in June and July 1618.[1] Later in the year Browne was at the autumn fair at Frankfort.[2] There is no definite mention of him during the next twelve months, but it is not improbable that the combined company was that which visited Rostock in May and Danzig in July 1619.[3] At any rate Browne appeared at Cologne in October;[4] and then went for the winter to Prague, where the Elector Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth of England, now King and Queen of Bohemia, had set up their Court.[5] They were but a winter King and Queen. In 1620 the Thirty Years' War broke out, and Germany had other things to think of than English mumming. Browne was at Nuremberg in February and at Frankfort for the Easter fair.[6] That is the last we hear of him. But Green reached Cologne and Utrecht later in April, and was probably discreetly taking the company home.[7] In 1626 he came out again with Robert Reinolds, who made a reputation as a clown under the name of Pickleherring.[8] The details of this later tour lie beyond the scope of the present inquiry. Pickleherring is the clown-name also in a volume of Engelische Comedien und Tragedien, printed in 1620, which probably represents an attempt of Browne and Green to turn to profit with the printers their repertory of 1618-20, now rendered useless by their return to England.[9] The plays contained in this volume, in addition to two farces and five jigs, in most of which Pickleherring appears, are Esther and Haman, The Prodigal Son, Fortunatus, A King's Son of England and a King's Daughter of Scotland, Nobody and Somebody, Sidonia and Theagenes, Julio and Hyppolita, and Titus Andronicus.[10] The first five of these reappear in a list of plays forming the repertory of Green at Dresden during the visit of 1626 referred to above. If the titles can be trusted, two of the plays in this list had already been played by Browne at Frankfort and Cassel in 1601 and 1607, three by an unknown company, possibly that of Blackwood and Thare, at Nördlingen and
- ↑ Archiv, xv. 120.
- ↑ Mentzel, 60.
- ↑ Bolte, 51.
- ↑ Herz, 22, from Wolter, 97.
- ↑ Mentzel, 61; Meissner, 65.
- ↑ Archiv, xiv. 130; Mentzel, 61.
- ↑ Herz, 30, from Wolter, 97; A. van Sorgen, De Tooneelspeelkunst in Utrecht.
- ↑ Herz, 30.
- ↑ Goedeke, ii. 543, could find no copy of Musarum Aoniarum tertia Erato (Hamburg, 1611), the title-page of which claims 'etlichen Englischen Comedien' as a source.
