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 occasion'. But this only shows what some literary historians mean by an 'ascertained fact'. A company played Summers Last Will and Testament (q.v.) at Croydon in 1592 and said that they had not played for a twelvemonth. But the Queen was not present, and they are not known to have been the Chapel, whose master was not then Nathaniel Giles. Nor did they necessarily play twelve months before at Croydon; and if they did, there is nothing to show that they played Dido. There is nothing to connect the play with the Admiral's Dido and Aeneas of 1598 (Greg, Henslowe, ii. 189). ''Lust's Dominion. c. 1600'' (?) 1657. Lusts Dominion; Or, The Lascivious Queen. A Tragedie. Written by Christopher Marlowe, Gent. For F. K., sold by Robert Pollard.

Editions by C. W. Dilke (1814, O. E. P. i) and in Dodsley^4, xiv (1875). The attribution of the play, as it stands, to Marlowe is generally rejected. Fleay, i. 272, supported by Greg (Henslowe, ii. 211), suggests an identification with The Spanish Moor's Tragedy, which Day, Dekker, and Haughton were writing for the Admiral's in Feb. 1600, although the recorded payment does not show that this was finished. They think that a play in which Marlowe had a hand may perhaps underlie it, and attempt, not wholly in agreement with each other, to distribute the existing scenes amongst the collaborators. Lost Play

The Maiden's Holiday

Entered on the Stationers' Register on 8 April 1654 (Eyre, i. 445) by Moseley as 'A comedie called The Maidens Holiday by Christopher Marlow & John Day', and included in Warburton's list of burnt plays (3 Library, ii. 231) as 'The Mayden Holaday by Chris̃. Marlowe'. Doubtful Plays

Marlowe's hand has been sought in An Alarum for London, ''Contention of York and Lancaster, Edward III, Locrine, Selimus, Taming of A Shrew, and Troublesome Reign of King John (cf. ch. xxiv), and in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Henry VI, and Richard III''.

JOHN MARSTON (c. 1575-1634).

Marston was son of John Marston, a lawyer of Shropshire origin, who had settled at Coventry, and his Italian wife Maria Guarsi. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, aged 16, on 4 Feb. 1592, and took his degree on 6 Feb. 1594. He joined the Middle Temple, and in 1599 his father left law-books to him, 'whom I hoped would have profited by them in the study of the law but man proposeth and God disposeth'. He had already begun his literary career, as a satirist with The Metamorphosis of Pygmalion's Image and Certain Satires (1598) and The Scourge of Villainy (1598). For these he took the