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 The Life and Death of Jack Straw > 1593

S. R. 1593, Oct. 23. 'An enterlude of the lyfe and deathe of Jack Strawe.' John Danter (Arber, ii. 639). 1593. [Colophon, 1594]. The Life and Death of Iacke Straw, A notable Rebell in England: Who was kild in Smithfield by the Lord Maior of London. John Danter, sold by William Barley.

1604. For Thomas Pavier.

Editions in Dodsley^4 (1874, v), and by H. Schütt (1901) and J. S. Farmer (1911, T. F. T.). Fleay, ii. 153, Schütt, and Robertson, 121, all incline to suggest the authorship, whole or in part, of Peele. Schütt would date c. 1588, but the theme is that of T. Nelson's pageant of 1590-1, for which year a member of Walworth's company, the Fishmongers, was Lord Mayor. The text of the play is very short, with only four acts. Jacob and Esau > 1558

S. R. 1557-8. 'An enterlude vpon the history of Jacobe and Esawe out of the xxvii chapeter of the fyrste boke of Moyses Called genyses.' Henry Sutton (Arber, i. 77). 1568. A newe mery and wittie Comedie or Enterlude, newely imprinted, treating vpon the Historie of Iacob and Esau, taken out of the xxvij. Chap. of the first booke of Moses, entituled Genesis. Henrie Bynneman.

Editions in Dodsley^4 (1874, ii), and by J. S. Farmer (1908, T. F. T.). The play must necessarily, from the date of the S. R. entry, be pre-Elizabethan, and should have been included in Appendix X of The Mediaeval Stage. C. C. Stopes, Hunnis, 265, and in Athenaeum (28 April 1900), claims the authorship for Hunnis; W. Bang has suggested Udall, which seems plausible. The parts of Mido and Abra point to boy-actors. 1 Jeronimo c. 1604

1605. The First Part of Ieronimo. With the Warres of Portugall, and the life and death of Don Andræa. For Thomas Pavier. [Dumb-*shows.]

Editions by W. Scott (1810, A. B. D. i), in Dodsley^4 (1874, iv), and by F. S. Boas (1901, Works of Kyd).—Dissertations: J. E. Routh, ''T. Kyd's Rime Schemes and the Authorship of Soliman and Perseda and 1 J. (1905, M. L. N. xx. 49); A. L. Elmquist, Zur Frage nach dem Verfasser von 1 J. (1909, E. S. xl. 309); A. Seeberger (1909, Archiv für Stenographie, iv. 306); K. Wiehl, Thomas Kyd und die Autorschaft von 1 J. (1912, E. S. xliv. 343); B. Neuendorff, Zur Datierung des 1 J. (1914, Jahrbuch'', l. 88).

The ascription by Fleay, ii. 27, and Sarrazin to Kyd is rejected on stylistic grounds by R. Fischer, ''Zur Kunstentwicklung der Englischen Tragödie'', 100, with whom Boas and other writers concur. A reference to the jubilee of 1600 ( i. 25) points to a date at the beginning of