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...s for ''The Wild Gallant'' or ''The Mistaken Husband'', Dryden plays which Harbage sees as possibly founded on lost Brome plays. Harbage's speculations are, regrettably, wishful thinking.

Comedy (Harbage) Harbage dates it c.1635-40, and accordingly lists it under the year 1637; but "1637

<blockquote> The first night's entertainment was a Comedy [Aemilia, in Latin, by Tho. Cecill], made and acted by St John's men, the c ...p://books.google.com.au/books?id=29E8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA33&dq=aemilia+%2B+latin+comedy&cd=6#v=onepage&q=aemilia%20%2B%20latin%20comedy&f=false Chainey 33]).

<td>Comedy of Terence called</td> ...y had acquired rights to Maurice Kyffin's translation of Terence's "first" comedy, the ''Andria'', in 1596.

Latin Comedy (Harbage)

...nge of different dramatic companies (see below). The dates given are from Harbage. Unknown. Marriage comedy is certainly a possibility given the title (see "For what it's worth").

:Comedy? [[WorksCited|Harbage]] ...Proverbs]][[category:Henry Chettle]][[category:Partial payment]][[category:Comedy]]

Unknown Co. at Ct. (Harbage); possibly King’s (Bentley V.1352). Unknown (Harbage); comedy (?); domestic (?)

Unknown company at court (Harbage); King’s (Bentley). Comedy (?) (Harbage)

| '''''The Womans Plott'', a Comedy'''||}|| | ''The Prisoners'', a Tragi-Comedy||}||

...two separate plays each with the title "The Lovers Holiday". Bentley and Harbage both note the possibility that they are one and the same. Bentley (5.1367) Love comedy

Comedy ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]) ...t on this play (p. 295). [[WorksCited|Collier]] suggests that "The Rangers Comedy" had been purchased from either Sussex's men or Queen's by Henslowe, who, b

Comedy? [[Works Cited|Harbage]] [[category:History]][[category:Comedy]][[category:Roslyn L. Knutson]][[category:Feuillerat]]

Comedy (?) (Harbage)

|probableGenres=Comedy Comedy ([[WorksCited|Harbage)]]

Comedy (Henslowe); Unknown ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]). ...cury is the messenger of the gods. Henslowe's designation of the play as a comedy might suggest a lack of fidelity to historical sources. See [[#Critical Com

...lowing, the Prince was solemnely invited by the Canons of Cristchurch to a Comedy called ''Yuletide'', where many thinges were either ill ment by them, or il Burlesque (Harbage).

|probableGenres=Comedy Comedy ([[WorksCited|Harbage]])

Comedy? ([[WorksCited|Harbage]])

Romantic comedy? ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]) ...eam/henslowesdiary02hensuoft#page/158/mode/2up #32, p. 158]), [[WorksCited|Harbage]], and more recently '''Knutson'''. [[category:F. G. Fleay]]

Pastoral; closet drama (Harbage) Harbage (153) also accepts Greg's suggestion that this is a lost translation of ''P

Comedy? (Harbage) ...pman. If this is true, it must have preceded Chapman's death in 1634, and Harbage accordingly dates it to 1633 or earlier. Bentley (3.59) argues for a date

Closet drama (Harbage); Caroline courtier drama for a professional theatre (Bentley). Pastoral (Harbage)

|probableGenres=Comedy :Comedy [[WorksCited|Harbage]]

Comedy (Harbage). '''Harbage''' assigned a date range of 1614 to 1622, the year of Buc's death.

Latin Satirical Comedy (Harbage); Satire (Latin?) (Nelson)

Comedy ? ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]) ...d to Thomas Dekker, and copying Adams's musings on similarly-titled plays, Harbage links the Henslowe "Disguises" in his ''Annals'' with the Hill title attrib

Comedy (?) ([[WorksCited|Harbage]])

Comedy ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]); Tragedy (see [[#Critical Commentary|'''below''']]). ...owing the implications of Greg's second observation, suggests it "may be a comedy of errors or possibly a tragedy" (p. 49).

Unknown company at court (Harbage). Chambers (''RES'' 484) suggests that the plays in Buc’s list, written o Comedy (?) (Harbage)

...Shirley distinguishes "The Toy" from richer commodities. Possibly Comedy (Harbage). ...this.” The 1989 third edition of ''The'' ''Annals of English Drama'' (ed. Harbage, Wagonheim, and Schoenbaum) lists the play as anonymous. Lublin suggests th

Comedy (?) (Harbage). ...ve's aftergame" is provided by the following exchange from the Restoration comedy ''The London Cuckolds''. Valentine Loveday has returned in disguise to sed

...hat Day had most likely added to the play in a subsequent revival: “If the comedy was written by Marlowe and Day, then we must suppose that Day completed a s Comedy ([[WorksCited|Harbage]])

Satirical comedy ...the town of Stamford in Lincolnshire. This play appears to be a satirical comedy taking inspiration from those events, but more research would help to estab

[[WorksCited|Harbage]] labeled the play a comedy, but qualified the label with a question mark. It is hard to imagine what e

Comedy ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]).

Leiceister's (?) ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]) at the Theater [[Category:Theater]] (Gosson). Heroical Romance ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]).

:An ill begining has a good end, & a bad begining may have a good end. a Comedy ... by Iohn fforde. Comedy ([[WorksCited|Harbage]])

Comedy [[Works Cited|Harbage]]

:7. The Tooth-drawer; a Comedy. : 7. The Tooth-drawer: a Comedy.

Comedy (?) (Harbage). <div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Eccles, Mark. "Middleton's Comedy ''The Almanac'', or ''No Wit, No Help like a Woman's''," Notes and Queries

::Her old Comedy, newly intituled. ::Of him I scrauld a dowty Comedy.

|probableGenres=Comedy ([[WorksCited|Harbage]])

Comedy (?) ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]).

Comedy? (Harbage)

...(1592-3) and the Admiral's men (1594-5) without that distinguishing "ne" (Harbage includes also "[[Hester and Ahasuerus|Hester and Ahasuerus]])". He thus imp : Comedy? [[WorksCited|Harbage]]

...of ''The Arte of English Poesie'' (1589) by recalling the plot of his own comedy: Comedy (Harbage)

Harbage (124) credits this play to Queen Henrietta's Men, but does not give a reaso Unknown (Harbage): comedy?

...ferent dramatic companies (see below). The date range given above is from Harbage. Some online sources ascribe the play to the year 1635: this date seems to ...the unsung journeymen of Caroline drama. His six surviving plays include comedy, tragicomedy, and the tragedy ''[[Parricide, The / Revenge for Honour|Reven

The Prince's company. Harbage, working without the benefit of the Burn transcript (see above), presumably Comedy (?) (Harbage)

Tragedy (?) ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]), chivalric romance (see [[#For_What_It.27s_Worth|For What It's Worth]] b .... However, the ending of Chaucer's tale is more intuitively described as a comedy, as it leaves the reader with the image of a happy marriage: "For now is Pa

Comedy ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]) ...s "[[Love of a Grecian Lady, The|The Love of a Grecian Lady]]," "[[Grecian Comedy]]," and "[[Love of an English Lady, The|The Love of an English Lady]]." Inc

Tragedy (Harbage); comedy (Stow); history (contemporary reference); romance (Wiggins). ...">Duffin, Ross W. ''Some Other Note: The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy''. NY: Oxford University Press, 2018.</div>

|probableGenres=Comedy {{Play/Probable Genres}} [[WorksCited|Harbage]]

|probableGenres=Comedy [[WorksCited|Harbage]]

Romantic comedy (?) [[WorksCited|Harbage]]

Comedy ending in multiple marriages. ...tting for the play. Finally, the Epilogue demonstrates that the play was a comedy which ended in at least two marriages.

...sup>e</sup> English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage; for Comedy, witnes his ''Ge[n]tleme[n]'' ''of Verona'', his ''Errors'', his ''Loue lab Comedy ([[WorksCited|Harbage]])

|probableGenres=Comedy :[part of payment of a Comedy Called The World ronnes]

|probableGenres=Comedy {{Play/Probable Genres}}[[WorksCited|Harbage]]

:Pastoral Comedy [[WorksCited|Harbage]] ...but does not guess at its theatrical provenance (2.310 #223). [[WorksCited|Harbage]] lista it among other anonymous plays in 1594 and taga its auspices as "un

Comedy? (Harbage)

...Tochter von Ferrara' (Sibley); 'Annabella, a Duke's daughter of Ferrara' (Harbage). ...twice performed a play recorded as 'Comoedia vom Hertzog von Ferrara' [the comedy of a Duke of Ferrara] (Herz, 66).<br><br>

...Plays in One]]''', '''[[Three Plays in One]]''', an '''[[Antic Play and a Comedy]]''' (all performed by the Queen's players), as well as "Dyuers feats of Ac Classical Legend ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]).

Comedy (Harbage)

Comedy ([[WorksCited|Harbage]])

Comedy? ([[WorksCited|Harbage]])

Comedy ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]).

...e title "Guise" is attributed to "''Iohn Webster''" and designated "C" for comedy (sig. a3v). Comedy (Archer, Marsh). Tragedy (Kirkman 1671). "Tragedy of Intrigue" (Harbage).

And shut up comedy in Epigram.<br> ...n was required to write "100 songs in praise of the University, and also a comedy, in order to receive his B.A." in 1512 (341). He notes specifically that th

Tragi-comedy? ([[WorksCited|Harbage]])

|probableGenres=Comedy ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]) [[WorksCited|Harbage]] suggests that the play was a comedy.

Classical legend ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]) See "The Ass Motif in ''The Comedy of Errors'' and ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''" by Deborah Baker Wyrick for

Comedy (?) ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]); tragedy? (see [[#For What It's Worth|For What It's Worth]] below) ...unconsidered possibility is that ''Crack Me This Nut'' may not have been a comedy at all. An entry in the Stationers' Register for 20 January 1595/96 reads:

Comedy? (Harbage)

Unknown (Harbage); doppelganger comedy (Fleay and Steggle) ...doppelgangers, joining a small group including ''Twelfth Night'' and ''The Comedy of Errors''. Steggle also notes the existing suggestion, made by Donna B.

...t the Rose theatre where it was performed as an old play by Strange’s Men (Harbage has "Strange's and Admiral's"). Romantic comedy (?) ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]), travel, eastern, wonders.

Apprentice play (Butler); Comedy? (Harbage)

Comedy (Harbage)

(NB: This title is editorial, but is used by Harbage and other reference sources). Comedy (but Bentley, ''JCS'' 5.1175 thinks it a tragedy)

Comedy (?) (Harbage). Romance (Wiggins). '''Devine''' (591) categorizes "Six Yeomen" as a "citizen comedy" such as Dekker's '' The Shoemaker's Holiday'' and William Rowley's ''The S

[[WorksCited|Harbage]] offers "Realistic Trag. (?)"; another option is domestic drama. ...Bodin, ''De magorum Demonomania'' (1581). Whatever the logic of "domestic comedy" having been suggested as the genre of this play, Wiggins thinks "probably

[[WorksCited|Harbage]]; Comedy [[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' (#804]])

Comedy (?) ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]). Romance ([[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' (#1301)]].

Pastoral (Harbage). ...MS 2059 "every mention of a play is qualified with the nature of the play, comedy or tragedy, without exception" (122), leading him to conclude that "''The H

|probableGenres=Comedy Unknown ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]); Anthology ([[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' #1063]])

...now before me a volume of MS Poems by Mr. Pestell; among which is a Latin comedy, dated 1631, under the title of "Versipellis;" which appears to have been a ...ir fast at Newmarket about 9. then to goe to Cambridge, there to heare one Comedy that afternoon, and another the next morning, the first in latine, and the

...n Mayors List 13 is simply to “The Storye” of Ebrauk), not an “interlude”. Harbage's ''Annals'' describes the genre of the play as a “show” (55). ...n, entertained both Derby and Lord Strange with a command performance of a comedy by "scollers of the freescole" at Chester (quoted in Chambers, 2.356).

...fferent dramatic companies (see below). The date range given above is from Harbage. ...f the unsung journeymen of Caroline drama. His six surviving plays include comedy, tragicomedy, and the tragedy ''[[Parricide, The / Revenge for Honour|Reven

...l locations. On the 13th, he made the following entry: On the thirteenth a comedy was played of the taking of Stuhl-Weissenberg, firstly by the Turks, and th ::Unknown (Harbage), Foreign History (Greg, Wiggins, Steggle)

Romance ([[WorksCited|'''Harbage''']]). ...but conjectured that "J.M." was John Marston (HMC ''Third Report'', 119). Harbage, however, speculated on the basis of the ''Report'''s description that "J.M

Comedy (Henslowe’s entries); “Topical Play” ([[WorksCited|Harbage]])[[category:prison]] ...draws back from that proposal (at least for part 2) and offers instead "a comedy dealing —whether satirically farcically, or romantically—with events in

Comedy (Carnegie). Moral (Harbage). ...7334889$23i 21–24]). Broadly speaking, the "Play of Poore" was an academic comedy of subterfuge, disguise, and mischief. In the play's first scene, Poore enl

Tragedy (Harbage). ...ers in ''Amphitryon'') served as an important influence on Shakespeare's ''Comedy of Errors'' and ''Twelfth Night''. (The Plautine precedent for both plays w

Harbage assigns a date of 1587, presumably on the basis of the now discredited Harv Heroical romance (Harbage); Foreign history (Schoenbaum rev. Harbage).

...that the English translation received (or was intended for) a performance. Harbage designates it a closet play; Jones (6) suggests it was prepared as a school Sacred Comedy ([[WorksCited|Harbage]]).

Comedy (Harbage)

Comedy (?) ([[WorksCited|Harbage]])

Comedy. There is no reference to such a play in any of the major criticism: Alfred Harbage does not list it in his ''Annals of English Drama'', E. K. Chambers does no

...ry] ([[WorksCited|Fleay, ''BCED'']]), [[WorksCited|Greg II]], [[WorksCited|Harbage]]) <br> Nocturnal comedy ('''Steggle''')