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...Richard II'' at the Globe. He died in 1605, leaving a will full of details about his professional and personal connections.
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....125]). He then asked, "Can it be that this title was discarded for ''Look About You'' (''LAY'')," which he had already "attributed to [Anthony] Wadson." In
...ve a care"), but saw nothing that suggested the several instances of "look about you" in the text of ''LAY'' had been edited from "bear a brain." He conside
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| [[Anon.]] ([[Webster, John|Webster]]? [[Shirley, James|Shirley]]?)||[[Play about the Duke of Florence (BL Add MS 88878)]]||[[:category:Unknown|Unknown]]
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...25). See pp. 51-77 for Gurr's detailed discussion of "Disguises" as ''Look About You''.
...''Catalogue'' #1010]] rejects the identification of "Disguises" as ''Look About You,'' a play he considers "almost certainly later than the ''Robin Hood''
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:If, as several scholars propose (see below), the play was about Rhodri Mawr, King of Gwynedd, [[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' (#1077)]]
...ed|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' (#1077)]] proposes that the play could have been about Roderic, the last Visigothic king of Spain; he suggests the following sourc
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...t Plays Database'' is a wiki-style forum for scholars to share information about lost plays in England, 1570-1642. Its purpose is to add lost plays to schol
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About Ten; before the heat of the Day.
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...at the Rose in 1598, but the absence of payments in full raise a question about whether the play was completed.
[[WorksCited|Malone]] makes no comment about "'Tis No Deceit to Deceive the Deceiver" (p. 311); [[WorksCited|Collier]] m
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Chalmers's comment about the identity of "young Johnson" - almost certainly, it is now thought, a gu
Ronald Bayne, writing about ''A Fault in Friendship'', assumed that both of these identifications were
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...y spent 32s. might be for "an unnamed play from Herford's Men, or … a play about the earl, the queen's cousin" (266, n135).
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[[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' #1139]] opines that play might have been about humours; he bases this on the "hot anger" of the title that, in its turn to
...te of Jonson's payment for "Hot Anger Soon Cold" was "as nearly as may be" about a month before Jonson killed Gabriel Spenser with a rapier in a duel on 22
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...ng court performances generally, '''Astington''' points out the following: about painted cloths:
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...oes not comment on this play (p. 299); [[WorksCited|Collier]] says nothing about its possible storyline or source (p. 85). [[WorksCited|Fleay, ''BCED'']] pr
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...[[WorksCited|Greg II (#81, p. 177 )]], nor '''Gurr''' has hazarded a guess about the story line of this play. Fleay does mention a play associated with [[Sh
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...out this play. His focus is primarily Lluelyn's degree play and conjecture about a broader, informal tradition at Oxford which might form a context for it,
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If the play was about the Jack Cade rebellion (see below), its closest dramatic analogue might be
...himself 'Captaine ''Mend-all''' (138). Nicol thus argues that the play was about the conflict between Cade and King Henry VI, who had a reputation as a peac
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...rksCited|Fleay, ''BCED'' (2. #174, p. 304]] ignores Collier's false claims about "Barnardo and Fiammetta" and a companion forgery, as does [[WorksCited|Greg
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...is Atalanta, Plautus’s Menechmus about the harlot Erotes, and Oedipus even about his mother, Jocasta; and Julius Caesar so in love with power that for the s
...er the Great" in North's Plutarch relates one of the more famous anecdotes about the two men:
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...tettin-Pomerania saw on 13 September was yet another in a cluster of plays about military sieges (as Steggle suggests, pp. 113-16).
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:'''Sharpe''', in the following comment, seems to accept Fleay's claim about the absorption of the "Troy" play into the "Ages" plays of Thomas Heywood:
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...D'']] had previously done. He mused that the 5s. paid Chettle for the play about Orestes would more nearly bring payments to Dekker for "Agamemnon" up to th
...s up on an observation first made by [[WorksCited|Greg II]] (#174, p. 202) about a "striking" prevalence of Greek story materials to argue that the play/s
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...be guessed about this play's subject matter is that it was likely a comedy about love and marriage.
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...y of the Rape of the Sabine Women, but it doesn't follow that the play was about that story.
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...ck at this play when he gave Benedick a jest in ''Much Ado About Nothing'' about fetching a hair from the Great Cham's beard.
...adding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Knutson, Roslyn L. "What's So Special About 1594." ''Shakespeare Quarterly'' 61.4 (2010): 449-467.</div>
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live like a Prince here; and that the very contrivances about your House, tell who's the Master of it.<br>
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...led dean thereof an. 1635. The said ''Pastoral'' is not printed, but goes about in MS. from hand to hand.
...obvious similarity between Wood's description of a St John's College play about Stonehenge, and the play in the British Library manuscript. W. W. Greg pro
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'''Gurr''' has nothing to say about "The Mack" beyond its having received one performance marked "ne" in Henslo
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...least four tragedies, two of them operas. In default of further evidence about the "real" Duchesses of Fernandina, there is a possibility that Glapthorne'
...s leading characters in Webster's ''The White Devil''. If this suggestion about the play's subject-matter were tenable, then ''The Duchess of Fernandina''
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...s entangled the play with another Admiral's product—"[[Bristow Tragedy]]"— about which very little is known except its author (John Day) and dates of purcha
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[[WorksCited|Malone]] has no comment to make about this title, but he does read the spelling as "times triumph and foztus" (p.
[[WorksCited|Greg II]] rejects all of Fleay's supposes about what other play "Times Triumph" might be. He reads Henslowe's "& fortus" to
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[[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'']] makes the only plausible observation about the Admiral's "[[Burbon (i.e. Bourbon?)|Burbon]]," which is that it belonge
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...the Robin Hood play in Dec-Jan 1600-1. However, Greg was enthusiastic only about two tracts published in 1595: "The Estate of English Fugitiues vnder the ki
[[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'']], however, endorses Greg's suggestion about the Lewkenor tracts, which he labels the probable sources of the lost play.
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* Since the ballad sung at the Curtain (see above) is about "riotous drinkers", Bentley suggests that the play was "a roistering, possi
* Alternatively, Wiggins suggests, the play could have been more about the claret than the moon. He notes that calling for alcohol for the Man in
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...xon kings but acknowledges that "the relative dearth of specific narrative about them" is a problem: Osric of Deira, A.D. 625-35; Osric of Northumberland, A
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Whilst the play was evidently about what we would now call a dentist, the fact of its being a comedy is rather
...get an Angell of you, Bee it, said Scogin. Scogin did knit a strong threed about the tooth-drawers tooth, and gaue it a great twitch. Oh, said the tooth-dra
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...rical Records." However, given that these references are the only evidence about the play (unless a Plot of three-sevenths of it survives), it seems appropr
...edition of Henslowe's ''Diary'', [[WorksCited|Greg II]] agreed with Fleay about the splintering of "Seven Deadly Sins" into the Queen's two plays ([http://
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No information about the theatrical provenance of this play is available. It was evidently stage
...s King Henry VI (see, for example, Loades 49). The play thus may have been about events during the Wars of the Roses. This possibility is given further cred
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...ffered for the narrative matter of this play, but no one has found a story about the town of Bristol (or a man named Bristow) that seems plausible as the so
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:Received of Mr. Lowens for my paines about Messinger's play called The King and the Subject, 2 June 1638, 1''l.''0.0.
...e Tyrant" and labels it scholars' favorite choice. He provides information about the registration of "The Tyrant" at Stationers' Hall to Humphrey Moseley on
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...in his propriety: And to the end that any other Companies of Actors in or about London shall not p<sup>r</sup>sume to act any of them to y<sup>e</sup> prei
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...g another, possibly stronger, argument to the one Wiggins already advanced about ''Telomo'' and ''Ptolemy'' being not one and the same play" (12).
...; finally, "while we know little about Leicester’s Men’s repertory, a play about Ajax would not sit very comfortably among the other play titles we know, wh
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...Alleyn in 1601-2 (Greg, II.119; Chambers, 1.372). They were less specific about plays for which payments higher than £2 but lower that £5 were made. ''Kn
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...es'', which "does not relate to anything in the likely narrative of a play about Caesar", and the fact that Henslowe's payments for ''Two Shapes'' and ''Cae
...urt Tetzeli von Rosador (who follow Greg in assuming that "Two Shapes" was about Julius Caesar) argue that the word "shape" probably refers to disguises (OE
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...Admiral's Men in 1602. Basically, the Proud Woman story is a tragic one; about a beautiful woman; set in Antwerp. It thus fits with the title and known g
If the suggestion made above is tenable, then we can say a little more about the genre of ''The Fair Star of Antwerp'', which would, for instance, neces
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...f James I in the spring of 1603; the royal patent is dated 19 May 1603. At about this time, the ban on performances that had been imposed by the privy counc
The great oddity about this play is that the King's players put it on during their second year as
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...ts meaning would be straightforward. It could have been a lost Latin play about an alchemist, or indeed merely Erasmus's colloquy of that name, which could
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Currently in EEBO TCP, the only substantial narratives about a tinker (one who mends pots, kettles, etc.) are from writers associated wi
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...properties (while he is writing about costumes and properties rather than about the "Book", Henslowe inadvertently starts referring to the play as "The Thr
There is no further information extant about this play.
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...ks_Cited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'']] (#1309) assumes that an Elizabethan play about the Henrican court would not have represented Henry VIII, but may have repr
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...tigernhomepage.htm Vermaat]), provides a substantial amount of information about Vortigern and his times.
...sidered "Vortigern" to be the "henges" on 22 June 1597, but he was dubious about its having a connection to the much later play, ''Hengist King of Kent'' by
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...s from the Elizabethan Playhouse'' (109-13). He raised a valuable question about how Strange's players would have gotten Tarlton's play from the Queen's men
...-part play had an induction of some length, which joined to seven playlets about the sins would make eight units in all, divided into five and three for the
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...inctive about Richard’s funeral, though he did leave detailed instructions about what was to be done with his body, specifying distinct final resting paces
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...eadstrong by reason of his ambition; he growes iealous of his actions, and about the end of the yeare [1614] concludes his ruine and death. The commandement
...fell to worke, and casting themselues vpon him, they put a coad [sc. cord] about his necke, and sought to strangle him; but seeing that the fatnesse of his
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...s from the Elizabethan Playhouse'' (109-13). He raised a valuable question about how Strange's players would have gotten Tarlton's play from the Queen's men
...-part play had an induction of some length, which joined to seven playlets about the sins would make eight units in all, divided into five and three for the
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...bly not a play." However, upon receiving being notified by Bradley D. Cook about the information in Corser's edition, he could confirm that "it definitely '
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...nitent Sinner'', by R. Willis (London 1639). In the book Willis reminisces about "a stage play which I saw when I was a child," being taken by his father to
...nce of seeing a play, Willis "reinterpreted a play about works into a play about grace" (367). Pearlman suggests that Willis's recall of the play is "layere
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'''Knutson''' (p. 162) and '''Gurr''' (p. 105) concur that nothing about the 15s. payment to Chettle and Haughton suggests that the play was complet
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...s lost play dealing with the Antony and Cleopatra story, were written just about the turn of the century’ (Rees, 177).
...cularly Cecil (Bullough, II. 5-7). Rebholz suggests that the same concerns about the ability of Greville’s readers to interpret his works as topical alleg
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...players' visit to Oxford (366n), '''Elliott''' is the only critic to write about this play. He observes that there seems to have been "an informal tradition
...te>These poems, then, record a rite of passage enacted by an undergraduate about to receive his B.A. before two men who had been heads of is house since he
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...oduction for some time. Sussex's players gave performances at the Rose for about seven weeks, 27 Dec 1593 through 6 Feb 1594, during which time they offered
...adding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Knutson, Roslyn L. "What's So Special about 1594." ''Shakespeare Quarterly'' 61.4 (2010): 449-67.</div>
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The scholarly commentary on "Jerusalem" is a product of guesswork about its subject matter:
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