A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12Dodsley, Robert
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12
Dodsley, Robert
English drama
The following is a list of his dramatic works--
1. "A New Wonder," "A Woman never vext," C. 4o, 1632.
2. A Tragedy called, All's Lost by Lust. Written by William Rowley.
Divers times Acted by the Lady Elizabeths Servants. And now lately
by her Maiesties Servants, with great applause, at the Ph[oe]nix in
Drury-Lane. 4o, 1633.
3. "A Match at Midnight," C. 4o, 1633, printed post.
4. "A Shoemaker's a Gentleman," C. 4o, 1638.
He wrote also, in conjunction with Day and Wilkins,
5. "The Travels of Three English Brothers," Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony,
and Mr Robert Sherley. 4o, 1607.
With Middleton,
6. "A Fair Quarrel," C. 4o, 1617.
7. "The World toss'd at Tennis," M. 4o, 1620.
8. "The Spanish Gipsy," C. 4o, 1663.
And,
9. "The Changeling," T. 4o, 1653.
With Fletcher,
10. "The Maid of the Mill," fol. 1647.
With Massinger and Middleton,
11. "The Old Law," T. C. 4o, 1656.
With Dekker and Ford,
12. "The Witch of Edmonton," T. C. 4o, 1658.
And (it is, however, _very_ doubtful) with Shakespeare,
13. "The Birth of Merlin." T. C. 4o, 1662.
With Webster (though Webster's participation is equally
problematical),
14. "A Cure for a Cuckold," C. 1661.
And,
15. "The Thracian Wonder," C. H. 4o, 1661.
And with Heywood,
16. "Fortune by Land and Sea," C. 4o, 1655.
The following are also entered in his name on the Books of the
Stationers' Company--
"The Fool without Book."
"A Knave in Print; or, One for Another."
"The Nonesuch."[28]
"The Book of the Four Honoured Loves."
And,
"The Parliament of Love."
In the Dramatis Personæ, prefixed to his own play of "All's Lost by
Lust," the part of Jaques, a simple clownish gentleman, is said to have
been personated by the poet; and in Middleton's "Inner Temple Masque,"
1619, he performed the part of Plumb-porridge.
It appears from Sir H. Herbert's office book, that _one_ of the Rowleys
wrote "A Match or No Match;" this is most probably our author's
"Match at Midnight." Rowley wrote also a [prose] pamphlet called, "A
Search for Money; or, The Lamentable Complaint for the Loss of the
Wandering Knight, Monsieur L'Argent," &c., 4o, 1609;[29] [an elegy on
a fellow-performer, Hugh Atwell, who died on the 25th September 1621;
printed on a broadside, and two or three other poetical trifles.][30]
FOOTNOTES:
[21] [This play having been printed by Dilke, and the following one (by
the same author) in Dodsley's collection, the two prefaces presented,
of course, many repetitions, as well as certain mistakes. That now
given (from a collation of the two) will, it is hoped, be found to
contain the whole matter of both without these accidental oversights.]
[22] Malone (Sh. by Bosw. II. 172) expresses his conviction that this
"rare scholar of Pembroke Hall" was neither William nor Samuel Rowley,
but _Ralph_ Rowley, who became a student of Pembroke Hall in 1579, and
was elected fellow in 1583.--_Collier._
[23] ["The Birth of Merlin," 1662.]
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