I thought this might be of interest to this list as well -- please post
any replies to the list, but forward them to John Cox as well.
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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 15:07:49 -0500
From: John D. Cox <[log in to unmask]>
To: Multiple recipients of list PERFORM
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Subject: stage devils
In support of a project I am presently working on, I have
compiled a list of plays that stage devils, in a more or less
continuous acting tradition, from the beginning of English drama
to the end of the seventeenth century. My list appears below,
excluding cycle plays. Dates are from Harbage, Schoenbaum,
Wagonheim, Annals of English Drama. I have benefitted
from Berger and Bradford, An Index of Characters in
English Drama to the Restoration.
I am publishing my list on the network with a request for
additions and corrections. My information is especially spotty
toward the beginning and end of the time period, but I would be
glad for assistance with any part of it.
1405-25 Castle of Perseverance
1450-1500 Mind, Will, and Understanding (The Wisdom That Is
Christ)
1465-70 Mankind
1480-1520 Mary Magdalene
1560 Thomas Ingelend, The Disobedient Child
1565 R. Wever, Lusty Juventus
1568 Ulpian Fulwell, Like Will to Like
1572 Nathaniel Woodes, Conflict of Conscience
1574 The Interlude of Minds
1577 Thomas Lupton, All for Money
1578 Thomas Garter, Most Virtuous and Godly Susannah
1588-93 Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
1589-92 Robert Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
1590 Robert Wilson, Cobbler's Prophecy
1592 A Knack to Know a Knave
1592 Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI
1596 Fulke Greville, Mustapha
1600 William Haughton (revised by "I.T."), The Devil and His
Dame (probably the same as Grim the Collier of Croydon,
or The Devil and His Dame, published 1662)
1601 John Day and William Haughton, Friar Rush and Proud Woman
of Antwerp (lost, payment recorded by Henslowe)
1602 The Merry Devil of Edmonton
1600-04 George Chapman, Bussy D'Ambois
1605 George Chapman, Caesar and Pompey
1606 Thomas Middleton (?), The Puritan
1606 Thomas Middleton, A Mad World, My Masters
1607 Barnabe Barnes, The Devil's Charter
1608 Samuel Rowley, The Birth of Merlin
1609 Nathan Field, A Woman Is a Weathercock
1611 Thomas Dekker, If This Be Not a Good Play, the Devil Is in
It
1611 Thomas Heywood, The Silver Age
1613 Robert Daborne, Machiavel and the Devil
1615 John Fletcher, Monsieur Thomas
1616 Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass
1620 Thomas Middleton and Samuel Rowley, The World Tossed at
Tennis
1619-20 I.C. (John Cumber?), The Two Merry Milkmaids, The Best
Words Wear the Garland
1619-23 The Two Noble Ladies and the Converted Conjuror
1621 Dekker, Ford, Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton
1622 John Fletcher, The Prophetess
1623 John Fletcher, The Devil of Dowgate, or Usury Put to Use
1625 John Fletcher, The Chances
1631 Ben Jonson, Chlorida
1633 Aston Cokain, Trappolin Creduto Principe
1634 William Davenant, The Temple of Love
1635 James Jones, Adrasta
1635 John Kirke, Seven Champions of Christendom
1637 Thomas Nabbes, Microcosmus
1638 William Davenant, Luminalia
1638 John Suckling, The Goblins
1639 1 St. Patrick for Ireland
1670 William Davenant and John Dryden, The Tempest, or The
Enchanted Island
