upon Gager's head (cf. vol. i, p. 251 and App. C, No. 1). Gager's Rivales was revived on 7 Feb. and the pseudo-Senecan Hippolytus, with Gager's Panniculus, on 8 Feb. followed by a speech in the character of Momus as a carper at plays, and a reply to Momus by way of Epilogue. The latter was printed in an enlarged form given to it during the course of the controversy (Boas, 197, 234, with dates which disregard leap-year).
Additions to Hippolytus. 8 Feb. 1592
1592. Panniculus Hippolyto Senecae assutus, 1591. [Appended to
Meleager; for Gager's prologue, &c., cf. s.v. Ulysses Redux.] These consist of two scenes, one of the nature of an opening, the other an insertion between Act I and Act II, written for a performance of the play at Christ Church on 8 Feb. 1592.
Oedipus Addl. MS. 22583, f. 31, includes with other poems by Gager five scenes from a tragedy on Oedipus, of which nothing more is known.
Lost Play
Rivales. 11 June 1583
This comedy was produced before Alasco at Christ Church, on
11 June 1583. It is assigned to Gager by A. Wood, Annals, ii. 216, and referred to as his in the controversy with Rainolds (Boas, 181), who speaks of it as 'the vnprinted Comedie', and criticizes its 'filth'. It contained scenes of country wooing, drunken sailors, a miles gloriosus, a blanda lena. The prologue to Dido says of it:
Hesterna Mopsum scena ridiculum dedit.
It was revived at Christ Church on 7 Feb. 1592 (Boas, 197) and again at the same place before Elizabeth on 26 Sept. 1592, when, according to a Cambridge critic, it was 'but meanely performed'. Presumably it is the prologue for this revival which is printed with Ulysses Redux (q.v.). BERNARD GARTER (c. 1578). A London citizen, whose few and mainly non-dramatic writings were produced from 1565 to 1579. For his description of the Norwich entertainment (1578), cf. ch. xxiv. THOMAS GARTER (c. 1569). He may conceivably be identical with Bernard Garter, since Thomas and Bernard are respectively given from different sources (cf. D. N. B.) as the name of the father of Bernard Garter of Brigstocke, Northants, whose son was alive in 1634.
Susanna, c. 1569
S. R. 1568-9. 'Ye playe of Susanna.' Thomas Colwell (Arber, i. 383).
1578?
No copy is known, but S. Jones, Biographica Dramatica (1812),
