Chapter XXVIII: Appendix: N

MANUSCRIPT PLAYS

[_Bibliographical Note._--This list includes only English texts.
Most of the Latin plays (cf. App. K) also exist in MS. The
English ones so preserved are generally of an academic type; on
the general character of the few that are of playhouse origin,
cf. ch. xxii. Of the fifteen play texts collected in _Egerton
MS._ 1994, only three appear to be of plays written before
1616; descriptions of this collection are in A. H. Bullen,
_O. E. P._ ii. 417, and F. S. Boas, _A Seventeenth-Century
Theatrical Repertoire_ (_3 Library_, July 1917). In addition
to the plays named below, there are a _Pelopidarum Secunda_
in _Harleian MS._ 5110, which may be of any date in the first
half of the seventeenth century, and a Welsh ‘enterlut’, dated
1584 and without ascription or title in _Peniarth MS._ 68 (_H.
M. C. Welsh MSS._ i. 2. 467). A full account of the Plots
(‘plott’ ‘plotte’, ‘platt’) is given, with the seven texts,
by Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, 127. They have sometimes been
taken for ‘_scenarie_’ of impromptu plays, like the Italian
‘Commedie dell’arte’, although one of them is for the extant
_Battle of Alcazar_; but they were probably for the use of the
‘bookholder’ or the ‘tireman’, and consist of skeleton outlines
of the action, with notes of entrances and exits, and of the
points at which properties and music are required. The names
of the dramatis personae are generally accompanied by those of
the actors who represented them. The paper on which they are
written is mounted on pasteboard, and a hole cut near the top
probably served to suspend them on a peg in the playhouse. All
seven probably belong to companies (Strange’s and Admiral’s)
with which Edward Alleyn was connected. One was utilized for the
cover of a Dulwich MS., and G. Steevens, who once owned three of
the others, found ‘reason to suppose that these curiosities once
belonged to the collection of Alleyn’.]

PLAYS

_Alaham_ (Greville). MS. at Warwick Castle.

_Alice and Alexis._ Bodl. MS. 21745 (Douce MS. 171).

_Antipoe_ (Verney). Bodl. MS. 31041.

_Aphrodysial_ (Percy). MS. formerly in collection of Duke
of Devonshire.

_Arabia Sitiens_ (Percy). Ibid.

_Birth of Hercules._ B.M. Addl. MS. 28722.

_Bugbears_ (Jeffere). B.M. Lansdowne MS. 807.

_Charlemagne._ B.M. Egerton MS. 1994.

_Club Law._ St. John’s College, Cambridge, MS. S. 62.

_Cuck-Queans and Cuckolds Errant_ (Percy). MS. formerly in
collection of Duke of Devonshire.

_Cupid’s Sacrifice_ (Percy). Ibid.

_Faery Pastoral_ (Percy). Ibid.

_Faithful Friends_ (Beaumont and Fletcher). Victoria and
Albert Museum, Dyce MS. 10.

_Gentleman Usher_ (Chapman). Alleged MS. in Heber
collection.

_Gismund of Salerne_ (Wilmot). B.M. Lansdowne MS. 786. B.M.
Hargrave MS. 205. MS. in private collection, now unknown.

_Hercules Oetaeus_ (Elizabeth). Bodl. MS. e Museo 55.

_Honest Man’s Fortune_ (Beaumont and Fletcher). Victoria
and Albert Museum, Dyce MS. 9.

_Hymen’s Triumph_ (Daniel). Edinburgh University, Drummond
MS.

_Iphigeneia_ (Lumley). B.M. Royal MS. 15 A. ix.

_Jocasta_ (Gascoigne). B.M. Addl. MS. 34063.

_John a Kent and John a Cumber_ (Munday). MS. in collection
of Lord Mostyn.

_Judith._ National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS. 508
(formerly Hengwrt MS.).

_Love Feigned and Unfeigned._ B.M. I. B. 2172.

_Marriage Between Wit and Wisdom_ (Merbury). B.M. Addl. MS.
26782.

_Massacre at Paris_ (Marlowe). Alleged fragmentary MS.

_Mayor of Quinborough_ (Middleton). A late MS.

_Meleager_ (argument). MS. formerly in possession of Mr. B.
Dobell.

_Misogonus_ (Johnson). Formerly in collection of Duke of
Devonshire.

_Monsieur d’Olive_ (Chapman). Alleged MS. in Heber
Collection.

_Sir Thomas More._ B.M. Harleian MS. 7368.

_Mustapha_ (Greville). MS. at Warwick Castle. Cambridge
University Library MS. Ff. ii. 35.

_Narcissus._ Bodl. MS. 147303 (Rawlinson Poet. MS. 212).

_Necromantes_ (Percy). MS. formerly in collection of Duke
of Devonshire.

_Nobleman_ (Tourneur). Alleged MS. in private collection at
Oxford.

_Oration of Gwgan and Poetry_ (Owen). National Library of
Wales, Peniarth MS. 65.

_Orlando Furioso_ (Greene). Dulwich MS. i. 138.

_Parliament of Bees_ (Day). B.M. Lansdowne MS. 725.

_Parnassus._ Bodl. Rawlinson MS. D. 398. MS. formerly in
collection of J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps.

_Poor Man’s Comfort_ (Daborne). B.M. Egerton MS. 1994.

_1 Richard II._ B.M. Egerton MS. 1994.

_Ruff, Cuff, and Band._ B.M. Addl. MS. 23723.

_Second Maiden’s Tragedy._ B.M. Lansdowne MS. 807.

_Sicelides_ (P. Fletcher). Bodl. Rawl. Poet. MS. 214. B.M.
Addl. MS. 4453.

_Timon._ Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS. 52.

_Volpone_ (Jonson). MS. as yet unprinted.

PLOTS

_Battle of Alcazar._ B.M. Addl. MS. 10449.

_Dead Man’s Fortune._ Ibid.

_2 Fortune’s Tennis._ Ibid.

_Frederick and Basilea._ Ibid.

_1 Tamar Cham._ MS. formerly in the collection of George
Steevens, not now known.

_Troilus and Cressida._ B.M. Addl. MS. 10449.

_2 Seven Deadly Sins._ Dulwich MS. xix.

MASKS

_Ashby Entertainment_ (Marston). B.M. Sloane MS. 848. MS.
at Bridgewater House.

_Mask of Blackness_ (Jonson). B.M. Royal MS. 17 B. xxxi.

_Mask of Queens_ (Jonson). B.M. Royal MS. 18 A. xlv. B.M.
Harleian MS. 6947.

_Twelve Months._ MS. formerly in the collection of J. P.
Collier, now unknown.

_Ulysses and Circe_ (Browne). Cambridge, Emmanuel College
MS. 68. MS. in collection of Mr. H. C. Pole-Gell.

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