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...sting catalogues. The title here is derived from the opening words of its summary, as quoted by Bruce, and is offered here merely for temporary convenience. A list of characters and an incomplete plot scenario in Latin survives among the State Papers at the National Archives,

The outline of the plot of Acts 1-3 exists as a MS fragment, Folger MS X.d.206, "formed of six shee ...contain what is conventionally referred to as the "plot" --- an Act by Act summary of the play's action:

"T" proceeded to give a long plot summary and three blank verse extracts from the supposed play, a tragedy dramatizin

Wiggins offers a succinct summary of the likely plot::Sent by his father to study in Athens, Titus forms a close friendship with

...47 BC), the brother of Cleopatra and murderer of Pompey. However, Gosson's summary better fits Ptolemy V Epiphanes (reigned 204—181 BC), Ptolemy VIII Euerge ...of a play, this would have to have been Ptolemy XII Auletes, as a concise summary should show.<br><br>

===Plot and staging=== ...ins, ''Catalogue'' (#963)]] constructs a speculative summary of the play's plot. Tasso falls in love with a high-born lady but is driven to melancholy beca

Summary from ''Encyclopedia Britannica'': ...(55) observe parallels between "Astiages" and commercial drama in terms of plot devices (e.g. "the noble child raised by shepherds, the banquet of human fl

...y alternative title for Henslowe's choice of "Jerusalem." He offers a plot summary of "Jerusalem" drawn from the early parts of William of Tyre's ''Godfrey of

...kquote>a stage play should be made & was made by one George Chapman vpon a plot given vnto him concerning . . . Agnes Howe . . . (her cause & sutes then de <blockquote>touchinge any Combinacions or Confederacyes vpon a plot to him giuen by any of the . . . defendants or any other person or persons

:It is not a lost play. The definitive summary of sources for the extant play is in ''The Dramatic Works of George Peele'' ...Muly Mahamet, the villainous Moor and nephew to Abdelmelec, in the extant Plot of ''The Battle of Alcazar'' (the role of Abdelmelec is assigned to Thomas

===Plot (British Library, Add. MS 10449, f. 5)=== =====Theatrical plot=====

...ts cancelled by the copyist. David Carnegie offered a detailed conjectural plot synopsis, summarizing the evidence with further speculations based on clues ...Poore and its manuscript has been written by David Carnegie. The following summary draws heavily on his findings.

...he German play also contains what Wiggins describes as the “relic of a sub-plot in the original” involving magical transportation, the magician’s serva ...ubled or distracted youth in the 1590s" (227). He provides a detailed plot summary, focusing on parallels with the prodigal son legend (explicitly in another

...which would have been unavailable to Glapthorne. Smith also offers a plot summary of Howard's play, and useful further discussion of it.

Vickers provides a recent, concise summary based on the likely source material: ...t of the information concerning the murder which was related in its tragic plot” (43). The following information comes from Sisson’s two-part article o

...name for ''The Battle of Alcazar'', it is not a lost play. The definitive summary of sources for the extant play is in ''The Dramatic Works of George Peele'' ...r'' with "Mahomet," argues for a date of 1601 for the revival to which the plot belongs. Wiggins discusses the problems of dating that revival in further d

...e Emperor Vespasian, by his son Titus” (cxii). Clark cites J. A. Herbert’s summary of the Titus and Vespasian story in his introduction to the fifteenth centu ...at it was "so close a reproduction of the "Titus and Vespasian" of 1592 in plot and treatment" (2.299 #128).

...ark’s Day than by the murders themselves” (p. 27); she appends a note to a summary of Forman’s synopsis in which she adds two points: (1) Forman’s apparen ...e is particularly hard on "Cox" as a theatrical piece, asserting that “the plot is so fantastic that it is perfectly clear that the play could never have b

...thorship of ''The Silver Mine'' is John Marston. '''Wilson''' found that a summary of Privy Council registers recorded that a John Marston was "com''m''ited t ...e sett open, and thereby become profitabler then heretofore" (44). James's plot was based on Bulmer's recruitment of wealthy investors, who would in return

...gument is more likely to be an author's proposal than an audience member's summary: its "manner of description is surely more imaginative than observational" '''Stern''' discusses the argument as an example of a plot distributed to those attending the play, "interpreting what is happening th