Chapters (888)
- THE ELIZABETHAN STAGE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- NOTE
- XXIV ANONYMOUS WORK
- A. PLAYS
- An Alarum for London > 1600
- Albion Knight > 1566
- Alice and Alexis
- Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany > 1636
- Apius and Virginia > 1567–8
- Arden of Feversham > 1592
- The Birth of Hercules. 1597 <
- Caesar’s Revenge > 1606
- Charlemagne or The Distracted Emperor c. 1600
- Claudius Tiberius Nero > 1607
- Club Law. 1599–1600
- Sir Clyomon and Clamydes c. 1570
- Common Conditions > 1576
- The Contention of York and Lancaster > 1592
- Thomas Lord Cromwell > 1602
- King Darius > 1565
- The Dead Mans Fortune > 1591
- The Reign of King Edward the Third > 1595
- Edward the Fourth > 1599
- Every Woman in Her Humour. 1607–8?
- Fair Em c. 1590
- The Fair Maid of Bristow > 1604
- The Fair Maid of the Exchange c. 1602
- Fedele and Fortunio or Two Italian Gentlemen c. 1584
- 2 Fortune’s Tennis c. 1602
- Frederick and Basilea. 1597
- George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield > 1593
- Sir Giles Goosecap. 1601 < > 3
- Grim the Collier of Croydon. 1600
- The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth > 1588
- Histriomastix. 1589 (?), 1599
- The Honest Lawyer > 1615
- How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad c. 1602
- Impatient Poverty (?)
- Jack Drum’s Entertainment. 1600
- The Life and Death of Jack Straw > 1593
- Jacob and Esau > 1558
- 1 Jeronimo c. 1604
- The Troublesome Reign of King John 1587< >91
- Judith c. 1595 (?)
- A Knack to Know an Honest Man. 1594
- A Knack to Know a Knave. 1592
- Leire > 1594
- Liberality and Prodigality. 1601
- Locrine c. 1591
- The London Prodigal. 1603 < > 05
- Look About You. 1599 (?)
- The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune. 1582 (?)
- Love Feigned and Unfeigned (?)
- The Maid’s Metamorphosis. 1600
- The Marriage of Wit and Science > 1570
- Meleager (?)
- The Merry Devil of Edmonton c. 1603
- Minds. 1575 <
- Misogonus. 1560 < > 77
- Sir Thomas More c. 1596
- Mucedorus > 1598; 1611
- Narcissus. 6 Jan. 1603
- New Custom. 1558 < > 73
- Nobody and Somebody > 1606
- Parnassus. 1598–1602 (?)
- Il Pastor Fido > 1601
- The Pedlar’s Prophecy > 1594
- Pericles c. 1607–8
- Philotus > 1603
- The Puritan. 1606
- The Revenger’s Tragedy. 1606 < > 7
- The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York > 1592
- 1 Richard the Second c. 1592 < > 5
- The True Tragedy of Richard the Third > 1594
- Robin Hood > 1560
- Ruff, Cuff and Band c. 1615
- The Second Maiden’s Tragedy. 1611
- Selimus. 1591 < > 94
- Soliman and Perseda c. 1589 < > 92
- Captain Thomas Stukeley. 1596
- 1 Tamar Cham > 1592
- The Taming of A Shrew c. 1589
- The Thracian Wonder c. 1600
- Timon c. 1581 < > 90 (?)
- Tom Tyler and his Wife > 1563
- The Trial of Chivalry c. 1600
- The Trial of Treasure > 1567
- 1 Troilus and Cressida. 1599 (?)
- The Valiant Welshman. 1610 < > 15
- A Warning for Fair Women > 1599
- The Wars of Cyrus King of Persia > 1594
- The Weakest Goeth to the Wall > 1600
- Wily Beguiled. 1596 < > 1606
- The Wisdom of Doctor Dodipoll. 1599 < > 1600
- The Wit of a Woman > 1604
- Work for Cutlers c. 1615
- A Yorkshire Tragedy c. 1606
- B. MASKS
- Gesta Grayorum. 1594
- The Twelve Months. 1608–12
- Mask of Flowers. 6 Jan. 1614
- C. RECEPTIONS AND ENTERTAINMENTS
- Coronation Triumph. 1559
- Bristol Entertainment. August 1574
- Kenilworth Entertainment. 1575
- Woodstock Entertainment. 1575
- Suffolk and Norfolk Entertainments. August 1578
- Fortress of Perfect Beauty. 15–16 May 1581
- Tilbury Visit. 1588
- Tilt-yard Entertainment. 17 Nov. 1590
- Cowdray Entertainment. 1591
- Elvetham Entertainment. 1591
- Bisham, Sudeley, and Rycote Entertainments. 1592
- Bisham
- Sudeley
- Rycote
- Tilt-yard Entertainment. 17 Nov. 1595
- Harefield Entertainment. 1602
- Progress from Scotland. 1603
- Coronation Triumph. 1604
- Entertainment of King of Denmark. 1606
- The Christmas Prince. 1607–8
- Chesters Triumph. 23 April 1610
- Camp-Bell. 29 Oct. 1609
- London’s Love to Prince Henry. 31 May 1610
- Creation of Henry Prince of Wales. 4 June 1610
- Marriage of Frederick and Elizabeth. 1613
- Bristol Entertainment. 1613
- APPENDIX A A COURT CALENDAR
- 1558
- 1559
- 1560
- 1561
- 1562
- 1563
- 1564
- 1565
- 1566
- 1567
- 1568
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- APPENDIX B COURT PAYMENTS
- THE AUDIT OF HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS
- CHAMBER ACCOUNTS
- (a) Mediaeval Period.
- (b) Early Tudor Period.
- (c) Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods.
- REVELS ACCOUNTS
- (a) Early Tudor Period.
- (b) Elizabethan Period.
- (c) Jacobean Period.
- ABSTRACT OF PAYMENTS
- APPENDIX C DOCUMENTS OF CRITICISM
- i. 1489 (?). Desiderius Erasmus.
- ii. 1523–31. Iohannes Ludovicus Vives.
- (a)
- (b)
- (c)
- iii. 1531. Sir Thomas Elyot.
- iv. c. 1538 (?). Nicholas Udall.
- v. 1551. Martin Bucer.
- vi. 1559. William Bavande.
- vii. 1563–8. Roger Ascham.
- viii. 1565. William Alley.
- ix. 1565–71. Richard Edwardes.
- x. 1566. Lewis Wager.
- xi. 1569. Anon.
- xii. 1569. Henry Cornelius Agrippa.
- xiii. 1574. Geoffrey Fenton.
- xiv. 1575. George Gascoigne.
- xv. 1577. Thomas White.
- xvi. 1577. John Northbrooke.
- xvii. 1578. John Stockwood.
- xviii. 1578. John Florio.
- xix. 1578. George Whetstone.
- xx. 1579. T. F.
- xxi. 1579. Thomas Twyne.
- xxii. 1579. Stephen Gosson.
- xxiii. c. 1579. Thomas Lodge.
- xxiv. 1579. Stephen Gosson.
- xxv. 1580. Anon.
- xxvi. 1580. Anthony Munday (?).
- xxvii. 1580. Anthony Munday (?).
- xxviii. 1581. Anon.
- xxix. 1581. John Rainolds.
- xxx. 1582. Stephen Gosson.
- xxxii. 1583. Phillip Stubbes.
- xxxiii. 1583. Gervase Babington.
- xxxiv. 1583 (?). Philip Sidney.
- xxxv. 1584. Thomas Lodge.
- xxxvi. 1584. George Whetstone.
- xxxvii. 1586. William Webbe.
- xxxviii. 1587. William Rankins.
- xxxix. 1588. John Case.
- (a) Lib. v, c. 8.
- (b) Lib. vii, c. 17.
- xl. 1588–90. Martin Marprelate Controversy.
- (a)
- (b)
- (c)
- (d)
- (e)
- (f)
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- (h)
- (i)
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- (l)
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- xli. 1589. Richard (?) Puttenham.
- xlii. 1589. Thomas Nashe.
- xliii. 1590. Robert Greene.
- xliv. 1591. Samuel Cox.
- xlv. 1591. Sir John Harington.
- xlvi. 1592. Thomas Nashe.
- xlvii. 1592. Robert Greene.
- xlviii. 1592. Robert Greene.
- xlix. 1592. Henry Chettle.
- l. 1592–9. John Rainolds v. William Gager and Alberico Gentili.
- li. 1597 (?). John Harington.
- lii. 1598. Francis Meres.
- liii. 1603. Henry Crosse.
- liv. 1604–5 (?). Ben Jonson.
- lv. 1607. Ben Jonson.
- lvi. 1608. William Crashaw.
- lvii. 1608 (?). Thomas Heywood.
- lviii. 1610. William Crashaw.
- lix. 1615. I. H.
- lx. 1615. J. Cocke.
- A common Player
- lxi. 1615. John Webster (?).
- An Excellent Actor.
- lxii. 1616. John Selden.
- lxiii. 1616. Nathan Field.
- APPENDIX D DOCUMENTS OF CONTROL
- i.
- ii.
- iii.
- iv.
- v.
- vi.
- vii.
- viii.
- (a)
- (b)
- ix.
- x.
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- xix.
- xx.
- xxi.
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- xxiii.
- xxiv.
- xxv.
- (a) [July 14]
- (b) [July 19]
- xxvi.
- xxvii.
- xxviii.
- xxix.
- xxx.
- (a)
- (b)
- xxxi.
- xxxii.
- xxxiii.
- xxxiv.
- xxxv.
- xxxvi.
- xxxvii.
- xxxviii.
- xxxix.
- xl.
- xli.
- xlii.
- xliii.
- xliv.
- (a) [April 13]
- (b) [May 26]
- (c) [July 18]
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- li.
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- liv.
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- lxiii.
- lxiv.
- lxv.
- lxvi.
- (a) [Jan. 14]
- (b) [Feb. 6]
- lxvii.
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- lxxii.
- lxxiii.
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- (1)
- (2) (a)
- (b)
- The remedies.
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- lxxxi.
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- (a)
- (b)
- (c)
- xciii.
- xciv.
- xcv.
- xcvi.
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- ci.
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- civ.
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- cvi.
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- cxxxi.
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- cli.
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- clv.
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- APPENDIX E PLAGUE RECORDS
- APPENDIX F THE PRESENCE-CHAMBER AT GREENWICH
- APPENDIX G SERLIO’S TRATTATO SOPRA LE SCENE
- Trattato sopra le Scene.
- Della Scena Comica.
- Della Scena Tragica.
- Della Scena Satyrica.
- Di Lumi arteficiali delle Scene.
- APPENDIX H THE GULL’S HORNBOOK
- How a Gallant should behaue himself in a Playhouse.
- APPENDIX I RESTORATION TESTIMONY
- i.
- ii.
- iii.
- APPENDIX K ACADEMIC PLAYS
- ENGLISH PLAYS
- LATIN PLAYS
- APPENDIX L PRINTED PLAYS
- APPENDIX M LOST PLAYS
- APPENDIX N MANUSCRIPT PLAYS
- PLAYS
- PLOTS
- MASKS
- INDEXES
- INDEXES
- INDEX I: OF PLAYS
- INDEX II: OF PERSONS
- INDEX III: OF PLACES
- INDEX IV: OF SUBJECTS
- FOOTNOTES:
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