Ones that occur to me immediately include Shakespeare's _Love's Labours Lost_ (the pageant of the Nine Worthies); _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ (Pyramus and Thisbe); _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_ (Ralph, passim); and Jonson's _Bartholomew Fair_ (the puppet-show, Hero and Leander). Cheers, Alan ................................................................. Professor Alan Somerset Department of English U. of Western Ontario London Canada N6A 3K7 (no phone on campus -- on leave) Reply email to: [log in to unmask] WWW Site: http://publish.uwo.ca/~somerset/