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Dictionary of Literary Biography® • Volume Two Hundred Sixty-Three

William Shakespeare A Documentary Volume

Edited by Catherine Loomis University of New Orleans

A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book

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Plan of the Series xxvii Introduction xxix A Note on the Text xxxv Acknowledgments xxxvi

Short Titles of Works Cited in this Volume 3

Baptism through the "Lost Years": 1564-1591 5 1564 's Birth and Name 5 Box: A Note on Dates during Shakespeare's Life Facsimile: Shakespeare's Baptismal Record 1566 " Gilbert Shakespeare's Baptismal Record 9 1569 Joan Shakespeare's Baptismal Record 10 The Queen's Players and the Earl of Worcester's Players Visit Stratford-upon-Avon 10 1571 Anne Shakespeare's Baptismal Record 10 1573 Visit of the Earl of Leicester's Players 10 1574 Richard Shakespeare's Baptismal Record 10 Box: Money in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Eras 1576 Visit of the Earl of Worcester's Players 12 1578 Visit of the Earl of Worcester's Players 12 1579 Anne Shakespeare's Burial Record 12 Visits of the Lord Strange's Players and the Countess of Essex's Players 12

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1580 Inquest on the Body of Katherine Hamlett 13 Edmund Shakespeare's Baptismal Record .13 Visit of the Earl of Derby's Players 13 Box: An Age of Exploration and Colonization Box: A Touring Company Performance 1581 The Will of Alexander Hoghton of Lea, Esquire 16 Visits of the Earl of Worcester's Players and Lord Berkley's Players 17 1582 Visit of the Earl of Worcester's Players ,. .17 Records of Shakespeare's Marriage 17 Entry in Bishop Whitgift's Register naming Anne Whadey Facsimile and transcription: Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway's Marriage License Bond Box: Acting as a Profession 1583 Susanna Shakespeare 19 Fascimile: Susanna Shakespeare's Baptismal -Record . Epitaph 1584 Visits of the Lord Berkley's Players and the Lord Chandos's Players 20 1585 Visits of the Earl of Oxford's Players, the Earl of Worcester's Players, and the Earl of Essex's Players 21 Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare's Baptismal Record 21 Facsimile: Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare's Baptismal Record 1587 Visit of Unidentified Players 21 1588 Visits of the Queen's Players, the Earl of Essex's Players, the Earl of Leicester's Players, and an Unidentified Company 21 Box: On the Charms of Plays Record of 's Lawsuit against John Lambert in which William Shakespeare Is Named 23 1589 Allusion to an m- in Nashe's Preface to Greene's Menaphon 25

The Elizabethan Years: 1592-March 1603 27 1592 Henslowe Records Performances of a Play about King Henry VI 28

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John Shakespeare Cited for Failing to Attend Church 30 Allusion to Shakespeare in Greene's Groats-worth ofWitte 30 Box: Signature Designations Possible Allusion to 1 Henry Vim Nashe's Pierce Penilesse 32 Box: Shakespeare's Work on 1593 Possible Allusion to Shakespeare in Chettle's Kind-Harts Dreame 35 Henslowe Records Performances of a Play about Henry VI 38 Shakespeare's First Publication 38 Stationers' Entry for Venus and Adonis Fascimile: Tide page for Venus and Adonis Box: Quartos and Folios Box: The Stationers' Company The Dedication of Venus and Adonis to die Earl of Southampton 39 Stonley Buys a Copy of Venus and Adonis 40 Reynolds Interprets Venus and Adonis 40 1594 Henslowe Records Performances of and Odier Plays 40 Stationers' Register Entries 41 Entries for Titus Andronicus, The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses ofYorke and Lancaster, The Taming of a Shrew, The Rape ofLucrece, and Venus and Adonis Publications 41 Transcribed tide page for Venus and Adonis Facsimile: Title page for The Rape ofLucrece Facsimile: Tide page for Titus Andronicus Facsimile: Tide page for The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses ofYorke and Lancaster The Dedication of The Rape ofLucrece to the Earl of Southampton 42 Shakespeare's Company Paid for a Court Performance 42 Probable Allusion to Titus Andronicus in A Knacke to know a Knave 43 Possible Allusion to The Rape ofLucrece in Drayton's Matilda 44 Allusion to The Rape ofLucrece in Har.'s Epicedium 44 Allusion to W. S. and The Rape ofLucrece in WUlobie His Avisa 45 Box: On Printing Plays Box: The Reliability of Shakespeare's Texts Account of an Attempted Performance of in Gesta Grayorum 50

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1595 Stationers' Register Entry 52 Entry for Edward III Possible Allusion to Richard III in Hoby's Letter to Cecil 53 Publications 53 Facsimile: Tide page for The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York Facsimile: Title page for The Lamentable Tragedy ofLocrine Allusion to Shakespeare in Covell's Polimanteia 54 1596 A New Year's Performance of Titus Andronicus .55 Stationers' Register Entry 55 Entry for Venus and Adonis Publications .55 Transcribed tide pages for Venus and Adonis and Edward III Facsimile: 's burial record Box: The Price of a Play John Shakespeare's Request for a Grant of Arms 56 Box: The Hierarchy of die Gentry Writ of Attachment Requested against Shakespeare and Odiers 58 Possible Allusion to in Harington's The Metamorphosis ofAjax 58 Allusion to Hamlet in Lodge's Wits Miserie 59 Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performance 60 1597 Shakespeare's Purchase of 61 Shakespeare Confirms Ownership of New Place 63 Box: London's Mayor Requests a Ban on Plays Stationers' Register Entries 65 Entries for Richard II and Richard III Publications 66 Transcribed tide page for Richard II Facsimile: Tide page for Richard III Facsimile: Title page for Record Showing Shakespeare as a Tax Defaulter 66 Box: The Table of Contents of the Northumberland Manuscript , Lord Chamberlain's Men Paid for Court Performances 67 1598 Letter from Sturley to Quiney Mentioning Shakespeare 67

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Shakespeare Listed as Hoarding Grain 71 Stationers' Register Entries 72 Entries for 1 Henry IV and The Merchant of Venice Publications 72 Transcribed title pages for The Rape ofLucrece, Richard II, and Richard III Facsimile: Tide page for 1 Henry W Facsimile: Title page for Love's Labor's Lost London Tax Indenture Listing Shakespeare 72 Letter from Richard Quiney to Shakespeare 73 Letter from Adrian to Richard Quiney Mentioning Shakespeare 75 Letter from Sturley to Richard Quiney Mentioning Shakespeare 75 Box: Blood Sports and Executions Shakespeare Is Paid for a Load of Stone 78 Allen's Bill of Complaint Regarding 78 Facsimile: Page from The Workes of Benjamin Jonson listing Shakespeare Allusion to Shakespeare in Bamfield's The Encomion of Lady Pecunia 82 Allusion'to Romeo and Juliet \n Marston's The Scourge o/Villanie 82 Allusions to Shakespeare and His Plays in Meres's Palladis Tamia. 82 Allusion to Love's Labor's Lost in Tofte's Alba 86 Shakespeare Listed as a Tax Defaulter 86 The Lord Chamberlain's Men Paid for Performances 86 Harvey's Comments on Shakespeare 86 Shakespeare's Poetry Mocked in The First Part of the Return from Parnassus 87 Box: The Globe in Southwark 1599 Shakespeare Identified as a Sharer in the Globe 90 Further Details of Shakespeare's Share of the Globe 95 Possible Allusion to 1 Henry /Fin Whyte's Letter to Sidney 96 Box: A Royal Edict on die Production of Plays Brend's Property Inventory Listing Shakespeare 99 Platter Sees 99 Shakespeare Listed on Exchequer Pipe Roll 100

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Publications 100

Transcribed tide pages for Venus and Adonis, Romeo and Juliet, 1 Henry IV, and The Passionate Pilgrime Weever's Poem About Shakespeare in Epigrammes 100 Box: Shakespeare Cited on the Title Page of Pinner ofWakefield John Shakespeare's Grant of Arms 101 Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performances 102 1600 A Contract to Build the Fortune Theater . 102 Stationers' Register Entries 104

Entries for , , , 2 Henry TV, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Merchant of Venice Publications 104

Transcribed tide pages for The Rape ofLucrece, Titus Andronicus, The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, and The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous houses of York and Lancaster Facsimile: Tide page for The Merchant of Venice Facsimile: Title page for A Midsummer Night's Dream Facsimile: Tide page for Much Ado about Nothing Facsimile: Tide page for 2 Henry IV Facsimile: Title page for Henry V Allusion to 1 Henry IV'in die Life of Sir John Oldcastle 105 The Publication olEnglands Helicon 106 Shakespeare Listed on Exchequer Pipe Roll 107 Allusion to Justices Silence and Shallow in Percy's Letter 107 Allusion to Shakespeare in Bodenham's Bel-vedere 107 Allusion to Falstaff in Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humor 110 Possible Allusions to Shakespeare and an Early Version of in Kemp's Nine Dales Wonder. 110

Allusions to Venus and Adonis and Lucrece in Lane's Tom Tel-Troths Message 112 Allusion to the Globe in Rowlands's The Letting Of Humours Blood 112 Allusion to Falstaff in a Letter from die Countess of Soudiampton to the Earl of Southampton 112 Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performances 113 1601 A Performance oi Richard II and die Essex Rebellion 113 Shakespeare and His Wife Named in Whittington's Will 116 John Shakespeare's Burial Record 116

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The Publication of Chester's Love's Martyr 117 Allusions to Richard III and 1 Henry IV'in The Whipping of the Satyre 117 Allusion to 1 Henry /Fin Weever's The Mirror of Martyrs 117 Allusions to Shakespeare in The Returne From Pernassus 118 Allusion to Richard III in Marston's 122 Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performances 122 1602 Stationers' Register Entries 122 Entries for The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1 and 2 Henry VI, Titus Andronicus, and Hamlet Publications 123

Transcriptions of die tide pages for FCTMW and Adonis, Henry V, and Richard III Facsimile: Title page for The Merry Wives of Windsor Manningham Sees and Reports a Story about Shakespeare and Richard Burbage 124 The Shakespeare Coat of Arms Questioned 126 John Shakespeare Defended in die College of Arms 126 Deed of Conveyance for Land in Stratford 126 Hercules Underhill Acknowledges Shakespeare's Ownership of New Place .'. 129 Box: The Swan and the Other Theaters of London Shakespeare Buys a Cottage in Chapel Lane 131 Richard Vennar Causes a Scandal at the Swan 132 .Box: John Chamberlain's Account of die Vennar Incident Allusions to The Comedy of Errors and Justice Shallow in Dekker's Satiro-mastix 133 Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performances 134 1603 Stationers' Register Entries 134 Entries for , Richard II, Richard III, and 1 Henry IV Facsimile: Tide page for Hamlet Box: The First Quarto of Hamlet Allusion to Shakespeare in Chetde's Englandes Mourning Garment 134 Allusion to Shakespeare in "A mournefull Dittie" 136

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The JacobeanYears: April 1603-1616 137 1603 Shakespeare's Company Becomes the King's Men 138 Box: A Stationer's Record of Shakespeare's Plays The King's Men Paid for Court Performances 139 Possible Allusions to The Rape ofLucrece and Two Plays in Saint Marie Magdalens Conversion 141 Shakespeare Named in Camden's "Certaine Poemes" 141 Possible Allusion to Shakespeare in Davies's Microcosmos 142 The King's Men Paid for Court Performances 142 1604 Possible Allusion to A Midsummer Night's Dream in Carleton's Letter to Chamberlain 143 Box: Satan at the Globe The King's Men Paid for Being Unable to Perform 145 The King's Men Paid for Court Performances 145 The King's Men Congratulated in Dugdale's The Time Triumphant 146 Allusion to Love's Labor's Lost in Cope's Letter to Cecil 146 Box and Facsimile: The King's Men in die Coronation Procession The King's Men Paid for Attendance on die Spanish Ambassador 146 Shakespeare Listed in Survey of Rowington Manor 146 Shakespeare's Involvement in Belott's Suit against Mountjoy 146 Shakespeare's Suit against Rogers 151 Publications 152 Transcription of the title page for / Henry IV Facsimile: Title page for Hamlet Allusion to Shakespeare in Cooke's Epigrames 153 Allusion to The Comedy of Errors in Dekker's The Honest Whore 153 Allusions to Falstaff and The Comedy of Errors \n The Meeting of Gallants 153 Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton's Father Hubburds Tales 154 Allusion to Falstaff in Persons's Of Three Conversions of England 155 Allusions to Shakespeare and Hamlet in Scoloker's Daiphantus 155 The King's Men Paid for Court Performances 157 1605 Publications 158 Transcription of the title page for Richard III Facsimile: Title page for The London Prodigall

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Shakespeare Named in Phillips's Will 158 Shakespeare Leases die Stratford Tidies 158 Hubaud's Bond to Shakespeare 165 Allusion to Shakespeare in Poulet's Letter to Vincent 165 Allusion to Hamletin Ratseis Ghost 166 Allusion to 2 Henry /Fin Breton's A Poste with a Packet ofmadde Letters 168 Allusion to Hamlet in 168 Possible Allusion to TheRapeofLucrece'va The Strange Fortune of Alerane 169 Allusion to Hamlet in Smith's Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia 169 Allusion to Justice Shallow in Woodhouse's The Flea 171 The King's Men Paid for Court Performances 171 1606 Shakespeare Listed in Hubaud's Inventory 173 The Globe Ordered to Repair Its Sewers 173 Box: A Statute on Blasphemy Shakespeare Listed in Survey of Rowington Manor 173 Allusion to Richard III in Barnes's Foure Bookes of Offices 173 The King's Men Paid for Court Performances 174 1607 \ Stationers' Register Entries 174 Entries for Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labor's Lost, The Taming of a Shrew, Hamlet, and Publications 174 Transcriptions of tide pages for The Taming of a Shrew, The Rape ofLucrece, and Venus and Adonis Rawordi Sanctioned for Printing Venus and Adonis 174 Susanna Shakespeare's Marriage to John Hall 175

Edward Shakespeare's Burial Record 175 Edmund Shakespeare's Burial Record 175 Allusion to Venus and Adonis in The Fayre Mayde of the Exchange 175 Allusion to Shakespeare in Barksted's Mirrha The Mother of Adonis 176 Possible Allusions to Richard III and Twelfth Night in Dekker's A Knights Conjuring. 177 Allusion to Hamlet in Dekker and Webster's West-ward Hoe 179 Allusion to Venus and Adonis in Merrie Conceited Jests of George Peele 179 Allusion to A Midsummer Night's Dream in Sharpham's The Fleire 179

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The King's Men Paid for Court Performances 180 Shipboard Performances ot Richard II and Hamlet 180 Box: Playwrights as Directors 1608 Elizabeth Hall's Baptismal Record 180 Stationers' Register Entries 181 Entries for , Pericles, and Publications 181 Transcribed title pages for 1 Henry IV, Richard II, and Venus and Adonis Facsimile: Title page for King Lear Facsimile: Title page for A Yorkshire Tragedy Allusion to Performances of Shakespeare's Play in Wilkins's The Painjull Adventures of Pericles Prince of Tyre 182 Shakespeare's Lease for die Blackfriar's Theater 182 's Burial Record 186 Allusion to Hamlet in Armin's A Nest of Ninnies 186 Allusion to Hamlet \n Dekker's The Dead Tearme 187 Allusion to Hamletin Dekker's Lanthorne and Candle-light 188 Allusion to Venus and Adonis in Machin and Markham's The Dumbe Knight 190 Allusion to Venus and Adonis in Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters 190 The Venetian Ambassador Attends a Performance of Pericles 190 Possible Allusion to Anne Hadiaway 190 The King's Men Paid for Court Performances 191 Shakespeare's Suit against Addenbrooke 191 1609 Stationers' Register Entries 195 Entries for Troilus and Cressida and Sonnets Publications 195 Transcribed title page for Romeo and Juliet Facsimile: Tide page and dedication page for Shakespeare's Sonnets Facsimile: Title page for Troilus and Cressida Facsimile: Title page for Pericles Preface to The Famous Historic ofTroylus and Cresseid 195 Alleyn Buys a Copy of Shakespeare's Sonnets 196 Greene Stays at New Place 196

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Pericles and King Lear Performed at Gowdiwaite Hall 196 Possible Allusion to Shakespeare in Davies's Humours Heav'n on Earth 197 Possible Allusion to Julius Caesar in Everie Woman in her Humor 198 Possible Allusion to Pericles in Pimlyco 198 Possible Allusion to The Taming of the Shrew in A whole crew of kind Gossips 199 The King's Men Paid for Being Unable to Perform 200 1610 Publication 200 Transcribed tide page for Venus and Adonis The Prince of Wirtemberg Sees at die Globe 200 Jackson sees Othello in Oxford 201 Allusion to die Globe in Heath's Two Centuries OfEpigrammes 201 Allusion to Falstaff in Sharpe's More Fooles Yet 202 Forman Sees Macbeth, , and The Winter's Tale 202 The King's Men Paid for Court Performances 206 1611 , Publications 206 Transcribed title pages for Hamlet, Pericles, and Titus Andronicus Facsimile: Title page for King John '. Shakespeare's Land Purchase Confirmed 206 Shakespeare Named in Stratford Highway Bill 207 Shakespeare Listed in Johnson's Inventory .207 Bill of Complaint Regarding die Stratford Tidies 208 Allusion to the Globe in Cooke's Greene's Tu quoque 208 Poem about Shakespeare and an Allusion to Venus and Adonis in Davies's The Scourge of Folly 209 Allusion to Falstaff in Field's Amends for Ladies 209 Allusion to Falstaff in Speed's The History of Great Britaine 210 The Master of die Revels' Account of Plays Performed 210 The King's Men Paid for Court Performances 211 Harington's List of Shakespeare's Plays 211 1612 Gilbert Shakespeare's Burial Record 213 Vaux's Complaint about an Incident at die Globe 213

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Publications 215 Transcribed tide pages for Richard III and Facsimile: Tide page for A Funerall Elegy Allusions to Shakespeare and Henry V in Heywood's An Apology For Actors 215 Allusion to Shakespeare in Webster's Preface to The White Divel 216 1613 Richard Shakespeare's Burial Record 217 Publications 217 Transcribed tide pages for 1 Henry TV and Thomas Cromwell Shakespeare's Purchase of the Blackfriar's Gatehouse 217 Shakespeare Mortgages die Blackfriar's Gatehouse 219 Shakespeare and Burbage Paid for Impresa 221 The King's Men Paid for Court Performances 221 Allusion to Shakespeare in Digges's Inscription in de Vega's Rimas 222 Account of the Burning of die Globe in Lorkin's Letter to Puckering 222 Account of die Burning of die Globe in Wotton's Letter to Bacon 222 Account of the Burning of die Globe in Bluett's Letter to Weeks 223 Account of the Burning of die Globe in Chamberlain's Letter to Winwood 223 Account of die Burning and Rebuilding of the Globe in The Annales 223 Report of the Burning of die Globe in The Abridgement of the English Chronicle 224 Allusion to die Burning of die Globe in Taylor's A nest of Epigrams 224 Allusion to the Globe in Taylor's The Water Mem Suit 224 , The King's Men Paid for Court Performances 227 Shakespeare Named in the Will of John Combe 227 1614 Rights to Publish The Rape ofLucrece Transferred 227 Allusion to the Rebuilt Globe in Chamberlain's Letter to Carleton 227 A Preacher Is Entertained at New Place 228

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Publication 228 Transcribed title page for Englands Helicon Possible Allusion to Richard III in Brooke's The Ghost Of Richard The Third 228 Allusion to Shakespeare in Camden's Remaines 229 Allusions to Plays in Johnson's Preface to Bartholomew Fayre 230 Allusion to Hamlet in Scott's The Philosopher's Banquet 232 Allusion to Pericles in Tailor's The Hogge Hath Lost His Pearle 232 Porter's Epigram on Shakespeare 233 Epigram on Shakespeare in Freeman's Rubbe, And a great Cast 233 Shakespeare's Possible Involvement in an Enclosure Effort 233 The King's Men Paid for Court Performances 235 1615 Publication 236 Transcribed tide page for Richard II The King's Men Paid for Court Performances 236 Allusion to Shakespeare in F.B.'s Poem -. 236 Possible Allusion to Shakespeare in The New Metamorphosis 236 Shakespeare Named in Howes and Stow's The Annales. 238 Shakespeare's Suit against Bacon 238 1616 Shakespeare Named in Bolton's Draft for Hypercritica 239 Judidi Shakespeare's Marriage to Thomas Quiney 239 The King's Men Paid for Court Performances 240 Fascimile: William Shakespeare's Burial Record Shakespeare's Epitaphs 240 Shakespeare's Will 240 Transcriptions and facsimile Publication 249 Transcribed title page for The Rape ofLucrece Possible Allusions to Antony and Cleopatra and The Comedy of Errors in Anton's The Philosophers Satyrs 249 Allusion to Richard III'in Breton's The Good And The Badde 251 Allusions to Hamlet and The Rape ofLucrece in Beaumont and Fletcher's The Scornful Ladie 251 Basse's Poem about Shakespeare 251

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Shakespeare's Posthumous Reputation and the 253 1617 Publication .".' 253 Transcribed title page for Venus and Adonis 1619 Stationers' Register Entry 253 Entry for The Merchant of Venice Publications 253 Transcribed tide pages for Henry V, King Lear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Whole Contention between the Two Famous Houses, Lancaster and York, and A Yorkshire Tragedy Allusions to Shakespeare injonson's "Conversations widi Drummond". . . .254 1620 Publication 255 Title page of Venus and Adonis 1621 Stationers' Register Entry 255 Entry for Othello 1622 - Publications 255 Transcribed tide pages for Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, and 1 Henry IV Facsimile: Title page for Othello Episde to the Reader from Othello 256 1623 Anne Hathaway's Burial 256 Stationers' Register Entries 256 Entries for plays to be included in the First Folio Preliminary Material in die First Folio 257 Facsimile: Tide page for the First Folio Facsimile:]onsoris note "To die Reader" Facsimile and transcription: "To the great Variety of Readers" Dedication Commendatory Verses byjonson, Hugh Holland, L. Digges, and I.M. Facsimile: List of actors Facsimile: Table of Contents Facsimile: First page of Facsimile: Last page of Othello Facsimile: Last page of Henry VIII Facsimile: Page from Hamlet

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Jonson's Timber, or Discoveries 265 Episde to die Reader and Commendatory Verse from Poems: Written By Wil. Shakespeare. Gent .265 Entries from Ward's Diary 268 Facsimile: Title page for The Taming of the Shrew Aubrey's Lives 269

Appendix Eyewitnesses and Historians 275 Platter's Observations (1599) Baron Waldstein's Diary (1600) Letter of Ottaviano Lotti (1605) Letter ofJoh n Chamberlain (1608) Letter of Antimo Galli (1613)

Politics and the Theater 278 Letter of Dudley Carleton (1605) Letter of John Harington (1606)

Regulations for the Theater 281 The Book of Common Prayer (1559) An Act of the Privy Council (1600) An Act of the Privy Council (1601) A Privy Council Warrant (1604) A Letter Attributed to (1608) George Buc's License to Perform The Second Maiden's Tragedy (1611)

Prologues, Epilogues, Epistles to Readers, and Excerpts from Plays. . . . .285 Marston's Letter to the Reader of (1604) Commendatory Poem for Jonson's Sejanus (1605) Prologue and Epilogue for Marston's Parasitaster (1606) Note to the Reader of Marston's (1606) Heywood's Preface to The Rape ofLucrece (1608) Jonson's Prefatory Poem for Epicoene (1609) Jonson on die Audience in The ofQueenes (1609) Address to the Reader and Prologue for The Roaring Girle (1611)

Epigrams and Satires 289 Greene's Francescos Fortunes (1590) Greenes, Groats-worth ofwitte (1592) Nashe's Christs Teares Over Jerusalem (1593) Rankins's Seaven Satyres Applyed to the Weeke (1598) Davies and Marlowe's Epigrammes and Elegies (1599) Weever's Epigrammes in the oldest cut, and newest fashion (1599) Rowlands's The Letting Of Humours Blood In The Head-Vaine (1600)

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A Translation of Dedekind's Grobianus et Grobiana (1605) Merrie Conceited Jests of George Peek Gentleman (1607) Dekker's The Guls Horne-booke (1609) - - - - Parrot's Laquei ridiculosi (1613) Wither's Abuses Stript, And Whipt (1613) Breton's I would, And would not (1614) Overbury's New And Choice Characters (1615) Stephens's Satyrical Essayes Characters And Others (1615) Jonson's Epigrammes (1616)

Anti-Theatrical Tracts 304

Stubbes's "Of Stage-playes and Enterluds, widi their wickednes" (1583) Rainolds's Th'overthrow of Stage-Playes (1599) Vaughan's The Golden grove (1600)

A Defense of Actors 306

Heywood's An Apology for Actors (1612)

Practical Matters 310

Inventories of Theatrical Costumes and Properties (1598) Serlio's The Second Booke of Architecture (1611) Rid's The Art ofjugling or Legerdemaine (1612)

Education 312 Letter of Gager (1592)

Checklist of Further Reading 313

Cumulative Index 319

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