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Abele spelen (skilful plays), 4 Arthur and Arthurian legends, 172 see also Dutch plays Assumption of the Virgin Mary, 151 Abraham (Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim), 22 Atreus and Thyestes, 120, 122 actors, stories about Augustine, St, 262 Genesius, St, 15–21 Axelrad, A. José, 189 Philemon (Bidermann), 211 Ayrer, Jakob, 4, 84, 91, 102, 118, 236 Acts of the Apostles, plays based on, 7 Adam de la Halle, 179, 203 Babes in the Wood, 100 Adrian, St, St Genesius’ enactment of, 18, 212 Baldwin of Flanders, conquest of Adriana (L. Groto), 87 Constantinople by, 168 L’Advocacie Nostre Dame, Virgin Mary as Bandello, Matteo, Novelle, plays based on his advocate for humankind in trial with stories Devil, 55 love and lovers, 87, 88 Aeneas and Dido, plays about, 145, 186 slandered fiancees, 91 Agatha, St, 10 theatre of cruelty, 112, 117, 118, 119 Agatocli und Clinia (Sachs), 233 Banks, John, 141–3, 193–5 Agnes, St, 11, 29 Los bañosde Argel (Cervantes), 85 Aguilar, Gaspar de, 155 Barbara, St, 11 Aignan, St, 176 bargains with the Devil, 65–75 Albertus Magnus, St, 34 Chevalier qui donna sa femme au diable, 68–9 Alboin and Rosamunda, 122 The Devil’s charter (Barnaby Barnes), 72–3 Alexander the Great, 145, 171 El esclavo del demoniao,orThe Devil’s slave Alexis, St, 215 (Antonio Mira de Amescua), 69–71 Amazons, 171 Theophilus stories, 65–8 Ametanus, 75 see also Faust Amis et Amile, 88–9 Barlaam and Josaphat, Sts, 26–8 Andrew, St, 43 Basil of Caesarea, St, 226 angels Baudoiche, Catherine de, 3 accompanying Virgin Mary in Cangéplays Bautheuch, St, 109 archangels, see Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel Bede, the Venerable, Ecclesiastical History, plays in Jovinian stories, 180–2 adapted from, 75 not acceptable on stage in Belisarius, 182–3 seventeenth-century French drama, 179 La belle Hélènede Constantinople, 234 Anthony the Great, St, 23–4 Bello, Pierre, 210 Apius and Virginia, 116 Benedict of Monte Cassino, St, 28 Apollonia, St, 11, 92 Benedictine plays, see school dramas Arboreda, Alejandro, 20 Berenice and Titus, 155 Arden of Feversham, 100 Berkoff, Steven, 222 Arians, 35, 253 Bernard of Clairvaux, St, 29 Ariosto, Ludovico, 91 Bernard of Menthon, St, 28–9 The Arraignment of Paris (Peele), 136–8 Bernhardt, Georg, 75

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Berte au grand pied, 91 CangéMS, subject matter classification of biblical figures in plays plays in, 2–3 Amnon and Tamar, 113 Canute IV,king of Denmark, 36 David, 172 Cardenio stories, 86 Dinah, 113 Carretto, Galeotto del, 187 Esther, 173 Castellani, Castellano, 12 Jael, 173 Castelvines y Monteses (Lope de Vega), 87 Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, 106 Castro, Guillen de, 86, 121 Joshua, 172 Cathars, 32, 34 Judah Maccabee, 172 Catherine de Medicis, 185 Judith and Holofernes, 173–5 Catherine of Alexandria, St, 11, 28 Susannah and the Elders, 98, 115 Catherine of Siena, St, 3, 34 Bidermann, Jacob Cecchi, Giovan Maria, 160 Adrianus, 212 Cecil, Robert, 190, 191, 192, 193, 195 Belisarius, 182 Cecil, William, Lord Burleigh, 190, 193, 194, Cenodoxus, 73–4 195 Jakob the usurer, 47 Cecilia, St, 11 Josaphatus rex, 214 Celtic St Meriasek, Cornish play about, 7, 43, Philemon, 211 157 bigamy, 83 Cenerentola (Rossini), 204 Boccaccio, plays influenced by Cenodoxus (Bidermann), 73–4 conversion stories, 47 Cephalus and Procris, 239 fairy tales, development of, 263 Cérisiers, Renéde,98 friends and rivals, stories about, 87, 90 Cervantes, 85–6 theatre of cruelty plays, 112, 120, 121, Cesar y Pompeyo (Lope de Vega), 171 122 Chapoton, Fran¸cois, 183 Troy, siege of, 246 Charlemagne, 29, 91, 97, 172 wager stories, 102, 103 Charles I of England, 186 women and affairs of state, 260 Charles II of England, 5 Bodel, Jean, of Arras, 46 Charles IV (Holy Roman Emperor), 168 Boileau, Etienne, 169, 170 Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor), 146 Borgias, The Devil’s charter and the, 72–3 Charles V of France, 168 Boursault, M., 186 Charles VII of France and Joan of Arc, 176–8 Boyer, Charles, 175, 257 Charles VIII of France, 149, 166 Brétog, Jean, 101 Chastelain, Georges, 145 Breughel, Peter, 96 Chastelaine de Vergi, 107, 243 Brooke, Henry, 195 Chatelain de Couci, le, 120, 243 brothels, women in Chaucer, Geoffrey Thais and Mary of Egypt, Sts, 22 Canterbury tales: Knight’s tale, 88, 90 virgin martyrs in, 9–11 Constance, 234 Brousse, Bernier de la, 92 Pardoner’s tale, 23 Bruno, St, 73–4 Troilus and Cressida, 246 Buddha legend, 26, 214 Chester play, 77 see also Barlaam and Josaphat, Sts Chettle, Henry, 36 Buonarotti, Michaelangelo the Younger, plays, Chevreaus, Coriolan, 184 16 children of Satan in miracle plays, 56–9 Burleigh, William Cecil, Lord, 190, 193, 194, children’s blood used to cure leprosy, 195 Amis et Amile, 88 Chocheyras, J., 14 Cabrière, massacre of Vaudois in, 36 Chosroes (Persian king), 160, 162, 163, 164 Callimachus (Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim), 9–10 Christine, St, 29 Calvinism, see Protestantism and Protestant Christine de Pisan, 173, 243 plays Christopher, St, 11 Camden, William, 192 Cicero, 171 Cammelli, Antonio, 121 Del cielo viene el buen rey (Herrera), 181–2

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Cinderella, 204 Copland, William, 200 Cinthio (Giambattista Giraldi), 98, 117, 122 Coriolanus, plays on, 183–4 Cioni, A., Rappresentazioni, 10, 13, 16, 31 Corneille, Pierre, 77, 179, 188, 198, 238, 253 civic groups, staging of plays by, 3–4 Corneille, Thomas, 192–3 classical figures, plays about Cornish Ordinalia, 251 Alexander the Great, 145, 171 Cornish play about St Meriasek, 7, 43, 157 Coriolanus, 183–4 Corpus Christi, establishment of feast of, 50 Dido and Aeneas, 145, 186 Corraro, Gregorio, 121 Horatius Cocles, 200 Counter-Reformation Catholicism Julius Caesar, 171 auto sacramental plays in Spain, 220 Mucius Scaevola, 196, 200 grace and free will, debates regarding, 62 Regulus, 196–9 martyr and heretic plays, 36–7 Scipio Africanus, 186 Mary Queen of Scots, Catholic view of, 186 Semiramis, 185 Virgin Mary on the stage, rejection of, 203 Sophonisba, plays about, 186–90; Mary court entertainment, plays staged as, 4 Queen of Scots performs in Trissino’s Coventry, see George, St, 201 play of, 185 Crespius, Historie des martyrs, 36 Claudio, St, 19 Crispin and Crispianus, Sts, 11 Clemence of Hungary, 50 Crispus, son of Constantine, woman scorned Clement I (pope), 151 by, 107 Clement VII (pope), 201 Cromwell, Oliver, 186 Clitandre (Corneille), 77, 238 cross-dressing in plays Clotilde, wife of Clovis I, 165 considered a sin, by the Church, 224 Clovis I, king of France, conversion and La fille d’un roy qui devint soudoyer, 93 baptism of, 165 Ostes d’Espagne, 103 Clovis II, king of France, 109 Pope Joan, 60–1 Coello y Ochoa, Antonia, 195 popularity of girls disguised as boys in Collin, Heinrich Joseph von, 199 medieval and Renaissance literature, 238 communities or civic groups, staging of plays Semiramis, 185 by, 3–4 Theodora of Alexandria, St, living as monk, El condenado por desconfiado,orThe doubter damned 108 (Tirso de Molina), 60 Crown, John, 198–9 confraternities, staging of plays by, 3–4 Crowne, John, 155 Constance in Chaucer, 234 Croxton sacrament play, 52–3 Constantine the Great, 156–64 cruelty, theatre of, see theatre of cruelty conversion and baptism, 156–9, 163 crusades, 46, 83, 149, 168–70, 172 Cross, the Cueva, Juan de la, 262 Exaltation of, 160–1, 162, 163, 164; German Cyprian, St, 163 plays of in sixteenth century, 162–4 Cyriacus, 163 in hoc signum vinces promise, 158, 162, 163, 253 Cysat, Renward, 115–16, 162, 163 Invention or discovery of, 159–60, 162, 163, 164 da Porto, Luigi, 87 Tree of Life, grown from, 162 d’Amboise, Adrien, 174 Constantinople, conquest by Baldwin of damnation Flanders, 168 bargains with Devil leading to, see bargains convent drama, 4 with the Devil conversion Cenodoxus, 73–4 by heroines in the harem, 79–86 doubt, grace, and free will, plays involving, of Jews, miracle plays about, 45–9; Iconia 62–4 plays, 45–7, 49; merchant and Jesuit dramas of, 75 money-lending plays, 47–9 El mayor desengaño, 74 Ostes d’Espagne, hero’s temporary conversion Damon and Pythias, 233 to Islam in, 103 Danae, 11 Vespasian converted after cure from leprosy, D’Ancona, A., 180 148, 149, 152 Dante, 172

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Dares the Phrygian, 132, 133, 135, 143, 146 plays about St Dominic and Dominican Datini, Italian merchant house of, 131 saints, 31–5 David, 172 Don Giovanni, 61, 64, 226 de Bartholomaeis, V., 34 Don Quijote de la Mancha (Cervantes), plays de Batines, Colomb, 53 based on, 86 de Castro Guillen, 86, 121 Dorothy, St, 10 de Herrera, Rodrigo, 181–2 The double falsehood (Theobald), 86 de la Serre, Pujet, 36, 237 doubt, damnation, grace, and free will, plays de la Taille, Jean, 171 involving, 62–4 de Vigneulles, Philippe, 51 The doubter damned,orEl condenado por desconfiado Decameron (Boccaccio), 87, 95, 102, 103, 120, 121 (Tirso de Molina), 63–4 Dekker, Thomas, 234 dragons in plays Delbouille, ?, 120 Constantine the Great plays, 158, 160 Denis, St, 167, 201 George, St, 12–13, 201–2 Deschamps, Eustace, 173 Martha, St, 253 Desfontaines, Nicholas The duchess of Malfi (Webster), 88 Belisaire, 182 Dulcitius (Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim), 9, 10 Genesius, St, play, 18 Durham Prologue, 228 George, St, play, 15 Dutch plays, Abele spelen, 4 heroine in the harem plays, 84 Everaaert, Cornelis, Maria Hoedeken, 34 Devereux, Robert, see Essex, Robert Devereux, Ghistele, Cornelis van, plays of Dido and earl of, 190–5 Aeneas, 145 Devil, the, or devils Man’s desire and fleeting beauty, 228 Constantine the Great plays, 160, 162, 163 Mariken van Nieumeghen, 55, 61–2 in Elizabeth and Essex play, 190–1 Vondel, Joost van den, Lucifer, 20; Mary queen Genesius, St, and, 20 of Scots; Palamedes (as forerunner of in hermit plays, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29 Oldenbarnefeld), 248 Mascaron or Masscheroen, 55, 62 Dux Moraud, 92 in miracle plays (see also bargains with the dwarves, 98, 237 devil); children of Satan, 56–9; conversion plays, 47; The doubter damned, 60, 63; East Indies trade, stories reflecting, 83 paramours of Satan, 59–62; sacrament Ecerinis or Ezzelino, Ghibelline Lord of plays, 53, 54; trial scenes between forces Verona, 56–8 of good and evil, 55 Edward I of England, 146, 200 Seven Deadly Sins, 227; Anthony, St, Edward III of England, 13, 117–19 temptations of, 23–4; in Marlowe’s Faust, Edward IV of England, 173 71; in theatre of cruelty plays, 123;Troy,in Edwards, Philip, 21 plays about siege of, 136; in women Eliduc (Marie de France), 83 scorned plays, 108 Elizabeth I of England Dictys of Crete, 132, 133, 135, 143 Essex relationship and rebellion, plays Didier of Langres, St, 166 about, 190–5 Dido and Aeneas, plays about, 145, 186 Mary Queen of Scots and, 185, 186, 194 Dinah, 113 The misfortunes of Arthur played before, 173 Diocletian (Roman emperor), 15–21 emperor who kills rapist nephew, story of, 114 Diocrès, Raimundo, 74 England The dismissal of the Greek envoys (Jan attack on France during reign of St Louis, Kochanowski), 144 dramatization of, 170 disputations between Jews and Christians, 157, George, St, as patron saint of, 12–13 159–60 pantomimes, 204 Dives and Lazarus, Sterzing play of, 229 pelagianism in, 166 Doctor Faustus, see Faust revival of religious drama in, 203–4 Domenichi, Ludovico, 121 secular or state saint play, Henry V as, 170 Dominicans Spain’s enmity with, in Elizabeth and Essex grace and free will, debates with Jesuits plays, 193 regarding, 62 Troy, descent of English kings traced to, 146

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England (cont.) Fitzstephen, Walter, 249 Wars of the Roses, plays about, 173 Fletcher, John see also specific rulers, and topics for English Cardenio attributed to, 86 plays The island princess, 83 Les epitaphes d’Hector (Chastelain), 145 Two noble kinsmen, 88 (see also Shakespeare) Epitia (Cinthio), 117 Fleury play book, 46 Esmoreit, 81–2, 114 Floire et Blanchefleur story of, 79, 83 Essex, Robert Devereux, earl of, 190–5 Florence de Rome, 97 Esther, 173 Florio und Bianceffora (Sachs), 80–1 Eteocles and Polynices, 109 Les follies de Cardenio (Pichou, Le Sieur de), Eucharist, miracles of, see sacrament plays 86 Eufemia (Rueda, Lope de), 102 Fortune, 179–84 Euphrosyne, St, 213 in Elizabeth and Essex plays, 191, 192 Euripides, 187 Jovinian stories and, 180–2 Eusebius, 115–16, 158, 164 Mary Queen of Scots and, 185–6 Eustace, St, 13–15 queens affected by, 185 Euvertius, St, 176 Thomas More, St, and, 258, 259 Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 160–1, 162, 163, of war, 182–4 164 wheel of, 179, 258 Ezzelino or Ecerinis, Ghibelline Lord of Foxe, John, 90 Verona, 56–8 France Genevieve, St, plays, nationalism of, 166–8 Fair Constance of Rome (Dekker), 234 Louis, St, plays, nationalism of, 169–70 The fair maid of the west (Heywood), 84 Troy, descent of French kings traced to, fairy tales, rise of, 203–4 145 false accusations see also specific rulers and topics for French fiancéesfalsely accused, 91 plays queens falsely accused, 95–9; adaptation Francis of Assisi, St, 31, 32, 33 from romances, 3; Berte au grand pied, 91; Fredegarius, 145 bourgeois variations on, 100; brothers-in- free will, see grace and free will law, wicked, 97–8, 99, 100; dwarves in, 98, Les freres de maintenant, 110 237; husbands, jealous, 98–9; friends and rivals, 88–90 mothers-in-law, wicked, 95–6; Patient Frischlin, Nicholas and Jacob, 97, 171, 172 Griselda, 95, 203; uncles, wicked, 98 Froissart, Jean, 118 family friends and rivals, kinsmen as, 88–90 Gabriel (archangel) incestuous fathers, 92–4, 99 Amis et Amile, 88 inheritance and succession dramas, 109–11 in child of Devil plays, 58, 59 lovers separated by, 86–8 Constantine the Great, conversion of, 156 religious vocations thwarted by, 215 in destruction of Jerusalem plays, 150 separated and reunited family stories in St in La fille d’un roy qui devint soudoyer, 93 Eustace plays, 211 in Genevieve, St, plays, 167 wagers on wife’s or sister’s virtue, in hermit plays, 23 102–5 in paramour of Devil plays, 61 farce, 1, 2 Gallicanus (Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim), 9 Fastnachtspiele, 47, 96 Gautier de Coinci, stories Faust, 71–3 children of Devil plays, 58 German version of, 73 Iconia conversion plays, 46 Marlowe’s play, 71–2 Theophilus plays, 65 origins of story, 71 wicked brother-in-law plays, 97, 98 Theophilus plays and, 67, 68, 71 Genevieve, St, 43, 58, 98, 166–8, 225 Faust, Georg, 71 Genevieve of Brabant, 98 Federico, re di Sicilia (Herrera), 181–2 Genevra (Claude Billard de Courgenay), 91 Fenton, James, 241 Geoffrey of Monmouth, 173 La fille du roy de Hongrie, 93, 96 George, St, 12–13, 201–2, 203 La fille d’un roy qui devint soudoyer, 93 Germain, St, 166

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Germany Henry III of England, 169 Passau, host desecration incident in, 53 Henry IV of England, 173 Regulus play in context of Napoleonic wars, Henry VIII of England, 36 199 Henslowe, Philip, 155 see also specific rulers, and topics for German Hensman, Betha, 21 plays Heptameron (Marguerite de Navarre), 107 Gesta Romanorum, 13, 104, 111, 180–2 Heraclius (Roman emperor), 161, 162, 163, Ghismunda and Guiscardo, 121 164 Gibson, Colin, 21 heretics, plays about saints dealing with, 37 Gillion de Trazegnies, 83 Dominic, St, and Dominican saints, 31–5 Giraldi, Giambattista (Cinthio), 98, 117, 122 Francis of Assisi, St, 31 Gismond of Salerne (Wilmot), 122 Jesuit saints, 35–6 La gitana melancolica (Aguilar), 155 Reformation and Counter-Reformation, Gloriant, 82–3, 114 36–7 Godefroi de Bouillon, 168, 172 Hermenegildus, St, 35 Gorboduc, 110 hermit plays, 22–30 Gothaer Botenrolle, 152 Anthony the Great, St, 23–4 Gotthart, Georg, 135–6, 144 Barlaam and Josaphat, St, 26–8 grace and free will Bernard of Menthon, St, 28–9 Dominican and Jesuit debates regarding, 62 Guillaume du desert, St, and Guillaume El esclavo del demonio, predestination attacked d’ Aquitaine, 29–30 in, 70 hairy hermits, 24–6 in Genevieve, St, play, 225 of Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, 22 in Marlowe’s Faust, 72 see also specific names of other hermits miracle plays involving, 62–4 l’Hermite, Fran¸coisTristan, 99, 107 Greene, Robert, 72, 98, 99, 237 Herod the Great, 99 Gringore, Pierre, 169 Herrera, Rodrigo de, 181–2 Grisante y Daria, 11 Hertoge Karle, 146 Guglielma, St, 4, 97 Les heureuses infortunes d’Apollonie (Bernier de la guilds, plays staged by, 3–4 Brousse), 92 Guillaume, l’Abbé, 23 Heywood, Jasper, 120 Guillaume, St, du desert, 29–30 Heywood, John, 84 Guillaume al cort nez, 29–30 Heywood, Thomas, 100, 138–41 Guillaume d’ Angleterre, 211 Hilarius, 45 Guillaume d’Aquitaine, 29–30 Hildegard, second wife of Charlemagne, 97, Guillaume d’Orange, 29–30 172 guilty wives, 100–1 Hildegard of Bingen, 59–60 Guy of Warwick, 200 Histoire des martyrs (Crespius), 36 Historia Apollonii, 92 Hadrian (Roman emperor), 15 historical events, plays about, 129 hairy hermits, 24–6 Arthurian legend not regarded as historical, hands, severed, 25, 93, 122 172 Hannibal, 28, 187 crusades, 46, 83, 149, 168–70, 172; see also Harbage, Alfred, 145, 154, 201 Jerusalem, plays about siege and Hardy, Alexandre, 4 destruction of Coriolan, 183 Orleans, Joan of Arc and siege of, 175–8 falsely accused queen stories, 99, 237 Troy, siege of, see Troy, plays about siege of friends and rivals, plays about, 90 women involved in affairs of state, 185–95 Nine Worthies, 171 see also specific historical figures, e.g. harems, heroines in, 79–86 Charlemagne Hasdrubal, 186 Horatius Cocles, 200 hearts, cannibalised, 120–2 horror, theatre of, see theatre of cruelty Hecatommithi (Cinthio), 98, 117, 122 Host, miracles involving, see sacrament plays Hector (Montchrestien), 246 Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim Helena, St, 157, 159–60, 162, 163, 164 hermit plays, 22 Henrard, Nadine, 23 virgin martyr plays, 9–10

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Hubert, St, 210 about Jesuit saints, 35–6 Hugh of Lincoln, St, 222 suppression of order and, 203 Ein huipsch nuiw spil von dess Herren wingartten Jews (Jakob Ruf), 152–4 Constantine the Great and, 157, 159–60 Hummelen, M.M., 174 conversion of, 45–9 Humphredus, 75 merchant and money-leading plays, 47–9 Huon de Bordeaux, 93 Nicholas, St, Iconia plays, 46–7 Hüsken, Wim, 190, 192 pagans, interchangeability with, 219 Huss, John, 36 Theophilus plays, 65–8 see also sacrament plays Ibrahim (Scudéry), 84 Joan of Arc, St, 173, 175–8 Iconia plays, 45–7, 49 Joan (pope), 60–1 Iconoclast controversy, 26 Joanna la Loca, queen of Castile, 146 Ignace, St, 12 Job, St Eustace compared to, 14 Ignatius Loyola, St, 35 Jodelle, E., 145 L’imperatrice de Rome (Gautier de Coinci), 97, 98 John and Paul, Sts, see Gallicanus (Hrotsvitha of L’inceste supposé (La Caze), 99 Gandersheim), 9 incestuous fathers, 92–4, 99 John of Beverley, St, 25 innkeeper’s daughters scorned, 108 John Chrysostom, St, 25, 107 Inns of Court, London, plays staged by, 122 John Damascene, St, 25, 26 Inquisition, 43, 52 John the Evangelist, St, Company of, 160 TheIronAge(Heywood), 138–41 John the Evangelist, St, in St Genevieve plays, Isabella or the pot of Basil (Keats), 88 167 Item, het spel van den Smet van Cameroen, 46 John, king of England, 200 John VIII (pope), 60, 63 Jael, 173 Johnson, Richard, 201, 202 Jakob the usurer (Bidermann), 47 Jones, Henry, 195 James I, attack on smoking by, 73 Jonson, Ben, 184, 262 James of Compostella, St, 43, 108 Josaphat and Barlaam, Sts, 26–8 Jean le Bel, 118 Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, dramatisations of, Jean sans Peur, 145 106 Jeanroy, Alfred, 2 see also rape, women scorned Jehan, St, 24–5 Josephus, 99, 147, 151, 154, 155, 164 Jerome, St, 23, 47 Joshua, 172 Jeronimo, 84 Jove/Jupiter statue in pass of Mont Joux, Jerusalem, conquest by Godefroi de Bouillon, 28 168, 172 Jovinian (Roman emperor), 180–2 Jerusalem, plays about (AD 70) siege and judgment of Paris, see under Troy, French plays destruction of, 147–55 about siege of English plays, 154–5 Judith and Holofernes, plays of, 173–5 French plays: prose version of Vengeance, 151; Julian the Apostate, 163 Sainte Venica, 149–50; Vengeance Jesus Christ Julius Caesar, 171 (Mystère de la Vengeance, Eustace Marcadé), Julius of Brunswick, Duke, 123 147–9 Julius redivivus (N. Frischlin), 171 German plays, 151–4; leprosy, curing of Justina, St, 163 Emperor Vespasian of, 148, 149, 152 Spanish Aucto de La destruiciónde Jerusalén, Keats, John, 88 150–1 Kyd, Thomas, 83, 240 Swiss performance of, 154 Veronica St, in, 148, 149, 150 La Calprenède, Gauthier de Costes, sieur de, Jesuit drama, 4 99, 118, 191–2, 193 Carolus magnus, 172 Lage, Bertha von der, 212 Catherine of Alexandria, St, 11 Lais of Marie de France, 83, 203 grace and free will, Jesuit debate with Lanseloet van Danmark, 113–14 Dominicans regarding, 62 Lars Porsenna, 196

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Lateran Council of 1215, 50 La manekine, 93 Latour, Antoine de, 178 Manichaean heresy, 35 Laurence, St, 11 Marcadé,Eustace, 147–9 Lawet, Robert, 174 Margaret, St, 13 le Roy, Adenet, 91 Marguerite de Navarre, 107 Lebègue, G., 112, 121, 185 Maria Houdeken (Cornelis Everaaert), 34 Lee, Nathaniel, 189 Mariamne, wife of Herod the Great, 99 Legge, Thomas, 154 Marie de France, 83, 203 Leo Arminius (emperor), 26 Mary of Nemmegen, Mariken van Nieumeghen, 55, Leo IV (pope), 60, 63 61–2 Leo X (pope), 187 Marlowe, Christopher Leonore of Aragon, 52 Dido, 145 leprosy Dr Faustus, 71–2 Amis et Amile, 88 Marquise de Gaudine, 98 Constantine, cured of, 156, 157, 159, 163 Martha, St, see processions Guglielma, St, brother-in-law contracting it, martyrdom plays, 9 97 Eustace, St, 13–15 Vespasian, cure of, 148, 149, 152 Genesius, St, 15–21 l’Hermite, Francois Tristan, 99, 107 Genesius, St, or Lo fingido verdadero (Lope de Licinius, 160 Vega), 16, 17, 19, 21 Lille, Mystères de, 113, 115–19, 172, 174, 196, George, St, 15–21, 201 213 Jesuit martyrs of the Far East, 35 lions, saints buried by, 23, 24 male martyrs, 11 Lisabetta and Lorenzo stories, 87 Mary Queen of Scots treated as martyr by Little St Hugh, 222 Catholics, 186 Livy, 116, 183, 186, 187, 196 virgin martyrs, 9–11 Locker, Jacob, 143–4 white martyrdom, see hermit plays London Inns of Court, plays staged by, 122 Mary Magdalene, St Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 181 invoked as repentant sinner, 61, 62, 66, 67, Lope de Vega (FélixLope de Vega y Carpio), 4 70 Arcadia, 172, 173–5 Mary of Egypt, St, 22 Arthur and Charlemagne plays, 172 Mary Queen of Scots, 185–6, 195 Barlan y Josafa, 27 Mascaron or Masscheroen, 55, 62 La buena guarda, 100 Massinger, Philip Los captivos de Argel, 85 The picture, 104–5 Castelvines y Monteses, 87 The renegade, 85 Cesar y Pompeyo, 171 The Roman actor, 21, 239 Lo fingido verdadero, 16, 17, 19, 21 The Virgin Martyr, 10, 85 El mayordomo de la duquesa de Amalfi, 88 Maxentius (Roman emperor), 115–16, 158, 162, Valentine and Orson dramatised by, 236 163, 164 Louis IX, St (king of France), 34, 169–70 Maximin (Roman emperor), 18, 212 Louis XIV of France, 5, 172, 198, 204, 256 El mayor desengaño (Tirso de Molina), 74 Lucrece, rape of, 112 El mayordomo de la duquesa de Amalfi (Lope de Luther, Martin, 174 Vega), 88 Lutheranism, see Protestantism and Protestant Medici, Lorenzo de, 9 plays Medicis, Catherine de, 185 Lycurgus, 117, 242 medieval plays, 1–5 staging of, 3–5, 144 Maccabees, 172 subject matter of, 2–3 Maerlant, Jacob van, 55 Ménagier de Paris, 95 magicians merchant and money-lending plays, 47–9 original Dr Faustus as, 71 Meriasek, St, 7, 43, 157 in Theophilus plays, 67 Merlin as child of Satan, 56 Mainfray, Pierre, 84 Metamorphoses (Ovid), 139 Mairet, Jean, 188 Millet, Jacques, 131, 135, 144, 145

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Mira de Amescua, Antonio, 69–71, 182 Orgia, see rape miracle plays, 43 Orlando furioso (Ariosto), 91 The misfortunes of Arthur, 173 Orleans, siege of, 175–8 Molina, Tirso de Osanne and Thierry, 96 The doubter damned,orEl condenado por Ostes d’Espagne, 103–4 desconfiado, 60 Ovide moralisé, 86 El mayor desengaño, 74 La venganza de Tamar, 113 Painter, William, The palace of pleasure, 118 Vida y muerta de Herodes, 99 Palamon and Arcite (in Chaucer’s Knight’s tale), Uno Monaco qui ando al servizio di Dio, 60 88, 90 Montchrestien, Antoine de, 185, 187, 246 Pandosto (Greene), 98, 99, 237 Montreux, Nicolas de, 187, 188 Panfila (Cammelli), 121 morality plays pantomime, English, 204 emperor who kills rapist nephew, story of, Paphnutius, St (25 Sept.), 213 114 Paphnutius (Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim), 22 Marlowe’s Faust as, 71 Parabosco, Girolamo, 121 Ordo virtutum (Hildegard of Bingen), 59 Paris, Gaston, 102, 104 La pauvre fille villageoise, 116 Passau, Germany, host desecration incident in, Pyramus and Thisbe stories, 86–7 53 saint’s play about St Dominic resembling, 31 I Patarini (Cathars), 32 Virginia and Apius, plays based on story of, Patient Griselda, 95, 203 116 Patra, Joseph, and his company of players, 19 Von einen ungerathenen Sohn (Duke Julius of patriotic heroes, 196–202 Brunswick), 123 George, St, 201–2 More, St Thomas, 36, 258, 259 Guy of Warwick, 200 MorganleFay,179, 203 Mucius Scaevola, 196, 200 La mort de Chrispe (I’Hermite), 107 Regulus, 196–9 mumming plays, 202 Robin Hood, 200–1 Munday, Anthony, 36, 200, 258 William Tell, 199–200 Mussato, Alberto, 56–8 Paul, St, disciple of St Anthony the Great, mutilation 23–4 arms, severed, 234 Paul the Apostle, St, in St Genevieve plays, children stabbed as revenge for, 120–2 167 hands, severed, 25, 93, 122 see also Peter and Paul, Sts in theatre of cruelty, 112 La pauvre fille villageoise, 116 Peele, George, 136–8, 146, 200 Netherlands, see Dutch plays pelagianism in Britain, 166 les neuf preux, see Nine Worthies Pembroke, Lady, 240 Nicholas, St, 28, 43, 45–7 Penthesilea (Amazon), 133, 139, 140, 173 reinvention as Santa Claus/Father Pepin the Short, king of France, 91, 96 Christmas, 203 Perrin, Fran¸cois, 113 Nine Worthies, 171–3 Perside, see Soliman and in The arraignment of Paris (Peele), 137 Peter the Apostle, St biblical worthies, 172, 173 in Genevieve, St, plays, 167 Christian worthies, 172, 173 invoked as repentant sinner, 61, 66 classical worthies, 171, 173 Peter and Paul, Sts female (les neuf preuses), 171, 173–5 in Constantine the Great, conversion of, 156, 158, 159, 164 Oedipus, warring sons of, 109 in Dominican plays, 32, 35 Old Testament, see biblical figures in plays Peter the Hermit, 168 Oliver and Artus stories, 89 Peter Martyr, St, 34 Onofrio, St, 24 Petit de Julleville, L., 149, 180 Orbecche (Giraldi), 122 Petrarch, 95, 187 Order of the Garter, 13, 119 Phaedra, 106 Order of Preachers, see Dominicans Philanira (Rouillet), 116 Ordo virtutum (Hildegard of Bingen), 59–60 Philemon (Bidermann), 211

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Philip III of France, 169 Raleigh, Walter, 190, 194 Philip IV of France (Philip the Fair), rape 146 Dinah, plays based on biblical story of, 113 Philip the Good of Burgundy, 168 Edward III of England and countess of Philippa of Hainault, 118 Salisbury, 117–19 Philippe de Mézières, 95 emperor who kills rapist nephew, story of, Philomel, Progne, and Tereus, 121 114 Picot, Emile, 180 Lanseloet van Denmark, 113–14 The picture (Massinger), 104–5 monstrous ransom stories of death or rape, Pierrefleur, Pierre de, 154 115–19 Placidus (St Eustace), 13–15 Orgia (Lille plays), 113 Planché,James Robinson, 204 Tamar and Amnon, plays based on biblical Plutarch, 183, 223 story of, 113 Poland, first tragedy of, 144 women scorned falsely accusing men of, Polynices and Eteocles, 109 106–8 Pons, St, 11 Raphael (archangel), 58, 174, 180 Porsenna, 196 Re superbo, 180 Porto, Luigi da, 87 Regnault, St, 32 post-mortem miracles, 43 Regnault, Fran¸cois, 185 Potiphar’s wife and Joseph, dramatisations of, Reine de Portugal, 92 106 Rémi, St, 37, 165, 166 see also rape, women scorned The renegade (Massinger), 85 Pradon, Jacques, 198 Rhetoricians, plays staged by, 4, 122, 145, 190 predestination, see grace and free will La Rhodienne (Mainfray), 84 Pride and Fortune, see Fortune Richard I of England, 12, 200 Pride of Life, 181 Ritual in blood (Berkoff), 222 processions rivals and friends, 88–90 George, St, and Margaret, St, in, 13 Robert de Baudricourt, 177 Joan of Arc play for commemorative festivals Robert le Diable or Robert of Normandy, 56 of siege of Orleans, 176 Robert of Sicily, 181 Martha, St, Tarascon, 253 Robin Hood, 200–1 Nine Worthies, 171 Rocamadour, shrine of Virgin at, 34 Pope Joan, 60–1 Le roi Thierry et sa femme Osanne, 96 Procopius, 182 Roman Catholicism, see Counter-Reformation prodigal son, Les enfants de maintenant based on Catholicism parable of, 60 Romeo and Juliet stories, 87 Progne and Tereus, 121 Rosamunda and Alboin, 122 Protestantism and Protestant plays, 47, 70, 100, Sta Rosana, 79–80 154 rosary, plays featuring, 33, 47 martyr and heretic plays, 36–7 Rosenplut, Hans, 134 Mary Queen of Scots, view of, 186 Rossini, Gioacchino, 204 Spain’s enmity with England in Elizabeth Rotrou, Jean, 4, 17, 18, 182, 183 and Essex plays, 193 Rouanet, L., 150 Virgin Mary rejected by, 203 Rouillet, Claude, 116 public theatres, inception of, 3, 4 Rucellai, Giovanni, 122 La Pucelle (Joan of Arc), 173, 175–8 Rueda, Lope de, 102 Pulci, Antonia, 23, 31, 97 Ruf, Jakob, 152–4, 199 Pulci, Bernardo, 26, 27 Rümolt, Giovanni, 259 Puys, 3 Runnalls, Graham, 1, 131 Pyramus and Thisbe stories, 86–7 Rüte, Ruf and Hans von, 106 Rutebeuf, 66 The queen of Corinth (Massinger), 117 Sachs, Hans, 4 Radcliff, Ralph, 35, 90 Agatocli und Clinia, 233 Radégonde (Du Souhait), 107 Alexander Magnus, 171 Rader, Matthaus, 68 Comedi von Olwier und Artus, 89

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Sachs, Hans (cont.) seigne (body mark) used in wager stories, 102, Comoedia Kaiser Julianus im bad, 181 103 The destruction of the city of Troy, 135 Sejanus his fall (Ben Jonson), 184 Die falsche keyserin, 107 Semiramis, 185 Florio und Bianceffora, 80–1 Seneca the Elder, 3, 21, 112, 120, 121, 122 Herod und Mariamne, 99 Serre, Pujet de la, 36, 237 Judith and Holofernes play, 174 Seth, son of Adam, 45, 162 Ein klegliche tragedi des fürsten Concreti, 122 The seven champions of Christendom (Richard Die königinvon Frankreich, 237 Johnson), 201, 202 Künigin Rosamunda, 122 Seven Deadly Sins, 227 Thitus [vnd] Gisippus zwen getrew, 90 Anthony, St, temptations of, 23–4 Der Tod in Stock, 213 in Marlowe’s Faust, 71 Tragedi von Lisabetha eines kaufherrn tochter, 88 Seven sages of Rome, 106 Die undultig fraw Genura, 102 severed limbs, see mutilation Die unschuldig keyserin von Rom, 97 Shakespeare, William Die vertrieben Keyserin, 93, 235 Coriolanus, 183 Virginia die romerin, 116 Cymbeline, 102, 103, 104 sacrament plays, 50–4 Edward III, 118 Bolsena miracle, 53 Henry V, 170, 201 emperor who kills rapist nephew, story of, 115 Henry VI, 173, 178 Host desecrations: Croxton sacrament play, Julius Caesar, 171 52–3; Florentine sacrament plays, 51; King Lear, 110 Nieuwervaart play of Host found in ditch, Love’s labours lost, 171 53–4; La rappresentazione di un miracolo del Measure for measure, 117 Corpo di Cristo, 53; Paris miracle of the Merchant of Venice, 49, 115 profaned Host, 50–1; Passau, Germany, Much ado about nothing, 91 incident in, 53 Othello, 98 saints’ plays, 7 Pericles, 92 Acts of the Apostles, plays based on, 207 Richard III, 123 anti-saint play, Marlowe’s Faust as, 71 Romeo and Juliet, 87 secular or state saint play, Henry V, 170, 201 The tempest, 72 surveys of, 2 Timon of Athens, 48 see also under individual names Titus Andronicus, 112, 120 Salisbury, countess of and Edward III of Troilus and Cressida, 246 England, 117–19 Two gentlemen of Verona, 90 Sanderijn in Lanseloet van Danmark, 113–14 Two noble kinsmen (Fletcher and Shakespeare), Sapientia (Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim), 9 88 Schernberg, Dietrich, 60–1 A winter’s tale, 98 Schiller, Friedrich, 178, 185 Sharp, Thomas, 154 Schmeltzl, Wolfgang, 174 Shaw, George Bernard, on Cymbeline, 178 Die schönephoenicia (Ayrer), 91 Shergold, N. D., 31 Medici, Lorenzo de, 9 Shrovetide plays, 1 school dramas, 4–5 Sigismunda, 122 Mariamne, Benedictine fondness for story Silesius, 60 of, 99 Sir Gawain and the green knight, 146 see also Jesuit dramas Sir Isumbras, 211 Scipio Africanus, 186 Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 219 Scotus, Hieronymus, 68, 217, 227 slavery as theme in El esclavo del demonio Scudéry, Madeleine de, 84 (Antonio Mira de Amescua), 69–71 secret mistress stories, 107 Sleeping Beauty, 203 secular or state saint plays, 170 Soliman and Perside stories, 83–5 Genevieve, St, 166–8 Sophonisba, plays about, 186–90 Joan of Arc, St, 173, 175–8 Mary Queen of Scots performed in Louis, St, 169–70 Trissino’s play of, 185 see also patriotic heroes Sophronia, story of, 115–16, 164

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Spain Torrismondo (Tasso), 90 enmity with England in Elizabeth and Essex El trato de Argel (Cervantes), 85 plays, 193 Tree of Life, Cross grown from, 162 Spanish Armada, 193, 195 Trent, Council of, 62 Spanish tragedy (Kyd), 83 trial scenes between forces of good and evil, Speculum historiale (Vincent of Beauvais), 68 55 Spies, Johann, 71 Trissino, Gian Giorgio, 186, 187 staging of plays, 3–5, 144 Tristan and Iseult, 172, 220, 234 Stapfer, Wilhelm, 162 Troilus and Briseida/Cressida, 133, 138, 140, star-crossed lovers, 86–8 246 Ste-Maure, Benoit de, 131, 132 Troterel, Pierre, 11 Stefonio, Bernardino, 107 Troy Stegmann, A., 36 French plays about siege of, 131–46; Les Stella, 93, 96, 203 epitaphes d’Hector (Chastelain), 145; Hector Stephen, St, successors, of, 11 (Montchrestien), 246; Istoire de la destruction Sterzing play of parable of Dives and Lazarus, de Troie (Millet), 131–3, 135, 144, 145 229 German versions, 133–6, 144 stigmata, St Francis of Assisi receiving, 31 Hector as one of Nine Worthies, plays substitute brides, 91, 92 about, 171 succession and inheritance dramas, 109–11 Judicium Paris (Locher), 143–4 Susannah and the Elders, 98, 115 Paris, judgment of, 133–4, 143–4 Swedish play on grace and damnation, 62 Polish, The dismissal of the Greek envoys Switzerland (Jan Kochanowski), 144 founding of confederation, play about, 200 Troilus and Briseida/Cressida, 133, 138, 140, William Tell, plays about, 199–200 246 Sylvester, St, 37, 156–9, 160, 163, 164 Venetian plays, 250 Tundal (Irish soldier), 75 Taille, Jean de la, 171 Turbamento di Jesu Christo, 32 talents, parable of, 229 Talmy, leader of travelling players, 121 Udo of Magdeburg, St, 227, 228 Tamar and Amnon, story of, 113 Sta Uliva, 93, 96 Tancred and Gismond (Wilmot), 122 uncles, wicked, 98 Tasso, Torquato, 90 The unhappy favourite or, the earl of Essex (Banks), Tell, William, plays about, 199–200 193–5 tenants, parable of, 152–4 Die unschuldig keyserin von Rom (Sachs), 97 Teodora, S, 11 Uriel (archangel), in destruction of Jerusalem Terence, 9 plays, 148 Tereus and Progne, 121 Urner Tellspiel, 199 Thais, St, the courtesan, 22 Ursus, St, 136 theatre of cruelty, 112–19 Jerusalem, plays about siege and destruction Valentine and Orson, 96 of, 149, 151 Valerius Maximus, 113, 262 monstrous ransom stories of death or rape, Vandals, 46 115–19 Vaudois (Waldenses), 36, 217, 227 mutilations, 112 S. Venanzio (Castellani), 12 skulls, cups made from, 122 Vengeance Jesus Christ (Mystère de la Vengeance, Theodora of Alexandria, St, 108 Eustace Marcadé), 147–9 Theophilus, 65–8, 71 Vernulaeus, Nicolaus, 36, 178 Theseus de Cologne, 96 Veronica, St, and destruction of Jerusalem Thirty Years’ War, 72 plays, 148, 149, 150 Thomas a Becket, St, 36 Die vertrieben Keyserin (Sachs), 93, 235 Thomas Aquinas, St, 34, 52 Vespasian (Roman emperor) Thyestes and Atreus, 120, 122 leprosy, cured of, 148, 149, 152 Timothy, St, 158 siege and destruction of Jerusalem by, 147–55 Titus and Gesippe stories, 90 Viau, Théophilede, 87

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Vida y muerta de Herodes (Tirso de Molina), 99 wagers on wife’s or sister’s virtue, 102–5 Vigneulles, Philippe, de, 51 Waldenses (Vaudois), 36, 217, 227 Villarejo, Oscar M., 21 warrior saints Vincent of Beauvais, 68 St Eustace, 13–15 Vindicta salvatoris, 147 St George, 12–13, 201–2, 203 vineyard, parable of labourers in, 152–4 St Joan of Arc, 173, 175–8 Le viol d’Orgia, 113 Wars of the Roses, Latin play of, 173 Virgil’s Aeneid, 145 Waudrue, St, 202 The Virgin Martyr (Massinger), 10, 85 Webster, John, 88 Virgin Martyrs, plays about, 9–11 wheel of Fortune, 179 Virgin Mary William of Aquitaine, St, 29–30 and the Devil, 58, 59, 61, 62, 64, 65–9, William of Blois, 263 70 William of Gellone, St, 29–30 in Dominican plays, 32, 33, 34 William the Conqueror, 56 replacement by fairy godmother, 203 A woman killed with kindness (Heywood), 100 Rosary plays, 33 women as actors, 3 trial scenes between forces of good and evil, Wyclifﬁtes, 36 as advocate in, 55 Virginia and Apius, story of, 116 Yde et Olive, 93 Von einen ungerathenen Sohn (Duke Julius of The Yorkshire tragedy, 100 Brunswick), 123 Yver, Jacques, 83, 84, 112