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.