Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare

Part 69

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Stansby, William, printer of Lyly's plays for Blount, 269, 276.

Stanyhurst, Richard, his hexameters and Harvey's ridiculed in _O.W.T._, 373.

_Staple of News, The_, by Ben Jonson, xlv.

Steevens, George, his letter on _Comus_, 348.

Stevenson, William, the author, according to Mr. Henry Bradley, of _Gammer Gurtons Nedle_; Critical Essay on his life and the play assigned to him, with an edition of _G.G.N._, notes and an appendix, by Mr. Bradley, 205–259. Other mention, lix, lxxx, lxxxii.

Still, Dr. John, not the author of _Gammer Gurtons Nedle_, 199–202.

Storojenko, Professor, his _Life of Greene_ (in Dr. Grosart's edition of Greene), 397, 406, 415.

Stow, John, his _Survey_, xxxviii; on mummings, xl.

Strange, Lord, his players (1589-1593), and Greene's _Orlando_, 408; and _Frier Bacon_, 411.

_Studentes_, see Stymmelius.

Stymmelius, the author of the play of _Studentes_, lxx, lxxiv, lxxxii.

_Summer's Last Will and Testament_, by Thomas Nashe, 384, 424.

_Supposes, The_, by George Gascoigne, lxxviii, lxxxii, lxxxv, lxxxvii, lxxxviii.

_Suppositi, I_, by Ariosto, adapted by Gascoigne, lxviii.

_Susanna_, a play by Macropedius, lxx; see also _St. Susanna_.

Sussex, the Earl of, his players (1591-1594), and _Friar Bacon_, 411; and _George-a-Greene_, 413.

Swoboda, Dr., his _John Heywood als Dramatiker_, 12.

_Sword Plays_, xliii, xlv.

Symonds, J.A., his _Predecessors of Shakespeare_, lxviii, 339, 346, 422.

TALENTS, THE, the Wakefield play of, called _Processus Talentorum_, xxviii.

_Tamburlaine the Great_, by Marlowe, and Greene's _Alphonsus_, 403; and the _Looking-Glass_, 406; and _Orlando_, 410; and _George-a-Greene_, 418.

_Taming of a Shrew, The_, example of a play within a play, 343.

_Taming of the Shrew, The_, Shakespeare's, lxxxv, 415, 652.

_Tempest, The_, Shakespeare's, lxxxix, 644, 659, 660.

Ten Brink, Professor B., on the priority of legend to Scripture in English comedy, xiii–xiv; on the dramatic value of the miracle plays, xxxii; on the characteristics of tragedy and comedy, lxii.

Terence, indebtedness of modern comedy to, xvi, xvii, lxvii, lxviii; the 'Christian Terence,' lxxii, lxxxii; Udall's _Flowers from Terence_, 89, 98, 101, 102; notes to _Roister Doister_, 288.

Tertullian, against acting, xix.

Thankful Dead, the, a popular _motif_, 345, 365.

_That Will Be Shall Be_, a play, 521, 526.

_Theophilus_, by Rutebeuf, xvi.

_Thersytes, A Newe Interlude called_, lix, lxxi, lxxii, lxxviii; the authorship of, and date, 12–14, 108, 112, 191 _et passim_.

_Three Heads of the Well, The_, a fairy tale referred to in _O.W.T._, 345, 359, 372.

_Three Ladies of London, The_, by R.W., probably Robert Wilson, lxxxviii, xc, xci.

_Three Lordes and Three Ladies of London, The_, by the R.W. of the _Three Ladies_, lxxxviii, xc, xci.

_Thrie Estatis, A Satire of the_, by Lyndsay, xlix.

Thümmel, Julius, on the _Miles Gloriosus_ in Shakespeare, 190.

_Tyde Taryeth no Man, The_, by George Wapull, lxxxvi.

_Timon of Athens_, Shakespeare's, 659.

Tindale, on the use of the holy candle, 192; also cited, 142, 154.

'Titiville,' in _Roister Doister_, 190; 'Titivillus' in _Mankynd_, xlvii, xlviii.

_Titus Andronicus_, 418.

_Tityrus and Gallathea_, by Lyly, 265.

_Tobias_, the Play of, mentioned, xxxiv.

_Tom Tyler and his Wife_, the play of, (edited by Professor Schelling), lxxxi; Kirkman's edition, 336; mentioned, 530, 533.

Topsell's _History of Four-footed Beastes_, 280, 281.

Towne, Thomas, an actor in the Admiral's company in Porter's time, 524.

_Towneley Plays, The_, edited by A.W. Pollard and George England, xxiii, xxiv, etc. See _Wakefield_.

Tragedy, compared with comedy, xxi, xxii, lxii, 639.

Train's _Geschichte d. Juden in Regensburg_, xxxi.

Transition, of plays from miracle and moral to comedy, lvii, lxii, lxiv, lxix.

Travesties of religious services, xx, xxi.

_Trial before Herod, The_, in the York plays, xxv.

_Triall of Treasure, The_, lxxxvi, 121, 123.

Trimeter, in Roman comedy, 189.

_Troilus and Cressida_, Shakespeare's, a satire on Ben Jonson, 638, 657, 658.

_Tullie's Love_, by Greene, 410; similarity to _Friar Bacon_, 414.

Turberville, on Richard Edwardes, lxxxiv; Turberville's _Venerie_, reference to 440.

'Tutivillus' in the Wakefield _Judicium_, xxix, xlvi, xlviii.

Tusser, Thomas, his _500 Pointes_, and Udall, 90.

_Twelfth Night_, Shakespeare's, 352, 646, 655, 656.

_Two Angry Women of Abington, The Pleasant Historie of the_, by Henry Porter, edited with critical essay and notes by C.M. Gayley, 513–633; _The Second Parte of the Two Angrey Women_, 516, 522, 524, 525.

_Two Gentlemen of Verona, The_, Shakespeare's, 648, 650.

_Two Italian Gentlemen_, or _Fidele and Fortunio_, by Anthony Munday, lxxxviii.

_Two Mery Wemen of Abenton, The_, by Porter, 516, 523, 535.

_Two Noble Kinsmen, The_, by Shakespeare and Fletcher, 660.

UDALL, Nicholas, mention of his _Roister Doister_, lix _et passim_; his _Flowers from Terence_, lxxi, 89; text of his _Roisier Doister_, edited with critical essay, notes, and appendix, by Professor Flügel, 87–194; life of Udall, 89; date of the play, 95; date of the early edition, 97; place of _R.D._ in English literature, 98; the plot and characters, 100; the present text and earlier reprints, 104; his _Apophthegms_, 142, etc.; Appendix, 188–194; the metre of _R.D._, 189; the figure of the _Miles Gloriosus_ in English literature, 189; 'Titiville,' 190; 'Mumblecrust' and the maids, 191; the mock requiem and other parodies, 191; Roister as 'Vagrant,' 192; the prayer and 'song' at the end, 193; works quoted in the notes, 194.

Ugolino, his _Philogenia_, lxvii.

Ulrici, H., on Greene, 408.

Usury statutes of Henry VIII and Edward VI, 96.

VALENTINE AND ORSON, 418, 426.

Vanbrugh, Sir John, his character of 'Hoyden,' 531.

Vergerio, his _Paulus_, lxvii.

Versification, alleged irregularities in the, of _Friar Bacon_, a study by C. M. Gayley, 503–513.

'Vice,' the rôle of the, in early plays, xlvi, xlviii–liv; lxxiii, lxxvi, lxxxii, lxxxiii, lxxxvi, lxxxix; in Heywood, li and 10, etc. ('Mery Reporte'); Udall, 100; in Stevenson, 203; in Peele, 342; in Greene, 393, 430.

_Viel Testament, le Mistère du_, xxxiv.

Vitalis of Blois, his dramatic poems, xvii.

Voragine, Jacobus de, his _Legenda Aurea_, xxx, xliv.

WADINGTON, William of, his _Manuel des Pechiez_, xix.

Wager, Lewis, his _Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene_, xxxi, lxxxvi.

Wager, William, his _The Longer thou Livest_, etc., lxxxvi, 533.

Wagner, Professor W., on _Friar Bacon_, 440, 446, 459, 510.

_Wakefield Plays, The_ (ordinarily called, from the family owning the MS., the Towneley), xxiii, xxiv; indebtedness to the York cycle, xxv–xxvi.

Wakefield, the Playwright of, xxv–xxix; his peculiar stanza, xxv–xxvi; his improvements upon the second and third York schools of dramatic composition and his original productions, xxvii–xxix.

Wapull, Geo., _The Tyde Taryeth no Man_, lxxxvi.

Ward, Dr. A. W., his _History of English Dramatic Literature_, xviii, xix, xlix, lxviii, lxxvi, lxxxviii, xc, 89, 101, 102, 103, 346, 397, 403, 405, 417, 419, 421, 422, 426, 430 _et passim_; his _Old English Drama_, 353, 363, 413; his edition of _Friar Bacon_ (in _O.E.D._), 415, 426, 430, 439, 441, 442, _et passim_ in the notes to _Friar Bacon_.

Wardrobe Accounts of Richard II, xl.

Warner, Mr. G. F., his _Catalogue of the MSS. and Muniments of Alleyn's College of God's Gift at Dulwich_, exposing some of Collier's 'emendations,' 515.

Warton, Dr. Joseph, _Biographical Memoir of the late_, on _Comus_ and the _Old Wives' Tale_, 348.

Warton, Thomas, his _History of English Poetry_, xxi, xxiii, xl, xli, xlii, 90, 346; his _Milton's Poems_, etc., on the names in _Comus_, 383.

Watson, Thomas, his _Passionate Centurie of Love_, 265.

Wedego, Bishop, against religious plays, xxxvi.

Weever, John, his verses _Ad Henricum Porter_, not intended for the dramatist, 519.

_Well of the World's End, The_, a fairy tale, see note to _O.W.T._, 345, 359.

West, Richard, his _Court of Conscience_, 517.

_Westward Hoe_, by Dekker _et al._, a song in, 352.

_Wether, The Play of the_, by John Heywood, edited with critical essay and notes by Mr. A. W. Pollard, 3–59; Other mention, xlix, li, lxvii.

Wever, R., his _Lusty Juventus_, xlvii, li, lxxii, lxxvi.

"What Thing is Love?" a song in Peele's _Hunting of Cupid_, and in the play of _Doctor Doddipoll_, 336; paralleled in Greene's _Mourning Garment_ and _James IV_, 415–416.

Wheatley, H. B., his book on John Payne Collier, 515.

'White Bear of England's Wood, The,' a character referred to in _O. W. T._, 345, 356–357.

White, Edward, publisher of Greene's _Friar Bacon_, 411; copyright owned by William White, 430.

Whitgift, Bishop, Injunctions at York, etc., 193.

_Wife of Usher's Well, The_, referred to, notes to _O. W. T._, 363.

'Wilful Wanton,' a character in George Wapull's _Tyde Taryeth no Man_, 531.

William of Blois, his _Alda_, xvii.

'Will Summer,' Henry VIII's jester impersonated in Nashe's _Summer's Last Will_, etc., lii, lxxxii, lxxxix, 344.

Wilson, Dr. John, Professor of Music at Oxford, 518, 519.

Wilson, Robert, the author of _Three Ladies of London_, and of _Three Lordes and Three Ladies_, lxxxviii–xc; probably also of _A Knack to Know a Knave_, xc, xci, 425; colleague of Chettle in the non-extant _Second Part of Black Battman_, 522; his _Sir John Oldcastell_ mentioned, 523.

Wilson, Thomas, his _Arte of Logique or Rule of Reason_, the "ambiguous letter" in, 93, 95, 97.

_Wily Beguiled_, cited, 24, assigned to Peele, 336.

_Winchester Tropers_, the, xiii.

_Winter's Tale, The_, Shakespeare's, 644, 659, 660.

Wireker, Nigel, his _Brunellus (Speculum Stultorum)_, alluded to, xviii, lii.

_Wisdom that is Christ_, the moral of, in Furnivall's _Digby Plays_, xlviii, l, li, liii, lv, lvi, lviii.

_Wisdome of Doctor Doddipoll, The_, assigned to Peele, 336.

_Wit and Folly_, the dialogue of, by John Heywood, 8.

Wit plays: _Wyt and Science_, by John Redford, lxix, lxxii, lxxiii, lxxxviii, 426; _The Contract of a Marrige between Wit and Wisdome_, liii, lxxi, lxxiii, lxxvii, lxxxi; _The Marriage of Witte and Science_, a revision of Redford's play, conjectured by Mr. Fleay to be the same as _Wit and Will_, lxxiii, lxxiv, lxxvii.

Wolsey, Cardinal, perhaps referred to in _Play of the Wether_, 52.

_Woman Hard to Please_, a lost play, 521, 526.

Woman, in comedy, Meredith on, lxi.

_Woman in the Moone, The_, by Lyly, 266, 268, 272.

Woodberry, Professor G. E., monograph on _Greene's Place in Comedy_, 387–394.

Wood, Anthony à, on Udall, 89; on the Porters, 518, 519.

Woodes, Nathaniel, author of _The Conflict of Conscience_, lxxxvi.

_World and the Child, The_, or _Mundus et Infans_, a moral, l, lviii.

Worthies, the Nine, and _Love's Labour's Lost_, xl, 650.

Wright, Thomas, his _Early Mysteries, etc., of the 12th and 13th Centuries_, xviii; (and J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps), _Reliquiæ Antiquæ_, xix; reprint of the _Interludium de Clerico et Puella_ mentioned, xvii, lxvi.

Wycliff, his attitude toward miracles, xix.

YORK PLAYS, The, date and composition, xxiii; periods of, comedy in the second and third, xxiv–xxv; relation of Wakefield plays to, xxv–xxvii; the romantic and melodramatic in, xxix.

'Young Juvenall.' not Lodge but Nashe, 337.

_Youthe, Ballad of_, by Robert Greene, 397.

_Youth, The Interlude of_, lxi, lxxi, lxxiv.

Youth, school plays of, lxxii, lxxiv.

Yvers, Jacques, his _Printemps d'Iver_, 411.

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Transcriber's Note.

Variable spelling and hyphenation have been retained. Minor punctuation inconsistencies have been silently repaired. Footnotes were sequentially numbered and placed at the end of each section. On pages xlii and 434 footnote references are missing in the original. Misnumbered footnotes in pp. xlvii, lxxvi, 124 were corrected.

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COTGRAVE. A French and English Dictionary, ed. 1650 (with the addition of Dictionaire Anglais & François, by Robert Sherwood.

COTGRAVE. A French and English Dictionary, ed. 1650 (with the addition of Dictionaire Anglais & François, by Robert Sherwood).

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2. _The Firt Part of the Tragicall Raigne of Selimus_ (Creede, 1594) 2. _The First Part of the Tragicall Raigne of Selimus_ (Creede, 1594)

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we should not he justified in assuming we should not be justified in assuming

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But Shakepeare's imagination But Shakespeare's imagination

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in the miracle cyles, in the miracle cycles,

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colleague of Chettle in the non-extant _Second Part of Black Bateman_, 522; colleague of Chettle in the non-extant _Second Part of Black Battman_, 522;

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in churchyards, xii; in churchyards, xiii;

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Carpenter, Professor F. I., his edition of Wager's _Marie Magdalene_ (University of Chicago Press), xciv.

Carpenter, Professor F. I., his edition of Wager's _Marie Magdalene_ (University of Chicago Press), xxxi.

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Congreve, William, the character of 'Prue' in his _Love for Love_, 536 Congreve, William, the character of 'Prue' in his _Love for Love_, 531

Council of Treves, The, xi. Council of Treves, The, xix.

_Latin_, _Woman_, _Prose_, _Plot_, There is no entry marked _Plot_ in the index.

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Gayley, Professor C. M., Preface to this volume, iii; Gayley, Professor C. M., Preface to this volume, v;

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Other mention of H., xvii, xlix, lvi, lix, lxi, lxvl–xviii, Other mention of H., xvii, xlix, lvi, lix, lxi, xviii–lxxxii,

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Myth, classical, as material for plays, lxxxiv, lxxxvii, lxxxviii, lxxxix, xcvi Number xcvi is not a valid page number.

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Appendix on Sources of Characters, and the Harvesters' Song, by the same, 382–384

Appendix on Sources of Characters, and the Harvesters' Song, by the same, 383–384

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of Heywood's plays, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 17, 63; of Heywood's plays, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 17, 61;

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notes to _Roister Doister_, 288. notes to _Roister Doister_, 98.

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Appendix, 188–194; Appendix, 187–194;

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Yvers, Jacques, his _Printemps d'Iver_, 411. Yvers, Jacques, his _Printemps d'Iver_, 412.

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