UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. CHAPTER IX. ON THE DRAMATIC AUTHORS CONTEMPORARY WITH SHAKESPEARE. Ir does not come within the scope of this book to treat of any author except Shakespeare critically. It is however indispensable for the accurate determination of the chronological arrangement of his plays, and for the understanding of his relations to his contemporaries, that Tables of their plays arranged in order of time should be accessible. Such Tables have never hitherto been formed. I annex therefore lists of the plays of all the dramatists whose works have been republished in a collected form, and a list of plays of other authors contained in Dodsley (Hazlitt's edition) &c., with dates of publication (and production, where possible), and notices of the theatre and company to which each play belonged. The dates of production will be found to differ largely from those hitherto assigned in many instances, but never without reasons grounded on external evidence and confirmed by internal. This evidence I hope to give in a future work. For information concerning plays now lost or not republished in modern times, Halliwell's Dictionary of Old Plays will supply all necessary information. With a few exceptions (for which special reasons exist) only published plays are noticed here. In the annexed Table a dotted line the author's life; a line not broken indicates the period of that of his working career. BORN. 15 74 6 8 80 2 4 6 8 90 2 4 6 8 00 .......... 1553. Chapel and Paul's ii. Peele ......... 1552... iii. Greene....... 1561 iv. Marlowe..... 1564 Chap. Adml's. Queen's Queen's Adm. Pem. 2 4 20 6 8 10 2 4 6 8 2 4 6 8 30 2468 1616 I. LILLY (JOHN), born 1553, began work 1578, died 1601 : These (except 9) were all produced before 1589 (Malone). II. PEELE (GEORGE), born 1552, began work 1584, died Queen's ... ... 1595 1589 ... ... 1591 1590 ... 1594 1591-2 ... ? L. Strange's ... 7.? King John (Troublesome Reign) 10. ? Richard III. (Shakespeare) 11. ? Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Hunsdon's III.—Greene (ROBERT), born 1561, began work 1585, died IV. MARLOWE (Christopher), born 1564, began work 1585, died 1593 Name of Play. Queen's ... 1594 1586 1598 1588 ... 1598 1589 ... 1594 ? 1589 V.-SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM). See Chapter iii. For the Second Maiden's Tragedy and Revenge for Honour usually attributed to Chapman, see page 99. VII.-JONSON (BENJAMIN), born 1574, began work 1596, died * These dates are those of Shirley's completion of the plays. There is no clear evidence of Chapman's writing for the stage after 1613. Alphonsus is not Chapman's; nor did he write for the King's Company. + Probably acted by the King's Company at Blackfriars, May 5, 1636. The parts concerning Inigo Jones (Act v. Sc. 2), and the masque at the end, were added in 1633. |