Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare
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Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare
English drama (Comedy)
[52] _Perseverance_, _Mankynd_, _Mary Magdalene_, _Nigromansir_,
_Juventus_, _Like_, _Conflict of Conscience_, _Money_.
[53] _Mankynd_, _Mary Magdalene_, _Juventus_, and _Like_.
[54] _The Witt and Wisdome_, _King Cambyses_, _Like_, and _Horestes_.
[55] _Gesch. d. engl. Dramas_, II., p. 4.
[56] _English Writers_, VII., p. 182.
[57] _Cambyses_; cf. Roister Doister's array.
[58] _Play of Love_; cf. the braggart Crackstone in _Two Ital. Gent._,
much later.
[59] In _Wisdom_ he may be regarded as Vice and Devil (Lucifer) rolled
into one; in _Everyman_ he is probably represented by the friends who
desert the hero in time of need; in the _Disobedient Child_ he is
concrete as the prodigal son.
[60] Furnivall, _Digby Plays_, Forewords, xiii.
[61] Never 'Morality' to our ancestors; that is a futile borrowing from
the French.
[62] _Wisdom_ has only Lucifer; _Nature_ has only Sensuality and minor
Vices; _Pride of Life_ had Devils in all probability, but no Vice, for
Mirth is not one; _Everyman_ has neither.
[63] I see no reason for assuming with Professor Brandl (_Quellen u.
Forschungen_, XXVIII.) that the loss of the navy bound for Ireland,
II. 336-363, has reference to the destruction of the _Regent_ by the
French, 1512.
[64] For some of these see Quadrio, _Della Storia e della Ragione
d'ogni Poesia_, Vol. III., Lib. II., 53 _et seq._
[65] For the substance of this paragraph see the histories of Klein,
Herford, and Creizenach.
[66] _E. Dr. Po._, I. 107, from Gibson's Accounts.
[67] Warton, _H. Eng. Po._ (1871), IV. 323.
[68] Herford, _Lit. Rel._, pp. 107-108.
[69] _History of the Stage_, p. 64.
[70] Brandl, _Quellen_, LXII.; cf. Herford, _Lit. Rel._, p. 156. To
trace the suggestion of the model of Barnabas to the _Studentes_ of
Stymmelius, 1549, is, I think, absurd. It is strange that Creizenach,
_Gesch. d. neu. Dr._, I. 470, should assert, in face of the _Nice
Wanton_ and _The Glasse of Government_, that no English 'moral' avails
itself of _two_ representatives of the human race--a good and an evil.
[71] Brandl, _Quellen_, LXXIII.; and Herford, _Lit. Rel._
[72] _Lit. Rel._, p. 135.
[73] _The English Chronicle Play._
[74] Hawkins, _Engl. Drama_, I. 145, quotes a passage from one of
Latimer's sermons in the presence of Edward VI., which uses the story
of "drave me aboute the toune with a puddynge," referred to in _Lusty
Juventus_.
[75] _The Marriage of Wit and Wisdome._
[76] See below, p. 96.
[77] See below, p. 198. 'Trueman' in the _Historia Histrionica_ (pr.
1699) thinks it was "writ in the reign of K. Edw. VI."
[78] Bodl. Libr., _Malone_ 172, "second impression," London, 1661;
reprinted by F. E. Schelling, Publ. Mod. Lang. Asso., 1900.
[79] _Quellen u. Forschungen._
[80] Not J. Rychardes, as Mr. Fleay has it, _Hist. Stage_, p. 58.
[81] Herford, _Lit. Rel._, p. 156.
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