Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
I HAVE found it convenient, especially in Appendix A, to use the symbol <, following a date, to indicate an uncertain date not earlier than that named, and the symbol >, followed by a date, to indicate an uncertain date not later than that named. Thus 1903 <> 23 would indicate...
honour of King Christian, but I can find no such proclamation. Arthur Wilson (_Compleat Hist._ ii. 685) dates the change _c._ 1610, and says that the new name 'continued her tim...
14. iii. 62), burlesques the point of view in a story of the visit of theQueen's ape to Looe in Cornwall. The showman approached the mayor, who did visit and 'put off his hat and made a leg', and there was a proclamation, 'These are to will and requi...
18. ii. 749), 'It is regretted that the comedians of London should scorn theking and the people of this land in their play; and it is wished that the matter should be speedily amended lest the king and the country be stirred to anger'.]
13. BOOK II[_Bibliographical Note._--Most of the material for the present chapter, including extracts from a few pre-Elizabethan writers, is collected in Appendix C; the more official docu...
9. v. 1 Cynthia, awaiting the mask, holds flattering discourse with Areteon its author. In v. 2 enters 'the first masque'. Cupid 'disguised like Anteros', presents four virgins from the palace of Perfection, Storge, Aglaia, Euphantaste, and Apheleia....
7. lvii. 29) an illuminated fifteenth-century collection of ordinances of[Footnote 475: Dillon, _An Elizabethan Armourer's Album_ (_Arch. Journal_, lii. 113), _Tilting in Tudor Times_ (_A. J._ lv. 296), _Barriers and Foot-Combats_ (_A. J._ lxi. 276),...
2. BOOK II. THE CONTROL OF THE STAGEI HAVE found it convenient, especially in Appendix A, to use the symbol <, following a date, to indicate an uncertain date not earlier than that named, and the symbol >, followe...
8. vii. 27), 'Last evening at the Court a double mummery was played: oneset of mummers rifled the Queen's ladies, and the other set, with wooden swords and bucklers, recovered the spoil. Then at the dance the Queen performed her part, the Duke of No...
10. xxxix. 151), 'The Comonalty do somewhat murmur at such vaine expenses[_Bibliographical Note._--The books cited at the head of ch. iii, with F. S. Boas, _University Drama in the Tudor Age_ (1914), provide material for this chapter; cf. A. Thaler,...
3. BOOK I[_Bibliographical Note._--The formal history of the period is covered, with the exception of the years 1588-1603, by J. A. Froude, _History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to...
12. xlvi. 97) appears to have been a bill signed by the Master of the[Footnote 698: _Sydney Papers_, ii. 86 (30 Jan. 1598), 'My Lord Compton, my Lord Cobham, Sir Walter Rawley, my Lord Southampton, doe severally feast Mr. Secretary before he depa...
19. xiv. 73, of the cobbler who tried to teach a crow to say 'Ave Caesar' inflattery of Augustus after the battle of Actium; cf. Mr. McKerrow's note to Nashe's _Pierce Penilesse_ (_Works_, iv. 105). Both ideas are suggested in Nashe's _Menaphon_ preface...
6. i. 247) print schedules of the apparel and necessaries obtained fromKirkham and Kendall of the Queen's Revels, and from one Matthew Fox. They were partly for _The Queen's Arcadia_, partly, I think, for _Ajax Flagellifer_, and partly for _Alba_....
17. ix. 252) notes a Canterbury payment, omitted by Murray, in 1569-70, to[Footnote 902: Possibly the Southwark order for tithes from players, taken before 'my lords of Canterbury and London and the Master of the Revels' about 1600, implies some conti...
4. vi. 21): 'The first holy dayes we had every night a publicke play in thegreat hale, at which the king was ever present, and liked or disliked as he saw cause; but it seems he takes no extraordinary pleasure in them. The Queen and Prince were more th...
16. xlvii. 66, argues in favour of occasional night performances, and isanswered by W. J. Lawrence in _E. S._ xlviii. 213. Whatever may have been done before 1574 or thereabouts, I find no later evidence which is not to be explained either by privat...
15. i. 326) 'denied their owne Lord and Maister, and used another Noblemans[Footnote 880: The showman of the royal ape in Taylor's _Wit and Mirth_ (cf. p. 267) wears 'a brooch in his hat, like a tooth drawer, with a Rose and Crowne, and two letters'.]
11. xlvi. 94) refer to schedules now lost, and that a schedule of the playsof the King's men for 1638-9 was facsimiled from a private manuscript by G. R. Wright in _Brit. Arch. Ass. Journal_, xvi. 275, 344 (1860), and in his _Archaeologic and Historic...
1. BOOK I. THE COURT