Devil, the Dutchess of Main, Guise, and 
 others, you have formerly seen." There is a play called the Guise, men- 
 tioned in Henslowe's Diary as having been produced in 1593, and which 
 is supposed to be Marlowe's Massacre at Paris ; and another, under the 
 same title, mentioned by Kirkman, is conjectured to be Shirley's Duke of 
 Guise. 
 
 GUSTA VUS 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 the list of the MS. plays said to have been 
 destroyed by Warburton's servant. 
 
 GUY EAEL OF WARWICK. A tragical history, by B . J. 4to. 1661. 
 In the books of the Stationers' Company, John Trundle, on the 15th of 
 January, 1619, entered "A Play, called the Life and Death of Guy of 
 Warwicke, written by John Day and Thomas Decker." Probably this may 
 be the same piece. 
 
 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 per- 
 formed 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 9th, 1594. It preceded 
 Shakespeare's tragedy, and is several times alluded to by contemporary 
 writers. 
 
 HAMLET PRINCE OF DENMARK. A tragedy by William Shakespeare. 
 4to. 1604, by I. R. for N. L. ; 1605; 1611 ; 4to. no date; 4to. 1637. 
 There are also several editions of it printed after the Restoration, 4to. 1676 ; 
 1683 ; 1695 ; and 1703. An imperfect copy of it was printed in 1603, and 
 the edition of 1605 is identical with that of 1604, the date oidy being 
 altered. 
 
 HAMPTON COURT MASQUE. The True Description of a Royal Masque 
 presented at Hampton Court upon Sunday Night, January 8th, 1603-4, 
 and personated by the Queenes most excellent Majestie, attended by eleven 
 ladies of honour. 4to. 1604. See tunes used in this inascpae preserved 
 in MS. Addit. 10444. 
 
 HANNIBAL AND HERMES. A play by Robert Wilson, in conjunction 
 with Decker and Drayton, Acted in 1598, but not now in existence. 
 
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 114 HAN— HE A 
 
 HANNIBAL AND SCIPIO. A play, by William Rankins, in conjunction 
 with Richard Hathwaye. Acted in 1600. Not printed. 
 
 HANNIBAL AND SCIPIO. An historical tragedy by Thos. Nabbes, acted 
 in 1635, at the Private House in Drury Lane. 4to. 1637. This play 
 was acted before women appeared upon the stage ; the part of Sophonisba 
 being performed by one Ezekiel Fenne. It is addressed, in verses, by 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 
 Plutarch. 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. 4to. 
 1618. Phillips and Winstanley have attributed the piece to Thomas Nash ; 
 but it is certainly the production of Dawbridge-Court Belchier, whose 
 name is subscribed to the dedication. 
 
 HARDICANUTE. A play acted at the Rose Theatre in 1597. It is men- 
 tioned in Henslowe's Diary under the corrupted title of Hardacute. 
 
 HARD SHIET FOR HUSBANDS. This play is mentioned in Sir Henry 
 Herbert's Diary, under the date of October 29th, 1623, — "for the Pals- 
 grave's players, a new comedy called Hard Shifte for Husbands, or Bilboes 
 the Best Blade, written by Samuel Rowley." 
 
 THE HARROWING OF HELL. An ancient interlocutory poem, some- 
 times, but improperly, termed a miracle-play. Printed from a MS. of the 
 time of Edward the Second, in the British Museum. 8vo. 1840. There 
 is another early copy in the Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 86. 
 
 HARRY OF CORNWALL. A piece with this title was acted, according to 
 Henslowe, Feb. 25th, 1591-2, at the Rose Theatre. 
 
 HARRY THE FIFTH. Acted, as Henslowe records, May 14th, 1592. 
 This was the play entitled " The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, 
 containing the Honourable Battle of Agincourt," 1598. 
 
 HARRY THE FIRST. Henslowe records a performance of " Harey the 
 fyrste life and deth " under date of May 30th, 1597. 
 
 HAVE AT ALL; or, the Midnight Adventures. A comedy by Joseph 
 Williams, acted at Drury Lane in May, 1694. This piece is mentioned in 
 Motteux's Gentleman's Journal, but was never printed. 
 
 THE HAYMAKER'S MASQUE. A masque performed at Court about 
 the year 1623. 
 
 HEAUTONTIMORUMENOS. A comedy by Terence, translated by Rich.
 
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 Bernard. 4to. 1598 ; 1629.— Another translation of the same by Charles 
 Hoole, 8vo. 1663; and a third by Echard, 8vo. 1694. 
 
 THE HECTOR OF GERMANIE ; or, the Palsgrave Prime Elector. An 
 Honourable History, by William Smith. 4to. 1615. This play, which is 
 not divided into acts, was performed at the Red BuJl, and at the Curtain, 
 and was the last that we hear of as being acted at the latter theatre. It 
 was written in 1613. 
 
 THE HECTORS; or, the False Challenge. 4to. 1656. Langbaine gives this 
 comedy a very good character. Scene, London. It is attributed to 
 Edmund Piestwich by Phillips and Winstanley. It was written in 1655. 
 
 HECYRA. A comedy translated from Terence by Richard Bernard. 4to. 
 1598; 1629. 
 
 THE HEIR. A comedy by Thomas May, acted by the Company of Revels, 
 1620. 4to. 1622; second impression, 4to. 1633. The plot, language, 
 and conduct of this play are all admirable, and many of the situations in- 
 teresting ; 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 Dodsley's Collection. Scene, Syracuse. The de- 
 mand of the king, that Leucothoe shall yield to his desires, as the sole con- 
 dition upon which he would spare the life of her lover, appears to be 
 borrowed from Shakespeare's Measure for 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 Romeo and Juliet. 
 
 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, Feb. 1st 
 and 2nd, 1668-9. 
 
 THE HEIR OF MOROCCO, with the Death of Gayland. A tragedy by 
 Elk. Settle, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1682; 1694. Scene, 
 Algiers. 
 
 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF HELIOGABALUS. An interlude, entered 
 by John Danter, June 19, 1594, on the books of the Stationers' Company; 
 but not printed. 
 
 HELL'S HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE; or, the Tryal of the three Politic 
 Ghosts, viz. Oliver Cromwell, the King of Sweden, and Cardinal Mazarine, 
 by J. D. 4to. 1661. This play was never acted, it being entirely 
 political. 
 
 HENGES. This is the name of a play mentioned by Henslowe as acted in 
 1597. It is perhaps miswritten for Hengist, Middleton's play of the
 
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 Mayor of Quinborough is, in one manuscript, called, Hengist King of 
 Kent. 
 HENRY "RICHMOND. A play in two parts by "Robert Wilson. The second 
 part of it was written in 1599. 
 
 HENRY THE FIRST AND HENRY THE SECOND. By William Shake- 
 speare and Robert Davenport. In the books of the Stationers' Company, 
 the 9th of Sept. 1653, an entry is made of the above title; but what 
 species of the drama it was, or whether one or two performances, are facts 
 not ascertained. Whatever it might be, it is said to have suffered in the 
 general havock made by Warburton's servant. Sir H. Herbert records the 
 licensing of Davenport's play of "the Historye of Henry the First" in 
 the year 1624. 
 
 HENRY THE SECOND, KING OF ENGLAND, with the Death of Rosa- 
 mond. 4to. 1693. The story of this play may be found in the English 
 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 Guises. A tragedy in rhyme, by Thomas Shipman. Acted at Drury 
 Lane. 4to. 1678. The story of this play is borrowed from Davila, and 
 the Life of the Duke of Espernon. The scene, Blois, removed in the third 
 act to the camp at St. Cloud before Paris. 
 
 HENRY THE FOURTH. An old play; in which was introduced the de- 
 posing of King Richard II. This piece was prior to Shakespeare's King 
 Henry IV. It was performed at Lord Essex's house the night before his 
 insurrection. 
 
 HENRY THE FOURTH. An historical play, by Shakespeare, in two parts. 
 The first containing the Life and Death of Henry; surnamed Hotspur; 
 4to. 1598; 1599; 1604; 1608; 1613; 1622; 1632; 1639; and the 
 second, the Death of Henry IV. and Coronation of Henry V., acted by the 
 Lord Chamberlain's Servants. 4to. 1600. In some copies of this early 
 edition of the Second Part, the signature E has six leaves, supplying a 
 deficiency found in those copies in which that signature has only the usual 
 number of four leaves. 
 
 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 THE FIFTH. The Famous Victories of Henry V., containing the
 
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 honourable Battle of Agincourt. Acted by the King's servants. 4to. 1598; 
 1617. This is different from Shakespeare's play, and is one which he 
 availed himself of in the composition of his own performance. It is re- 
 printed in Nichols's Collection of Six Old Plays. 
 
 HENRY THE FIFTH. The Chronicle History of Henry V. with his 
 Battel fought at Agincourt, in France, together with Antient Pistoll. As 
 it hath bene sundry times played by the Right Honourable the Lord 
 Charaberlaine his servants. By W. Shakespeare. 4to. 1600; 1602; 
 1608. This is an imperfect copy of Shakespeare's play, first priuted in 
 full in the folio of 1623. 
 
 HENRY THE FIFTH. A tragedy by the Earl of Orrery. Fol. 1669; 1672; 
 1690. This may be traced in the English chronicles of that prince's reign, 
 and in the French ones of that of Charles VI. Scene, France. It was 
 acted at the Duke of York's Theatre with great success ; the characters 
 being very splendidly dressed, particularly those of King Henry, Owen 
 Tudor, and the Duke of Burgundy. It was also acted at Lincoln's Inn 
 Fields in 1664. There is a manuscript copy of this play in the Bodleian 
 Library, Rawl. Poet. 2. 
 
 HENRY THE SIXTH. A play called Henry the Sixth was produced at the 
 Rose Theatre, March 3rd, 1591-2, and is supposed by Malone to be the 
 First Part of Shakespeare's historical dramas on the incidents of that reigr. 
 Shakespeare's three parts of Henry the Sixth were first printed in folio, 
 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. 4to. 
 1681. Part of this play is borrowed from Shakespeare. Scene, the Court 
 at Westminster. 
 
 HENRY THE SIXTH, the Second Part; or, the Misery of Civil War. A 
 tragedy by J. Crowne, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1681. This 
 play was written before the last-named one, and was first printed by the 
 last title only, 4to. 1680. This is also in great measure borrowed from 
 Shakespeare. 
 
 HENRY THE EIGHTH. A play by Shakespeare. Fol. 1623. 
 
 HERACLIUS EMPEROR OF THE EAST. A tragedy by Lodowick 
 Carlell. 4to. 1664. This is little more than a translation from the 
 Heraclius of Corneille. It was intended for the stage, but was never acted, 
 another translation having been preferred before it by the performers, and 
 this piece not returned to the author till the day that the other was acted 
 at the Duke's Theatre. The plot of it is from Baronius' Ecclesiastical
 
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 Annals, but the author lias not strictly tied himself down to historical truth. 
 The scene, Constantinople. 
 
 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. A masque by P. Motteux, being one of the dramatic pieces in 
 the Novelty; or, Every Act a Play, 1697. The scene lies in the Lydian 
 Court. 
 
 HERCULES FURENS. A tragedy, translated from Seneca by Jasper 
 Heywood. 12mo. 1561; 4to. 1581. 
 
 HERCULES (ETiEUS. A tragedy, translated from Seneca, by J. Studley, 
 included in " Seneca his Tenne Tragedies." 4to. 1 581. 
 
 HERMOPHUS. A Latin comedy, by George Wilde. It was several times 
 acted, but was never printed. 
 
 HERO AND LEANDER, their Tragedy, by Sir Robert Stapylton. 4to. 
 1669. Whether this play was ever acted or not, seems to be a dubious point, 
 although the prologue and epilogue carry an implication of the affirmative. 
 The plot is partly taken from Ovid's Epistles, and Musaeus's Erotopaignion. 
 The scene, the towns and towers of Sestos and Abydos, the Hellespont 
 flowing between them. 
 
 HEROD AND ANTIPATER, with the Death of Fair Mariam. A tragedy 
 by Gervase Markham and William Sampson, acted at the Red Bull. 4to. 
 1622. The plot of this play is taken from Josephus. 
 
 HEROD AND MARIAMNE. A tragedy by Samuel Pordage. 4to. 1673 ; 
 1 674. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. The plot is from Josephus, the story 
 of Tyridates in Cleopatra, and the Unfortunate Politic, or the Life of Herod, 
 translated from the French. Svo. 1639. 
 
 HEROD THE GREAT. A tragedy by the Earl of Orrery. This play was 
 never acted, but was printed in fol. 1694. Ghosts are introduced into this 
 stupid play, two appearing to Mariamne, and numbers of them to Herod. 
 The plot is from Josephus. 
 
 HERODES. A Latin tragedy, by William Goldingham ; a manuscript, in 
 the University Library, Cambridge, dedicated to Thomas Sackville, Lord 
 Buckhurst. Another Latin tragedy on the same subject was written about 
 the year 1572 by Patrick A damson, afterwards Archbishop of St. Andrews. 
 
 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
 
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 book of Homer; 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 Bolingbroke ; and the epilogue by Bevil Higgons. 
 
 THE HEROIC LOVER; or, the Infanta of Spain. A tragedy by George 
 Cartwright. 8vo. 1661. This play is not mentioned by Langbaine, and 
 is, in all the later catalogues, intilled Heroic Love. The scene lies in 
 Poland ; and the author himself calls it a poem, consisting more of fatal 
 truth than flying fancy ; penned many years ago, but not published till 
 now ; and, we imagine, never acted. 
 
 HERPETULUS. " Herpetulus the blew knighte, and Perobia, playde by 
 my Lorde Klintou's servauntes the third of January," Revels' Accounts, 
 1573-4. 
 
 HESTER AND AHA.SUERUS. A Scriptural drama, a performance of which, 
 on June 3rd, 1594, is noticed by Henslowe. 
 
 HEWSON REDUCT); or, the Shoemaker return'd to his Trade; "being 
 a show, wherein is represented the honesty, inoffensiveness, and ingenuity 
 of that profession, when 'tis kept within its own bounds, and goes not 
 beyond the Last." 4to. 1661. 
 
 HEY FOR HONESTY, DOWN WITH KNAVERY. A comedy by Tho. 
 Randolph, 4to. 1651. This is little more than a translation from the Plutus 
 of Aristophanes. It was augmented and published by F. J. The scene 
 lies in London ; and it is introduced by a dialogue between Aristophanes, 
 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 Aristo- 
 phanes 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 translator 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 accpiaint 
 thee with." Randolph's name was sometimes spelt Randal. 
 
 HIC ET UBIQUE ; or, the Humours of Dublin. A comedy by Richard 
 Head. 4to. 1663. This eccentric piece is said to have been acted privately 
 with general applause. Scene, Dublin. 
 
 HICK SCORNER. The interlude of Ilycke Scorner, "emprynted by me 
 W T ynkyn de Worde," is in the Garrick collection. It is reprinted in 
 Hawkins' English Drama, 1773. There was an edition of this play, temp. 
 Elizabeth, printed by Awdelay, but no copy of it is known to exist.
 
 120 HI Q— HOG 
 
 THE 11 IGHWAY TO HEAVEN. A play mentioned in Greene's Groatsworth 
 of Wit, 1592, — " the Twelve Labours of Hercules have I terribly thundered 
 on the stage, and played three scenes of the devil in the Highway to 
 Heaven." 
 
 HIPPOLYTUS. A tragedy translated from Seneca, by John Studley, in- 
 cluded in "Seneca his Tenne Tragedies," 4to. 1581. 
 
 HIPPOLYTUS. A tragedy by E. Prestwich. 12mo. 1651. This is a trans- 
 lation from Seneca, made entirely in rhyme, with comments on every scene, 
 and six copies of recommendatory verses by Shirley, Cotton, &c. 
 
 H1SPANUS. A Latin comedy by a writer named Morrell, acted at Cambridge 
 in 1596. There is a manuscript copy of it, written in 1600, in the Bodleiau 
 Library. MS. Douce 234. 
 
 THE HISTOKY OE ABRAHAM. An old mystery, preserved in manuscript 
 in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, and edited by J. P. Collier, 8vo. 
 Lond. 1836. 
 
 HISTRIOMASTIX; or, the Player Whipp'd. 4to. 1610. This comedy was 
 written in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, as appears from a speech at the 
 conclusion. 
 
 HIT THE NAILE 0' THE HEAD. An interlude mentioned in the tragedy 
 of Sir Thomas More, MS. Harl. 7368, written about 1590. 
 
 HOBBINAL. A droll called the Humours of Hobbinal is printed in the 
 Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 
 
 HOCK TUESDAY. A play, or perhaps a dumb show, on the subject of the 
 victory over the Danes in 1002. It was performed before Queen Elizabeth 
 at Kenilworth Castle, 1575. 
 
 HOEFMAN. The Tragedy of Hoffman; or, a Revenge for a Father, acted 
 divers times at the Phoenix, Drury Lane, with great applause. 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 26, 1629; and it appears from Henslowe's Diary, p. 229, that 
 it was written, in 1602, by Henry Chettle. 
 
 THE HOGGE HATH LOST HIS PEARLE. A comedy by Robert Tailor, 
 divers Times publikely acted by certaine London Prentices. 4to. 1614. 
 In Dodsley's Collection. The part of the plot from which the piece derives 
 its name, is the elopement of the daughter of one Hogge, an usurer, who 
 is one of the principal characters in the play. The scene lies in London. 
 It was first acted at the Whitefriars early in the year 1613. See a curious 
 notice of it in the Reliquias Wottonianse, ed. 1672. p. 402.
 
 HOL—HON 121 
 
 THE HOLLANDER. A comedy by Henry Glapthomc, written and acted, 
 1635, at the Cock-pit, Drury Lane, and at Court before the King and 
 Queen; and printed in 4to. 1640. Scene, London. 
 
 HOLLAND'S LEAGUER. A comedy by Shakerley Marmion, acted at Court 
 before the King and Queen, and also at the Private House in Salisbury 
 Court. 4to. 1632. This piece met with great applause at Salisbury Court 
 in 1631. The story was printed the same year in 4to.; but there is no 
 incident in this play taken from it, except a detection of the sin of pan- 
 darism. The author has, however, borrowed several circumstances from 
 Petronius Arbiter, Juvenal, and other of the classic writers. Scene, 
 London. 
 
 HOLOFERNES. An interlude acted at Hatfield iu 1556. A play so called 
 was also performed at Derby in the year 1572. 
 
 HOMO. A Latin tragedy, unpublished, preserved in the British Museum, 
 MS. Harl. 6925. The author of it was one Thomas Atkinson, who dedi- 
 cates it to Laud, then President of St. John's College. It was written 
 probably about the year 1612. 
 
 THE HONEST LAWYER, A comedy by S. S., acted by the Queen's Ma- 
 jesties Servants. 4to. 1616. Scene, Bedford. 
 
 THE HONEST MAN'S FORTUNE. A tragi-comedy by Beaumont and 
 Fletcher. Fol. 1647; acted first in 1613. The incident of Lamira's 
 preferring Montaigne to be her husband in the time of his greatest ad- 
 versity, and when he had the least reason to expect it, seems borrowed 
 from Heywood's History of Women, book ix. Scene, Paris. There is 
 extant an old manuscript copy of this play, at the end of which is Sir H. 
 Herbert's licence, dated 8 Feb., 1624-5, allowing it as an old play which 
 had been brought to him by Taylor, the actor of the King's Company. In 
 Herbert's Diary, it is thus mentioned, — "for the king's company, an old 
 play called the Honest Man's Fortune ; the original being lost, was re- 
 allowed by me, at Mr. Taylor's intreaty, and on condition to give me a 
 book," that is, a copy of it. 
 
 THE HONEST WHORE. A comedy by Thomas Decker. 4to. 1604; 
 1605 ; 1615 ; 1616 ; 1635. The edition of 1616 is merely that of 1615 
 with a new title-page. The first part contains "the Humours of the Patient 
 Man and the Longing W'ife," and was acted with great applause. This 
 part was written in 1604, in conjunction with Middleton, as appears from an 
 entry in Henslowe's Diary, p. 232. The second part, 4to. 1630, contains 
 " the Humours of the Patient Man, the Impatient Wife ; the Honest Whore 
 perswaded by strong arguments to turne curtizan again ; her brave refuting 
 those arguments ; and lastly, the comicall passages of an Italian Bridewell, 
 
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 122 HON— HOW 
 
 where the serene ends." This second part was licensed in 1608. The 
 incident of the patient man and bis impatient wife going to fight for the 
 breeches, may be found in Sir John Harrington's Epigrams, i. 1G. 
 
 HONORIA AND MAMMON. 8vo. 1659. The scene of this comedy lies 
 at Metropolis, or New Troy. This is an enlargement of the author's 
 masque of the Contention for Honour and Riches. 
 
 THE HONOURED LOVES. A play by William Rowley, mentioned in 
 the list of manuscripts said to have been destroyed by Warburton's servant. 
 It is elsewhere called the Four Honoured Loves, q. v. 
 
 HONOUR IN THE END. This comedy is advertised at the end of Wit and 
 Drollery, 12mo. 1661, as in the press. It, however, never appeared. It 
 is mentioned in Herbert's Diary, May 21st, 1624, as acted by the Pals- 
 grave's Company. 
 
 THE HONOUR OF WOMEN. A play with this title, and ascribed to 
 Massinger, was licensed May 6th, 1628. It is elsewhere called the 
 Spanish Viceroy, q. v. 
 
 HORACE. A tragedy by Charles Cotton. 4to. 1671. This is only a 
 translation of the Horace of Corneille, with additional songs and choruses 
 by the translator. 
 
 HORACE. A tragedy by Cath. Phillips. Fol. 1667; 1678. This is a 
 translation of the same piece as the foregoing. The fifth act was added by 
 Sir John Deuham, and it was presented at Court by persons of quality, the 
 prologue being spoken by the Duke of Monmouth. 
 
 HORATIUS, a Roman Tragedie, by Sir William Lower, Knight. 4to. 1656. 
 This is also a translation from Corneille, but is not equal to either of the 
 preceding two. The scene is in Rome, in a hall of Horatius's house. 
 
 THE HOSPITAL OF LOVERS; or, Love's Hospital. A Comedy by George 
 Wilde, 1636. See a further notice of it under the second title of 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 acted at Court in May, 1613. 
 
 HOW A MAN MAY CHUSE A GOOD WIFE FROM A BAD. 4to. 
 1602; 1605; 1608; 1614; 1621; 1630; 1634. 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 incident of Anselme's 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, called Love in the Grave, in the
 
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 Pleasant Companion, and is the subject of several plays. The scene is in 
 London. In the Garrick collection, this piece is ascribed, in manuscript, 
 to a Joshua Cooke; probably John, the author of Greene's Tu cpioque. 
 
 HOW TO LEARN OF A WOMAN TO WOO. A play by Thomas 1 lev- 
 wood, acted at Court in December, 1605. No copy of it is known to 
 exist. 
 
 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, 1607-8. 
 
 HUMANITIE AND SENSUALITIE. One of the eight interludes by Sir 
 David Lindsay, written in 1552, and printed in 4to. 1602. 
 
 THE HUMOROUS COURTIER. A comedy by James Shirley, acted at 
 the Private House, Drury Lane. 4to. 1640. This play was acted with 
 very good success. Scene, Mantua. 
 
 HUMOROUS DAY'S MIRTH. A Pleasant Comedy, by George Chapman, 
 acted by the Lord Admiral's Servants. 4to. 1599. 
 
 THE HUMOROUS LIEUTENANT. A tragi-comedy by Beaumont and 
 Fletcher. Fol. 1647 ; 4to. 1697, as then acted. This 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. 
 Scene, Greece. 
 
 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 the silly play of my Lady (?) Newcastle's, called 
 the Humorous Lovers ; the most silly thing that ever came upon a stage," 
 Pepys. There is a manuscript copy of this play in the British Museum, 
 MS. Harl. 7367. 
 
 THE HUMOURISTS. A comedy by Thomas Shadwell, acted at Lincoln's 
 Inn Fields. 4to. 1671 ; 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. 
 
 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 12th, 1608, and licensed on the same day. 
 
 HUMOURS. A comedy produced at the Rose Theatre in May, 1597. It 
 has been supposed, on uncertain grounds, to be Jonson's comedy of Every 
 Man in his Humour.
 
 121 IIVN—HYM 
 
 THE HUNGARIAN LION. This play is mentioned in Sir Henry Herbert's 
 manuscript Diary, under the date of December 4th, 1623, " for the Pals- 
 grave's players, the Hungarian Lion, written by Gunnel." 
 
 THE HUNTERS' MASQUE. In the Revels' Accounts, 1573-4, is a charge 
 for " six homes gamisht with sylver for the Hunters' Mask on New Yeres 
 
 Nightc." 
 
 HUNTING OF CUPID. A dramatic pastoral by George Peele. Entered 
 on the books of the Stationers' Company in 1591. No copy is known to 
 exist, but extracts, in the Druininond manuscripts, are printed in Peele's 
 Works, ed. Dyce, ii. 259. 
 
 THE HUNTINGTON DIVERTISEMENT ; or, an Enterlude for the 
 general Entertainment at the County Feast, held at Merchant Taylor's 
 Hall, June 20, 1678. 4to. This piece has the letters W. M., and is dedi- 
 cated to the nobility and gentry of the county. The scene lies in Hinchin- 
 broke grove, fields, and meadows. 
 
 HUON OF BOURDEAUX. Acted by the Earl of Sussex's men, Dec. 28th, 
 1593. Henslowe writes the title, " Hewen of Burdoehe." 
 
 THE HUSBAND HIS OWN CUCKOLD. A comedy by John Dryden, 
 the son of the great poet. Acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to. 1696. 
 The story on which this play is founded was an accident which happened 
 at Rome. The author, however, has transferred the scene to England. 
 The prologue is written by Congreve, and the preface and epilogue by Mr. 
 Dryden, sen ; but, with all this advantage, the play had little success. It 
 is dedicated by the author to his uncle, Sir R. Howard. 
 
 HYDE PARK. A comedy by James Shirley, acted at the Private House, 
 Drury Lane. 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 Playhouse in 1668. 
 
 HYMENiEI; or, the Solemnities of a Masque and Barriers at a Marriage, 
 by Ben. Jonson. 4to. 1606; fol. 1616. To this piece the author has 
 annexed many very curious and learned marginal notes for the illustration 
 of the ancient Greek and Roman customs. 
 
 HYMEN/EUS. A Latin comedy, acted at Cambridge. There is a MS. 
 copy of it in the library of St. John's College. 
 
 HYMEN'S HOLIDAY; or, Cupid's Fagaries, by Samuel Rowley. It was 
 acted at Court in 1612, and revived with some alterations, before the King 
 and Queen at Whitehall, 1633. Not printed. 
 
 HYMEN'S TRIUMPH. A pastoral tragi-comedy by Sam. Daniel. 4to.
 
 IBR—10N 125 
 
 1623. This piece was presented at an entertainment given to King 
 James I. by his Queen at her Court in the Strand, on the nuptials of Lord 
 Roxborough, and is dedicated to the said Queen. It is introduced by a 
 prologue, in which Hymen is opposed by Avarice, Envy, and Jealousy, the 
 three greatest disturbers of matrimonial happiness. It is entered on the 
 Stationers' books, Jan. 13th, 1614. 
 
 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 hero 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 Continuation of the Turkish History. 
 
 IF IT BE NOT GOOD THE DIVEL IS IN IT. A new play, as it hath 
 bin lately acted with great applause by the Queene's Majesties servants, at 
 the Red Bull; written by Thomas Decker. 4to. 1612. The principal 
 plot of this piece is built on Machiavel's Marriage of Belphegor. The name 
 is founded on a quibble, the Devil being a principal character in the play. 
 Scene, Naples. 
 
 IF YOU KNOW NOT ME, YOU KNOW NOBODY ; or, the Troubles of 
 Queen Elizabeth, in two parts, by Thomas Heywood. Fart the first, 4to. 
 1605; 1606; 1608; 1613; 1632. Part the second, 4to. 1606; 1623; 
 1633. The second part contains the building of the Royal Exchange, and 
 the famous victory of Queen Elizabeth in the year 1588. This play 
 was printed without the author's consent or knowledge, and that so cor- 
 ruptly, 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 first representation, he 
 thought it necessary to write a prologue to it ; in which he inveighs against, 
 and disclaims, the imperfect copy. Both parts were reprinted by the 
 Shakespeare Society, 8vo. 1851. 
 
 IGNORAMUS. Comcedia coram Regia Majestate Jacobi, Regis Angliae, &c. 
 12mo. 1630; 1659; 166S-70. An elaborate edition, with notes by 
 Hawkins, was published in Svo. 1789. This play was written by George 
 Ruggle of Clare Hall, Cambridge ; and was acted before King James I. 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 Som- 
 merset, goes to Cambridge, and there was entertained with great solemnity,
 
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 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, and the explaining of the meaning," His- 
 torical Narration, 1651. There are numerous MS. copies of this play in 
 existence. 
 IGNOEAMUS. A comedy by R. C. 4to. 1662. This is a translation of 
 the Latin play of the same name. The two annexed letters are explained 
 by Coxeter to stand for Rob. Codrington. 
 
 AN ILL BEGINNING HAS A GOOD END, AND A BAD BEGIN- 
 NING MAY HAVE A GOOD END. A comedy, by John Eorde, entered 
 on the books of the Stationers' Company, June 20, 1660. It was performed 
 at Court, in 1613, and was among those said to have been destroyed by 
 Warburton's servant. 
 
 THE IMAGE OF LOVE. This is one of Bishop Bale's dramatic pieces, 
 mentioned by himself in the list of his works. 
 
 IMPATIENT POVERTY. An interlude, called, a Newe Interlude of Im- 
 pacyente Poverte, newlye imprinted. 4to. 1560. The writer says that, 
 " four men may well and easelye playe this interlude." It is alluded to in 
 the old play of Sir Thomas More. 
 
 THE IMPERIAL TRAGEDY. Anonymous. Polio, 1669. Acted at the 
 Nursery, in Barbican. The greater part of this play is professedly " taken 
 out of a Latin play, and very much altered by a gentleman for his own 
 diversion." The plot is built on the history of Zeno, the twelfth Emperor 
 from Constantine, and the scene lies in Constantinople. Jacob ascribes 
 this play to Sir William Killigrew. 
 
 IMPERIALE. A tragedy by Sir Ralph Freeman. 12mo. 1640 ; 4to. 1 655. 
 The plot is taken from Beard's Theatre, Goulart's Hist. Admirab., &c, and 
 the scene is laid in Genoa. 
 
 THE IMPOSTURE. A tragi-comedy by James Shirley. Acted at the Private 
 House, Black Friars. 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 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 sepa- 
 rately), being no more than a short week's work, to serve the wants of a 
 thin playhouse and long vacation." Scene, Venice. 
 
 THE IMPOSTURES OF THOMAS BECKET. A dramatic piece by Bishop 
 Bale, no copy of which is known to exist. 
 
 THE INCONSTANT LADY. A comedy by Arthur Wilson, entered on the
 
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 books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 9, 1653. Printed by Dr. Bliss 
 from a manuscript in the Bodleian library, MS. Bawl. Poet. 9, 4to. Oxford, 
 1814. 
 
 INCREDULITY OF ST. THOMAS. One of the series of the York miracle- 
 plays, that which was acted by the Scriveners of York. It was first printed 
 from the original manuscript, of the fifteenth century, in Croft's Excerpta 
 Antiqua, 1797; and again, from the same manuscript, under the careful 
 editorship of Mr. J. P. Collier, in the Camden Miscellany, vol. iv., 1859. 
 
 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 26th, 1665. There is a MS. copy of it in 
 the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, noticed in Bernard's Catalogue, 
 p. 102. Of this connection notice was given to the audience by printed 
 bills, distributed 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 met with great success in the representation. The scene lies in Mexico, 
 and two leagues about it. 
 
 THE INDIAN QUEEN. A tragedy by Sir Robert Howard and Mr. Dryden. 
 Fol. 1665 ; 1692. This is in heroic verse, and met with great applause. 
 It was produced in 166T with great splendour, with music composed by 
 Pureed. Scene, near Mexico. 
 
 THE INGRATITUDE OF A COMMONWEALTH; or, the Fad of Caius 
 Martius Coriolanus. A tragedy by N. Tate, acted at the Theatre Royal. 
 4to. 16S2. This play is founded on Shakespeare's Coriolanus, and was 
 chosen by the 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. 
 
 THE INJUR'D LOVERS; or, the Ambitious Father. A tragedy by VV. 
 Mountfort, acted at Drury Lane. 4to. 16S8. 
 
 THE INJUR'D PRINCESS ; or, the Fatal Wager. A tragi-comedy, by T. 
 Durfey, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1682. The foundation and 
 great part of the language of this play is taken from Shakespeare's Cym- 
 beline, and the scene lies at Lud's Town, alias London. The author has 
 also made use of the epilogue to the Fool Turn'd Critic, by way of prologue 
 to this piece. Its running title is, " The Unequal Match ; or, The Fatal 
 Wager." 
 
 THE INNER TEMPLE AND GRAY'S INN MASQUE. The Masque of
 
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 the Inner Temple and Graye's Inn, Graye's Inne, and the Inner Temple ; 
 presented before His Majestie, the Queenc's Majestie, the Prince Count 
 Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth, their Highnesses, in the Banquetting 
 House, at Whitehall, on Saturday the twentieth day of Februarie, 1612. 
 By Francis Beaumont. 4to. no date. This masque was represented with 
 the utmost splendour and magnificence, and at a great expense to both the 
 societies. 
 THE INNER TEMPLE MASQUE; or, Masque of Heroes. By Thomas 
 Middleton. 4to. 1619. This was presented, as an entertainment for many 
 worthy ladies, by the gentlemen of that ancient house. 
 
 THE INNER TEMPLE MASQUE. By William Browne. Performed 
 about the year 1620. Printed from a manuscript in Emanuel college 
 library, 1772, in Davies's edition of that author's works. 
 
 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, ori- 
 ginal ; 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 government. The author, in his dedication, " to my friend, 
 the stationer, Mr. Bently," however, has vindicated himself from that charge, 
 by setting forth that it was written ten years before, so that it could not 
 possibly have been meant to cast a reflection on the then present govern- 
 ment. Scene, the Tower of London. 
 
 THE INSATIATE COUNTESS. A tragedy by J. Marston. 4to. 1613 ; 
 4to. 1631. Though all the catalogues ascribe this play to Marston, and 
 it is actually printed with his name to it, yet there is almost equal reason 
 to assign it to William Barksted. In the Kemble collection is a copy of it 
 with Barksted's name in 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. Ton- 
 nere's disguising himself in woman's clothes, and his mistress's husband 
 (Count Brissac) falling in love with him in 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 scene, Versailles. 
 
 THE INVISIBLE KNIGHT. A play so called is mentioned in Shirley's 
 Bird in a Cage, 1633.
 
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 THE INVISIBLE SMIRK. A droll formed out of the comedy of the Two 
 Merry Milkmaids, and printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1G72. 
 
 IPIIIGENIA. This play of Euripides was translated into Latin, in the 
 sixteenth century, by John Lumley. The original manuscript of the 
 translation is preserved in the British Museum, MS. Bibl. Reg. 15. A. 9. 
 In the Revels' Accounts, 1571, is noted, " Effigiuia, a tragedye showen on 
 the Innosentes Daie at night by the Children of Powles." This was 
 probably an English translation of the play, a song included in which, set 
 to music, temp. Elizabeth, is preserved in MS. Lansd. 807. 
 
 IPHIGENIA. A tragedy by J. Dennis. 4to. 1700. This was brought 
 out at Little Lincoln's Inn Eields, 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 written 
 by Colonel Codrington. 
 
 IPHIS AND IANTHE ; or, a Marriage Without a Man. This comedy was 
 entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, June 29, 1660, under 
 the name of Shakespeare. It was never printed. 
 
 IRENA. 4to. 1664. This tragedy has a prologue and epilogue, but it 
 
 does not appear to have been acted. 
 THE IRISH KNIGHT. " The Irisshe Knyght showen at Whitehall on 
 
 Shrovemundaie at night, enacted by the Eaiie of Warwick his seivauntes," 
 
 Revels' Accounts, 1576. 
 THE IRISH MASQUE. By Ben Jonson. Pol. 1616; 1640. This 
 
 piece was acted at Court in 1613 and 1614. 
 
 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 Kirke, 
 under this title, in 1642. 
 
 THE IRON AGE. A history, in two parts, by Thomas Heywood. 4to. 
 1632. The first part contains the rape of Helen, the siege of Troy, the 
 combat between Hector and Ajax, the deaths of Troilus and Hector, the 
 death of Achilles, the contention of Ajax and Ulysses, the death of Ajax, 
 &c. The second includes the deaths of Penthesdea, Paris, Priam, and 
 Hecuba, the burning of Troy, and the deaths of Agamemnon, Menelaus, 
 Clytemnestra, Helen, Orestes, Egisthus, Pylades, King Diomed, Pyrrhus, 
 Cethus, Synon, and Thersites. 
 
 THE ISLAND PRINCESS. A tragi-comedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher, 
 fol. 1647. 
 
 THE ISLAND PRINCESS. A tragi-comedy, by Nahum Tate, altered from 
 Beaumont and Pletcher, and acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1687. Dedi- 
 cated to Lord Walgrave. 
 
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 130 IS L— IT J 
 
 THE ISLAND PRINCESS ; or, the Generous Portuguese. An opera, by 
 P. A. Motteux. 4to. 1699; 1701. This is only the principal parts of 
 Fletcher's Island Princess formed into an opera, and performed at the 
 Theatre Royal. The scene lies in the Spice Islands ; and the music was 
 composed by Daniel Pureed, Clarke, and Leveridge. The original music 
 to tins opera is preserved in the British Museum, MS. Addit. 15318. 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. 
 
 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, &c. To this edition are the names added 
 of Wilks, Booth, Oldfield, Porter, &c. in the dramatis personam, 
 
 THE ISLE OF DOGS. By Thomas Nash. This comedy, which was written 
 in 1597, was never published. In a pamphlet, called, Lenten Stuff, 1599, 
 the author 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 Henslowe's Diary, p. 99. 
 
 THE ISLE OF GULLS. A comedy by J. Daye, acted at Black Friars, 
 by the Children of the Bevels. 4to. 1606; 4to. 1633. This is a very 
 good play, and met with great success. The plot is taken from Sir Ph. 
 Sydney's Arcadia. It derives its name from the circumstance of nearly all 
 the characters in it being gulled. 
 
 ISRAEL. In the year 1352, the guild of Corpus Christi in Cambridge acted 
 an interlude or play Mliorum Israel, to the acting of which William de 
 Lynne and Isabella his wife, both of that fraternity, gave half a mark. 
 Cole's MSS. 
 
 THE ITALIAN HUSBAND. A tragedy by Edward Ravenscroft. 4to. 
 1698. Acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields. The scene lies at 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's. The epilogue was written by Jo. Haines. The plot is taken from 
 the history of Castruccio and Gloriana, in a collection of stories, entitled, the 
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 IT A— JAM 131 
 
 ;ind Adultery, express'd in Thirty modern tragical Histories, by Thomas 
 Wright, M.A. of St. Peter's College, m Cambridge. 8vo. 1685. 
 
 THE ITALIAN NIGHT PIECE; or, the Unfortunate Piety. By Philip 
 Massinger. Entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 9, 
 1653 : it was among those destroyed by Warburton's servant. 
 
 IXION. A masque, included in Ravenscroft's play of the Italian Husband, 
 1698. 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 Pleasant Comedy of Pasquil 
 and Katharine. 4to. 1601 ; 1616; 1618. Acted by the Children of 
 Paul's. The incident of Mammon's poisoning Katharine's face, seems 
 borrowed from Demagoras's treatment of Parthenia in Argalus and 
 Parthenia. 
 
 JACK JUGGLER. A New Enterlued for chyldren to playe named Jaeke 
 Jugeler, both wytte and very playsant. Reprinted by the Roxburghe Club. 
 4to. 1820. It was entered on the registers of the Stationers' Company in 
 1562-3. 
 
 JACK STRAW. The Life and Death of Jacke Straw, a notable Rebell in 
 England, who was kild in Smithfield by the Lord Maior of London ; 
 Printed at London by John Danter, and are to be sold by William Barley, 
 1593, 4to. Another edition, printed for Thomas Pavier, 1604. In four 
 acts only. The plot is founded on the history of Jack Straw, as related in 
 the chronicles. This play was entered on the registers of the Stationers' 
 Company by John Danter, Oct. 23rd, 1593. 
 
 JACOB AND ESAU. An interlude. 4to. 1568. This is a very early 
 piece. It is written in metre, and printed in black letter. Its full title 
 runs as follows : — " A newe, mery and wittie Comedie or Enterlude, newelie 
 imprinted, treating upon the Historie of Jacob and Esau, taken out of the 
 27th Chapter of the firste Booke of Moses, entituled Genesis." 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." 
 
 JAMES THE FOURTH. The Scottish History of James IV. slaine at 
 Flodden, intermixed with a pleasant Comedie presented by Oberon, King 
 of Fayeries. By Robert Greene. 4to 1598 ; 1599. The design of this 
 piece is taken from the history of that king, who lost his life in a battle 
 with the English at Flodden Hill, in the beginning of the sixteenth century ; 
 for farther particulars of which, see Buchanan and other Scots historians. 
 There is, probably, an earUer edition of this play, as it is entered on the 
 books of the Stationers' Company, by Thomas Creede, May 13, 1591.
 
 132 JAM—JER 
 
 KING JAMES HIS ENTERTAINMENT AT THEOBALDS : with his 
 Welcome to London. Together with a Salutatorie Poeme. By John 
 Saville. 4to. 1603. 
 
 JANE SHORE. A play, written by Henry Chettle in conjunction with 
 John Day. It was altered for Lord Worcester's company in 1602, so that 
 it was no doubt written long before that date. 
 
 JANUS. A masque presented at Court in 1573. See a curious notice of it 
 in Cunningham's Revels Accounts, p. 35. 
 
 THE JEALOUS HUSBANDS, with the humours of Sir John Twiford and 
 the Rambling Justice. 4to. 1680. This is only Leanerd's comedy of the 
 Rambling Justice, 1678, printed with anew title. 
 
 THE JEALOUS LOVERS. A comedy by Thomas Randolph. 4to. 1 632 ; 
 1634; 12mo. 1646; 12mo. 1668. Presented by the students of Trinity 
 College, Cambridge. This play, which is esteemed the best of our author's 
 works, is commended by no less than four copies of English, and six of 
 Latin verses, from the most eminent wits of both universities ; and was 
 revived with great success in 1682. Scene, Thebes. 
 
 JENKINS' LOVE COURSE. A droll formed out of Shirley's School of 
 Compliments, and printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 
 
 JEPHTHA. A tragedy taken from the eleventh chapter of the book of 
 Judges, written both in Latin and Greek, and dedicated to King Henry VIII. 
 about the year 1546, by John Christopherson, one of the first fellows of 
 Trinity College in Cambridge, afterwards master, Dean of Norwich, and 
 Bishop of Chichester. It was, pi'obably, composed as a Christmas play 
 for the same society. 
 
 JEPHTHA. Jepthes sive Votum, a Latin tragedy by George Buchanan, 
 published at Paris in 1554. An English translation of it, by W. Tait, 
 appeared in 1750. 
 
 JEPHTHA. A play by Anthony Munday and Thomas Decker, acted in 
 1602. It is noticed in Henslowe's Diary under the title of Jeffa. 
 
 JEPHTHA'S RASH VOW. A puppet-show performed at Bartholomew 
 Fair in 1698, mentioned in Sorbierc's Journey to London in that year. 
 In a notice of its performance, at the same fair in 1701, it is called 
 Jephtha's Rash Vow, or the Virgin Sacrifice; and when it was played in 1704, 
 Penkethman and Bullock took the characters of Toby and Ezekiel. 
 
 JERONYMO; or, the Spanish Tragedy, with the Wars of Portugal. 4to. 
 1605. In Dodsley's Collection. This play contains the life and death of 
 Don Andrea. It was written about the year 1588 byKyd. See Collier's 
 Hist. Dram. Poet , iii. 207.
 
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 JERUSALEM. A play acted at the Hose Theatre in 1591 and 1592. It 
 may have been an English translation or adaptation of Legge's Latin play 
 on the subject. 
 
 THE JEW. A play, the subject of which was the " greediness of worldly 
 chusers, and the bloody minds of usurers," mentioned in Gosson's School 
 of Abuse, 1579, as having been played at the Bel Savage. 
 
 THE RICH JEW OF MALTA. A tragedy by Christ. Marlowe. 4to. 
 1633; in Dodsley's Collection. This play was not published till many 
 years after the author's death, when Hey wood ushered it into the Court, 
 and presented it before the King and Queen, at the Cock-pit, with the 
 prologue and epilogue annexed to this edition of it ; at which time it met 
 with very great and deserved applause. Scene, Malta. It was entered on 
 the books of the Stationers' Company the 17th of May, 1594, by Nicholas 
 Ling and Thomas Millington. It was acted at the Rose Theatre so early 
 a3 Feb. 26, 1591, and at the Newington Theatre, June 12, 1594. 
 
 THE JEW OF VENICE. By Thomas Decker. This play was entered on 
 the books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 9, 1653, but has not been 
 printed. 
 
 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 the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, as related by Josephus. 
 
 THE JEWELLER OF AMSTERDAM; or, the Hague. A play, by John 
 Fletcher, Nathaniel Field, and Philip Massinger. Entered on the books 
 of the Stationers' Company, April 8, 1654, but not printed. 
 
 THE JEWISH GENTLEMAN. A play, by Richard Brome, entered on the 
 books of the Stationers' Company, Aug. 4th, 1640, but not printed. 
 
 JOAN AS GOOD AS MY LADY. A play, by Thomas Heywood, written 
 late in the year 1598, but not printed. 
 
 JOB. A play called " Jube the Sane " was performed 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. 
 
 JOB. The History of Jobe, by Robert Greene. Entered at Stationers' 
 Hall, 1594; but not printed. This piece was among those destroyed by 
 Warburton's servant. 
 
 JOB'S AFFLICTIONS. A tragedy by Ralph Radcliff. Not printed. 
 
 JOCASTA. 4to. 1575; 1587. This tragedy is a translation from Euripides,
 
 134 JOC—JOH 
 
 by George Gascoignc and Francis Kinwelmarshe. The scene lies at Thebes ; 
 and the title says it was by them presented at Grayes lime, in the year 
 156G. It is preceded by " the order of the dumme shewes and mnsickes 
 before every acte." 
 
 JOCONDO AND ASTOLFO. A comedy by Thomas Decker, entered on 
 the books of the Stationers' Company the 29th of June 1660; but not 
 printed. It occurs in the list of MS. plays said to have been destroyed by 
 Warburton's servant. 
 
 JOHAN, TYB, AND SIR JHAN. A Mery Play between Johan the Hus- 
 bande, Tyb his Wife, and Syr Jhan, the Preest, by John Hey wood. Fol. 
 1533. A facsimile reprint has been made by Whittingham. 
 
 JOHN-A-KENT. The Book of John a Kent and John of Cumber. A 
 comedy by Anthony Munday, 1595, printed from the original Manuscript 
 in the Mostyn collection. Edited by J. P. Collier, Esq. 8vo., Printed 
 for the Shakespeare Society, 1851. 
 
 JOHN KING OF ENGLAND. A dramatic piece, by Bishop Bale. The 
 original manuscript is preserved in the collection of the Duke of Devon- 
 shire, and has been printed by Mr. Collier. 4to. 
 
 KING JOHN. The Troublesome Raigne of John King of England, with 
 the Discoverie of King Richard Cordelion's base Son, vulgarly named the 
 Bastard Fawconbridge ; also the Death of King John at Swinstead 
 Abbey. As it was (sundry times) publikely acted by the Queene's 
 Majesties players in the honourable Citie of London, &c. 1591. It was 
 republished in 4to. 1611 and 1622, with the letters W. Sh. prefixed to it, 
 that it might be mistaken for the work of Shakespeare, who has made very 
 sbght use of it in his play on the same subject. 
 
 KING JOHN. A tragedy by Shakespeare. Fol. 1623. 
 
 JOHN AND MATILDA. King John and Matilda, a tragedy acted with 
 great applause by her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane. 
 4to. 1655 ; 1662. Written by Robert Davenport, and published by one 
 Andrew Pennycuicke, who himself acted the part of Matilda. This play 
 belonged to the Cock-pit Company in 1639. 
 
 JOHN COX, OF COLMISTON. A tragedy written by William Haughton, 
 assisted by John Day. Acted in 1599 ; but not printed. 
 
 JOHN SWABBER. The Humours of John Swabber, a droll by Kirkman, 
 printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 
 
 JOHN THE BAPTIST. An interlude, by Bishop Bale. 8vo. 1538. This 
 is one of the earliest dramatic pieces printed in England ; it is in metre.
 
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 in black letter, and the full title is as follows : " A brefe Comedie or 
 Interlude of Johan Baptyste's preachy ug in the Wyldernesse, openynge the 
 craftye Assaultes of the Hypocrytcs, wyth the gloryouse Baptysme of the 
 Lord Jesus Christe." It is reprinted in the Harlcian Miscellany, vol. i. 
 
 JOHN THE EVANGELIST. An interlude. 4to. 1566. 
 JONAS. A tragedy by Ralph Radcliffe. Not printed. 
 
 JOSHUA, Ry Samuel Rowley. Acted by the Lord Admiral's Servants, 
 1602. Not now known. 
 
 THE JOVIALL CREW ; or, theDevill turn'd Ranter : being a Character of 
 the roaring Ranters of these Times, represented in a Comedie. Contain- 
 ing a true discovery of the cursed conversations, prodigious pranks, 
 monstrous meetings, private performances, rude revellings, garrulous 
 greetings, impious and incorrigible deportements of a sect (lately sprung 
 up amongst us) called Ranters. Their names sorted to their severall natures, 
 and both lively presented in action. 4to. 1651. Scene, London. 
 
 THE JOVIAL CREW; or, the Merry Beggars. A comedy by Richard 
 Brome, acted at the Cock-pit, Drury Lane, in the year 1641. 4to. 1652 ; 
 1684 ; 1686. In Dodsley's Collection. Dedicated to Thomas Stanley. 
 
 JUDAS. A play written by Samuel Rowley and William Borne. Acted in 
 1601. Not printed. 
 
 THE JUDGE. A comedy by Philip Massinger, acted by the King's Com- 
 pany. Licensed, June 6th, 1627. It was one of those destroyed by 
 Warburton's servant. 
 
 JUDITH AND HOLOEERNES. A droll acted at Bartholomew Fair, men- 
 tioned by John Locke, the celebrated philosopher, in a letter dated 1664. 
 It was acted long afterwards 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 on which is represented some of the chief scenes of the fair, executed 
 in 1728. 
 
 JUGURTH. A play written by one William Boyle early in 1600. The 
 following notice of it occurs in Sir Henry Herbert's manuscript Diary 
 under the date of May 3rd, 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. 
 
 JULIA AGRIPPINA. Empresse of Rome, her tragedy by Thomas May. 
 The scene of this play lies in Rome, and the plot is taken from Tacitus and 
 Suetonius. It was acted in 1628, and printed in 12mo. 1639 and 
 1654.
 
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 JULIAN OF BRENTFORD. Acted at the Rose Theatre, Jan. 5th. 1592. 
 Not now known. 
 
 JULIAN THE APOSTATE. Acted at the Rose Theatre, April 29th, 1596. 
 This play is not extant. A drama so called was acted in the seventeenth 
 century at the Quarry, near Shrewsbury. 
 
 JULIANA, Princess of Poland. A tragi-comedy by John Crowne. 4to. 
 1671. 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 held, for the election of a king. 
 
 JULIUS CAESAR. A tragedy by Alexander, Earl of Sterling. 4to. 1604 ; 
 1607 ; fol. 1637. 
 
 JULIUS CLE3AR. A tragedy by Shakespeare. Fol. 1623. 
 
 JULIUS CiESx-VR. A Latin tragedy by Thomas May. The original manu- 
 script 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. Another Latin play on the same subject was performed at Christ 
 Church, Oxford, in 1582. This latter was written by Dr. Gedes, chaplain 
 to Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 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 in- 
 troduced into it were published separately, with the music. Downes, the 
 prompter, 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 
 men s faces." 
 
 KENTISH FAYRE; or, the Parliament sold to their best Worth. 4to. 
 Rochester, 1648. This is a satirical play, written against Oliver Cromwell. 
 
 KERMOPHUS. A Latin play which was performed before the University 
 of Oxford. 
 
 THE KIND KEEPER ; or, Mr. Limberham. A comedy, by J. Dryden, 
 acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1680. This play was intended as an
 
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 honest satire against the crying sin of keeping. The author has borrowed 
 some of his incidents from French and Italian novels; for instance, Mrs. 
 Saintly 's discovering Woodall in the chest, taken from Cynthio's Novels, 
 part i. Dec. 3, Nov. 3 ; and Mrs. Brainsick's pinching and pricking him, 
 from Bremond's Triumph of Love over Fortune. The scene lies at a 
 boarding-house in London. 
 
 A KING AND NO KING. A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. 4to. 
 1619; 1625. This drama was acted before the Court, in 1611, by the 
 King's Players. It was also acted at the Globe and the Black Friars. Scene, 
 Iberia. 
 
 THE KING AND QUEEN'S ENTERTAINMENT AT RICHMOND, 
 
 after their Departure from Oxford ; in a Masque presented by the most 
 illustrious Prince, Prince Charles (afterwards King Charles II.), Sept. 12th, 
 1634, 4 to. 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 by the then Lord 
 Buckhurst, and Edward Sackville. 
 
 THE KING AND THE SUBJECT. A play by Massinger, produced in 
 1638, but the title afterwards altered. This play is lost. 
 
 KING FREEWILL. A tragedy, translated from the French by Francis 
 Bristowe, 1635. In manuscript, in private hands. 
 
 THE KING OF SCOTS. A tragedy performed before the Court of Queen 
 Elizabeth in 1568. Collier's Annals of the Stage, i. 195. 
 
 THE KING OF SWEDLAND. A play so called is in the list of those said 
 to have been destroyed by Warburton's servant. It was probably the 
 Gustavus King of Swethland, by Decker, which was entered on the books 
 of the Stationers' Company, June 29th, 1660. 
 
 THE KING'S ENTERTAINMENT AT WELBECK, in Nottinghamshire, 
 a seat of the Earl of Newcastle, at his going to Scotland in 1633, by Ben 
 Jonson. Fol. 1640. 
 
 THE KING'S MISTRESS. This play was entered on the books of the 
 Stationers' Company, Sept 9th, 1653 ; but seems not to have been printed. 
 
 A KNACKE HOW TO KNOWE A KNAVE. 4to. 1594. Henslowe 
 records a performance of this comedy in 1592. Reprinted by the Rox- 
 burgh^ Club, ed. Collier, 4to. 1851. This piece seems to have been like 
 some of the drolls or medleys performed at our fairs. It is said to have 
 been sundry times played by Edward Allen, with Kemp's applauded merri- 
 ments of the men of Goteham, in receiving the king into Goteham. The 
 serious part of this play is the story of Edgar, Athelwold, and Elfrida. 
 
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 188 KNA—KNl 
 
 A KNACK HOW TO KNOWE AN HONEST MAN. A pleasant con- 
 ceited coraedie, several times acted. 4to. 1596. The scene lies in Venice, 
 and the piece is not divided into acts. It was entered on the books of the 
 Stationers' Company, Nov. 26, 1596, by Cuthbert Burbye. It was first 
 acted in 1594. 
 
 THE KNAVE IN GRAINE; or, Jack Cottington. A play, entered on the 
 books of the Stationers' Company, June 18th, 1639, but probably not 
 printed. 
 
 THE KNAVE IN GRAIN NEW VAMPT. A comedy acted with great 
 success " many dayes together " at the Fortune. 4to. 1640, by J. D. The 
 incident of Julio's cheating his drunken guests, is repeated by Kirkman in 
 his English Rogue, part iii. ch. 13 ; and that of his cheating the country- 
 man of the piece of gold is in the Account of the hard Frost of 1684, 
 8vo. p. 41. But, contrary to the usual custom, tjjese writers have taken 
 those incidents from the play, instead of the play being founded on their 
 writings. Scene, Venice. 
 
 A KNAVE IN PRINT ; or, One for Another. A comedy by William 
 Rowley. Entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 9th, 
 1653, but not now known to exist. 
 
 KNAVERY IN ALL TRADES; or, the Coffeehouse. 4to. 1664. This 
 comedy was acted by a company of London apprentices in the Christmas 
 holidays, and, as it is said in the title-page, with great applause. 
 
 THE KNAVES. A play, in two parts, by William Rowley, acted at White- 
 hall in 1613 before the Count Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth. 
 
 THE KNIGHT IN THE BURNING ROCK. " The history of the Knight 
 in the Burnyng Rock showen at Whitehall on Shrove-sondaie at night, 
 enacted by the Earle of Warwickes servauntes, furnished in this office with 
 sondrey garmentes and properties," Revels' Accounts, 1578. 
 
 THE KNIGHT OF MALTA. By Beaumont and Fletcher, fol. 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 1611, and not well received 
 when acted on the stage. 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 Phao. 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 criticise upon each scene. 
 The title-page of the edition of 1635 gives it "as it is now acted by hei 
 Majesties Servants at the Private House in Drury Lane, 1635."
 
 KNI—LJD l :i9 
 
 KNIGHTS. A Masque of Knights was performed at Court in 1578. See 
 a curious notice of it in Cunningham's Revels' Accounts, p. 126. 
 
 THE KNOT OF FOOLS. A play acted at Whitehall in May, 1613. 
 
 THE LABYRINTH. A play thus noticed by Pepys, under date of May, 
 166-4, — "there (at the King's Play-house) saw the Labyrinth, the prettiest 
 play, methinks, that ever I saw, there being nothing in it but the odd 
 accidents that fell out by a lady's being bred up in man's apparel, and a 
 man in woman's." 
 
 LABYRINTHUS. Comcedia, habita, a.d. 1622, coram Sereniss. Rege Jacobo, 
 in Academia Cantabrigiensi. 12mo. 1636. A MS. in the public library 
 at Cambridge ascribes this piece to Hawkesworth, a fellow of Trinity College. 
 A Latin comedy of this name, probably the same piece, was entered on 
 the books of the Stationers' Company, July 17 th, 1635. There are 
 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 Ladya 
 a la Mode ; so mean a thing as, when they came to say it would be acted 
 again tomorrow, both he that said it, Beeson, and the pit, fell a-laughing, 
 there being this day not a quarter of the pit full," Pepys' Diary, Sept. 15 th, 
 1668. 
 
 THE LADIES' MASQUE. The Masque of Ladies conducted by Lady Hay. 
 This masque was performed at Court early in the year 1618. 
 
 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 the Old English Drama. 
 
 THE LADIES' TRIAL. A tragi-comedy, by John Ford, acted at Drury 
 Lane. 4to. 1639. The scene lies in Genoa, and the prologue is subscribed 
 by Bird ; but whether it was written, or only spoken, by him, is not appa- 
 rent. This play was revived at the Duke's Theatre in 1669. 
 
 LADY ALIMONY; or, the Alimony Lady. 4to. 1659. Said in the title- 
 page to be duly authorized, daily acted, and frequently followed. This 
 comedy is attributed by Wood to Lodge and Gi'eene. 
 
 LADY' BARBARA. " Lady Barbara showen on Saint Johns day at nighte 
 by Sir Robert Lane's men," Revels' Accounts, 15 71. 
 
 THE LADY CONTEMPLATION. A 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.
 
 140 LAD—LAN 
 
 THE LADY ERRANT. A tragi-comedy by W. Cartwright. 8vo. 1651. 
 One scene in this comedy is taken from Aristophanes. The scene lies in 
 Cyprus. 
 
 LADY JANE. A play, in two parts, by Henry Chettle, in conjunction with 
 Decker, Hey wood, Smith, and Webster. Both parts were acted in 1602. 
 Not printed. Malone conjectures that this drama is on the subject of 
 Lady Jane Grey. 
 
 LADY MOTH. A curious play of the seventeenth century, preserved in 
 manuscript in a private library in Ireland. 
 
 THE LADY OF PLEASURE. A comedy by James Shirley, acted at the 
 Private House, Drury Lane. 4to. 1637. The incident of Kickshaw being 
 with Aretina, and thinking her the devil, is a circumstance that this author 
 has also introduced into his Grateful Servant, and Mrs. Behn has copied 
 it in her play of the Lucky Chance. Scene, the Strand. This play was 
 licensed in October, 1635, and met with great success on representation. 
 
 THE LADY OF THE MAY. A Masque, by Sir Philip Sydney. This 
 piece was presented to Queen Elizabeth, in the gardens at Waustead, in 
 Essex, 1578, and is printed together with some poems at the end of the 
 Arcadia. Reprinted in Nichols' Progresses and Public Processions of 
 Queen Elizabeth, ed. 1823, ii. 94. 
 
 LjELIA. A Latin play, acted at Queen's College, Cambridge, in 1590. 
 There is a copy of it in MS. Lambeth, 838. 
 
 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. A comedy, by Thomas Heywood, acted 
 at the Globe. 4to. 1634. Reprinted, 4to. 1853. 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 their having called him Bastard, is borrowed from the History 
 of John Teutonicus, of Holberstadt, in High Germany, who was a known 
 bastard, and a noted magician, and whose story is related at large by the 
 author, in his Hierarchy of Angels, lib. viii. p. 512. — In the title-page it 
 is called the Late Lancashire Witches ; the running-title is, the Witches 
 of Lancashire. 
 
 THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES, and Teague O'Divelly the Irish Priest. 
 A comedy by Thomas Shadwell. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1682. 
 Reprinted, 4to. 1853. This play was produced, according to Downes, in 
 the year 1681. 
 
 LANDGARTHA. A tragi-comedy by Henry Burnell. 4to. 1641, acted at
 
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 Dublin in 1639, with great applause. The plot of the play is founded on 
 the Swedish history, being the conquest of Fro (or Frollo) King of Sweden, 
 by Regner (or Reyuer) King of Denmark, with the repudiation of Regner's 
 Queen Landgartha. Scene, Suevia, or Suethland. 
 
 LANDGARTHA; or, the Amazon Queen of Denmark and Norway. An 
 Entertainment, designed for their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess 
 of Denmark, by Joshua Barnes. This piece is still in MS. in the library 
 of Emanuel College, Cambridge. It is on a story from the same history 
 as the former; and the author has noted that it was finished May 29th, 
 16S3, almost a month before the nuptials of their Royal Highnesses. 
 
 THE LANDLADY. A droll, founded on the Chances of Beaumont and 
 Fletcher, and printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 
 
 LASANDER AND CALISTA. Sir Humphrey Mildmay, in his MS. diaiy, 
 1634, makes mention of a "new play" so called. See Collier's Annals, 
 ii. 63. Lasander may perhaps be an error for Lysander. 
 
 THE LATE MURDER. In Herbert's manuscript diary, under date of 
 September, 1624, mention is made of " a new tragedy called a Late Murther 
 of the Sonn upon the Mother, written by Forde and Webster." 
 
 THE LATE REVOLUTION; or, the Happy Change. A tragi-comedy 
 acted throughout the English dominions, in the year 1688. 4to. 1690. 
 
 THE LAW AGAINST LOVERS. A tragi-comedy by Sir W. Davenant. 
 Fol. 1673. This play, which met with great success, is a mixture of the 
 two plots of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, and Much Ado about 
 Nothing. The characters, 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 modernise those passages of the lan- 
 guage which appeared obsolete. The scene, Turin. 
 
 THE LAW CASE. A play, entered on the books of the Stationers' Com- 
 pany, Nov. 29, 1653, but not printed. 
 
 THE LAWS OF CANDY. A tragi-comedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 Fol. 1647. Scene, Candia. 
 
 THE LAWS OF NATURE. A comedy ascribed, by Winstanley and Wood, 
 to Lodge and Greene. This may, by mistake, refer to the Comedye con- 
 cernynge Thre Lawes of Nature, 1558. 
 
 LAW TRICKS ; or, Who Would have Thought it ? A comedy by John Day, 
 divers times acted by the Children of the Revels. 4to. 1608. Herbert, 
 who licensed this play in March, 1607-8, transposes the two titles.
 
 142 LAZ—LIB 
 
 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 Cambridge in 
 1598, and again in 1602. There are manuscript copies in the University 
 and Emanuel 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. 
 
 KING LEAR. Acted at the Rose Theatre, April 6th, 1593, by the Queen's 
 men and Lord Sussex's together. This is the old play on the subject of 
 Lear, previous to Shakespeare's. The earliest known edition is entitled 
 the True Chronicle History of King Leir, 4to. 1605. 
 
 KING LEAR. The full title of this play, in the original edition, 4to. 1608, 
 stands thus : " Mr. William Shakspeare his true Chronicle History of the 
 Life and Death of King Lear and his three Daughters ; with the unfor- 
 tunate Life of Edgar, Sonne and Heire to the Earle of Gloucester, and his 
 sullen and assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam. As it was plaid before the 
 King's Majesty at Whitehall uppon S. Stephen's Night in Christmas 
 Hollidaies. By His Majesties Servants, playing usually at the Globe on 
 the Banck Side." 4to. 1608, by N. Butter ; 4to. 1655. There are two 
 editions of this play, 4to, 1608, both printed for Nathaniel Butter, one 
 having the publisher's address, and the other without it. 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 ; but all the 
 known copies of the other edition of 1608 are identical. 
 
 KING LEAR. A tragedy by N. Tate, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 
 1681. This is an alteration of Shakespeare's King Lear. 
 
 LEO ARMENUS. Leo Armenus, sive ludit in humanis divina potentia 
 rebus. A Latin tragedy, preserved in manuscript in the University Library, 
 Cambridge. 
 
 THE LEVELLERS LEVELL'D ; or, the Independents Conspiracy to root 
 out Monarchy. An interlude, written by Mercurius Pragmaticus. 4to. 
 1647. The author of this piece was Marchmont Nedham. 
 
 THE LIAR. A comedy acted at the King's Playhouse, 4to. 1661. It was 
 afterwards published under the title of the Mistaken Beauty, q. v. 
 
 THE LIBERTINE. A tragedy by Thomas Shadwell, acted by their 
 Majesties Servants. 4to. 1676 ; 1692. This play met with great success, 
 although the author says that its composition scarcely occupied three weeks. 
 Part of Purcell's music to this tragedy is preserved in the British Museum, 
 MS. Addit. 5333.
 
 LIF—LOC 113 
 
 THE LIFE OF ARTHUR. A play by "Richard Hathway, written in 1598. 
 He received twenty shillings of Henslowe on April 11th, in that year, "in 
 earnest of a bookc cald the Lyfe of Artar king of England, to be delivered 
 one Thursday next following." In another place, it is called the Life and 
 Death of King Arthur. 
 
 LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. In 1682 was issued a broadside entitled, 
 "A Prologue by Mrs. Behn to her new Play called, Like Father, Like Son, 
 or the Mistaken Brothers, spoken by Mrs. Butler." 
 
 LIKE QUITS LIKE. A play by Chettle and Heywood, mentioned in 
 Henslowe's Diary, ed. Collier, p. 230, under the date of January, 1602-3. 
 
 LIKE UNTO LIKE. A play acted at the Rose Theatre in 1600. 
 
 LIKE WILL TO LIKE. Au enterlude, intituled, Like Will to Like, quod 
 the Devel to the Colier, very godly and ful of pleasant Mirth. Wherein is 
 declared not onely the Punishment followeth those that will rather followe 
 licentious Living then to esteem and followe good Councel ; and what great 
 Benefits and Commodities they receive that apply them unto vertuous 
 Living and good Exercises. Made by Ulpian Fulwel. 4to. Lond. 1568; 
 1587. 
 
 LINGUA ; or, the Combat of the Tongue and the five Senses for Superiority. 
 A pleasant comedy. 4to. 1607; n.d. ; 1617; 1622; 1632; Svo. 1657; 
 in Dodsley's Collection, 1780. Winstanley attributes it to Anthony 
 Brewer ; and tells us, moreover, that, on its being performed once at 
 Trinity College, in Cambridge, Oliver Cromwell acted the part of Tactus 
 iu it, from which he first imbibed his sentiments of ambition. The scene 
 is Microcosmus, in a grove. 
 
 THE LITTLE FRENCH LAWYER. A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 Fol. 1647. The plot of this play is taken from Gusman de Alfarache ; or, 
 the Spanish Rogue ; the story of Dinant, Cleremont, and Lamira, being 
 borrowed from that of Don Lewis de Castro, and Don Roderigo de 
 Montalva. The scene lies in France. 
 
 THE LITTLE THIEF. Advertised in Bentley's Catalogue of Plays 
 printed for him. Perhaps this was only Fletcher's Night Walker ; or, 
 Little Thief. " So to White-Fryars, and saw the Little Thiefe, which is a 
 very merry and pretty play, and the little boy do very well," Pepys' Diary, 
 1661. The Little Thief also occurs in a list of plays acted at the King's 
 Arms, Norwich, in 1662. 
 
 LOCRINE. The lamentable Tragedie of Locrine, the eldest Sonne of 
 King Brutus, discoursing the warres of the Britaines and Hunnes, with 
 their discomfiture ; the Britaines victory, with their accidents ; and the 
 death of Albanact. No lesse pleasant then profitable. Newly set foorth,
 
 144 LOD—LON 
 
 oversecne, and corrected by W. S. 4to. 1595. This play has been 
 incorrectly attributed to Shakespeare. 
 
 LODOV1CK SFOHZA, DUKE OF MILLAN. A tragedy by Robert 
 Gomersal. 12mo. 1632. The story of this play is to be found in Guic- 
 ciardini, Philip dc Comines, and Mezeray, in the reign of Charles VIII. of 
 France. The scene, Milan. 
 
 LOIOLA. 12mo. 1648. This Latin comedy may be ascribed to Dr« 
 Hacket, and by the prologues appears to have been acted first Feb. 28th, 
 1622, and afterwards before King James I. March 12th, 1622, at Cam- 
 bridge. Scene, Amsterdam. This play was written in ridicule of the 
 Jesuits. 
 
 LONDON CHANTICLEERS. 4to. 1659. This piece is rather an interlude 
 than a play, but it is curious, the characters being London criers. 
 
 THE LONDON CUCKOLDS. A comedy, by Edward Ravenscroft, acted 
 at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1682. This play met with very great success, 
 and was, till the year 175 1 , frequently presented on our stages; particu- 
 larly on Lord Mayor's day, in contempt and to the disgrace of the city. 
 
 THE LONDON FLORENTINE. A play, in two parts, by Henry Chettle, 
 assisted by T. Heywood ; acted in 1602. Not now known. 
 
 THE LONDON GENTLEMAN. A comedy by Edward Howard, entered 
 on the books of the Stationers' Company, Aug. 7, 1667, but not 
 printed. 
 
 THE LONDON MERCHANT. A play, by John Ford, entered on the 
 books of the Stationers' Company, June 29th, 1660 : it was among those 
 said to have been destroyed by Warburton's servant. 
 
 THE LONDON PRODIGAL. As it was plaide by the King's Majesties 
 Servants. 4to. 1605. This was one of the plays falsely attributed to 
 Shakespeare. 
 
 LONDON'S LOVE TO THE ROYAL PRINCE HENRIE, meeting him 
 on the River of Thames, at his Returne from Richraonde, with a worthie 
 Fleete of her Cittizeus, on Thursday the last of May, 1610. With a 
 Breife Reporte of the Water Fight and Fireworks. 4to. 1610. 
 
 LONDON'S JUS HONORARIUM, expressed in sundry Triumphs, Pa- 
 geants, and Shews, at the Initiation or entrance of the Right Hon. Geo. 
 Whitmore. At the charge and expense of the Right Worshipful the 
 Society of Haberdashers. By Thomas Heywood. 4to. 1631. 
 
 LONDON'S FOUNTAIN OF ARTS AND SCIENCES; expressed in 
 sundrie Triumphs, Pageants and Shews, at the Initiation of the R. H.
 
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 Nicli. Raynton, in the Mayoralty of the famous and far-renowned City of 
 Loudon. All the Charges and Expense of the Laborious Projeets, both 
 by Sea and Land, being the sole Undertaking and Charge of the Right 
 Worshipfull Company of Haberdashers. Written by Thomas Heywood. 
 4to. 1632. 
 
 LONDON IMP.; OR, LONDON MERCATOR; explained in sundry 
 Triumphs, Pageants, and Shows, at the Inauguration of the Right Hon. 
 Ralph Freeman, at the Charge of the Right Worshipful Company of 
 Clothiers. By T. Heywood. 4to. 1633. 
 
 LONDINI SPECULUM; OR, LONDON'S MIRROR: exprest in sundry 
 Triumphs, Pageants, and Showes, at the Initiation of the Right Hon. 
 Richard Fenn, into the Mayoralty of the famous and farre renowned City 
 of London. All the Charge and Expense of these laborious Projects, both 
 by Water and Land, being the sole Undertaking of the Right Worshipful 
 Company of the Habberdashers. Written by Thos. Heywood. 4to. 1637. 
 
 LONDINI STATUS PACATUS ; or, London's Peaceable Estate ; exprest 
 in sundry Triumphs, Pageants, and Shewes, at the Initiation of the Right 
 Honourable Henry Caraway into the Majoralty of the famous and farre 
 renowned City of London. All the Charge and Expence of the Laborious 
 Projects, both by Water and Land, being the sole Undertakings of the 
 Right Worshipfull Society of Drapers. Written by Thomas Heywood. 
 4to. 1639. 
 
 LONDON'S TRIUMPH. Robert Titchburn, mayor. At the Expense of the 
 Skinners' Company. By J. B. 4to. 1656. 
 
 LONDON'S TRIUMPH. By J. Tatham. 4to. 1657. Celebrated the 29th 
 of October, 1657, in honour of the truly deserving Rich. Chiverton, Lord 
 Mayor of London, at the Costs and Charges of the Right Worshipful Com- 
 pany of Skinners. 
 
 LONDON'S TRYUMPH, PRESENTED BY INDUSTRY AND 
 HONOUR : with other delightful scenes appertaining to them : cele- 
 brated in honour of the, Right Honourable Sir John Ireton, Knight, Lord 
 Mayor of the said City, on the 29th Day of October, 1658, and done at the 
 Cost and Charges of the Worshipfull Company of Clothworkers. By John 
 Tatham. 4to. 1658. 
 
 LONDON'S TRIUMPH, celebrated October 29th, 1659, in honour of the 
 much-honoured Thomas Allen, Lord Mayor of the said City, presented 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. 
 
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 140 LON—LON 
 
 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 Councill, Judges, &c, at Guildhall, on Thursday, being 
 the 5th Day of July, 1660, and in the 12th 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 TRYUMPHS. Presented in several delightfull Sccenes, both 
 on the Water and Land, and celebrated in honour to the deservedly 
 honoured Sir John Frederick, Knight and Baronet, Lord Mayor of the City 
 of London. At the Costs and Charges of the Worshipfull Company of 
 Grocers. By John Tatham. 4to. 1661. 
 
 LONDON'S TRIUMPH : presented in severall delightfull Scenes, both 
 upon the Water and Land ; and celebrated in Honour of the truly 
 loyal and known Deserver of Honour, Sir John Robinson, Knt. and Bt., 
 Lord Mayor of the City of London. At the Costs and Charges of the 
 Worshipfull Company of Clothworkers. 4to. 1662. 
 
 LONDINUM TR1UMPHANS; or, London's Triumph. By John Tatham. 
 4to. 1663. Celebrated in Honour of the truly-deserving Sir Anthony 
 Bateman, Knight, Lord Mayor of London, and done at the Costs and 
 Charges of the Worshipful Company of Skinners, on the 29th of October, 
 1663. 
 
 LONDON'S TRIUMPHS ; celebrated the 29th of October, 1664 ; in Honour 
 of the truly Deserver of Honour, Sir John Lawrence, Knight, Lord Maior 
 of the Honourable City of London ; and performed 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 
 Worshipful Company of Skinners. The King, Queen, and Duke of York, 
 and most of the Nobility being present. Written by Thomas Jordan. 4to. 
 1671. 
 
 LONDON TRIUMPHANT; or, the City in Jollity and Splendour ; expressed 
 in various Pageants, Shapes, Scenes, Speeches, and Songs : invented and 
 performed for Congratulation and Delight of the well-deserving Sir Robert 
 Hanson, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. At the Costs and 
 Charges of the Worshipful Company of Grocers : His Majesty gracing 
 the Triumphs with his Royal Presence. Written by Thomas Jordan. 4to. 
 1672.
 
 LON—LON 147 
 
 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. AH prepared for the Honour of the prudent Magistrate, 
 Sir William Hooker, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London : at the 
 peculiar Expenses of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. As also a de- 
 scription of his Majesties Royal Entertaiment at Guildhall, by the City, in 
 a plentiful Feast, and a glorious Banquet. Written by Thomas Jordan. 
 4to. 1673. 
 
 LONDON'S TRIUMPHS; express'd in sundry Representations, Pageants, 
 and Shows. Performed on Monday, October 30, 1676, at the Inaugura- 
 tion and Instalment of the Right Hon. Sir Thos. Davies, Lord Mayor of 
 the City of London. By Thomas Jordan. 4to. 1676. 
 
 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 Shapes. With pertinent Speeches, jocular Songs (sung 
 by the City Musick), and pastoral Dancing. Performed October 29, 1677, 
 for the Celebration, Solemnity, and Inauguration of the Right Hon. Sir 
 Francis Chaplin, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. All the 
 Charges and Expenses of the industrious Designs, being the sole. Under- 
 taking of the ancient and Right Worshipful Society of Clothvvorkers. By 
 Thomas Jordan. 4to. 1677. 
 
 LONDON IN LUSTER : projecting many bright Beams of Triumph : dis- 
 posed into several Representations of Scenes and Pageants. Performed 
 with great Splendor on Wednesday, October 29, 1679, at the Initiation 
 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 Thomas Jordan, Gent. 
 4to. 1679. 
 
 LONDON'S GLORY; or, the Lord Mayor's Show ; containing an illustrious 
 Description of the several Triumphant Pageants, on which are represented 
 emblematical Figures, artful Pieces of Architecture, and rural Dancing, with 
 the Speeches 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 Papists' Litany ; with their proper Tunes, either 
 to be sung or played. Performed on Friday, October 29, 1680, for the 
 Entertainment of the Right Hon. Sir Patience Warde, Knight, Lord Mayor 
 of the City of London. At the proper Cost and Charges of the Right
 
 148 LON—LON 
 
 Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. Invented and composed by 
 Thos. 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 29th, 
 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 Expenses of the industrious 
 Designs being the sole Undertaking of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. 
 Devised and composed by Thomas Jordan, Gent. 4to. 1681. 
 
 LONDON'S ROYAL TRIUMPH FOR THE CITY'S LOYAL MAGIS- 
 TRATE. In an exact Description of several Scenes and Pageants, adorned 
 with many magnificent Representations. Performed on Wednesday, 
 October, 29, 1684, at the Instalment and Inauguration of the Right Hon. 
 Sir James Smith, Knight, Lord Mayor of London. By Thos. Jordan. 
 4to. 1684. 
 
 LONDON'S ANNUAL TRIUMPH. Performed on Thursday, October 29, 
 
 1685, for the Entertainment 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 
 Ironmongers. Composed by Matt. Taubman. 4to. 1685. 
 
 LONDON'S YEARLY JUBILEE. Performed on Friday, October 29, 
 
 1686, for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable 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 M. Taubman. 4to. 1687. 
 
 LONDON'S TRIUMPH; or, the Goldsmith's Jubilee; Oct. 29, 1687 : for 
 the Confirmation and Entertainment of Sir John Shorter, &c. By M. 
 Taubman. 4to. 1687. 
 
 LONDON'S ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL. Performed on Monday, 
 Oct. 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 pro- 
 vided for the Entertainment of the King. By M. Taubman. 4to. 1688. 
 
 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. Con-
 
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 taiuing 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, honour his Lordship this Year with their 
 Presence. All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Right 
 Worshipful Company of Skinners. By Matthew Taubuian. 4to. 1689. 
 
 LONG MEG OF WESTMINSTER. Acted at the Rose Theatre, by the 
 Lord Admiral's men, Feb. 14, 1595. Not printed. Field, in hi3 Amends 
 for Ladies, speaks of the play of Long Meg being acted at the Fortune. 
 
 THE LONGER THOU LIVEST, THE MORE FOOLE THOU ART. 
 A myrrour very necessarie for Youth, and specially for such as are like to 
 come to dignitie and promotion : as it maye well appeare in the matter 
 folowynge. Newly compiled by W. Wager. Imprinted at London, by 
 Wyllyam How for Richarde Johnes, and are to be solde at his shop under 
 the Lotterie-house. 4to. black letter. No date, but printed either in 
 1568 or 1569. 
 
 LONGSHANK. A play first acted at the Rose Theatre, Aug. 29th, 1595. 
 See Henslowe's Diary, p. 55. 
 
 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 II. 
 
 LOOKE TO THE LADIE. A comedy by James Shirley, entered on the 
 books of the Stationers' Company, March 10th, 1639. 
 
 A LOOKING-GLASS FOR LONDON AND ENGLAND. A tragi-comedy 
 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 in March, 1591-2. 
 
 LORD CROMWELL. The Chronicle History of Thomas Lord CromweU, 
 4to. 1602 ; 1613. It is stated on the title-page of the second edition to 
 be " written by VV. S.," initials falsely attributed to Shakespeare. 
 
 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, &c. &c. Performed, 
 September 30, 1682, with several new loyal Songs and Catches. By 
 Thomas Jordan. 4to. 1682. 
 
 THE LORDS' MASQUE. A masque by Dr. Thomas Campion, performed 
 on the occasion of the marriage of the Count Palatine and the Princess 
 Elizabeth, 1612-13. It cost no less thau J6400. The Description, Speeches, 
 and Songs of the Lords' Maske, 4to. 1613.
 
 150 LOR—LOV 
 
 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. Fol. 1638. 
 
 This was in the first edition of Dodsley's Collection ; but omitted in that 
 
 of 1780. 
 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, 
 preparing for publication by N. Brook, at the end of the New World of 
 English Words, 1658. It is also mentioned in a similar list at the end of 
 Wit and Drollery, 1661. 
 
 LOVE. The Play of Love, an interlude by John Heywood. 4to. London, 
 Printed by William Rastell, 1533. 
 
 LOVE A LA MODE. 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 pro- 
 bably 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 Gentilhomme 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. " A Historie of Love and Fortune, shewed before 
 her Majestie at Wyndesor on the Sondaie at night next before newe yeares 
 daie, enacted by the Earle of Derbies servauntes," Revels' Accounts, 1582. 
 Perhaps this is the Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune, 4to. 1589, re- 
 printed by the Roxburghe Club, 1851. 
 
 LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. A play by Sir William Killigrew, fol. 1666. 
 
 LOVE AND HONOUR. A tragi-comedy by Sir W. Davenant, acted at the 
 Black Friars. 4to. 1649. This play deservedly met with very good success. 
 The scene lies in Savoy. 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 per- 
 formed Prince Prospero ; and Lord Oxford gave his to Price, who acted 
 Leonel. In the folio edition, 1673, are several omissions and alterations. 
 
 LOVE AND REVENGE. A tragedy by Elk. Settle, acted at the Duke's 
 Theatre. 4to. 1675. This play is in great measure borrowed from
 
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 Heminge's Fatal Contract ; the plot of which, as well as of this piece, is 
 founded on the French chronicles of Mczeray, De Serres, &c. Settle, in 
 his postscript to this piece, very harshly attacks Shad well, who has answered 
 him as severely in his preface to the Libertine. There is a manuscript 
 copy of this play, dated 169-1, in the British Museum, MS. Harl. 6903. 
 
 LOVE AND RICHES RECONCILED. A masque acted at Lincoln's Inn 
 Fields, annexed to Harris's comedy of Love's a Lottery, and a Woman the 
 Prize, 1699. 
 
 LOVE AND WAR. A tragedy by Thomas Meriton. This piece was never 
 acted; but it was printed in Ito. 165S. 
 
 LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT. " Sir W. Pen and I to the Theatre, but it was 
 so full that we could hardly get any room, so we went up to one of the 
 boxes, and there saw Love at First Sight, a play of Air. Killigrew's, and 
 the first time that hath been acted since before 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," Pepys' Diary, Nov, 1661. 
 
 LOVE CROWNS THE END. A pastoral, by John Tatham. 12mo. 
 1610 ; 1657. 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 a volume, called Fancies Theatre, is very short, and not divided into 
 acts. Prefixed to the volume are no less than thirteen copies of verses, by 
 Brome, Nabbes, &c. Scene, a grove, wherein is Lover's Valley. In the 
 edition of 1657, it is called a tragi-comedy. 
 
 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, 1668. 
 
 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 Tho. 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, Christmas, 1610. Fol. 1616; 1610. 
 A curious account of the cost of this entertainment is printed in Cunning- 
 ham'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 29th, 1660. It 
 was among those said to have been destroyed by Warburton's servant.
 
 152 LOV—LOV 
 
 LOVE IN A MAZE. A comedy acted at the King's Theatre about 1662, 
 mentioned by Downes, p. 25 ; and several times by Pepys. This was no 
 doubt a revival of Shirley's play of the Changes, with probably a few 
 alterations. 
 
 LOVE IN A NUNNERY. Dryden's play of the Assignation, 1673, is 
 mentioned under this title only, in the Key to the Rehearsal, 1704. 
 
 LOVE IN A TUB. Etherege's comedy of the Comical Revenge, 1669, is 
 several times alluded to by Pepys under this, its second title. 
 
 LOVE IN A WOOD; or, St. James's Park. A comedy by W. Wycherley, 
 acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1672; 1694; 1711. 
 
 LOVE IN ITS EXTASY; or, the Large Prerogative. A dramatic pastoral 
 by William Peaps. 4to. 1649. 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. Scene, Lelybaeus. 
 
 LOVE IN THE DARK; or, the Man of Business. A comedy by Sir Fra. 
 Fane, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1675. This is a busy and enter- 
 taining comedy, yet is the plot borrowed from various novels : the affair of 
 Count Sforza and Parthelia being from Scairon'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 Ben Jonson, in his Devil 's an Ass, and by Mrs. 
 Centlivre, in her Busy Body. Hircanio's wife catching him with Bellin- 
 ganna, is built on the story of Socrates and his wife Mirto, in the Loves of 
 great Men, p. 59 ; and Trivultio's seeming to beat Bellinganna, is grounded 
 on Boccaccio, vii. 7. The scene lies in Venice. From the character of 
 Intrigo, Mrs. Centlivre seems to have borrowed the hint of her Marplot. 
 
 LOVE LIES A BLEEDING. A play acted at Court in May, 1613. 
 
 LOVE LOST IN THE DARK ; or, the Drunken Couple. This is a droll, 
 taken from Malinger, printed in the Muse of Newmarket, 4to. 1680. 
 
 THE LOVE OF A GRECIAN LADY. Acted at the Rose Theatre, 
 Oct. 4th, 1594. Not printed. 
 
 THE LOVE OF KING DAVID AND FAIR BETHSABE. With the 
 Tragedie of Absalon. As it hath ben divers Times plaied on the Stage. 
 Written by George Peele. 4to. 1599. Hawkins, who accurately repub- 
 lished this play in his Origin of the Drama, 1773, 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. It is certainly a drama of considerable merit, and is of course 
 included in Peele's Works, ed. Dyce, ii. 5.
 
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 LOVE PARTS FRIENDSHIP. A play by Henry Chettle, assisted by 
 Wentworth 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, 1610-11. By Ben. Jonson. Folio, 1616; 1640. 
 
 THE LOVER'S CURE. According to Whincop, Chaves' comedy of the 
 Cares of Love was so called. Chetwood 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 indications of its 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. This 
 was 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 com- 
 mended in four copies of verses by friends of the author ; in reference to 
 which, the following lines occur in one copy in a contemporary hand- 
 writing, — 
 
 Jack Ford, these youngsters shew, methinks, great folly, 
 In commending thy Lovers' Melancholy. 
 
 THE LOVERS OF LOODGATE. A play, among those said to have been 
 destroyed by Warburton's servant. 
 
 THE LOVER'S PROGRESS. A tragi-comedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 Fol. 1647. The plot of this play, which is but an indifferent one, is 
 founded on a French romance, called Lisander and Calista, written by 
 Daudiguier ; and the scene is laid in France. 
 
 LOVE'S ADVENTURES. A comedy, in two parts, by the Duchess of 
 Newcastle. Fol. 1662. 
 
 LOVE'S AFTERGAME. This play, which was also called the Proxy, was 
 acted at Salisbury Court in the years 1634 and 1635. 
 
 LOVE 'S A JEST. A comedy by P. Motteux. 4to. 1696. This piece 
 was acted with success at the Theatre in Little Lincoln's Inn Fields. 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 Tnn Fields. 4 to. 1699. The scene, 
 London. 
 
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 154 LOV—LOV 
 
 LOVE'S CHANGELING CHANGED. An old English play, preserved 
 in a MS. of the seventeenth century in a private library in Ireland. 
 
 LOVE'S CRUELTY. A tragedy by James Shirley, acted at the Private 
 House, Drury Lane. 4to. 1640. Licensed in November, 1631. The con- 
 cealment of Hippolito and Clariana's adultery from her servant, through 
 the contrivance of her husband Bellamente, is taken from Q. Margaret's 
 Novels, Day 4, Nov. 6, and Cynthio's Hecatomithi, Dec. 3, Nov. 6. Scene, 
 Ferrara. 
 
 LOVE'S CURE; or, the Martial Maid. A comedy by Beaumont and 
 Fletcher. Fol. 1647. The scene, Seville. 
 
 LOVE'S DOMINION. A dramatic piece, by Richard Elecknoe. 12mo. 
 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. Love's Hospitall, as it was acted before the Kinge 
 and Queen's Majestyes by the students of St. Jo. Baptist's College in Oxon., 
 August 29th, 1636; by George Wilde, L.L.B. Scene, Naples. A manu- 
 script preserved in the British Museum, MS. Addit. 14,047. 
 
 THE LOVE-SICK COURT ; or, the Ambitious Politique. A comedy by 
 Richard Brome. 8vo. 1658. The scene lies in Thessaly. 
 
 THE LOVE-SICK KING. An English Tragical history, with the Life and 
 Death of Cartesmunda, the Fair Nun of Winchester, by A nth. Brewer. 
 4to. 1655. The historical part of the plot is founded on the invasion of 
 the Danes in the reigns of King Ethelred and Alfred, and which may be 
 seen in the writers on the English affairs of that time. The scene lies in 
 England. 
 
 THE LOVE-SICK MAID ; or, the Honour of Young Ladies. A comedy 
 by Richard Brome. Entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, 
 Sept. 9th, 1653; but not printed. It was acted at Court, by John 
 Heminge's Company, in 1629. The date of its license, by Sir Henry 
 Herbert, is February, 1628-9. 
 
 LOVE'S KINGDOM. A pastoral tragi-comedy, by Richard Flecknoe. 
 12mo; 1664; 1674. 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, &c. Scene, Cyprus. This is little more than Love's 
 Dominion, altered by its author, with the addition of a new title. 
 
 LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. A comedy by Shakespeare. Acted at the 
 Black Friars and the Globe, 4to. 1598 ; 1631 ; fol. 1623. 
 
 LOVE'S LABOUR'S WON. Meres mentions a play, under this title, as
 
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 written by Shakespeare. It is, however, supposed to be no other than 
 All's Well that Ends Well. 
 
 LOVE'S LABYRINTH; or, the "Royal Shepherdess. A tragi-comedy by 
 Thos. Ford. 8vo. 1660. It is uncertain whether this play was ever 
 acted or not. Part of it is borrowed from Gomersal's tragedy of Sforza 
 Duke of Milan. Scene in Arcadia. 
 
 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 Cibber 
 made as an author. 
 
 LOVE'S LOAD-STONE. The play of Pathomachia, 4to. 1630, is termed 
 Love's Load-stone in its running-title. See Langbaine, p. 544. 
 
 LOVE'S MARTYR; or, Wit above Crowns. A play, by Mrs. Anne Wharton. 
 Entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, Feb. 3rd, 1685 ; but 
 probably not printed. The authoress, in her dedication, says that this play 
 " never deserved nor was ever designed to be public." In manuscript, in 
 private hands. 
 
 LOVE'S MASTERPIECE. A comedy, by Thomas Heywood. Entered on 
 the books of the Stationers' Company, May 22ud, 1640; but, perhaps, 
 never printed. 
 
 LOVE'S METAMORPHOSIS. Love's Metamorphosis. A wittie and 
 courtly Pastorall, written by Mr. John Lyilie. First playd by the children 
 of Paules, and now by the children of the Chappell. London : printed by 
 William Wood, dwelling at the West end of Paules, at the signe of Time, 
 4to. 1601. Mr. Collier inclines to think this " was probably 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. By Thomas Heywood. 
 4to. 1636; 1640. This play was three times presented before both their 
 Majesties, within the space of eight days, in the presence of several foreign 
 ambassadors, besides being publicly acted at the Phoenix, in Drury Lane. 
 " When this play came the second time to the royal view," the author tells 
 us, " her Gracious Majesty then entertaining his Highness at Denmark 
 House upon his birthday, Mr. Inigo Jones gave an extraordinary lustre to 
 every act, nay almost to every scene, by his excellent inventions ; upon every 
 occasion changing the stage, to the admiration of all the spectators." The 
 design of the plot is borrowed from Apuleius's Golden Ass; Apuleius and 
 Mydas beginning the play, and closing every act by way of a chorus. 
 Reprinted in the Old English Drama. 
 
 THE LOVES OF MARS AND VENUS. A play, set to music, in three
 
 156 LOV—LOV 
 
 acts, by P. Motteux. Acted at Little Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to. 1696. 
 The author in his preface owns the story to be from Ovid, and that he has 
 introduced a dance of Cyclops which bears a resemblance to, yet is very 
 different from, Shadwell's Psyche, which he says is borrowed almost verba- 
 tim from Moliere, who in his turn took his from an old 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 Anatomist. 
 LOVE'S PILGRIMAGE. A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fob 
 1647. The foundation of this play is laid on a novel of Cervantes, called 
 the Two Damsels. The scene in the first act between Diego, the host of 
 Ossuna, and Lazaro his ostler, is borrowed from Ben Jonson's New Inn. 
 
 LOVE'S QUARREL. " Creed and I to Salsbury Court, and there saw 
 Love's Quarrell acted the first time, but I do not like the design nor words," 
 Pepys' Diary, April 6th, 1661. 
 
 LOVE'S RIDDLE. A pastoral comedy, by Abraham Cowley. 12mo. 1638. 
 This piece was written by Cowley at a very early period of life. Scene, 
 Sicily. 
 
 LOVE'S SACRIFICE. A tragedy by John Forde, acted at the Phoenix, 
 Drury Lane. 4to. 1633. This play was well received, and has a compli- 
 mentary copy of verses prefixed to it by James Shirley. The scene lies in 
 Pavia. The author dedicates it " to my truest friend, my worthiest kins- 
 man, John Ford of Grayes Inne, esquire." 
 
 LOVE'S TRIUMPH THRO' CALLIPOL1S. Performed in a Masque at 
 Court, at Christmas, 1630, by his Majesty King Charles I., with the lords 
 and gentlemen assisting. The words of this piece were by Ben Jonson, 
 the decorations of the scene by Inigo Jones. It was printed in fol. 1640. 
 
 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 
 celebrated 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. 
 LOVE'S VICTORY. A pastoral drama under this title exists in manuscript 
 
 in private hands, and copious extracts from it were printed in 4to. 1853. 
 
 There is a play recorded under this title as having been written by Shirley, 
 
 which may possibly be the same production. 
 
 LOVE'S WELCOME. By Ben Jonson. Fol. 1640. This is farther en- 
 titled, the King and Queen's Entertainment at Bolsover, at the Earl of 
 Newcastle's, the 30th of July, 1634.
 
 LOV—LOY 157 
 
 LOVE TRICKS. Shirley's School of Complements was published in 1667 
 under the title of, Love Tricks, or the School of Complements, as it is now 
 acted by his Royal Highnesse the Duke of York's servants at the Theatre 
 in Little Lincoln's Inne Fields. Licensed May 24th, 1667. This is pro- 
 bably the same play which is mentioned in Herbert's manuscript Diary, 
 under the date of February 11th, 1625, — "for the Cock-pit Company, a 
 new play called Love Tricks with Compliments." 
 
 LOVE TRIUMPHANT; 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 met with no success. The plot 
 of it appears to be founded on the story of Fletcher's King and no King ; 
 at least on the corrections of the fable of that play, made by Rymer. 
 
 LOVE WILL FIND OUT THE WAY. A comedy by T. B. 4to. 1661. 
 This is only Shirley's Constant Maid, with a new title. 
 
 LOVE WITHOUT INTEREST; or, the Man too hard for the Master. 
 4to. 1699. W r ho was the author of this comedy is unknown; but the 
 dedication is subscribed 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 Maid well, acted at 
 the Duke of York's Theatre, 4to. 1680. The epilogue of this play was 
 written by Shadwell. Scene, Florence. 
 
 THE LOYAL BROTHER; or, the Persian Prince. A tragedy by Thomas 
 Southern. 4to. 1682. This was our author's first play. The plot of it 
 is taken from a novel, called Tachmas, 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 the play of Philaster, 
 and printed in the Wits, 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-meu and their informers are satirised in this play. 
 
 THE LOYAL SUBJECT. A tragi-comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 
 Fol. 1647. This play was licensed in 1618. It was revived before the 
 
 Court in 1633. The scene lies at Moscow. 
 LOYALTY AND BEAUTY. " The history of Loyaltie and Bewtie shewen 
 
 at Whitehall on Shrove Monday at night, enacted by the children of the 
 
 Queeues Majesties Chappell," Revels' Accounts, 1578.
 
 158 LUC—LUS 
 
 LUCIUS JUNIUS BRUTUS, Father of his Country. A tragedy by Na- 
 thaniel Lee, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1681. The plot of it is 
 partly from the real histories of Floras, Livy, Dionysius Halicarnassus, 
 &c., and partly from the fictions in the romance of Clclia. The scene 
 between Vindicius and the elder Brutus seems to bear a great resemblance 
 to that between Hamlet and Polonius. The scene lies in Borne. Gildon, 
 in his preface to the Patriot, says that this play was forbid, after the third 
 day's acting, by Lord Chamberlain Arlington, as an antimonarchical play. 
 
 THE LUCKY CHANCE ; or, An Alderman's Bargain. A comedy by Mrs. 
 Behn, acted by their Majesties Servants. 4to. 1G87. The plot of this 
 play is for the most part original, excepting only the incident of Gayman's 
 taking Lady Fnllbank for the devil, which is copied from Kickshaw and 
 Aretina in the Lady of Pleasure, by Shirley. The scene, London. 
 
 LUD. A play of King Lud is noticed by Henslowe under the date of January 
 18th, 1593. See his Diary, p. 32. 
 
 LUDUS FILIORUM ISRAELIS. A Latin play, represented by the Guild 
 of Corpus Christi, at Cambridge, on that festival, in the year 1355. 
 
 LUMINALIA; or, the Festival of Light. 4to. 1637. Presented in a masque 
 at Court, by the Queen's Majesty and her ladies, on Shrove Tuesday night, 
 1637. At her Majesty's command, Inigo Jones, who was surveyor of the 
 board of works, took on himself the contrivance of machinery for this masque, 
 the invention of which consisted principally in the presenting Light and 
 Darkness ; Night representing the anti-masque or introduction, and the 
 subject of the main masque being Light. This piece is ascribed, by Win- 
 stanley and Wood, to Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene. 
 
 LUSIUNCULA. A Latin play, which is said to be constructed on the same 
 story as that used in the tragedy of Macbeth. 
 
 LUST'S DOMINION; or, the Lascivious Queen. 12mo. 1657; 1661. 
 This tragedy has been often wrongly ascribed to Marlowe, but it was cer- 
 tainly not written until after the death of that writer. 
 
 LUSTY JUVENTUS. An Enterlude called Lusty Juventus, lyvely describing 
 the Frailtie of Youth : of Nature prone to Vyce : by Grace and good Coun- 
 cell traynable to Vertue. 4to. Black letter. The following is the printer's 
 colophon : — " Finis, quod R. Wever. Imprinted at London in Paule's 
 Churche-yeard, by Abraham Vele, at the Synge of the Lambe." There is 
 another edition, " imprynted at London in Lothbury over agaynst Sainct 
 Margarits Church by Wyllyam Copland." It was also licensed to John 
 King in 1560-1. Reprinted in Hawkins' English Drama, 1773. 
 
 LUSTY LONDON. An interlude by George Puttenham ; mentioned in his 
 Arte of English Poesie, 1589, but never published.
 
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 MACBETH. A tragedy by Shakespeare. 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. Downes 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, stauds against the character in the printed copy. It 
 was performed with great splendour. The admirable music by Locke is 
 still retained and used in the performance of the unaltered tragedy. 
 
 MACHIAVEL. A play acted at the Kose Theatre in 1591. Some years 
 afterwards, in 1613, Daborne was in treaty with Henslowe to write for him 
 a play called Machiavel and the Devil. See Henslowe's Diary, ed. Collier, 
 p. 22. 
 
 MACHIAYELLUS. A Latin drama by D. YViburne, acted at Cambridge in 
 1597. There is a copy of it in MS. Douce 234, transcribed in the year 
 1600. 
 
 THE MACK. A play produced by Henslowe's company on February 21st, 
 1594, probably on the game of cards so called. 
 
 MADAM FICKLE ; or, the Witty False One. A comedy by Thomas Durfey, 
 acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1677. Licensed in November, 1676. 
 The character of Sir Arthur Old-Love is a copy of Veterano, in the 
 Antiquary ; as is also the incident of Zechiel's creeping into the tavern 
 bush, and Tilburn's being drunk under it, &c, of the scene of Sir Reverence 
 Lemard and Pimpwell, in the Walks of Islington and Hogsdon. There are 
 also several hints in it borrowed from Marston's Parasitaster. The scene 
 is laid in Covent Garden. 
 
 THE MADCAP. A drama which is thus mentioned in Herbert's Diary, 
 under the date of May 3rd, 1624, — " for the Prince's Company a new play 
 called the Madcap, written by 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 Mad Couple Well Met, which may be the 
 same play. 
 
 THE MAD LOVER. A tragi-comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol. 
 1647. This play is commended by Sir Aston Cokain, in his copy of verses 
 on Fletcher's plays. The scene lies at Paphos. The plot of Cleanthe's 
 suborning the priestess to give a false oracle, in favour of her brother 
 Syphax, is borrowed from the story of Mundus and PauUna, in Josephus, 
 xviii. 4.
 
 160 MAD— MAI 
 
 THE MADMAN'S MORRIS. A play written by Robert Wilson in con- 
 junction with Decker and Drayton. Acted in 1598. Not printed. 
 
 MADOR. The History of Mador King of Britain. By Francis Beaumont. 
 Entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, June 29th, 1660; but 
 not printed. 
 
 MAD TOM OF BEDLAM ; or, the Distressed Lovers, with the Comical 
 Humours of Squire Numskull. A droll by Thomas Dogget. Not printed. 
 
 THE MAD WOOING, " or a way to win and tame a shrew, being the course 
 a gentleman took to gain a young lady with a great fortune, on whom, by 
 reason of her frowardness, none before would venture." This droll, extracted 
 from the Taming of the Shrew, is printed in the Theatre of Ingenuity, 
 1698. 
 
 A MAD WORLD MY MASTERS. A comedy by Thomas Middleton. 
 Acted by the Children of Paul's. 4to. 1608 ; 1640. The following is an 
 exact copy of the title-page of ed. 1608, — " A Mad World my Masters, as 
 it hath bin lately in Action by the Children of Paules, composed by T. M., 
 London, printed by H. B. for Walter Burre, and are to be sold in Paules 
 Church-yard, at the signe of the Crane, 1608." The title of ed. 1640 gives 
 it "as it hath bin often acted at the Private House in Salisbury Court by 
 her Majesties servants." 
 
 THE MAGNETICK LADY ; or, Humours Reconcil'd. A comedy by Ben. 
 Jonson. Fol. 1640. It was licensed in October, 1632. 
 
 MAGNIFICENCE. An interlude by John Skelton, printed in folio about 
 1533, and written some time after the year 1515. Reprinted in Skelton's 
 Works, ed. Dyce, i. 225. 
 
 MAHOMET. A play acted by Henslowe's company, the first notice of which 
 occurs in his Diary, under the date of August, 1594. 
 
 THE MAIDEN'S HOLYDAY. A comedy by Christopher Marlowe and 
 John Day. Entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, April 8th, 
 1654. It was among those destroyed by Warburton's servant, in the list 
 of which it is assigned to Marlowe only. 
 
 THE MAIDEN QUEEN. "To the King's House, to see the Maiden 
 Queene, a new play of Dryden's, mightily commended for the regularity of 
 it, and the strain and wit ; and, the truth is, there is a comical part done 
 by Nell, which is Florimell, that I never can hope ever to see the like done 
 again by man or woman," Pepys' Diary, March, 1667. This was published 
 under the title of the Secret Love, 1 668. 
 
 A MAIDENHEAD WELL LOST. A comedy, by Thomas Heywood. 4to
 
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 1634. Langbaine calls this a pleasant comedy, and says that it was acted 
 in Drury Lane with much applause. 
 
 THE MAID IN THE MILL. A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 Fol. 1647. This is an excellent play, and was one of those which, after 
 the Restoration, were revived at the Duke of York's Theatre. Scene, Spain. 
 It was produced in 1623. 
 
 THE MAID OF HONOUR. A tragi-comedy by Phil. Massinger, acted at 
 the Phoenix, Drury Lane. 4to. 1632; 1638. This play, which has con- 
 siderable merit, met with great applause, and has a copy of verses by Sir 
 Aston Cokain prefixed. 
 
 THE MAID OF THE MILL. A play, by J. Fletcher, assisted by Rowley, 
 acted at the Globe Theatre, 1623. Malone seems to think this was the 
 Maid's Tragedy ; but is it not more likely to be the same as is printed by the 
 title of the Maid in the Mill ? It is mentioned in Herbert's Diary under 
 the date of August 29th, 1623, — " for the King's players, a new comedy 
 called the Maid of the Mill, written by Fletcher and Rowley." 
 
 THE MAID'S LAST PRAYER ; or, Any Rather than Fail. A comedy by 
 Thomas Southern, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1693. Scene, London. 
 There is a song, by Congreve, in this play. 
 
 THE MAID'S METAMORPHOSIS. A comedy attributed to John Lyly. 
 4to. 1600. This play was frequently acted by the Children of Paul's. 
 
 THE MAID'S REVENGE. A tragedy by Shirley. Acted at the Private 
 House, Drury Lane. 4to. 1639. Licensed in 1626. The plot is taken 
 from Reynolds's God's Revenge against Murder, ii. 7, and the scene lies 
 at Lisbon. In the dedication, to H. Osborne, this is said to have been the 
 second play that Shirley wrote. 
 
 THE MAID'S TRAGEDY. By Beaumont and Fletcher. Acted at the Black 
 Friars. 4to. 1619; 1622; 1630; 1638; 1641; 1650; 1661. It was 
 acted at Court in 1613. Scene, Rhodes. 
 
 THE MAID'S TRAGEDY. An alteration of Beaumont and Fletcher by 
 Edm. Waller, 1690. In this play the catastrophe is rendered fortunate. 
 Fenton observes that Langbaine mistook 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 was not published separately, but in " the Second Part of Mr. Waller's 
 Poems containing his Alteration of the Maid's Tragedy, and whatever of 
 his is yet unprinted," 8vo, 1690. 
 
 MALCOLM KING OF SCOTS. A play by Charles Massey, acted in 1602. 
 Not printed. 
 
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 102 M II - 1/ (N 
 
 THE MALCONTENT. A tragi-comedy by John Marston, acted by the 
 King's servants. 4to. 1604. Of this play there are two editions in the 
 same year. To one of the copies are added an induction, a new character, 
 and other particulars, by John Webster. It is dedicated, in the wannest 
 and most complimentary manner possible, to Ben Jonson. 
 
 THE MALL; or, the Modish Lovers. A comedy by J. D., acted at the 
 Theatre Iloyal. 4to. 1674. This play lias been ascribed to Dryden ; but 
 its style and manner bear little resemblance to those of that author. 
 
 MA.LVOLIO. A play acted at Court early in the year 1623. It was 
 perhaps Shakespeare's comedy of Twelfth Night. 
 
 M AMAMOUC1II ; or, the Citizen turn'd Gentleman. A comedy by Edw. 
 Kavenscroft. 4to. 1675. This play is wholly borrowed, and that even 
 without the least acknowledgment of the theft, from the Mons. Pourceaugnae 
 and the Bourgeois Gentilhomme of Moliere. 
 
 M AM1LLIA. A play acted at Whitehall in 1573. "Mamfllia, playde by 
 therle of Leicesters servauntes on Innosentes claye at nighte there," Revels' 
 Accounts. 
 
 MANHOOD AND WISDOME : a Masque of muche Instruction. Anony- 
 mous. 4to. 1563. For this date and description we have only Chctwood's 
 authority, which is never to be trusted. The piece was so rare above an 
 hundred years ago, that it appears never to have been seen by Kirkman. 
 
 MANKIND. A curious moral play of the sixteenth century, in MS. See 
 an account of it in Collier's Hist. Dram. Poet., ii. 293. 
 
 THE MAN OE MODE ; or, Sir Eopling Flutter. A comedy by Sir George 
 Etherege, acted at the Duke'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 Royal. 4to. 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 Shatteril and Haines at t'other." 
 It was licensed in April, 1678. 
 
 THE MAN'S THE MASTER. A comedy by Sir W. Davenant. 4to.l669. 
 This was the last play its author wrote, being finished not long before his 
 death, which happened in 1668. The plot of it is borrowed from two plays 
 of M. Scarron, viz. Jodelet, ou Le Maitre Valet, and L'Heritier Ridicule. 
 The scene is laid in Madrid, and throughout the whole in one house. 
 
 MAN'S WIT. A moral play of the sixteenth century, mentioned in Greene's 
 Groats worth of Wit, 1592.
 
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 THE MAN TOO HARD FOR THE MASTER. A comedy mentioned in 
 the British Theatre. It is the second title, of Love Without Interest, 1699. 
 
 MARCELIA; or, the Treacherous Friend. A tragi-comedj by Mrs. Frances 
 
 Boothby, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1 6 70. The scene lies in France. 
 
 MA11CIANO; or, the Discovery. A tragi-coraedy. Edinburgh, 4to. 1663. 
 
 This piece, we find by the Mercurius Publicus, No. 2, January 15, 1662, 
 was written by Mr. William Clerke, and is said, in the title-page, to have 
 been acted with great applause, before His Majesty's High Commissioner, 
 and others of the nobility, at the abbey of Holyrud House, at Edinburgh, 
 on St. John's night, by a company of gentlemen, of which the author was 
 one. The scene of this play is laid in Florence. 
 
 MARCUS GEMINUS. A Latin comedy, acted in Christchurch Hall, Oxford, 
 before Queen Elizabeth, in 1566. 
 
 MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, that famous Eoman Orator, his Tragedy. 
 4to. 1651, printed in double columns. It is uncertain whether this play 
 was ever acted or not, but it is written in imitation of Ben Jonson's Catiline. 
 The scene lies at Borne ; and the story may be found in Plutarch's Life of 
 Cicero, &c. Phillips and Winstanley ascribe this play to Fulk Greville, 
 Lord Brook ; but without authority. 
 
 MARIAM, THE FAIR QUEEN OF JEWRY. A tragedy by Lady Eliza- 
 beth Garew. 4to. 161 3. This piece is written in alternate rhymes, and with 
 a chorus composed of settines, or stanzas of six. lines, the four first of which 
 are interwoven, or rhyme alternately, the two last rhyming to each other, 
 and forming a couplet in bass. 
 
 MARIUS AND SYLLA. See the Wounds of Civil War, by T. Lodge, 
 published in 1594. 
 
 MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE. A comedy by J. Dryden, acted at the Theatre 
 Royal. 4to. 1673; 1691; 1693. The serious part of this drama is 
 apparently founded on the story of Sesostris and Timareta, in the Grand 
 Cyrus, ix. 3 ; the characters of Palamede and Rhodophil, from the history 
 of Timantes and Parthenia, in the same romance, vi. 1 ; the character of 
 Doralico, from Nogaret, in the Annals of Love; and the hint of Melantha's 
 making love to herself in Rhodophil's name, from Les Contes d'Ouvilie, 
 i. 3. 
 
 THE MARRIAGE BROAKER; or, the Pander. A comedy by M. W. 
 12mo. 1662. The plot of this piece, which is one among the Ternary of 
 Plays, is taken from the English chronicles in the reign of Sebert, King of 
 the West Saxons. The scene lies in London. 
 
 THE MARRIAGE-HATER MATCH'D. A comedy by T. Durfey, acted
 
 16 j. MAR— MAR 
 
 at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1(31)2. The admirable performance of a part 
 in thia play occasioned Doggct to be taken notiec of as an actor of merit. 
 It, appears to have been acted six nights successively. See Motteux's 
 Gentleman's Journal, Feb. 1091-2. The scene in the Park near Kensing- 
 ton. The time is .thirty hours. 
 THE MARRIAGE OF MIND AND MEASURE. "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 Pawles," Revels' Accounts, 
 1579. 
 THE MARRIAGE NIGHT. A tragedy by II. Lord Vise. Falkland. 4to. 
 166-1. This play contains a great share of wit and satire, yet it is uncer- 
 tain whether it was ever acted or not. It was published in the original 
 edition of Dodsley's Collection; but omitted in that of 1780. Scene, 
 Castile. 
 THE MARRIAGE OF OCEANUS AND BRITANNIA. An Allegorical 
 Fiction, really declaring England's riches, glory, and puissance by sea ; to 
 be represented in music, dances, and proper scenes ; invented, written, and 
 composed by Richard Flecknoe. 12mo. 1659. 
 
 THE MARRIAGE OF THE THAMES AND THE RHINE. A masque 
 of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn, devised by Sir Francis Bacon in 161 3, 
 on the marriage of the Prince Palatine and the Princess Elizabeth. When 
 it was first proposed to be performed, the king was so weary and sleepy, 
 he refused to see it. 
 
 THE MARRIAGE OF WIT AND SCIENCE. A newe and pleasaunt 
 Enterlude, intitled, the Manage of Witte and Science. Imprinted at Lon- 
 don, in Flete-stret, neare unto Sainct Dunstan's Churche, by Thomas 
 Marshe. Printed about 1570. The Players' names, — Nature, Witte, Will, 
 Studie, Diligence, Instruction, Science, Reason, Experience, Recreation, 
 Shame, Idelnes, Ignoraunce, Tediousnes, with three other Women Singers. 
 
 THE MARRIAGE OF WIT AND WISDOM. The Contract of a Manage 
 betweene Wit and Wisdome, very frutefuli 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 manuscript of it, bearing the above title, was printed for 
 the Shakespeare Society, 8vo. 1846. 
 
 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 ANDRE Y. "To Bartholomew Fair, and there did see a ridiculous
 
 MAR— MA '8 165 
 
 obscene little stage-play called Marry Audrey, a foolish thing, but seen by 
 every body," Pepys' Diary, 1668. This is supposed to mean Merry Andrew. 
 
 THE MARSHAL OF LUXEMBOURG, UPON HIS DEATH-BED. A 
 
 tragi-comedy done out of French, 12mo. Said in the title-page to be 
 printed at Collen, 1695; and reprinted in 1710, with a frontispiece. 
 
 MARSHAL OSRICK. A play, by Thomas Heywood, acted in 1602, Not 
 printed. In this piece Heywood had the assistance of Wentworth Smith. 
 
 THE MARTIAL QUEEN. A tragedy by R. Carleton, 1675, the original 
 manuscript of which is in the possession of F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A. Lord 
 Bruce, and four ladies of his family, performed some of the principal parts 
 in this drama. There is also a -manuscript copy of this play in the 
 Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. Poet. 126. 
 
 MARTIN SAY ART. A play, called the Life and Death of Martin Swart, is 
 mentioned by Henslowe, under the date of 1597. 
 
 THE MARTYR'D SOLDIER. A tragedy by Henry Shirley, acted at Drury 
 Lane. 4 to. 1638. This play met Avith great applause, but was not pub- 
 lished till after the author's death. The plot is taken from history, during 
 the time of the eighth persecution ; for which see Baronius, &c. The title- 
 page states it to have been " sundry times acted with a generall applause 
 at the Private House in Drury-lane, and at other publicke theaters.'' 
 Dedicated to Sir Kenelm Digby by John Kirke. In some copies the dedi- 
 cation is signed by Kirke's initials only. This is the only play by Henry 
 Shirley that was printed, 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 Martyr'd Soldier speaks of it as " not the meanest of his 
 labours." 
 
 MARY MAGDALEN. An old English mystery, a manuscript, transcribed 
 in the year 1512, is in the Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 133. Printed, 
 4to. Edinb. 1835. 
 
 MARY MAGDALEN. A New Enterlude, never before this Tyme imprinted, 
 entreating of the Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene : not only 
 godlie, learned, and fruitefull, but also well furnished with pleasaunt myrth 
 and pastime, very delectable for those which shall heare or reade the same. 
 Made by the learned clarke, Lewis Wager. Imprinted at London, by John 
 Charlewood, dwelling in Barbican, at the signe of the Halfe Eagle and the 
 Key, anno 1567. There was a mascpie on the subject of Mary Magdalen 
 acted at Court temp. Jac. I. 
 
 MASQUERADE DU CIEL. A Masque, presented to the great Queen of 
 the little World. A celestial map, representing the true site and motions
 
 166 MAS— MAT 
 
 of the heavenly bodies, through the years 1639, 1640, kc by -J. Sadler. 
 4to. 1640. 
 
 THE MASSACRE OF PAKIS, with the Death of the Duke of Guise. A 
 tragedy by Christopher Marlowe. 8vo, without date, printed at London by 
 E. A., for Edward While. 
 
 THE MASSACRE OF PARIS. A tragedy, by Nat. Lee, acted at the 
 Theatre Royal. 4to. 1G90. The plot of this play is founded on the 
 massacre of the Protestants, which was perpetrated at Paris, on St. Bar- 
 tholomew's day, 1572, in the reign of Charles IX., for the particulars of 
 which see De Serres, Mezeray, &c. The scene, Paris. 
 
 MASSANIELLO. The Famous History of the Rise and Fall of Massaniello, 
 in two parts. By Thomas Durfey. 4to. 1700; second part, 1699. This 
 is on the same story as the Rebellion of Naples, and partly borrowed from 
 it. Both parts were really printed in 1699, although one of them bears 
 the date of 1700. 
 
 MASTER ANTHONY. A comedy by the Earl of Orrery. 4to. 1690. 
 Though this piece bears the above date, yet it appears to have been acted 
 many years before, at the Duke's Theatre, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, by 
 having the names of Mr. Angel and Mrs. Long in the drama, who had at 
 that time been dead some years. It had no success. 
 
 MASTER TURBULENT; or, the Melancholies. 4to. 1682. The scene 
 of this comedy is laid in Moor fields. 
 
 A MATCH AT MIDNIGHT. A comedy by William Eowley, acted by the 
 Children of the Bevels. 4to. 1633. In Dodsley's Collection. Part of the 
 plot of this pleasant comedy, viz. the design of Jarvis's hiding Bloodhound 
 under the widow's bed, is the same as an old story in the English Rogue, 
 part 4, chap. 19. 
 
 MATCH ME IN LONDON. A tragi- comedy by Thomas Decker. Pre- 
 sented first at the Bull, in St. John's Street, and afterwards at the Private 
 House, in Drury Lane, called the Phoenix. 4to. 1631. Scene, Spain. 
 This play is thus mentioned in Herbert's Diary, under the date of August 
 21st, 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." 
 
 A MATCH OR NO MATCH. This play is thus mentioned in Herbert's 
 Diary, under the date of April 6th, 1624, — " for the Fortune anew Comedy 
 called a Match or no Match, written by Mr. R'owlye." 
 
 MATILDA. An old play, mentioned in Jacob's Political Register. No 
 further information respecting it has been recovered.
 
 MAT— MET) 167 
 
 THE MATRIMONIAL TROD BLE, in two parts, by the Duchess of New- 
 castle. Fol. 1662, The first of these is a comedy, the second a tragi- 
 comedy. 
 
 THE MAWE. A play of this name, no doubt on the subject of the game 
 at cards so called, is recorded in llenslowe's list, as having been acted on 
 Dec. 14th, 1594. Not now known. 
 
 MAY DAY. A witty comedy, by George Chapman, sundry times acted at 
 the Black Friars. 4to. 1611. Reprinted in Dilke's Old Plays. 
 
 THE MAY LORD. A pastoral by Ben. Jonson, mentioned in the Conver- 
 sations with Drummond, p. 27. No copy of it is known to exist. 
 
 THE MAYOR OF OUINBOROUGH. A comedy, by Thomas Middleton, 
 
 acted at the Black Friars, 4t.o. 1661. In some copies of the title-page of this 
 edition, it is called a tragedy. The plot is taken from Stow, Speed, &c., in 
 the reign of Vortiger; and the author has introduced into the piece several 
 dumb shows, the explanation of which he puts into the mouth of Rainulph, 
 monk of Chester, whose Polychronicon he has closely followed. 
 
 MEASURE FOR MEASURE. A play, by William Shakespeare. Fol. 
 1623. No quarto edition. It was acted at Court in December, 1604. 
 
 MEASURE FOR MEASURE; or, Beauty the Best Advocate. A comedy 
 by Charles Gildon, acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to. 1700. An in- 
 different alteration of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. It is said, on 
 the title-page, to have been " written originally by Mr. Shakespear, and 
 now very much alter' d, with additions of several entertainments of musick." 
 The prologue was written by Oldmixon, and spoken by Betterton. The 
 epilogue was also by the same writer. 
 
 MEDEA, a tragedie, translated from Seneca, a manuscript in the British 
 Museum, MS. Sloane 911. It differs from Sherburne's version, but was 
 probably made about the same period. 
 
 MEDEA. A tragedy, by Sir Edward Sherburne. 8vo. 1648 ; 1701. This 
 is also a translation from Seneca, with annotations ; but it was never in- 
 tended for the stage. 
 
 MEDEA. A tragedy by John Studly. Svo. 1563 ; 4to. 1581. This is a 
 translation from Seneca. 
 
 MEDEA. A Latin tragedy, by Thomas Hobbes, 1602. This was also pro- 
 bably a translation from Seneca. 
 
 A MEDICINE FOR A CURST WIFE. A play, by Thomas Decker, acted 
 in 1602. Not printed.
 
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 THE MELANCHOLY KNIGHT. A play by Samuel Rowlands, entered 
 
 on the books of the Stationers' Company, December 2nd, 1615. 
 
 MELANTIIE. Fabula Pastoralis, acta cum Jacobus, Magnse Brit. Franc, 
 et Hiberniae Hex, Cantabrigian) suam nuper inviserat, ibidemque musarum 
 atque animi gratia dies quinque commoraretur. Egerunt Alumni Coll. San. 
 et individual' Trinitatis Cantabrigise, 4to. 1615. This play, written by 
 Brookes, of Trinity College, was acted before King James I., Friday, the 
 10th of March, 1614-5 . A person who was present says, it was excellently 
 written, and as well acted, which gave great contentment, as well to the 
 king as to the rest. 
 
 MELEAGER. A tragedy in Latin, by William Gager, acted at Christchurch 
 College, Oxford, before Lord Leicester, Sir Philip Sydney, and other 
 distinguished persons, in 1581, "giving great delight," as Wood tells us. 
 4to. 1592. 
 
 MEN2ECHMI. A comedy by W. W. 4to. 1595. This is only a transla- 
 tion from Plautus, and is, in some places, a pretty strict one ; though in 
 not a few the author is only imitated, and in many abridged. The trans- 
 lator has been supposed to be William Warner. From this play the plot 
 of the Comedy of Errors is borrowed. It is reprinted in Six Old Plays, 
 published by J. Nichols, 8vo. 1779, vol. i. In the running-title it is 
 called Menechmus. 
 
 THE MEN OF GOTHAM. A Merriment much applauded, by William 
 Kempe. See a Knack How to Know a Knave, 1594. 
 
 THE MERCHANT OF EMDEN. Mentioned by Henslowe as having been 
 acted July 30th, 1594. Not printed. 
 
 THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. A comedy by William Shakespeare. 
 4to. Printed by J. Roberts, 1600 ; 4to. Printed by I. R. for Thomas Heyes, 
 1600; 4to. 1637; 4to. 1652. 
 
 THE MERCHANT'S SACRIFICE. A play mentioned originally in War- 
 burton's list, but the title of it was afterwards cancelled. It may have 
 been the original title of Marmion's play of the Crafty Merchant. 
 
 MERCUR1US BRITANNICUS ; or, the English Intelligencer. A tragi- 
 comedy, acted at Paris with great applause. 4to. 1641. Prefixed is a 
 Latin version of it. This piece is wholly political ; the subject of it being 
 entirely on the ship-money, which was one of the great points that occasioned 
 the troubles of King Charles I. It was written by Richard Braithwait. 
 Scene, Smyrna. 
 
 MERCURY VINDICATED FROM THE ALCHEMISTS AT COURT, 
 by gentlemen the King's servants, performed on Twelfth Night, 1615. By 
 Ben Jonson. Fol. 1616; 1640.
 
 MER—MET 169 
 
 MERRY. The tragedy of Merry, or the Tragedy of Thomas Merry, by 
 Haughton and Daye, written in 1599. 
 
 THE MERRY DEVIL OF EDMONTON. A comedy acted at the Globe. 
 4to. 1608; 1617; 1626; 1631; 1655; 1780. This comedy is attributed 
 by Kirkman to Shakespeare, but on what foundation we know not ; as there 
 do not appear in the piece itself any marks that tend to the confirmation 
 of such a suggestion. Coxeter takes notice of an old MS. of this play that 
 he had seen, which stated it to have been written by Michael Drayton. 
 The plot is founded on the history of one Peter Fabal, of whom more par- 
 ticular mention is made in Fuller's Church History, and in the Chronicles 
 of Henry VI. 's reign. Scene, Edmonton. This comedy, in the original 
 entry on the Stationers' books in 1608, by Joseph Hunt and Thomas 
 Archer, is said to have been written by T. B., which letters were perhaps 
 placed for Tony or Anthony Brewer. The same letters are prefixed to that 
 author's Country Girl. These initials show that this piece belongs neither 
 to Shakespeare nor Drayton. H. Moseley, indeed, entered it on the Sta- 
 tioners' books, September 9th, 1653, as the production of the former ; but 
 that statement is of no authority. The Merry Devil of Edmonton is men- 
 tioned in the Blacke Booke, 1604, as if it were then a popular comedy. 
 
 THE MERRY MILKMAID OF ISLINGTON, or the Rambling Gallants 
 Defeated. This is one of the drolls printed in the Muse of Newmarket, 
 4to. 1680. The comedy of the Two Merry Milkmaids, 1620, is sometimes 
 alluded to as that of the Merry Milkmaids. 
 
 THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. A comedy by Shakespeare. Acted 
 by the Lord Chamberlain's Servants. An imperfect copy of it, or perhaps 
 a rough sketch, was printed in 1602, and again in 1619. The genuine 
 play was first printed in the folio edition of 1623, reprinted in 4to. 1630. 
 
 MESSALINA THE ROMAN EMPERESSE, her Tragedy. By Nat. 
 Richards. Acted by His Majesty's Company of Revels with general applause. 
 12mo. 1640. The plot of this play is from Suetonius, Pliny, Juvenal, and 
 other authors who have written on the vicious character of that woman. It 
 is ushered in by six copies of verses. Scene, Rome. This is one of the few 
 early plays containing a list of the actors, with the parts that they under- 
 took. 
 
 THE METAMORPHOSED GIPSIES. A masque by Ben Jonson, presented 
 three times before James the First, 1621, fol. 1641. A manuscript copy, 
 supposed to be in the author's autograph, was in the Heber collection, 
 No. 603. 
 
 METROPOLIS CORONATA, the Triumphes of Ancient Drapery ; or, Rich 
 Cloathing of England : in a Second Yeeres Performance. In Honour of 
 the Advancement of Sir John Jolles, Knight, to the high Office of Lord 
 
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 170 MIC—MIN 
 
 Maior of London, and taking his Oath for the same Authovitie, on Monday, 
 being the 30 Day of October, 1615. Performed in heartie Affection to 
 him, and at the bountifnll Charges of his worthie Brethren the truely 
 honourable Society of Drapers ; the first that received such Dignitic in 
 4 his Cittie. Devised and written by Anthony Munday, Citizen and Draper 
 of London. 4to. 1615. 
 
 MICHAELMAS TERME. A comedy by Thomas Middleton. 4to. 1607 ; 
 1630 ; 1680. This play was sundry times acted by the Children of Paul's. 
 It was entered on the registers of the Stationers' Company, May 15th, 
 1607. 
 
 MICROCOSMUS. A Latin tragedy composed by Thomas Arthur, of St. 
 John's College, Cambridge, in the sixteenth century. 
 
 MICROCOSMUS. A moral masque, by Thomas Nabbes. Acted at Salis- 
 bury Court. 4to. 1637. This has two copies of verses prefixed, by Richard 
 Brome and W. Cufaude. It is reprinted in Dodsley's Collection, 1780. 
 
 MIDAS. A comedy by John Lyly. Plaied before the Queenes Majestie, 
 upon Twelfe Day at Night, by the Children of Paulee. 4to. 1592 ; 12ino. 
 1632. The story of this play is related at large by Apuleius in his Golden 
 Ass. 
 
 THE MIDDLE-TEMPLE AND LINCOLN'S INN MASQUE. A 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, Eeb. 15, 1613, by Geo. Chapman. 4to. no date. This masque 
 was written and contrived for the celebration of the nuptials of the Count 
 Palatine of the Rhine with the Princess Elizabeth. The machinery and 
 decorations were by Inigo Joues. From Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales, 
 p. 346, we learn that this masque cost the Society of Lincoln's Inn no less 
 than J2400. 
 
 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. A comedy by Shakespeare. Acted 
 by the Lord Chamberlain's Servants. 4to. imprinted for Thomas Fisher, 
 1600 ; 4to., printed by James Roberts, 1600. Folio, 1623. 
 
 THE MILLER. A play by Robert Lee, acted in 1598. 
 
 MINDS. Comoedia, a worke, in rhyme, conteyning an interlude of Myndes, 
 witnessing man's fall from God and Cryst, set forth by H. N., and by him 
 newly perused and amended, translated out of base Almayne into Englysh. 
 By Henry Nicholas, printed abroad about 1550. 12mo. 
 
 MIND, WILL, AND UNDERSTANDING. An ancient moral-play, a large 
 fragment of which is preserved in the Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 133, 
 and a complete copy in the Macro MS. The imperfect copy was printed,
 
 MIN—MIS 1 7 Y 
 
 4 to. Edinb. 1835 ; and the remainder from a manuscript in the Macro 
 collection, 4to. Edinb. 1837. 
 
 MINERVA'S SACRIFICE ; or, the Eorc'd Lady. A tragedy by Philip 
 Massinger; entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 9th, 
 1653, and was among those destroyed by Warburton's servant. It was 
 licensed in 1629. 
 
 MINERVA'S TRIUMPH ; or, Grammar and Rhetoric, in all the Parts of 
 them, personated by Youth in Dramatic Scenes, 8vo. 1680. This is the 
 title of the second edition of Shaw's Words Made Visible, q. v. 
 
 MIRZA. A Tragedie really acted at Persia in the last age, illustrated with 
 historicall Annotations, 8vo. no date. Written by Robert Baron. 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 different 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 any one may perceive 
 that his ghost of Emirliamze 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. 
 
 THE MISER. A comedy by Thomas Shadwell. 4to. 1672 ; 1691. This 
 play, by the author's own confession, is founded on the Avare of Moliere, 
 which is itself also built on the Aulularia of Plautus. Shadwell, however, 
 has by no means been a mere translator, but has added considerably to his 
 original. 
 
 THE MISERIES OF INFORCED MARRIAGE. By George Wilkins. 
 4to. 1607; 1611; 1629; 1637; in Dodsley's Collection, 1780. This 
 play was entered on the registers of the Stationers' Company, July 3 1st, 
 1607. 
 
 THE MISERY OF CIVIL WAR. Crowne's tragedy or alteration of the 
 Second Part of Henry the Sixth was originally published in 1680 under 
 the title of, " The Misery of Civil War, a Tragedy, as it is acted at the 
 Duke's Theatre by His Royal Highnesses Servants." 
 
 THE MISFORTUNES OF ARTHUR, Uther Peudragon's Sonne, reduced 
 into tragical! notes by Thomas Hughes, one of the Societie of Graye's Inn. 
 And here set down as it past from under his hands, and as it was presented, 
 excepting certain wordes and lines, where some of the actors either helped 
 their memories by brief omission, or fitted their acting by alteration. With
 
 172 MLS— HOC 
 
 a note at the mule of such speeches as were penned by others in lue of some 
 of these hereafter following. This dramatic piece has the following general 
 title : — " Certaine Devises and Shewes presented Her Majestie by the Gen- 
 tlemen of Graye'a Inne, at her Highnesse Court in Greenwich, the twenty- 
 eighth day of Februarie, in the thirtieth yeare of Her Majestic's most happy 
 raigne. At London." Printed by Robert Robinson. 12mo. 1587. It 
 is reprinted in Collier's Supplement to Dodsley. The original is beauti- 
 fully printed in black letter, and has many cancels, consisting of single 
 words, half lines, and entire speeches. These were reprinted and pasted 
 over the cancelled passages; a practice, we believe, very rarely seen. 
 
 MISOGONUS. A curious MS. play, dated 1577, but written many years 
 previously, in the Devonshire Collection. Written by Thomas Richards. 
 See an account of it in Collier's Hist. Dram. Poet., ii. 464. 
 
 MISTAKEN BEAUTY; or, the Lyar. A comedy acted at the Theatre 
 Royal. 4to. 1685. This is little more than a translation of the Menteur 
 of Corneille ; which, says Dryden, though cried up in France, when it came 
 on the English stage, though well translated, and the part of Dorant (by 
 Hart) acted with so much advantage as it had never received in its own 
 country, yet it 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 Amphy- 
 trion of PJautus, and is extremely farcical. It is not, however, Dryden's, 
 as has been said, being only adopted by him, and enriched with one good 
 scene from his hand. The name of the real author is unknown. 
 
 THE MISTAKES ; or, the False Report. A tragi-comedy by Joseph Han-is. 
 4to. 1691. This play was written by another person ; but falling into this 
 gentleman's hands, he made many alterations in it considerably for the 
 worse; yet Dryden bestowed a prologue on it, Tate an epilogue, and 
 Mouutfort a whole scene in the last act, and many other corrections. 
 
 MISTRISS PARLIAMENT HER GOSSIPING, Full of mirth, merry tales, 
 chat, and other pleasant discourse, between Mistress Statute, Justice, Truth, 
 and Mistress Parliament, Ordinance, Synod ; Mrs. England being Mode- 
 rator. By Mercurius Melancholicus. Printed in the year of the downfall 
 of the Sectaries, 1648. 4to. 
 
 MITHRIDATES, KING OF PONTUS. A tragedy, by Nath. Lee, acted 
 at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1678 ; 1693. This play is founded on history, 
 for which see Appian, Florus, and Plutarch. The scene lies in Sinope. 
 The epilogue was written by Dryden. 
 
 THE MOCK DUELLIST ; or, the French Valet. A comedy by P. B. 4to. 
 1675. This play was acted at the Theatre Royal with some success, and
 
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 is, in consequence of the letters affixed to it, attributed by Langbaine and 
 Jacob to Peter Belon. Scene, Covent Garden. 
 
 THE MOCK MA11UIAGE. A comedy by Thomas Scott, acted at Dorset 
 Garden Theatre. 4to. 1696. Scene, London. 
 
 MOCK l'O.MPEY. This seems to have been a droll. It is mentioned as a 
 rhyming farce, with Simpleton 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. This piece was acted at the Theatre Royal, and written pur- 
 posely 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 consequence of the applause given to Dryden's alteration 
 of the Tempest, which was then in its full run : but it was intermixed 
 with so much scurrility and ribaldry, 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 this 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. 
 
 The scene is in London. In the half-title to the play it is called the New 
 Tempest, or the Enchanted Castle. Prospero is called, " a duke, head-keeper 
 of the Enchanted Castle." 
 
 MOCK THYESTES. A farce, by John Wright. 12mo. 1674. This is a 
 burlesque. Thyestes, instead of returning with his three children, comes 
 back with three cats in a bag. 
 
 MONARCHICAL IMAGE; or, Nebuchadnezzar's Dream. A dramatical 
 poem, by Robert Fleming. 8vo. 1691. Printed with other pieces, in a 
 volume, entitled, " The Mirror of Divine Love unveiled, in a Poetical Para- 
 phrase of the high and mysterious Song of Solomon." 
 
 MONEY IS AN ASS. A comedy by Thomas Jordan. 4to. 1668. This 
 play was acted with applause ; the part of Capt. Penniless, the principal 
 character in it, having been performed by the author. It is one of the 
 pieces published by Kirkman ; and Langbaine surmises from the style, that 
 it is older than the date of its publication. 
 
 MONSIEUR D'OLIVE. A comedy by George Chapman. 4to. Printed by 
 T. C. for William Holmes, and are to be sold at his Shop in Saint Dun-
 
 174 MON—MOR 
 
 stons Church-yard in Flcetc-strectc, 1606. This play was esteemed a good 
 one, and met with success. It was acted by her Majestie's children at 
 Black Friars. Reprinted in 1 Mike's Old Flays. 
 
 MONSIEUR THOMAS. A comedy by John Fletcher. Acted at the Black 
 Friars. 4to. 1639. In this comedy, the author was unassisted by his 
 friend Beaumont, who probably was dead before the writing of it, or by any 
 other person; but it wa3 not published till after his 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. 
 
 THE MONTACUTE MASQUE. The Device of a Masque for the Right 
 Hon. Viscount Moutacute, pronounced on account of the marriage of his 
 sonne and heire to the daughter of Sir W. Dormer ; and the marriage of 
 the son and heire of Sir W. Dormer to the daughter of Lord Moutacute. 
 By George Gascoigne. See Gascoigne's Works, ed. 15 S7, p. 43. 
 
 THE MONUMENT OF HONOUR, at the Confirmation of the right worthy 
 Brother John Goare, in his high Office of His Majesty's Lieutenant over 
 his royal Chamber, at the Charge and Expense of the right worthy and 
 worshipfull Fraternity of eminent Merchant Taylors. Invented and written 
 by John Webster, taylor. 4to. 1624. 
 
 MOORE'S MASQUE. Mr. Moore's revells nere East-gate in Oxon., 1636, 
 MS. " Then came in the antimasque, being six Moores, Mr. Moore him- 
 selfe being one," ibid. " The second night, being the last publique night, 
 had the same speeches, onely a new epilogue," ibid. " The third night, 
 being private for gentlewomen, had onely a new prologue," ibid. 
 
 MOORS. " On Twelfe Night, 1605, the Queen's Majesties Maske of Moures, 
 with aleven laydies of honnour to accumpayney her majestie, which cam in 
 great showes of devises which thay satt in with exselent musike," Revels' 
 Accounts, edited by P. Cunningham, who informs us that this entry refers 
 to Ben Jonson's masque of Blackness, q. v. 
 
 MORE DISSEMBLERS BESIDES WOMEN. A comedy by Thomas 
 Middleton. 8vo. 1657. Scene, Milan. It is thus mentioned in Herbert's 
 Diary, under the date of October 17th, 1623, — "for the King's company, 
 an old play called More Dissemblers besides Women, allowed by Sir George 
 Bucke, and being free from alterations, was allowed by me." 
 
 THE MORNING RAMBLE. 4to. 1673. The scene in London. This 
 is a good comedy ; and, ascribed by Downes, to Nevil Payne. The title- 
 pages of this comedy differ, in some there being no second title, while others 
 are entitled, — The Morning Ramble, or the Town Humours, a Comedy 
 acted at the Duke's Theatre, 1673.
 
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 MORS. A Latin comedy by William Drury, 12mo. 1628. Printed at 
 Douay, in the Dramatica Poemata. 
 
 MORTIMER'S FALL. A tragedy by Ben Jonson. Fol. 1640. This 
 piece is to be found among Jonson's works ; but is no more than a frag- 
 ment, just begun, and left imperfect by means of the author's death. 
 
 MORTIMER. A play acted by Henslowe's company in 1602. 
 
 MOTHER BOMBIE. A comedy by John Lyly, M.A. 4to. 1594; 4to. 
 1598 ; 12mo. 1632. Acted by the Children of Paul's. 
 
 MOTHER REDCAP. A play by Drayton and Munday, mentioned in 
 Henslowe's Diary, under the date of December, 1597. 
 
 MOTHER SHIPTON, HER LIFE. A comedy by Thomas Thomson. 
 4to. No date, but printed about 1668. This play, it is said, was acted 
 nine days successively, with great applause ; yet what merit it has can by 
 no means be called its own; all the characters, excepting those which 
 relate to Mother Shipton, being stolen from Massinger's City Madam, and 
 Middleton's Chaste Maid in Cheapside. 
 
 THE MOTIVES. Wood in his list of Ben Jonson's writings, mentions a 
 comedy with this title, as having been printed in 8vo. 1622; but we do 
 not find that any one has ever met with such a play. 
 
 THE MOUNTEBANKS' MASQUE. The first antimasque of mounte- 
 bankes, as it was performed at the Court, 16 Feb. 1617-18, MS. Addit. 
 Brit. Mus. 5956. Printed in the second part of the Gesta Grayorum in 
 Nichols' Progr. of Eliz., vol. 3, p. 332, ed. 1823. In the manuscript, the 
 " last song " altogether differs, and at the end is added a number of para- 
 doxes 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 in some of the later editions of the Overbury 
 Characters. The Duke of Devonshire also has an early manuscript copy 
 of it, which was printed by Mr. Collier, 8vo. 1848. 
 
 THE MOURNING BRIDE. A tragedy by W. Congreve, acted at Lincoln's 
 Inn Fields. 4to. 1697. This play met with great success. Scene, 
 Granada. 
 
 MUCEDORUS. A most pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus, the King's 
 Sonne of Valentia, and Amadine, the King's Daughter of Arragon. With 
 the merry Conceits of Mouse. Amplified with new additions, as it was 
 acted before the King's Majesty at Whitehall, on Shrove-Sunday Night. 
 By his Highnesse servants, usually playing at the Globe : very delectable 
 and full of conceited mirth. 4to. 1598; 1613; 1615; 1619; 1629; 
 1634; 1639; 1668. There is also an edition without date. This piece
 
 176 MUC—MUS 
 
 is, in Borne of the old catalogues, erroneously said to be Shakespeare's. It 
 is rather a kind of droll or farce than a regular comedy, and used fre- 
 quently to be performed for the diversion of country people at Christmas 
 time. 
 
 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. A comedy by Shakespeare. Acted 
 by the Lord Chamberlain's servants. 4to. 1600, printed by V. S. for 
 Andrew Wise and William Aspley. 
 
 THE MULBERRY GARDEN. A comedy, by Sir Charles Sedley, acted 
 at Drury Lane. 4to. 1668 ; 4to. 1675. This was esteemed a very good 
 comedy, and met with much success. There appears, however, an evident 
 similarity of Sir John Everyoung and Sir Samuel Forecast to the Sgauerelle 
 and Ariste of Moliere's Ecole des Maris. Pcpys gives an interesting 
 account of it under the date of May 18th, 1663. Scene, the Mulberry 
 Garden, near Saint James's. 
 
 MULLEASSES. An Excellent Tragedy of Mulleasses the Turke, and 
 Borgias, Governour of Florence, as it hath beeue diverse times acted by the 
 Children of his Majesties Revels, 4to. 1632. This is only the second 
 edition of Mason's tragedy of the Turk, originally published in 1610. 
 
 MULMUTIUS DON WALLOW. A play by William Rankins, purchased 
 by the Lord Admiral's company of actors, October, 1598. See Henslowe's 
 Diary, p. 135. 
 
 MULY MOLOCCO. A play acted by the Lord Strange's company in 
 February, 1591. It is mentioned several times in Henslowe's Diary under 
 the corrupted titles of Mulomorco, Mulamulluco, Mulomuloco, Mularauluco, 
 &c. Malone suggests that it was the play of the Battle of Alcazar, printed 
 in 1594. 
 
 MUNDUS PLUMBEUS. A Latin tragedy composed by Thomas Arthur of 
 
 St. John's College, Cambridge, in the sixteenth century. 
 
 MURDEROUS MICHAEL. "The history of Murderous Michael shewen 
 at Whitehall on Shrovetuesdaie at night, enacted by the Lord Chamber- 
 leynes servauntes," Revels' Accounts, 1578. 
 
 THE MUSE OF NEWMARKET. 4to. 1680. This is only an assemblage 
 
 of three drolls acted at Newmarket. 
 THE MUSES LOOKING-GLASS. A comedy by Thomas Randolph. 4to. 
 
 1638 ; 12mo. 1668 ; in Dodsley's Collection. Scene, London, near the 
 
 Blackfriars. 
 
 MUSIC ; or, a Parley of Instruments. 4to. 1676. This little piece is no 
 more than the composition of some master of music, for the use of his 
 scholars at a ball.
 
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 MUSTAPHA. A tragedy by Fulk Greville, Lord Brooke. Fol. 1633. As 
 this play is built on the same foundation with the following one, it will be 
 needless to refer to any other authorities than are there mentioned. There 
 is an earlier edition of it in 4to. 1609 ; but it may rather be called a frag- 
 ment than a play, being not only incorrect, but extremely imperfect, and 
 probably came out without his Lordship's knowledge. The folio edition, 
 however, is perfectly corrected. 
 
 MUSTAPHA, the Son of Solyman the Magnificent. A tragedy by Roger, 
 Earl of Orrery. Fol. 1668; 1669; 1672, and 1690; 8vo. 1739. The 
 scene of this play is laid in Hungary, and the foundation of the story is on 
 historical facts ; for which see Thuanus, lib. xii., Knolles's Turkish History, 
 &c. Old manuscript transcripts of this play are common. It was first 
 acted in 1665. 
 
 MUTIUS SCCEVOLA. " The historye of Mutius Scevola showen at Hamp- 
 ton Court on Twelf daie at night, enacted by the Children of Windsore and 
 the Chappell," Revels' Accounts, 1576. 
 
 NARCISSUS. " Narcissus showen on Twelfe daye at nighte by the Children 
 of the Chappell," Revels' Accounts, 1571. A play so called is alluded to 
 in Hey wood's Apology for Actors, 1610. 
 
 NATURAL MAGIC. A farce written in imitation of part of a French 
 comedy of one act, after the Italian manner ; being the fifth dramatic piece 
 in the Novelty, by P. Motteux, 1697. The scene is laid in a country 
 house. 
 
 NATURE. A goodly interlude of Nature, compyled by Mayster Henry 
 Medwall, Chapleyn to the Right Reverent Father in God, Johan Morton, 
 somtyme Cardynall and Archbyshop of Canterbury. Fol. No date, but 
 printed about 1520. It was written sometime before the yeai: 1500, and 
 is in two parts. 
 
 THE NATURE OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS. A new interlude and a 
 mery, of the Nature of the iiij. Elements, declarynge many proper poyntes 
 of phylosophy naturall,aud of dy vers straunge landys, and of dy vers straunge 
 effectes and causis ; whiche interlude yf the hole matter be playd wyl con- 
 teyne the space of an hour and a halfe ; but yf ye lyst ye may leve out 
 muche of the sad mater, as the messengers parte, and some of naturys 
 parte, and some of experyens parte, and yet the matter wyl depende con- 
 venyently, and than it wyl not be paste thre quarters of an hour of length. 
 4to. no date. Reprinted by the Percy Society, 184S. Wood assigns the 
 authorship of this piece to Rastall. 
 
 NATURE'S THREE DAUGHTERS, BEAUTY, LOVE, AND WIT. 
 A comedy in two parts, by the Duchess of Newcastle. Fol. 1662. 
 
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 178 NAU—NER 
 
 NAUFKAGIUM JOCULARE. Comoedia, publice coram Academicis, acta 
 in Collegio S. S. et individual Trinitatis, 4tas Nonas Feb. An. Dom. 1638. 
 Autbore Abrabamo Cowley. 12mo. 1638. Scene, Dunkirk. 
 
 NEBUCHADNEZZAR. A play first acted by the Lord Admiral's players 
 in December, 1596. See Henslowe's Diary, ed. (Jollier, p. 83. 
 
 NECROMANTES. Necromantes, or the Two Supposed Heads, a comical 
 invention by William Percy, acted by the Children of Paul's. In manu- 
 script, in private hands, written about 1602. 
 
 NECROMANTTA. A dialog of the Poete Lucyan between Mcnippus and 
 Philonides, for his Fantcsye, faynyd for a mery Pastyme, and furst by him 
 compiled in the Greke Tongue, and after translated oute of Greke into 
 Laten, and oute of Laten into Englysh, for the erudicion of them which be 
 disposed to lerne the Tonges. Imprynted by John Rastel. Fol. No date. 
 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 
 among dramatic performances. If Rastall was only the printer of it, which 
 may be doubted, we might fairly enough ascribe it to the festive genius of 
 his brother-in-law, Sir Thos. More. 
 
 NECTAR ET AMBROSIA. A Latin tragedy, by Edmund Campion. 
 
 NEGLECTED VIRTUE ; or, the Unhappy Conqueror. A play, acted at 
 the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1696. This play was published by Horden the 
 player, into whose hands it was put, and who wrote the prologue to it, as 
 did Motteux the epilogue ; yet it had very little success. The comic under- 
 plot is borrowed from the Pilgrim. Scene, the capital city of Parthia. 
 
 NEPTUNE'S TRIUMPH FOR THE RETURN OF ALBION. A masque, 
 by Ben# Jonson, performed at Court, at Christmas, 1623, and on January 
 the 9th, 1624. Folio, 1640. 
 
 NERO, EMPEROR OF ROME, his tragedy, by Nath. Lee. Acted at the 
 Theatre Royal. 4to. 1675. This tragedy is written in a mixed style, 
 chiefly in rhyme, but having a little both in prose and blank verse. The 
 author has taken no pains to adhere to historical truth. Scene, Rome. 
 
 NERO, THE TRAGEDY OF. 4to. 1624; 1633. Licensed on May 15th, 
 1624. This play is, in the title-page, called "Nero newly written," be- 
 cause it was written after that of Claudius Tiberius Nero, which Kirkman 
 has by mistake called Nero's Life and Death. 
 
 NERO. In a review (in the British Critic, Sep^t. 1793) of Nash's edition of 
 Hudibras, it is mentioned that the editor had access to Butler's common- 
 place book, in which was part of an unfinished tragedy, under this title.
 
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 NERO. A Latin tragedy by Matthew Gwinne, M.D., fellow of St. John's 
 College, Oxford. 4to. 1603 ; 8vo. 1639. 
 
 THE NEW ACADEMY; or, the New Exchange. A comedy, by llichard 
 Broine. 8vo. 1658. 
 
 THE NEW ATHENIAN COMEDY. By Elkanah Settle. 4to. 1693 : 
 containing the Politics, (Economics, Tactics, Cryptics, Apocalyptics, Styp- 
 tics, Sceptics, Pneumatics, Theologies, Poetics, Mathematics, Sophistics, 
 Pragmatics, Dogmatics, &c, of that most learned Society. This piece 
 was not intended for the stage; it consists only of three acts, and is a 
 piece of banter on the Athenian Society. Scene, Smith's Coffee-house, Stocks 
 Market. 
 
 THE NEW BRAWL. The New Brawle, or Turnmill-street against Rose- 
 mary Lane, being a mock Comedy, 8vo. 1654. This is a mere dialogue, 
 with prologue and epilogue, not intended for representation. 
 
 A NEW BULL BAYTING ; or, a Match Play'd at the Town Bull of Ely, 
 by twelve Mungrells, viz. four English, four Irish, four Scotch Doggs, John 
 Lilburn, Richard Overton, Thomas Prince, and William Walwyn, to Stave 
 and Nose. With his last Will and Testament, and several Legacies be- 
 queathed to the Juncto, the Council of State, and Army. 4to. 1649. 
 
 NEWE CUSTOM. An interlude. 4to. 1573. The full title of it is as follows : 
 
 " A new Enterlude, no lesse wittie than pleasant, intituled New Custome ; 
 devised of late, and for diverse Causes nowe set forthe Never before this 
 Tyrae imprinted." The dramatis personam, which are eleven in number, 
 are in the title-page, and so disposed therein, " that Fowre may play this 
 Enterlude," or, in the present theatric phrase, to point out all the doubles 
 that may be made use of in the casting of it. It is printed in black letter, 
 and is written in English hexameter rhymes, being only three acts. Reprinted 
 in Dodsley's Collection. 
 
 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 beheld and censured by others, the King's Subjects, 1629. 
 Now at last set at liberty to the Readers, his Majesty's Servants and Sub- 
 jects, to be judged of. 8vo. 1631. A comedy by Ben Jonson. 
 
 NEW MARKET FAYRE; or, A Parliamentary Outcry of State Commodities, 
 set to sale. A tragi-comedy, Fart L, Printed at You May Go Look. 4to. 
 1649. Scene, Westminster. 
 
 NEW MARKET FAYRE; or, Mrs. Parliament's New Figaries. A tragi- 
 comedy, Part II. Written (as the title says) by the Man in the Moon 
 and printed at You May Go Look. These two satirical plays, each of which 
 consists of little more than one scene, were written by some loyalist.
 
 180 NEW— NIC 
 
 A NEW TRICK TO CHEAT THE DEVIL. A comedy by R. Davenport. 
 4to. 1639. This play met with good success. The scene lies in London. 
 SlightalTs instructions to the gentlemen (Act 1, Scene 2) are borrowed 
 from Ovid de Arte Amandi, lib. ii. ; and the plot of Fryar John's disco- 
 vering the intrigue between the constable and the woman, and pretending 
 to conjure for victuals at the husband's return (Act 3, Scene 1), has not 
 only been copied by M. D'Ouville, in his Tales, but has also been since 
 made use of by Ravenscroft, in his London Cuckolds. 
 
 A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS. A comedy by P. Massinger, acted 
 at the Phoenix, Drury Lane. 4to. 1633. This play is very deservedly com- 
 mended in two copies of verses by Sir Henry Moody and Sir Thomas Jay ; 
 it is one of the best of the old comedies. 
 
 A NEW WONDER— A Woman Never Vext. A comedy, by W. Rowley. 
 4to. 1632. This is a diverting play, and met with success. The circum- 
 stance of the widow's 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 Thalia. A similar story, however, is told by Fuller, in 
 his Worthies, of one Anderson, of Newcastle. Reprinted in Dilke's Old 
 Plays. 
 
 NEWS FROM PLYMOUTH. A comedy by Sir W. Davenant. Fob 1673. 
 Scene, Plymouth. This play was performed with good success, at the Globe 
 Theatre. It was licensed on August 1st, 1635. The scene was originally 
 laid at Portsmouth. 
 
 NEWS FROM THE NEW WORLD DISCOVERT) IN THE MOON. 
 
 A Masque, by Ben Jonson. Fol. 1640. Presented at Court before King 
 James I., January, 1620-1. 
 
 NEWS OUT OF THE WEST; or, the Character of a Mountebank. 4to. 
 1647. This is a kind of interlude. 
 
 THE NEW WORLD'S TRAGEDY. A play acted at the Rose Theatre in 
 the year 1595. 
 
 THE NICE VALOUR ; or, the Passionate Madman. A comedy by Beau- 
 mont and Fletcher. Folio, 1647. Scene, Genoa. 
 
 NICE WANTON. A Preaty Interlude called Nice Wanton, 1560, 4to, 
 Imprinted in London in Paules Churche-yearde, at the Sygne of the Swane, 
 by John Kyng. 
 
 NICOMEDE. A tragi-comedy by John Dancer, acted at the Theatre Royal 
 in Dublin. Printed at London, in 4to. 1671. This is a translation from 
 the French of Corneille, and is one of the pieces which that author valued 
 himself the most upon, the several beauties of which he has enumerated in
 
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 an Examen. The story is from Justin, book xxxiv., chapter the last ; and 
 the scene is laid at Nicomedia. 
 
 THE NIGHT WALKER ; or, the Little Thief. A comedy by John Fletcher. 
 Acted at Drury Lane. 4to. 1640; 4to. 1661. Acted at Court in 1633. 
 Scene, London. 
 
 THE NIGRAMANSIR, a morall Enterlude and a pithie, written by Maister 
 Skelton, laureate, and plaid before the King and other estatys, at Woodstoke, 
 on Palme Sunday. It was printed by Wynkin de Worde, in a thin quarto, 
 in the year 1504. It must have been presented before King Henry VII. 
 at the royal manor or palace at Woodstock, in Oxfordshire, now destroyed. 
 The characters are, a Necromancer, the Devil, a Notary Public, Simonie, 
 and Philargyria or Avarice. It is partly a satire on some abuses in the 
 church ; yet not without a due regard to decency, and an apparent respect 
 for the dignity of the audience. The story, or plot, is the trial of Simony 
 and Avarice : the Devd is the judge, and the Notary Public acts as an 
 assessor or scribe. The prisoners, as we may suppose, are found guilty, 
 and ordered into hell immediately. 
 
 NINEVEH'S REPENTANCE. This tragi-comedy is no where mentioned, 
 except in the Catalogue annexed to the Careless Shepherdess, 1656. 
 
 NINUS AND SEMIRAMIS. The tragedie of Ninus and Semiramis, the 
 first Monarchs of the World. This play was entered on the books of the 
 Stationers' Company, May 10th, 1595, by John Hardye; but no copy of 
 it exists. It is alluded to in Hey wood's Apology for Actors, 1610. 
 
 NOAH'S ARK. An ancient mystery so called, acted at Newcastle by the 
 company of the shipwrights, is printed in Bourne's History of Newcastle 
 uponTyne, 1736, p. 139. 
 
 NOAH'S FLOOD. In 1662, a license was granted to "George Bayley, of 
 Loudon, musitioner, to make show of a play called Noah's Flood." 
 
 NOAH'S FLOOD ; or, the Destruction of the World. An Opera by Edward 
 Ecclestone. 4to. 1679. 
 
 THE NOBLE BONDMAN. This play is mentioned in Herbert's Diary 
 under the date of December 3rd, 1623, — "for the Queen of Bohemia's 
 Company, the Noble Bondman, written by Philip Massinger, gentleman ; 
 this was allowed to be printed on March 12th, 1624." This tragedy was 
 printed under the title of the Bondman, q. v. 
 
 THE NOBLE CHOICE ; or, the Orator. A tragi-comedy by Philip Mas- 
 singer, entered on the books of the Stationers' Compauy, Sept. 9th, 1653 ; 
 but not printed. It was one of those destroyed by Warburton's servant. 
 
 THE NOBLE GENTLEMAN. A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol. 
 1647. Licensed on February 3rd, 1625-6. Scene, France.
 
 132 NOB— NOR 
 
 THE NOBLE INGRATITUDE. A pastoral tragi-coraedy, by Sir William 
 Lower. 12mo. 1(559; 1661. This is a translation from the French of 
 M. Quinault. Scene, in the forest of Argier. Printed at the Hague. 
 
 THE NOBLEMAN. A tragi-comedy by Cyril Tourneur. This play was 
 entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, Feb. 15, 1611. It was 
 never printed, but is in the list of those said to have been destroyed by 
 Warburton's servant. 
 
 THE NOBLE RAVISH KRS, a Play, was entered on the books of the Sta- 
 tioners' Company, Nov. 29th, 1653 ; but not printed 
 
 THE NOBLE SOLDIER; or, a Contract Broken Justly Revenged. A tragedy 
 by Samuel Rowley. 4 to. 1634. This piece was not published till after 
 the author's decease, though, according to the editor's (printer's) preface, 
 it had met with success in the representation. The running-title of this 
 play is, The Noble Spanish Soldier ; and Nicholas Vavasour, the publisher, 
 on the 9th of December, 1633, entered it under that title as written by 
 Thomas Decker. 
 
 THE NOBLE STRANGER. A comedy by Lewis Sharpe, acted at the 
 Private House in Salisbury Court. 4to. 1 640. Langbaine gives this play 
 a good character. 
 
 THE NOBLE TRYAL. A tragi-comedy by Henry Glapthorne. Entered 
 on the books of the Stationers' Company, June 29th, 1660 ; but not printed. 
 This was one of the MSS. which were sacrificed by Warburton's servant. 
 
 NOBODY AND SOMEBODY, with the true Chronical Historie of Elydure, 
 who was fortunately three several times crowned Kinge of England. Acted 
 by the Queen's Servants. 4to. No date. This play is not divided into 
 acts. The story is taken from our English chronicles. 
 
 THE NONESUCH. A comedy by William Rowley, entered on the books 
 of the Stationers' Company, June 29th, 1660; and among those destroyed 
 by Warburton's servant. 
 
 THE NONPAREILLES. Davenant's play of Love and Honour was at one 
 time called the Nonpareilles, or the Matchless Maids. 
 
 THE NORTHERN CASTLE. "To the King's Playhouse to see the 
 Northerne Castle, which I think I never did see before. Knipp acted in 
 it, and did her part very extraordinary well ; but the play is but a mean, 
 sorry play ; but the house very full of gallants ; it seems it hath not been 
 acted a good while," Pepys' Diary, September, 1667. 
 
 THE NORTHERN LASS ; or, A Nest of Pools. A comedy by Richard 
 Brome, acted at the Globe and Black Friars, 4to. 1632. This is one of 
 the best of this author's pieces ; it met with good applause in the repre-
 
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 sentation, and is commended by his contemporary, Ben Jonson. It was 
 revived and reprinted in 4to. 1684; with a new Prologue by Jo. ITaynes, 
 and an Epilogue : and, new songs being added to it, the music of which 
 was composed by Daniel Purcell, it was again reprinted in 4to. 1706. It 
 has six copies of complimentary verses prefixed to it. 
 
 NORTHWARD HOE. A comedy, sundry times acted by the Children of 
 Paul's; by Thomas Decker and John Webster. 4to. 1607. A part of 
 the plot, that of Greenshield and Feathcrstone's pretending to Mayberry 
 that they have both seen his wife, and of their coming to a knowledge of 
 each other by means of her ring, is borrowed from Malespini's Novels, 
 Part i. Nov. 2. 
 
 NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE TO LOVE A tragi-comedy with this title was 
 entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, June 29th, 1660, and 
 ascribed to Sir Robert Le Greece (Le Grys) ; but no printed copy of it is 
 known. The MS. was one of those said to have been destroyed by War- 
 burton's servant. 
 
 NOTTOLA. A Latin comedy in five acts, " cujus scena est in civitate Fer- 
 rariensi." A manuscript of the seventeenth century, in the Douce collec- 
 tion, No. 47. 
 
 THE NOVELLA. A comedy by Richard Brome. Acted at the Blackfriars 
 in 1632, but not printed till 1653, in 8vo. Langbaine gives this play a 
 very good character ; and it certainly is interesting, but extremely gross. 
 Scene, Venice. 
 
 THE NOVELTY ; or, Every Act a Play, by P. Motteux. Acted at Lincoln's 
 Inn Fields. 4to. 1697. The model of this compound of pieces seems to 
 be taken from the hint of Sir William Davenant's Playhouse to be Let. It 
 consists, as the title implies, of five distinct short dramatic pieces. 
 
 NO WIT, NO HELP LIKE A WOMAN'S. A comedy by Thomas 
 Middleton. 8vo. 1657. The scene, London. 
 
 THE NUPTIALS OF PELEUS AND THETIS. By James Howell. 4to. 
 1654. This piece consists of a masque, and a comedy from which the 
 masque is taken, and was acted at Paris six times by the King in person, 
 the Dukes of Anjou and York, the Princess Royal, the Princess of Conti, 
 and several other illustrious personages. Scene, Thessaly. 
 
 THE NUPTIALS OF PELEUS AND THETIS. A new Italian comedy, 
 whence the preceding masque was extracted ; made English by a nearer 
 adherence to the original than to the French translation, by James Howell. 
 4to. 1654. 
 
 THE NUT. The " playe of the Nutte " is mentioned in Henslowe's Diary, 
 under the date of December, 1601. Mr, Collier thinks it might be a re- 
 vival of the older play of Crack Me this Nut, which was produced in 1595.
 
 184 OB E— OLD 
 
 OBERON THE FAIRY PRINCE. A masque of Prince Henry's, by Ben. 
 Jonson, produced on New Year's day, 1610-11. Fol. 1616 ; 1640. 
 
 THE OBSTINATE LADY. A comedy by Sir Aston Cokain. 4to. 1657 ; 
 12mo. 1658, witb tbe author's Poems. In the preface to this last publi- 
 cation we are informed that the first edition was printed from a copy sur- 
 reptitiously obtained, which, being deficient in the last leaf and epilogue, 
 was perfected by another person without the author's knowledge. Several 
 parts also in metre were reduced to prose. It seems to have been written 
 in imitation of Massinger's Very Woman, as may be easily perceived on a 
 comparison between the characters of Don John Antonio, and Almira, in 
 that comedy, and those of Carionil and Lucora in this. Scene, London. 
 
 OCTAYIA. A tragedy by Thomas Nuce. 4to. 1581. This is a translation 
 of the Octavia of Seneca. Scene, Rome. For the history, see Suetonius's 
 Life of Cicero, Tacitus, &c. 
 
 (EDIPUS. A tragedy by Alex. Neville. 12mo. 1563 ; 4to. 1581. This is 
 a translation from Seneca, who himself borrowed part of it from Sophocles. 
 
 (EDIPUS. A Latin tragedy by William Gager, student of Christ Church, 
 Oxford. A MS. copy of it, temp. Elizabeth, was in Dr. Bliss's collection. 
 
 (EDIPUS, KING OF THEBES. A tragedy by John Dryden and Nathaniel 
 Lee, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1679 ; 1687 ; 1692 ; 1701. The 
 first and third acts were written by Dryden, who drew the machinery of the 
 whole ; the remainder by Lee. Scene, Thebes. 
 
 (ENONE. A pastoral. 4to. no date. Printed with other pieces attributed 
 to Robert Cox, comedian. 
 
 THE OLD BACHELOR. A comedy by William Congreve, acted at the 
 Theatre Royal. 4to. 1693. This was the first piece of this author's 
 writings, having been brought on the stage when he was only twenty-one 
 years of age. 
 
 THE OLD COUPLE. A comedy by Thomas May. 4to. 1658. In 
 Dodsley's Collection. This is a good play. Its principal design is, to 
 point out the folly of avarice. The circumstance of turning the heart of 
 Earthworm from covetousness to benevolence, however, is better conceived 
 than managed ; the transition being too sudden. The play, nevertheless,' 
 abounds with pleasantry and humour. 
 
 OLD FORTUNATUS. A comedy by Thomas Decker, acted before the 
 Queen at Christmas, by the Earl of Nottingham's servants. 4to. 1600. 
 This play is printed in the black letter, and is not divided into acts. The 
 plan of it is founded on the ancient story of Fortunatus, and his inexhaust- 
 ible purse and wishing hat ; but the author has made such admirable use 
 of the various circumstances of the tale, and taken the advantage of throw-
 
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 ing in such sentiments and strokes of morality, that notwithstanding the 
 wildness and improbability of every part of the plot, we know not, on the 
 whole, among the plays of that time many that have a juster claim to 
 approbation than this piece. The scene lies partly at Famagosta, in the 
 island of Cyprus, and partly in the court of England, during the reign of 
 Athelstan. Reprinted in Dilke's Old Plays. 
 
 THE OLD LAW; or, a New Way to please ye. A comedy, by P. Mas- 
 singer, Thomas Middleton, and William Rowley. Acted at Salisbury 
 House. 4to. 1656. This drama was first acted in some form in 1599, 
 and Massinger perhaps made additions to it long afterwards. Scene, 
 Epirus. 
 
 OLD PATIENT GRTSSEL. A comedy so called is mentioned in Kirk- 
 man's Catalogue, 1661. It is perhaps the play of Patient Grissel, 4 to. 
 1603. 
 
 THE OLD TROOP ; or, Monsieur Ragout. A comedy by John Lacy, acted 
 at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1672; 1698. Scene, London. 
 
 THE OLD WIDOW. A droll, formed out of Cartwright's play of the 
 Ordinary, printed in the Wits' Interpreter, 1662. 
 
 THE OLD WIVES TALE. A pleasant conceited Comedie, plaied by the 
 Queenes Majesties players. Written by G. P. (George Peele). Printed at 
 London, by John Danter, and are to be sold by Ralph Hancocke and John 
 Hardie, 1595. The names of some of the characters, as Sacrapant, Corebus, 
 &c, are adopted from the Orlando Furioso. Reprinted in Peele's Works, 
 ed. Dyce, i. 207. 
 
 OLEMPEO AND HENGENYO. A play mentioned by Henslowe, 1595. 
 The title, which he spells thus, is no doubt some extraordinary corruption. 
 
 ONE FOR ANOTHER. Marston's Malcontent, when performed with " the 
 additions " in 1601, was so called, but it was never printed under this title. 
 
 THE OPPORTUNITY. A comedy by James Shirley, acted at the Private 
 House in Drury Lane. 4to. 1640. Licensed on November 29th, 1634. 
 The hint for part of this play, the resemblance of Aurelio to Borgia, is taken 
 from the Comedy of Errors. 
 
 THE ORATOR. A play by Massinger, acted by the King's company, 
 licensed on January 10th, 1634-5. Not now known. 
 
 THE ORDINARY. A comedy by William Cartwright. 8vo. 1651. Scene, 
 London. In Dodsley's Collection. 
 
 ORESTES. A tragedy by Thos. Goffe. 4to. 1633 ; 8vo. 1656. This play 
 was acted by the students of Christ Church, Oxford ; the prologue being 
 spoken by the author. 
 
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 186 ORE— OS .1! 
 
 ORESTES FURIKS. A play by Thomas Docker, written in 1597. A drama, 
 called Orestes, was performed before Queen Elizabeth in 1568. 
 
 ORGULA; or, the Fatal Error. A tragedy by L. W. 4to. 1G58. To this 
 play is annexed a preface, discovering the true nature of poesie, witli the 
 proper use and intention of such public divertisements. The scene is laid 
 in Segusia, the antique name of a city and province in the East Gaul, or 
 France. 
 
 ORLANDO FURIOSO. The Historic of Orlando Furioso, one of the twelve 
 Pieres of France. As it was plaid before the Queenes Majestie. 4to. 1594 ; 
 1599. This play was written by Robert Greene. It was acted at the 
 Rose Theatre in 1591. Alleyn played the part of Orlando, and the original 
 MS. of his part of the play is preserved at Duhvich College, and is printed 
 in Collier's Memoirs of Alleyn, 1841. 
 
 ORMASDES; or, Love and Friendship. A tragedy by Sir William Killi- 
 grew. 8vo. 1665. Folio, 1666. The scene, the island of Cytherea. It 
 may be worth mentioning, that, in the 8vo. edition, the title is Ormasdes 
 only. In the folio, printed the following year, the title-page is Love and 
 Friendship only. The running-title of the latter edition unites the two. 
 
 OROONOKO. A tragedy by Thomas Southern, acted at the Theatre Royal. 
 4to. 1696 ; 1699. This play met with great success when it first appeared. 
 The scene is laid at Surinam, one of the English colonies in America, and the 
 plot professedly borrowed from Mrs. Behn's novel of the same name. The 
 epilogue by Congreve. 
 
 THE ORPHAN; or, the Unhappy Marriage. A tragedy, by Thomas 
 Otway, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1680. The plot is founded on 
 the history of Brandon, in a novel called English Adventures, published in 
 the year 1667. 
 
 THE ORPHAN'S TRAGEDY. A play written by Day, Haughton, and 
 Chettle. It was written in 1599. See Henslowe's Diary, p. 93. 
 
 OKPHEUS. An ancient play under this title was among those said to have 
 been destroyed by Warburton's servant. There is a fragment of a drama 
 on the same subject, perhaps far more ancient, in the British Museum. 
 
 OSERYCK. A play with this name is recorded by Henslowe as having been 
 acted by his company, Feb. 3rd, 1597. Not now known; unless it was 
 Heywood's Marshal Osrick ; the date of the performance of which is placed 
 five years later. 
 
 OSMOND THE GREAT TUBK ; otherwise called the Noble Servant, A 
 tragedy by Lodowick Carlell. 8vo. 1657. The main action of this play 
 is the taking of Constantinople by Mahomet the Second, in the year 1453 ;
 
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 an account of which may be seen in Knolles' Turkish History, and in all 
 the writers on the life of that monarch ; but the author has transferred 
 his scene from Greece to Barbary, and altered the names of Mahomet and 
 Irene, into those of Melcoshus and Despina. Scene, Constantinople. 
 
 OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE. A tragedy by William Shakes- 
 peare. Acted at the Globe and Black Friars. 4to. 1622 ; 1630 ; 1655. 
 
 OTHO. A play by Corbet Owen, in MS. of the seventeenth century, trans- 
 lated from Corneille. 
 
 THE OVERTHROW OF REBELS. A play with this title was acted in 
 1602. Not printed. 
 
 OVID'S TRAGEDY, by Sir Aston Cokain. 8vo. 1669. Langbaine observes 
 that the title of this play is a misnomer ; Ovid having scarcely any thing to 
 do with the main plot of the piece ; which is, the jealousy of Bassanes, and 
 the murder of his bride Clorina and his friend Pyrontus in consequence of 
 it ; not very much unlike that of Alonzo, Carlos, and Leonora, in the 
 Revenge. 
 
 OWEN TUDOR. A play by Robert Wilson, assisted by Drayton, Hath- 
 waye, and Munday. It was written in 1600. 
 
 THE OWL. A play by Robert Daborne, written in 1613. It wa9 pur- 
 chased by Henslowe for the sum of ten pounds. 
 
 OWLS. A Masque of Owls at Kenel worth, presented by the ghost of Captain 
 Cox, mounted on his hobby-horse, 1624. By Ben Jonson. Fol. 1640. 
 
 PAGE OF PLYMOUTH. A play by Ben Jonson and Decker, written, in 
 1599, upon the story of the murder of one Page at Plymouth. 
 
 THE PAINFUL PILGRIMAGE. This occurs in a list of plays acted be- 
 fore Queen Elizabeth in 1568. See Collier's Annals of the Stage, i. 195. 
 
 THE PAINTER'S DAUGHTER. A play acted at Court in 1576. 
 
 PAL^MON AND ARCYTE. A comedy in two parts, by Richard Edwards, 
 acted before the Queen in Christ Church Hall, Oxford, on the 2nd and 
 3rd Sept., 1566. These are very old pieces, and were probably never 
 printed ; though Chetwood has said they were published, together with the 
 author's songs, &c, in 1585. The story of them was professedly taken 
 from Chaucer's poem of the Knight's Tale. 
 
 PALAMON AND ARCITE. A drama produced at the Rose Theatre in 
 September, 1594. It was perhaps an alteration of the play last mentioned. 
 
 PALLANTUS AND EUDORA. A tragedy by H. Killigrew. Fol. 1653. 
 It was originally published, but in an imperfect state, under the title of the 
 Conspiracy. 1638.
 
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 THE PALMER'S MASQUE. A masque acted at Court in the early part 
 of the reign of Henry VIII. See Collier's Annals of the Stage, i. 78. 
 
 PAMMACHIUS. This Latin comedy was acted at Christ's College, in 
 Cambridge, in 1544; and was laid before the Privy Council by Bishop 
 Gardiner, Chancellor of the University, as a dangerous libel, containing 
 many offensive reflections on the papistic ceremonies yet unabolished. 
 
 PANDORA; or, the Converts. A comedy by Sir William Killigrew. 8vo. 
 1(364; fol. 1666. Scene, Syracuse. The second title only appears as the 
 running-title to the folio edition. From a copy of verses by Waller to 
 Killigrew we learn that this play was originally a tragedy ; but being not 
 approved on the stage in that form, was altered into a comedy ! See these 
 lines in the Second Part of Waller's Poems, 1690, p. 49. 
 
 PANECIA. A play acted at Court in 1574. 
 
 PAN'S ANNIVERSARY; or, the Shepherd's Holyday. A masque,^y 
 Ben Jonson. Eol. 1640. Presented at Court before King James, 1624. 
 The author was assisted in the decorations of this, as well as of some other 
 of his masques, by Inigo Jones. 
 
 PAPATUS. A tragedy de papatu is mentioned by Tanner, Bibl. Brit., 
 p. 732, amongst the writings of Nicholas Udal ; but whether in Latin or 
 English is not stated. It was written about 1540. 
 
 THE PARADOX. A play with this title was acted by Henslowe's Com- 
 pany, July 1st, 1596. 
 
 PARASITASTER ; or, the Fawn. A comedy by John Marston, acted at 
 Black Friars by the children of the Revels. 4to. 1606. The scene of this 
 play is laid in Urbino, and part of the plot, viz. that of Dulcimel's imposing 
 on the duke by a pretended discovery of Tiberio's love to her, is borrowed 
 from the story told by Philomena, in Boccaccio's Decameron, Dec. 3, Nov. 3.; 
 as also the disposition of Nymphadoro of a general love for the whole fair 
 sex from Ovid, Amor. lib. ii. eleg. 4. Two editions of this play were pub- 
 lished in 1606, the latter being issued as " corrected of many faults, which, 
 by reason of the author's absence, were let slip in the first edition." It is 
 to this comedy that Wood possibly refers, when he asserts that Marston 
 " was in great renown for his wit and ingenuity in 1606." Reprinted in 
 Marston's Works, ed. 1856, ii. 5. 
 
 THE PARDONER AND THE FRIAR. A mery Play between the 
 Pardoner and the Frere, the Curate and Neybour Pratte, fol. Loud. 1533. 
 A facsimile reprint, fol. 1820. This play was written by John Heywood. 
 
 PARIA. A Latin play, by Thomas Vincent, fellow of Trinity College, Cam-
 
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 bridge, 8vo. 1648. This play was acted before Charles the First in March 
 1627. 
 
 PARIS AND VIENNA. "Paris and Vienna showen on Shrovetewsdaie at 
 nighte by the Children of Westminster," Revels' Accounts, 1571. 
 
 THE PARLIAMENT OF BEES, with their proper characters ; or a bee- 
 hive furnished with twelve honey-combs, as pleasant as profitable : beiug an 
 allegoiical description of the actions of good and bad men in these our daies. 
 A masque, by John Day. 4to. 1641. This piece is inserted in all the 
 old catalogues as a species of play ; but is indeed, little more than a con- 
 versation between twelve characters, or colloquists, in rhyme, something in 
 the style of the moralities. 
 
 THE PARLIAMENT OF CORRECTION. One of the eight interludes 
 written by Sir David Lindsay, published in 4to. 1602. 
 
 THE PARLIAMENT OF LOVE. A comedy by William Rowley, entered 
 on the books of the Stationers' Company, June 29th, 1660, and was among 
 those destroyed by Warburton's servant. A fragment, of nearly four acts 
 of a comedy, with this title, written by Philip Massinger, has been printed 
 from a manuscript in the edition of the poet's works, by Gilford, 8vo. 1805. 
 The plot is founded on those celebrated courts or parliaments of love, said 
 to have been holden in France during the middle ages, for the discussion 
 of amorous questions, and the distribution of rewards and punishments 
 among faithful and perfidious lovers. This fragment is in Massinger's best 
 style. The play is alluded to in Herbert's Diary, November 3rd, 1624, — 
 "for the Cock-pit Company a new play called the Parliament of Love, 
 written by Massinger." 
 
 THE PARRICIDE. This drama is thus mentioned in Herbert's Diary under 
 the date of May 27th, 1624, — "for the Prince's Company, a play called 
 the Parracide." It is perhaps the same play which is entered on the books 
 of the Stationers' Company, November 29th, 1653, as the Paraside or 
 Revenge for Honour, a comedy by Henry Glapthorne. The Revenge for 
 Honour, by Chapman, printed in 1654, turns on the story of a parricide. 
 
 THE PARSON'S WEDDING. A comedy by Thomas Killigrew. Fob 
 1664. In Dodsley's Collection. This play was revived with considerable 
 success at the Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and acted entirely by women. 
 The scene lies in London ; and the plot, made use of by Careless and Wild 
 to circumvent Lady Wild and Mrs. Pleasance into marriage, seems borrowed 
 from like circumstances in The Antiquary and Ram Alley. 
 
 PARTHENIA. A Latin pastoral, acted at Cambridge, preserved in manu- 
 script in the library of Emmanuel College.
 
 190 PAS— PAT 
 
 THE PASSIONATE LOVER. A tragi-comedy by Lodowick Carlell, in 
 two parts. Twice acted before the King and Queen at Somerset House, 
 and very often afterwards *at Black Friars, with gnat applause. 4to. 1G55 ; 
 8vo. 1655. Scene, Burgony and Neustrea. This play is erroneously 
 called, in the title-page, the Passionate Lovers. 
 
 THE PASSION OF CIIRYST. Two comedies. These two pieces are by 
 Bishop Bale, mentioned in his own list of his works. A mystery of the 
 Passion of Christ was presented at the Grey Friars in London, in 1556, 
 before the Lord Mayor and the Privy Council. In the Issue Roll of 
 Easter, 14 Richard II., mention is made of a play of the Passion of our 
 Lord and the Creation of the World, performed in London in that year; 
 and in a sermon against miracle-plays, composed in the fourteenth century, 
 playing the mystery of the Passion is very strongly inveighed against. 
 
 IL PASTOR FIDO ; or, the Faithfull Shepheard, translated out of Italian 
 into English. 4to. Printed for Simon Waterson, 1602; 12mo. 1633. 
 Prefixed to the 4to. edition are verses by Samuel Daniel to Sir Edward 
 Dymock, who is called kinsman of the translator ; and a dedication to the 
 same gentleman by the publisher, Simon Waterson, in which the writer is 
 spoken of as then dead. The 1 2mo. edition is dedicated by John Waterson 
 to Charles Dymock, Esq., son of the gentleman who translated the piece. 
 
 IL PASTOR FIDO; or, the Faithful Shepherd. A pastoral, by Sir R. 
 Fanshaw. 4to. 1648. This is a translation of Guarini's celebrated pas- 
 toral of that name, written originally on occasion of the young Duke of 
 Savoy Charles Emanuel's marriage with the Infanta of Spain. The scene 
 lies in Arcadia. Prefixed to it are verses by Sir John Denham. 
 
 PASTOR FIDO ; or, the Faithful Shepherd. A pastoral, by Elk. Settle. 
 4to. 1677; 1694. This is nothing more than the foregoing translation 
 somewhat altered and improved, and adapted to the stage. It was per- 
 formed at the Duke of York's Theatre. 
 
 PASTOR FIDUS. A Latin drama, acted at King's College, Cambridge. A 
 manuscript of it is preserved in the University Libraiy, Ff. ii. 9. 
 
 PATHOMACHIA ; or, the Battle of Affections, shadowed by a faigned Siedge 
 of the Citie Pathopolis. 4to. 1630. The running-title of this comedy is 
 Love's Loadestone. Who the author of it was, we know not ; but it was 
 not published till some time after his death, by Fr. Constable, the book- 
 seller. There is a manuscript copy of this play in the British Museum, 
 MS. Harl. 6869. 
 
 PATIENT GRISSEL. A comedy by Ralph Radcliffe. Not printed. 
 
 PATIENT GRISSEL. A pleasant comodie. By Haughton, Chettle, and
 
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 Decker. As it hath beene sundrie times lately plaid by the Right Honour- 
 able the Earle of Notingham (Lord High Admiral) his servants. 4to. 1603. 
 Printed for Henry Eocket. The plot of this piece is founded on Boccacio's 
 Novels, Dec. 10, Nov. 10. This piece was entered, by Cuthbert Burby, 
 on the books of the Stationers' Company, March 28th, 1600. Reprinted 
 by the Shakespeare Society, 1841. 
 
 PATIENT GRISSEL. A puppet-play mentioned by Pepys as performed at 
 Bartholomew Fair in August, 1667. It is also mentioned in an old song 
 on Bartholomew Fair. 
 
 THE PATIENT MAN AND HONEST WHORE. A play, by Thomas 
 Decker, written in 1604. Middleton assisted in the composition of this 
 play, which was afterwards called the Honest Whore. 
 
 PAUSANIAS, THE BETRAYER OF HIS COUNTRY. 4to. 1696. This 
 tragedy was brought on the stage by Southern ; who, in the dedication, 
 informs his patron that it was put into his hands by a person of quality. 
 We find, from Dr. Garth's Dispensary, that Norton was the author of it. 
 The story may be found in Diodorus Siculus. Scene, Lacedemon. 
 
 THE PEACEABLE KING. This drama is mentioned in Sir Henry 
 Herbert's Diary, under the date of August 19th, 1623, — "for the Prince's 
 Servants of the Red Bull, an oulde playe called the Peaceable King or the 
 Lord Mendall, which was formerly allowed by Sir George Bucke, and like- 
 wise by me." 
 
 PEDANTIU8. Comoedia olim Cantabrig. acta in Coll. Trim nunquam 
 antehac typis evulgata. 12mo. 1631. This play is, by Nash, in his 
 Strange News, 1593, ascribed to M. Wingfield. It was acted before the 
 year 1591 ; being mentioned by Sir John Harrington, in his Apology pre- 
 fixed to Ariosto, printed in that year. This piece was entered on the books 
 of the Stationers' Company, Feb. 9th, 1630. The printed edition has two 
 copper-plates representing scenes in the play. 
 
 THE PEDLER. A comedy by Robert Davenport, entered on the books of 
 the Stationers' Company, by Allott, April 8th, 1630 ; but not now known 
 to exist. 
 
 THE PEDLER, as it was presented in a Strange Show. This is the half-title 
 of a kind of droll printed at the end of Randolph's Aristippus, 1630. In 
 the general title it is called the Conceited Pedler. 
 
 THE PEDLER'S MASQUE. A masque acted at Court in 1574. 
 
 THE PEDLER'S PROPHECIE. 4to. Printed by Thomas Creede, and are 
 to be sold by William Barley at his Shop in Gratious Streete, 1595. This 
 is rather an interlude than a regular play. It is not divided into acts.
 
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 PELOPIDABUM SECUNDA. A long English tragedy, in blank verse, 
 acted at Winchester School in the seventeenth century. The original is 
 preserved in the British Museum, MS. Ilarl. 5110. The epilogue perhaps 
 owes a hint for its composition to the Midsummer Night's Dream. 
 
 PENATES. A Private Entertainment of the King and Queen on May-day 
 in the morning, by Sir William Cornwallis, at his house at Highgate. 
 Written by Ben Jonson, 1604. 
 
 PERFIDUS HETRUSCUS. A Latin tragedy, preserved in manuscript in 
 the Bodleian library, MS. Rawl. C. 787. 
 
 PERICLES PEINCE OF TYRE. A tragedy by William Shakespeare. 
 Acted at the Globe. 4to. 1609 ; 1611 ; 1 619 ; 1630 ; 1635. The title- 
 pages of ed. 1630 sometimes vary, some having the publisher's place of 
 sale, the others being merely said to be, " Printed by I. N. for R. B., 1630." 
 
 THE PERJUR'D HUSBAND; or, the Adventures of Venice. A tragedy 
 by Mrs. Centlivre. acted at Drury Lane. 4to. 1700. Scene, Venice. 
 
 THE PERJURED NUN. This play, dated 1680, and produced at the 
 King's Theatre, is only a revival of Brewer's tragedy of the Love-sick King, 
 first printed in 1655. 
 
 PERKIN WARBECK, the Chronicle History of. A Strange Truth. By 
 John Forde. Acted at the Pheenix, Drury Lane. 4to. 1634. This play 
 is dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle. It has verses prefixed 
 written by George Donne, Sir George Crymes, the author's relative John 
 Ford of Gray's Inn, &c. Scene, England. 
 
 PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA. A play acted at Court in 1574. 
 
 PERSEUS AND DEMETRIUS. A Latin tragedy by J. Banister, 1664, 
 preserved in manuscript. 
 
 PETRONIUS MAXIMUS. The Famouse Historie of Petronius Maximus, 
 with the tragicall deathe of iEtius, the Roman General, and the Misdeeds 
 of Valentinian, the Western Emperour, now attempted in blank verse, by 
 W. S. London : Printed by William Brent, for Nathaniel Butter, and 
 sold by him at his shop in Paules Churchyarde, 1619. A full account of 
 this will be found in the Edinburgh Magazine (Constable's), 1821, Vol. 
 88, Part 2, July. 
 
 PHAETON. A play, by Thomas Decker, acted by the Lord Admiral's 
 Servants, 1597-8. Not now known. It is alluded to in Heywood's 
 Apology for Actors, 1610. 
 
 PHAETON ; or, the Fatal Divorce. A tragedy by Charles Gildon. 4to . 
 1698. This play is written in imitation of the ancients, was acted at the
 
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 Theatre Royal, and met with good success. The plot, and a great many of 
 the beauties of it, the author himself owns to have been taken from the 
 Medea of Euripides, and he has evidently made use of many hints from 
 the French play of Phaeton. The scene is in a grove and adjoining temple 
 in the land of Egypt. To it are annexed some reflections on Collier's Short 
 View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the Stage. 
 
 A PHANATIC PLAY. First Part. Presented before and by the Lord 
 Fleetwood, Sir Arthur Haslerig, Sir Henry Fane, Lord Lambert, and others, 
 with Master Jester and Master Pudding. 4to. 1660. It consists but of 
 one scene. 
 
 PH A RAMUS. Pharamus, sive, Libido Vindex, 12mo. 1651. This tragedy 
 was written by Thomas Snelling, fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. 
 
 PHILASTER; or, Love Lies a Bleeding. A tragi-comedy by Beaumont and 
 Fletcher. Acted at the Globe and also at the Blackfriars. 4to. 1620; 
 1628; 1634. It was acted at Court in 1613, as was also a play called 
 Love Lies a Bleeding, named in the same list, perhaps the same drama, 
 but the two titles are given separately, and do not follow consecutively in 
 the list. This play was afterwards presented at the Old Theatre in Lin- 
 coln's Inn Fields, when the women acted by themselves ; a circumstance 
 recorded by Dryden, who wrote a prologue for them, which may be found 
 in his works. 
 
 PHILASTER; or, Love Lies a Bleeding. A tragi-comedy, acted at the 
 Theatre Royal ; revised, and the last two acts new-written, by Elkanah 
 Settle. 4to. 1695. The alterations were not improvements, and the piece 
 had no success. Dedicated to the Duke of Schonberg and Lemster. Scene, 
 Sicily. 
 
 PHILEMON AND PHILECIA. " Philemon and Philecia play by the 
 Erie of Lecester's men on Shrove Mundaye nighte," Revels' Accounts, 
 1574. 
 
 PHILENZO AND HIPPOLITA. A tragi-comedy by Philip Massinger. 
 Entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 9th, 1653; and 
 amongst the number of those said to have been destroyed by Warbur- 
 ton's servant. A MS. copy of this play is said to have been recently 
 discovered amongst the Conway papers. 
 
 PHILETUS AND CONSTANTIA. This is one of the pieces supposed to 
 be written by Robert Cox, comedian, which are printed in the second part 
 of the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672, and in 4to. no date. 
 
 PHILIPPO AND HIPPOLITA. A play, acted by Henslow's Company, 
 July 9th, 1594. Not now known. 
 
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 194 1' JIT— PIC 
 
 PHILLIDA AND CHORYN. A pastoral acted at Court in 1584. 
 
 PHILLIP OP SPAIN. An old play mentioned in Henslowe's Diary, 
 under the date of 1602. 
 
 P1I1LOCTETES. A translation of this play of Sophocles into Latin verse, 
 made by Roger Aschara. It is alluded to by himself, in his Epistles. 
 Tanneri Bibl. Brit., p. 52. 
 
 PIIILOTAS. A tragedy by Samuel Daniel. 4to. 1G05 ; 1623. This play 
 is esteemed a good one, but met with some opposition ; not on account 
 of any deficiency in the poetry or in the conduct of the design, but from 
 a suspicion propagated by some of the author's enemies, that he meant to 
 personalise, in the character of Philotas, that unfortunate favourite of 
 Queen Elizabeth's, the Earl of Essex ; which obliged him to enter on his 
 vindication from that charge in an apology printed at the end of it. 
 
 PH1LOTUS. Ane verie excellent and delectabill Treatise initulit Philotus. 
 Quhairin we may persave the greit inconveniences that falles out in the 
 mariage betweene age and zouth. Imprinted at Edingbourgh be Robert 
 Charteris. Cum privilegio regali. 4to. 1603; 1612. Reprinted, 4to. 
 Edinb. 1835. 
 
 PHOCAS. A play produced by Henslowe's company in 1596. 
 
 THE PHCENIX. A tragi-comedy by Thomas Middleton, acted by the 
 children of Paul's. 4to. 1607; 1630. 
 
 THE PHCENIX IN HER ELAMES. A tragedy by Sir W. Lower. 4to. 
 1639. Scene, Arabia. Langbaine supposes this to have been the author's 
 first attempt, it having been written before he was knighted. 
 
 PHORMIO. A comedy by Richard Bernard. 4to. 1598. This is only a 
 translation from Terence, with some critical and useful notes, and additions 
 for the use of learners. This play has also been translated by Hoole, 
 Patrick, Echard, and others. 
 
 THE PHYSICIAN AGAINST HIS WILL. There is among Elecknoe's 
 poems a prologue, intended for a play, with this title ; which was, most 
 probably, a translation of Le Medecin Malgre' Lui, of Moliere ; but 
 whether the piece itself was Elecknoe's, or some other author's, we know 
 not ; nor do we believe that it was ever printed. 
 
 PHYSIC LIES A BLEEDING; or, the Apothecary turned Doctor. A 
 comedy acted every day in most apothecaries shops in London, by Thomas 
 Brown. 4to. 1697. 
 
 THE PICTURE. A tragi-comedy by Ph. Massinger, acted at the Globe 
 and Black Friars. 4to. 1630. The entire plot, incidents, &c, are taken
 
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 from the 28th Novel of the second volume of Painter's Palace of Pleasure, 
 intitled, A Lady of Boeme, p. 292, edit. 1567. The characters were per- 
 formed by Lowin, Taylor, Benfield, &c. Licensed on June 8th, 1629. 
 
 PIERCE OF EXTON. A play, written by Wilson, Decker, Drayton, and 
 Chettle, 1598. It was no doubt on the story of the death of Richard the 
 Second. 
 
 PIERCE OF WINCHESTER. A play written by Robert Wilson, in con- 
 junction with Decker and Drayton. Acted in 1598. 
 
 PIETY AND VALOUR; or, Deny Defended. A tragi-comedy, 1692. 
 This play is mentioned in the British Theatre. It is perhaps the same play 
 usually called the Siege of Deny, 1692. 
 
 THE PILGRIM. A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol. 1647. 
 This is a good play, and has several times been revived, in an altered 
 state. 
 
 THE PILGRIM. 4to. 1700. The foregoing piece revived by Sir John 
 Vanbrugh," at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane ; with a new prologue and 
 epilogue, and a secular masque by Dryden. It includes also a " Song of a 
 scholar and his mistress, who, being cross'd by their friends, fell mad for 
 one another, and now first meet in Bedlam ; written by Mr. Dryden," 
 p. 43. 
 
 THE PILGRIM. A tragedy by Thomas Killigrew. Fol. 1664. This 
 play was written at Paris, 1651, while the author was on his travels ; but 
 does not seem calculated for representation. Dedicated to the Countess of 
 Carnarvon. The scene, Millain. 
 
 THE PILGRIMAGE TO PARNASSUS. A comedy, by the author of 
 the Return from Parnassus. This play was never printed. 
 
 THE PINNER OF WAKEFIELD. This play is noted, in MS. Sloane 
 1900, as having been acted at the King's Arms, Norwich, in 1662. It 
 was no doubt Greene's play of George a Greene, q.v. 
 
 THE PIRATE. A play, by Robert Davenport. Not printed. 
 
 PISCATOR ; or, the Fisher Caught. A comedy by John Hooker, fellow of 
 Magdalen College, Oxford. Of this play we know nothing but that it is 
 mentioned as the production of this author, by Wood. It is said to have 
 been written in 1535, probably in Latin. Not printed. 
 
 THE PISCATORY. A piece under this title is thus noticed in a MS. in the 
 Dering Library, containing a list of plays performed before the King, 
 "On the next Monday, 13th March, 1614, the Piscatory, an English 
 Comedy, was acted before the University, in Kinges College; which
 
 1SJ6 PIS—PLE 
 
 Master Fletcher, of that college, had provided, if the King should have 
 tarried another night." See Sicelides ; of which, probably, this was a 
 second title. 
 
 PISO'S CONSPIRACY. 4to. 1676. A tragedy, acted at the Duke's 
 Theatre. This is no more than the Tragedy of Nero, a little altered, and 
 printed with a new title. 
 
 PITY THE MAID. A play, entered on the books of the Stationers' Com- 
 pany, Nov. 29th, 1653, but not printed, or at least, not now known to 
 exist. 
 
 THE PLAIN DEALER. A comedy, by William Wycherley, acted at the 
 Theatre Royal. 4to. 1677 (three editions); 1681 ; 1636; 169 L; 1694; 
 1700; 1709. This comedy was acted at least as early as 1674, being 
 mentioned by Dryden in that year. The outlines of Manly's character, 
 and some other circumstances, are taken from the Misanthrope of Moliere ; 
 Genest, i. 161. According to Gildon, Betterton acted in this play. 
 Scene, London. 
 
 THE PLANTATION OF VIRGINIA. This play is thus mentioned in 
 Sir Henry Herbert's Diary, under the date of August, 1623, — "for the 
 Company at the Curtain, a tragedy of the Plantation of Virginia ; the 
 profaneness to be left out, otherwise not tolerated." 
 
 THE PLATONIC LOVERS. A comedy, by Sir William Davenant, acted 
 at the Black Friars. 4to. 1636 ; 8vo. 1665. Scene, Sicilia. Licensed 
 on November 16th, 1635. 
 
 A PLAYHOUSE TO BE LET. A comedy, by Sir William Davenant. 
 Fol. 1673. First acted in 1663. This piece is only an assemblage of 
 several little detached dramatic pieces, written in the time of Oliver Crom- 
 well, during the prohibition of theatrical representations. These are 
 connected with one another by the addition of a first act by way of 
 introduction, each act afterwards being a separate piece ; e. g., the second 
 is a translation of Moliere's Cocu Imaginaire, purposely thrown into a 
 kind of jargon or broken English, like that spoken by Frenchmen who 
 have not been long in England. The third and fourth acts are tragical, or 
 rather a species of opera, representing, by vocal and instrumental music, 
 and by the art of perspective in scenes, the history of Sir Francis Drake, 
 and the cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru : and the fifth a tragedie tra- 
 vestie, or farce in burlesque verse, on the actions of Caesar, Antony, and 
 Cleopatra. The last of these pieces was also performed separately at the 
 Theatre in Dorset Gardens, by way of farce, after the tragedy of Pompey, 
 written by Mrs. Catherine Philips. 
 
 PLEASURE RECONCIL'D TO VIRTUE. Fol. 1692. A masque by Ben
 
 PLO—POL 19 7 
 
 Jonson, presented at Court before King James I., on Twelfth Night, 1619, 
 with an additional masque " for the Honour of Wales," in which the scene 
 is changed from the mountain Atlas, as before, to Craig Eriri. 
 
 A PLOT AND NO PLOT. A comedy by J. Dennis. Acted at Drury 
 Lane, in 1697. 4to., no date. This play was intended by its author as a 
 satire upon the credulity of the Jacobite party. 
 
 PLUTO FURENS ETVINCTUSj or, the Raging Devil Bound. A modern 
 Farce. 4to. Amsterdam, 1669. This was the author's first play. The 
 dedication, to the corporation of Brewers, is signed by the initials, C. F. 
 
 POETASTER; or, the Arraignment. A comical satire, by Ben Jonson. 
 Acted at the Blackfriars by the children of the Queen's Chapel, in 1601, 
 4to., printed for M. L. and are to be soidd in Saint Dunstan's Church-yarde, 
 1602. This piece is a satire on the poets of that age, more particularly 
 Decker, who is severely lashed under the title of Crispinus, yet has very 
 spiritedly returned it in his Satiromastix. It is interspersed with many 
 translations from Horace, Virgil, Ovid, and others of the ancient poets. 
 
 POIKILOPHRONESIS ; or, the Different Humours of Men, represented in 
 an Interlude at a Country School, Dec. 15, 1691. By Samuel Shaw. 
 Small 8vo. 1692. Prefixed are three prose prologues in Greek, Latin, and 
 English : the epilogue in English prose. The piece fills ninety pages, but 
 is not divided into acts or scenes : the idea appears to have been adopted 
 from the opposition of humours in the Muses' Looking-glass. 
 
 THE POLITIC BANKRUPT ; or, Which Is the Best Girl ? A comedy, 
 entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 9th, 1653; but 
 not printed. 
 
 THE POLITIC FATHER. A play by Shirley, licensed in 1641. 
 
 THE POLITICIAN. A tragedy by James Shirley, acted at the Private 
 House, Salisbury Court. 4to. 1655. The scene of this play, which is not 
 one of Shirley's best productions, lies in Norway, and the plot seems bor- 
 rowed from the story of the King of Romania, the Prince Antissus and his 
 mother-in-law, in the Countess of Montgomery's Urania. 
 
 THE POLITICIAN CHEATED. A comedy by Alexander Green. 4to. 
 1663. This play never made its appearance on the stage. The scene, 
 Spain. 
 
 THE POLITIC QUEEN; or, Murther Will Out. By Robert Davenport. 
 This play was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, June 29th, 
 1660 ; but not printed. 
 
 THE POLITIC WHORE; or, the Conceited Cuckold, a droll taken, almost
 
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 literally, from the City Nightcap. It is printed in the Muse of Newmarket, 
 4to. 1680. 
 
 POLYEUCTES; or, the Martyr. A tragedy by Sir William Lower. 4to. 
 1655. The foundation which the story has in truth, may be traced in 
 Coeffeteau's Hist. Horn., in Surius de Vitis Sanctorum, &c. The scene lies 
 in Felix's palace at Melitene, the capital city of Armenia. 
 
 POLYHYMNIA; describing the honourable Triumph at Tylt, before Her 
 Majestie, on the 17 of November last past, being the first Day, &c. 4to. 
 1590. By George Peele. 
 
 POLYPHEMUS. A play, written by Henry Chettle, 1598. 
 
 POMPEY. " A storie of Pompey, enacted (the Children of Pawlcs) in the 
 hall on Twelfnighte, whereon was ymploied newe, one great citty, a senate- 
 howse, and eight ells of dobble sarcenet for curtens, and xviij. paire of 
 gloves," Revels' Accounts, 1580-1. 
 
 POMPEY. A tragedy by Mrs. Catherine Philips. 4to. 1663. This play, 
 a translation from the Pom pee of Corneille, was undertaken at the request of 
 the Earl of Orrery, and published in obedience to the commands of the 
 Countess of Corke ; to whom, in consequence, it was dedicated by its fair 
 author. 
 
 POMPEY THE GREAT. A tragedy, by Edmund Waller. 4to. 1664. 
 This is a translation of the same play as the foregoing, and was acted by 
 the Duke of York's servants. Waller, who translated only one act, was 
 assisted in it by the Earl of Dorset and Middlesex, Sir Charles Sedley, and 
 Godolphin. 
 
 POMPEY THE GREAT HIS FAIRE CORNELIA'S TRAGEDIE, 
 
 effected by her Father and Husbandes Downecast, Death, and Fortune, by 
 Thomas Kyd. 4to. 1595. This is a translation from an old French author, 
 Robert Gamier, 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 
 56th 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. It was first published under the title of Cornelia. 
 
 PONTIUS PILATE. A play with this title is recorded as having been acted 
 in 1602. Not now known. A prologue and epilogue to it were written 
 by Decker in January, 1601-2. 
 
 THE POOR MAN'S COMFORT. A tragi-comedy by Robert Daborne, 
 acted at the Cock-pit, Drury Lane. 4to. 1655.
 
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 THE POOR MAN'S PARADISE. A play, by William Haugliton. Acted 
 in 1599. Not printed. 
 
 THE POOR SCHOLAR. A comedy, by Robert Nevile. 4to. 1662. This 
 play, we believe, was never acted, but is commended in three copies of 
 verses. Scene, the University. 
 
 POPE ALEXANDER THE SIXTH. "The Tragedie of Pope Alexander 
 the Sixth, as it was played before his Majestie," was entered at Stationers' 
 Hall on October 15th, 1607. 
 
 POPE JOAN. A play with this title is recorded, by Henslowe, as having 
 been acted on March 1st, 1591. Not now known. 
 
 PORTA PIETATIS; or, the Port or Harbour of Piety ; expressed in sundry 
 Triumphs, Pageants, and Showes, at the Initiations of the Right Hon. Sir 
 Maurice Abbot, Knight, into the Mayoralty of the famous and far renowned 
 City of London. All the Charge and Expense of the laborious Projects, 
 both by Water and Land, being the sole Undertaking of the Right Wor- 
 shipful Company of Drapers. By Thomas Heywood. 4to. 1638. 
 
 PORTIO AND DEMORANTES. A play acted at Court in 1580. 
 
 THE PEAGMATICAL JESUIT NEW LEAVEN'D. A comedy, by 
 Richard Carpenter. 4to. no date. This is a dull play, written against the 
 Jesuits. 
 
 PRAISE AT PARTING. c: Since my publishing the School of Abuse, two 
 playes of my making were brought to the stage ; the one was a cast of 
 Italian devises called the Comedie of Captain Mario ; the other a moral, 
 Praise at Parting," Gosson's Playes Confuted in Five Actions, 1580. 
 
 PREDOR AND LUCIA. " Predor and Lucia played by Therle of Leicesters 
 servauntes upon Saint Stevens daye at nighte at Whitehall," Revels' 
 Accounts, 1573. 
 
 THE PRESBYTERIAN LASH; or, Noctroffe's Maid whipp'd. A tragi- 
 comedy, acted in the Great Room at the Pye Tavern at Aldgate, by Noc- 
 troffe the Priest, and several of his Parishioners, at the cutting of a Chine 
 of Beef. 4to. 1661. This piece is a satire on Zachary Crofton, Presby- 
 terian teacher, then living, who was accused of whipping his maid-servant, 
 for some fault she had committed ; and was so bold as to print his defence. 
 It is dedicated to Master Zach. Noctroffe, by K. E., and consists only of 
 thirteen scenes, not divided into acts. Some attribute its authorship to 
 Kirkman. 
 
 THE PRESENCE. A comedy by the Duchess of Newcastle. Fol. 1668. 
 This voluminous writer had composed twenty-nine additional scenes to this 
 piece, which she intended to have interwoven with the general texture of the
 
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 comedy; but finding they would render it too long for a single drama, she 
 omitted them; but printed them separately, and published them with the 
 play. 
 
 THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE. A mystery anciently per- 
 formed by the corporation of Weavers at Coventry. Printed from a MS. 
 copy made in 1534, then probably modernised, 4to. Ediub. 1836. 
 
 A PRESENTATION ON THE PRINCE'S BIRTH-DAY. By T. Nabbes. 
 4to. 1038; 1639. This is printed in the same collection with Spring's 
 Glory, a masque, and is there called, " A Presentation intended for the 
 Prince his highnesse on his birth-day, the 29th of May, 1638, annually 
 celebrated." 
 
 THE PRETENDERS; or, the Town unmask'd. A comedy, by Thomas 
 Dilke. 4to. 1698. Scene, Covent Garden. This piece was acted, but 
 without success, at the Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. 
 
 PRETESTUS. A play acted at Court in 1574. 
 
 A PRINCE IN CONCEIT. A droll, taken out of Shirley's play of Oppor- 
 tunity, printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 
 
 THE PRINCELY PLEASURES OF KENELWORTH CASTLE. A 
 masque, in prose and rhyme, by George Gascoigne. 12mo. 1575 ; 4to. 
 1587. This is a relation of the entertainment given to Queen Elizabeth 
 at Kenelworth, by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, on the 9th, 10th, and 
 11th of July, 1575. 
 
 THE PRINCE OF PRIGGS REVELS ; or, the Practices of that grand 
 Thief, Captain James Hind. Relating divers of his pranks and exploits 
 never heretofore published by any. Repleat with various conceits and 
 Tarltonian mirth suitable to the subject. Written by J. S. 4to. 1651 ; 
 1658. 
 
 THE PRINCE'S MASQUE. A masque produced at Court on Twelfth 
 Night, 1618, in which the Prince appeared as one of the actors, and 
 acquitted himself very creditably. It was again played on February 21st, 
 1618, with the addition of goats and Welsh speeches. 
 
 THE PRINCESS ; or, Love at first Sight. A tragi-comedy by Thomas 
 Killigrew. Fol. 1664. This play was written while the author was at 
 Naples. The scene is laid in Sicily and Naples, and the plot probably 
 from some traditional story in the Neapolitan history. 
 
 THE PRINCESS OF CLEVE. A tragi-comedy by Nat. Lee, acted at 
 Dorset Gardens. 4to. 1689. This play is founded on a French romance 
 of the same title ; and the famous invective against women, which is spoken 
 bv Poltrot in the fifth act, is borrowed from a romance called the French
 
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 Rogue. The scene is laid in Paris ; but the obscenity of some parts of the 
 play is very censurable. The prologue and epilogue to this play were 
 written by Dryden. 
 
 THE PRINCESS OF PARMA. A tragedy, by H. Smith. 4to. 1699. This 
 play was acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. The scene is laid 
 in Genoa ; and the epilogue was written by Motteux. 
 
 THE PRISONER; or, the Fair Anchoress. A tragi-comedy by Philip 
 Massinger. This play was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, 
 Sept. 9th, 1653 ; but it was never printed. 
 
 THE PRISONERS. A tragi-comedy, by Thomas Killigrew. Acted at the 
 Phoenix, Drury Lane. 12mo. 1641 ; fol. 1664. The scene, Sardinia. 
 
 THE PRODIGAL CHILD. A play mentioned in Histriomastix, 1610. 
 
 PRODIGALITY. A drama acted at Court in 1568. 
 
 THE PRODIGAL SCHOLAR. A comedy by Thomas Randall. It was 
 entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, June 29th, 1660; but 
 not printed. This Randall was merely for the name of Randolph, some- 
 times so spelt. Thus, in the preface to Hey for Honesty, 1651, he is 
 spoken of as " Tom Randal, the adopted sonne of Ben Jonson." 
 
 PROGNE. A Latin tragedy, acted in the magnificent Hall at Christchurch, 
 Oxford, before Queen Elizabeth, in the year 1566. By Dr James Calf hill, 
 Canon of Christchurch, Oxford. Peshall's History of Oxford, p. 229; 
 Gutch's edition of Wood's History and Antkpiities of the University of 
 Oxford, ii. 162. 
 
 A PROJECTOR LATELY DEAD. This comedy is mentioned in a pamphlet, 
 called, A Collection of Judgments upon Sabbath-breakers, 1636, p. 45 ; 
 " His (Attorney-general Noy's) clients, the players, for whom he had clone 
 knight's service, to requite his kindness the next terine following, made 
 him the subject of a merry comedy, styled, A projector lately dead ; wherein 
 they bring him in his lawyer's robes upon the stage, and, openly dissecting 
 him, find 100 proclamations in his head, a bundle of moth-eaten records in 
 his maw," &c. 
 
 THE PROJECTORS. A comedy by J. Wilson. 4to. 1665. This play 
 met with good success on the stage. Scene, London. 
 
 PROMOS AND CASSANDRA. A comedy in two parts, by George Whet- 
 stone. 4to. 1578. Black letter. The full title is as follows : "The right 
 excellent and famous Historye of Promos and Cassandra ; devided into two 
 comicall Discourses. In the firste Parte is shewne the unsufferable Abuse 
 of a lewde Magistrate ; the vertuous Behaviours of a chaste Ladye ; the 
 uncontrowled Lewdeness of a favoured Curtisan ; and the undeserved Esti- 
 
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 202 TRO—PSY 
 
 mation of a pernicious Parasyte. In the second parte is discoursed the 
 perfect magnanimitye of a noble Kinge, in checking Vice and favouringe 
 Vertue. Wherein is showne, the Ruyne and Overthrowe of dishonest 
 Practices, with the Advauncemeut of upright Dealing." The scene of this 
 play lies ;it Julio in Hungary, and Shakespeare made some use of it in his 
 Measure for Measure. Reprinted in the Six Old Plays, Svo. 1779, vol. i. 
 
 THE PROPHETESS. A Tragical History, by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 Fol. 1647. Licensed on May 14th, 1622. 
 
 THE PROPHETESS; or, the History of Dioclesian ; with alterations and 
 additions, after the manner of an Opera, by T. Betterton. Acted at the 
 Queen's Theatre 4to. 1690. This is the above play, altered into the 
 form of an opera by the addition of several musical entertainments, com- 
 posed by Henry Pureed. A prologue to this play, written by Dryden, gave 
 great offence to the Court. 
 
 THE PROUD MAID. Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy, so called 
 in 1612. 
 
 THE PROUD WOMAN OF ANTWERP. A play, by William Haughton, 
 in conjunction with John Day. Acted in 1601. Not printed. 
 
 THE PROYOK'D WIFE. A comedy by Sir John Vanbrugh, acted at 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to. 1697 ; 1698; 1699; 1709. This comedy has 
 many fine scenes in it, and the character of Sir John Brute is very highly 
 and naturally drawn ; yet it has, in the language as well as conduct of it, 
 too much loose wit and libertinism of sentiment, and hence it was one of 
 the plays most severely censured by Collier, to whom the author considered 
 it necessary to reply in a work entitled, A Short Vindication of the Relapse 
 and the Provok'd Wife from Immorality and Prophaneness, 8vo. Lond. 
 1698. Collier specially replied to this vindication in his Defence of the 
 Short View, 1699, p. 97. 
 
 THE PROXY ; or, Love's Aftergame. A comedy entered on the books of 
 the Stationers' Company, Nov. 29th, 1653; but not printed. It was 
 produced at the theatre in Salisbury Court, November 24th, 1 634. 
 
 PSEUDOMASIA. A Latin tragi-comedy, by Mewe, a fellow of Emmanuel 
 College, Cambridge, still preserved in MS. in the library of that college. 
 Scene, Mantua. 
 
 PSYCHE. A tragedy by Thomas Shadwell, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 
 4to. 1675. This was the first piece this author wrote in rhyme, for wdiich 
 some of his contemporary critics were very severe upon him. The plot of 
 it is partly founded on Apuleius's Golden Ass, and partly on the French 
 Psyche, which he very candidly acknowledges the use he has made of in 
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 PSYCHE DEBAUCH'D. A comedy by Thomas Duffet, acted at the 
 Theatre Royal, and printed in 4to. 1678. This piece is a mock opera, 
 intended to ridicule ShadwelTs Psyche, and written purposely to injure the 
 Duke's house, which at that time was more frecpiented than the King's. 
 
 PTOLOMY. A play mentioned by Gosson, in the Schoole of Abuse, 1579, 
 said to have been performed at the Bel Savage. 
 
 THE PUBLIC WOOING. A comedy by the Duchess of Newcastle. Fol. 
 1662. Several of the suitor's speeches, particularly those of the soldier, 
 the countryman, and the spokesman for the bashful suitor, were written by 
 the Duke ; as were also two other scenes, and the two songs at the end of 
 the play. 
 
 THE PUIRMAN AND THE PARDONAR. This is one of the eight 
 interludes by Sir David Lindsay, published in 4to. 1602. 
 
 PUNCH AND JUDY. A favourite dramatic puppet entertainment, which 
 has survived, in a modernised and altered form, to the present day. Mr. 
 Cunningham discovered the following curious notice in the Overseers' 
 books of St. Martin's in the Fields,—" 1666, March 29, rec. of Punchi- 
 nello, the Itallian popet player, for his booth at Charing-cross, £2. 12s. Gd." 
 Pepys saw the performance at Moorfields in the same year. 
 
 THE PUNISHMENT OF THE VICES. This is one of the eight interludes 
 by Sir David Lindsay, published in 4to. 1602. 
 
 THE PURITAN ; or, the Widow of Watling Street. A comedy acted by 
 the Children of Paul's. 4to. 1607. This play is one of the seven ei-ro- 
 neously attributed to Shakespeare. Scene, London. It is reprinted in 
 the supplement to the edition of Shakespeare, 1778. 
 
 THE PURITAN MAID, MODEST WIFE, AND WANTON WIDOW. 
 A comedy by Thomas Middleton. This was entered on the books of the 
 Stationers' Company, Sept. 9tb, 1653 ; and was among those destroyed 
 by Warburton's servant. 
 
 THE PURITANICAL JUSTICE; or, the Beggars turn'd Thieves. Byway 
 of Farce, as it was lately acted in and about the city of London. 4to. 
 1698. A satire on some magistrate of the times, who had shown great 
 severity towards beggars. On the only copy we have seen of it, the hero 
 is in MS. explained to be Sir Humfrey Edwin, Lord Mayor of London, 
 who is mentioned in Swift's Tale of a Tub. 
 
 PYRRHUS, KING OF EPIRUS. A tragedy by Charles Hopkins, acted 
 at Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to. 1695. The story of this play may be found 
 in Livy, in Plutarch's Life of Fyrrhus, &c. The scene is the city of Argos, 
 besieged bv Pvrrhus. with the camp of the Enirotes on the one side, and
 
 204 PYT—QUE 
 
 that of the Macedonians, who came to its relief, on the other, the prologue 
 by Congreve. 
 PYTHAGORAS. A play by Martin Slaughter, first acted in 1596. 
 
 THE QUEEN; or, the Excellency of her Sex. A tragi-comedy. 4to. 1653. 
 This excellent old play is said to have been discovered by a " person of 
 honour," and given to the editor, Alexander Goughe, to whom three copies 
 of verses are addressed on the publication of it. Part of the plot, viz. 
 the affair of Salassa's swearing Velasco not to fight, is taken from Belle- 
 forest's Histoires Tragiques, novel 13. Scene, Arragon. 
 
 THE QUEEN AND CONCUBINE. A comedy by Eichard Brome. 8vo. 
 1659. Scene, Sicily. 
 
 QUEEN CATHERINE ; or, the Ruins of Love. A tragedy by Mary 
 Pix. Acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to. 1698. The scene lies in 
 England, and the plot is partly fictitious and partly taken from the^English 
 historians in the reigns of Edward IV. and Henry VI. The epilogue 
 was written by Mrs. Trotter ; but the piece was only acted four times. 
 
 QUEEN ELIZABETH. A play by Thomas Heywqod. See page 248 of 
 his Dialogues and Dramas, 12 mo, 1637, where he complains of its being 
 corruptly printed, and published without his consent. It is the same as, 
 If you know not me, You know Nobody. Pepys, who saw this play acted 
 in 1667, calls it " Q.ueene Elizabeth's Troubles, and the History of Eighty 
 Eight." 
 
 QUEEN HESTER. An interlude. 4to. 1561. It is called in the title 
 page, " A newe Enterlude, drawen oute of the holy Scripture of godly 
 Queene Hester, very necessary, newly made and imprinted this present 
 Yere, 1561." Then follow four verses; the names of the players; the 
 prologue ; King Assuerus, iii. Gentlemen, Aman, Mardocheus, Hester, 
 Pursuivant, Pryde, Adulation, Ambition, Hardy-dardy, a Jewe, Arbona 
 Sziba. Imprynted at London by Wyllyam Pickerynge and Thomas 
 Hacket, and are to be solde at tbeyre Shoppes. The only known copy is 
 in the Devonshire collection. 
 
 THE QUEEN OF ARRAGON. A tragi-comedy by William Habing- 
 ton. Fol. 1640 ; in Dodsley's Collection. This play being by the author 
 communicated to Philip, Earl of Pembroke, Lord Chamberlain of the 
 Household to King Charles the First, he caused it to be acted at court, and 
 afterwards published against the author's consent. It was revived at the 
 Restoration; when a prologue and epilogue, written by the author of 
 Hudibras, were spoken. See Butler's Remains, vol. i. p. 185. 
 
 THE QUEEN OF CORINTH. A tragi-comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 Fol. 1647.
 
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 THE QUEEN OF CORSICA. A tragedy, written by Francis Jaques, 
 164-2, preserved in the British Museum, MS. Lansd. 807. Sceue, 
 Corsica. 
 
 THE QUEEN'S ARCADIA. A pastoral tragi-comedy, by Samuel Daniel. 
 4to. 1606; 12mo, 1611 ; 4to. 1623. This piece was presented to Queen 
 Anne, wife of James L, and her ladies, by the University of Oxford, in 
 Christ Church, in August, 1605, and is dedicated in verse to Her Majesty. 
 The scene lies in Arcadia. 
 
 THE QUEEN'S EXCHANGE. A comedy by Richard Brome. 4to. 1657. 
 According to a statement in the title-page, this play was acted at the Black 
 Friars with great applause ; but the publisher, in the address to the reader, 
 states that he did not know either the time of its composition, or the place 
 of its performance. The scene lies in England. 
 
 THE QUEEN'S MASQUE. The Masque of Queens, celebrated from the 
 House of Fame by the most absolute in all State and Titles, Anne, Queen 
 of Great Britain, with her Ladies, at Whitehall, Feb. 2nd, 1608-9. This 
 was first published in 4to, 1608-9. Written by Ben Jonson. A dedica- 
 tion to Prince Henry, found in the quarto edition, is omitted in the copy 
 in the folio of 1616. The original manuscript is preserved in the British 
 Museum, and contains variations from the printed copy ; MS. Bibl. Reg. 
 18 A. 45. 
 
 THE QUEEN'S WAKE. A masque acted at Court in June, 1610. 
 
 QUERER POR SOLO QUERER; to love only for Love's Sake. A dra- 
 matic romance by Sir Richard Fanshaw. 4to. 1671. This is a translation, 
 or rather paraphrase, from the Spanish of Antonio de Mendoza, made by 
 Sir Richard during his confinement at Tankersly Castle in 1654, when he 
 was taken prisoner by Oliver at the battle of Worcester. The original was 
 written in 1623, in celebration of the birth-day of Philip IV. of Spain, 
 and is dedicated to Elizabeth his Queen. There is a MS. copy of the 
 Spanish play in the British Museum, MS. llarl. 3386. 
 
 QUINTUS FABIUS. " Quint Fabi, playd by the Children of Wynesor 
 for Mr. Farrant on Twelfe daye at nighte dykewise at Whitehall," Revels' 
 Accounts, 1574. 
 
 THE RAGING TURK ; or, BAJAZET THE SECOND. A tragedy by 
 Thomas Goffe. 4to. 1631 ; 8vo. 1656. The plot of this play may be 
 found by consulting Knolles' Turkish History, Calchocondylas, and other 
 writers on that reigu. It was acted by the students of Christ Church, 
 Oxford, to which society the author belonged, but was not published till 
 after his death. The characters are entirely of the sterner sex. 
 
 RALPH ROISTER DOISTER. The earliest comedy in the English Ian-
 
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 guage. It was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company in 1560 
 as licensed to Thomas Hackett, "for pryntinge of a play intituled B,auf 
 Etuyster Duster." The only copy known, which wants the title-page, is 
 preserved in the library of Eton College. It has been reprinted several 
 
 times, but the best edition of it is that edited by W. D. Cooper, for the 
 Shakespeare Society, 1847. 
 
 HAM ALLEY; or, Merry Tricks. A comedy by Lodowiek Barrey, acted 
 by the Children of the Kevels. 4to. 1611*; 4to. 1636; 1639. In 
 Dodsley's Collection, 1780. The incident of William Smallshank's decoy- 
 ing the widow Taffeta into a marriage, is a circumstance in Killigrew's 
 Parson's Wedding; as likewise in the English Rogue, part iv. chap. 19. 
 Scene, London. 
 
 THE RAMBLING JUSTICE; or, the Jealous Husbands, with the 
 Humours of John Twyford. A comedy by John Leanerd. Acted at 
 Drury Lane. 4to. 1678. Great part of this play is borrowed from 
 Middleton's More Dissemblers besides Women, particularly the scene 
 between Sir General Amorous and Bramble, in the second act ; Petulant 
 Easy's being disguised like a gipsey, in the same act : and the scene be- 
 tween Bramble and the gipsies, in the third. The scene is laid in London, 
 and the time, twenty-four hours. 
 
 THE RAMPANT ALDERMAN; or, News from the Exchange. 4to. 
 1685. This farce is one piece of plagiarism ; being stolen from Marmion's 
 Eine Companion, and several other plays. 
 
 RANDALL, EARL OE CHESTER. A play by T. Middleton, acted by 
 the Lord Admiral's Servants, 1602. Malone supposes that this maybe 
 the Mayor of Qumborough. It was also termed the Chester Tragedy. 
 
 THE RANGER'S COMEDY. Acted, according to Henslowe's books, 
 April 2, 1593, "by the Queene's Men and Lord Sussex together." Not 
 now known. 
 
 THE RAPE ; or, the Innocent Impostors. A tragedy by Dr. Brady. 
 Acted at Drury Lane. 4to. 1692. This piece was introduced on the 
 stage by Shadwell, who wrote an epilogue to it. 
 
 THE RAPE OE EUROPA BY JUPITER. A Masque, sung at the 
 Queen's Theatre, in Dorset Gardens, by their Majestie's Servants. 4to. 
 1694. 
 
 THE RAPE OF LUCRECE. A true Roman Tragedy, by Thomas Hey- 
 wood. 4to. 1608; 1630; 1638, 5th edition. The plot is selected from 
 Livy, Florus, Valerius Maximus, and other Roman historians. In it are 
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 Roman Peers. This piece was acted, according to ed. 1638, at the Red 
 Bull. It was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company in June, 
 1 608, as, " a Romane Tragedie called the Rape of Lucrece." It is reprinted 
 in the Old English Drama. 
 
 THE RAPE OF THE SECOND HELEN. " The historie of the Rape 
 of the Second Helene she wen at Richmond on Twelf-daie at night, well 
 furnished in this office with manie thinges for them," Revels' Accounts, 
 1578-9. 
 
 RAYMOND DUKE OF LYONS. A play under this title was acted at 
 Court in the year 1613, "before the Prince's Highness Count Palatine 
 Elector and the Lady Elizabeth," MSS. Raul. 
 
 READ AND WONDER. A Wane between two entire Friends, the Pope 
 and the Divell, 4to. 1641. This is described by Lowndes as "a dramatic 
 dialogue of four leaves, in blank verse, seemingly intended as a satire on 
 Archbishop Laud, and probably written by George Wither." 
 
 THE REBELLION. A tragedy by Thomas Rawlins. Acted by the com- 
 pany of Revels. 4to. 164-0; 1654. Scene, Sevil. This play was acted 
 with great applause, and seems to have been held in high estimation ; there 
 being no fewer than eleven copies of commendatory verses prefixed to the 
 first edition of it. 
 
 THE REBELLION OF NAPLES; or, the Tragedy of Massinello (but 
 rightly Tomaso Annello di Malfa, general of the Neapolitans). 8vo. 1649 ; 
 1651. This play is said to have been written by a gentleman who was 
 himself an eye-witness to the whole of that wonderful transaction, which 
 happened at Naples in 1647. The scene lies at Naples, and the story may 
 be seen more at large in Giraffi's History of Naples. 
 
 THE REFORMATION. 4to. 1673. A comedy acted at the Duke's Theatre. 
 Scene, Venice. This piece is ascribed to one Arrowsmith, M.A. of Cam- 
 bridge. It is not without merit, but does not appear to have had much 
 success. Downes says, " The Reformation in the play being the reverse to 
 the laws of morality and virtue, it quickly made its exit, to make way for 
 a moral one " — the alteration of Macbeth by Davenant. In part, this 
 comedy appears like a second Rehearsal against Dryden. 
 
 THE REFORM'D WIFE. A comedy by Charles Burnaby, acted at Drury 
 Lane. 4to. 1700. From this play, which was unsuccessful, Gibber has 
 borrowed part of his Lady's Last Stake, 1708. In the second edition, also 
 published in 1700, a new scene was added in the second act. 
 
 REGICIDIUM. A Latin tragi-comedy, by Richard Braithwait, 8vo. 1665. 
 
 REGULUS. A tragedy by Crowne, acted by their Majesties' servants. 4to. 
 1694. This play was produced in 1692.
 
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 THE REHEARSAL. A comedy by the Duke of Buckingham, acted at the 
 Theatre Royal. 4to. 1672. This play was written in 1663 and 1664, 
 and bad been several times rehearsed before the plague in 1665, but was 
 put a stop to by that calamity. It then, however, wore a very different 
 appearance from what it does at present ; the poet having been called 
 Bilboa, and was intended for Sir Robert Howard ; afterwards, however, 
 when Dry den, on the death of Sir W. Davenant, became laureat, and the 
 evil greatly increased by his example, the Duke thought proper to make 
 him the hero of his piece, changing the name of Bilboa into Bayes ; yet 
 still, although Dryden's plays became now the more particular marks for 
 his satire, those of Sir Robert Howard and Sir W. Davenant by no means 
 escaped the severity of its lash. The third edition, 1675, announces 
 " amendments and large additions by the author." 
 
 THE REHEARSAL OF KINGS. An anonymous farce, 1692. 
 
 THE RELAPSE; or, Virtue in Danger. Being the sequel of the Fool in 
 Fashion. A comedy by Sir John Vanbrugh. Acted at Drury Lane. 4to. 
 1697; 1708. In this continuation of Cibber's Love's Last Shift, all the 
 principal characters are retained, and finely supported to the complexion 
 they bore in the first part. 
 
 THE RELIGIOUS. A tragi-comedy by the Duchess of Newcastle. Fol. 
 1662. 
 
 THE RELIGIOUS REBEL; or, the Pilgrim Prince. An anonymous 
 tragedy. 4to. 1671. Scene, in Germany. 
 
 THE RENEGADO. A tragi-comedy by Phil. Massinger. Acted at Drury 
 Lane. 4to. 1630. This was esteemed a good play, and is recommended 
 by two copies of verses, by Shirley and Daniel Larkyn. The scene, Tunis. 
 Dedicated to Lord Berkeley of Berkeley Castle. It is mentioned in Her- 
 bert's manuscript Diary, under the date of April 17th, 1624, — "for the 
 Cock-pit, the Renegado or the Gentleman of Venice, written by Messinger." 
 
 REPARATUS, sive, Depositum. Tragico-Comoedia, prima pars. Seu Re- 
 paratus desperabundus. By William Drury. 12mo. 1628. Printed at 
 Douay, in a volume entitled Dramatica Poemata. The title-page calls the 
 author a noble Englishman. 
 
 THE RESURRECTION. A mystery of the fifteenth century, preserved in 
 manuscript in the Bodleian Library, and printed in the Reliquiae Antiques, 
 ii. 144. There is a curious account of the mode of playing anciently a 
 mystery on this subject in Lambarde's Topographical Dictionary, written 
 about 1570. 
 
 THE RETURN FROM PARNASSUS; or, A Scourge for Simony. A 
 comedy. 4to. at London, printed by G. Eld for John Wright, and are to
 
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 bee sold at his shop at Christ-church gate, 1606. Reprinted in Hawkins's 
 Origin of the English Drama. This piece was publicly acted in St. John's 
 College, Cambridge, by the students. The poets of that time are treated 
 with much severity in it ; and on the hints thrown out in it against the 
 clergy, Doctor Wild laid the foundation of his play called the Benefice. 
 There were two impressions dated 1606, having minute differences. 
 
 THE REVENGE ; or, a Match in Newgate. A comedy acted at the Duke's 
 Theatre. 4to. 1680. This play was attributed to Betterton; but is in 
 reabty no more than Marston's Dutch Courtezan, revived with some 
 alterations. 
 
 REVENGE FOR HONOUR. A tragedy by George Chapman. 4to. 1654. 
 The plot of this play is Oriental, and the scene laid in Arabia. Langbaine 
 tells us that he had seen this play acted at the Nursery in Barbican. This 
 is perhaps the same play as the Parricide, q. v. 
 
 THE REVENGE OF BUSSY D'AMBOIS. A tragedy by Geo. Chapman. 
 Acted at the Private Playhouse, White Friars. 4to. 1613. This play is 
 neither so good a one, nor so strictly founded on truth, as the Bussy 
 D'Ambois of its author ; nor was it received with so much applause upon 
 the stage. It appears that Nat. Field had been celebrated in the part of 
 Bussy D'Ambois; and, by Durfey's dedication, we find that Hart was 
 equally applauded in it. 
 
 THE REVENGEFUL QUEEN. A tragedy by Wilbam Phillips. Acted 
 at Drury Lane. 4to. 1698. The plot of this play is taken from Ma- 
 chiavel's Florentine History, and the scene is laid in Verona. Sir William 
 Davenant had many years before written a tragedy on the same story, but 
 the author declares he knew nothing of it, till after the writing and publica- 
 tion of this piece. 
 
 THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY, by Cyril Tourneur. Acted by the King's 
 servants. 4to. 1607 ; 4to. 1608 ; in Dodsley's Collection, 1 780. Scene, 
 Italy. Entered on the books of the Stationers' Company on October 7th, 
 1607. 
 
 REVERA; or, Verily. A comedy by George Ruggle. Written to expose 
 the Puritans. Not printed. 
 
 THE REWARDS OF VIRTUE. A comedy, by John Fountain. 4to. 
 1661. This play was not intended for the stage by its author; but after 
 his death, Shadwell, who perceived it to have merit, made some few altera- 
 tions in it, and revived it under the title of the Royal Shepherdess, q. v. 
 
 RHODON AND IRIS. A pastoral, by Ralph Knevet. 4to. 1631. This 
 piece is recommended by four copies of verses, and was presented at the 
 
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 210 RIC—RIC 
 
 Florists' feast at Norwich, May 3, 1631. The scene, Thessaly. The sub- 
 ject is the loves of the flowers. 
 
 RICHARD CORDELION'S FUNERAL. A play written by Wilson, 
 Chettle, Munday, and Drayton, produced by Henslowe's company in 1598. 
 Tilney licensed a play, called llichavd Cordelion, in 1598. 
 
 RICHARD CROOKBACK. A play by Ben Jonson, written in 1602, 
 mentioned in Henslowe's Diary, ed. Collier, p. 223. This play is not now 
 extant. 
 
 RICHARD THE CONFESSOR. A play, recorded by Henslowe as having 
 been performed by the Earl of Sussex's men, Dec. 31st, 1593. Not 
 printed. 
 
 KING RICHARD THE SECOND. A tragedy by W. Shakespeare, acted 
 at the Globe. 4to. 1597 ; 1598 ; 1608 j 1615 ; 1634. There were two 
 contemporary plays on the events of the same reign, but neither of them 
 are preserved. 
 
 RICHARD THE SECOND. An alteration of Shakespeare's play, by 
 Nahum Tate. 4to. 1681; 1691. It was acted at Drury Lane, under the 
 name of the Sicilian Usurper, q. v. 
 
 RICHARD THE THIRD. The True Tragedie of Richard the Third, where- 
 in is showne the death of Edward the Fourth, with the smothering of the 
 two yoong Princes in the Tower ; with a lamentable ende of Shore's wife, 
 an example for all wicked women. And lastly the conjunction and joining 
 of the two noble Houses, Lancaster and Yorke. As it was playd by the 
 Queenes Majesties Players, 1594. 
 
 RICHARD THE THIRD. A Latin tragedy, by Thomas Legge, acted at 
 St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1579. Manuscript copies of it are in 
 the University and Emmanuel College libraries ; and it has been printed by 
 the Shakespeare Society. A poor imitation of this, by Henry Lacey, was 
 acted at Trinity College in 1586. 
 
 RICHARD THE THIRD. A tragedy by Shakespeare. Acted by the King's 
 servants. 4to. 1597; 1598; 1602; 1605; 1612; 1622; 1629; 1634. 
 
 RICHARD THE THIRD. A tragedy by Rowley, thus alluded to in Sir 
 Henry Herbert's Diary under the date of July 27th, 1623, — "for the 
 Palsgrave's players, a tragedy of Richard the Third, or the Engbsh Profit, 
 with the Reformation, written by Samuel Rowley." 
 
 RICHARD THE THIRD. A tragedy altered from Shakespeare, by Colley 
 Cibber. Acted at Drury Lane. 4to. 1700. 
 
 RICHARD WHITTINGTON. The History of Richard Whittington, of his 
 lowe byrthe, his great fortune, as yt was plaied by the Prince's servants.
 
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 This play was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company in February, 
 1604 ; but no copy of it is now known to exist. 
 
 THE RICHMOND HEIRESS; or, a Woman once in the Right. A comedy 
 by Thomas Durfey. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1693. This play 
 did not meet at first with all the success the author expected from it ; but 
 being revived afterwards, with alterations, was very favourably received. 
 
 A RIGHT WOMAN. A comedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. 
 Entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, June 29th, 1660 ; but 
 not printed. 
 
 RINALDO AND ARMIDA. A tragedy by J. Dennis. Acted at Little 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to. 1699. The scene of this tragedy is laid on the 
 top of a mountain in the Canaries. The musical entertainments in it were 
 composed by John Eccles, excepting a chorus in the fourth act, which is 
 borrowed from H. Purcell's Frost Scene. 
 
 THE RISING OF CARDINAL WOLSEY. A play by Anthony Munday; 
 assisted by Drayton, Chettle, and Smith. Acted in 1601. Not printed. 
 
 RIVALES. A comedy in Latin, by William Gager. Presented in Christ- 
 church Hall, Oxford, by some of the scholars of that society, and of St. 
 Johu's College, before Albertus de Alasco, a Polish Prince Palatine, in 
 June, 1583. See Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, annexed to his Life of Oliver 
 Cromwell, p. 21. Wood says that the PoUsh Prince, "after he had be- 
 held and heard the play with great delight, gave many thanks, in his own 
 person, to the author." 
 
 THE RIVAL FRIENDS. A comedy by Peter Hausted. 4to. 1632. The 
 title of this play has somewhat whimsical in it, and bears testimony to the 
 author's uneasiness under censure. He tells you in it, that it was acted 
 before the King and Queen's Majesties, when, out of their princely favour, 
 they were pleased to visit their University of Cambridge, on the 19th day 
 of March, 1631, " Cryed down by Boyes, Faction, Envy, and confident 
 Ignorance, approv'd by the judicious, and now expos'd to the publique 
 Censure by the Author." His dedication is in the same style, being a copy 
 of verses, inscribed, " to the Right Honourable, Right Reverend, Right 
 Worshipful, or whatsoever he be, or shall be, whom I hereafter may call 
 Patron." It has an introduction, by way of dialogue, between Venus, 
 Phoebus, and Thetis, sung by two trebles and a bass, in which Venus (being 
 Phosphorus as well as Vesper) appears at a window above, as risen, calling 
 to Phoebus (or Sol), who lies in Thetis' lap, at the east side of the stage, 
 canopied by an azure curtain. The scene between Loveall, Mungrell, and 
 Hammershin, in the third act, is copied from that between Truewit, Daw, 
 and La Foole, in the fourth act of Ben Jonson's Silent Woman.
 
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 THE RIVAL KINGS; or, the Loves of Oroondates and Statira. A tragedy 
 by John Banks, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1677. This play is 
 written in rhyme, and the plot taken almost entirely from the Romance of 
 Cassandra, excepting what relates to Alexander, the foundation of which 
 may be traced in Quintus Curtius and Justin. The scene, Babylon. 
 
 THE KIVAL LADIES. A tragi-comedy by J. Dryden. Acted at the 
 Theatre Royal. 4to. 1664; 1669; 1675. The dedication to this play 
 is a kind of preface in defence of rhyme. The scene lies in Alicant ; the 
 dispute betwixt Amideo and Hypolito, and Gonsalvo's fighting with the 
 pirates, is borrowed from Encolpius, Giton, Eumolphus, and Tryphena's 
 boarding the vessel of Lycas, in Petronius Arbiter; and the catastrophe 
 has a near resemblance to that of Scarron's Rival Brothers. 
 
 THE RIVAL MOTHER. A comedy. 8vo. 1678. 
 
 THE RIVAL QUEENS ; or, the Death of Alexander the Great. A tragedy 
 by Nathaniel Lee, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1677 ; 1694. Scene, 
 Babylon. 
 
 THE RIVALS. A tragi-comedy. 4to. 1668. This play is printed with- 
 out any author's name; but Langbaine, on the authority, as he says, of 
 Cademau, the publisher, ascribes it to Sir William Davenant. The scene 
 lies in Arcadia. It was acted nine days successively to full houses, at the 
 Duke of York's Theatre ; but is only an alteration of the Two Noble Kins- 
 men, attributed by Downes to Davenant, who might not think the alteration 
 worth owning. Miss Davis acted in it "a shepherdess, being mad for love, 
 especially in singing several wild and mad songs, ' My lodging it is on the 
 cold ground,' &c. She performed that so charmingly, that, not long after, 
 it rais'd her from her bed on the cold ground to a bed royal," Roscius 
 Anglicanus. 
 
 THE RIVAL SISTERS ; or, the Violence of Love. A tragedy by Robert 
 Gould. Acted at Drury Lane. 4to. 1696. The representation of this 
 play appears, by the author's complaint in his Epistle, to have been for some 
 time delayed after his first offer of it to the stage ; but, when it was acted, 
 met with a favourable reception. The plot is in great measure borrowed 
 from Shirley's Maid's Revenge, but the original story is to be found in 
 God's Revenge against Murder. The scene lies at Avon, a village in 
 Portugal. The prologue and epilogue were written by D'Urfey. 
 
 THE ROARING GIRL; or, Moll Cutpurse. A comedy by Thomas 
 Middleton and Thomas Decker. Acted at the Fortune Stage by the Prince's 
 players. 4to. 1611 ; in Dodsley's Collection, 1780. 
 
 THE ROARING GIRL; or, the Catchpole. A comedy mentioned by 
 Jordan, in his Walks of Islington and Hogsdon, act iii. sc. 3.
 
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 ROBERT CYCYLL, an old English Morality, under a very corrupt title; 
 for the subject of it was the French romance of Robert le Diable, an English 
 version of which had been published by Wynkyn de Worde. This dramatic 
 piece, King, in his Vale Royal, tells us, was represented at the High Cross, 
 in Chester, in 1529. Not printed. See further in Collier's Annals of the 
 Stage, i. 114. 
 
 ROBERT THE SECOND. "A playe calld Robart the Second, Kinge of 
 Scottes tragedie," written by Decker, Jonson, and Chettle, 1599; Hens- 
 lowe's Diary, p. 156. 
 
 ROBIN CONSCIENCE. An interlude, so called, is mentioned in several 
 of the catalogues. It is, however, not a play, but only a poetical dialogue, 
 in two parts, first printed about 1580. 
 
 ROBIN GOODFELLO W. A play written by Henry Chettle in 1602. 
 
 ROBIN HOOD. The Playe of Robyn Hode, very proper to be played in 
 Maye Games. 4to. printed for William Copland ; no date. Also by White, 
 4to. 1634. This play is reprinted in the Robin Hood collections of Ritson 
 and Gutch. There were other early plays on the same subject. "A pas- 
 toral pleasant comedie of Robin Hood and Little John " was entered on the 
 books of the Stationers' Company by Edward White on May 18th, 1594. 
 Munday's two plays of the Downfall and Death of Robert, Earl of Hunting- 
 ton, printed in 1601, are mentioned in Henslowe's Diary, in 1598 and 
 1599, as the first and second parts of Robin Hood. A play by Haughton, 
 called Robin Hood's Pennyworths, is named in Henslowe's Diary under 
 the date of December 20th, 1600. 
 
 ROBIN HOOD AND HIS CREW OF SOULDIERS. A comedy, acted 
 at Nottingham on the day of His Sacred Majesty's coronation. 4to. 1661. 
 "This is an interlude of a few pages, and no merit, alluding to the late 
 rebellion, and the subject of the day. The outlaws, convinced by the 
 reasoning of the sheriff's messenger, become loyal subjects." 
 
 RODERICK. A play acted at the Rose Theatre in October, 1600. 
 
 ROLLO, DUKE OF NORMANDY. A tragedy by John Fletcher. Acted 
 by His Majesties Servants. 4to. 1640. This play was sometimes called 
 the Bloody Brother, q. v. 
 
 THE ROMAN ACTOR. A tragedy by Philip Massinger. Acted at the 
 Black Friars. 4to. 1629. Licensed in October, 1626. 
 
 THE ROMAN BRIDE'S REVENGE. A tragedy by Charles Gildon. 
 Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1697. Dedicated by the publisher, 
 John Sturton, to William Gregory, late Speaker of the House of Commons, 
 Scene, Rome.
 
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 THE ROMAN EMPRESS. A tragedy by William Joyner. Acted at the 
 Theatre Royal. 4to. 1671. Langbaine conjectures, that, under the cha- 
 racter of Valentius, the author has intended to draw that of Constantine 
 the Great; and that Crispus, and his mother-in-law Faustina, lie concealed 
 under those of Elorus and Fulvia. The scene of this drama, or action, is 
 about the banks of the Tiber ; where Hostilius and his party are supposed 
 to be in Rome, or on the Roman side of the river ; and Valentius with his 
 party encamped on the other side, in the nature of besiegers. 
 
 THE ROMAN GENERALS; or, the Distressed Ladies. A tragedy by 
 John Dover. 4to. 1667. Dedicated to Lord Brook. The plot of this 
 play, which is written in rhyme, as far as it relates to history, may be traced 
 in Plutarch's Lives of Pompey and Caesar. The author has, however, laid 
 it down as his maxim, neither rigidly to adhere to historical fact, nor wildly 
 to deviate from it. The scene lies in Gallia, Rome, and other parts of Italy. 
 
 THE ROMAN VIRGIN ; or, Unjust Judge. A tragedy by Thomas Better- 
 ton, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1679. This is only an alteration 
 of Webster's Appius and Virginia. 
 
 ROMANUS. Part of an unpublished English tragedy of the seventeenth 
 century, so called, is preserved in the British Museum, MS. Harl. 4628. 
 It was written by Ja. Co., according to the manuscript, meaning perhaps, 
 James Cook. In a contemporary list of the contents it is called, " the de- 
 signe of a tragedy called Romanus, by Ja. Co." 
 
 ROMEO AND JULIET. A tragedy by William Shakespeare. Of this 
 play there are several early editions ; one in 4 to. a sketch, acted by Lord 
 Hunsdon's servants. 4to. 1597. The complete one as acted at the Globe, 
 4to. 1599; 1609; 4to. n.d. ; 4to. 1637. 
 
 ROMEO AND JULIET. By James Howard; who, as Downes, in his 
 Roscius Anglicanus, p. 22, tells us, altered this tragedy into a tragi-comedy, 
 preserving both Romeo and Juliet alive ; so that, when the play was revived 
 in Sir William Davenant's Company, it was played alternately, viz. tragical 
 one day, and tragi-comical another, for several days together. This altera- 
 tion has never been printed. 
 
 ROME'S FOLLIES; or, the Amorous Fryars, 4to. 1681. The dedication 
 is signed N. N. Scene, Rome. 
 
 ROMULUS AND HERSILIA ; or, the Sabine War. A tragedy, acted at 
 the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1683. This is a very good play ; the plot taken 
 from Livy, Lib. 1. and Ovid's Metamorphoses, Lib. 14. The scene lies in 
 Rome, and the epilogue was written by Mrs. Behn. 
 
 ROSANIA ; or, Love's Victory. A comedy, by James Shirley. This is 
 mentioned in his Poems, but is probably no other than the Doubtful Heir, 
 under a different title. It was licensed on June 1st, 1640.
 
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 THE ROUND-HEADS; or, the Good Old Cause. A comedy by Mrs. 
 Belm. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1682. Great part both of the 
 plot and language of this play is borrowed from Tatham's comedy called 
 the Rump. Scene, London. 
 
 THE ROVER; or, the Banish' d Cavaliers. A comedy in two parts, by 
 Mrs. Aphra Behn, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1677 and 1681. 
 These two comedies are both of them very entertaining, and contain much 
 business, bustle, and intrigue, supported with an infinite deal of sprightli- 
 ness. The basis of them both, however, may be found on a perusal of 
 Killigrew's Don Thomaso ; or, the Wanderer. The scene of the first part 
 is laid in Naples, during the time of the Carnival, and that of the second 
 at Madrid. It may be added that the incident of Blunt's falling through 
 a trap-door, when in bed at a courtezan's lodgings, is taken from a similar 
 adventure of Lazarillo's, at Imperia's house, in Middleton's Blurt Master 
 Constable, 1602; which again is borrowed from Boccaccio's Decameron, 
 Day 2, Nov. 6. 
 
 THE ROVER RECLAIM'D, 1691. This comedy we do not find mentioned 
 any where but in the British Theatre. 
 
 ROXANA. Tragoedia, a plagiarii unguibus vindicata, aucta et agnita ab 
 authore, Gulielmo Alabastro. 12mo. 1632. This tragedy was several 
 times acted in Trinity College Hall, Cambridge ; and so admirably, and 
 " so pathetically," we are told, in the Anglorum Speculum, that a gentle- 
 woman present thereat, at the hearing of the last words thereof, Sequar, 
 Sequar, so hideously pronounced, fell distracted, and never after recovered 
 her senses. Two editions of this play appeared in 1632, the first one being 
 surreptitious. There are manuscript copies of it in MS. Lambeth 838, and 
 in MS. Bibl. Publ. Cantab. Ff. ii. 9. 
 
 THE ROYAL CHOICE. A play, by Sir Robert Stapylton, entered on the 
 books of the Stationers' Company, Nov. 29th, 1653; but not printed. 
 
 THE ROYAL COMBAT. A comedy by John Forde, entered on the books 
 of the Stationers' Company, June 29th, 1660; but not printed, it being 
 among those destroyed by Warburton's servant. 
 
 THE ROYAL CUCKOLD ; or, Great Bastard ; giving an Account of the 
 Birth and Pedigree of Lewis le Grand, the first French King of that Name 
 and Race. A tragi-comedy. 4to. 1693. This is nothing more than a 
 translation from the German, by Mr. Paul Vergerius, and was never acted. 
 It is taken from a book called the Secret History of Lewis XIV. of 
 France. 
 
 THE ROYAL EXCHANGE. A comedy by Richard Brome. 4to. 1661. 
 This is merely a redssue of the play of the Queen's Exchange, 165 7.
 
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 THE ROYAL FLIGHT 5 or, the Conquest of Ireland. A farce. 4to. 1690. 
 The title-page of this piece plainly shows the subject, and scene of it ; it 
 being designed to ridicule the conduct of James II. in his abdication; and 
 the author has drawn most of his characters without any disguise. 
 
 THE ROYAL KING AND THE LOYAL SUBJECT. A tragi-comedy 
 by Thomas Heywood. 4to. 1 637. This play was acted with great applause. 
 The plot very much resembles, and is probably borrowed from, Eletcher's 
 Loyal Subject. The scene, London. It was probably written about the 
 year 1600, when, as the author says, stuffed doublets and trunk hose were 
 in fashion. Reprinted by the Shakespeare Society, ed. by J. P. Collier, 
 8vo. 1850. 
 
 THE ROYAL MASTER. A tragi-comedy, by James Shirley. 4to. 1638. 
 This play was acted at the New Theatre in Dublin, and before the Lord 
 Lieutenant at the Castle ; and by the several copies of complimentary 
 verses prefixed to it, being no less than ten in number, it is probable that 
 it met with applause. The scene, Naples. 
 
 THE ROYAL MISCHIEF. A tragedy by Mrs. De la Riviere Manley. 
 Acted by His Majesty's Servants. 4to. 1696. The plot, as the author 
 herself informs us in her preface, is taken from a story in Sir John Chardin's 
 Travels ; but she has improved the catastrophe, by punishing the criminal 
 characters for their amours ; whereas in the original tale they are suffered 
 to escape. The scene, the castle of Phasia, in Libardian. 
 
 THE ROYAL PASSAGE. The Royall Passage of her Majesty from the 
 Tower of London to her Palace of Whitehall, with all the Speeches and 
 Devices both of the Pageants and otherwise, together with her Majesties 
 severall Answers and most pleasing Speaches to them all, 4to. 1604. 
 
 THE ROYAL SHEPHERDESS. A tragi-comedy by Thomas Shadwell. 
 
 Acted at the Duke of York's Theatre. 4 to. 1669. This play is not 
 
 Shadwell's own ; being, as he himself acknowledges in his Epistle to the 
 I reader, taken from a comedy written by Fountain, called the Rewards of 
 
 Virtue. It met, however, with considerable applause, and was acted six 
 
 days successively. The scene lies in Arcadia. 
 
 THE ROYAL SLAVE. A tragi-comedy by William Cartwright. 4to. 1639 ; 
 1640; and 8vo. 1651. There is a manuscript copy of this play in the 
 Bodleian Library, mentioned in Bernard's Catalogue, 3340 ; and there was 
 an imperfect manuscript copy of it in the Heber collection, No. 1043. 
 The first representation was by the students of Christ Church, in Oxford, 
 before King Charles I. and his Queen, on the 30th of August, 1636. It 
 was acted before the Court early in 1637, the sum of thirty pounds extra 
 having been paid to Taylor's company " for their paynes in studying and 
 acting the new play sent from Oxford called the Royal Slave."
 
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 THE ROYAL VOYAGE ; or, the Irish Expedition. A tragi-coraedy, acted 
 in the years 1689 and 1690. 4 to. 1690. The scene of this piece is laid 
 in various places in Ireland, and it concludes with the arrival of King 
 William at Carrickfergus. It was acted probably at Bartholomew Fair. 
 
 THE ROYALIST. A comedy by Thomas Durfey. Acted at the Duke's 
 
 Theatre. 4to. 1682. This play met with good success ; but, like most 
 of our author's pieces, is collected from novels. Camilla's trick, played off 
 on her husband, Sir Oliver Old-Cut, for the love of Sir Charles Kinglove, 
 is borrowed from Boccaccio's Decameron, Dec. 7. Nov. 9. ; and the song of 
 " Hey Boys, up go we," in the fourth act, is taken from an eclogue, printed 
 in 4to. 1644, called the Shepherd's Oracle. 
 
 RUDENS. A comedy translated from Plautus, by Lawrence Echard. 8vo. 
 1694. This play, together with two others from the same author, are 
 published in one volume, and dedicated to Sir Charles Sedley. 
 
 RULE A WIFE AND HAVE A WIFE. A comedy by John Fletcher, 
 acted by His Majesty's Servants. 4to. 1640 ; 4to, 1696 (as then acted). 
 Licensed in October, 1624. 
 
 THE RUMP ; or, the Mirrour of the late Times. A comedy by John Ta- 
 tham. Acted at Dorset Court. 4to. 1660 ; 1661. This piece was written 
 soon after the Restoration ; and the author, being a steady royalist, has 
 endeavoured to paint the Puritans in the strongest and most contemptible 
 colours. 
 
 THE RUMP. " The famous Tragedie of the Life and Death of Mrs. Rump. 
 Shewing how she was brought to bed of a monster ; with her terrible 
 pangs, bitter teeming, hard labour, and lamentable travell, from Ports- 
 mouth to Westminster, and the great misery she hath endured by her ugly, 
 deformed, ill-shapen, base-begotten brat, or imp of reformation, and the 
 great care and wonderful pains taken by Mr. London Midwife, Mrs. Has- 
 lerigg, Nurse, Gossip Vaiue, Gossip Scot, and her man Litesum, Gossip 
 Walton, Gossip Martin, Gossip Nevil, Gossip Lenthal, secluded Gossip's 
 Apprentices. Together with the exceeding great fright she took at a free 
 parliament: and the fatal end of that grand tyrant O. C. (Oliver Cromwell), 
 the father of all murthers, rebellions, treasons, and treacheries, committed 
 since the year 1648. As it was presented on a burning stage, at West- 
 minster, the 29th of May, 1660." 4to. 1660. This long title is prefixed 
 to a trifling piece of eight pages, which is entirely political, and of no 
 value. 
 
 THE RUNNING MASQUE. A masque alluded to, under this title, in a 
 letter from Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carletou, 1619-20. 
 
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 218 SAC—SAl 
 
 A SACK FULL OF NEWS. A piny with this title was announced to be 
 acted at the Boar's Head, without Aldgate, Sept. 5th, 1557; but by an 
 order of the Privy Council, the Lord Mayor had the actors previously 
 apprehended, and took their play-book from them, which was sent to the 
 Council. 
 
 THE SACRIFICE. A tragedy by Sir Francis Fane. 4to. 1686. This 
 play was never acted. It met, however, with approbation from contem- 
 porary writers ; three of whom, Tate, llobins, and Behn, have paid it the 
 tribute of complimentary verses, which are published with it. The plot is 
 founded on the story of Bajazet and Tamerlane. The scene, a revolted 
 fort in China. 
 
 THE SAD ONE. A tragedy by Sir John Suckling. 8vo. 1646; 1659. This 
 play was never acted, having been left by the author unfinished. It is 
 rather a sketch or skeleton of a play, than an entire piece ; for although it 
 consists of five acts, and seems to have somewhat of a catastrophe, yet 
 none of those acts are of more than half the usual length ; nor is the sub- 
 ject of any one scene so much extended on, as it is apparent it was the 
 author's intention to have done. The scene lies in Sicily. 
 
 THE SAD SHEPHERD ; or, a Tale of Robin Hood. A pastoral, by Ben 
 Jonson. Fol. 1640. This piece is printed among the writer's works, but 
 was never acted, as it w r as left imperfect by him at his death ; only two 
 acts, and part of a third, being finished. The scene, Sherwood. 
 
 THE SAILORS' MASQUE. A masque acted at Court about a.d. 1620. 
 
 SAINT ALBANS. A tragedy by James Shirley, entered on the books of 
 the Stationers' Company, Feb. 14th, 1639, by William Cooke; but not 
 printed. 
 
 SAINT CICILY; or, the Converted Twins. A Christian Tragedy, by 
 E. M. 4to. 1666. The scene of this tragedy is laid in Rome. 
 
 SAINT GEORGE. A miracle-play, acted at Bassingborne, on the feast of 
 St. Margaret, 1511. Not printed. 
 
 SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. A farce or droll acted at Bar- 
 tholomew Fair in the seventeenth century. It is alluded to in the Theatre 
 of Compliments, 1888. Settle is said to have taken a part in this droll, 
 attired in a dragon of green leather of his own invention. 
 
 SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND. A play, by William Smith. This 
 appears to have been among those destroyed by Warburton's servant. 
 
 SAINT KATHARINE. A miracle-play by Geoffrey, afterwards Abbot of 
 St. Alban's, a Norman, who had been sent over by Abbot Richard to take 
 upon him the direction of the school of that monastery ; but, coming too
 
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 late, went to Dunstable, and taught in the abbey there, where he caused this 
 dramatic piece to be acted, perhaps by his scholars. This was long before 
 the year 1110, and probably within the eleventh century. The above play 
 was, for aught that appears to the contrary, the first spectacle of this 
 kind exhibited in these kingdoms ; and, as M. L'Extant observes, might 
 have been the first attempt towards the revival of dramatic entertainments 
 in Europe, being long before the representations of mysteries in France. 
 Matthew Paris, who records this anecdote of the play of St. Katharine, 
 says that Geoffrey borrowed copes from the sacrist of the neighbouring 
 abbey of St. Alban's to dress his characters. 
 
 SAINT OLAVE. A miracle-play, acted in London in 1557. See Collier's 
 Annals of the Stage, i. 167. 
 
 SAINT PATRICK FOR IRELAND. An historical play by James Shirley. 
 4to. 16-10. A second part to this drama is mentioned in the prologue, but 
 was never published. 
 
 SAINT STEPHEN'S GREEN ; or, the Generous Lovers. A comedy by 
 William Phillips. 4to. Dublin, 1700; 8vo. 1720. This piece was acted 
 at the Theatre Royal in Dublin ; but there are no actors' names with the 
 list of dramatis personse. It is dedicated to the Earl of Inchiquin. Scene, 
 Dublin. 
 
 SALISBURY PLAIN. A comedy so called was entered on the books of the 
 Stationers' Company, November 29th, 1653 ; but not printed. 
 
 SALMACIDA SPOLIA. A masque. Anon. 4to. 1639. This masque 
 was written by Sir William Davenant, but it is omitted in the folio edition 
 of his w^orks, 1672. It was presented by the King and Queen's Majesties, 
 at Whitehall, on Tuesday the 21st of January, 1639. The scenes and 
 machines, with their descriptions and ornaments, were invented by Inigo 
 Jones, and the music composed by Lewis Richard. Jeffery Hudson acted 
 a little Swiss in this masque. In MS. Lansd. 1171 is preserved Inigo 
 Jones's original " ground-platt of a sceane where the side peeces of the 
 sceane doe altogether change with the back shutters comparted by the 
 sceane of the King and Queen's Majesties Masque of Salmacida Spolia 
 in the New Masquing Howse, Whitehall, 1640." 
 
 SAMPSON. A play, by Edward Jubye, assisted by Samuel Rowley. Acted 
 in 1602. 
 
 SAMPSON AGONISTES. A dramatic poem, by John Milton. 8vo. 1671 . 
 
 SANCTUS EDVA.RDUS CONFESSOR. An academic play on the story 
 of St. Edward the Confessor, most probably represented before King James 
 at one of the Universities. This was amongst the Heber manuscripts' 
 bee Bibl. Heber, xi. 113.
 
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 SAPHO AND PHAO. A comedy by John Lyly. 4to. 1584; 1591; 
 12mo. 1632. This play was first presented before Queen Elizabeth, on a 
 Shrovc-Tuesday, and afterwards at the Black Friars Theatre. The plot is 
 taken from one of Ovid's Epistles. In this first edition, and another in 
 •Ho. 1591, the author's name is omitted, and the piece was attributed to 
 Richard Edwards. This mistake, however, is rectified by the edition of 
 1632. 
 
 SAPIENTIA SALOMONIS. A Latin tragi-comedy, written by an English 
 hand of the time of Queen Elizabeth. It was sold in the auction of the 
 Bright collection of manuscripts, No. 225. 
 
 SATIRO-MASTIX ; or, the Untrussing of the Humorous Poet. Acted 
 publicly by the Lord Chamberlain's servants, and privately by the children 
 of Paul's. 4to. 1602. By Thomas Decker. Reprinted in Hawkins's 
 Origin of the English Drama. This is a retaliation on Ben Jonson, who, 
 in his Poetaster, had severely lashed our author under the character of 
 Crispinus ; which he has in this play returned, by introducing Ben on the 
 stage, under the title of Horace, jun. 
 
 SAWNEY THE SCOT ; or, the Taming of the Shrew. A comedy by John 
 Lacy. Acted at Drury Lane. 4to. 1698 ; 4to. 1708 ; 12mo. 1714. This 
 is an alteration, without amendment, of Shakespeare's comedy of the last- 
 mentioned title. 
 
 SCARAMOUCH a Philosopher, Harlequin, a School-Boy, Bravo, Merchant, 
 and Magician. A comedy, by Edward Ravenscroft, acted at the Theatre 
 Royal. 4to. 1677. This comedy is made up of the compounded plots of 
 three plays of Moliere, viz., the Mariage Force ; the Bourgeois Gentil- 
 homme ; and the Fourberies de Scapin. 
 
 THE SCHOLAR. A comedy by Richard Lovelace, acted at Gloucester Hall 
 and Salisbury Court. Not printed. The Prologue and Epilogue are, 
 however, given in Lovelace's Lucasta, 1649. 
 
 THE SCHOOL MODERATOR. This piece I have not seen, but it is 
 perhaps analogous to, or the same work, as, the Combat of Caps, 1648. 
 
 THE SCHOOL OF COMPLIMENTS. A comedy by James Shirley, acted 
 at the Private House, Drury Lane. 4to. 1631 ; 1637 ; and 1667, under 
 the title of Love Tricks, or the School of Compliments, as acted at the 
 Duke of York's Theatre, in Little Lincoln's Inn Fields. The author in a 
 prologue declares this to be the " first fruits of his muse," and that he 
 " meant not to swear himself a factor to the scene." 
 
 SCHOOL PLAY. An interlude. 8vo. 1664. This little piece, which con- 
 sists of only five scenes, was prepared for, and performed in, a private 
 grammar-school in Middlesex, in the year 1663, and probably was written
 
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 by the master of the school. In it is presented the anomaly of the chiefest 
 part of grammar ; and it is accommodated to that book which the author says 
 is of the most use and best authority in England, viz. the Grammatica 
 Regia. 
 
 SCIPIO AFRIC ANUS. " The History of Cipio Africanus, shewen at White- 
 hall the Sondaye night after newe yeares daie, enacted by the Children of 
 Pawles," Revels' Accounts, 1580. 
 
 SCOGAN AND SKELTON. A play, by William Rankins. Acted in 
 1600. Richard Hathwaye assisted in this piece. 
 
 THE SCORNFUL LADY. A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, acted at 
 the Black Friars. 4to. 1616 ; 1039. Scene, London. 
 
 THE SCOTS FIGARIES; or, a Knot of Knaves. A comedy by John 
 Tatham. 4to. 1652 ; 12 mo. 1735. Great part of this play, which is an 
 attack on the Scotch army and the Covenant, is written in the Scotch 
 dialect. 
 
 THE SCOTTISH POLITIC PRESBYTER SLAIN BY AN ENGLISH 
 INDEPENDENT; or, the Independents' Victory over the Presbyterian 
 Party, &c. A tragi-comedy. 4to. 1647. This is reprinted in the Harleian 
 Miscellany, vol. vii. p. 369. 
 
 THE SCOWERERS. A comedy by Thomas ShadweU. Acted by their 
 Majesties Servants. 4to. 1691. This play contains a great deal of low 
 humour ; yet, although Langbaine entirely acquits our author of plagiarism 
 with respect to it, the character of Eugenia seems to be copied from Harriet, 
 in Sir George Etherege's Man of Mode. 
 
 SCYROS. A pastoral, written by Brookes of Trinity College, acted at Cam- 
 bridge before Prince Charles and the Count Palatine in March, 1612. The 
 scene is laid in Scyros, an island in the vEgean sea, and the time of action 
 is twelve hours. There are MS. copies of it in the University and Em- 
 manuel College libraries. 
 
 THE SCYTHIAN SHEPHERD. Marlow's play of Tamberlain the Great. 
 It is thus curiously mentioned by Saunders, in the preface to his play of 
 Tamerlane, 1681, — " But I hope I may easily unload myself of that calumny, 
 when I shall testifie that I never heard of any play on the same subject, 
 untill my own was acted, neither have I since seen it, though it hath been 
 told me, there is a Cock-pit play, going under the name of the Scythian 
 Shepherd, or Tamberlain the Great, which how good it is, any one may 
 judge by its obscurity, being a thing, not a bookseller in London, or scarce 
 the players themselves, who acted it formerly, cou'd call to remembrance, so 
 far, that I believe that whoever was the author, he might e'en keep it to
 
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 himself secure from invasion, or plagiary ; hut let these who have read it 
 convince themselves of their errors, that this is no second edition, but an 
 entirely new play." 
 THE SEAMAN'S HONEST WIFE. A play, dated 1632, preserved in 
 manuscript in a private library in Ireland. 
 
 THE SEA VOYAGE. A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol. 1647. 
 The design of this play is borrowed from Shakespeare's Tempest ; and the 
 scene lies, as it does in that play, first at sea, and afterwards on a desert 
 island. It was revived, with considerable alterations for the worse, by 
 Durfey, in 1686. It was first acted in 1622. 
 
 SEBASTIAN, KING OF PORTUGAL. A play, by Henry Chettle, assisted 
 by Thomas Decker, acted in 1601. 
 
 THE SECOND MAIDEN'S TRAGEDY. This play is in MS. in the 
 Lansdowne Collection, and is one of those which escaped the general havoc 
 made by Warburton's servant. It was entered on the books of the 
 Stationers' Company, Sept. 9th, 1653, but had been licensed as long be- 
 fore as Oct. 31, 1611. The name of the author in the manuscript seems, 
 from the traces of the letters, originally to have been Thomas Goffe, but 
 this is carefully obliterated, and George Chapman substituted in its stead, 
 which has again been blotted out to make room for William Shakespeare, 
 written by a recent hand. This play consists of two distinct plots ; one 
 borrowed from the story of the Curious Impertinent in Don Quixote ; the 
 other, which exhibits the conduct of the tyrant, respecting the dead body 
 of his mistress, from Camoen's Lusiad. It is reprinted in the Old English 
 Drama. 
 
 SECRET LOVE ; or, the Maiden Queen. A tragi-comedy by J. Dryden. 
 Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1668 ; 1669 ; 1691. The plot of the 
 serious part of this play is founded on a novel called the History of Cleo- 
 buline, Queen of Corinth, part vii. book 7, under whose character that of 
 the celebrated Christina of Sweden has been confidently affirmed to be 
 represented. The characters of Celadon, Florimel, Olinda, and Sabina, are 
 borrowed from the history of Pisistrata and Corintha, in the Grand Cyrus, 
 part ix. book 3.; and that of the French Marquis, from Ibrahim, part ii. 
 book 1. Dryden has also made some use of Shirley's Changes; or, Love 
 in a Maze. The scene, Sicily. 
 
 SEE ME, AND SEE ME NOT. This is the running-title of Hans Beer 
 Pot his Invisible Comedy, published in the year 1618. 
 
 SEJANUS, HIS FALL. A tragedy by Ben Jonson. 4to. 1605. This 
 play was first acted in 1603, and is ushered into the world by nine copies 
 of commendatory verses. When the author republished it in 1616, he says 
 that it had outlived the malice of its enemies.
 
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 8ELE0 AND OLEMPO. A play mentioned by Henslowe as acted on 
 
 March 5th, 1594. Not now known. 
 SELF LOVE. " Gevyn on Shrove-monday to the King's players, who playd 
 
 the play of Self-love, xxs.," MS. account-book, 1551-56. 
 
 SELIMUS. The Tragical] Raigne of Selimus, sometime Emperour of the 
 Turkes, and grand-father to him that now raigneth. Wherein is showne 
 how he most unnaturally raised warres against his owne father, Bnjazet ; 
 and prevailing thei'ein, in the end caused him to be poisoned ; also with 
 the murthering of his two brethren Corcutus and Acomat. Acted by the 
 Queen's players. 4to 1594; 1638. The plot of this play is taken from 
 the Turkish histories of the reign of the Emperor Selimus I. The edition 
 of 1638 has the initials T. G. added to it by the printer, to impose the 
 piece on the public as the production of Thomas Goffe, who had written 
 two other plays founded on Turkish history; but as Goffe was born in 
 1592, the date of 1594 to this play is a sufficient contradiction. In the 
 conclusion of the play, the author promises a second part, which, probably, 
 he never was encouraged, by the success of the first part, to produce; 
 though to some tastes he held out this strong temptation : — 
 If this Eirst Part, Gentles, do like you well, 
 The Second Part shall greater murthers tell. 
 
 SELINDRA. A tragi-comedy by Sir William Killigrew. Svo. 1665 ; fob 
 1666. Scene, Byzantium. 
 
 SENILE ODIUM. A Latin comedy by P. Hausted, acted by the students 
 of Queen's College, Cambridge. 12mo. 1633. 
 
 SENILIS AMOK, A Latin comedy, 1635 ; MS. Rawl. Poet. 9. 
 
 SENOBIA. A play acted in March, 1591. 
 
 THE SEPULTURE AND RESURRECTION. Two dramas, by Bishop 
 Bale. These two pieces stand on the list that this father has given us of 
 his own writings, and which is all the information we have concerning 
 them. 
 
 THE SERENADE. " Home, and there met with a letter from Captain 
 Silas Taylor, and, with it, his written copy of a play that he hath wrote, 
 and intends to have acted. It is called the Serenade or Disappointment, 
 which I will read, not believing he can make any good of that kind," Pepys' 
 Diary, May 7th, 1669. 
 
 THE SERMON OE EOLLY. One of the eight interludes, by Sir David 
 Lindsay, printed at Edinburgh, 4to. 1602. 
 
 SERPEDON. "The History of Serpedon shewen at Whitehall on Shrove 
 Twesdaye at nighte, enacted by the Lord Chamberleyns servauntes," Revels' 
 Accounts, 1580.
 
 224 SER—SHA 
 
 SERT0R1US. A tragedy by John Bancroft. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 
 4to. 1G79. The plot of this tragedy is founded on Plutarch's Life of 
 Sertorius, Velleius Paterculus, Floras, and other historians. The scene lies 
 in Lusitania, and the epilogue is written by Ravenscroft. 
 
 THE SET AT MAW. A play, also called the Maw, acted in 1594-5. 
 
 THE SET AT TENNIS. A play, by Antony Munday, purchased by Hens- 
 lovve's company in December, 1602. 
 
 THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOME. By John Kirke. 
 Acted at the Cock-pit, and at the Bull, in St. John's Street. 4to. 1638. 
 The plot of this piece is taken from a well-known book in prose which bears 
 the same title, and it may be found also in Heylin's History of St. George. 
 
 THE SEVEN DAYS OE THE WEEK. Acted, as Henslowe tells us, June 
 3, 1595. A second part to this play was produced in January, 1595-6. 
 See also the Christmas Prince, 1607. 
 
 THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS. An extemporal play by Richard Tarlton, 
 thus alluded to in Harvey's Foure Letters, 1592, — "Not dunsically 
 botched up, but right formally conveied, according to the stile and tenour 
 of Tarletons president, his famous play of the Seaven Deadly Sinnes ; which 
 most deadly, but most lively playe, I might have seene in London : and 
 was verie gently invited thereunto at Oxford by Tarleton himselfe." The 
 original plot of this play, a kind of scheme for the actors, is preserved at 
 Dulwich College. See a long description of it in Collier's History of the 
 Stage, iii. 394. 
 
 THE SEVEN WISE MASTERS. A play, by William Haughton, assisted 
 by Chettle, Decker, and Day. Acted in 1600. 
 
 THE SEVERAL AFFAIRS. A comedy by Thomas Meriton. This piece 
 was never acted, nor ever appeared in print ; but, as the author himself 
 informs us in the dedication to another play of his, called the Wandering 
 Lover, was only reserved as a pocket companion for the amusement of his 
 private friends. 
 
 THE SEVERAL WITS. A comedy by the Duchess of Newcastle. Fol. 
 1662. 
 
 THE SEXTON, or the Mock Testator. A droll formed out of Beaumont and 
 Fletcher's Spanish Curate, printed in the Wits, 1672. 
 
 THE SHAM LAWYER ; or, the Lucky Extravagant. A comedy by Dr. 
 James Drake. As it was damnably acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury 
 Lane, says the title-page. 4 to. 1697. This play is mostly borrowed from 
 two comedies of Beaumont and Fletcher, viz., the Spanish Curate, and 
 Wit without Money. The scene, London.
 
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 SHANK'S ORDINARY. A comedy by John Shancke, the player, acted at 
 the Bla'ckfriars' Theatre, 1623-4. Not printed. 
 
 THE SHE GALLANTS. A comedy by Lord Lansdowne. Acted at Lin- 
 coln's Inn Fields. 4to. 1696. This comedy was written when the author 
 was extremely young. 
 
 THE SHEPHERD'S HOLIDAY. A pastoral tragi-comedy by Joseph 
 Rutter. Acted before their Majesties at Whitehall. 8vo. 1635. This 
 play has only the initials J. R. in the title-page; but Kirkman, whose 
 authority in general is a very good one, has ascribed it to Rutter. The 
 piece is written in blank verse, and Langbaine styles it the nobler sort of 
 pastoral. It is also recommended by two copies of verses ; the one from 
 Ben Jonson, who calls the author his dear Son (in the Muses), atid his 
 right learned Friend ; and the other from Thomas May. The scene lies in 
 Arcadia ; and at the end is a pastoral elegy on the death of the Lady 
 Venetia Digby, written in the character of her husband Sir Kenelm Digby, 
 Knt., to whom this play is dedicated. Reprinted in the original edition of 
 Dodsley's Collection; but omitted in that of 1780. 
 
 THE SHEPHERD'S MASQUE. A masque acted at Court, temp. Jac. L 
 
 THE SHEPHERD'S PARADISE. A pastoral, by Walter Montague. 8vo. 
 1629. There is a manuscript copy of this pastoral in the British Museum, 
 MS. Sloane 3649, which has a prologue between Apollo and Diana, com- 
 mencing, " What newes, Apollo, from the highest spheares ? " This piece 
 was acted privately before King Charles I. by the Queen and her Ladies of 
 Honour, whose names are set down in the dramatis personae. It is, however, 
 thus ridiculed by Sir John Suckling in his Session of the Poets, as being 
 perfectly unintelligible : — 
 
 Wat Montague now stood forth to his trial, 
 
 And did not so much as suspect a denial ; 
 
 But witty Apollo ask'd him first of all, 
 
 If he understood his own pastoral. 
 Langbaine mentions an edition of this play of the date of 1649. The 
 copy now before lis is dated 1659, printed for John Starkey in Fleet Street, 
 and called a Comedy. We conclude that the title-page was reprinted two 
 or three different times, to help a dull sale. In an advertisement of books, 
 dated 1664, as " lately printed for John Starkey at the Miter nere Temple- 
 bar in Fleet-street," occurs " the Shepheards Paradise, a pastoral comedy, 
 written by the honourable Walter Mountague Esq." 
 THE SHE SAINT. A play by Robert Daborne, written in 1614, and sold 
 to Henslowe in that year. " Paid unto Mr. Daborne the 2 of Aprell, 1614, 
 in earnest of the Shee Saynte, at his own howsse, the some of viijs.," Hens- 
 lowe Manuscripts. 
 
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 226 SHE— SIC 
 
 SHE VENTURES, AND HE WINS. A comedy acted at Lincoln's Inn 
 Fields. 4to. 1696. This play was written by a young lady, who signs 
 herself Ariadne. The scene lies in London ; and the plot is taken from a 
 novel written by Oldys, called, the Fair Extravagant; or, the Humorous 
 Bride. Motteux wrote the epilogue. ■ 
 
 SHE WOU'D IF SHE COU'D. A comedy by Sir George Etherege, acted 
 at the Duke of York's Theatre. 4to. 1668. According to Dennis, this 
 play met with ill success on its first representation, a statement confirmed 
 by Pepys, — " how full was the house, and how silly the play, there being 
 nothing in the world good in it, and few people pleased in it." 
 
 THE SHIP. A play acted before 1611. "Faith, I have a great mind to 
 see Long Meg and the Ship, at the Fortune," Field's Amends for Ladies. 
 
 A SHOEMAKER'S A GENTLEMAN. A comedy by William Rowley. 
 Acted at the Red Bull ; and afterwards revived at the Theatre in Dorset 
 Gardens. 4to. 1638. The plot of this play is founded on a novel called, 
 Crispin and Crispianus ; or, the History of the Gentle Craft, first printed 
 in 1598. 
 
 THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY; or, the Gentle Craft; with the humor- 
 ous Life of Simon Eyre, Shoemaker, and Lord Mayor of London. Acted 
 before the Queen, by Thomas, Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral, 
 his Servants, on New- Year's Day, at night. 4to. 1600; 1610; 1618; 
 1631 ; 1657. This play has been attributed to Dr. Barton Holyday. The 
 story is taken from the above-mentioned novel. 
 
 SHORE. The Life and Death of Master Shore, and Jane Shore his Wife, as 
 it was lately acted by the Earle of Derbie his Servants. Entered on the 
 Stationers' books, Aug. 28th, 1599. This play is mentioned in the Knight 
 of the Burning Pestle, and may be the second part of Heywood's Edward 
 the Fourth. There was a play, however, on the subject of Jane Shore, 
 written by Chettle about the year 1598. 
 
 SHUFFLING, CUTTING, AND DEALING, in a Game of Picquet; being 
 acted from the year 1653 to 1658, by 0. P. and others, with great applause. 
 By Henry Neville. 4to. 1659. Reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany, 
 vol. v. p. 298. 
 
 SICELIDES. A Piscatory, by Phineas Fletcher. 4to. 1631. This piece 
 was acted in King's College, Cambridge, and is printed without any author's 
 name. It was intended originally to be performed before King James the 
 First, on the 13th of March, 1614 ; but His Majesty leaving the University 
 sooner, it was not then represented. There is an old manuscript copy of 
 it in the British Museum, MS. Addit. 4453. Scene, Sicily. 
 
 THE SICILIAN USURPER. A tragedy by N. Tate. 4to. 1691. This
 
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 is an alteration of Shakespeare's Richard II. It appears to have been acted 
 only twice, when it was forbidden by authority ; on which account the 
 author has added to it a prefatory epistle in vindication of himself, with 
 respect to the prohibition. The scene is laid in England. It was pub- 
 lished originally in 4 to. 1681, under the title of King Richard the Second. 
 
 SICILY AND NAPLES; or, the Fatal Union. A tragedy by Samuel 
 Harding, A. B. 4to. 1640. This play is recommended by seven copies 
 of verses prefixed to it. The scene, Naples. 
 
 THE SIEGE. A tragi-comedy by Sir William Davenant. Fol. 1673. 
 Scene, Pisa. 
 
 THE SIEGE; or, Love's Convert. A tragi-comedy by William Cartwright. 
 8vo. 1651. This play is dedicated in verse to King Charles I. The scene 
 lies at Byzantium; and the story of Misander and Leucasia is founded on 
 that of Pausanius and Cleonice in Plutarch's life of Cymon ; as is the in- 
 junction which the rich widow Pyle lays upon her lovers, on the Decameron 
 of Boccaccio, Day ix. Nov. 1. 
 
 THE SIEGE AND SURRENDER OF MONS. A tragi-comedy. 4to. 
 1691. The plot of it is founded on the siege of Mons by the French, in 
 the year 1641; and the author's intention, as he himself expresses it in 
 the title page, was to expose the villany of the priests, and the intrigues of 
 the French. The scene lies in Mons, and the French camp before it; but 
 the play was never acted. 
 
 THE SIEGE OF BABYLON. A tragi-comedy by Samuel Pordage. Acted 
 at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1678. This play is founded on the Romance 
 of Cassandra. The siege lies in Babylon, and in the fields adjacent. 
 
 THE SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE. 4to. 1675. A tragedy, acted 
 at the Duke's Theatre. This play, though published anonymously, is said 
 by Downes, in the Roscius Anglicanus, to be written by Nevil Payne. The 
 plot may be found by perusing Heylin's Cosmography, Knolles' Turkish 
 History, &c. The scene, Constantinople. 
 
 THE SIEGE OF DERRY. A tragi-comedy, 1692. 
 
 THE SIEGE OF DUNKIRK. A play, by Charles Massey. Acted in 
 1602. Not printed. It is mentioned in Henslowe's Diary, p. 231, as, 
 " a playe called the Sedge of Doncerke, with Alleyn the pyrete." 
 
 THE SIEGE OF LONDON. A play so called is mentioned in Henslowe's 
 Diary, the first time under the date of December 26th, 1594. 
 
 THE SIEGE OF MEMPHIS; or, the Ambitious Queen. A tragedy 
 by Thomas Durfey. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1676. The plot
 
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 is in sonic measure borrowed from history, and the scene is Memphis 
 besieged. 
 
 THE SIEGE OF NAMUR. A droll acted at Bartholomew Fair. It is 
 mentioned in Sorbiere's Journey to London in 1698. 
 
 THE SIEGE OF RHODES. A play, in two parts, by Sir William 
 Davenant. 4to. 1656 ; 1659 j 1663. Both these plays met with great 
 approbation. They were written during the time of the civil wars, when 
 the stage lay under a prohibition, and consequently made not their appear- 
 ance till after the Restoration, at Lincoln's Inn Fields, when Sir William 
 himself obtained the management of the theatre. The plot, as far as it has 
 a connection with history, is to be found in the several historians who have 
 given an account of this remarkable siege in the reign of Solyman the 
 Second, who took the city in the year 1522. The scene Rhodes, and in 
 the camp near it. 
 
 THE SIEGE OF URBIN. A tragi-comedy by Sir William Killigrew. 
 Fol. 1666. Scene, Pisa. There is a manuscript copy of this play in the 
 Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. l'oet. 29. 
 
 SIGHT AND SEARCH. A play, dated 1643, preserved in manuscript in 
 a private library in Ireland. 
 
 SILVANUS. A Latin comedy, by one Rollinson, acted at Cambridge in 
 1596. A copy of it, transcribed in 1600, is in the Bodleian Library, MS. 
 Douce 234. 
 
 THE SILVER AGE. A History, by Thomas Heywood. 4to. 1613. It 
 was acted before the Court at Greenwich early in the year 1612. Reprinted 
 by the Shakespeare Society, Svo. 1851. 
 
 SILVIA. In MS. Ashmole 788 is a Latin epistle which was " prefixt before 
 my Silvia, a Latin comedie or pastorall, translated from the Archadia, 
 written at eighteen yeers of age," by Phillip Kynder, temp. Car. I. 
 
 S1MO. A Latin comedy. 4to. 1652. 
 
 SIMON THE LEPER. A drama by Bishop Bale, named only in his 
 catalogue of his own works. 
 
 SIMPKIN. The Humours of Simpkin, a droll by Kirkman, printed in the 
 Wits, or Sport upon Sport, Svo. 1672. 
 
 SIMPLETON THE SMITH, a droll, written by Kirkman, printed in the 
 Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. This was one of the most popular drolls 
 of the seventeenth century. Robert Cox was celebrated for performing the 
 part of the smith iu this piece. 
 
 SINGER'S VOLUNTARY. A play, by John Singer, acted in 1602.
 
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 SIR ANTOXY LOVE ; or, the Rambling Lady. A comedy by Thomas 
 Southern. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1691; 1693. This play 
 met with great applause. The author, in his Dedication, makes his acknow- 
 ledgments to Mrs. Mouutfort, for her excellent performance of Sir Antony, 
 the principal character. The scene, Montpelier. 
 
 SIR BARNABY WHIGG; or, No Wit Like a Woman's. A comedy by 
 Thomas Durfey, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1681. The principal 
 plot of this play is founded on a novel of Mons. S. Brernond, called the 
 Double Cuckold ; and part of the humour of Capt. Porpuss is borrowed 
 from Marmion's comedy of the Fine Companion. Scene, London. 
 
 SIR CLIOMON. The Historie of the two valiant Knights, Sir Clyomon, 
 Knight of the Golden Sheeld, Sonne to the King of Denmarke : And 
 Clamydes, the white Knight, Sonne to the King of Suauia. As it hath 
 bene sundry Times acted by her Maiesties Players. London, printed by 
 Thomas Creede. 4to. 1599. Reprinted in Peele's Works, ed. Dyce, 
 vol. 3. 
 
 SIR COURTLY NICE; or, It. Cannot Be. A comedy by J. Crowne. 4to. 
 1685. This play was written at the command of King Charles II. The 
 plot, and part of the play, is taken from a Spanish comedy called No puede 
 ser ; or, It cannot be ; and from a comedy called Tarugo's Wiles. 
 
 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, the History of, exprest by instrumental and vocal 
 music, and by the art of perspective in, scenes, Stc. The first part. Repre- 
 sented daily at the Cock-pit, in Drury Lane, at three in the afternoon 
 punctually. 4to. 1659. By Sir W. Davenant. 
 
 SIR GYLES GOOSE-CAPPE, Knight. 4to. 1606; 1636. There is also 
 an early undated edition. This comedy was first presented by the 
 Children of the Chapel ; and afterwards, with great applause, at the 
 Private House in Salisbury Court. 
 
 SIR HERCULES BUFFOON; or, the Poetical Squire. A comedy by 
 John Lacy. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1684. This play was 
 not published, nor brought on the stage, till about three years after the 
 author's decease. The prologue was written by Durfey, and contains a 
 great compliment to the author, in his capacity of an actor. Jos. Haynes, 
 the comedian, wrote the epilogue, and spoke both that and the prologue. 
 In the same year was issued a broadside entitled, — " The prologue to Mr. 
 Lacy's new Play, Sir Hercules Buffoon or the Poetical Esquire, written by 
 Thomas Durfey, Gent., spoken by Mr. Haynes," 1684. 
 
 SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE. A play, acted according to Henslowe, 
 February 24th, 1591. Not now known. 
 
 SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE. The first part of the true and Honourable 

 
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 History of the Life of Sir John Oldcastle, the good Lord Cobham. Acted 
 by the Earl of Nottingham the Lord High Admiral's servants. 4to. 1600. 
 This is one of the plays erroneously attributed to Shakespeare, whose name, 
 however, occurs on the title-page of some copies. It appears, from Hens- 
 lovve's Diary, that it was written in 1599, by Munday, Drayton, Wilson, 
 and Hathway. No second part is known to exist. 
 
 SIR MARTIN MAR-ALL; or, the Feign'd Innocence. A comedy by 
 J. Dryden. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1668; 167S; 1691. 
 The plot and great part of the language of Sir Martin and his man War- 
 ner, are borrowed from Quinault's Amant Indiscret, and the Etourdi of 
 Moliere. Warner's playing on the lute instead of his master, and being 
 surprised by his folly, is taken from M. du Parc's Francion, book 7.; and 
 Old Moody and Sir John, being hoisted up in their altitudes, owes its 
 origin to a like incident in Marmion's Antiquary. Downes says, the Duke 
 of Newcastle gave this play to Dryden, who adapted it to the stage ; and 
 it is remarkable, that it is entered on the books of the Stationers' Company 
 as the production of that nobleman. 
 
 SIR MARTYN SKINK, the Life and Death of, with the Warres of the 
 
 Low Countries. A play by Richard Brome and Thomas Heywood. 
 Entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, April 8th, 1654; but 
 not printed. 
 
 SIR PATIENT FANCY. A comedy by Mrs. Behn, acted at the Duke's 
 Theatre. 4to. 1678. The hint of Sir Patient Fancy is borrowed from 
 Moliere's Malade Imaginaire ; and those of Sir Credulous Easy and his 
 groom Curry, from the M. Pourceaugnac of the same author. These last 
 characters have also been made use of by Brome in his Damoiselle. The 
 scene lies in two different houses in London. 
 
 SIR PLACIDAS. A play written about the year 1600. 
 
 SIR SALOMON; or, the Cautious Coxcomb. A comedy acted at the Duke 
 of York's Theatre. 4to. 1671 ; 1691. This play is very little more than a 
 translation from the Ecole des Femmes of Moliere, and is attributed to John 
 Caryll, who, in the epilogue to it, owns it to be a translation. It met with 
 some enemies at first ; but, notwithstanding, made its part good in the 
 representations for twelve successive days. The scene lies in London. 
 
 SIR THOMAS MORE. A play under this title is extant in the British 
 Museum, Harl. MS. 7368, composed about a.d. 1590. Printed for the 
 Shakespeare Society, ed. by A. Dyce, 8vo. 1844. 
 
 SIR THOMAS WYAT. The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat, with 
 the Coronation of Queen Mary, and the coming in of King Philip, as it
 
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 was plaied by the Queens Majesties Servants, written by Thomas Diekers 
 (Decker) and John Webster, 4to. 1607. 4to. 1612. Reprinted in Web- 
 ster's Works, ed. Dyce, 1830. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM LONGSWORD. A play so called was licensed by Tilney 
 in the year 1598. Not now known to exist. It is stated to have been 
 written by Drayton. 
 
 THE SISTERS. A comedy by" J. Shirley. Acted at the Private House, 
 Black Friars. 8vo. 1652. Scene, Parma. It was licensed in 1642. 
 
 THE SIX CLOTHIERS OF THE WEST. A play by William Haughton, 
 assisted by R. Hath wave and Wentworth Smith. Acted in 1601. A 
 second part of the same play, with the same assistance, acted also in 1 601. 
 Not printed. 
 
 SIX DAYS ADVENTURES; or, the New Utopia. A comedy by the 
 Honourable Edward Howard. Acted at the Duke of York's Theatre. 4to. 
 1671. This play miscarried in the representation; and the witty Lord 
 Rochester wrote a sharp invective against it ; notwithstanding which, 
 when it appeared in print, it was ushered into the world with four recom- 
 mendatory copies of verses, by Mrs. Behn, Ravenscroft, and others. The 
 scene, Utopia. 
 
 SIX FOOLS. A play acted before the Court in 1568. 
 
 SIX SEAMEN. " A Maske of Sixe Seamen, prepared to have ben shewed 
 but not used, made of sondrey garmentes, and store within the office," 
 Revels' Accounts, 1582. 
 
 THE SIX YEOMEN OF THE WEST. A play, in two parts, by Haugh- 
 ton, Hathway, and Smith, acted in 1601. 
 
 THE SLIGHTED MAID. A comedy, by Sir Robert Stapylton. Acted 
 at the theatre in Little Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to. 1663. The scene of 
 this play is laid in Naples ; and the epitaph made by Decio, upon Iberio 
 and Pyramena, is borrowed from Martial's celebrated epigram of Arria and 
 Paetus, lib. i. ep. 14. Dryden says of this play, there is nothing in the 
 first act "but what might have been said or done in the fifth ; nor any 
 thing in the midst, which might not have been placed as well in the begin- 
 ning or the end ;" yet Langbaine and Jacob say that it was acted with 
 great applause, a statement taken perhaps from the same assertion on 
 the title-page. Dedicated to the Duke of Monmouth. 
 
 THE SOCIABLE COMPANIONS; or, the Female Wits. A comedy by 
 the Duchess of Newcastle. Fol. 1668. 
 
 THE SOLDIER. A tragedy by Richard Lovelace. Not printed.
 
 232 SOL— SOP 
 
 THE SOLDIER'D CITIZEN: or, the Crafty Merchant. It was entered 
 on the books of the Stationers' Company, June 29th, 1660; and was 
 among the plays destroyed by Warburton's servant. 
 
 SOLDIERS' FORTUNE. A comedy, by Thomas Otway, acted with great 
 success at the Duke's Theatre. 4 to. 1681 ; 1687.' The plot of this play 
 is by no means new, the several incidents in it being almost all of them 
 borrowed. For instance, Lady Dunce's making her husband an agent for 
 the conveyance of the ring and letter to her gallant Captain Beaugard, is 
 evidently taken from Moliere's Ecole des Maris, and had besides been made 
 use of in some English plays before, particularly in the Fawne, and in 
 Flora's Vagaries. 
 
 SOLIMAN AND PERSEDA, the Tragedie of; wherein is laide open 
 Love's Constancy, Fortune's Inconstancy, and Death's Triumphs. 4to. 
 1599. This old piece is not divided into acts ; and Langbaine supposes it 
 was never acted. Hawkins, in the Origin of the English Drama, vol. ii. 
 p. 197, conjectures it to be one of the productions of Thomas Kyd, author 
 of the Spanish Tragedy ; and this probably may be true : and it is entered 
 on the books of the Stationers' Company, Nov 20th, 1592, being the same 
 year as that play. The plot of this tragedy is in great measure borrowed 
 from the first novel in a very scarce book, entitled, A courtlie Controuersie 
 of Cupid's Cautels, 1578. From this novel our author adopted the names 
 of Soliman, Perseda, Erastus, Brusor, Piston, and Lucina. The character 
 of Basilisco was of his own invention. 
 
 THE SOLITARY KNIGHT. "The Historie of the Solitarie Knight, 
 showen at Whitehall on Shrovesundaie at night, enacted by the Lord 
 Howardes servauntes," Revels' Accounts, 1576. 
 
 SOLOMON'S WISDOM. An interlude, printed, with other pieces of a like 
 kind, in some editions of the Wits, 1672. 
 
 SOLYMAN. A Latin tragedy, a manuscript copy of which, bearing the 
 date of March, 1581, is in the British Museum, MS. Lansd. 723. In the 
 list of characters are, Solimannus Rex, and, Mustapha Alius Solymanni. 
 
 THE SOMERSET MASQUE. The Description of a Maske, presented in 
 the Banquetting Roome 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 Frances Howard. Written by Thomas Campion. London : 
 Printed for Lawrence Lisle, dwelling in Paule's Church Yarde, at the Signe 
 of the Tyger's Head. 4to. 1614. 
 
 THE SOPISTER. A comedy. 4to. 1639. Although dated in 1639, this 
 play was really printed in 1638. It was acted at one of the Universities,
 
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 and has a prologue spoken by Mercury, as the God of Eloquence, and 
 addressed to the academical auditory. It is said to have been written by 
 Dr. Zouch. 
 
 SOI'HOMORUS. A Latin comedy, of the seventeenth century, formerly in 
 Dr. Bliss's collection. It is dated 1620. 
 
 SOPHOMPANEAS ; or, Joseph. A tragedy by Erancis Goldsmith. 8vo. 
 No date. This is a translation from Hugo Grotius, with critical remarks 
 and annotations. Langbaine assigns the date of 1640 to this piece, but 
 there is apparently a chronogram intended by the arrangement of some of 
 the letters of the author's name in the title-page, which show the date of 
 1652. 
 
 SOPHONISBA. Marston's tragedy of the Wonder of Women, first 
 printed in 1606, was sometimes so called. 
 
 SOPHONISBA ; or, Hannibal's Overthrow, a tragedy by Nathaniel Lee, 
 acted at Drury Lane, 4to. 1676; 1693; 1697. The scene is laid at 
 Zama. Dryden wrote a prologue to this tragedy, which was spoken at 
 Oxford in 1680. 
 
 THE SOPHY. A tragedy by Sir John Denham, acted at Black Friars. Fol. 
 1642; 8vo. 1671. This tragedy is built on the same story in Herbert's 
 Travels, on which Baron has constructed his tragedy of Mirza. 
 
 THE SOUL'S WARFARE, comically digested into scenes, &c. 4to. 1672. 
 A tragi-comedy by Richard Tuke. It was also published under the title 
 of, the Divine Comedian, or the Right Use of Plays, 1672. 
 
 THE SPANIARDS IN PERU. Exprest by instrumentall and vocall 
 musick, and by art of perspective in scenery. Represented daily at the 
 Cock-pit in Drury Lane, at three afternoone punctually. 4to. 1648. 
 
 THE SPANISH BAWD, represented in Celestina; or, the Tragicke 
 Comedy of Calisto and Melibea ; wherein is contained, besides the Plea- 
 santnesse and Sweetenesse of the Stile, many philosophical Sentences, and 
 profitable Instructions necessary for the younger Sort : Shewing the De- 
 ceits and Subtilties housed in the Bosomes of false Servants and Cunny- 
 catching Bawds. Fol. 1631. This play is the longest that was ever 
 published, consisting of twenty-one acts. It was written originally in 
 Spanish, by El Bachiler Fernanda de Roxas de la Puebla de Montalvan, 
 whose name is discoverable by the beginning of every line in an acrostic 
 or copy of verses prefixed to the work. The translator also, James Mabbe, 
 pretends to be a Spaniard, and has taken on himself the disguised name 
 of Don Diego Puedeser. The scene lies in Spain. 
 
 THE SPANISH CURATE. A comedv by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol.
 
 234 SPA— SPA 
 
 1647. This comedy was acted at Court in December, lf.22. The plot of 
 Don Henrique, Ascanio, Violante, and Jacintha, is borrowed from 
 Gerardo's History of Don John, p. 202 ; and that of Leandro, Bartolus, 
 Amarantha, and Lopez, from the Spanish Curate of the same author, page 
 214. 
 
 THE SPANISH DUKE OF LERMA. A play, by Henry Shirley, entered 
 on the books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 0th, 1053, but not printed. 
 
 THE SPANISH FIG. A play with this title was acted in 1601-2 ; but is 
 not now known. 
 
 THE SPANISH FRYAR ; or, the Double Discovery. A tragi-comedy by 
 John Dryden. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1681; 1686; 1690. 
 Langbaine charges the author of this play with casting a reflection on 
 the whole body of the clergy in his character of Dominick the Fryar, and 
 seems to imagine it a piece of revenge practised for some opposition he 
 met with in his attempt to take orders. The scene lies in Anragon, and 
 the plot of the comic parts is founded on a novel called the Pilgrim, 
 wi"itten by M. St. Bremond. 
 
 THE SPANISH GIPSIE. A comedy by Thomas Middleton and William 
 Rowley. Acted with great applause at Drury Lane and Salisbury Court. 
 4to. 1653; 1661. The plot of this play with respect to the story of 
 Roderigo and Clara, if not borrowed from, has at least a very near resem- 
 blance to, a novel of Cervantes, called the Force of Blood. The scene lies 
 at Alicant. 
 
 THE SPANISH LOVEES. A tragi-comedy by Sir William Davenant ; 
 licensed on Nov. 30th, 1639. Not now known under this title ; but sup- 
 posed to be that which is printed under the title of the Distresses. 
 
 THE SPANISH MAZE. A tragedy acted at Court in 1605. 
 
 THE SPANISH MOBPJS. A play called " the Spaneshe Mores tragedie," 
 written by Decker, Haughton, and Day, is mentioned in Henslowe's Diary 
 under the date of February, 1599. This may mean either the Spanish 
 Morris, or the Spanish Moors, but no other notice of the play is known. 
 
 THE SPANISH PURCHASE. A play in the list of those said to have been 
 destroyed by Warburton's servant. 
 
 THE SPANISH ROGUE. A comedy by Thomas Duffet. 4to. 1674. This 
 play is the best of this author's dramatic works ; yet it met with very 
 indifferent success. The scene, Spain. It is dedicated to Madam Ellen 
 Guyn. 
 
 THE SPANISH SOULDIER. A tragedy by Thomas Decker, entered on
 
 SPA—SPR 235 
 
 the books of the Stationers' Company, May 16th, 1631, by John Jackinan ; 
 but, we believe, never printed. 
 
 THE SPANISH TRAGEDY; or, Hieronimo is mad again; containing the 
 lamentable End of Don Horatio and Belimperia. With the pitiful] Death 
 of Hieronimo. By Thomas Kyd. 4to. 160.2; 1603; 1615; 1618; 
 1623; 1633; in Dodsley's Collection, 1780; and Hawkins's Origin of 
 the English Drama. This play was the object of ridicule to almost every 
 writer of the time. Philips and Winstanley ascribe it, but erroneously, to 
 Thomas Smith. Heywood, however, declares it to be the production of 
 Kyd. It had been acted several years before its appearance in print, and 
 we are told, in Decker's Satiro-mastix, that Ben Jonson originally per- 
 formed the part of Hieronimo. 
 
 THE SPANISH VICEROY; or, the Honour of Woman. A comedy by 
 Philip Massinger, entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 
 9th, 1653. It was among those destroyed by Warburton's servant. It 
 was first acted in 1624. 
 
 THE SPANISH WIYES. A farce, of three acts, by Mrs. Mary Pix. 4to. 
 1696. The scene of this little piece is laid at Barcelona, and the plot of 
 it borrowed from the same novel of the Pilgrim, on which that of the 
 Spanish Fryar is also built. It was acted at Dorset Garden Theatre. 
 
 THE SPARAGUS GARDEN. A comedy by Richard Brome. Acted in 
 the year 1635, by the then Company of Revels at Salisbury Court. 4to. 
 1640. 
 
 THE SPARTAN LADIES. A comedy by Lodowick Carlell. For some 
 mention of this play, see Humphry Moseley's Catalogue, at the end of 
 Middleton's comedy of More Dissemblers besides Women ; the only place 
 in which we fiad it named. It was entered on the books of the Stationers' 
 Company, Sept. 4th, 1646 ; but it was produced as early as the year 1634, 
 as appears from an entry in Sir H. Mildmay's Diary. 
 
 THE SPENCERS. A play, by Henry Porter, acted in 1598. 
 
 THE SPIGHTFUL SISTER. A comedy by Abraham Bailey of Lincoln's 
 Inn. 4to. 1667. The author of this play is allowed by both Langbaine 
 and Jacob to be free from plagiarism, what he has written being all his 
 own, and his characters, particularly those of Lord Occus and Winifred, to 
 be truly orignal. Jacob, however, concludes, and with reason, from its 
 being printed without either prologue, epilogue, or dedication, that it never 
 made an appearance on the stage. The author speaks of this production 
 as " done in few hours and youthful years." 
 
 SPRING'S GLORY, vindicating Love by Temperance, against the Tenet, 
 "sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus." Moralised in a Maskc, by Thomas
 
 236 SPU—STA 
 
 Nabbes. 4to. 1638 ; 1639. The title of this piece so amply explains the 
 subject it is written on, that we need say nothing more in regard to it. At 
 the end of it are printed Poems, Epigrams, Elegies, and Epithalainiums, 
 of the same author. 
 
 SPUR1US. A Latin tragedy by P. lleylin of Hart Hall, which was sd ap- 
 proved by that society, that the President, Dr. Langton, ordered it to be 
 acted in his apartments. Written about a.d. 1614. 
 
 THE SQUIRE OP ALSATIA. A comedy by Thomas Shadwell. Acted 
 by their Majesties Servants. 4to. 1688. This play is founded on the 
 Adelphi of Terence, the characters of the two elder Belfonds being exactly 
 those of the Micio and Demea, and the two younger Belfonds, the Eschinus 
 and Ctesipho of that celebrated comedy. It met with good success, being 
 originally acted thirteen successive days. The scene lies in Alsatia, the 
 cant name for White Friars ; and the author has introduced so much of the 
 cant or gamblers' language, as to have rendered it necessary to prefix a 
 glossary for the leading the reader through a labyrinth of uncommon and 
 unintelligible jargon. 
 
 SQUIRE OLD-SAPP; or, the Wight Adventurers. A comedy by Thomas 
 Durfey. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1679. Licensed June 28th, 
 1678. The character of Squire Old-Sapp, and the incident of Pimpo's 
 tying him to the tree in the first act, is borrowed from the Comical History 
 of Francion. Tricklove's cheating Old-Sapp with the bell, and Pimpo's 
 standing in Henry's place, is related in Boccaccio's Novels, Dec. 7, Nov. 8, 
 and in Fontaine's Tale of La Gageure des trois Commeres : and Trick- 
 love's contrivance with Welford for having Old-Sapp beaten in her clothes 
 in the same act, and which is also an incident in Fletcher's Women pleas'd, 
 Ravenscroft's London Cuckolds, and some other comedies, is evidently 
 taken from Boccaccio, Dec. 7, Nov. 7. 
 
 THE SQUIRE'S MASQUE. A masque acted at Court about the year 
 1615. 
 
 THE STALLION. A droll, formed out of the Custom of the Country, 
 printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 
 
 THE STAPLE OF NEWS. A comedy by Ben Jonson. Fol. 1631. This 
 play, though not printed till the above date, was first acted in the year 
 1625. Scene, London. It was entered on the books of the Stationers' 
 Company, April 14th, 1626. 
 
 THE STATE OF INNOCENCE AND FALL OF MAN. An opera by 
 John Dryden. 4to. 1676; 1677; 1692. As Dr. Johnson truly observes, 
 this is termed by Dryden an opera; but it is rather a tragedy in heroic 
 rhyme, but of which the personages are such as cannot with propriety be 
 represented on the stage.
 
 STE—STR 237 
 
 STEPHEN. The History of King Stephen, a play by William Shakespeare, 
 or entered, as written by hiin, on the books of the Stationers' Company, 
 June 29th, 1660. No further information respecting it is known. 
 
 THE STEPMOTHER. A tragi-comedy by Sir Robert Stapylton. 4 to. 
 1664. Acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields, by the Duke of York's servants. 
 Though Sir Robert did not put his name to this play, yet the prologue 
 expressly declares it to be written by the author of the Slighted Maid. The 
 scene lies at Verulam, or St. Albau's ; and the instrumental, vocal, and 
 recitative music, was composed by Locke. Two mascpies are inserted in 
 the body of the play, viz. one in the third act, called Apollo's Masque, the 
 scene of which is a grove, wherein are a laurel-tree and three poplar-trees ; 
 the other is called Diana's Masque, in which a hawthorn-tree is made the 
 grand scene of action. 
 
 THE STEPMOTHER'S TRAGEDY. A play, by Thomas Decker and 
 Henry Chettle. Acted in 1599. Not printed. 
 
 STEWTLEY. A play, as we find by Henslowe's Register, acted on Dec. 11th, 
 1596. It is probable that this entry meant either the Battle of Alcazar, 
 or the Life and Death of Captaine Thomas Stukeley. 
 
 STOICUS VAPULANS. A Latin comedy, acted at St. John's College, 
 Cambridge, by the students of that college. Svo. 1648. It is a kind of 
 allegorical play, in which the various passions are introduced. 
 
 STONEHENGE. A pastoral, by John Speed, acted before Dr. Richard 
 Baylie, the president and fellows of the College of St. John's, Oxford, in 
 their common refectory, at Avhat time, says Wood, the said Doctor was re- 
 turned from Salisbury, after he had been installed dean thereof, anno 1636. 
 Not printed. 
 
 THE STORM. Fletcher's play of the Sea Voyage, q. v. 
 
 THE STRANGE DISCOVERY. 4to. 1640. This tragi-comedy has the 
 letter J. G. Gent, prefixed to it as the initials of the author's name, and in 
 some copies of this very edition the name of J. Gough at length. The plot, 
 and great part of the language, is taken from the tenth book of Theagenes 
 and Chariclea, or Heliodorus's Ethiopic History, which is looked on as one 
 of the most ancient, and is unquestionably one of the finest romances extant. 
 It is to be had in English, the first five books being translated by a person 
 of quality, the remaining five by Tate, Svo. 1686. The scene, in the be- 
 ginning and "end of this play, lies in Ethiopia; in the other parts of it, in 
 England aud Greece. There is an edition of this play in 1717, by C. G., 
 perhaps Charles Gildon. 
 
 STRANGE NEWS OUT OF POLAND. A play, by Wm. Haughton, 
 assisted bv Pett. Acted in 1600. Not now known.
 
 238 SIR— SUN 
 
 STRYLIUS. A Latin comedy, by Nicholas llobiuson, 1553. 
 
 STURGFLATTERY. A play with this strange title is mentioned by Hens- 
 lovve, as having belonged to the stock of the Rose Theatre in March, 15 ( J8. 
 
 THE SUBJECTS' JOY FOR THE KING'S RESTORATION. A sacred 
 masque, by Dr. Anthony Sadler. 4to. 1660; gratefully made public for 
 His Sacred Majesty. The plot of this piece is founded on the 1st Kings, 
 ch. xi. 12, and 2 Chronicles, ch. xiii. And the scene, for the land, in 
 Canaan; for the place, in Bethel; and for the person, in Jeroboam. 
 
 THE SUCCESSFUL STRANGERS. A tragi-comedy by William Mount- 
 fort. Acted at Drury Lane. 4to. 1690; 1696. This play is much 
 superior to the Injur'd Lovers of the same author, and vva3 well received ; 
 yet he is by no means clear from the charge of plagiarism with regard to 
 his plot, however original his language and conduct of the piece may be ; 
 the design of the catastrophe being evidently borrowed from Scarron's 
 Novel, called the Rival Brothers. 
 
 THE SULLEN LOVERS ; or, the Impertinents. A comedy by Thomas 
 Shadwell. Acted with extraordinary success, at the Duke of York's Theatre. 
 4to. 1668. The author owns in his preface that he had received a hint 
 from the report of Moliere's Les Facheux, on which he founded the plot of 
 this comedy ; but at the same time declares, that he had pursued that hint 
 in the formation of great part of his own play before the French one ever 
 came into his hands. The place of the scene, in London ; the time sup- 
 posed in the month of March, in the year 1667-8. 
 
 THE SULTAN. " The History of the Soldan and the Duke of . . ., shewen 
 at Whitehall on Shrovesondaye at nighte, enacted by the Erie of Derby his 
 servauntes," Revels' Accounts, 1580. 
 
 SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. A comedy by Thomas 
 Nash. 4to. 1600. According to Mr. Collier, the internal evidence proves 
 that it was written, and probably performed, in 1592. Reprinted in 
 Dodsley's Collection. 
 
 THE SUNNE IN ARIES. A Noble Solemnity Performed through the 
 Cittie, at the sole cost and charges of the Honourable and ancient Fraternity 
 of Drapers, At the confirmation and establishment of their most Worthy 
 Brother the Right Honourable, Edward Barkham, in the high Office of his 
 Maiesties Lieutenant, the lord Maior of the famous Citie of London. Taking 
 beginning at his Lordships going, and perfecting it selfe after his returne 
 from receiuing the Oath of Maioralty at Westminster, on the morrow after 
 Simon [and] Jvdes day, being the 29. of October. 1621. By Tho. Mid- 
 dleton, Gent. At London : Printed by Ed. All-de, for H. G. 1621. 4to.
 
 SUN—STTA 239 
 
 Reprinted in Nichols's Progresses of King James, vol. iv. p. 724 ; and in 
 Dyce's Middleton. 
 
 THE SUN'S DARLING. A play, with this title, is mentioned by Hens- 
 lovve as having belonged to the stock of the Rose Theatre. 
 
 THE SUN'S DARLING. A masque, by John Ford and Thomas Decker. 
 Acted at Whitehall, and afterwards at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane, with 
 great applause. 4to. 1656; 1657. The plan of this masque alludes to 
 the four seasons of the year. The explanation of the design is to be seen 
 prefixed to the dramatis personre. It was not published till after the death 
 of the authors, but is thus alluded to in Herbert's Diary, under the date of 
 March 3rd, 1624, — "for the Cock-pit Company, the Sun's Darling in the 
 nature of a masque, by Deker and Forde." 
 
 SUPPOSED INCONSTANCY. A play, entered on the books of the 
 Stationers' Company, Nov. 29th, 1653, but not printed. 
 
 THE SUPPOSES. A comedy by George Gascoigne. 4to. 1566; 1587. 
 This play was acted at Gray's Inn. It is reprinted in Hawkins' Origin of 
 the English Drama, and is a translation from an Italian comedy by the 
 celebrated Ariosto. 
 
 THE SURPRISAL. A comedy by Sir Robert Howard. Fob 1665 ; 1692 ; 
 12mo. 1722. The scene, Sienna. 
 
 THE SURPRISE. A droll, formed out of the Maid in the Mill, and printed 
 in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 
 
 SUSANNA. Py Thomas Garter. 4to. 1578. The running title of this play 
 is, " The Commody of the moste vertuous and godlye Susanna." The 
 dramatis persona? are printed in the title-page, wherein it is also said that 
 eight persons may easily play it. It is written in metre, printed in black 
 letter, and not divided into acts. The playe of Susanna was entered, by 
 Thomas Colwell, in the Books of the Stationers' Company, 1568-69. 
 
 SUSANNA. A droll on the subject of Susanna and the Elders was acted 
 at Bartholomew Fair in the seventeenth century. It is mentioned in an 
 old song on that fair. 
 
 SUSANNA'S TEARS. Both Langbaine and Jacob mention a piece of this 
 name ; but as they neither of them pretend to have seen it, it may be the 
 last mentioned play but one ; either with an altered title in some later edi- 
 tion, or coming to their knowledge only by report, and with a wrong name. 
 
 THE SWAGGERING DAMSEL. A comedy by Robert Chamberlain. 4to. 
 1640. It is uucertain whether this play was ever acted ; but it is ushered 
 into the world by five recommendatory copies of verses ; one of which is
 
 240 SWE—TAM 
 
 written by Rawlins, and is in requital for one prefixed by our author to 
 that gentleman's tragedy of the Rebellion. 
 
 THE KING OF SWEDLAND. A play, included in the list of those said 
 to have been destroyed by Warburton's servant. This might, probably, 
 be Decker's Gustavus, King of Swethland. 
 
 SWETNAM THE WOMAN-HATER ARRAIGN'D BY WOMEN. A 
 
 comedy acted at the Red Bull, by the late Queen's Servants. Anon. 
 4to. 1620. This play is chiefly intended to lash a pamphlet against the 
 female sex, written by one Joseph Swetnam, entitled, the Arraignment of 
 lewd, idle, froward, and inconstant Woman, 4to. 1617. The plot, how- 
 ever, is built on an old Spanish book, called Historia da Aurelia y Isabella 
 Hija del Rey de Escotia, &c. The scene, Sicily. 
 
 THE SWITZER. A play, by Arthur Wilson, entered on the books of the 
 Stationers' Company, Sept. 4th, 1646 ; but not printed. 
 
 SYLLA'S GHOST. A dramatic satirical piece. 1639. This is mentioned 
 only in the British Theatre. 
 
 A TALE OF A TUB. A comedy by Ben Jonson. Fol. 1640. The 
 scene, Finsbury Hundred. This piece was licensed in May, 1633. The 
 part of Vitruvius Hoop was written in ridicule of Tnigo Jones. 
 
 TALPiF ; sive, Conjuratio Papistica. Tragico-comedia, recitata apud Hox- 
 ton Wells, prope Islington. 7 Feb. 1688-9. By Thomas Singleton, M.A. 
 The parts were thus filled : Guy Faux, Dr. Mead ; King James, by Ser- 
 jeant Pengelly ; and Knyvett, by Mr. James Mead, brother of the Doctor. 
 Not printed. There is a manuscript copy of it in the Bodleian Library, 
 MS. Rawl. Miscell. 288. 
 
 TAMAR CAM. Of this play the plot of the first part only is existing ; which 
 was in Steevens' library, and is printed in Malone's Shakespeare, ed. 
 Boswell, iii. 356. Both parts are mentioned as being acted by Henslowe's 
 Company, in 1592. The first part was in five acts, between each of which 
 was a chorus delivered by Dick Jnbie. 
 
 TAMBERLA1NE THE GREAT ; or, the Scythian Shepherd. A tragedy 
 in two parts, by Christopher Marlowe. 4to. 1590; 1593. The full titles 
 of these plays are as follows, viz. Of the first part : "Tamberlaine the 
 Great, who from a Scythian Shepherd, by his rare and wonderful Conquests, 
 became a most puissant and mighty Monarque, and (for his Tyranny and 
 Terrour in War) was termed the scourge of God, divided into two tragical 
 Discourses." 4to. 1590; 1605. Of the second part : "Of the Bloodie 
 Conquests of mighty Tamberlaine, with his impassionate Fury for the 
 Death of his Lady and Love, the fair Zenocrate ; his Fourme of Exhorta-
 
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 tation to his three Sons, and the Maner of his own Death," 1593. 4to. 
 1606. The scene of both these pieces lies in Persia. 
 
 TAMERLANE' THE GREAT. A tragedy by Charles Saunders. Acted at 
 the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1681. This was esteemed a good play, and 
 was highly commended by Banks and other contemporary writers. The 
 author confesses his design to be taken from a novel called Tamerlane and 
 A.steria. An epilogue, by Dryden, informs us that the author was a mere 
 boy, — " he's the first boy -poet of our age." 
 
 TAMERLANE THE BENEFICENT. A tragedy, dated 1692, a MS. 
 containing 150 folio pages, is preserved in the British Museum, MS. 
 Addit. 8888. Scene, the Emperor's palace at Constantinople. The name 
 of the author is not known. The MS. itself appears to be in the hand- 
 writing of William Popple, nephew of Andrew Marvell. 
 
 THE TAMER TAMED. The Woman's Prize was produced after the Res- 
 toration under this title, on June 24th, 1660. See the prologue and epi- 
 logue in Jordan's Nursery of Novelties. It is mentioned iu Herbert's 
 Diary, 1633, as the Tamer Tam'd, or the Taming of the Tamer. 
 
 THE TAMING OF A SHREW. A pleasant conceited Historie. As it 
 was sundry times acted by the Right Honorable the Earle of Pembrook 
 his Servants. 4to. 1594; 1596; 1607. This play has been reprinted by 
 Nichols from the edition of 1607 ; and from theed. of 1594 by the Shake- 
 speare Society, 8vo. 1844. Shakespeare has made very slight use of it 
 in the composition of his drama on the same subject. 
 
 THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. A comedy by William Shakespeare. 
 Acted at the Black Friars and the Globe. Fol. 1623. 4to. 1631. 
 
 TANCRED. A tragedy by Sir Henry Wotton, composed wheu the author 
 was a young man at Queen's College, but never printed. 
 
 TANCRED AND GISMUND. This tragedy was the work of five gentle- 
 men of the Inner Temple, and was performed there before Queen Elizabeth, 
 in the year 1563. It was afterwards "revived and polished" by Robert 
 Wilmot, the author of the fifth act, and printed in4to. 1592 ; in Dodsley's 
 Collection, 1780. It is founded on Boccaccio's Novels, Dec. 4. Nov. 1. 
 There are two early manuscript copies of this play in the British Museum, 
 MS. Hargrave 205 and MS. Lansd. 786. 
 
 THE TANNER OF DENMARKE. A play with this title is recorded in 
 Henslowe's Register, as having been acted on May 23rd, 1593. 
 
 TARTUFFE ; or, the French Puritan. A comedy by Matth. Medbourne. 
 
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 212 TJR—TEM 
 
 Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4 to. 1670; 1707. This play is a translation 
 of Moliere's Tartuffe. 
 
 TARUGO'S WILES ; or, the Coffee-house. A comedy by Sir Thomas St. 
 Serfe. Acted at the Duke of York's (James II.) Theatre. 4to. 1668. 
 Great part of the plot of this play is founded on a Spanish comedy called 
 No puede ser ; or, It cannot be ; from which, or from the piece before us, 
 Crown has borrowed his Sir Courtly Nice, at least as far as relates to Lord 
 Bellguard and Crack, which extremely resemble Don Patricio and Tarugo 
 in this. Sir Thomas has, in his third act, introduced a coffee-house scene, 
 which is admirably finished. The scene is laid in Madrid. The prologue 
 and epilogue are in prose ; the former is dramatic. 
 
 TASSO'S MELANCHOLY. A play, which was first acted, by Henslowe's 
 company, on August the 11th, 1594. See Henslowe's Diary, p. 39. 
 
 TECHNOGAMIA ; or, the Marriages of the Arts. A comedy by Barten 
 Holiday. 4to. 1618; 1630. This piece was acted by the students of 
 Christ Church, Oxford, before the University, at Shrove-tide ; and also be- 
 fore the Court at Woodstock. This drama was a favourite subject for the 
 wits of the time, and one of the persons who attacked it was called in de- 
 rision, Half-Holiday, as only possessing half its author's worth. One o f 
 the epigrams upon it was as follows, — 
 
 At the " Marriage of the Arts " before the King, 
 Lest those brave mates should want an offering, 
 The King himself did offer, — what, I pray ? 
 He offer'd twice or thrice — to go away. 
 
 THE TELL-TALE. A comedy, advertised by N. Brook, in a list of " Books 
 in the Presse, and ready for Printing," at the end of the New World 
 of English Words, 1658. It is also advertised at the end of W r it and 
 Drollery, 12mo. 1661, as then in the press. It, however, did not appear 
 in print ; but the manuscript of it is still preserved at Didwich College. 
 Scene, Florence. 
 
 TELOMO. " A Historie of Telomo, shewed before her Majestie at Rich- 
 mond on Shrovesundaie at night, enacted by the Earle of Leicester's ser- 
 vauntes," Revels' Accounts, 1583. 
 
 TEMPE RESTOR'D. A masque. 4to. 1631. This piece was presented 
 before Charles I. at Whitehall, on Shrove-Tuesday, 1631, by the Queen 
 and fourteen of her ladies. It is founded on the story of Circe, as related 
 in Ovid. The words were written by Aurelian Townshend ; but the sub- 
 ject and allegory of the masque, with the descriptions and apparatus of the 
 scenes, were invented by Inigo Jones. 
 
 THE TEMPEST. A comedy, by Shakespeare. Fol. 1623.
 
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 THE TEMPEST; or, the Enchanted Island. A comedy by J. Dryden. 
 
 Acted at Dorset Gardens. 4to. 1670 ; 1676 ; 1690. The whole ground- 
 work of this play is built on the fore-mentioned one of Shakespeare ; the 
 greater part of the language, and some entire scenes, being copied verbatim 
 from it. Dryden has, however, made a considerable alteration in the plot 
 and conduct of the play, and introduced three entire new characters, viz. a 
 sister to Miranda, who, like her, has never seen a man ; a youth, who has 
 never beheld a woman ; and a female monster, sister and companion to 
 Caliban ; besides which, he has somewhat enlarged on the characters of the 
 sailors, greatly extended the musical parts, and terminated the piece with a 
 kind of masque. Sir William Davenant had some share with Dryden in 
 this alteration. 
 
 THE TEMPLE MASQUE. A masque produced in the year 1618. 
 
 THE TEMPLE OF LOVE. A masque. Presented by the Queen's 
 Majesty and her ladies at Whitehall, on Shrove-Tuesday, 1634. By Inigo 
 Jones and William Davenant. 4to. 1634. 
 
 THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. A brefe comedy or enterlude con- 
 cernynge the temptacyon of our Lorde and Saver Jesus Christ by Satan in 
 the desart, compyled by Johan Bale, anno 1538, 4to. 
 
 THE TEMPTATION OF MAN. A mystery played by the guild of grocers 
 at Norwich, 1565, called in the manuscript, "the Storye of the Tempta- 
 cion of man in Paradyce, beyug therin placyd, and the expellynge of man 
 and woman from thence." Edited by Robert Fitch, 8vo. 1856. 
 
 THE TESTY LORD. A droll, formed out of the Maid's Tragedy, and 
 printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 1672. 
 
 TETHYS' FESTIVAL ; or, the Queen's Wake, celebrated at Whitehall, the 
 5th day of June, 1610; devised by Samuel Daniel. 4to. 1610. This 
 piece was written and performed on occasion of creating King James's 
 eldest son Henry Prince of Wales. It is omitted in all the editions of 
 Daniel's works ; but it is reprinted in Nichols' Progresses of James the 
 First, ii. 346. 
 
 THAT WILL BE SHALL BE. A play, first acted in December, 1596. 
 
 THE THEATRE OF APOLLO. The Theater of Apollo, where Fires of 
 Joy are raised, sacred to the ever happie and aeternall memory of our 
 Soveraigne the great Apollo, and his most Roiall Ofspring, before prepared 
 to be offered to the Sacred Majesty of our deceased Sovereigne King James, 
 and now presented to the roiall handes of our gracious Lord, King Charles, 
 heire of the kingdoms, vertues, and glories of his Father. A masque pre- 
 served in the British Museum, MS. Bibl. Reg. 18 A. Ixx. The scene, 
 Parnassus.
 
 244 THE— THO 
 
 THEAGINES AND CHARICLEA. A play acted at Court in 1574. 
 
 THEBAIS. A tragedy by Thomas Newton. 4 to. 1581. This is a transla- 
 tion from one of the tragedies published as Seneca's ; although from some 
 inconsistencies between the catastrophe of this and that of (Edipus, it is 
 scarcely reasonable to imagine them both the work of the same author. 
 Another translation of this play was made by Thomas Brown, master of 
 Westminster School, about 1580. 
 
 THEODOSIUS ; or, the Force of Love. A tragedy by Nathaniel Lee. Acted 
 at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1680; 1692. This play met with great 
 success. The groundwork of it is built on the romance of Pharamond, in 
 which the history of Varanes is to be seen, Part 3. Book 3. ; of Marcian, 
 in Part 7. Book 1. ; and of Theodosius, in Part 7. Book 3. The scene 
 lies in Constantinople. It was assisted in the representation by several 
 entertainments of singing in the solemnity of church music, composed by 
 Purcell, being the first he ever furnished for the stage. 
 
 THEOMACHIA. A Latin comedy by Peter Heylin, 1618. 
 
 THERSITES. An interlude, written in 1537, and printed by Tysdale some 
 time between 1550 and 1563. — A new Enterlude called Thersytes. Thys 
 enterlude folowynge dothe declare howe that the greatest boesters are not 
 the greatest doers. Reprinted by the Boxburghe Club, ed. Haslewood, 
 4to. 1820. 
 
 THIBALDUS, sive, VindictaB Ingenium. A Latin tragedy. 12mo. Oxford, 
 1640. The scene is laid in Iberia, or Arragon. 
 
 THIERRY AND THEODORET. A tragedy by Beaumont and Eletcher. 
 Acted at the Black Friers. 4to. 1621; 1648; 1649, this last edition 
 being printed in double columns. In the folio edition of these authors' 
 works, in 1679, the editoi", either designedly, or from some carelessness of 
 the compositor, has omitted a great part of the last act, which contains the 
 King's behaviour during the operation of the poison, administered to him 
 by his mother. 
 
 THOMAS MERRY. A tragedy by William Haughton, written in conjunction 
 with John Day. Acted in 1599. We think it very probable that this is 
 another name for the Two Lamentable Tragedies. 
 
 THOMAS STROWDE. Parts II. and III. (we do not find Part I. mentioned), 
 by William Haughton and John Day. Acted in 1601. Probably the same 
 as the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green. 
 
 THOMASO ; or, the Wanderer. A comedy, in two parts, by Thomas Killi- 
 grew. Folio, 1664. The author of this play has borrowed several of his 
 decorations from others, particularly a song on jealousy from Carew, and
 
 TIIO—TIIR 245 
 
 another song from Fletcher's play of the Captain. He has, besides, taken 
 not only the design of his character of Lopus, but even many of the very 
 words, from that of Jonson's Volpone. 
 
 THORNEI AUBEY; or, the London Maid. A tragedy by T. W. 12mo. 
 1662. Who the author of this piece was we know not; but it is printed 
 with the Marriage Broker, and Grim the Collier of Croydon, under the 
 title of, " Gratise Theatrales ; or, A Choice Ternary of English Plays, com- 
 posed upon especial Occasions, by several ingenious Persons." The scene 
 of the piece we are now speaking of, is laid in London; and the play 
 itself seems a weak imitation of Macbeth. 
 
 THE THRACIAN WONDER. A comical History, by John Webster and 
 William Rowley. 4to. 1661. This play was acted with great applause. 
 It is one of those published by Kirkman, after the author's death. Mr. 
 Pyce considers that this play exhibits no trace of Webster's pen, but he 
 nevertheless included it in his edition of the works of that dramatist, 1830. 
 It is also inserted in Webster's Works, ed. Hazlitt, 1857, iv. 119. 
 
 THE THREE BROTHERS. A tragedy by Wentworth Smith. Acted by 
 the Lord Admiral's servants, 1602. Not printed. 
 
 THE THREE DOROTHIES; or, Jodelet Box'd. A comedy translated 
 from Scarron, in 1657, by Sir William Lower, Knt. Never printed. The 
 original MS. of it was formerly in the Skeffington collection. 
 
 THE THREE LADIES OF LONDON, a right excellent and famous Comedy, 
 wherein is notablie declared and set forth how, by meanes of Lucar, Love 
 and Conscience is so corrupted, that the one is married to Dissimulation, 
 the other fraught with all Abhomination. A perfect Patterne for all Estates 
 to looke into, and a Worke right worthie to be marked. Written by R. W. 
 As it hath been publiquely plaied. At London. Printed by Robert Warde, 
 dwelling neere Holburne Conduit, at the Signe of the Talbot, 4to. 1584. 
 Another edition, with many variations, appeared in 4to. 1592. Reprinted 
 by the Roxburghe Club, ed. Collier, 4to. 1581. 
 
 THE THREE LAWS OF NATURE. A Comedye concernynge Thre Lawes 
 of Nature, Moses, and Christ, corrupted by the Sodomytes, Pharisees, and 
 Papystes, most wycked. Compyled by Johan Bale, anno 1538, and lately 
 inprented per Nicolaum Bambnrgensem. 4to. Basle, 1558, with a portrait 
 of the author in wood. Reprinted by Thomas Colwell. 4to. 1562. This 
 is a satirical play against popery. 
 
 THE THREE LORDES AND THREE LADIES OF LONDON, with 
 the great Joy and Pompe solempnized at their Manages. Commically 
 interlaced with much honest Mirth for Pleasure and Recreation, amonsr 
 many morall Observations and other important Matters of due Regard.
 
 246 . THR—TII) 
 
 By R. W. 4to. 1590. Entered by Richard Jones on the Stationers' 
 Registers the 31st July, 1590: — " Entred for his copie under thandes of 
 Doctor Wood and the wardens, a comodic of the pleasant and statelie 
 morrall of the Three Lordes of London." Reprinted by the Roxburghe 
 Club, ed. Collier, 4to. 1851. 
 
 THE THREE MERRY BOYS. A droll, formed out of the Bloody Brother 
 of Beaumont and Fletcher, and printed in the Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 
 1672. 
 
 THREE PLAYS IN ONE. " An invention of Three Playes in One, prepared 
 to have ben shewed before her Highnes on Shrovesondaie at night, and to 
 have ben enacted by her Majesties servauntes at Somersett place," Revels' 
 Accounts, 1585. 
 
 THE THREE SISTERS OF MANTUA. " An inventyon or playe of the 
 Three Systers of Mantua, shewen at Richmond on St. Stephens' daie at 
 night, enacted by thearle of Warwick his servauntes," Revels' Accounts, 
 1578. 
 
 THE THREE VICES OVERCOME TRUTH AND CHASTITY. One 
 
 of the Interludes written by Sir David Lindsay, printed at Edinburgh, 4to. 
 1602. 
 
 THYESTES. A tragedy by Jasper Hey wood. 12mo. 1561; 4to. 1581. 
 This is a translation from the Thyestes of Seneca. It was not intended for 
 the stage ; yet the author has taken some liberty with his original, having 
 added a whole scene at the end of the fifth act, in which Thyestes bewails 
 his own misery, and imprecates the vengeance of Heaven on Atreus. The 
 scene, Argos. 
 
 THYESTES. A tragedy by John Wright. 12mo. 1674. This is another 
 translation of the same play, writ (says the translator) many years since, 
 though corrected, and rendered into somewhat a more fashionable garb 
 than its first dress, at the intervals of a more profitable study the last 
 long vacation, before it was published. 
 
 THYESTES. A tragedy by John Crown. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 
 1681. It is the only piece on this story that has made its appearance on 
 the English stage, where it met with good success. The foundation of it 
 is laid on Seneca's tragedy, and Crown has in some measure imitated that 
 author in the superstructure 
 
 THYRSANDER. A play by John Evelyn, 1663. In manuscript. 
 
 THYRSIS. A pastoral, by John Oldraixon, printed in the Novelty, or Every 
 Act a Play, 4to. 1697. 
 
 TIDE TARRIETH FOR NO MAN. A most pleasaunte and niery Commody,
 
 TIM—TIS 247 
 
 ryght pythic and full of Delight. By George Wapul. 4to. 1576. This 
 piece is entered by Hugh Jackson, Oct. 22nd, 1576, on the books of the 
 Stationers' Company. 
 
 TIME'S TRIUMPH. A play acted at the Rose Theatre in 1597. 
 
 TIME "VINDICATED TO HIMSELF AND TO HIS HONOURS. A 
 Masque, by Ben Jonson. Presented at Court on Twelfth Night, 1623 ; 
 " the scene made by Mr. Jnigo Jones, which was three times changed during 
 the tyme of the masque." Pol. 1641. 
 
 TIMOCLEA. In the Revels' Accounts, 1573-4, is a notice of, " woorkes 
 doone and attendaunce geven upon the new making, translating, fytting, 
 furnishing, garnishing, setting foorth, and taking in agayne of sundry 
 kindes of apparell, propertyes, and necessaries incident from one play, Tim- 
 oclia at the Sege of Thebes by Alexander, showen at Hampton Coorte 
 before her Majestie by Mr. Munkester's children." 
 
 TIMOLEON ; or, the Revolution. A tragi-comedy. 4to. 1697. The story 
 of the tragic part is from Cornelius Nepos, Plutarch's Life of Timoleon, 
 &c. The scene, Syracuse. 
 
 TIMON. A play in manuscript, written about the year 1600, intended for 
 the amusement of an academic audience. The subject is the same as that 
 of Shakespeare's play, but there are great doubts whether it were ever 
 seen by the great dramatist. Printed for the Shakespeare Society, edited 
 by A. Dyce, 1 842. 
 
 TIMON OP ATHENS. A tragedy by Shakespeare. Pol. 1623. 
 
 TIMON OF ATHENS, THE MANHATER, made into a play, as the 
 alterer modestly phrases it, by Thomas Shadwell. Acted at the Duke's 
 Theatre. 4to. 1678; 1688. This tragedy is borrowed from the fore- 
 going one. 
 
 THE TINKER OF TOTNESS. A play, acted, according to Henslowe's 
 list, July 18th 1596. Not now known. 
 
 'T IS BETTER THAN IT WAS. A comedy by George Digby, Earl of 
 Bristol. This play is mentioned by Downes, p. 26, as being "made out 
 of Spanish," and acted at the Duke's Theatre between 1662 and 1665. 
 
 'T IS GOOD SLEEPING IN A WHOLE SKIN. A comedy by W. 
 Wager. This was among those destroyed by Warburton's servant. 
 
 'T IS NO DECEIT TO DECEIVE THE DECEIVER. A play by Henry 
 Chettle. Acted in 1598. Not printed. 
 
 'TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE. A tragedy by John Porde. Acted at 
 the Phoenix, Drury Lane. 4to. 1633 ; and in Dodsley's Collection.
 
 248 TIT— TOM 
 
 TITERUS AND GALATEA. A comedy entered by Gab. Cawood on the 
 books of the Stationers' Company, April 1st 1585 ; but, we believe, not 
 printed. 
 
 TITUS AND ANDRONICUS. Acted by the Earl of Sussex's men, says 
 Henslowc, Jan. 23rd, 1593-4. This may possibly have been the original 
 of Titus Andronicus, since ascribed to Shakespeare, which may only have 
 received improvements at his hands. 
 
 TITUS ANDRONICUS. A tragedy by William Shakespeare. Acted by 
 the servants of the Earls of Pembroke, Derby, and Essex. 4to. 1594; 
 1600; 1611. This play has by some been denied to be Shakespeare's; 
 and Ravenscroft, in the epistle to his alteration of it, positively asserts 
 that it was not originally Shakespeare's, but brought by a private author 
 to be acted, and that he only gave some master-touches to one or two of 
 the principal parts or characters. 
 
 TITUS ANDRONICUS. An alteration of Shakespeare's play, published 
 under the following title, — Titus Andronicus, or the Rape of Lavinia, 
 acted at the Theatre Royall, a tragedy alter'd from Mr. Shakespeare's 
 Works by Mr. Edw. Ravenscroft, 1686. Dedicated to Lord Arundel of 
 Wardour. Licensed in December, 1686. 
 
 TITUS AND BERENICE. A tragedy by Thomas Otway. 4to. 1677. 
 This is a translation, with some few alterations, from a tragedy of the 
 same name by M. Racine. Scene, Rome. 
 
 TITUS AND GISIPPUS. " The Historye of Titus and Gisippus, showen 
 at Whitehall on Shrovetuysdaie at night, enacted by the Children of 
 Pawles," Revels' Accounts, 1576. There was an old play on this subject 
 by Ralph Radcliffe. 
 
 TITUS AND VESPASIAN. A play, acted, according to Henslowe's 
 Register, April 11th, 1591. Not now known. 
 
 TOBIAS. A play by Henry Chettle, written in 1602. 
 
 TOBIT. An old" English mystery, acted at Lincoln in July, 1563. See some 
 account of the properties used in it, in Malone's Shakespeare, iii. 26. 
 
 TOM BEDLAM THE TINKEE. A play acted before James the First at 
 Theobalds in 1617-8. Sir Thomas Dutton and others performed in it. 
 
 TOM DOUGH. A play, in two parts, by John Day. The second part is 
 mentioned by Henslowe under the date of 1601. 
 
 TOM ESSENCE ; or, the Modish Wife. A comedy acted at the Duke's 
 Theatre. 4to. 1677. Thomas Rawlins is said to be the author of this 
 play, which is founded on two French comedies, viz. the Cocu Imaginaire 
 of Moliere, and the D. C'cesar <T Alvaros of Thomas Corneille ; the part of
 
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 LoveaU's intrigue with Luce being borrowed from the latter; and the 
 whole affair of Tom Essence and his wife from the former, or from Sir \\ . 
 Davenant's fifth act of the Playhouse to be Let, which is a translation from 
 it. It succeeded very well on the stage. 
 
 TOM HOYDEN O' TAUNTON DEAN. A comedy or farce by Richard 
 Erome. It is mentioned, in company with the Antipodes, in the Epilogue 
 to the Court Beggar, 1653. 
 
 TOM TYLERE AND HIS WYFE. A passing merrie Interlude. Anon. 
 4to. 1598. This play has been attributed, but, we believe, without foun- 
 dation, to William Wager. It was reprinted in the black letter in 4to. 
 1661, and, in the title-page of that edition, is said to have been "printed 
 and acted about a hundred years ago." It is in a kind of burlesque verse, 
 with a chime in the middle of each line. 
 
 TOMUMBEIUS. Tomumbeius sive Sultanii in iEgypto imperii eversio, 
 tragsedia nova, auctore Georgio Salterno Bristolensi. A manuscript of the 
 seventeenth century, noticed in Bernard's catalogue, p. 100, as then 
 belonging to Dr. Nathaniel Johnson. It is now in the Bodleian Library, 
 MS. Rawl. Poet. 75. 
 
 TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. A play, by Henry Chettle, "called to good 
 to be trewe, or northern man," 1601. See Henslowe's Diary, page 204. 
 Chettle was assisted in this play by Hathway and Smith. 
 
 TOOLY. " Toolie showen at Hampton Court on St. John's daie at night, 
 enacted by the Lord Howarde's servauntes," Revels' Accounts, 1576. 
 
 THE TOOTH-DRAWER. A comedy advertised at the end of Wit and 
 Drollery, 1661, as then in the press; but, we believe, never printed. It 
 is also mentioned in a list of " books in the presse, and ready for print- 
 ing," at the end of the New World of English Words, 1658. 
 
 TOTTENHAM COURT. A comedy by Thomas Nabbes. 4to. 1638; 1639; 
 12mo. 1718. Scene, Tottenham Court and the fields about it. Acted, 
 1633, in Salisbury Court. 
 
 THE TOWN FOP ; or, Sir Timothy Tawdrey. A comedy by Mrs. Aphra 
 Behn. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1677. Great part of this play, 
 not only with respect to plot but language also, is borrowed from George 
 Wilkins's comedy called the Miseries of Enforced Marriage. Scene, 
 Covent Garden. 
 
 THE TOWN SHIFTS ; or, Suburb Justice. A comedy by Edward Revet. 
 Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1671. 
 
 A TOY TO PLEASE CHASTE LADIES. A play acted in 1595. 
 
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 250 TRA—TRE 
 
 THE TRAGICAL ACTORS; or, the Martyrdome of the Late King 
 Charles ; wherein Oliver's late falsehood, with the rest of his gang, are 
 described in their several actions and stations. Printed for Sir Arthur, 
 4to. 1660. 
 
 THE TRAITOR, A tragedy by James Shirley. 4to. 1635. The scene, 
 London. This play was originally written by one Rivers, a Jesuit, but 
 is greatly altered by its present author, and highly recommended in a 
 copy of verses, by W. Atkins, of Gray's Inn. Dedicated to the Earl of 
 Newcastle. It was licensed on May 4th, 1631. 
 
 THE TRAITOR. A tragedy with alterations, amendments, and additions, as 
 it is now acted at the Theatre Royal by their Majesties Servants, written by 
 Mr. Rivers. 4to. Lond. 1692. This is merely a version of the tragedy 
 last mentioned. Dedicated to the Earl of Clancarty. It was again repub- 
 lished in Svo. 1718, as acted at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. 
 
 THE TRAITOR TO HIMSELF; or, Man's Heart his greatest Enemy. A 
 Moral Interlude, in heroick verse, by William Johns. 4to. Oxford, 1678. 
 This piece, written in rhyme, was performed by the boys of the public 
 school at Evesham, at a breaking-up, and published so as to render it 
 useful on any similar occasion. The prologue is in parts, spoken by 
 four boys. 
 
 TRAPPOLIN SUPPOSED A PRINCE. A tragi-comedy by Sir Aston 
 Cockain. 12mo. 1658. The author of this piece borrowed his design 
 from an Italian tragi-comedy called Trappolino credvto Principe, which he 
 saw twice acted during his residence at Venice ; the original plot of which, 
 as far as it relates to Trappolin in his judicial character, is borrowed from 
 a story in the Contes d'Ouville. 
 
 THE TRAVELS OF THREE ENGLISH BROTHERS, Sir Thomas, Sir 
 Anthony, and Mr. Robert Shirley. An Historical Play, by John Day. 4to. 
 1607. Dedicated to Honour's Favourites, &c. Our author was assisted 
 in this play by W. Rowley and George Wilkins. The real history of these 
 three famous brethren, on which the plot of this piece is founded, may be 
 seen in Fuller's Account of the Worthies of Sussex, and in many of the 
 English chronicles. The entry of this play, in the books of the Stationers' 
 Company, June 29th, 1607, mentions that it was played at the Curtain 
 Theatre. 
 
 THE TREACHERIES OF THE PAPYSTS. A drama by Bishop Bale. 
 
 THE TREACHEROUS BROTHERS. A tragedy, by George Powell. 
 Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1690 ; 1699. The foundation of this 
 tragedy is taken from a romance, called the Wall Flower, written by Dr. 
 Baily ; as will appear by comparing the sleeping potion, given to Istocles
 
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 and Semantha, in this play, with that administered to Honoria, Amarissa, 
 and Hortensia, in the romance. The scene lies in Cyprus. 
 
 THE TRIAL OF CHIVALRY. With the Life and Death of Cavaliero 
 
 Dicke Bowyer. As it hath bin lately acted by the Right Honourable the 
 Eail of Darby his Servants. 4to. 1GU5. Winstanley and Philips have 
 ascribed this piece to William Wager; but Langbaine imagines it not to 
 be written by that author. 
 
 THE TRIAL OF TREASURE. A new and mery Enterlude, newly set 
 forth, Imprinted by Thomas Purfoote, 1567. Reprinted by the Percy 
 Society, 8vo. 1850. 
 
 TRICK FOR TRICK ; or, the Debauch'd Hypocrite. A comedy by Thomas 
 Durfey. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1678. It was licensed on 
 April 30th, in that year. This is very little more than a revival of Beau- 
 mont and Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas, though Durfey has scarcely had 
 candour enough to acknowledge the theft, the only allusion to the circum- 
 stance being in the epilogue, in which he says, — 
 
 Pie bids me say, the less to show his guilt, 
 On the foundation Fletcher laid, he built. 
 
 A TRICK TO CATCH THE OLD ONE. A comedy, by Thomas Middle- 
 ton. Acted both at Paul's and Black Friars. 4to. 1608 ; 1616 It was 
 entered on the books of the Stationers' Company on October 7th, 1607. 
 
 A TRICK TO CHEAT THE DEVIL. This play occurs in a list of 
 dramas which belonged to the Cock-pit company in the year 1639. It is 
 most likely Davenport's New Trick to Cheat the Devil, 1639. 
 
 THE TRIPLICITY OF CUCKOLDS. A play, by Thomas Decker. Acted 
 in 1598. Not printed. This is evidently the piece recorded by Henslowe, 
 in his clumsy orthography, as Treangell Cockoiclls, among the plays belong- 
 ing to the stock of the Rose Theatre in March, 1598. 
 
 TRISTAM DE LYONS. A play written iu the year 1599. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHANT WIDOW; or, the Medley of Humours. A comedy 
 by William, Duke of Newcastle. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1677. 
 Shadwell had so high an opinion of this play, that he has transcribed great 
 part of it into his Bury Fair. 
 
 THE TRIUMPH OF BEAUTY. A masque, by James Shirley. 8vo. 
 164-6. This piece was written purposely for the private recreation of some 
 young gentlemen, who themselves personated it. Part of it seems bor- 
 rowed from Lucian's Dialogues, and part from Shakespeare's Midsummer 
 Night's Dream. The subject of it is the well known story of the Judg- 
 ment of Paris. 
 
 THE TRIUMPH OF CUPID. A masque by Sir George Howard.
 
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 THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH. This is one of Beaumont and Fletcher's 
 Four Plays in One. Langbaine, ed. 1691, p. 209, says that it is founded 
 on a novel in the Fortunate, Deeeiv'd, and Unfortunate Lovers, iii. 3. 
 
 THE TRIUMPH OF HEALTH AND PROSPERITY, at the Inaugura- 
 tion of the most worthy Brother, the Right Hon. Cuthbert Hasket, Draper. 
 Composed by Thomas Middleton, Draper. 4to. 1626. 
 
 THE TRIUMPH OF HONOUR. This is one of Beaumont and Fletcher's 
 Four Plays in One. It is founded on Boccaccio's Novels, x. 5. 
 
 THE TRIUMPH OF LONDON: for the Entertainment of Sir James 
 Edwards, Mayor : by the Grocers' Company. By Thomas Jordan. 4to. 
 1678. 
 
 THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE. This is one of Beaumont and Fletcher's 
 Four Plays in One. It is founded on one of Boccaccio's Novels, v. 7. 
 
 THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE AND BEAUTY. An interlude " callyd the 
 Tryumpe of Love and Bewte, and yt was wryten and presentyd by Mayster 
 Cornyshe andoothers of the Chappell of our soverayne lorde the Kyng, and 
 the chyldren of the sayd Chapell," 1515. See further in Collier's Annals 
 of the Stage, i. 64. 
 
 THE TRIUMPH OF MARS AND VENUS. A dramatic performance, 
 enacted at Christmas, 1552-3. See Collier's Annals of the Stage, i. 154. 
 
 THE TRIUMPH OF PEACE. A masque, by James Shirley. 4to. 1633. 
 This masque was presented before the King and Queen at the Banqueting- 
 House at Whitehall, by the Gentlemen of the Four Inns of Court, on the 
 3d of Feb. 1633. The machinery and decorations were under the conduct 
 of Inigo Jones, and the music composed by W. Lawes and Simon Ives. 
 The masquers went in a cavalcade from Ely-House to Whitehall; and the 
 author tells us, that for the variety of the shows, and the richness of the 
 habits, this masque was the most magnificent of any that had been brought 
 to court in his time. The names of every one of the masquers, with the 
 house or inn of court to which they belonged, and an epigram addressed 
 to each, may be seen in a little book, written by Francis Lenton, called, 
 the Inns of Court Anagrammatist ; or, the Masquers masqued in Ana- 
 grammas. 4to. 1 634. In the library of the Music School at Oxford are 
 two large volumes in the hand-writing of W. Lawes, one of which contains 
 some fragments of the music which he wrote for this masque. 
 
 THE TRIUMPH OF TIME. A masque. It is one of the four pieces 
 forming Beaumont and Fletcher's Four Plays or Moral Representations in 
 One. 
 
 TRIUMPHS OP FAME AND HONOUR: at the Inauguration of Robert
 
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 Parkhurst, Clothworker. Compiled by John Taylor, the Water Poet. 4to. 
 1634. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHS OF HONOR AND INDUSTRY. A Solemnity per- 
 formed through the City, at Confirmation and establishment of the Right 
 Honorable, George Bowles, in the Office of his Majesties Lieuetenant, the 
 Lord Mayor of the famous Citty of London. Taking beginning at his 
 Lordships going, and proceeding after his Retume from receiving the Oath 
 of Maioralty at Westminster, on the morrow next after Simon and Judes 
 day, October 29. 1617. London, Printed by Nicholas Okes. 1617. 4to. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHS OF INTEGRITY. A Noble Solemnity, performed 
 through the City, at the sole Cost and Charges of the Honorable Fraternity 
 of Drapers, at the Confirmation and Establishment of their most worthy 
 Brother, the Bight Honorable Martin Lumley, in the high Office of his 
 Majesties Lieutenant, Lord Maior and Chancellor of the famous City of 
 London. Taking beginning at his Lordships going, and perfecting it selfe 
 after His Retume from receiving the Oath of Maioralty at Westminster, on 
 the Morrow after Simon and Judes Day, being the 29. of October. 1623. 
 By Tho. Middleton, Gent. London, Printed by Nicholas Okes, dwelling 
 in Foster-Lane. 1623. 4to. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHS OF HONOR AND VIRTUE. A noble Solemnity 
 performed through the City at the sole Cost and Charges of the Honorable 
 Fraternity of Grocers, at the Confirmation and Establishment of their most 
 worthy Brother, the Right Honorable Peter Proby, as Lord Mayor, 4to. 
 1622. Written by Thomas Middleton. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHS OF LONDON. Performed on Friday, October 29, 1675, 
 for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable and truly noble Pattern of 
 Prudence and Loyalty, Sir Joseph Sheldon, Knt., Lord Mayor of the City 
 of London. Containing a true Description of the several Pageants, with 
 the Speeches spoken on each Pageant. Together with the several Songs 
 sung at this Solemnity. All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of 
 the Worshipful Company of Drapers. Designed and composed by T. Jordan. 
 4to. 1675. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHS OF LONDON. Performed on Monday, October 29, 
 1683, for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable and truly noble 
 Pattern of Prudence and Loyalty, Sir Henry Tulse, Knight, Lord Mayor of 
 the City of London. Containing a Description of the whole Solemnity, 
 with two new Songs, set to Music. 4to. 1683. There is no name to this 
 piece; but from the verbal similarity it bears to the title of that of 1675, 
 we conclude it to have been the work of Thomas Jordan. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHS OF LONDON, performed on Thursday, Oct. 29, 1691,
 
 254 TRI—TRI 
 
 for the Entertainment of the Eight Honourable Sir Thomas Stamp, Knt., 
 Lord Mayor of the City of London ; containing a true Description of the 
 several Pageants, with the Speeches spoken in each Pageant. All set forth 
 at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. 
 By Elkauah Settle. London; 4 to. 1691. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHS OF LONDON. Performed on Saturday, Octob. 29, 
 1692, for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir John Fleet, Kt., 
 Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a true Description of the 
 several Pageants ; with the Speeches spoken on each Pageant. All set 
 forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of 
 Grocers. Together with an exact Relation of the most splendid Entertain- 
 ments, prepared for the Reception of their Most Sacred Majesties. By 
 Elkanah Settle. 4to. 1692. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHS OF LONDON. Performed on Octob. 30th, 1693, for 
 the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir William Ashurst, Knight, 
 Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a true Description of the 
 several Pageants ; with the Speeches spoken on each Pageant. All set 
 forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of 
 Merchant Taylors. Together with the Festival Songs for his Lordship and 
 the Companies Diversion. By Elkanah Settle. 4to. 1693. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHS OF LONDON. By Elk. Settle. 4to. 1694. Per- 
 formed Oct. 29, 1694, Sir Thomas Lane being Lord Mayor, at the Charge 
 of the Company of Cloth- Workers. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHS OF LONDON. Performed on Tuesday, Octob. 29, 
 1695, for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir John Houblon, 
 Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a true Description of 
 the several Pageants ; with the Speeches spoken on each Pageant. All 
 prepared at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of 
 Grocers. To which is added, A new Song upon his Majesty's Return. By 
 Elkanah Settle. 4to. 1695. 
 
 TRIUxMPHS, &c. for Sir Humphry Edwin, in 1698. By Elkanah Settle. 
 Fol. 1698. 
 
 TRIUMPHS OF LONDON, for the Inauguration of Sir Richard Levett, 
 Lord Mayor of the City of London, Oct. 30, 1699. By Elkanah Settle. 
 
 Fol. 1699. 
 
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 THE TRIUMPHS OF LONDON, for the Inauguration of Sir T. Abney, 
 Knt., at the Cost of the Fishmongers, Oct. 29, 1700. Published by 
 Authority. Folio, 1700. Written by Elkanah Settle. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE AND ANTIQUITY. An honourable
 
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 Solemnity, performed through the Citie at the Confirmation and Establish- 
 ment of the Rt. Hon. Sir William Cockayn, Knt., in the Office of his 
 Majesties Lieutenant the Lord Mayor of the Citie of London, Oct. 29, 
 1619, &c. By Thomas Middleton, Gent. 4lo. 1619. This triumph, or 
 pageant, was at the expense of the Worshipful Company of Skinners. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE AND FORTUNE. The Rare Triumphes 
 of Love and Fortune, plaide before the Queenes most excellent Majestie ; 
 wherein are manye fine Conceites with great Delight. At London, Printed 
 by E. A. for Edward White, and are to be solde at the Little North Doore 
 of S. Paules Church, at the Signe of the Gunne. 1589. Reprinted by the 
 Roxburghe Club, 4to. 1851. 
 
 TRIUMPHS OF OLD DRAPERY; or, the Rich Clothing of England. 
 At the Charge of the Right Worshipfull the Company of Drapers, at the 
 Installation of Thomas Hayes. By A. Munday. 4to. 1614. 
 
 THE TRYUMPHS OF PEACE, that celebrated the Solemnity of the Right 
 Honourable Sir Francis Jones, Knight, at his Inauguration into the Maio- 
 raltie of London, on Monday, being the 30. of October, 1620. At the par- 
 ticular Cost and Charge of the right worshipfull and ancient Society of the 
 Haberdashers. With Explication of the severall Shewes and Devices, by 
 John Squire. 4 to. 1620. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHS OF REUNITED BRITANNIA. Performed at the 
 Cost and Charges of the Right Worshipful Company of the Merchant 
 Taylors, in Honor of Sir Leonard Holliday, Knt., to solemnise his Entrance 
 as Lorde Mayor of the Citty of London, on Tuesday the 29 of October, 
 1 605 . Devised and written by A. Munday, Cittizen and Draper of London. 
 4to. 1605. Of great rarity. There is a copy in the Bodleian Library. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHS OF THE PRINCE D'AMOUR. A mascpie, by Sir 
 W. Davenant. 4to. 1635. This masque was written in three days, at the 
 request of the members of the Inner Temple, by whom it was presented for 
 the entertainment of the Prince Elector Palatine, at his Highness's palace 
 in the Middle Temple, on the 24th of February, 1635. The music of the 
 songs and symphonies was set by Henry and William Lawes. The 
 masquers' names are annexed at the end of the piece. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHS OF TRUTH. A Solemnity unparalleled for Cost, Art, 
 and Magnificence, at the Confirmation and Establishment of that worthy 
 and true nobly-minded Gentleman, Sir Thomas Middleton, Knight, in the 
 honourable Office of his Majestie's Lieuetenant the Lord Maior of the 
 thrice famous Citty of London. Taking Beginning at his Lordship's goin°-, 
 and proceeding after his Returne from receiving the Oath of Maioralty at 
 Westminster, on the Morrow next after Simon and Jude's Day, October 29,
 
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 1613. All the Showes, Pageants, Chariots, Morning, Noone, and Night- 
 Triumphes, directed, written, and redeemed into Forme, from the Ignorance 
 of some former Times, and their common Writer. By Thomas Middleton. 
 Shewing also his Lordship's Entertainment upon Michaelmas Day last, 
 being the Day of his Election, at that most famous and admired Worke of 
 the Running Streame, from Amwell Head into the Cesterne at Islington; 
 being the sole Cost, Industry, and Invention, of the worthy Mr. Hugh 
 Middleton, of London, Goldsmith. 4to. 1613. There are two editions of 
 this pageant in 1613, one wanting the Entertainment at the New River 
 Head. Reprinted in Middleton's Works, ed. Dyce. 
 
 THE TRIUMPHS OF VIRTUE. A tragi-comedy, acted at the Theatre 
 Royal. 4to. 1697. The scene of this play is laid at Naples, and the comic 
 parts of it seem partly borrowed from Fletcher's Wit without Money. 
 
 TROADES. 12mo. 1660. This tragedy is published with Poems upon 
 Several Occasions, and has the letters S. P., which bibliographers explain to 
 be Samuel Pordage. It is a translation from Seneca, with a comment 
 annexed. The scene, Troy. 
 
 TROADES ; or, the Royal Captives. A tragedy by Sir Edward Sherburne. 
 8vo. 1679. This is a critical translation, with remarks, of the same piece 
 with the foregoing. 
 
 TROAS. A tragedy by Jasper Heywood. 12mo. 1559; 4to. 1581. This 
 is a translation from Seneca; in which, however, the translator has taken 
 considerable liberties with his author. For instance, he has added threescore 
 lines of his own to the chorus of the first act ; a whole scene in the begin- 
 ning of the second, in which he introduces the ghost of Achilles rising from 
 hell to require the sacrifice of Polyxena; and three stanzas to the chorus 
 of the said act. Besides which, he has substituted a chorus of his own, in 
 the room of that to the third act. 
 
 TROAS. A tragedy translated from Seneca, by J. T. 4to. 1686. None of 
 these translations were intended for the stage. The present one was made 
 by a person of the name of Talbot. 
 
 TROIA NOVA TRIUMPHANS. A pageant, at the receiving Sir John 
 Swinnerton, Knight, into the City of London. By Thomas Decker. 4to. 
 1612. 
 
 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA. A tragedy by W. Shakespeare. 4to. 1609. 
 Two editions appeared in 1609. There was an earlier play on the same 
 subject, written by Decker and Chettle, mentioned in Henslowe's Diary 
 under the year 1599. 
 
 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA ; or, Truth Found Too Late. A tragedy by John
 
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 Dryden. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1679. This is an alteration 
 from Shakespeare's last-inentioned play. 
 
 TROY. A play acted at the Rose Theatre in 1596. 
 
 TROY'S REVENGE. A play by Henry Chettle, written in 1598. 
 
 THE TRUE TRAGEDIE OP RICHARD DUKE OF YORKE, and the 
 death of good King Henrie the Sixt, with the whole contention betweene 
 the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke, as it was sundrie times acted by the 
 Right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his seruants. Printed at London 
 by P. S. for Thomas Millington, and are to be sold at his shoppe vnder 
 Saint Peters Church in Cornwal. 8vo. 1595. Reprinted in 4to. 1600. 
 This is the foundation-play of the third part of Shakespeare's Henry the 
 Sixth. 
 
 A TRUE WIDOW. A comedy by Thomas Shadwell. Acted at the Duke's 
 Theatre. 4 to. 1679. Scene, London. The prologue was written by 
 Dryden, who prefixed it to the play of the Widow Ranter, 1690, after his 
 quarrel with Shadwell. 
 
 TRUTH, FAITHFULNESS, AND MERCY. " Truth, Fay thfulnesse and 
 Mercye, playde by the Children of Westminster for Elderton upon New 
 Yeares Daye at nighte there," Revels' Accounts, 1574. This was at 
 Whitehall. 
 
 TRUTH'S SUPPLICATION TO CANDLELIGHT. A play, by Thomas 
 Decker. Acted in 1599. Not printed. 
 
 TRYPHON. A tragedy by Roger, Earl of Orrery. Fol. 1669 ; fol. 1672 ; 
 8vo. 1739. This tragedy was produced at the Duke of York's Theatre in 
 December, 1668. See a curious notice of it in Pepys' Diary, v. 62. There 
 is a manuscript copy of it in the Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. Poet. 39. 
 
 TUNBRIDGE WELLS ; or, a Day's Courtship. A comedy acted at the 
 Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1678. This play has been attributed to Rawlins, 
 although in the title-page it is said to be written by a person of quality. 
 It seems intended as a kind of imitation of Shadwell' s Epsom Wells. 
 
 TU QUO QUE. " Candlemas night, a play called Tu Coque, by the Queen's 
 players," Revels' Accounts, 1612. This was the play more generally 
 known as Green's Tu Quoque, q. v. It was restored in 1667, with altera- 
 tions by Davenaut. 
 
 THE TURKE. A worthie Tragedie, by John Mason. 4to. 1610. In 
 another edition of it in 4to. 1632, it is called, "An excellent Tragedy of 
 Muleasses the Turk, and Borgias Governor of Florence. Full of inter- 
 changeable variety, beyond expectation. Divers times acted (with general 
 applause) by the children of His Majesty's Revels." Scene, Florence. 
 
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 258 TUTl—TWO 
 
 It was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, March 10th, 
 1608. 
 
 THE TURKISH MAHOMET, AND HI HEN THE FAIRE GREEK. A 
 play, by George Pcele. Never published. It is alluded to in the Merrie 
 Conceited Jests of George Peele, 1027, where it is termed a "famous 
 play." 
 
 TWELFTH-NIGHT; or, What You Will. A comedy by Shakespeare. Eol. 
 1623. 
 
 THE TWELFTH NIGHT'S REVELS. A masque by Ren Jonson, an early 
 manuscript of which is in the British Museum, MS. Ribl. Reg. 17 B. 31. 
 It was produced at Court in January, 1618, but did not meet with much 
 approbation. It was also known as the Masque of Blackness. 
 
 THE TWELVE LABOURS OF HERCULES. A player, in Greene's 
 Groatsworth of Wit, 1592, says, — "the Twelve Labours of Hercules have 
 I terribly thundered on the stage." 
 
 TWELVE MONTHS. The Masque of the Twelve Months, from a manu- 
 script of the seventeenth century. Shakespeare Society, 8vo. 1848. 
 
 THE TWINS. A tragi-comedy, by William Rider. Acted at the Private 
 House, Salisbury Court. 4to. 1655. Scene, Italy. Langbaine suspects 
 this play to be much older than the annexed date implies it to be ; and a 
 tragedy so called, perhaps the same, was acted at Court in 1612, and again 
 in 1613. The Twynnes Tragedie, by Niccols, was entered on the Stationers' 
 Registers, February 15th, 1611, by Edward Blunt. 
 
 TWO ANGRY WOMEN OF AB1NGTON, by Henry Porter. 4to. 1599. 
 This play is not divided into acts. The full title runs thus : " A pleasant 
 History, called, the two angrie Women of Abington ; with the humorous 
 Mirth of Dick Coomes and Nicholas Proverbs, two Serving Men. Acted 
 by Lord Nottingham, Lord High Admiral's Servants." Scene, London. 
 Reprinted by the Percy Society, ed. Dyce. A second part of this play was 
 performed in 1598, but it does not appear to have been printed. 
 
 THE TWO BROTHERS. A tragedy by W. Smith, acted in 1602. 
 
 THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. A comedy by Shakespeare. 
 Fob 1623. 
 
 THE TWO HARPIES. A play, by Michael Drayton, assisted by Decker, 
 Munday, Middleton, and Webster. Acted in 1602. Not printed. 
 
 THE TWO ITALIAN GENTLEMEN. A play, entered on the books of 
 the Stationers' Company, in 1584, under the title of Fidele and Fortunatus, 
 q. v. Extracts from it are given in Literature of the Sixteenth and Seven- 
 teenth Centuries, 4to. 1851.
 
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 TWO KINGS IN A COTTAGE. A play which is thus alluded to in 
 Herbert's Diary under the date of November 19th, 1623, — "for the 
 Palsgrave's players, a new tragedy, called Two Kings in a Cottage, written 
 by Bonen." 
 
 TWO MAIDS OF MORE CLACKE, with the Life and Simple Maner of 
 John in the Hospitall. Played by the children of the King's Majestie's 
 Revels. Written by Robert Armin. 4to. 1609. 
 
 THE TWO MERRY MILKMAIDS; or, the best Words wear the Garland. 
 A comedy, by J. C. Acted, with great applause, by the company of the 
 Kevels. 4to. 1620; 1661. Part of the plot of this play, viz. the promise 
 given by Dorigena to Dorillus, of his embracing her, when he should bring 
 her in January a garland containing all sorts of flowers, and its conse- 
 quences, is founded on Boccaccio's Novels, Dec. 10. Nov. 5. 
 
 THE TWO MERRY WOMEN OP ABINGTON. A play, by Henry 
 Porter, acted in 1598. Not printed. There is extant a memorandum of 
 Henslowe's relative to this play, of which the following is a copy : — " Lent 
 unto Harey Porter, at the Requeste of the Company, in Earneste of his 
 Boocke called Two Merey Wemen of Abenton, the Sume of Forty Suellings ; 
 and for the Resayte of that Money, he gave me his faythfull Promysse 
 that I shold have all the Boockes which he writte, either Him Selfe, or 
 with any other, which Some was delivered the 28th of Febreary, 1598." 
 
 THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN. A tragi-comedy by J. Fletcher. Acted 
 at the Black Friars. 4 to. 1634. The story of this play is taken from 
 Chaucer's Palamon and Arcite ; or, the Knight's Tale. The scene near 
 Athens. 
 
 THE TWO NOBLE LADIES ; or, Converted Conjuror, often times acted 
 with great approbation at the Red Bull by the Company of the Revels. A 
 manuscript preserved in a private library in Ireland. 
 
 THE TWO SINNES OF KING DAVYD. An interlude, entered, by 
 Thomas Hackett, on the books of the Stationers' Company in the year 
 1561. 
 
 TWO TRAGEDIES IN ONE. Two lamentable Tragedies : the one, of the 
 Murther of Maister Beech, a Chandler, in Thames Street, and his Boy, 
 done by Thomas Merry : the other of a young Childe, murthered in a 
 Wood by two Ruffins, with the consent of his Uncle. By Robert Yarrington. 
 4to. 1601. 
 
 TWO WISE MEN AND ALL THE REST FOOLS. A Comical Moral, 
 censuring the follies of that age. Divers times acted. 4to. 1619. This 
 piece is generally attributed to Chapman. Langbaine says, " I am led only
 
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 by tradition to believe this play to be his," English Dramatick Poets, ed. 
 1691, p. 64. 
 
 TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT ANATOMIZ'D; or, a Discourse Con- 
 cerning Evil Counsellors, being the Life and Death of John the Baptist, 
 and presented to the King's Most Excellent Majesty by the Author. 4to. 
 1642. A translation from Buchanan. 
 
 TYRANNICK LOVE ; or, the Royal Martyr. A tragedy, by John Dryden, 
 acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1670 ; 1686. The plot of this play is 
 founded on history, and the scene laid in Maximin's camp under the walls 
 of Aquileia. Entered on the Stationers' Registers, July 14th, 1669. 
 
 THE TYRANT. A tragedy by Phillip Massinger, entered on the books of 
 the Stationers' Company, June 29th, 1660. A manuscript copy of it was 
 sold amongst Warburton's books in 1759. It is supposed by some to have 
 been the same play as the King and the Subject. 
 
 ULYSSES REDUX. A Latin tragedy, by William Gager, acted at Christ- 
 Church, Oxford, about the year 1580. 8vo. Oxon. 1592. 
 
 THE UNEQUAL MATCH. Durfey's play of the Injur'd Princess, 4to. 
 1682. 
 
 THE UNFORTUNATE COUPLE. A tragedy, being only the latter part 
 of the Unnatural Brother, printed in the Novelty, or Every Act a Play, 
 1697. Scene, Lyons. 
 
 THE UNFORTUNATE FAVOURITE. In a manuscript of the seventeenth 
 century is preserved " a prologue made by Dryden upon a play called the 
 Unfortunate Favourite, meaneing the Earle of Essex." This is probably 
 an error for the play of the Unhappy Favourite, q. v. 
 
 THE UNFORTUNATE FORTUNATE. A tragi-comedy by Benjamin 
 Garfield. We know nothing of this play, but from some verses addressed 
 to its author, by Robert Baron, printed in his Pocula Castalia, 8vo. 1650. 
 
 THE UNFORTUNATE GENERAL, a French history, a play by Hathway, 
 Smith, and Day, written early in the year 1603. 
 
 THE UNFORTUNATE LOVERS. A tragedy by Sir William Davenant. 
 Acted at the Black Friars. 4to. 1643. Scene, Verona. Licensed in 
 1635. 
 
 THE UNFORTUNATE MOTHER. A tragedy by Thos. Nabbes. 4to. 
 1640. This play, says the title-page, was "never acted, but set downe 
 according to the intention of the author; " yet it has three several com- 
 mendatory copies of verses prefixed to it, and a proem, in verse, by the
 
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 author, justifying it to be written according to the rules of art. The scene 
 lies at the Court of Ferrara. Dedicated to the well-known author, Richard 
 Eraithwait. In some catalogues, the title of this play is erroneously sub- 
 stituted for that of the Unnatural Mother. 
 THE UNFORTUNATE PIETY. A play by Massinger, licensed on June 
 13th, 1631, but not now in existence. Acted by the King's company. 
 
 THE UNFORTUNATE SHEPHERD. A Pastoral, by John Tutchin. 
 8vo. 1685. Printed with his poems. It is a wretched piece. 
 
 THE UNFORTUNATE USURPER. 4to. 1663. The scene of this tragedy 
 lies at Constantinople, and the plot of it is historical, being founded on the 
 story of Andronicus Comnenus. 
 
 THE UNGRATEFUL FAVORITE. 4to. 1664. This tragedy is said to 
 be written by a person of honour ; but we do not find that it was ever 
 acted. The scene is laid in Naples, and the plot may be traced in Guic- 
 ciardini, and other of the Italian historians. 
 
 THE UNGRATEFUL LOVERS. " To the Duke of York's playhouse, and 
 there saw part of the Ungratefull Lovers," Pepys' Diary, September the 
 11th, 1667. 
 
 THE UNHAPPY FAIR IRENE, the Tragedy of, by Gilbert Swinhoe. 4to. 
 1658. The plot of this play is founded on the Turkish history, in the I'eign 
 of Mahomet I., yet is probably borrowed from one of Bandello's Novels, 
 where the story is told at large, as it is also by Painter, in his Palace of 
 Pleasure, Nov. 40. The scene, Hadrianople. 
 
 THE UNHAPPY FAVOURITE ; or, the Earl of Essex. A tragedy by 
 John Banks, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1682. The prologue and 
 epilogue were written by Dryden. The scene, London. 
 
 THE UNHAPPY KINDNESS ; or, a Fruitless Revenge. A tragedy by 
 Thomas Scott, acted at Drury Lane. 4to. 1697. This is an alteration of 
 Fletcher's Wife for a Month. The scene lies in Naples. 
 
 THE UNITED KINGDOMS. A tragi-comedy by Edward Howard. Acted 
 at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane, soon after the Restoration, but without 
 success. This is one of the plays supposed to be satirised in the Rehearsal, 
 a3 beginning with a funeral, and having two kiugs in it. 
 
 THE UNJUST JUDGE. This was an alteration of Webster's Appius and 
 Virginia. It was produced, with success, at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1670. 
 
 THE UNNATURAL BROTHER. A tragedy, by Dr. Edward Filmer. 
 Acted at Little Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to. 1697. The plot of this play 
 is from the romance of Cassandra ; and the scene lies at a castle about a 
 league distant from Lyons.
 
 262 UNN—VAL 
 
 THE UNNATURAL COMBAT. A tragedy by Phil. Massinger, acted at 
 the Globe. 4to. 1639. The scene, Marseilles. 
 
 THE UNNATURAL MOTHER. 4to. 1698. This play was written by a 
 young lady, and acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields. The scene is laid in Levo, 
 a province in the kingdom of Siamj and some part of the plot is borrowed 
 from Settle's Distress'd Innocence, particularly Bebbemeah's being put on 
 a couch with a black slave, and there found asleep, which is the very same 
 with the incident of Cleomira and Otrautes in that play. 
 
 THE UNNATURAL TRAGEDY. By Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle. 
 Fol. 1662. There is nothing very particular in this play, further than 
 some censures which her Grace has taken occasion to cast on Camden's 
 Britannia in her second act. The prologue and epilogue were written by 
 the Duke, her husband. 
 
 THE USURPER. A tragedy by Edward Howard, acted at the Theatre 
 Royal. 4to. 1668. The scene of this play lies in Sicily. It was acted at 
 the King's House in January, 1663-4 ; and the plot is founded on the 
 story of Damocles the Syracusan ; under whose character, it is supposed, 
 the author intended to point at that of Oliver Cromwell. Hugo de Petra, 
 another of the characters, is meant for Hugh Peters. 
 
 UTER PENDRAGON. A play of this name is recorded in Henslowe's list, 
 as having been acted on April 29th, 1597. 
 
 VALENTINE AND ORSON. A play, by Anthony Munday, assisted by 
 Richard Hathwaye. Acted in 1598. This was, probably, one of the next- 
 mentioned pieces. 
 
 VALENTINE AND ORSON. A famous history, played by Her Majesties 
 players ; entered, by William White, on the books of the Stationers' 
 Company, March 31st, 1600 ; but, we believe, not printed. An interlude 
 with the same title, and perhaps the same piece, was entered, May 23rd, 
 1595, by Thomas Gosson and Raffe Hancock. 
 
 VALENTINIAN. A tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol. 1647. 
 
 VALENTINIAN. A tragedy, acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1685 ; 8vo. 
 1696. This alteration of the foregoing play was made by the Earl of 
 Rochester, of whom there is an account in the preface by a friend (a Mr. 
 W T olsley). 
 
 VALETUDINARIUM. A Latin comedy by William Johnson, a student of 
 King's College, Cambridge, acted before the University in 1638. Manu- 
 script copies of it are common, but it has not been printed. Scene, the 
 Hospital of St. Bartholomew, London. 
 
 THE VALIANT CID. A play translated from Corneille. " I to the Cock-
 
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 pitt, with much crowding and waiting, where I saw the Valiant Cidd acted, 
 a play I have read with great delight, but is a most dull thing acted," 
 Pepys' Diary, December 1st, 1662. 
 
 THE VALIANT SCHOLAK. A drama which is thus mentioned in Sir 
 Henry Herbert's manuscript Diary under the date of June 3rd, 1622, — ■ 
 " a new play called the Valiant Scholler, allowed to be acted by the Lady 
 Elizabeth's Servants." 
 
 THE VALIANT SCOT. A play, by J. W. gent. 4to. 1637. For the 
 plot of this piece, see the Scotch History of Sir William Wallace. The 
 dedication, to the Marquis of Hamilton, is signed William Bowyer. 
 
 THE VALIANT WELCHMAN; or, the Chronicle History of the Life and 
 valiant Deeds of Caradoc the Great, King of Cambria, now called Wales. 
 A tragi-comedy by R. A. gent., acted by the Prince of Wales's servants. 
 4to. 1615; 1663. This play is generally ascribed, but on uncertain grounds, 
 to Armin. There is a frontispiece to the second edition. 
 
 VALTEGEIt. A play recorded by Henslowe as having been acted December 
 4th, 1596. Not now known. 
 
 THE VARIETY. A comedy by William, Duke of Newcastle. 12mo. 1649. 
 This play was acted with very great applause at the Black Friars, and is 
 printed at the Hague and in London, with the Country Captain. 
 
 VAYOODE. A play by Henry Chettle, acted in 1598. 
 
 VELYA. A play acted at the Rose Theatre in 1595. 
 
 THE VENETIAN COMEDY. Recorded by Henslowe as having been 
 acted, Aug. 25, 1594. He also mentions another play, called Venesyon, 
 first acted in September, 1594. 
 
 VENICE PRESERVED ; or, a Plot Discovered. A tragedy by Thomas 
 Otway. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1682, with an occasional 
 prologue and epilogue. The latter was published separately on a broadside 
 entitled, — " The Hpilogue written by Mr. Otway to his Play call'd Venice 
 Preserv'd,or a Plot Discover'd, spoken upon His Royal Highness the Duke 
 of York's coming to the Theatre, Friday, April 21, 1682 ; " and both 
 together on another broadside entitled, — " Prologue to a new Play called 
 Venice Preserv'd, or the Plot Discover'd, at the Duke's Theatre, spoken by 
 Mr. Smith. Epilogue to the same, spoken by Mr. Betterton, 1682." Scene, 
 Venice. 
 
 VENUS AND ADONIS. A masque, by Samuel Holland. ] 2rao. 1656; 
 1660. 
 
 VENUS AND ADONIS ; or, the Maid's Philosophy. 8vo. 1659 ; and 4to. 
 no date. This is one among six pieces supposed to be written by Robert 
 Cox the comedian, and printed in the second part of the Wits.
 
 264 FEN— VIC 
 
 VENUS AND ANCIIISES. A pastoral, written about the year 1660. 
 There is a MS. copy of it in the library of Sion College. 
 
 VERSIPELLIS. A Latin comedy, found in a vol. of MS. poems, left by the 
 Rev. Thomas Pestell, Vicar of Packington in Leicestershire, and dated in 
 1631. It appears to have been acted (probably at Cambridge) by the 
 following gentlemen, whose names are added to the dramatis persona? : 
 Ds. Bryant, Elout ; Ds. Woodhall ; Ds. Bea . . . . , Richards, Ereear ; Ds. 
 Rogers ; Mr. Harnett, Jocelin, Overton ; Mr. Kemp ; Mr. Rogers ; Ds. 
 Cantrell, Ramsbottom; Ds. Johnson, Hemson, Bradler, Wills; Ds. Carlisle, 
 Penson; Pestell; Ds. Allen, senior ; Crofts. The scene is at Antwerp. 
 
 VERTUMNUS; sive Annus recurrens Oxonii : 29 Augusti, anno 1605, 
 coram Jacobo Rege, Henrico Principe, Proceribus, at Joanniensibus in 
 Seena recitatus, ab uno scriptus, Phrasi Comica prope Tragicis senariis, 
 4to. 1607. This was written by Dr. Matthew Gwinne, and was acted, with 
 great applause, in Christchurch Hall, Oxford, in 1605 ; but, although 
 learnedly penned in Latin, and by a Doctor of Divinity, it could not keep 
 the King awake, who was wearied in consequence of having executed the 
 office of moderator, all the day, at the disputations in St. Mary's Church. 
 
 A V15RY GOOD WIFE. A comedy by George Powell. Acted at the 
 Theatre Royal. 4to. 1693. This play has little of the person's own 
 writing in it, whose name stands as the author. It is almost entirely bor- 
 rowed from the City Wit, and the Court Beggar, by Richard Brome, but 
 without any acknowledgment. From the dedication, it appears to have 
 been successful. The prologue is written by Congreve, and the scene lies 
 in the Park. 
 
 A VERY WOMAN ; or, the Prince of Tarent. A tragi-comedy by Phil. 
 Massinger. 8vo. 1655. This play was licensed on June 6th, 1634. It 
 was acted at the Blackfriars. The scene, Sicily. 
 
 THE VESTAL. A tragedy, by Henry Glapthorne. One of those said to 
 have been destroyed by Warburton's servant. 
 
 THE VESTAL VIRGIN; or, the Roman Ladies. A tragedy by Sir Robert 
 Howard. Fol. 1665 ; 1692 ; 12mo. 1722. The scene of this play lies in 
 Rome ; and the author has written two fifth acts to it, the one of which 
 ends tragically, and the other successfully, probably in imitation of Sir John 
 Suckling's Aglaura. 
 
 VICTORIOUS LOVE. A tragedy by William Walker, acted at Drury Lane. 
 4to. 1698. This play is a kind of imitation of Southern's Oroonoko. The 
 author wrote it in three weeks' time at nineteen years of age, and acted a 
 part in it himself. The scene is the Banza or palace of Tombult.
 
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 VIENNA. BESIEGED. A droll acted at Bartholomew Fair in the seven- 
 teenth century. It is alluded to in the Theatre of Compliments, 1688. 
 
 THE VILLAIN. A tragedy by Thomas Porter. 4to. 1663; 1670; 1694. 
 This play was acted at the Duke of York's Theatre for ten nights succes- 
 sively, to crowded audiences (Downes). The scene, Tours. The epilogue, 
 by Sir W. Davenant, is printed in that writer's poems. 
 
 THE VIRGIN MARTYR. A tragedy by Phillip Massinger and Thomas 
 Decker. Acted, with great applause, by the servants of the Revels. 4to. 
 1622; 1651; 1661. The scene lies in Csesarea, and the plot is from the 
 Martyrologies of the tenth Persecution, in the time of Dioclesian and 
 Maximin, particularly Eusebius's Hist. lib. viii. cap. 17, Roswedius, 
 Valesius, &c. 
 
 THE VIRGIN WIDOW. A comedy by Francis Quarles. 4to. 1649, and 
 1656. This piece, which is the only dramatic attempt of our author, is 
 rather an interlude than a regular play, and was not brought on the stage 
 at any of the theatres. The following preface of " the Stationer to the 
 Reader" is curious, and worth preserving, — " This enterlude, to sweeten 
 the brackish distempers of a deluded age, is here (curteous reader) to thy 
 judicious view freely offered; having been sometimes at Chelsie privately 
 acted (by a company of young gentlemen) with good approvement. The 
 author, whose divine works have sufficiently proclaim'd his abilities, may 
 give thee assurance of finding in it, wit, worth, and well-season'd mirth. 
 Invention to quicken conceipt ; disposition to beautifie art. It is confest 
 that this dramatick poem was Mr. Quarles his very first assay in that kind ; 
 yet shalt thou collect by this piece, that he knew as well to be delightfully 
 facetious, as divinely serious." 
 
 A VIRGIN PLAY. Under this note mention is made in a manuscript diary, 
 1582, of an old play, in the following terms, — " we w T ent to the theater to 
 se a scurvie play set owt al by one virgin, which ther proved a fyemarten 
 withowt voice, so that we stayd not the matter." 
 
 VIRTUE. An interlude by Skelton, no copy of which is now known to exist. 
 " Of Vertu also the soverayne enterlude," Garlande of Laurell, Works, ed. 
 Dyce, i. 408. 
 
 VIRTUE AND BEAUTY RECONCILED. A masque in honour of the 
 marriage of the King and Queen. 4to. No date. 
 
 VIRTUE BETRAY'D ; or, Anna Bullen. A tragedy by John Banks. Acted 
 at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1682. Scene, London. 
 
 THE VIRTUOSO. A comedy by Thomas Shadwell. Acted at the Duke's 
 Theatre. 4to. 1676; 1691. Scene, Loudon. 
 
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 266 rm—vow 
 
 THE VIRTUOUS OCT A VIA.. A tragi-comedy, by Samuel Brandon. 
 12ino. 1598. The plot of this play is taken from Suetonius's Life of 
 Augustus, and Plutarch's Life of Marc Antony. It is written in alternate 
 verse, with a chorus at the end of each act ; and, at the end of the whole, 
 are printed two epistles between Octavia and her husband M. Antony, 
 written in imitation of Ovid's manner, but in long Alexandrine verse. 
 Scene, Rome. 
 
 THE VIRTUOUS WIFE; or, Good Luck at Last. A comedy by Thomas 
 Durfey, acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1080. The author of this 
 comedy has borrowed several hints from Marston's Fawn ; and the character 
 of Beaufort, from that of Palamede in Dryden's Marriage a la Mode. The 
 scene lies at Chelsea. 
 
 THE VISION OF DELIGHT. A masque, by Ben Jonson. Fol. 1640. 
 Presented at Court, in Christmas, 1617, and in January and February, 
 1618. 
 
 THE VISION OF THE TWELVE GODDESSES. A masque, by Samuel 
 Daniel. 8vo. 1601 ; 4to. 1623. Presented by the Queen and her ladies, 
 at Hampton Court, on the 8th of January. This piece was at first un- 
 warrantably published without the author's leave, from a spurious and 
 incorrect copy, which had been by some means or other procured by an in- 
 discreet and presumptuous printer ; which compelled the author to republish 
 it from his own copy. 
 
 VITTORIA COROMBONA, OB THE WHITE DEVIL. A tragedy by 
 J. Webster, as it is acted at the Theatre Boyal by his Majesties servants. 
 4to. Lond. 1672. This is merely an edition of Webster's play of the 
 White Devil, first printed in 1612. 
 
 VOLPONE ; or, the Fox. A comedy, by Ben Jonson. Acted by the King's 
 servants. 4to. 1605. 
 
 THE VOLUNTEEKS; or, the Stock Jobbers. A comedy, by Thomas 
 Shadwell. Acted by their Majesties' servants. 4to. 1693. This comedy 
 was not acted till after the author's death, and is dedicated by his widow 
 to Queen Mary, The hint of Sir Timothy Castril, in it, seems to have 
 been borrowed from Fletcher's Little French Lawyer. The prologue by 
 Durfey. 
 
 A VOW AND A GOOD ONE. A play acted on Twelfth Night, 1623. 
 
 THE VOW BREAKEB ; or, the Faire Maid of Clifton in Notinghamshire. 
 By William Sampson. 4to. 1636, with a large wood-cut. This play met 
 with a;ood success.
 
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 THE WALKS OF ISLINGTON AND HOGSDON, with the humours of 
 
 Wood Street Compter. A comedy by Thomas Jordan. 4to. 1057. At 
 the end of it is a license for its being acted, signed Henry Herbert, dated 
 August 2nd, 1641. 
 
 THE WANDERING LADIES. A play by Sir Charles Sedley, mentioned 
 by Pepys under the date of January 11th, 1667-8. It is conjectured to 
 be another or second title of the Mulberry Garden. 
 
 THE WANDERING LOVER. A tragi- comedy by Thomas Meriton. 4to. 
 1658. This drama was acted privately by the author's friends. 
 
 THE WANDERING LOVERS ; or, the Painter. A comedy by Philip 
 Massinger, entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, September 
 9th, 1653; but not printed. It was licensed in 1623. 
 
 THE WANDERING LOVERS. A play by John Fletcher. Acted at the 
 Black Friars, and licensed on Dec. 6th, 1623 ; but not now known. 
 
 THE WANDERING WHORES. The Wandering Whores Complaint for 
 Want of Trading. 4to. Loud. 1663. This is a scarce play. 
 
 THE WARD. A tragi-comedy, written by Thomas Neale, dated Septem- 
 ber 16th, 1637. In the Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. Poet. 79. 
 
 WARLAMCHESTER. A play acted at the Rose Theatre in 1594. 
 
 A WARNING FOR FAIRE WOMEN. 4to. 1599. This tragedy is full 
 of dumb show, which was the fashion of those earlier periods, and is not 
 divided into acts. The plot of it is founded on a real fact, which happened 
 in the year 1573, the circumstances of which are detailed in Holingshead's 
 Chronicle, vol. ii. p. 1258, and were then familiar in the memories of 
 many. The title-page is as follows : " The most tragical and lamentable 
 Murther of Master George Sanders, of London, Merchant, nigh Shooter's 
 Hill ; consented unto by his owne Wife, and acted by Mr. Brown, Mrs. 
 Drevvry, and Trusty Roger, Agents therein ; with their several Ends. Acted 
 by the Lord Chamberlain's servants." Winstanley and Wood ascribe this 
 piece to Lilly. 
 
 THE WAR OF GRAMMAR. A tragi-comedy, 1666. Iu manuscript. 
 
 THE WARRES OF CYRUS, KING OF PERSIA, against Antiochus, 
 King of Asyria, with the tragical Ende of Panthaea. 4to. 1594. This 
 tragedy was acted by the children of Her Majesty's chapel. 
 
 THE WARRES OF POMPEY AND CESAR. By G. Chapman. This 
 is the title of the second edition, 1631, of the tragedy of Csesar and 
 Pompey.
 
 268 WAR— WEE 
 
 WAR WITHOUT BLOWS, and Love without Suit, or Love without Strife, 
 
 a play by Thomas Heywood, written in 1598. 
 THE WARY WIDOW; or, Sir Noisy Parrot. A comedy by Henry I! igden. 
 
 Acted at Drury Lane. 4to. 1693. This play has a prologue written by 
 
 Sir Charles Sedley. 
 
 THE WAY OF THE WORLD. A comedy by William Congreve. Acted 
 at Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to. 1700. 
 
 THE WAY TO CONTENT ALL "WOMEN. A play thus mentioned in 
 Herbert's Manuscript Diary, April 17th, 1624, — "for the Fortune, the 
 Way to Content all Women, or How a Man may Please his Wife, written 
 by Mr. Gunnel." 
 
 THE WEAKEST GOETH TO THE WALL. Acted by the Earl of 
 Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England's Servants. 4to. 1600; 
 1618. The scene of this piece lies in Burgundy. Reprinted in Mr. 
 llazlitt's edition of Webster's Works, 1857, iv. 213, but there is small 
 probability of its having been the work of that dramatist. 
 
 W r EALTH AND HEALTH. An Interlude of Welth and Helth, full of 
 Sport and mery Pastyme. 8vo. n. d. The characters introduced are, 
 Welth, Helth, Liberty, Ill-wyll, Shroud-wit, Hance, Remedy. Foure may 
 easily performe this interlude. Entered on the books of the Stationers' 
 Company, 1557-8. 
 
 THE WEATHER. The play of the Wether, a new and a very mery enter- 
 lude of all maner of Wethers, made by John Heywood, 1533, fol. There 
 is another edition, printed by Robert Wyer, 4to. 
 
 THE WEDDING. A comedy by James Shirley. Acted at the Phoenix, 
 Drury Lane. 4to, 1629 ; 1633 ; 1660. This is a good play, and was 
 twice revived with success. The scene lies in London. Dedicated to 
 William Gower. 
 
 THE WEDDING-NIGHT. A play by Lord Falkland, mentioned by Pepys 
 1667, probably the same as the Marriage Night, q.v. 
 
 THE WEEDING OF THE COVENT GARDEN; or, the Middlesex 
 Justice of Peace. A comedy by Richard Brome. 8vo. 1658. The 
 running-title of this play is, The Covent Garden weeded. It is called 
 on the title-page, " a facetious comedy, a posthume of Richard Brome, an 
 ingenious servant, and imitator of his master, that famously renowned poet, 
 Ben Johnson." 
 
 THE WEEPING OF THE THREE MARIES. A mystery of the 
 fifteenth century, preserved in MS. in the Bodleian Library, printed in the
 
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 Reliquiae Antiquae, ii. 125. Part of it was intended for performance on 
 Good Friday, and Part on Easter day. 
 
 THE WELCH AMBASSADOR. A play, existing only in a manuscript, 
 in private hands, of the time of Charles the First. The list of dra- 
 matis persons includes, Athelstan, king of England, Edmond and Eldred 
 his brothers, the Duke of Cornwall, the Earl of Kent, the Earl of Chester, 
 the Baron of Winchester, a Clown, and Voltimar a captain. This play, which 
 appears to have been performed, was written about the year 1623, as appears 
 from the following passage, — "in the year 1600, Newgate shall so swarm 
 with theeves that millers shall bee faine to grind near Bun Hill, and yett a 
 number of taylors shall live bravely in the Strand ; but now, in the reign of 
 this King here, in the yeares 1621, 22, and 23, such a woden fashion will 
 come upp that he whoe walkes with a battoone, shall bee held no gallant." 
 
 THE WELSHMAN. According to Henslowe, a play with this title was 
 acted on Nov. 29th, 1595. 
 
 THE WELSHMAN'S PRIZE. A play mentioned by Henslowe, as belong- 
 ing to the stock of the Rose Theatre in 1598. 
 
 THE WELSH TRAVELLER. This drama is mentioned in Herbert's 
 Manuscript Diary, under the date of May 10th, 1622, — "anew play called 
 the Welsh Traveller was allowed to be acted by the players of the Revels." 
 
 WESTWARD HOE. Westward Hoe, as it hath beene divers times acted 
 
 - by the Children of Paules, written by Tho. Decker and John Webster. 
 
 Printed at London, and to be sold by John Hodgets dwelling in Paules 
 
 Churchyard, 1607, 4to. Reprinted in Webster's Works, ed. Dyce, 1830. 
 
 WHAT YOU WILL. A comedy, by John Marston. 4to. 1607. 12mo. 
 1633. Entered on the Stationers' Registers, August 6th, 1607. Re- 
 printed in Marston's Works, ed. 1856, i. 219. 
 
 WHEN YOU SEE ME, YOU KNOW ME; or, the famous Chronicle 
 Historie of King Henry VIII. with the Birth and virtuous Life of Edward 
 Prince of Wales. By Samuel Rowley. 4to. 1605 ; 4to. 1632. The plot 
 of this play is to be found in Lord Herbert's Life of Henry VIII., and other 
 English historians. The scene lies in England from 1537 to 1546. 
 
 THE WHIMSIES OF HIDALGO. A new Comedy call'd the W r himseyes 
 of Senor Hidalgo, or the Masculine Bride, an unpublished comedy preserved 
 in the British Museum, MS. Harl. 5152. The author, who appears to 
 have been an uneducated writer, asserts in the epilogue that he " pump'd 
 noe books " in the preparation of the present comedy. 
 
 THE WHISPERER ; or, What you please. A play of this name is recorded
 
 270 W HI— WHO 
 
 by Tatham, who has printed a prologue of his own to it (as spoken at the 
 Red Bull), in his Ostella, 1650. 
 
 THE WHITE ETHIOPIAN. A long tragedy on the subject of the story 
 of Theagenes and Chariclea, an unpublished drama of the seventeenth 
 century, preserved in the British Museum, MS. Harl. 7313. It is full of 
 corrections and alterations, made apparently by the author. 
 
 THE WHITE DEVIL ; or, the Tragedie of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke 
 of Brachiano ; with the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona, the famous 
 Venetian Courtezan. A tragedy by John Webster. Acted, by the Queen's 
 Servants, at the Phoenix in Drury Lane. 4to. 1612; 1631 ; 1665. The 
 scene, Italy. In Dodslev's Collection. In Sheppard's Epigrams, 1651, 
 is an epigram " on Mr. Webster's most excellent tragedy called the White 
 Devil." 
 
 THE WHOLE CONTENTION BETWEENE THE TWO FAMOUS 
 PIOUSES, LANCASTER AND YORKE. With the Tragical] ends of 
 the good Duke Humfrey, Richard Duke of Torke, and King Henrie the 
 sixt. Diuided into two Parts : And newly corrected and enlarged. Written 
 by William Shakespeare, Gent. Printed at London, for T. P. A small 
 quarto, containing 64 leaves, A to Q in fours. This contains the <: First 
 Part of the Contention," as well as " The True Tragedie." T. P. was 
 Thomas Pavier, the publisher of other plays. This edition has no date, 
 but it is ascertained to have been printed in or about 1619 by the signa- 
 tures. The last signature of Pavier's edition is Q,, and the first signature 
 of the text of Pericles, 4to. Lond. 1619, for the same bookseller, is R; and 
 on the recto of sig. I of this play, where the Second Part commences, is 
 the same device as on the first page of that edition of Pericles. The 
 Second Part has no separate title-page, but is introduced as, " The Second 
 Part. Containing the Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the Good 
 King Henrie the Sixt." 
 
 THE WHORE IN GRAIN. A play thus mentioned in Sir Henry Herbert's 
 Manuscript Diary, under the date of January 26th, 1624, — " for the Pals- 
 grave's Company, a tragedy called the V> hore in Grain." 
 
 THE WHORE NEW VAMP'D. A comedy acted at the Red Bull, Septem- 
 ber, 1639. This was never printed. It appears to have been considered 
 as a libel, not only on some of the aldei'inen of the city of London, and 
 other persons of rank, who were traduced and personated in it, but that it 
 also scandalized and defamed the whole profession of proctors belonging to 
 the civil law, and reflected on the then present government. On this 
 ground the Attorney General was commanded by the Privy Council to 
 proceed against the poet, actors, and licenser, in order to their exemplary 
 punishment. The result of this order does not appear. One of the objec-
 
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 tions to the play was, that where there was mentioned a new duty upon 
 wines, one that personates a justice of the peace says to Cane, — " Sirrah, 
 I'll have you before the alderman ;" whereto Cane replied in these words, 
 — " the alderman ! The alderman is a base, drunken, sottish knave ; I care 
 not for the alderman ; I say the alderman is a base, drunken, sottish knave." 
 Another said, — "how now, sirrah, what alderman do you speak of?" 
 Then Cane said, — " I mean alderman, the blacksmith, in Holborn." Said 
 the other, — "was he not a vintner?" Cane answered, — "I know no 
 other." In another part of the same play, one speaking of projects and 
 patents that he had gotten amongst the rest, said that he had a patent for 
 twelve pence a piece upon every proctor and proctor's man that was not a 
 knave. Said another, — " Was there ever known any proctor, but he was 
 an arrant knave ?" 
 
 THE WHOEE OF BABYLON. A History, by Thomas Decker. 4to. 1607. 
 We know not whether this play was ever acted ; but the general tenour of 
 it is, to illustrate the virtues of Queen Elizabeth. The Queen is represented 
 under the character of Titania, a title which seems to have been fixed on 
 her by the poets of that time : Spenser having first set the example ; and 
 Shakespeare and Decker following it, the one in his Midsummer Night's 
 Dream, and the other in the piece before us. Rome is styled Babylon ; 
 Campiano the Jesuit, Campeius ; Dr. Parry, Paridel, &c. 
 
 THE WHORE OF BABYLON. A comedy said to be written by King 
 Edward VI., but not printed. This is ascribed to him on the authority of 
 Holland, who calls it a most elegant comedy. It is also mentioned by 
 Bishop Bale. 
 
 THE WIDOW. A comedy. 4to. 1652. According to the title-page, it is 
 printed " as it was acted at the Private House in Black-Fryers, with great 
 applause, by his late Majesties Servants." Gongh, in his Preface, says, — 
 " Considering how the curious pay some part of their esteem to excellent 
 persons in the carefull preservation but of their defaced statues, instead of 
 decayed medals of the Romans greatness, I believed it of more value to 
 present you this lively piece, drawn by the art of Johnson, Fletcher, and 
 Middleton, which is thought to have a neer resemblance to the portracture 
 we have in Terence of those worthy minds, where the great Scipio and 
 Lrelius strove to twist the poets ivy with the victors bayes." 
 
 THE WIDOW RANTER; or, the History of Bacon in Virginia. A tragi- 
 comedy by Mrs. Behn. Acted by their Majesties servants. 4to. 16SJ0. 
 This piece was not published till after the author's decease in 1689. The 
 tragical part of it, particularly the catastrophe of Bacon, is borrowed from 
 the well-known story of Cassius, who, on the supposition of his friend 
 Brutus's being defeated, caused himself to be put to death by the hand of
 
 272 WID—PUL 
 
 his freedman Dandorus. The scene is laid in Bacon's camp in Virginia. 
 The comic part is entirely original. The prologue is written by Dryden ; 
 but, like Bayes's, might " serve for any other play as well as this ;" and had, 
 indeed, seen service as the prologue to the True Widow, 1(578. The 
 comedy met with ill success on representation, but this circumstance is 
 attributed by the editor to omissions made by the actors. " Had our 
 author," he says, " been alive, she would have committed it to the flames 
 rather than have Buffer'd it to have been acted with such omissions as was 
 made, and on which the foundation of the play depended." 
 
 THE WIDOW'S CHARM. A play, by Anthony Munday, 1602. 
 
 THE WIDOW'S PRIZE. A comedy by William Sampson. Entered on 
 the books of the Stationers' Company, the 9th day of September, 1653 ; 
 and among those destroyed by Warburton's servant. It is thus mentioned 
 in Herbert's Manuscript Diary, January 25th, 1625, — "for the Prince's 
 Company, a new play called the Widow's Prize, which, containing much 
 abusive matter, was allowed of by me, on condition that my reformations 
 were observed." 
 
 THE WIDOW'S TEARS. A comedy by George Chapman. Acted many 
 times at Black and White Friars. 4to. 1612. In Dodsley's Collection, 
 1780. The plot of Lysander and Cynthia is taken from the story of the 
 Ephesian Matron, related in Petronius Arbiter. 
 
 A WIFE FOR A MONTH. A tragi-comedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 Fol. 1647. Licensed May 27th, 1624, as written by Fletcher. The plot 
 of this play, as far as relates to the story of Alphonso, his character, and 
 the treatment he meets with from his brother Frederic, is borrowed from 
 the History of Sancho VIII., King of Leon, which may be seen in Mariana, 
 and Lewis de Mayerne Turquet. The scene lies in Naples. 
 
 THE WILD GALLANT. A comedy acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 
 1669. This was Dryden' s first attempt in dramatic writing. The scene 
 lies in London ; and the plot, as the author confesses, is borrowed. It was 
 first acted in February, 1663. 
 
 THE WILD GOOSE CHACE. A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 Fol. 1652; 1679. The scene lies in Paris. In the title-page of the 
 original edition of 1652, it is entitled, " The Wild-Goose Chase, a Comedie 
 as it hath been acted with singular applause at the Black-Friers, being the 
 noble, last, and onely remaines of those incomparable drammatists, Francis 
 Beaumont and John Fletcher, gent., retriv'd for the publick delight of all 
 the ingenious, and private benefit of John Lowin and Joseph Taylor, 
 Servants to his late Majestie, by a person of honour." Dedication by 
 Lowin and Taylor. This edition is sometimes found in an uncut state.
 
 WIL—WIT 273 
 
 bound up at the end of the folio generic edition of 1647. This comedy was 
 acted in 1632. 
 
 WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT. A play by William Haughton, 1602. 
 
 WILLIAM LONGBEAED. A play by Drayton, written in 1599. 
 
 WILLIAM LONGSWORD. A play by Drayton, written in 1598. 
 
 WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. A play, acted by the Earl of Sussex's 
 men (according to Henslowe's Register) Jan. 4th, 1593-4. A play on this 
 subject is also mentioned in Heywood's Apology for Actors, 1612. 
 
 WILL OF A W r OMAN. A play by George Chapman, 1598. 
 
 WILTSHIRE TOM. An entertainment at Court, printed in 4to. No date. 
 This is one of the pieces ascribed to Robert Cox, comedian. 
 
 WILY BEGUILED. A pleasant comedie, called Wily Beguilde. The chief 
 actors be these : A Poore Scholler, a rich Foole, and a Knave at a Shifte. 
 4to. 1606; 1623; 1635; 1638; and in Hawkins's Origin of the English 
 Drama. Not divided into acts. 
 
 WINE, BEER, ALE, AND TOBACCO, CONTENDING FOR SU- 
 PERIORITY. An interlude, or more properly a dialogue. 4to. 1630; 
 1658, with a wood engraving. 
 
 WIN HER AND TAKE HER; or, Old Fools will be Meddling. A comedy, 
 acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1691. This play is dedicated to Lord 
 Danby, by Underbill, the player. The epilogue was written by Durfey. 
 
 THE WINTER'S TALE. A comedy by Shakespeare. Fol. 1623. 
 
 THE WTSDOM OF DR. DODIPOLE. Acted by the children of Paul's. 
 
 4to. 1600. That part of the plot of this comedy in which Earl Cassimeere's 
 
 generosity induces him to marry the deformed Cornelia, and share his estate 
 
 with her father Flores, when under affliction by being arrested by the Duke's 
 
 commands, is borrowed from the story of Zenothemis and Menecrates, told 
 
 by Lucian. 
 THE WISDOM OF THE TWELVE GODDESSES. This title is given 
 
 to some copies of Daniel's masque, more generally known as the Vision of 
 
 the Twelve Goddesses. 
 THE WISE MAN OF CHESTER. A play, acted, according to Henslowe, 
 
 Dec. 2nd, 1594. Not now known. In another entry it is called the Wise 
 
 Man of Westchester. 
 THE WISE WOMAN OF HOGSDON. A comedy, by Thomas Heywood. 
 
 4to. 1638. This play met with good success, and is commended in a copy 
 
 of verses to the author. Scene, Hogsdon. 
 
 WIT AND SCIENCE. A moral play by John Redford, of the time of 
 
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 274 WIT— WIT 
 
 Henry the Eighth. It is preserved in a manuscript in the "British Museum, 
 which has the following colophon, — " thus endyth the Play of Wyt and 
 Science made by master Jhon Redford." Printed for the Shakespeare 
 Society, 8vo. 1848. 
 
 WIT AND WILL. A play acted at Court in June, 1568. 
 
 WIT AT SEVERAL WEAPONS. A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 Eol. 1647. This play was esteemed an entertaining one; and from it has 
 Sir William Davenant borrowed the characters of the Elder Pallatine, and 
 Sir Morglay Thwack, in his comedy called the Wits. 
 
 THE WITCH ; a tragi-comedy, long since acted by His Majestie's Servants 
 at the Black Friers. By Tho. Middleton. From the original MS. in the 
 possession of Steevens, a few copies were printed by Isaac Heed, 8vo. 1 788. 
 It is dedicated by Middleton " to the truely-worthie and generously-affected 
 Thomas Holmes, Esquire." It is also included in Middleton's Works, ed. 
 Dyce. 
 
 THE WITCH OF EDMONTON. A tragi-comedy by William Eowley. 
 4to. 1658. This piece is said, in the title-page, to be founded on a known 
 true story. It met with applause, being often acted at the Cock-pit in 
 Drury Lane, and once at Court. The scene lies in the town of Edmonton. 
 Although the above-named author had the chief hand in this play, yet he 
 received considerable assistance in it from Forde and Decker, both whose 
 names are mentioned with his in the title-page. 
 
 THE WITCH OF ISLINGTON. A play acted in 1597. 
 
 THE WITCH TRAVELLER. A play licensed in the year 1623. 
 
 WIT IN A CONSTABLE. A comedy, by Henry Glapthorne, acted at the 
 Cock-pit in Drury Lane. 4to. 1640. The scene, London. 
 
 WIT IN A MADNESS. A play, entered on the books of the Stationers' 
 Company, by Constable, March 19th, 1639; together with the Sparagus 
 Garden, and the Antipodes, by Richard Brome ; and probably by the same 
 author. 
 
 THE WIT OF A WOMAN. 4to. 1604. Malone attributes this "plea- 
 sant merry comedy " to the pen of Henry Chettle. 
 
 WITLESS. " A playe of wy ties " was entered on the books of the Stationers' 
 Company in 1560-1. No copy of it is now known to exist. 
 
 THE WITS. A comedy by Sir W. Davenant, acted at Black Friars. 4to. 
 1636; in Dodsley's Collection, 1780. This was esteemed a good play, 
 and met with success. The scene is laid in London ; but some part of the
 
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 plot was borrowed from Beaumont and Fletcher's Wit at several Weapons. 
 It is highly commended in a copy of verses, written by Thomas Carew. It 
 was licensed in January, 1633-4. 
 
 WIT'S CABAL. A comedy in two parts, by the Duchess of Newcastle. 
 Fol. 1662. 
 
 WITS LED BY THE NOSE, or, a Poet's Revenge. A comedy, acted at 
 the Theatre Royal, 4to. 1678. This is an alteration of Love's Victory. 
 
 A WITTY COMBAT; or, the Female Victor. A tragi-comedy by T. P. 
 4to. 1663. This play was acted by persons of quality, in the Whitsun 
 week, with great applause. The plot of it is founded on the story of Mary 
 Carleton, the German princess, whose life was formed iuto a novel, and 
 printed in 8vo. 1673. 
 
 THE WITTY FAIR ONE. A comedy by James Shirley, acted at the 
 Private House, Drury Lane. 4to. 1633. There is considerable merit in 
 this play, yet it did not succeed so well as some other of Shirley's dramas. 
 Dedicated to Sir Edward Bushel. It was licensed for publication by Sir 
 Henry Herbert on October 3rd, 1628. 
 
 WIT WITHOUT MONEY. A comedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher, acted 
 at Drury Lane, 4to. 1639 ; 1661. Scene, London. In the British Museum, 
 MS. Addit. 4455, is a prologue to this play spoken at the Duke's Old 
 Theatre, February 26th, 1671. 
 
 THE WIVE'S EXCUSE ; or, Cuckolds make Themselves. A comedy by 
 Thomas Southern, acted at Drury Lane. 4to. 1692. The scene lies in 
 London. 
 
 THE WIZARD. A comedy in five acts, written before the year 1640, pre- 
 served in the British Museum, MS. Addit. 10306. This MS. formerly 
 belonged to Cartwright the player. 
 
 THE WIZARD. A play by Simon Baylie, preserved in manuscript in the 
 library of Durham Cathedral. In the list of characters are Sir Oliver 
 Younglove, an old doatiug knight, Antonio his eldest son, Mr. Shallow, a 
 foolish punning gentleman, Hog, a pander and hanger-on upon Mr. Shallow, 
 &c. The play is written in a neat hand, apparently in the latter part of 
 the seventeenth century, and there are occasional corrections and alterations 
 which give the idea that this was the author's own copy. Scene, London. 
 
 THE WOMAN CAPTAIN. A comedy by Thomas Shadwell. Acted at 
 the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1680. The scene in London. 
 
 WOMAN HARD TO PLEASE. A play, acted, says Henslowe, Jan. 27th, 
 
 1596-7. Not now known. 
 THE WOMAN HATER. A comedy by John Fletcher. 4to. 1607; 1619.
 
 276 irOM—U'OM 
 
 In the composition of this piece, Fletcher had no assistance. It is a very 
 good comedy, and met with success. After the Restoration it was revived 
 by Sir William Davenant, with the addition of a new prologue, instead of the 
 original one, which had been in prose. The scene lies in Milan. The title 
 of the first edition is as follows, — " The Woman Hater, as it hath beene 
 lately acted by the children of Paules ; London, Printed, and are to be 
 sold by John Hodgets in Paules Church-yard, 1607." 
 
 A WOMAN KILL'D WITH KINDNESS. A tragedy by Thomas Hey- 
 wood. Acted by the Queen's Servants. 4to. 1607; 1617; and 
 in Dodsley's Collection. Reprinted by the Shakespeare Society, edited 
 by J. P. Collier, 8vo. 1850. It was originally produced on the stage 
 in 1602, as appears from entries in Henslowe'3 Diary. The earliest 
 printed notice yet discovered of A Woman Killed with Kindness is found 
 in the Blacke Booke, by T. M., 1604, where it is coupled with the Merry 
 Devil of Edmonton. The words of the author are — " And being set out 
 of the Shoppe, (with her man afore her, to quench the jealouzie of her 
 Husband) shee, by thy instructions, shall turne the honest simple fellow 
 off at the next turning, and give him leave to see the merry Divell of 
 Edmunton, or a Woman kild with kindnesse, when his Mistress is going 
 her selfe to the same murther." 
 
 THE WOMAN IN THE MOONE. The Woman in the Moone. As it 
 was presented before her Highnesse ; By John Lyllie, Maister of Artes. 
 Imprinted at London for William Jones, and are to be sold at the signe 
 of the Gun, neere Holburne Conduict. 1597. In the concluding lines 
 of the Prologue we are expressly told that this was the first work of the 
 author ; this may account for its inferiority to his other productions, which 
 has led Collier to doubt its being his work, although his name is on the 
 title-page. See Lilly's Works, ed. Eairholt, pref. 
 
 WOMAN RULES. W T e have no other knowledge of this, than that it is 
 advertised among a list of plays printed for Richard Bentley and M. 
 Magnes, Russell Street, Covent Garden, 1687. 
 
 A WOMAN'S A WEATHER-COCK. A comedy by Nath. Field. Acted 
 before the King at White-hall, and divers times privately at the White 
 Friars, by the children of Her Majesties Revels. 4to. 1612. This play 
 is dedicated " to any woman that hath been no weather-cock," quaintly 
 insinuating that it is dedicated to nobody ; and is highly commended, in a 
 complimentary copy of verses to the author, by George Chapman. Re- 
 printed in Collier's Supplement to Dodsley. 
 
 THE WOMAN'S LAW. A play, entered on the books of the Stationers' 
 Company, Nov. 29th, 1653; but not printed.
 
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 THE WOMAN'S MASTERPIECE. A play under this title was entered 
 on the books of the Stationers' Company, Nov. 29th, 1653 ; but not 
 printed. 
 
 THE WOMAN'S MISTAKEN. A comedy by Drue and Davenport, 
 entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 9th, 1053 ; but 
 not printed. 
 
 THE WOMAN'S PLOT. A comedy, acted at Court, 1621. This was one 
 of the dramatic pieces said to have been destroyed by Warborton'a ser- 
 vant ; and in that gentleman's catalogue of lost plays, it is ascribed to Philip 
 Massinger. We find, from an entry on the Stationers' books, by H. 
 Moseley, Sept. 9th, 1653, that this was originally the second title to 
 Massinger' s Very Woman. 
 
 THE WOMAN'S PRIZE; or, the Tamer Tamed. A comedy by John 
 Fletcher. Fol. 16-47. This piece is a kind of sequel to Shakespeare's Ta- 
 ming of the Shrew, in which Catherine being supposed dead, and Petruchio 
 again married to a young woman of a mild and gentle disposition, she, in 
 combination with two or three more of her female companions, forms a plot 
 to break the violent and tyrannical temper of her husband, and bring him 
 to the same degree of submission to her will, as he had before done with 
 his former wife in her compliance to his ; and this design is at length 
 through a variety of incidents, brought perfectly to bear. 
 
 THE WOMAN'S TOO HARD FOR HIM. A comedy acted at Court in 
 1621 ; but, we believe, not printed. 
 
 WOMAN'S WIT ; or, the Lady in Fashion. A comedy by Colley Cibber. 
 Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1697. Scene, St. James's. 
 
 A WOMAN'S TRAGEDY. A play by Henry Chettle, 1598. 
 
 THE WOMAN TURN'D BULLY. 4to. 1675. Acted at the Duke of 
 Y r ork's Theatre. This is a very amusing comedy. 
 
 A WOMAN WILL HAVE HER WILL. A play, by William Haughton. 
 Acted in 1598. It was not printed till 1616, and then called Englishmen 
 for my Money; or, A Woman will have her Will; but in ed. 1631, the 
 second title is retained, and under that title it is entered on the books of 
 the Stationers' Company, August 3rd, 1601. 
 
 WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN. A tragedy by Thomas Middleton. 8vo. 
 1657. The plot of this play is founded on a romance called Hippolito and 
 Isabella ; and the scene is laid in Florence. 
 
 WOMEN PLEASED. A play by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol. 1647. 
 
 THE WOMEN'S CONQUEST. A tragi-comedy by Edward Howard.
 
 278 WON— W OR 
 
 Acted six times at the Duke of York's Theatre. 4to. 1671. The scene 
 lies in Scythia. 
 
 THE WONDER OF A KINGDOM. A tragi-comedy by Thomas Decker. 
 4to. K536. Reprinted in Dilke's Old Plays. 
 
 THE WONDER OF A WOMAN. A play, produced in October, 1595. 
 
 WONDER OF WOMEN; or, Sophonisba, her Tragedy. By John Marston. 
 Acted at the Black Friars. 4to. 1606; 12mo. 1633. The plot of this 
 play is taken from Livy, Polybius, and other historians, and the scene laid 
 in Libya. Reprinted in Marston's Works, ed. 1856, i. 14-9. 
 
 THE WOOER. An interlude by George Puttenham ; mentioned in his Art 
 of Poetry, but not printed. 
 
 THE WOOING OF DEATH. A play by Henry Chettle, written in 1600. 
 
 WORDS MADE VISIBLE ; or, Grammar and Rhetoric accommodated to 
 the Lives and Manners of Men, in two parts, by Samuel Shaw. 8vo. 
 1679; 8vo. 1680. 
 
 WORKE FOR CUTLERS; or, a Merry Dialogue betweene Sword, Rapier, 
 and Dagger. Acted in a Show in the famous Universitie of Cambridge. 
 4to. 1615, 
 
 THE WORLD. A play, that belonged to the Cock-pit Theatre in 1639. 
 It may be worth notice that Sir Henry Herbert, in 1624, licensed two 
 " motions," one called the Creation of the World, the other the Show of 
 the World. 
 
 THE WORLD AND THE CHILD. " Here begynneth a propre newe 
 
 Interlude of the Worlde and the chylde, otherwyse called Mundus & Infans, 
 & it sheweth of the estate of Chyldehode and Manhode." Printed by 
 Wynkyn de Worde, 1522. Reprinted in 4to. 1817, and in Collier's 
 edition of Dodsley. 
 
 THE WORLD IN THE MOON. An opera, by Elkanah Settle. Acted at 
 Dorset Garden. 4to. 1697. 
 
 THE WORLD RUNS ON WHEELS. A play by George Chapman, 1599. 
 
 THE WORLD TOSS'D AT TENNIS. A Courtly Masque, the Device 
 called the World Tost at Tennis, as it hath beene divers times presented, 
 to the contentment of many noble and worthy spectators ; by the Prince 
 his servants ; invented and set downe by Thomas Middleton and William 
 Bowley, Gent. 4to. 1620. It is entered on the books of the Stationers' 
 Company, July 4th, in that year. 
 
 THE WORLD'S IDOL ; or, Plutus the God of Wealth. A comedy from 
 the Greek of Aristophanes, by H. II. B. 1659.
 
 WOR—YOR 279 
 
 THE WORLD'S TRAGEDY. A play first acted on September 17th, 1595. 
 
 WORSE AFEARD THAN HURT. A play, by Michael Drayton, assisted 
 by Thomas Decker. Acted in 1598. This was the second title of Hannibal 
 and Hermes. 
 
 WORSE AND WORSE. A comedy by George Digby, Earl of Bristol. 
 Acted at the Duke's Theatre between 1662 and 1665. This play is men- 
 tioned by Downes, who says it was made out of the Spanish. It seems 
 not to have been printed. " I left the lottery, and went to a play, — only 
 a piece of it, which was at the Duke's house, Worse ami Worse, just the 
 same manner of play, and writ, I believe, by the same man as the Adven- 
 tures of Five Hours," Pepys' Diary, July 20th, 1864. 
 
 THE WOUNDS OF CIVILL WAR, lively set forth in the true Tragedies 
 of Marius and Sylla. By Thomas Lodge. Acted by the Lord Admiral's 
 servants. 4to. 1594. The plot of this piece is taken from Plutarch, 
 Sallust, &c. Winstanley has erroneously assigned this play to Lodowick 
 Carlell. Reprinted in Dodsley's Collection. 
 
 THE WRANGLING LOVERS ; or, the Invisible Mistress. A comedy by 
 Edward Ravenscroft. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1677. The 
 scene of this comedy is laid at Toledo. 
 
 XERXES. A tragedy by Colley Cibber. 4to. 1699. This tragedy made 
 its first appearance at Lincoln's Inn Fields House, but with no success ; 
 making a stand of only one night, as may be gathered from an inventory 
 of theatrical goods to be sold, humorously related by the Tatler, in which 
 among other things, are, " the Imperial Robes of Xerxes, never worn but 
 once." The scene bes in Persia, and the plot is borrowed from the Persian 
 history. 
 
 THE YORK MYSTERIES. A collection of old English mysteries exhibited 
 by the incorporated trades of the city of York, on the festival of Corpus 
 Christi, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The first series contains 
 twelve plays relating to subjects in the Old Testament ; and the second 
 consists of thirty-six pageants founded on incidents derived from the New 
 Testament and the apochryphal Gospels. A MS. copy of them, transcribed 
 in the year 1553, is in the possession of Lord Ashburnham. See a short 
 notice of this volume in the Catalogue of Thoresby's Manuscripts in the 
 Ducatus Leodiensis, ed. 1816, p. 73, with a brief extract from the play of 
 the Crucifixion of Christ. 
 
 THE YORKSHIRE GENTLEWOMAN AND HER SON. A tragedy 
 by George Chapman. Entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, 
 June 29th, 1660; but probably now lost. It is in the list of the plays 
 which were said to have been destroyed by Warburton's servant.
 
 280 YOR—YOU 
 
 A YORKSHIRE TRAGEDY, not so new as lamentable and true, acted at 
 the Globe. 4to. 1608 ; 1619. This play is sometimes erroneously ascribed 
 to Shakespeare, whose name was surreptitiously placed on the title-pages 
 of the early editions. 
 
 THE YOUNG ADMIRAL. A tragi-comedy by James Shirley. Acted at 
 the Private House, Drury Lane. 4to. 1637. Scene, Naples. This is not 
 one of the best of Shirley's pieces, but it met with success both on the stage 
 and when acted before the Court. Dedicated to Lord Berkeley of Berkeley 
 Castle. It was licensed in 1633. 
 
 THE YOUNGER BROTHER. A comedy entered on the books of the 
 Stationers' Company, Nov. 29th, 1653, but not printed. 
 
 THE YOUNGER BROTHER; or, the Amorous Jilt. A comedy by Mrs. 
 Behn. Acted at the Theatre Royal. 4to. 1696. This play, though 
 written ten years before her death, was not published till after that event ; 
 when it was brought out by Gildon. The plot is founded on some facts 
 within her own knowledge, in the story of a brother of Colonel Henry 
 Martin and a particular lady, and which may be also found related, after 
 the manner of the Atalantis, in a novel, called, Hattige ; or, the Amours of 
 the King of Tameran. Prefixed to this play is a life of its author. 
 
 THE YOUNG KING ; or, the Mistake. A tragi-comedy by Mrs. Behn, 
 acted at the Duke's Theatre. 4to. 1683 ; 1698. The plot is taken from 
 the romance of Cleopatra. The scene, Dacia. 
 
 YOUR FIVE GALLANTS. A comedy, by Thomas Middleton. Acted 
 many times at the Black Friars. 4to. No date. This play, though pub- 
 lished without a date, appears, by the entries of the Stationers' Company, 
 to have been printed in the year 1608. 
 
 YOUTH. The Interlude of Youth, two editions, one printed by Waley, the 
 other by Copland, both without date, but no doubt issued between 1547 
 and 1561. There is a fragment of another early edition at Lambeth 
 Palace. 
 
 YOUTH'S COMEDY; or, the Soul's Tryals and Triumph. A Dramatic 
 Poem, with divers meditations intermixed upon several subjects. Set forth 
 to help and encourage those that are seeking a heavenly country. By the 
 author of Youth's Tragedy. 8vo. 1680. 
 
 YOUTH'S GLORY AND DEATH'S BANQUET. A tragedy, in two 
 parts, by the Duchess of Newcastle. Fol. 1662. All the songs and 
 verses in the second, and two scenes, together with the speeches in favour 
 of Mademoiselle Sans-pareille, in the first of these two pieces, were written 
 bv the Duke.
 
 YOU—ZOR 281 
 
 YOUTH'S TRAGEDY. A Poem, drawn up by way of dialogue between 
 Youth, the Devil, Wisdom, Time, Death, the Soul, and the Nuncius. By 
 T. S. 4to. 1671. 
 
 ZELOTYPUS. A Latin comedy, preserved in manuscript in the library of 
 Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The name of the author is not given. 
 The names of the students who played the different parts are given with the 
 dramatis personam. 
 
 ZENO. A Latin play, by Simon, acted at Cambridge in 1630-1. 
 
 ZENOBIA. A play acted at the Rose Theatre in 1591. 
 
 ZOROASTRES. The Tragedy of Zoroastres, written by the right honour- 
 able the late Earl of Orrery, written in 1676 ; the scene, Bactria. An 
 early copy in MS. Sloang 1S28. 
 
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 THE 
 
 COLLECTED WORKS OF DRAMATIC AUTHORS. 
 
 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHEE. Comedies and Tragedies by Francis 
 Beaumont and John Fletcher, folio, 1647, 1679—7 vols. 8vo. 1711 — 
 edited by Theobald, Seward, and Sympson, 10 vols. 8vo. 1750 — edited by 
 G. Colman, 10 vols. 8vo. 1778— edited by Weber, 14 vols. 8vo. 1812 — 
 edited by Darley, 2 vols, royal 8vo. 1840 — edited by Dyce, 11 vols. 8vo. 
 1S43. 
 
 BEHN. The Plays of Mrs. Behn, 2 vols. 8vo. 1702—2 vols. 8vo. 1716—4 
 vols. 12mo. 1724. 
 
 BROME. Ten New Playes by Richard Brome, 2 vols. 8vo. 1653-9. 
 
 BROOKE. Certain Learned and Elegant Workes by Fulke Greville, Lord 
 Brooke, small folio, 1633. 
 
 BUCKINGHAM. The Works of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 
 8vo. 1704, 1707, 1714— 12mo. 1754—2 vols. 12mo. 1775. 
 
 CAREW. Poems, &c, by Thomas Carew, small 8vo. 1640, 1642, 1651, 
 1671, 1772— edited by Maitland, Edinb. 1824. 
 
 CAETWRIGHT. Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems by Mr. 
 William Cartwright, 8vo. 1651. 
 
 CENTLIVRE. The Works of Mrs. Susanna Centlivre, 3 vols, small 8vo. 
 1761. 
 
 CIBBER. The Dramatic Works of Colley Cibber, 2 vols. 4to. 1721—4 vols. 
 12mo. 1760—5 vols. 12mo. 1777. 
 
 COCKBURN. The Works of Catherine Cockburn, 2 vols. 8vo. 1751. 
 
 COKA1N. Small Poems of divers sorts, written by Sir Aston Cokain, 8vo. 
 1658. 
 
 CONGREVE. Plays and Poems by William Congreve, 3 vols. 8vo. 1710— 
 3 vols. 8vo. 1717—3 vols. 12mo. 1725, 1730, 1751, 1753—3 vols, royal 
 8vo. Baskerville, Birmingham, 1751—2 vols. 12mo. 1761, 1774, 1788; 
 also with Wycherley, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, ed. by Leigh Hunt, royal 
 8vo. 1849.
 
 COLLECTED WORKS OF DRAMATIC AUTHORS. 283 
 
 COWLEY. The Works of Abraham Cowley, fol., first edition, 1656— ninth 
 edit. 1700—3 vols Svo. 1707, 1710, 1718—3 vols. 12mo. 1721. 
 
 DANIEL. The Works of Samuel Daniel, fol. 1G02— 4to. 1623—2 vols. 
 12mo. 1718. 
 
 DAVENANT. The Works of Sir William Davenant, folio, 1673. 
 
 DENHA.M. Poems and Translations, with the Sophy, by Sir John Denham, 
 8vo. 1668— 12mo. 1719— seventh edit. (1785). 
 
 DEXXIS. Select Works of John Dennis, 2 vols. 8vo. 1718, 1721. 
 
 DRAYTON. The Works of Michael Drayton, fol. 1748—4 vols. Svo. 1752. 
 
 DRYDEN. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, 2 vols, folio, 1701—6 
 vols. 12mo. 1718, 1735, 1762— whole works edited by Sir W, Scott, 19 
 vols. Svo. 1808, 1821. 
 
 ETHEREDGE. The Works of Sir George Etheredge, 8vo. 1704— 12mo. 
 1715, 1723, 1735. 
 
 FARQUHAR. The Works of George Farquhar, 8vo. 1714— the tenth 
 edition, 2 vols. 12mo. 1772 — also with Wycherley, Congreve, and Vanbrugh, 
 ed. by Leigh Hunt, royal 8vo. 1849. 
 
 FORD. The Dramatic Works of John Ford, edited by Weber, 2 vols. 8vo. 
 1811— edited by Gilford, 2 vols. Svo. 1827— edited by H. Coleridge (with 
 Massinger's Works), in 1 vol. royal 8vo. 1848 — 2 vols. 12mo. (Family 
 Library) 1S31. 
 
 GASCOIGNE. The Works of George Gascoigne, 4to. 1587. 
 
 GREENE. The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene, edited by 
 Dyce, 2 vols, post 8vo. 1831— in royal 8vo. I860. 
 
 HEYWOOD (John). The Works of John Heywood, 4to. 1562, 1566, 1576, 
 1587, 1598. 
 
 HEYWOOD. The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, edited by J. P. 
 Colber, Svo. vols. 1 and 2 issued by the Shakespeare Society, 1850. 
 
 HOWARD. Four New Plays by Sir Robert Howard, fol. 1665— Five New 
 Plays, fol. 1692— Dramatic Works, 12mo. 1722. 
 
 JONSON. The Works of Ben Jonson, 2 vols, folio, 1616-31, 1641, 1692 
 — 6 vols. Svo. 1716 — edited by Whalley, 7 vols. 8vo — edited by Gifford, 
 9 vols. Svo. 1816— edited by Gifford, royal Svo. 1846. 
 
 KILLIGREW. Comedies and Tragedies by Thomas Killigrew, folio, 1064. 
 
 KILL1GREW. Four New Plays by Sir William Killigrew, folio, 1666. 
 
 LEE. The Dramatic Works of Nat. Lee, 2 vols. Svo. 1713—3 vols. 12mo. 
 1722, 1734, 1736.
 
 284 COLLECTED WORKS OF DRAMATIC AUTUORS. 
 
 LILLY. Six Court Comedies by John Lilly, 12mo. 1632— Dramatic Works 
 
 edited by Fairholt, 2 vols. fcap. 8vo. 1858. 
 
 MARLOWE. The Works of Christopher Marlowe, edited by Robinson, 
 
 3 vols, post 8vo. 1826 — edited by Dyce, 3 vols, post 8vo. 1850 — in 1 vol. 
 royal 8vo. 1860. 
 
 MARSTON. Six Comedies and Tragedies, 12mo. 1633— Dramatic Works 
 edited by Halliwell, 3 vols. fcap. 8vo. 1856. 
 
 MASSINGER. The Plays of Philip Massinger, edited by Coxeter, 4 vols. 
 8vo. 1759, 1761— edited by Mason, 4 vols. 8vo. 1779— edited by Gifford, 
 
 4 vols. 8vo. 1805, 1813 — in one vol. royal 8vo. 1840— with Ford's Works 
 edited by Hartley Coleridge, royal 8vo. 1848 — 3 vols. 12mo. (Family 
 Library) 1830. 
 
 MIDDLETON. The Works of Thomas Middleton, edited by Dyce, 5 vols, 
 post 8vo. 1840. 
 
 MOUNTFORT. Plays by William Mountfort, 2 vols. 12mo. 1720. 
 
 NEWCASTLE. Plays by the Duchess of Newcastle, 2 vols. fol. 1 662-8. 
 
 ORRERY. The Dramatic Works of Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, 2 vols. 
 8vo. 1739. 
 
 OTWAY. The Works of Thomas Otway, 2 vols. 12mo. 1712, 1718—3 vols. 
 1757—2 vols. 8vo. 1812— edited by Thornton, 3 vols. 8vo. 1813. 
 
 PEELE. The Works of George Peele, edited by Dyce, 2 vols, post 8vo. 
 1828— vol. 3, 1839—3 vols. 1829-39— in 1 vol. royal 8vo. 1860. 
 
 RANDOLPH. Poems, &c, by Thomas Randolph, 12mo. 1640, 1643, 1652, 
 1664, 1668. 
 
 ROWE. The Works of Nicholas Rowe, 2 vols. 12mo. 1747, 1756, 1766, 
 
 1792. 
 
 SACKVILLE. The Works of Thomas Sackville (Earl of Dorset), 12mo. 
 Lond. 1820 — edited by the Hon. and Rev. W. Sackville-West, fcap. 8vo. 
 Lond. 1859. 
 
 SEDLEY. The Works of Sir Charles Sedley, 2 vols. 12mo. 1722, 1778. 
 
 SHADWELL. The Dramatic Works of Thomas Shadwell, 4 vols. 12mo. 
 1720. 
 
 SHAKESPEARE. Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and 
 Tragedies, folio, 1623 — Second Impression, 1632 — Third Impression, with 
 seven Plays added, 1664— Fourth Edition, 1685. 
 The above arc the four first collected editions, the following are the four last.
 
 COLLECTED WORKS OF DRAMATIC AUTHORS. 285 
 
 SHAKESPEARE. The Works of William Shakespeare. The Text revised 
 by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. 6 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1858. 
 
 . Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems. Edited 
 
 by J. Payne Collier. Second Edition, 6 vols. 8vo. 1858. 
 . The Plays of Shakespeare. Edited by 11. Staunton, 3 vols, royal 
 
 8vo. 1858-60. 
 
 . The Works of William Shakespeare, the Text from a New Colla- 
 tion of early editions ; to which are added all the original novels and tales 
 on which the plays are founded ; copious Archaeological Annotations on 
 each play ; an Essay on the formation of the text ; and a Life of the Poet 
 by James Orchard Hallivvell, F.R.S. Polio, Vols. I.-IX., 1S53— 60. 
 * # * To be completed in twenty volumes. 
 
 SHIRLEY. The Dramatic Works of James Shirley, with notes by Gifford ; 
 edited by Dyce, 6 vols. Svo. 1833. 
 
 SIDNEY. The Works of Sir Philip Sidney, 3 vols. 8vo. 1725—3 vols. 
 12mo. Dublin, 1739 — Miscellaneous Works, edited by Gray, post 8vo. 
 Oxford, 1829. 
 
 SKELTON. The Works of John Skelton, 8vo. 1568, 1736— edited by Dyce, 
 2 vols. Svo. 1843. 
 
 SOUTHERNE. The Works of Thomas Southerne, 2 vols. 12mo. 1713, 
 1721—3 vols, small 8vo. 1774. 
 
 STIRLING. The Monarchicke Tragedies by William Alexander, Earl of 
 Stirling, 4to. 1604— 4to. 1607— 16mo. 1616. 
 
 SUCKLING. The Works of Sir John Suckling, small 8vo. 1646, 1647, 
 1648,1658, 1676, 1696, 1709— 12mo. 1719—2 vols. 12mo. 1770.— Selec- 
 tions from his Works (containing his 4 Plays), royal 8vo. 1836. 
 
 VANBRUGH. Plays by Sir John Vanbrugh, 2 vols. 12mo. 1730, 1759, 
 1776 — with Wycherley, Congreve, and Farcpjhar, edited by Leigh Hunt, 
 royal 8vo. 1849. 
 
 WALLER. The Works of Edmund Waller, Svo. 1711— 18mo. 171 2— 4to. 
 1729— 12mo. 1744, 1772. 
 
 WEBSTER. The Dramatic Works of John Webster, edited by Dyce, 4 vols. 
 post 8vo. 1S30— in 1 vol. royal 8vo. 1857 — edited by Hazlitt, 4 vols, 
 fcap. 8vo. 1857-8. 
 
 WYCHERLEY. The Plays of William Wycherley, Svo. 1 7 1 2— 2 vols. 1 2rao. 
 1720— 12mo. 1731, 1735, 1768— with Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar; 
 edited by Leigh Hunt, royal 8vo. 1849.
 
 COLLECTIONS OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS. 
 
 THE ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH DRAMA, Illustrated in its various 
 Species, viz., Mystery, Morality, Tragedy, and Comedy, by Specimens from 
 our Earliest Writers ; with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Hawkins. 3 vols, 
 small 8vo. Oxford, 1773. 
 
 Vol. I. 
 Candlemas Day ; or, the Killing of the 
 
 Children of Israel 
 Every Man 
 Hycke-Scorner 
 Lusty Juventus 
 Gammer Gurton's Needle 
 Cambises, King of Percia 
 
 Vol. II. 
 The Spanish Tragedy ; or, Hieronimo is 
 Mad Again 
 
 A SELECT COLLECTION 
 London, R. Dodsley, 1744. 
 
 Vol. I. 
 God's Promises 
 New Custom 
 The Four P.'s 
 Gammer Gurton's Needle 
 The Pinner of Wakefield 
 Damon and Pithias 
 
 Vol. II. 
 Gorboduc 
 Campaspe 
 Spanish Tragedy 
 History of Edward II. 
 Mustapha (by Lord Brooke) 
 
 Vol. III. 
 Green's Tu Quoque 
 The Honest Whore 
 The Hog hath lost its Pearl 
 Euimus Troes 
 The White Devil 
 
 Vol. IV. 
 The Malcontent 
 
 A Woman Killed with Kindness 
 Eastward Hoe 
 The Widow's Tears 
 The Kevenger's Tragedy 
 
 Vol. V. 
 
 Lingua 
 
 A Mad World, my Masters 
 
 'Tis a pity she's a Whore 
 
 Grim, the Collier of Croydon 
 
 Microcosmus 
 
 Vol. II. — {continued). 
 Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe 
 Soliman and Perseda 
 Ferrex and Porrex 
 
 Vol. III. 
 
 Supposes 
 
 Satiro-Mastix ; or, the Untrussing of the 
 
 Humorous Poet 
 The Return from Parnassus ; or, tho 
 
 Scourge of Simony 
 Wily Beguiled 
 
 OF OLD PLATS. 12 vols, small 8vo. 
 
 Vol. VI. 
 The Widow 
 A Match at Midnight 
 The Dumb Knight 
 The Muses' Looking Glass 
 The Jovial Crew 
 
 Vol. VII. 
 The Heir 
 The Old Couple 
 The Antiquary 
 The Goblins 
 The Shepherd's Holiday 
 
 Vol. VIII. 
 The City Madam 
 The Way to Pay Old Debts 
 The Guardian 
 The Unnatural Combat 
 The Picture 
 
 Vol. IX. 
 Albumazar 
 The Gamester 
 The Bird in a Cage 
 The City Nightcap 
 The Parson's Wedding 
 
 Vol. X. 
 The City Match 
 The Lost Lady 
 The Ordinary 
 The Queen of Arragon 
 The Marriage Night
 
 COLLECTIONS OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS. 
 
 287 
 
 Vol. XI. 
 Tancred and Gismunda 
 Cornelia 
 
 The Merry Devil of Edmonton 
 Andromana 
 The Mayor of Quinborough 
 
 Vol. XII. 
 Elvira 
 
 Love will Gnd out the Way 
 All Mistaken ; or, the Mad Couple 
 The Adventures of Five Ilours 
 The Kevenge ; or, a Match in Newgate 
 
 A SELECT COLLECTION OF OLD PLAYS. The Second Edition, 
 Corrected and Collated with the Old Copies, with Notes, Critical and 
 Explanatory, by Isaac Reed. 12 vols. sra. 8vo. London, J. Dodsley, 1780. 
 
 Vol. I. 
 God's Promises 
 The Four P.'s 
 
 Ferrex and Porrex (Gorboduc) 
 Damon and Pithias 
 New Custom 
 
 Vol. II. 
 Gammer Gurton's Needle 
 Alexander and Campaspe 
 Tancred and Gismunda 
 Cornelia 
 Edward II. 
 
 Vol. III. 
 George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield 
 The First Part of Jeronymo 
 The Spanish Tragedy 
 The Honest Whore,' Part I. 
 Part II. 
 
 Vol. IV. 
 The Malcontent 
 All Fools 
 Eastward Hoe 
 The Revenger's Tragedy 
 The Dumb Knight 
 
 Vol. V. 
 The Miseries of Inforst Marriage 
 Lingua 
 
 The Merry Devil of Edmonton 
 A Mad World, my Masters 
 Bam Alley ; or, Merry Tricks 
 
 Vol. VI. 
 The Roaring Girl ; or, Moll Cutpurse 
 The Widow's Tears 
 The White Devil 
 The Hog hath lost his Pearl 
 The Four Prentises of London 
 
 Vol. VII. 
 Green's Tu Quoque 
 Albumazar 
 
 A Woman Killed with Kindness 
 A Match at Midnight 
 Fuimus Troes 
 
 Vol. VIII. 
 
 'Tis a Pity she's a Whore 
 The Heir 
 
 The Bird in a Cage 
 The Jew of Malta 
 The Wits 
 
 Vol. IX. 
 The Gamester 
 Microcosmus 
 
 The Muses' Looking Glass 
 The City Match 
 The Queen of Arragon 
 
 Vol. X. 
 The Antiquary 
 The Goblins 
 The Ordinary 
 The Jovial Crew 
 The Old Couple 
 
 Vol. XL 
 
 Andromana 
 
 The Mayor of Quinborough 
 
 Grim, the Collier of Croydon 
 
 The City Nightcap 
 
 The Parson's Wedding 
 
 Vol. XII. 
 The Adventures of Five Hours 
 Elvira 
 The Widow 
 Chichevache and Bycorne 
 
 A SELECT COLLECTION OF OLD PLAYS. A New Edition, with 
 Additional Notes and Corrections, by the late Isaac Eeed, Octavius Gil- 
 christ, and the Editor (J. P. Collier). 12 vols, post 8vo. London, .1825-27 
 
 Vol. I. 
 God's Promises 
 The Four P.'s 
 Ferrex and Porrex 
 Damon and Pithias 
 New Custome 
 
 Vol. II. 
 Gammer Gurton's Needle 
 Alexander and Campaspe 
 Tancred and Gismunda 
 Edward II.
 
 288 
 
 COLLECTIONS OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS. 
 
 Vol. III. 
 
 George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield 
 
 The First Part of Jeronymo 
 
 The Spanish Tragedy ; or, Hieronimo is 
 
 Mad Again 
 The Honest Whore, Parts I. and II. 
 
 Vol. IV. 
 The Malcontent 
 All Fools 
 Eastward Hoe ' 
 The Revenger's Tragedy 
 The Dumb Knight 
 
 Vol. V. 
 The Miseries of Inforced Marriage 
 Lingua ; or, the Combat of the Tongue, 
 
 and the Five Senses 
 The Merry Devil of Edmonton 
 A Mad World, my Masters 
 Earn Alley ; or, Merry Tricks 
 
 Vol. VI. 
 The Roaring Girle 
 The Widow's Tears 
 
 The White Devil ; or, Vittoria Corombona 
 The Hog hath Lost its Pearl 
 The Four Prentices of London 
 
 Vol. VII. 
 Green's Tu Quoque ; or the City Gallant 
 Albumazar 
 
 A Woman Killed with Kindness 
 A Match at Midnight 
 Fuimus Troes, the True Trojans 
 
 Vol. VIII. 
 The Wounds of Civil War 
 The Heir 
 
 Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay 
 The Jew of Malta 
 The Wits 
 
 Vol. IX. 
 Will. Summer's Last Will and Testament 
 Microcosmus 
 
 The Muses' Looking Glass 
 The City Match 
 The Queen of Arragon 
 
 Vol. X. 
 The Antiquary 
 The Goblins 
 The Ordinary 
 
 The Jovial Crew ; or, the Merry Beggars 
 The Old Couple 
 
 Vol. XI. 
 The Chronicle of Edward the First 
 The Mayor of Quinborough 
 Grim, the Collier of Croydon 
 The City Night Cap 
 The Parson's Wedding 
 
 Vol. XII. 
 The Adventures of Five Hours 
 Elvira ; or, the Worst not always True 
 The Widow 
 
 Chichevache and Bycorne 
 The Worlde and the Chylde 
 Apius and Virginia 
 
 FIVE OLD PLAYS, forming a Supplement to the Collection of Dodsley 
 and others. Edited by J. Payne Collier. Post 8vo. London, 1833. 
 
 Misfortunes of Arthur 
 
 Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon 
 
 Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon 
 
 Woman is a Weathercock 
 Amends for Ladies 
 
 THE ANCIENT BRITISH DRAMA (Edited by Sir W. Scott), 
 royal 8vo. London, 1810. 
 
 3 vols. 
 
 Vol. I. 
 The Four P.'s 
 Ferrex and Porrex 
 The Return from Parnassus 
 Damon and Pythias 
 Gammer Gurton's Needle 
 Alexander and Campaspe 
 Edward II. 
 The Heir 
 Bird in a Cage 
 The Jew of Malta 
 The Wits 
 Sir John Oldcastle 
 The Life and Death of Thomas, Lord 
 
 Cromwell 
 London Prodigal 
 The Puritan ; or, the Widow of Watling 
 
 Street 
 
 Vol. I. — (continued). 
 A Yorkshire Tragedy 
 George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield 
 Jeronimo (Part I.) 
 The Spanish Tragedy ; or, Hieronimo is 
 
 Mad Again 
 The Honest Whore, Parts I. and II. 
 
 Vol. II. 
 The Malcontent 
 All Fools 
 Eastward Hoe 
 The Revenger's Tragedy 
 The Dumb Knight 
 The Miseries of Inforst Marriage 
 Lingua ; or, the Combat of the Tongue 
 The Merry Devil of Edmonton 
 A Mad World, my Masters 
 Ram Alley ; or, Merry Tricks
 
 COLLECTIONS OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS. 
 
 289 
 
 Vol. II. — {continued). 
 The Roaring Girl ; or, Moll Cut-purse 
 The City Match 
 The Muses' Looking Glass 
 A Woman Kill'd with Kindness 
 A Match at Midnight 
 The Gamester 
 Mici'ocosmus 
 Greene's Tu Quoque 
 Albumazar 
 
 Vol. III. 
 The White Devil 
 The Hog bath lost his Pearl 
 The Four Prentises of London 
 
 Vol. III. — {continued). 
 
 The Ordinary 
 
 A Jovial Crcw 
 
 The Old Couplo 
 
 Andromana ; or, the Merchant's Wife 
 
 The Mayor of Quinborough 
 
 Grim, the Collier of Croydon 
 
 The City Night Cap 
 
 The Parson's Wedding 
 
 The Adventures of Five Hours 
 
 Elvira ; or, the Worst not always True 
 
 The Widow 
 
 The Duchesse of Malfy 
 
 The Rebellion 
 
 The Witch 
 
 Scott). 5 vols. 
 
 The Antiquary 
 
 THE MODERN BRITISH DRAMA (Edited by Sir W 
 royal 8vo. London, 1811. 
 
 %* Only those Plays are indexed which were written before 1700. 
 Vol. I. Vol. III. — {continued) 
 
 The Two Noble Kinsmen 
 
 A King and No King 
 
 The Maid's Tragedy 
 
 Thierry and Theodoret 
 
 Philaster 
 
 Bonduca 
 
 The False One 
 
 The Bondman 
 
 The Broken Heart 
 
 The Rival Queens 
 
 Theodosius 
 
 All for Love 
 
 Don Sebastian 
 
 The Orphan 
 
 Venice Preserved 
 
 Isabella 
 
 Oronooko 
 
 The Mourning Bride 
 
 Vol. III. 
 Every Man in his Humour 
 Volpone 
 
 OLD ENGLISH PLAYS; being 
 Writers (Edited by C. W. Dilke). 
 Vol. I. 
 Doctor Faustus 
 Lust's Dominion 
 Mother Bombie 
 Midas 
 
 Vol. II. 
 Endymion ; or, the Man in the Moon 
 History of Antonio and MelUda 
 What You Will 
 Parasitaster 
 
 Vol. III. 
 The Wonder of a Kingdom 
 Old Fortunatus 
 Bussy d'Ambois 
 Monsieur d' Olive 
 
 The Alchemist 
 
 Rule a Wife, and have a Wife 
 
 The Chances 
 
 A New Way to Pay Old Debts 
 
 The Committee 
 
 The Rehearsal (with the key) 
 
 The Country Girl 
 
 The Plain Dealer 
 
 The Old Bachelor 
 
 The Double Dealer 
 
 Love for Love 
 
 The Way of the World 
 
 The Provoked Wife 
 
 The Spanish Friar 
 
 Love Makes a Man 
 
 Vol. IV. 
 The Constant Couple 
 
 Vol. V. 
 Comus 
 The Cheats of Scapin 
 
 a selection from the Early Dramatic 
 6 vols 8vo. London, 1814-15. 
 Vol. IV. 
 May Day 
 
 The Spanish Gipsy 
 The Changeling 
 More Dissemblers besides Women 
 
 Vol. V. 
 Women beware Women 
 A Trick to catch the Old One 
 A New Wonder, a Woman never Vext 
 Appius and Virginia 
 
 Vol. VI. 
 The Thracian Wonder 
 The English Traveller 
 Royal King and Loyal Subject 
 A Challenge for Beauty 
 
 37
 
 290 COLLECTIONS OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS. 
 
 THE OLD ENGLISH DRAMA ; a Selection of Plays from the Old English 
 Dramatists. 2 vols, post 8vo. Loudon, 1825. 
 
 Vol. I. 
 
 The Second Maiden's Tragedy 
 
 A Pleasant Conceited Comedy, how a Man 
 
 may chuse a Good Wife from a Bad. 
 The Ball 
 The Rape of Lucrece 
 
 THE OLD ENGLISH DRAMA, Vols. I. -III., 12mo. London, 1830 
 
 Vol. II. 
 Love's Mistress ; or, the Queen's Masque 
 Albertus Wallenstein 
 Dido, Queen of Carthage 
 The Lady's Privilege 
 
 Vol. I. 
 
 Ralph Royster Doyster 
 Gammar Gurton's Needle 
 Volpone ; or, the Fox 
 Englishmen for my Money 
 
 Vol. II. 
 The Broken Heart 
 Amends for Ladies 
 
 Vol. II. — {continued). 
 A Woman is a Weather-cock 
 'Tis a Pity she's a Whore 
 Vol. III. 
 The Silent Woman. 
 The Seven Champions of Christendom 
 Women beware Women 
 A Trick to catch the Old One 
 
 FOUR OLD PLAYS, with an Introduction and Notes (edited by E. J. Child). 
 
 Post 8vo. Cambridge (U.S.) 1848. 
 Thersytes 1 The Pardoner and the Frere 
 
 Jack Jugler ' Jocasta 
 
 COLLECTIONS OF MIRACLE PLAYS. 
 
 ANCIENT MYSTERIES DESCRIBED; especially the English Miracle 
 Plays. By William Hone. 8vo. London, 1823. 
 
 A DISSERTATION ON THE PAGEANTS or Dramatic Mysteries 
 anciently performed at Coventry. To which is added the Pageant of the 
 Shearmen and Taylor's Company. By Thomas Sharp. 4to. Coventry, 
 1825. 
 
 ANCIENT MYSTERIES from the Digby Manuscripts. Edited by Thomas 
 Sharpe. 4to. Edinburgh, printed for the Abhotsford Club, 1835. 
 
 THE TOWNELEY MYSTERIES. 8vo. London, printed for the Surtees 
 Society, 1836. 
 
 FIVE MIRACLE PLAYS, OR SCRIPTURAL DRAMAS. Privately 
 Printed, under the care of J. Payne Collier. Post 8vo, London, 1836. 
 
 A COLLECTION OF TEN ENGLISH MIRACLE PLAYS OR MYSTE- 
 RIES. With Historical View of the Plays by W. Marriott. 8vo, Basel, 
 1838. 
 
 LUDUS COVENTRY. A Collection of Mysteries formerly represented 
 at Coventry on the Feast of Corpus Christi. Edited by J. O. Halliwell. 
 London, printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1841. 
 
 CHESTER PLAYS. A Collection of Mysteries formerly represented by the 
 Trades of Chester at Whitsuntide. Edited by Thomas Wright. 2 vols. 
 8vOj London, printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1843.
 
 INDEX OF AUTHORS. 
 
 *#* The reader will observe that the same name often occurs more than once oh 
 page, but not indexed. 
 
 A , E., 263. 
 
 Adamson, Patrick, 1,18. 
 Ainsworth, George, 52. 
 Alabaster, William, 215. 
 Alexander, William, v. Sterling. 
 Aristophanes, 52, 278. 
 Armin, Eobert, 259, 2G3. 
 Arrowsmith, 207. 
 Arthur, Thomas, 170, 176. 
 Aseham, Rogei', 194. 
 Atkinson, Thomas, 121. 
 
 B , H. H., 278. 
 
 B , J., 145. 
 
 B , P., 172. 
 
 B , T., 18, 157, 169. 
 
 Bacon, Sir F., 164. 
 
 Bailey, Abraham, 235. 
 
 Bale, John, 2, 5, 27, 36, 47, 60, 61, 70, 
 109, 126, 134, 142, 150, 190, 223, 228, 
 243, 215, 250. 
 
 Bancroft, John, 82, 116, 224. 
 
 Banister, J., 192. 
 
 Banks, John, 69, 72, 128, 130, 212, 261, 265. 
 
 Barclay, Sir William, 150. 
 
 Barker, Mr. 29. 
 
 Barker, Thomas, 34. 
 
 Barksted, William, 128. 
 
 Barnes, — , 159. 
 
 Barnes, Barnaby, 73. 
 
 Barnes, Joshua, 2, 84, 141. 
 
 Barrey, Lodowick, 206. 
 
 Baron, Robert, 72, 112, 171. 
 
 Bartley, Sir W., 60. 
 
 Baylie, Simon, 275. 
 
 Beaumont, Francis, 160. 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher, 30, 35, 1:2, :."., 
 52, 55, 63, 67, 75, 78, 82, 84, 87, 90, 
 92, 93, 100, 102, 121, 123, 129, 137, 
 138, 141, 143, 153, 15 1, 156, 157, 159, 
 161, 180, 181, 193, 195, 202, 201, 211, 
 221, 2-2, 221, 233, 211, 21*;, 251,252, 
 2t32, 272, 271,275, 277,282. 
 
 Bedloe, William, 89. 
 
 Behn Aphra, 1, 15, 50, 80, 83, 92, 96, 100, 
 143, 158, 215, 230, 249, 271, 280, 282. 
 
 Belchier, (Dabridgccourt), 114. 
 Belon, Peter, 173. 
 
 Bernard, Richard, 17, 88, 114, 115, 191. 
 Betterton, Thomas, 16, 75, 116,202,209, 
 
 214. 
 Beza, Theodore, 2. 
 Bonen, William, 64, 259. 
 Borne, William, 135. 
 Boothby, Mrs. F., 163. 
 Bourne, Reuben, 58. 
 Boyer, Abel, 2. 
 Boyle, William, 135. 
 Braekley, Lady Elizabeth, 55. 
 Brady, Dr., 206. 
 Brandon, Samuel, 266. 
 Braithwait, Richard, 45, 168, 207. 
 Brewer, Anthony, 61, 143, 154, 169, 192. 
 Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 4, 247, 
 
 279. 
 Bristowe, 137. 
 Brome, Alexander, 18, 21, 48, 51, 62, 66, 
 
 69, 85, 95, 133, 135, 154, 159, 179,182, 
 
 183, 204, 205, 215, 230, 235, 249, 268, 
 
 271, 282. 
 Brown, Thomas, 194, 244. 
 Browne, William, 128. 
 Brooke, Fulke Greville, Lord, 6, 163, 177. 
 
 282. 
 Brookes, of Trin. Coll. Camb., 168, 221. 
 Buchanan, George, 27, 132, 260. 
 Buckingham, Villiers, Duke of, 28, 45, 
 
 20S, 282. 
 Buekhurst, v. Sackville 
 Bulteel, J., 15. 
 Barnaby Charles, 207. 
 Burkhead, Henry, 53. 
 Burroughes, — , 94. 
 Burnell, Henry, 1 10. 
 Burton, William, 15. 
 Butler, Samuel, 17«. 
 
 C , J., 259. 
 
 C , R., 71, 126. 
 
 Co—, J a., 21 !, 
 Calderon, 4. 
 
 Calfhill, Dr. James, 201.
 
 292 
 
 1N1H.X. 
 
 Campion, Thomas, 80, 149, 232. 
 
 Campion, Edmund, 178. 
 
 Carew, Lady Elizabeth, 1G3. 
 
 Carew, Thomas, 53, 282. 
 
 Carlell, Lodovick, 24, 72, 100, 117, 18G, 
 
 190, 235. 
 Carleton, R , 55, 1(55. 
 Carlisle, James, 101. 
 Carpenter, Richard, 199. 
 Cart wright George, 119. 
 Cartwright, W., 140, 185, 216, 227, 282. 
 Caryl, J., 85, 230. 
 Cavendish, Lady Jane, 55. 
 Cecil, 4 
 
 Centlivre, Mrs., 192, 282. 
 Chamberlaine, William, 156. 
 Chamberlain, Robert, 239. 
 Chapman, George, 10, 12, 33, 38, 39, 40, 
 
 45, 57, 81, 94, 101, 107, 123, 167, 170, 
 
 173, 189, 209, 222, 259, 267, 272, 273, 
 
 278, 279. 
 Chaves, A., 153. 
 Cheeko, Henry, 103. 
 Chettle (Henry), 5, 11, 22, 32, 33, 43, 41, 
 
 48, 56, 66, 70, 71, 78, 81, 93, 97, 105, 
 
 110, 120, 122, 132, 140, 143, 144, 153, 
 
 186,190,195,198, 210,211, 213,222, 
 
 226, 237, 247, 248, 249, 256, 257, 263, 
 
 274, 277, 278. 
 Christopherson, John, 132. 
 Cibber, Collev, 155, 210, 277, 279, 282. 
 Gierke, William, 163. 
 Cockburn, Catherine, 5, 94, 282. 
 Codrington, Robert, 126. 
 Cokain, Sir Aston, 184, 187, 250, 282. 
 Cooke, Edward, 156. 
 Cook, James, 214. 
 Cooke, John, 112, 123. 
 Cooke, Joshua, 123. 
 Congreve, Willliam, 77, 124, 151, 175, 
 
 184, 268, 282. 
 Corey, John, 107. 
 Corneille, 15, 49, 90, 95, 122, 172, 180, 
 
 198, 248, 262. 
 Cornish, 252. 
 Cotton, Charles, 122. 
 Cowlev, Abraham, 68, 112, 156, 178, 283. 
 Cox, Robert, 3, 6, 32, 36, 47, 75, 184, 
 
 193, 263, 273. 
 Coxeter, R., 126. 
 Crauford, David, 62. 
 Crouse, — , 88. 
 Crowne, J., 14, 17, 40, 41, 46, 50, 61, 70, 
 
 72, 84, 1 17, 136, 164, 171, 207, 229,246. 
 
 D , D., 92. 
 
 D , J., 115, 138, 162. 
 
 D , T., 34. 
 
 Daborne, Robert, 31, 48, 159, 187, 198, 
 
 225. 
 Dancer, John, 15, 180. 
 
 Daniel, Samuel, 22, 52, 124, 194, 205, 
 
 243, 266, 273, 283. 
 Danter, John, 109. 
 Davenant, Charles, 49. 
 
 Davenant, Sir William, 8, 37, 53, 62, 65, 
 76, 86, 90, 136, 141, 150, 162, 180, 
 182, 1'JG, 212, 219, 227, 228, 229, 234, 
 243, 255, 257, 260, 274, 283. 
 
 Davenport, Robert, 34, 50, 94, 100, 116, 
 134, 180, 191, 195, 197, 251, 277. 
 
 Day, John, 31, 32, 33, 35, 37, 54, 56, 57, 
 63, 66, 110, 113, 123, 130, 132, 134, 
 111, 160, 169, 186, 189, 202, 234, 244, 
 248, 250, 260. 
 
 Decker, Thomas, 5, 29, 31, 32, 45, 48, 51, 
 56, 59, 66, 81, 90, 91, 93, 98, 101, 110, 
 113, 121, 125, 132, 133, 134, 137, 140, 
 160, 166, 167, 182, 183, 184, 186, 187, 
 191, 192, 195, 213, 220, 222, 231, 234, 
 237, 238, 239, 240, 251, 256, 257, 258, 
 265, 269, 270, 271, 278, 279. 
 
 Denham, Sir John, 122, 233, 283. 
 
 Dennis, John, 129, 197, 211, 283. 
 
 Digby, Lord, v. Bristol. 
 
 Dilke, Thomas, 50, 153, 200. 
 
 Dogget, Thomas, 61, lfiO. 
 
 D'Ouvilly, George Gerbier, 93. 
 
 Dover, John, 214. 
 
 Downton, Thomas, 104. 
 
 Drake, Dr. James, 224. 
 
 Drayson, 160. 
 
 Drayton, Michael, 32, 40, 45, 51, 56, 81, 
 90, 93, 98, 105, 113, 169, 175, 187, 195, 
 
 210, 211, 230, 231, 258, 273, 279, 283. 
 Drue, Thomas, 78, 277. 
 
 Drury, William, 13, 175, 208. 
 
 Dryden, John, 7, 10, 12, 14, 16, 23, 24, 
 26, 51, 56, 77, 78, 88, 124, 127, 136, 
 139, 152, 157, 160, 162, 163, 172, 184, 
 212, 230, 231, 234, 236, 243, 257, 260, 
 272, 283. 
 
 Duffet, Thomas, 15, 30, 83, 173, 203, 234. 
 
 Durfey, Thos., 26, 34, 39, 41, 55, 68, 77, 
 99, 100, 127, 128, 151, 159, 163, 166, 
 
 211, 217, 227, 229, 236, 251, 260, 266. 
 
 E , K., 199. 
 
 Ecclestone, Edward, 44, 181. 
 
 Echard, Laurence, 3, 16, 17, 87, 88, 115, 
 
 194, 217. 
 Edward VI., King, 271. 
 Edwards, Maister, 70. 
 Edwards, Richards, 187. 
 Etheredge, Sir Geo., 54,152,162, 226, 283. 
 Euripides, 129, 133. 
 Evelyn, John, 246. 
 
 E , C, 197. 
 
 F , J., 256. 
 
 Falkland, Lord Viscount, 164, 268. 
 Fane, Sir Francis, 152, 218.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 293 
 
 Fanshawe, Sir Richard, 97, 190, 205. 
 
 Farquhar, George, 57, 150, 283. 
 
 Field, Nathaniel, 14, 94, 133, 276. 
 
 Filmer, Dr. Edward, 261. 
 
 Fisher, Jasper, 105. 
 
 Flecknoe, Richard, 09, 87, 151, 164,191. 
 
 Fleming, Robert, 173. 
 
 Fletcher, John, 60, 73, 82, 92, 93, 133, 
 
 143, 161, 174, 181, 213, 217,237, 259, 
 
 267, 275, 277. 
 Fletcher, v. Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 Fletcher, Phineas, 196, 22(1. 
 Ford, John, 29, 37, 91, 93, 110,126,139, 
 
 141, 144, 153, 156, 192, 215, 23y, 217, 
 
 283. 
 Ford, Thomas, 155, 
 Formido, Sir Cornelius, 111. 
 Fountain, John, 20y. 
 Foxe, John, 48. 
 Fraunce, Abraham, 16. 
 Freeman, Sir Ralph, 126. 
 Fullonius, William, 3. 
 Fulwel, Ulpian, 143. 
 
 G , A., 2, 
 
 G , C, 237. 
 
 G , J., 237. 
 
 q. ij 223 
 
 Gager,'Wi'lliam, 74, 168, 184, 211, 260. 
 
 Gariield, Benjamin, 260. 
 
 Gamier, Robert, 198. 
 
 Garter, Thomas, 239. 
 
 Gascoigne, George,109,134, 174,200, 239, 
 
 283. 
 Gayton, Edmund, 46. 
 Geoffrey, Abbot of St. Albans, 218. 
 Gildon," Charles, 167, 192, 213, 237. 
 Glapthorne, Henry, 7, 22, 80, 121, 139, 
 
 182, 183, 189, 264, 274. 
 Goffe, Thomas, 43, 62, 185, 205, 222, 223. 
 Golding, Arthur, 2. 
 Goldingham, William, 118. 
 Goldsmith, Francis, 233. 
 Gomersal, Robert, 144, 155. 
 Gosson, Stephen, 42, 44, 199. 
 Gough, J. 237. 
 Gould, Robert, 212. 
 Green, Alexander, 197. 
 Greene, Robert, 13, 104, 107, 131, 133, 
 
 139, 141, 149, 158, 186, 195, 257,283. 
 Grevile, Fulke, v. Brooke, Lord. 
 Grimald, Nicholas, 22. 
 Grotius, Hugo, 48. 
 Grys, Sir Robert le, 183. 
 Guarini, 190. 
 Gunnel, 124, 268. 
 Gwinne, Matthew, 179, 264. 
 
 Habington, William, 51, 201. 
 Hacket, Dr., 144. 
 Haines, Joseph, 95. 
 
 ITalliwell, Edward, 74. 
 
 Harding, Samuel, 227. 
 
 Harris, Joseph, 49, 151, 153, 172. 
 
 Hathwave, Richard, 23, 2 1, 32, 35, 57,101, 
 111, 143, 1S7, 230, 231, 219, 260, 262. 
 
 Haughton, Win., 22,33, 11,57,63,73, 
 84, 85, 97, 134, 169, 186, 190, 199, 202, 
 213, 224, 231, 234, 237, 244, 273, 277. 
 
 HauBted, Peter, 211, 223. 
 
 Hawkesworth, 139. 
 
 Hawkins, William, 20. 
 
 Head, Richard, 119. 
 
 Hemminges, William, 62, 88, 94, 133. 
 
 Hevlin, Peter, 2.;i;, 244. 
 
 Hey wood, Jasper, 118, 246, 256. 
 
 Heywood, John, 131, 188, 268, 283. 
 
 Hey wood, Thomas, 7, 16, 20, 21, 33, 35, 
 36, 42, 45, 48, 67, 82, 85, 90, 91, 91, 
 101, 102, 108, 109, 123, 125, 129, 133, 
 140, 143, 144, 145, 150, 155, 160, 165, 
 199, 204, 206, 216, 226, 22S, 230, 268, 
 273, 276, 283. 
 
 Heywood, Matthew, 46. 
 
 Iligden, H., 268. 
 
 Hobbes, Thomas, 167. 
 
 Holden, 108. 
 
 Holyday, Dr. Barton, 226, 242. 
 
 Holland, Samuel, 263. 
 
 Hooker, John, 195. 
 
 Hoole, Charles, 3, 17, 88, 115, 194. 
 
 Hopkins, Charles, 34, 104, 203. 
 
 Home, John, 101. 
 
 Howard, Hon. Edward, 46, 144, 162, 231, 
 261, 262, 277. 
 
 Howard, Sir George, 251. 
 
 Howard, Hon. James, 11, 85, 214. 
 
 Howard, Sir Robert, 33, 54, 56, 79, 111, 
 124, 127, 239, 264, 283. 
 
 Howell, James, 183. 
 
 Hughes, John, 13. 
 
 Hughes, Thomas, 171. 
 
 Ingeland, Thomas, 75. 
 
 J , B., 113. 
 
 J , T., 66. 
 
 Jaques, Francis, 205. 
 
 Jeffere, Johannes, 38. 
 
 Jevon, Thomas, 73. 
 
 Johns, William, 250. 
 
 Johnson, William, 142, 262. 
 
 Jonson, Ben., 8, 26, 27, 29, 33, 44, 45, 
 48, 69, 73, 81, 83, 85, 86, 87, 89, 101, 
 110, 122, 123, 124, 129, 137, 151, 153, 
 156, 160, 167, 168, 169, 175,178, 179, 
 180, 184, 187, 188, 192, 197, 205, 210, 
 213, 218, 223, 236, 240, 247, 258, 266, 
 2S3. 
 
 Jonson, Benj., the Younger, 95. 
 
 Jones, John, 4. 
 
 Jones, Inigo, 8, 37, 53, 99, 101, 156, 158, 
 188, 242, 243, 247, 252.
 
 294 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Jordan, James, 252. 
 
 -Jordan, Thomas, 93, 99, 110, 146, 147, 
 
 148, 149, 151, 173, 253, 2G7. 
 Jordan, William, 65. 
 Joyner, William, 214. 
 Jubyc, Edward, 219. 
 
 K , R., 10. 
 
 Keigwin, John, 65. 
 
 Kempe, William, 168. 
 
 Killigrew, Henry, 57, 187. 
 
 Killigrew, Thomas, 31, 49, 51, 151, 189, 
 
 195, 200, 201, 244, 283. 
 Killigrew, Sir William, 126, 150, 151, 186, 
 
 188, 223, 228, 283. 
 Kinaston, Sir Francis, 60. 
 Kinwelmarshe, Francis, 134. 
 Kirke, 129. 
 Kirke, John, 224. 
 Kirkman, 36, 37, 52, 76, 85, 111, 134, 
 
 199, 228. 
 Knevet, Ralph, 209. 
 Kyd, Thomas, 60, 132, 198, 232, 235. 
 Kyffin, Maurice, 17. 
 Kynder, Phillip, 228. 
 
 Lacy, John, 80, 185, 220, 229. 
 Lansdowne, Lord, 118, 225. 
 Learnerd, John, 61, 132, 206. 
 Lee, Nat., 40, 58, 62, 78, 109, 158, 166, 
 
 172, 178, 184, 200, 212, 233, 244, 
 
 283. 
 Lee, Robert, 170. 
 Legge, Thomas, 72, 133, 210. 
 Lesly, George, 98. 
 Lilly, John, 9, 42, 84, 105, 155, 161, 170, 
 
 175, 220, 267, 276, 284. 
 Lindsay, Sir David, 26, 98, 123, 189, 203, 
 
 223, 246. 
 Lodge, Thos. 139, 141, 149, 158, 163, 279. 
 Lovelace, Richard, 220, 231. 
 Lower, Sir William, 15, 77, 84, 122, 182, 
 
 194, 198, 245. 
 Liimley, John, 129. 
 Lupton, Thomas, 11. 
 Lyly, John, v. Lilly. 
 
 M , E., 218. 
 
 M , W., 96, 124. 
 
 Mabbe, James, 233. 
 
 Machin, Lewis, 79. 
 
 Maidwell, Lawrence, 157. 
 
 Maine, Jasper, 16, 50. 
 
 Manley, Mrs. De ia Riviere, 150, 216. 
 
 Manning, Francis, 106. 
 
 Manuche, Cosmo, 28, 136, 157. 
 
 Markham, Gervase, 118. 
 
 Marlowe, Christopher, 74, 76, 82, 133, 
 
 158, 160, 166, 221, 240, 284. 
 Marmion, Shakerly, 19, 64, 98, 121, 168, 
 
 206. 
 
 Marston, John, 19, 20, 53, 80, 81, 128, 
 162, 185, 188, 209, 233, 269, 278, 
 284. 
 
 Mason, John, 176, 257. 
 
 Maasey, Charles, 161,227. 
 
 Massinger, Philip, 10, 19, 27, 30, 35, 50, 
 51, 79, 83, 90, 93, 94, 100, 111, 112, 
 122, 131, 133, 135, 137, 152, 161, 171, 
 180, 181, 185, 189, 193, 194, 201, 208, 
 213, 235, 260, 261, 262, 264, 265, 267, 
 277, 2s l. 
 
 May, Thomas, 18, 52, 115, 135, 136, 184. 
 
 Mead, Robert, 54, 61. 
 
 Mease, Peter, 4. 
 
 Medbourne, Matthew, 241. 
 
 Medwcll, Henry, 177. 
 
 Meriton, Thomas, 151, 224, 267. 
 
 Mewe, 202. 
 
 Middleton, Hugh, 256. 
 
 Middleton, Thomas, 20, 34, 40, 45, 46, 47, 
 51, 60, 61, 91, 93, 98, 106, 121, 128, 
 160, 167, 170, 174, 183, 185, 191, 194, 
 203, 206, 212, 234, 238, 251, 252, 253, 
 255, 258, 274, 277, 278, 280, 284. 
 
 Milton, John, 21, 27, 55, 219. 
 
 Moliere, 16, 49, 80, 96, 194, 230, 242, 
 248. 
 
 Montague, Walter, 225. 
 
 Moore, Thomas, 21. 
 
 More, Sir Thomas, 178. 
 
 Morrell, 120. 
 
 Motteux, Peter, 12, 29, 88, 102, 118, 130, 
 153, 156, 177, 183. 
 
 Mountfort, William, 76, 112, 116, 127, 
 238, 284. 
 
 Munday, Anthony, 40, 45, 49, 71, 78, 90, 
 105, 132, 134, 170, 175, 187, 210, 211, 
 224, 230, 255, 258, 262, 272. 
 
 N , N., 214. 
 
 Nabbes, Thomas, 37, 62, 86, 114, 170, 
 
 200, 236, 260, 249. 
 Nash, Thomas, 74, 114, 130, 238. 
 Neale, Thomas, 267. 
 Nedham, Marchmont, 142. 
 Neville, Alex., 184. 
 Neville, Henry, 226. 
 Nevile, Robert, 199. 
 Newcastle, Duchess of, 20, 30, 33, 36, 54, 
 
 59, 96, 139, 153, 167, 177, 199, 203, 
 
 208, 224, 231, 262, 275, 280, 284. 
 Newcastle, Duke of, 61, 96, 104, 115, 123, 
 
 139, 251, 263. 
 Newman, Thomas, 88. 
 Newton, Thomas, 244. 
 Nicholas, Henry, 170. 
 Norton, Thomas, 97, 110, 191. 
 Nuce, Thomas, 184. 
 
 Ogilby, John, 87. 
 
 Oldmixon, John, 15, 112, 246.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 205 
 
 Orrery, Roger, Earl of, 33, 100, 113, 117, 
 
 118, 1G6, 177, 257, 281, 284. 
 Otway, Thomas, 8, 25, 40, 47, 76, 105, 
 
 186, 232, 218, 2G3, 281. 
 Owen, Corbet, 187. 
 
 P , P., 22. 
 
 P , E., 105. 
 
 P , R., 20. 
 
 P , S., 256. 
 
 P , T., 10 i, 275. 
 
 Palsgrave, John, 3. 
 
 Parsons, Phillip, 25. 
 
 Patriek, 194. 
 
 Payne, Nevil, 94, 174, 227. 
 
 Peaps, William, 152. 
 
 Peele, George, 23, 28, 72, 73, 82, 121, 152, 
 
 185, 198, 229, 258, 284. 
 Percy, William, 20, 21, 66, 67, 92, 178. 
 Pestell, Thomas, 2G4. 
 Pett, 237. 
 
 Phillips, Catherine, 122, 198. 
 Philips, William, 8, 209, 219. 
 Pix, Mary, 29, 71, 93, 125,128,204,235. 
 Plautus, 16, 54, 87, 168, 217. 
 T.> lage, Samuel, 118, 227, 256. 
 Porter, Henry, 122, 153, 235, 258, 259. 
 Porter, Thomas, 43, 265. 
 Powell, George, 12, 35, 60, 126, 250, 264. 
 Preston, Thomas, 41. 
 Prestwich, Edmund, 115, 120. 
 Puttenham, George, 158, 278. 
 
 Quarles, Francis, 265. 
 Quinault, 6. 
 
 R , T., 90. 
 
 R , W., 48. 
 
 Racine, 2, 17, 248. 
 
 Radcliff, Ralph, 38, 46, 71, 76, 101, 105, 
 
 133, 135, 190, 248. 
 Randal, Thomas, 119, 201. 
 Randolph, Thomas, 16, 23, 55, 60, 119, 
 
 132, 176, 191, 284. 
 Rankins, William, 57, 114, 176, 221. 
 Rastall, 177. 
 Ravenscroft, Edw., 16, 42, 43, 49, 69, 81, 
 
 85, 130, 131, 144, 162, 220, 248, 279. 
 Rawlins, Thomas, 207, 240, 248, 257. 
 Redford, John, 273. 
 Revet, Edward, 219. 
 Reynolds, John, 15 
 Rhodes, Richard, 98. 
 Richards, Nathaniel, 169. 
 Richards, Thomas, 172. 
 Rickets, J., 39. 
 Rider, William, 258. 
 Ridley, Samuel, 104. 
 Rightwise, John, 74. 
 Rivers, Mr., 250. 
 Robinson, — , 97. 
 
 Robinson, Nicholas, 238. 
 
 Rochester, Earl of, 262. 
 
 Rollinson, 228. 
 
 Bowe, Nicholas, 14, 234. 
 
 Rowlands, Samuel, 168. 
 
 Rowley, Samuel, 111, 121, 135, 182, 210, 
 
 219,'2i;:». 
 Rowley, William, 11,32,67,91,100, 101, 
 
 122, 138, 161, 166, Iso, 182, 185, 1 i9, 
 
 226, 234, 245, 250, 271, 278. 
 Rud, Thomas, 15. 
 Ruggle, George, 125, 209. 
 Rutter, Joseph, 49, 225. 
 Rymer, Thomas, 81, 85. 
 
 S , E., 67. 
 
 S , J., 17,97, 200. 
 
 S , S., 121. 
 
 S , T., 150,281. 
 
 S , W., 192. 
 
 Sackville, Thomas, Lord Euckhurst, 97, 
 110, 284. 
 
 Sadler, J., 166. 
 
 Sadler Dr. Anthony, 238. 
 
 Saltern, George, 249. 
 
 Sampson, William, 118, 266, 272. 
 
 Sandys, George, 48. 
 
 Saunders, Charles, 211. 
 
 Saville, John, 132. 
 
 Scarron, 245. 
 
 Scott, Thomas, 173, 261. 
 
 Sedley, Sir Charles, 20, 30, 176, 267, 284. 
 
 Seneca, 5, 118, 120, 167, 184, 244, 246, 
 256. 
 
 St. Serfe, Sir Thomas, 242. 
 
 Settle, Elkanah, 14, 41, 56, 75, 83, 95, 
 96, 115, 125, 150, 179, 190, 193, 254, 
 278. 
 
 Shadwell, Charles, 57. 
 
 Shadwell, Thomas, 15, 38, 87, 123, 140, 
 142, 171, 202, 216, 221, 236, 238, 247, 
 257, 265, 266, 275, 284. 
 
 Shakespeare, William, 12, 20, 22, 25, 31, 
 54, 59, 68, 78, 92, 113, 116, 117, 129, 
 134, 136, 142, 144, 149, 154,155, 159, 
 162, 167, lfi8, 169, 170, 176, 187, 192, 
 203, 210, 214, 222, 230, 237, 241, 242, 
 247, 24S, 256, 258, 270, 273, 279,284. 
 
 Shancke, John, 225. 
 
 Sharpe, Lewis, 182. 
 
 Sharpham, Edward, 67, 98. 
 
 Shawe, Robert, 103. 
 
 Shaw, Samuel, 197, 278. 
 
 Sheppard, S., 54. 
 
 Sherburne, Sir Edward, 167, 256. 
 
 Sliipman, Thomas, 116. 
 
 Shirley, Henrv, 78, 108, 165, 234. 
 
 Shirley, James, 21, 26, 29, 32, 37, 43, 45, 
 46, 58, 59, 60, 62, 66, 78, 79, 89, 92, 
 106, 107, 111, 123, 124, 126, 132, 140, 
 149, 152, 154, 156, 157, 161,185, 197,
 
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 200, 214., 216, 218, 219, 220, 231, 250, 
 251, 252, 208, 275, 280, 285. 
 Bidney, Sir Philip, 140, 285. 
 
 Simon, 281. 
 
 Singer, John, 228. 
 
 Singleton, Thomas, 240. 
 
 Bkelton, John, 2, 160, 181, 265, 285. 
 
 Slater, Samuel, 64. 
 
 Slaughter, Martin, 9, 118, 204. 
 
 Smith, -, 7, 57, 90, 140, 211, 249, 260. 
 
 Smith, H., 201. 
 
 Smith, John, 69. 
 
 Smith, Thomas, 235. 
 
 Smith, Wentworth, 57, 153, 165, 231, 245 
 
 Smith, W., 32, 258. 
 
 Smith, William, 103, 115, 218. 
 
 Snelling, Thomas, 193. 
 
 Sophocles, 18, 83, 191. 
 
 Southerne, Thomas, 75, 95, 157, 161, 186, 
 
 229, 275, 285. 
 Southend, T., 150. 
 Sparowe, T., 55. 
 Speed, John, 237. 
 Squire, John, 255. 
 Stanley, Thomas, 52. 
 Stapylton, Sir Robert, 118, 215, 231, 237. 
 Stephens, John, 69. 
 Sterling, Earl of, 9, 65, 70, 136, 285. 
 Still, John, 106. 
 Stroude, — , 11, 75. 
 Strode, William, 98. 
 Stubbe, — , 103. 
 
 Studly, John, 5, 75, 118, 120, 167. 
 Suckling, Sir John, 5, 36, 109, 218, 285. 
 Swinhoe, Gilbert, 261. 
 Sydney, Sir Phillip, 14,0. 
 
 T , J., 112. 
 
 Tailor, Robert, 120. 
 
 Tait, W., 132. 
 
 Talbot, Sir George, 97. 
 
 Talbot, J., 256. 
 
 Tarltou, Richard, 224. 
 
 Tasso, 15, 16. 
 
 Tate, Nahum, 37, 66, 127, 129, 142, 157, 
 
 210, 226. 
 Tatham, J., 75, 145, 146, 151, 217, 221. 
 Taubman, Matthew, 148, 149. 
 Taverner, W., 131, 133. 
 Taylor, John, 84, 253. 
 Taylor, Silas, 223. 
 
 Terence, 3, 10, 17, 88, 114, 115, 194. 
 Thompson, Thomas, 85, 175, 
 Tomkis, 8. 
 
 Tourneur, Cyril, 25, 182, 209 
 Townsend, Aurelian, 8, 242. 
 Trott, Nicholas, 23. 
 Trotter, Catherine, 5, 94. 
 Tuke, Richard, 76, 233. 
 
 Tuke, Sir Samuel, 4. 
 Tutchin, John, 261. 
 
 Udnl, Nicholas, 90, 188. 
 
 Vanbrugh, Sir John, 87, 195,202, 208, 
 
 285. 
 Vergerius, Paul, 215. 
 Vincent, Thomas, 188. 
 
 W , J., 263. 
 
 W , L., 186. 
 
 W , M., 163. 
 
 W , R., 245, 246. 
 
 W , T., 2 15. 
 
 W , W., 168. 
 
 Wadeson, Anthony, 81. 
 Wager, William, 149, 247, 249, 251. 
 Waller, Edmund, 198, 285. 
 Walker, William, 264. 
 Wapul, George, 247. 
 Warner, W., 168. 
 Wase, Christopher, 83. 
 W'aterhouse, David, 52. 
 Waterson, John, 190. 
 Watson, John, 2. 
 Watson, Thomas, 18. 
 Webster, John, 21, 40, 48, 67, 73, 80, IV,, 
 140, 141, 174, 183, 231, 245, 258, 261, 
 266, 268, 269, 270, 285. 
 Weston, J., 13. 
 Wharton, Mrs. A., 155. 
 Whetstone, George, 201. 
 Whitaker, W., 57. / f t £-J ~£L 
 
 White, Robert, 66. \£*— « ° ' f~* 
 
 William, Leonard, 25. 
 
 William, Joseph, 114. 
 
 Wilburne, D., 159. 
 
 Wilde, George, 59, 88, 118, 122, 154. 
 
 Wild, Robert, 31. 
 
 Wilkins, George, 171, 250. 
 
 Wilmot Robert, 241. 
 
 Wilson, Arthur, 60, 126, 240. 
 
 Wilson, 32, 195, 210, 230. 
 
 Wilson, John, 18, 31, 47, 201. 
 
 Wilson, Robert, 44, 45, 53, 81, 105, 113, 
 116, 160, 187. 
 
 Wingfield, M., 191. 
 
 Wither, George, 207. 
 
 Wood, Ralph, 99. 
 
 Woodes, Nathaniel, 56. 
 
 Wotton, Sir Henry, 241. 
 
 Wright, John, 173, 246. 
 
 Wright, Thomas, 96. 
 
 Wycherley, William, 61, 107, 152, 196, 
 285. 
 
 Yarrington, Robert, 259. 
 
 Z ,R., 92. 
 
 Zouch, Dr., 233. 
 
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