The following are of inferior importance, and a simple enumeration of them will suffice for our purpose :

DANIEL (SAMUEL), born 1562, died 1619; wrote Philotas (printed 1605), Cleopatra (printed 1594), Queen's Arcadia (presented 1605), Hymen's Triumph (acted 1614), Vision of Twelve Goddesses (1604), and Tethys' Festival (1611).

ALEXANDER (WILLIAM, Earl of Stirling), born 1580, died 1640); wrote four "Monarchicke❞ tragedies; Darius (printed 1603), Crasus (1604), Julius Cæsar (1604), and The Alexandraan Tragedy (1605).

Cartwright (WILLIAM), born 1611-15, died 1643; wrote The Royal Slave (acted 1636), The Lady Errant (printed 1651), The Siege (printed 1651), besides The Ordinary already mentioned.

SUCKLING (SIR JOHN), born 1608. died 1641-2; wrote The Goblins, Aglaura, Brennoralt (all printed 1646), and The Sad One (1658).

DAVENANT (SIR WILLIAM), born 1606, died 1669; wrote before 1642; Albovine (printed 1629), Cruel Brother (1630), Just Italian (1630), Platonic Lovers (1636), Wits (1636), Love and Honor (licensed 1634, printed 1649), News from Plymouth (licensed 1635), Unfortunate Lovers (licensed 1638, printed 1643), Fair Favorite (licensed 1638), and Distresses, or Spanish Lovers (licensed 1639). He also wrote other plays after 1656.

CHAPTER X.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS PERTAINING TO THE THEATRE,

FROM 1558 TO 1642.

1558. Queen Elizabeth's accession.

1561. T. Beyer made Master of the Revels.

1566. Still's Gammer Gurton's Needle produced.

1574. The Earl of Leicester's players licensed. Burbage, Perkin, Langham, Johnson, R. Wilson, &c.

Plays performed on Sundays out of prayer time.

1576. The Theater and the Curtain built in Shoreditch. 1578. The Privy Council limited plays in the City to the companies of the Chapel Children, Paul's Children, Earl of Warwick, Earl of Leicester, and Earl of Essex.

1579. 24th July, E. Tilney made Master of the Revels.

1580. Plays on Sundays abolished. Newington Butts built. 1581. Whitefriars built. Pulled down soon after by the Queen's order, as well as the Cross Keys, Bull, Bell and Savage,

and Paul's.

1583. The Queen's company selected.

1585. The Rose and the Hope opened.

1588. Paris Garden opened.

1589. A Commission of Censure appointed.

1591. No plays allowed on Thursdays because of bear-baiting being interfered with by them. Interdict on Paul's Children

imposed after 1591.

1592. Dr. Rainolds and Dr. Gager hold forth at Oxford on the

unlawfulness of stage plays.

1593. The Queen's company dispersed.

1594. Lord Strange's company absorbed into the Chamberlain's.

1595. Swan opened.

1596. Blackfriars building adapted for a theatre. Chapel Children put in by Burbage.

1599. The Fortune built by Alleyn for the Admiral's company. 1600. The Globe built by Burbage.

1601. The interdict on Paul's Children removed before 1601.

All theatres ordered to be shut except the Fortune and the
Globe.

1603. King James I. succeeds to the throne. He licenses Shakespeare, Burbage, Philipps, Hemings, Condell, &c., who usually play at the Globe.

No plays allowed, except at Court and in private, on
Sundays.

The King takes the Chamberlain's company for his own;
the Queen the Earl of Worcester's; the Prince the
Admiral's.

1604. Prince's company at the Fortune (not the Curtain).

Blackfriars bought by the Globe company.

1605. Children of the Revels at Blackfriars (formerly the Chapel Children).

First moveable scenes at Christ Church.

1607. T. Coryat at Venice.

Plays in Lent forbidden early in this reign.

1610. November 7. Sir G. Buck Master of the Revels.

1612. Lady Elizabeth's company join the Revels, separating next year (Collier).

Revels Children at Whitefriars.

1613. J. Taylor head of Queen Elizabeth's company at the Hope. Globe burnt.

Swan and Rose shut up before 1613.

Lady Elizabeth becomes Queen of Bohemia.

1614. Globe rebuilt. Hope burnt down.

1616. Dispensation granted for playing in Lent, except Wednesdays and Fridays. The Red Bull and Fortune have tumblers at

this season.

1617. The Cockpit (nuper erectum) pulled down.

1619. Queen Anne's death.

Cockpit rebuilt.

The Queen's Revels company become the King's.

The united Four Companies formed.

1621. December 15. The Fortune burnt.

Sir J. Astley Master of the Revels

1622. The Revels company at the Red Bull formed from Queen Anne's, which was licensed to bring up children for the Revels.

Sir Henry Herbert Master of the Revels.

The Red Bull not one of the Four Companies. 1625. King Charles married, and succeeds to the throne. Prince's servants at the Curtain for last time.

1627. Red Bull company forbidden to play Shakespeare. 1629. Women on stage at Blackfriars.

Whitefriars rebuilt as Salisbury Court.

A French company performs at Blackfriars, the Bull, and the
Fortune.

1630. Playhouses shut from April to November on account of the plague.

1633. Histriomastix published.

Prynne's ears cut off.

1634. Henrietta Maria at Blackfriars.

1635. French players at the Cockpit.

1636. First scenery used in a private performance of Love's Mistress, at Denmark House.

Theatres shut on account of the plague.

William Beeston ordered to make a boys' company at the
Cockpit (King and Queen's).

1639. Poets receive second day's money taken at door.

1640. The Prince's company go to the Fortune; the Fortune company to the Bull.

Beeston dies; Davenant succeeds him.

1642. Theatres shut. War breaks out.

NOTE.-Stage plays were suppressed definitely in 1647, and the first scenery on the stage was introduced in 1662.

CHAPTER XI.

A LIST OF BOOKS MOST DESIRABLE FOR A STUDENT OF SHAKESPEARE TO POSSESS.

1. The reprint of the Folio edition of 1623, now sold by Glaisher, Holborn; or the reproduction by photolithography published by Chatto and Windus.

2. The Globe edition (Macmillan), for reference, the lines being numbered.

3. The Variorum edition of 1821. 20 vols. This is the storehouse of all important facts concerning Shakespeare from which the main part of modern editions is derived.

4. Mrs. Cowden Clarke's Concordance to the plays.

5. Mrs. Furness's Concordance to the Poems.

6. Schmidt's Shakespeare Lexicon, 2 vols. Norgate.)

(Williams and

7. Clark and Wright's Cambridge edition, for the Collations. 9 vols. (out of print). (Macmillan.)

8. Dr. Abbott's Shakespearian Grammar. (Macmillan.) 9. S. Walker's Criticisms, 4 vols. (A. R. Smith.)

10. S. Neil's Shakespeare: a Biography. (Houlston and Wright.) The large modern editions by Knight, Staunton, Dyce, and Halliwell are all useful for reference; but for anyone with limited means, after getting Nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, which are almost indispensable, a better investment is to procure copies of the old dramatists, viz. :—

(a) Beaumont and Fletcher, by Dyce, 2 vols. (Phillips and Sampson, Boston, 1854), if possible: if not, then that by Darley, 2 vols. (Routledge and Co.).

(6) Massinger, by Cunningham. (Chatto and Windus.)