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Part 1

, Dekker and Drayton, May–July 1598.

(ix) _The Funeral of Richard Cœur-de-Lion._

With Drayton, Munday, and Wilson, June 1598.

(x) _A Woman’s Tragedy._

July 1598, but apparently unfinished.

(xi) _Hot Anger Soon Cold._

With Jonson and Porter, Aug. 1598.

(xii) _Chance Medley._

By Chettle or Dekker, Drayton, Munday, and Wilson, Aug. 1598.

(xiii) _Catiline’s Conspiracy._

With Wilson, Aug. 1598, but apparently not finished.

(xiv) _Vayvode._

Apparently an old play revised by Chettle, Aug. 1598.

(xv) _2 Brute._

Sept.–Oct. 1598.

(xvi) _’Tis no Deceit to Deceive the Deceiver._

Nov. 1598, but apparently not finished.

(xvii) _Polyphemus, or Troy’s Revenge._

Feb. 1599.

(xviii) _The Spencers._

With Porter, March 1599.

(xix) _Troilus and Cressida._

With Dekker (q.v.), April 1599.

(xx) _Agamemnon, or Orestes Furious._

With Dekker, May 1599.

(xxi) _The Stepmother’s Tragedy._

With Dekker, Aug.–Oct. 1599.

(xxii) _Robert II or The Scot’s Tragedy._

With Dekker, Jonson, and possibly Marston (q.v.), Sept. 1599.

(xxiii) _Patient Grissell._

With Dekker (q.v.) and Haughton, Oct.–Dec. 1599.

(xxiv) _The Orphan’s Tragedy._

Nov. 1599–Sept. 1601, but apparently not finished, unless Greg rightly traces it in Yarington’s _Two Lamentable Tragedies_ (q.v.).

(xxv) _The Arcadian Virgin._

With Haughton, Dec. 1599, but apparently not finished.

(xxvi) _Damon and Pythias._

Feb.–May 1600.

(xxvii) _The Seven Wise Masters._

With Day, Dekker, and Haughton, March 1600.

(xxviii) _The Golden Ass_, or _Cupid and Psyche_.

With Day and Dekker, April-May 1600; on possible borrowings from this, cf. s.v. Heywood, _Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas_.

(xxix) _The Wooing of Death._

May 1600, but apparently not finished.

(xxx) _1 Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green._

With Day (q.v.), May 1600.

(xxxi) _All Is Not Gold That Glisters._

March-April 1601.

(xxxii) _King Sebastian of Portingale._

With Dekker, April-May 1601.

(xxxiii), (xxxiv) _1, 2 Cardinal Wolsey._

Apparently Chettle wrote a play on _The Life of Cardinal Wolsey_ in June–Aug. 1601, to which was afterwards prefixed a play on _The Rising of Cardinal Wolsey_, by Chettle, Drayton, Munday, and Smith, written in Aug.–Nov. 1601 (cf. Greg, _Henslowe_, ii. 218). Chettle was ‘mendynge’ _The Life_ in May–June 1602, and on 25 July Richard Hadsor wrote to Sir R. Cecil of the attainder of the Earl of Kildare’s grandfather ‘by the policy of Cardinal Wolsey, as it is set forth and played now upon the stage in London’ (_Hatfield MSS._ xii. 248).

(xxxv) _Too Good To Be True._

With Hathway and Smith, Nov. 1601–Jan. 1602; the alternative title ‘or Northern Man’ in one of Henslowe’s entries is a forgery by Collier (cf. Greg, _Henslowe_, i. xliii).

(xxxvi) _Friar Rush and the Proud Women of Antwerp._

Written by Day and Haughton in 1601 and mended by Chettle in Jan. 1602.

(xxxvii) _Love Parts Friendship._

With Smith, May 1602; identified by Bullen with the anonymous _Trial of Chivalry_ (q.v.).

(xxxviii) _Tobias._

May–June 1602.

(xxxix) _Hoffman._

July–Dec. 1602, but apparently not finished. _Vide supra._

(xl) _Felmelanco._

With Robensone (q.v.), Sept. 1602.

(xli), (xlii) _1, 2 The London Florentine._

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