[171] It may be mentioned that the practice of companies of players, of one kind or another, being taken into the service of members of the royal family, or of great nobles, dates from much earlier times than the reign of Elizabeth. So far back as 1400/1 the corporation of Shrewsbury paid rewards to the _histriones_ of Prince Henry and of the earl of Stafford, and in 1408/9 reference is made to the players of the earl and countess of Arundel, of Lord Powys, of Lord Talbot and of Lord Furnival. [172] _The Woman in the Moone_; _Sapho and Phao_. [173] _Alexander and Campaspe._ [174] _Endimion_; _Mydas_. [175] _Gallathea._ [176] _Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay._ [177] _The Wounds of Civil War._ With Greene he wrote _A Looking-Glass for London_. [178] _Summer's Last Will and Testament_ is his sole entire extant play. _Dido, Queen of Carthage_, is by him and Marlowe. [179] _Patient Grissil_ (with Dekker and Haughton). [180] _Hoffman, or A Revenge for a Father._ [181] _Henry VIII._ [182] Ford, _Perkin Warbeck_. [183] _Edward IV._; _If You Know Not Me_, &c. [184] _Henry VIII._ [185] _The Merry Wives of Windsor._ [186] Massinger, _The Virgin Martyr_; Shirley, _St Patrick for Ireland_. [187] _Cleopatra_; _Philotas_. [188] _Darius_; _Croesus_; _Julius Caesar_; _The Alexandraean Tragedy_. [189] _The Sad Shepherd_. [190] _The Faithful Shepherdess._ [191] _The Queen's Arcadia._ [192] _Sejanus his Fall_; _Catiline his Conspiracy_. [193] _Bussy d'Ambois_; _The Revenge of B. d'A._; _The Conspiracy of Byron_; _The Tragedy of B._; _Chabot, Admiral of France_ (with Shirley). [194] _Arden of Faversham_; _A Yorkshire Tragedy_. [195] _A Woman killed with Kindness_; _The English Traveller_. [196] _Vittoria Coromboni_; _The Duchess of Malfi_. [197] _'Tis Pity She's a Whore_; _The Broken Heart_. [198] _Every Man in his Humour_; _Every Man out of his Humour_. [199] Shadwell, _The Humorists_. [200] It is impossible in a summary survey to seek to discriminate by any kind of evidence the respective shares in many Elizabethan plays, and the respective credit due to them, of the joint writers. Yet some such inquiry is necessary before judging the claims to remembrance of highly-gifted dramatists such as William Rowley, his namesake Samuel, John Day, and not a few others. [201] The Latin comedy _Victoria_ by Abraham Fraunce of St John's was written some time before 1583, and dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney; but there is no evidence to show that it was ever acted. [202] (Bishop) Hacket's _Loyola_ was acted at Trinity in 1623. [203] _Naufragium joculare--The Guardian_ (rewritten later as _The Cutter of Coleman Street_).