1634-5. _Euphormus_, sive, _Cupido Adultus_, by Geo. Wilde, at S. John's
Coll.
1636. _Stonehenge_, by John Speed, at S. John's Coll.
1636. _The floating Island_, by William Strode, at Ch. Ch.
1636. _Love's Hospital_ (or, _The Hospital of Lovers_), by Geo. Wilde,
at S. John's Coll.
1636. _The Royal Slave_, by William Cartwright, at Ch. Ch.
1637. _The Converted Robber_, by Geo. Wilde, at S. John's College.
? 1640. _Pharamus_, sive, _Libido Vindex_ (also published under the
title of _Thibaldus_, sive _Vindictæ Ingenium_), by Thomas
Snelling, at (?).
1648. _Stoicus Vapulans_, by (?) at S. John's Coll.
1648. _Amorous War_, by Jasper Maine, D.D., at (?).
? _The Scholar_, by Richard Lovelace, at Gloucester Hall.
(Prologue and Epilogue appear in _Lucasta_, 1649.)
1651. _The Lady Errant_, by William Cartwright, at (?).
1653. _The Inconstant Lady_, by Arthur Wilson, at Trin. Coll. (?)
1654. _The Combat of Love and Friendship_, by Robt. Mead, at Ch. Ch.
1660. _The Christmas Ordinary_, by W. R., M.A., at Trin. Coll.
1660. _The Guardian_, by (?) at "new dancing-school against S.
Michael's Church." (Wood, iii. 705.)
1663. _Flora's Vagaries_, by Richard Rhodes, at Ch. Ch.
This catalogue does not, of course, pretend to be exhaustive. An
examination of the various college archives would doubtless afford
further material. There exists, for instance, the record of performances
at Merton; cf. G. C. Brodrick's _Memorials of Merton College_ (Oxford
Hist. Soc., 1885), p. 67: "In January and February, 1566-7, two dramatic
performances were given in the Warden's lodgings by members of the
foundation ... the one being an English comedy, and the other Terence's
_Eunuchus_.... Again, in 1568, a play of Plautus was acted in the hall."
It will be seen that of the above-mentioned plays six, besides
_Narcissus_, were performed at the College of S. John the Baptist, the
first recorded being the _Christmas Prince_ in 1607, the succeeding ones
taking place after an interval of twenty-six years; and to these we
should very probably add _Pharamus_, the writer of which, Thomas
Snelling, "became Scholar of S. John's in 1633, aged 19, and afterwards
fellow ... and was esteemed an excellent Latin poet." (Wood, _Ath. Ox._,
vol. iii., p. 275.)
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