Page:The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets.djvu/184

This page has been validated.
162
Unknown Authors. K

nicles, viz. Baker, Speed, Stow, &c. in the Reign of King Richard the Second.

Jacob and Esau, an Interlude, this Play, as it is easy to be perceived, is founded on Scripture. See Genesis, Chap. 25, 26, &c. See also Josephus, Lib. 1. Tornelli Annales, &c.

James the Fourth, a History. The Play is founded on the King of Scotland of that Name.

Jeronymo, the First Part, with the Wars of Portugal; or, The Spanish Tragedy, 4to. 1695. containing the Life and Death of John Andræa.

Jeronymo is mad again; or, The Spanish Tragedy, containing the lamentable End of D. Horatio and Bellimperin, with the pitiful Death of Jeronymo, 4to. 1623. There are some Authors that have quoted several Lines out of this Play, viz. Ben. Johnson in Every Man in his Humour, Shirley in his Bird in a cage, &c.

Impatient Poverty, stiled a Comedy by some Catalogues.

The Imperial Tragedy; fol. 1669. acted at the Nursery in Barbican, Plot from Marcellinus and Cassiodorus, in their Chronicles about Zenon; see also, Baronius, Godeau, Zonarus, &c. 'tis by some ascribed to Sir William Killigrew, and translated from the Latin.

The Interlude of Youth, a serious, old, instructive Piece, written in Verse in 4to.

John the Evangelist. The Title page of this also shews the Subject Divine.

The Jovial Crew; or, The Devil turn'd Ranter; an Interlude, 4to. 1651. This is a Character of The Roaring Ranters of those Times represented in a Comedy.

K

KIng Edgar and Alfreda, a History, 4to. Plot from English Chronicles.

The King and Queen's Entertainment at Richmond, after their leaving Oxford, in a Masque, presented by the most Illustrious Prince Charles, September 12. 1636. and dedicated to her Majesty, the Queen of Great Britain, by a Copy of Verses.

A Knack how to know an Honest Man, a Comedy, 4to. 1596. 'Tis entituled a pleasant conceited Comedy, as it has been sundry times play'd about the City of London.

A Knack how to know a Knave, a very pleasant and merry Comedy, 4to. 1594. several times acted by Edw. Allen, with Kemp's applauded Merriments of the Men of Goteham, in receiving the King into Goteham. Plot from the Story of King Edgar, Ethen-

wald