Cambridge dramatic miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1630.

Cambridge dramatic miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1630.

Folger card catalog title: Cambridge dramatic commonplace book, ca. 1630.

169 leaves.

Contents include -- in hand of I.B.: Roxana, a play in English by William Alabaster (printed in Latin in 1632, STC 249), (leaf 28); Pseudomagia, Latin play by Mr. Mewe of Emmanuel, (leaf 38); cast list for Loiola, by John Hacket, being the Trinity cast of 1622/3 (as printed by G.C. Moore Smith in College Plays, p. 82), (leaf 165v, upside down); -- in other hands: Latin letter from Dr. Staugton to James I, (leaf 61); an English pastoral play, with no author or title, (leaf 63); John Maynard's Latin oration to the Queen, November 1598, (leaf 92); Master Strode's speech to Charles I, (leaf 95); Paria, Latin play by Thomas Vincent, (leaf 100); also miscellaneous accounts, remarks on virtue, etc.

In English and Latin.

Verse listed in Folger index of first lines.

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For an edition and translation of Pseudomagia see Pseudomagia, edit. by J.C. Coldewey and B.P. Copenhaver, 1979.

Formerly Folger MS 420422.

Alabaster, William, 1567-1640. Roxana.
Mewe, William, approximately 1603-1669. Pseudomagia.
Hacket, John, 1592-1670. Loiola.
Vincent, Thomas, active 1627. Paria.

Great Britain -- England -- Cambridge.

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