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XIV.—Michael Drayton as a Dramatist.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Lemuel Whitaker
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Contemporary allusions to Drayton's contact with the Elizabethan drama are not very numerous. We know that he had some contact; and during the year 1598 he did a great deal of dramatic work. In his Elegy to Reynolds (1627), wherein he speaks of “poets and poesie,” there are reminiscent suggestions of Marlowe, Nashe, Shakspere, Jonson, Chapman, and Beaumont. But the strain of this very poem seems to hint that his memory was more tenacious of epic and lyric associations. In 1598, Meres iu his Palladis Tamia puts Drayton among the writers “best for tragedie,” along with Marlowe, Peele, Kyd, Shakspere, Chapman, Dekker, and Jonson. Drayton's dramatic period paralleled the dramatic incident called “The War of the Theatres.” Mr. Fleay finds Drayton in the current of this strife. Dr. Penniman, however, in his careful survey, does not associate Drayton with this dramatic contest.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , 1903 , pp. 378 - 411
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1903

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References

1 Meres, Palladis Tamia, edited by Haslewood, 1815, Ancient Critical Essays, ii, p. 150.

2 Fleay, Life and Work of Shakespeare, 1886, p. 293.

3 Penniman, The War of the Theatres, Publications of the University of Pennsylvania, 1897.

4 Fleay, Life of Shakespeare, p. 78.

1 Diary of Philip Henslowe, edited by Collier for the Shakespeare Society, 1845.

2 Fleay, Life and Work of Shakespeare, 1886. See Index, p. 361, and pp. 27, 31, 41, 131, 158, 226.

Fleay, Biographical Chronicle of the Elizabethan Drama, 1891, vol. i, pp. 142, 151.

3 Elton, Introduction to Michael Drayton, Spenser Society Publications, 1895, pp. 26, 27.

1 Hey wood, Introduction to The English Traveler.

2 Fleay, Chronicle, i, p. 125. The price of Patient Grissell was £6.

3 Henslowe, p. xxv, has additional figures on the price of plays.

1 Fleay, Chronicles, i, pp. 150, 151.

2 Elton, Introduction to Drayton, pp. 25, 26.

1 Jonson, Conversations with Drummond, printed for Shakespeare Society, 1842, p. 35.

2 Ward, History of English Dramatic Literature, 1899, I, 448.

3 Lee, Life of William Shakespeare, 1899, pp. 198, 204.

4 Ward. Dramatic Literature, iii, 256, note.

1 Elton, Introduction to Drayton, p. 9.

1 Fleay, Chronicle, i, p. 153.

2 Fleay, Chronicle, i, p. 153.

3 Elton, Introduction, p. 72.

4 Ibid., p. 9.

1 Meres, Palladis Tamia, ed. Haslewood, ii, p. 151.

1 Henslowe, pp. 195, 196, 197, 198.

1 The notion that Henslowe was a hard, grasping pawn-broker of plays does not seem to be held by Mr. Ordish. V. his Early London Theatres, p. 148.

2 Fleay, Shakespeare, p. 284.

3 Fleay, Chronicle, i, p. 124.

1 Elton, Introduction, p. 26.

1 Chapman....................................

2 Henslowe, p. 143.

1 Ibid., pp. 126, 127, 134.

2 Henslowe, p. 141.

3 Ibid., pp. 146, 190, 191.

4 Meres, Palladis Tamia, ed. Haslewood.

1 Elton, Introduction, p. 27.

2 See table in Appendix.

3 Henslowe, pp. 131, 98, 114, 166.

1 Fleay, Chronicle, i, 150.

2 Georg Brandes, William Shakspere, published by Heineman of London, 1898, i, p. 128.

1 Felix E. Schelling, The English Chronicle Play, 1902.

1 Elton, Introduction, p. 73.

1 Fleay, Chronicle, i, p. 150. John R. Macarthur of Chicago University is now, 1903, editing The Play of Sir John Oldcastle.

2 Dr. Morris W. Croll, lately a Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, has an unpublished paper on this general subject.

3 Fleay, Chronicle, ii, p. 150.

4 Halliwell-Phillips, Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare, 1898, i, p. v.

1 Brandes, William Shakespeare, i, p. 25.

2 Brandes, i, p. 347.

3 Ward, Dramatic Literature, i, p. 500.

1 Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry, edition of Hazlitt, 1871, iv, p. 88.

2 Ward, Dramatic Literature, iii, pp. 236, 248, 249. Brandes, William Shakespeare, i, p. 263. Halliwell-Phillips, Outlines, i, pp. 105, 262. Lee, William Shakespeare, p. 45.

1 Halliwell-Phillips, Outlines, ii, p. 155.

1 Henslowe, p. 276.

2 Ibid., pp. xiii, xxxiv.

3 Henslowe, p. 167.

4 Ibid., p. xxv.

1 Beers, History of English Romanticism, 1899, p. 78.

2 Schelling, Seventeenth Century Lyrics, 1899, p. xv.