Scogan and Skelton (Hathway and Rankins).
All is not Gold that Glisters (Chettle).
2 Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (Day and Haughton).
The Six Yeomen of the West (Day and Haughton).
King Sebastian of Portugal (Chettle and Dekker).
None of these plays is extant, but the purchase of properties testifies to the performance of 2 Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green in April and The Six Yeomen of the West in July. Moreover, Day received a bonus of 10s. between 27 April and 2 May 'after the playinge of' the former piece. Only £1 was paid for 1 Fortune's Tennis, but the existence of a 'plot' for 2 Fortune's Tennis suggests that it must have been completed. Probably it was a short topical overture designed to celebrate the opening of the Fortune.[1] Unfinished plays were Robin Hood's Pennyworths (Haughton)[2] and The Conquest of Spain by John of Gaunt (Hathway and Rankins). The revivals included Phaethon (January), The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (May), and The Jew of Malta (May). Dekker had £2 for 'alterynge of' Phaethon for the Court, and this was therefore the Admiral's play of 6 January 1601. They also appeared on 28 December and 2 February. Dr. Faustus was entered on 7 January; the earliest print (1604) bears their name. The new books of 1601-2 were fourteen in number, as follows:[3]
The Conquest of the West Indies (Day, Haughton, and Smith).
3 Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (Day and Haughton).
The Life of Cardinal Wolsey (Chettle).[4]
1 The Six Clothiers (Hathway, Haughton, and Smith).
The Rising of Cardinal Wolsey (Chettle, Drayton, Munday, and Smith).
Friar Rush and the Proud Woman of Antwerp (Chettle, Day, and Haughton).
Judas (Bird and Rowley).[5]
- ↑ The entry is 'Thomas Deckers for his boocke called the fortewn tenes'. Collier read 'forteion tenes' and interpreted Fortunatus. Mr. Fleay furnished the alternatives of Fortune's Tennis and Hortenzo's Tennis. I should add that Dr. Greg assigns the 'plot' to this play.
- ↑ Dr. Greg thinks that this may be the same as Haughton's The English Fugitives of the previous April. If so, it was probably finished, as the payments amount to £6.
- ↑ As the account of advances is continuous, I have drawn the line between 1600-1 and 1601-2 at the beginning of Aug. 1601.
- ↑ The Life became 2 Cardinal Wolsey, as The Rising, although written
later, was historically 1 Cardinal Wolsey. The entries are complicated.
It is just possible that the playwrights were working on an old play, for
the property-inventories of 1598 include an unexplained 'Will Sommers
sewtte' (cf. p. 168). A 'W^m Someres cotte' was, however, bought for
The Rising on 27 May 1602. - ↑ Possibly based on Haughton's unfinished play of 1600.
