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[646] ‘Proofs’ and ‘revises’ had come into use before 1619, for Jaggard, criticized by Ralph Brooke for his ill printing of Brooke’s _Catalogue of Nobility_ (1619), issued a new edition as _A Discoverie of Errors in the First Edition of the Catalogue of Nobility_ (1622), regretting that his workmen had not given Brooke leave to print his own faulty English, and saying, ‘In the time of this his vnhappy sicknesse, though hee came not in person to ouer-looke the Presse, yet the Proofe, and Reuiewes duly attended him, and he perused them (as is well to be iustifyed) in the maner he did before’; cf. p. 261.

[647] Cf. pp. 106, 107, 117, 127.

[648] e.g. _Cynthia’s Revels_ (F_{1}), ‘The Scene Gargaphie’; _Philaster_ (F_{2}), ‘The scene being in Cicilie’; _Coxcomb_ (F_{2}), ‘The Scene; England, France’ (but in fact there are no scenes in France!).

[649] _The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom_ has no acts, but nine scenes. The latish _Jacob and Esau_, _Respublica_, _Misogonus_, _Conflict of Conscience_ have acts and scenes.

[650] _Ralph Roister Doister_, _Gammer Gurton’s Needle_, _Gorboduc_, _Gismund of Salerne_, _Misfortunes of Arthur_, _Jocasta_, _Supposes_, _Bugbears_, _Two Italian Gentlemen_, _Glass of Government_, _Promos and Cassandra_, _Arraignment of Paris_; so, too, as a rule, University plays. _Dido_ and _Love and Fortune_, like the later private theatre plays, show acts only.

[651] _Devil’s Charter_, _Duchess of Malfi_, _Philotas_, _Sir Giles Goosecap_, _The Turk_, _Liberality and Prodigality_, Percy’s plays, _The Woman Hater_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _2 Antonio and Mellida_.

[652] Acts and scenes are marked in _Tamburlaine_ and _Locrine_; acts, or one or more of them only, sometimes with the first scene, in _Jack Straw_, _Battle of Alcazar_, _Wounds of Civil War_, _King Leire_, _Alphonsus_, _James IV_, _Soliman and Perseda_, _Spanish Tragedy_, _John a Kent and John a Cumber_; a few scenes without acts in _Death of Robin Hood_. These exceptions may indicate neo-classic sympathies in the earlier group of scholar playwrights; some later plays, e.g. of Beaumont and Fletcher, have partial divisions. The acts in _Spanish Tragedy_ and _Jack Straw_ are four only; _Histriomastix_, a private theatre play, has six. Where there are no formal divisions, they are sometimes replaced by passages of induction or dumb-shows.

[653] Cf. ch. xxi.

[654] Pollard, _F. and Q._ 124; _Sh. F._ 79.

[655] Creizenach, 248.

[656] _Melville’s Diary_ (Bannatyne Club), 22.

[657] R. Hudson, _Memorials of a Warwickshire Parish_, 141.

[658] Lodge, _Defence of Plays_, 7.

[659] Collier, _Memoirs of Alleyn_, 133.

[660] _Plays Confuted_, 167

[661] _School of Abuse_, 40.

[662] Lodge, _Defence of Plays_, 28.

[663] _Plays Confuted_, 165.

[664] _Repentance_ (Grosart, xii. 177).

[665] Grosart, xii. 134.

[666] Ibid. viii. 128.

[667] Ibid. vii. 7.

[668] App. M; cf. E. Köppel (_Archiv_, cii. 357); W. Bang (_E. S._ xxviii. 229).

[669] Grosart, vi. 86, 119.

[670] Grosart, vi. 31.

[671] Sig. A 3^v. _Farewell to Folly_ was entered on S. R. on 11 June 1587 (Arber, ii. 471), but the first extant edition of 1591 was probably the first published, and the use of the term ‘Martinize’ in the preface dates it as at least post-1589 (cf. Simpson, ii. 349).

[672] Grosart, xi. 75.

[673] _Strange News_ (Nashe, i. 271); cf. _Pierce Penniless; his Supplication to the Devil_ (Nashe, i. 198) and _Have With You to Saffron Walden_ (Nashe, iii. 130). The passage about ‘make-plays’ is in an Epistle only found in some copies of _The Lamb of God_ (Nashe, v. 180).

[674] This allusion is not in the extant 1592 editions of the pamphlet (Grosart, xi. 206, 258).

[675] Ed. Grosart, i. 167.

[676] Ed. McKerrow, i. 247.

[677] Ed. Gosart, ii. 222, 322.

[678] Ed. McKerrow, iii. 131.

[679] Arber, ii. 620.

[680] App. C, No. xlviii.

Transcriber’s Notes:

1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been
corrected silently.

2. Original spelling has been retained where appropriate.

3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.

4.Superscripts are represented using the caret character, e.g. D^r.
or X^{xx}. Subscripts are shown as X{x}.

5. Italics are shown as _xxx_.