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Dictionary of Literary Biography® • Volume Two Hundred Sixty-Three

William ShakespeareA Documentary Volume

Edited byCatherine Loomis

University of New Orleans

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Contents

Plan of the Series xxvii

Introduction xxix

A Note on the Text xxxv

Acknowledgments xxxvi

Short Titles of Works Cited in this Volume 3

Baptism through the "Lost Years": 1564-1591 5

1564William Shakespeare's Birth and Name 5

Box: A Note on Dates during Shakespeare's Life

Facsimile: Shakespeare's Baptismal Record

1566 "Gilbert Shakespeare's Baptismal Record 9

1569Joan Shakespeare's Baptismal Record 10

The Queen's Players and the Earl of Worcester's PlayersVisit Stratford-upon-Avon 10

1571Anne Shakespeare's Baptismal Record 10

1573Visit of the Earl of Leicester's Players 10

1574

Richard Shakespeare's Baptismal Record 10

Box: Money in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Eras

1576Visit of the Earl of Worcester's Players 12

1578Visit of the Earl of Worcester's Players 12

1579Anne Shakespeare's Burial Record 12

Visits of the Lord Strange's Players and the Countessof Essex's Players 12

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1580

Inquest on the Body of Katherine Hamlett 13

Edmund Shakespeare's Baptismal Record .13

Visit of the Earl of Derby's Players 13

Box: An Age of Exploration and Colonization

Box: A Touring Company Performance

1581

The Will of Alexander Hoghton of Lea, Esquire 16

Visits of the Earl of Worcester's Players and Lord Berkley's Players 17

1582

Visit of the Earl of Worcester's Players ,. .17

Records of Shakespeare's Marriage 17

Entry in Bishop Whitgift's Register naming Anne WhadeyFacsimile and transcription: Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway's

Marriage License Bond

Box: Acting as a Profession1583Susanna Shakespeare 19

Fascimile: Susanna Shakespeare's Baptismal -Record

. Epitaph

1584Visits of the Lord Berkley's Players and the Lord Chandos's Players 20

1585Visits of the Earl of Oxford's Players, the Earl of Worcester's Players,

and the Earl of Essex's Players 21

Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare's Baptismal Record 21

Facsimile: Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare's Baptismal Record

1587Visit of Unidentified Players 21

1588Visits of the Queen's Players, the Earl of Essex's Players, the Earl

of Leicester's Players, and an Unidentified Company 21

Box: On the Charms of Plays

Record of John Shakespeare's Lawsuit against John Lambertin which William Shakespeare Is Named 23

1589Allusion to an m-Hamlet in Nashe's Preface to Greene's Menaphon 25

The Elizabethan Years: 1592-March 1603 27

1592Henslowe Records Performances of a Play about King Henry VI 28

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John Shakespeare Cited for Failing to Attend Church 30

Allusion to Shakespeare in Greene's Groats-worth ofWitte 30

Box: Signature Designations

Possible Allusion to 1 Henry Vim Nashe's Pierce Penilesse 32

Box: Shakespeare's Work on Sir Thomas More

1593

Possible Allusion to Shakespeare in Chettle's Kind-Harts Dreame 35

Henslowe Records Performances of a Play about Henry VI 38

Shakespeare's First Publication 38

Stationers' Entry for Venus and Adonis

Fascimile: Tide page for Venus and Adonis

Box: Quartos and Folios

Box: The Stationers' Company

The Dedication of Venus and Adonis to die Earl of Southampton 39

Stonley Buys a Copy of Venus and Adonis 40

Reynolds Interprets Venus and Adonis 40

1594Henslowe Records Performances of Titus Andronicus and Odier Plays 40

Stationers' Register Entries 41

Entries for Titus Andronicus, The First Part of the Contentionbetwixt the two famous Houses ofYorke and Lancaster,The Taming of a Shrew, The Rape ofLucrece, and Venus and Adonis

Publications 41

Transcribed tide page for Venus and Adonis

Facsimile: Title page for The Rape ofLucrece

Facsimile: Tide page for Titus Andronicus

Facsimile: Tide page for The First Part of the Contention betwixtthe two famous Houses ofYorke and Lancaster

The Dedication of The Rape ofLucrece to the Earl of Southampton 42

Shakespeare's Company Paid for a Court Performance 42

Probable Allusion to Titus Andronicus in A Knacke to know a Knave 43

Possible Allusion to The Rape ofLucrece in Drayton's Matilda 44

Allusion to The Rape ofLucrece in Har.'s Epicedium 44

Allusion to W. S. and The Rape ofLucrece in WUlobie His Avisa 45

Box: On Printing PlaysBox: The Reliability of Shakespeare's Texts

Account of an Attempted Performance of The Comedy of Errorsin Gesta Grayorum 50

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1595Stationers' Register Entry 52

Entry for Edward III

Possible Allusion to Richard III in Hoby's Letter to Cecil 53

Publications 53

Facsimile: Tide page for The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York

Facsimile: Title page for The Lamentable Tragedy ofLocrine

Allusion to Shakespeare in Covell's Polimanteia 54

1596

A New Year's Performance of Titus Andronicus .55

Stationers' Register Entry 55

Entry for Venus and Adonis

Publications .55

Transcribed tide pages for Venus and Adonis and Edward III

Facsimile: Hamnet Shakespeare's burial record

Box: The Price of a Play

John Shakespeare's Request for a Grant of Arms 56

Box: The Hierarchy of die Gentry

Writ of Attachment Requested against Shakespeare and Odiers 58

Possible Allusion to The Taming of the Shrew in

Harington's The Metamorphosis ofAjax 58

Allusion to Hamlet in Lodge's Wits Miserie 59

Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performance 60

1597Shakespeare's Purchase of New Place 61

Shakespeare Confirms Ownership of New Place 63

Box: London's Mayor Requests a Ban on Plays


Entries for Richard II and Richard III

Publications 66

Transcribed tide page for Richard II

Facsimile: Tide page for Richard III

Facsimile: Title page for Romeo and Juliet

Record Showing Shakespeare as a Tax Defaulter 66

Box: The Table of Contents of the Northumberland Manuscript ,

Lord Chamberlain's Men Paid for Court Performances 67

1598Letter from Sturley to Quiney Mentioning Shakespeare 67

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Shakespeare Listed as Hoarding Grain 71


Entries for 1 Henry IV and The Merchant of Venice

Publications 72

Transcribed title pages for The Rape ofLucrece, Richard II,

and Richard III

Facsimile: Tide page for 1 Henry W

Facsimile: Title page for Love's Labor's Lost

London Tax Indenture Listing Shakespeare 72

Letter from Richard Quiney to Shakespeare 73

Letter from Adrian to Richard Quiney Mentioning Shakespeare 75

Letter from Sturley to Richard Quiney Mentioning Shakespeare 75

Box: Blood Sports and Executions

Shakespeare Is Paid for a Load of Stone 78

Allen's Bill of Complaint Regarding The Theatre 78

Facsimile: Page from The Workes of Benjamin Jonsonlisting Shakespeare

Allusion to Shakespeare in Bamfield's The Encomion of Lady Pecunia 82

Allusion'to Romeo and Juliet \n Marston's The Scourge o/Villanie 82

Allusions to Shakespeare and His Plays in Meres's Palladis Tamia. 82

Allusion to Love's Labor's Lost in Tofte's Alba 86

Shakespeare Listed as a Tax Defaulter 86

The Lord Chamberlain's Men Paid for Performances 86

Harvey's Comments on Shakespeare 86

Shakespeare's Poetry Mocked in The First Part of the Return

from Parnassus 87

Box: The Globe in Southwark

1599

Shakespeare Identified as a Sharer in the Globe 90

Further Details of Shakespeare's Share of the Globe 95

Possible Allusion to 1 Henry /Fin Whyte's Letter to Sidney 96

Box: A Royal Edict on die Production of Plays

Brend's Property Inventory Listing Shakespeare 99

Platter Sees Julius Caesar 99

Shakespeare Listed on Exchequer Pipe Roll 100

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Publications 100

Transcribed tide pages for Venus and Adonis, Romeo and Juliet,1 Henry IV, and The Passionate Pilgrime

Weever's Poem About Shakespeare in Epigrammes 100

Box: Shakespeare Cited on the Title Page ofPinner ofWakefield

John Shakespeare's Grant of Arms 101

Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performances 102

1600

A Contract to Build the Fortune Theater . 102


Entries for As You Like It, Henry V, Much Ado about Nothing,2 Henry TV, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Merchant of Venice

Publications 104

Transcribed tide pages for The Rape ofLucrece, Titus Andronicus,The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, and The First Partof the Contention betwixt the two famous houses of York and Lancaster

Facsimile: Tide page for The Merchant of Venice

Facsimile: Title page for A Midsummer Night's Dream

Facsimile: Tide page for Much Ado about Nothing

Facsimile: Tide page for 2 Henry IV

Facsimile: Title page for Henry V

Allusion to 1 Henry IV'in die Life of Sir John Oldcastle 105

The Publication olEnglands Helicon 106

Shakespeare Listed on Exchequer Pipe Roll 107

Allusion to Justices Silence and Shallow in Percy's Letter 107

Allusion to Shakespeare in Bodenham's Bel-vedere 107

Allusion to Falstaff in Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humor 110

Possible Allusions to Shakespeare and an Early Version of Macbethin Kemp's Nine Dales Wonder. 110

Allusions to Venus and Adonis and Lucrece in Lane's

Tom Tel-Troths Message 112

Allusion to the Globe in Rowlands's The Letting Of Humours Blood 112

Allusion to Falstaff in a Letter from die Countess of Soudiamptonto the Earl of Southampton 112


1601

A Performance oi Richard II and die Essex Rebellion 113

Shakespeare and His Wife Named in Whittington's Will 116

John Shakespeare's Burial Record 116

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The Publication of Chester's Love's Martyr 117

Allusions to Richard III and 1 Henry IV'in The Whipping of the Satyre 117

Allusion to 1 Henry /F in Weever's The Mirror of Martyrs 117

Allusions to Shakespeare in The Returne From Pernassus 118

Allusion to Richard III in Marston's What You Will 122


1602Stationers' Register Entries 122

Entries for The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1 and 2 Henry VI,Titus Andronicus, and Hamlet

Publications 123

Transcriptions of die tide pages for FCTMW and Adonis, Henry V,and Richard III

Facsimile: Title page for The Merry Wives of Windsor

Manningham Sees Twelfth Night and Reports a Story

about Shakespeare and Richard Burbage 124

The Shakespeare Coat of Arms Questioned 126

John Shakespeare Defended in die College of Arms 126

Deed of Conveyance for Land in Stratford 126

Hercules Underhill Acknowledges Shakespeare's Ownership

of New Place .'. 129

Box: The Swan and the Other Theaters of London

Shakespeare Buys a Cottage in Chapel Lane 131

Richard Vennar Causes a Scandal at the Swan 132

.Box: John Chamberlain's Account of die Vennar Incident

Allusions to The Comedy of Errors and Justice Shallow inDekker's Satiro-mastix 133



Entries for Troilus and Cressida, Richard II, Richard III,and 1 Henry IV

Facsimile: Tide page for Hamlet

Box: The First Quarto of Hamlet

Allusion to Shakespeare in Chetde's Englandes Mourning Garment 134

Allusion to Shakespeare in "A mournefull Dittie" 136

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The JacobeanYears: April 1603-1616 137

1603

Shakespeare's Company Becomes the King's Men 138

Box: A Stationer's Record of Shakespeare's Plays

The King's Men Paid for Court Performances 139

Possible Allusions to The Rape ofLucrece and Two Plays in

Saint Marie Magdalens Conversion 141

Shakespeare Named in Camden's "Certaine Poemes" 141

Possible Allusion to Shakespeare in Davies's Microcosmos 142


1604Possible Allusion to A Midsummer Night's Dream in Carleton's

Letter to Chamberlain 143

Box: Satan at the Globe

The King's Men Paid for Being Unable to Perform 145


The King's Men Congratulated in Dugdale's The Time Triumphant 146

Allusion to Love's Labor's Lost in Cope's Letter to Cecil 146

Box and Facsimile: The King's Men in die Coronation Procession

The King's Men Paid for Attendance on die Spanish Ambassador 146

Shakespeare Listed in Survey of Rowington Manor 146

Shakespeare's Involvement in Belott's Suit against Mountjoy 146Shakespeare's Suit against Rogers 151

Publications 152

Transcription of the title page for / Henry IV

Facsimile: Title page for Hamlet

Allusion to Shakespeare in Cooke's Epigrames 153

Allusion to The Comedy of Errors in Dekker's The Honest Whore 153

Allusions to Falstaff and The Comedy of Errors \n The Meeting of Gallants 153

Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton's Father Hubburds Tales 154

Allusion to Falstaff in Persons's Of Three Conversions of England 155

Allusions to Shakespeare and Hamlet in Scoloker's Daiphantus 155


1605Publications 158

Transcription of the title page for Richard III

Facsimile: Title page for The London Prodigall

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Shakespeare Named in Phillips's Will 158

Shakespeare Leases die Stratford Tidies 158

Hubaud's Bond to Shakespeare 165

Allusion to Shakespeare in Poulet's Letter to Vincent 165

Allusion to Hamletin Ratseis Ghost 166

Allusion to 2 Henry /Fin Breton's A Poste with a Packet

ofmadde Letters 168

Allusion to Hamlet in Eastward Hoe 168

Possible Allusion to TheRapeofLucrece'va The Strange Fortune of Alerane 169

Allusion to Hamlet in Smith's Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia 169

Allusion to Justice Shallow in Woodhouse's The Flea 171


1606

Shakespeare Listed in Hubaud's Inventory 173

The Globe Ordered to Repair Its Sewers 173

Box: A Statute on Blasphemy

Shakespeare Listed in Survey of Rowington Manor 173

Allusion to Richard III in Barnes's Foure Bookes of Offices 173


1607 \Stationers' Register Entries 174

Entries for Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labor's Lost, TheTaming of a Shrew, Hamlet, and King Lear

Publications 174

Transcriptions of tide pages for The Taming of aShrew, The Rape ofLucrece, and Venus and Adonis

Rawordi Sanctioned for Printing Venus and Adonis 174

Susanna Shakespeare's Marriage to John Hall 175

Edward Shakespeare's Burial Record 175

Edmund Shakespeare's Burial Record 175

Allusion to Venus and Adonis in The Fayre Mayde of the Exchange 175

Allusion to Shakespeare in Barksted's Mirrha The Mother of Adonis 176

Possible Allusions to Richard III and Twelfth Night in Dekker's

A Knights Conjuring. 177

Allusion to Hamlet in Dekker and Webster's West-ward Hoe 179

Allusion to Venus and Adonis in Merrie Conceited Jests of George Peele 179

Allusion to A Midsummer Night's Dream in Sharpham's The Fleire 179

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Shipboard Performances ot Richard II and Hamlet 180

Box: Playwrights as Directors

1608

Elizabeth Hall's Baptismal Record 180


Entries for A Yorkshire Tragedy, Pericles, and Antony and Cleopatra

Publications 181

Transcribed title pages for 1 Henry IV, Richard II,

and Venus and Adonis

Facsimile: Title page for King Lear

Facsimile: Title page for A Yorkshire TragedyAllusion to Performances of Shakespeare's Play in

Wilkins's The Painjull Adventures of Pericles Prince of Tyre 182

Shakespeare's Lease for die Blackfriar's Theater 182

Mary Shakespeare's Burial Record 186

Allusion to Hamlet in Armin's A Nest of Ninnies 186

Allusion to Hamlet \n Dekker's The Dead Tearme 187

Allusion to Hamletin Dekker's Lanthorne and Candle-light 188

Allusion to Venus and Adonis in Machin and Markham'sThe Dumbe Knight 190

Allusion to Venus and Adonis in Middleton's A Mad World,

My Masters 190

The Venetian Ambassador Attends a Performance of Pericles 190

Possible Allusion to Anne Hadiaway 190


Shakespeare's Suit against Addenbrooke 191


Entries for Troilus and Cressida and Sonnets

Publications 195

Transcribed title page for Romeo and Juliet

Facsimile: Tide page and dedication page for Shakespeare's Sonnets

Facsimile: Title page for Troilus and Cressida

Facsimile: Title page for Pericles

Preface to The Famous Historic ofTroylus and Cresseid 195

Alleyn Buys a Copy of Shakespeare's Sonnets 196

Greene Stays at New Place 196

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Pericles and King Lear Performed at Gowdiwaite Hall 196

Possible Allusion to Shakespeare in Davies's Humours

Heav'n on Earth 197

Possible Allusion to Julius Caesar in Everie Woman in her Humor 198

Possible Allusion to Pericles in Pimlyco 198

Possible Allusion to The Taming of the Shrew in A whole crew

of kind Gossips 199

The King's Men Paid for Being Unable to Perform 200

1610

Publication 200

Transcribed tide page for Venus and Adonis

The Prince of Wirtemberg Sees Othello at die Globe 200

Jackson sees Othello in Oxford 201

Allusion to die Globe in Heath's Two Centuries OfEpigrammes 201

Allusion to Falstaff in Sharpe's More Fooles Yet 202

Forman Sees Macbeth, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale 202


1611 ,Publications 206

Transcribed title pages for Hamlet, Pericles, and Titus Andronicus

Facsimile: Title page for King John '.

Shakespeare's Land Purchase Confirmed 206

Shakespeare Named in Stratford Highway Bill 207

Shakespeare Listed in Johnson's Inventory .207

Bill of Complaint Regarding die Stratford Tidies 208

Allusion to the Globe in Cooke's Greene's Tu quoque 208

Poem about Shakespeare and an Allusion to Venus and Adonis

in Davies's The Scourge of Folly 209

Allusion to Falstaff in Field's Amends for Ladies 209

Allusion to Falstaff in Speed's The History of Great Britaine 210

The Master of die Revels' Account of Plays Performed 210


Harington's List of Shakespeare's Plays 2111612Gilbert Shakespeare's Burial Record 213Vaux's Complaint about an Incident at die Globe 213

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Publications 215

Transcribed tide pages for Richard III and The Passionate Pilgrim

Facsimile: Tide page for A Funerall Elegy

Allusions to Shakespeare and Henry V in Heywood'sAn Apology For Actors 215

Allusion to Shakespeare in Webster's Preface to The White Divel 216

1613

Richard Shakespeare's Burial Record 217

Publications 217

Transcribed tide pages for 1 Henry TV and Thomas Cromwell

Shakespeare's Purchase of the Blackfriar's Gatehouse 217

Shakespeare Mortgages die Blackfriar's Gatehouse 219

Shakespeare and Burbage Paid for Impresa 221


Allusion to Shakespeare in Digges's Inscription inde Vega's Rimas 222

Account of the Burning of die Globe in Lorkin's Letterto Puckering 222

Account of die Burning of die Globe in Wotton's Letterto Bacon 222

Account of the Burning of die Globe in Bluett's Letterto Weeks 223

Account of the Burning of die Globe in Chamberlain'sLetter to Winwood 223

Account of die Burning and Rebuilding of the Globe inThe Annales 223

Report of the Burning of die Globe in The Abridgement of theEnglish Chronicle 224

Allusion to die Burning of die Globe in Taylor'sA nest of Epigrams 224

Allusion to the Globe in Taylor's The Water Mem Suit 224 ,


Shakespeare Named in the Will of John Combe 227

1614Rights to Publish The Rape ofLucrece Transferred 227

Allusion to the Rebuilt Globe in Chamberlain's Letterto Carleton 227

A Preacher Is Entertained at New Place 228

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Publication 228

Transcribed title page for Englands Helicon

Possible Allusion to Richard III in Brooke's The Ghost Of

Richard The Third 228

Allusion to Shakespeare in Camden's Remaines 229

Allusions to Plays in Johnson's Preface to Bartholomew Fayre 230

Allusion to Hamlet in Scott's The Philosopher's Banquet 232

Allusion to Pericles in Tailor's The Hogge Hath Lost His Pearle 232

Porter's Epigram on Shakespeare 233

Epigram on Shakespeare in Freeman's Rubbe, And a great Cast 233

Shakespeare's Possible Involvement in an Enclosure Effort 233


1615

Publication 236

Transcribed tide page for Richard II


Allusion to Shakespeare in F.B.'s Poem -. 236

Possible Allusion to Shakespeare in The New Metamorphosis 236

Shakespeare Named in Howes and Stow's The Annales. 238

Shakespeare's Suit against Bacon 238

1616

Shakespeare Named in Bolton's Draft for Hypercritica 239

Judidi Shakespeare's Marriage to Thomas Quiney 239


Fascimile: William Shakespeare's Burial RecordShakespeare's Epitaphs 240Shakespeare's Will 240

Transcriptions and facsimile

Publication 249

Transcribed title page for The Rape ofLucrece

Possible Allusions to Antony and Cleopatra and The Comedy of Errors

in Anton's The Philosophers Satyrs 249

Allusion to Richard III'in Breton's The Good And The Badde 251

Allusions to Hamlet and The Rape ofLucrece in Beaumontand Fletcher's The Scornful Ladie 251

Basse's Poem about Shakespeare 251

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Shakespeare's Posthumous Reputation and the First Folio 253

1617

Publication .".' 253

Transcribed title page for Venus and Adonis

1619


Entry for The Merchant of Venice

Publications 253Transcribed tide pages for Henry V, King Lear, The Merry Wives

of Windsor, The Whole Contention between the Two Famous Houses,Lancaster and York, and A Yorkshire Tragedy

Allusions to Shakespeare injonson's "Conversations widi Drummond". . . .254

1620Publication 255

Title page of Venus and Adonis

1621


Entry for Othello

1622- Publications 255

Transcribed tide pages for Richard III, Romeo and Juliet,and 1 Henry IV

Facsimile: Title page for Othello

Episde to the Reader from Othello 256

1623Anne Hathaway's Burial 256


Entries for plays to be included in the First Folio

Preliminary Material in die First Folio 257

Facsimile: Tide page for the First Folio

Facsimile:]onsoris note "To die Reader"Facsimile and transcription: "To the great Variety of Readers"

Dedication

Commendatory Verses byjonson, Hugh Holland,L. Digges, and I.M.

Facsimile: List of actors

Facsimile: Table of Contents

Facsimile: First page of The Tempest

Facsimile: Last page of Othello

Facsimile: Last page of Henry VIII

Facsimile: Page from Hamlet

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Jonson's Timber, or Discoveries 265

Episde to die Reader and Commendatory Verse from Poems:Written By Wil. Shakespeare. Gent .265

Entries from Ward's Diary 268

Facsimile: Title page for The Taming of the Shrew

Aubrey's Lives 269

Appendix

Eyewitnesses and Historians 275Platter's Observations (1599)

Baron Waldstein's Diary (1600)

Letter of Ottaviano Lotti (1605)

Letter of John Chamberlain (1608)

Letter of Antimo Galli (1613)

Politics and the Theater 278

Letter of Dudley Carleton (1605)

Letter of John Harington (1606)

Regulations for the Theater 281The Book of Common Prayer (1559)

An Act of the Privy Council (1600)

An Act of the Privy Council (1601)

A Privy Council Warrant (1604)

A Letter Attributed to George Chapman (1608)

George Buc's License to Perform The Second Maiden's Tragedy (1611)

Prologues, Epilogues, Epistles to Readers, and Excerpts from Plays. . . . .285

Marston's Letter to the Reader of The Malcontent (1604)

Commendatory Poem for Jonson's Sejanus (1605)

Prologue and Epilogue for Marston's Parasitaster (1606)

Note to the Reader of Marston's The Wonder of women (1606)

Heywood's Preface to The Rape ofLucrece (1608)

Jonson's Prefatory Poem for Epicoene (1609)

Jonson on die Audience in The Masque ofQueenes (1609)

Address to the Reader and Prologue for The Roaring Girle (1611)

Epigrams and Satires 289

Greene's Francescos Fortunes (1590)

Greenes, Groats-worth ofwitte (1592)

Nashe's Christs Teares Over Jerusalem (1593)

Rankins's Seaven Satyres Applyed to the Weeke (1598)

Davies and Marlowe's Epigrammes and Elegies (1599)

Weever's Epigrammes in the oldest cut, and newest fashion (1599)

Rowlands's The Letting Of Humours Blood In The Head-Vaine (1600)

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A Translation of Dedekind's Grobianus et Grobiana (1605)

Merrie Conceited Jests of George Peek Gentleman (1607)

Dekker's The Guls Horne-booke (1609) - - - -

Parrot's Laquei ridiculosi (1613)

Wither's Abuses Stript, And Whipt (1613)

Breton's I would, And would not (1614)

Overbury's New And Choice Characters (1615)

Stephens's Satyrical Essayes Characters And Others (1615)

Jonson's Epigrammes (1616)

Anti-Theatrical Tracts 304

Stubbes's "Of Stage-playes and Enterluds, widi their

wickednes" (1583)

Rainolds's Th'overthrow of Stage-Playes (1599)

Vaughan's The Golden grove (1600)

A Defense of Actors 306

Heywood's An Apology for Actors (1612)

Practical Matters 310

Inventories of Theatrical Costumes and Properties (1598)

Serlio's The Second Booke of Architecture (1611)

Rid's The Art ofjugling or Legerdemaine (1612)

Education 312Letter of Gager (1592)

Checklist of Further Reading 313

Cumulative Index 319

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