Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
A. A Court Calendar 75 B. Court Payments 131 C. Documents of Criticism 184 D. Documents of Control 259 E. Plague Records 345 F. The Presence-Chamber at Greenwich 351 G. Serlio’s _Trattato sopra le Scene_ 353 H. _The Gull’s Hornbook_ 365 I. Restoration Testimony 369 K. Academic...
A. A Court Calendar 75 B. Court Payments 131 C. Documents of Criticism 184 D. Documents of Control 259 E. Plague Records 345 F. The Presence-Chamber at Greenwich 351 G. Serlio’s...
2. ii. 347, to identify nearly all his characters with individual literarymen. They are, of course, not individuals, but types, and types of university men. The most that can be said is that there may be something of Marston in Furor Poeticus, and a g...
3. iii. 107) proves nothing one way or other as to date, although Dekkernaturally knew the play when he described rogues and their ‘knavish comedy of Wily-Beguily’ in his _Belman of London_ of 1608 (_Works_, iii. 125). If the date is 1596, the autho...
4. ii. 65, contains (iii), the song from (vi), and (vii), with the heading(_c_) The second edition (1608) of Francis Davison’s _Poetical Rhapsody_ contains the speech from (vi) and (vii), with the incorrect indication ‘at the Lord Chancellor’s house,...
5. iii. 360) extracts made by Malone from the Elizabethan Revels books,together with a letter of 7 Nov. 1591 from Sir William Musgrave, of the Audit Office, inviting Malone to inspect them, and an official memorandum on the ‘State of the Books of A...
6. Book iii, ch. 7. ‘Players ... corrupt good moralities by wanton shewesand playes: they ought not to be suffred to prophane the Sabboth day in such sportes, and much lesse to lose time on the dayes of trauayle. All dissolute playes ought to be forb...
7. iv. 484) supports the conjectural attribution of Fleay, 51, toMunday, on the ground that the author is a converted playwright, probably identical with the one referred to in Gosson, _P. C._, in terms resembling those applied to Munday in _...
8. lxi. The date is suggested by an allusion to the return of Essexfrom Cadiz on 10 Aug. 1596, and the beginning of term on 9 Oct. 1596. Allusions to Harington’s _Metamorphosis of Ajax_ (S. R. 30 Oct. 1596) might point to a rather later date, b...
9. ii. 363), while he adopts 17,844 and 10,662, which are approximatelyStowe’s figures, for 1593. As a matter of fact, the weekly figures given do not add up exactly to 25,886 and 11,503; I make them (as does Hull, ii. 427) 26,407 and 11,106; Creig...
10. xlvii. 75, is a fragment only, probably written in some Jesuitseminary on the Continent, but with an English interest. There seems to be nothing specifically English in the theme of _Sanguis Sanguinem sive Constans Fratricida Tragoedia_, w...
11. iv. 107, 114, 115, 320, 329;Carey, Henry, 1st Lord Hunsdon, lord chamberlain, i. 10, 40, 110, 141, 268; ii. 192, 411, 486, 497; iii. 505; iv. 99, 108, 280, 284, 288, 296; his men, ii. 192–5.
12. iv. 91;Devereux, Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex, master of the horse, earl marshal, lord deputy of Ireland, i. 6, 18, 33, 34, 45, 145, 220, 324, 385; ii. 102, 205, 415; iii. 211, 212, 276,...
13. i. 4, 5, 34, 107, 109, 110, 112, 114, 118, 125, 129, 141, 227,267, 288, 324; ii. 85, 342, 345, 453, 496; iii. 268, 318, 322, 349, 402, 456, 478; iv. 61, 79, 82, 83, 85, 88, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 282, 284, 288; his men, ii. 85–91.
14. iv. 87, 250, 335, 336;Stuart, Ludovick, 2nd Duke of Lennox, Duke of Richmond, gentleman of bedchamber, lord steward, i. 35, 146, 171; ii. 241; iii. 246, 258, 280, 316, 382, 393; his men, ii. 241.
15. iv. 250, 252;St. John St. (Red Bull), ii. 445; Stepney (Red Lion), ii. 380; Stratford at Bow, iv. 93, 96, 121; Whitechapel (Boar’s Head), ii. 67, 242, 444; Whitecross St., ii. 435. --_Southw...
16. iv. 305, 323;on the road, i. 332, 376, 380, 383–4; iii. 353; iv. 236, 241, 257; pressing of, i. 383; iv. 18. _See_ Apparel, Apprentices, Arms, Boys, Casts, Chameleon, Clowns, Continent, Cont...