STAT. I Car. I., c. 1, against plays, bear- Patent by Charles I. to Hemmings, Condell, as his players, &c. 1625. vived. Bull theatre, 1627. Salisbury-court theatre built in 1629. Experiment of French actresses, 1629. Petition to Laud against the Blackfriars Gift by the King of 1001. to his players. Midsummer Night's Dream played on Sunday in the house of John Wil- liams, Bp. of Lincoln, 1631. quences of its publication in 1633. John Shakespeare, a bit and spur Arrest of strolling players at Banbury. friars, 1633. plays, under 3 Jac. I. c. 21. From the year 1635 to the closing of the Theatres....p. 65. Establishment of a French company in Personalities in plays at the Red Bull The King's debts for plays, &c. Davenant's resignation of his patent for a theatre, 1639. Restraint of players in consequence of Insubordination of William Beeston's Twenty pounds a week allowed to the Ordinance of 1642 concerning the tem- porary suppression of stage plays. Juvenile Company under Christopher Infraction of the Ordinance, 1644. Ordinance for the punishment of Players at the Cockpit arrested, Order against printing plays. Proceedings in Parliament regarding plays and theatres. Act of 1647, for the permanent sup- Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the pression of stage-plays, &c. Disobedience to the Act, in 1649. Davenant's projected theatre near Fleet- Accident at Witney, on the performance Order regarding the exclusive right of Davenant's Siege of Rhodes, 1656. acting plays. b HISTORY OF DRAMATIC POETRY. Introduction to Miracle-plays..... p. 123. The subjects of Miracle-plays and mis- application of the word “ Mystery.” the French by Ralph Higden. nages joué à Paris pr. 1490. Review of the Widkirk, Chester, and Coventry Miracle- plays....p. 155. The Proclamation of the plays. Review of the Digby Miracle-plays..... p. 230. Three plays on the Conversion of St. Paul, Review of Printed Religious Plays.. ...p. 236. Christ's Temptation, by John Bale. Cornish Guary Miracle. Miracle-plays. to 1540. Miracle-plays. Miracle-plays. Slaughter of the Innocents. Edward Gregorie, 1591. Childermas Day: or, The Slaughter of the Innocents, attributed to John History of Jacob and Esau. Definition of a Moral, or Moral-play. ral-plays. Nature, by Henry Medwall. Moral-plays of a general character.... . p. 319. Magnificence, by John Skelton. The longer thou livest, the more Fool The Conflict of Conscience, by N. The Disobedient Child, by T. Ingelend. Representation of Moral-plays. formance. futed in five Actions. Mankind. Every-man. • p John Redford's MS. Moral-plays. All for Money, by Thomas Lupton. Three Ladies of London. Three Lords and Three Ladies of Lon- don. Liberality and Prodigality. Cambyses, by Thomas Preston. Appius and Virginia, by R. B. Albion, a political interlude. Common Conditions. Pardoner, Friar, Curate, and Neigh- bour Pratt. John, Tib and Sir John. Wit and Folly. Robin Conscience. The style of our earliest dramatic pro- ductions. Spenser's Tears of the Muses. the date when he began to write. Dramatic authors usually actors. Tragedy and Comedy, their Rise and Progress.....p. 444. Ralph Roister Doister, by Nicholas Misogonus, by Thomas Richards. Udall. Ferrex and Porrex, by T. Sackville and Gammer Gurton's Needle, by John Still. T. Norton. |