1591. The Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch. Containing the affectionate life, and vnfortunate death of Phillis and Amyntas: That in a Pastorall; This in a Funerall; both in English Hexameters. By Abraham Fraunce. Thomas Orwin for William Ponsonby.
Dissertation: E. Köppel, Die englischen Tasso-Übersetzungen des 16. Jahrhunderts (1889, Anglia, xi). This consists of a slightly altered translation of the Aminta (1573) of Torquato Tasso, followed by a reprint of Fraunce's English version (1587) of Thomas Watson's Amyntas (1585), which is not a play, but a collection of Latin eclogues. There is nothing to show that Fraunce's version of Aminta was ever acted. WILLIAM FULBECK (1560-1603?). He entered Gray's Inn in 1584, contributed two speeches to the Misfortunes of Arthur of Thomas Hughes (q.v.) in 1588, and wrote various legal and historical books. ULPIAN FULWELL (c. 1568). Fulwell was born in Somersetshire and educated at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford. On 14 April 1577 he was of the parish of Naunton, Gloucestershire, and married Mary Whorewood of Lapworth, Warwickshire.[1]
Like Will to Like. c. 1568
S. R. 1568-9. 'A play lyke Wyll to lyke quod the Devell to the Collyer.' John Alde (Arber, i. 379). 1568. An Enterlude Intituled Like wil to like quod the Deuel to the Colier, very godly and ful of pleasant mirth. . . . Made by Vlpian Fulwell. John Allde.
1587. Edward Allde.
Editions in Dodsley^4, iii (1874), and by J. S. Farmer (1909, T. F. T.).
A non-controversial moral. The characters, allegorical and typical, are arranged for five actors, and include Ralph Roister, and 'Nicholas Newfangle the Vice', who 'rideth away upon the Devil's back' (Dodsley, iii. 357). There is a prayer for the Queen at the end.
This might be The Collier played at Court in 1576. Fleay, 60; i. 235, puts it in 1561-3, assigns it to the Paul's boys, and suggests that Richard Edwardes (q.v.) is satirized as Ralph Roister. Greg (Henslowe, ii. 228) suggests that Fulwell's may be the play revived by Pembroke's at the Rose on 28 Oct. 1600 as 'the [devell] licke vnto licke'.
WILLIAM GAGER (> 1560-1621).
Gager entered Christ Church, Oxford, from Westminster in 1574, and took his B.A. in 1577, his M.A. in 1580, and his D.C.L. in 1589. In 1606 he became Chancellor of the diocese of Ely. He had a high reputation for his Latin verses, many of which are contained in Exequiae D. Philippi Sidnaei (1587) and other University volumes. A large collection in Addl. MS. 22583 includes lines to George Peele
- ↑ R. Hudson, Memorials of a Warwickshire Parish, 141.
