firste parte of Robyne Hoode' on 15 Feb. 1598. From 20 Feb. to 8 March he paid Munday and Chettle sums amounting to £5 in all for a 'seconde parte', called in the fullest entry 'seconde parte of the downefall of earlle Huntyngton surnamed Roben Hoode'. The books and apparel and properties are in the Admiral's inventories of March
1598 (Henslowe Papers, 114, 115, 120, 121). Both parts were licensed for performance on 28 March. On 18 Nov. he paid Chettle 10s. for 'the mendynge of' the first part, and on 25 Nov., apparently, another 10s. 'for mendinge of Roben Hood for the corte'. Greg (Henslowe, ii. 190) suggests that the last payment was for the second part, and that the two Court performances by the Admiral's at Christmas 1598 are of these plays. However this may be, Henslowe's 1, 2 Robin Hood are doubtless the extant Downfall and Death. There is an allusion in The Downfall, IV. ii, to the 'merry jests' of an earlier play, which may be The Pastoral Comedy of Robin Hood and Little John, entered in S. R. on 14 May 1594, but not now known. Fleay, ii. 114, thinks that Chettle, besides revising some of Munday's scenes, added the Induction and the Skeltonic rhymes.
The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon. 1598 With Chettle. S. R. 1600, Dec. 1. 'The Death of Robert Earle of Huntingdon with the lamentable trogidye of Chaste Mathilda.' Leake (Arber, iii. 176). 1601. The Death of Robert, Earle of Huntington. Otherwise called Robin Hood of merrie Sherwodde: with the lamentable Tragedie of chaste Matilda, his faire maid Marian, poysoned at Dunmowe by King Iohn. Acted by the Right Honourable, the Earle of Notingham, Lord high Admirall of England, his seruants. For William Leake. [Epilogue.] Editions and Dissertation with The Downfall (q.v.). This is a sequel to The Downfall (q.v.). Fleay, ii. 115, gives Munday the scenes dealing with Robin Hood's death and Chettle those dealing with Maid Marian's. The play contains discrepancies, but Henslowe's entries afford no evidence that Munday revised Chettle's work, as Fleay thinks. Greg (Henslowe, ii. 191) points out that Davenport borrowed much of his King John and Matilda (1655) from The Death.
1 Sir John Oldcastle. 1599 With Drayton (q.v.), Hathway, and Wilson.
Lost Plays
The following is a complete list of the plays in which Henslowe's diary shows Munday to have written between 1597 and 1602. All were for the Admiral's:
(i) Mother Redcap.
With Drayton, Dec. 1597-Jan. 1598.
(ii), (iii) 1, 2 Robin Hood.
Vide supra.
