Note 18 — Chapter One THE REPERTORY

The eight plays are Suckling’s Aglaura (1638), Cartwright’s The Royal Slave (1636), and Habington’s Cleodora (1640), which were presented for Their Majesties by courtiers seeking favor (see Steele, pp. 265, 268; Herbert, p. 58); Carlell’s The Deserving Favourite (1629) and Mayne’s City Match (1639) (see Steele, pp. 263, 274, 277); Two Merry Milkmaids (1620), which may or may not have been presented publicly (Steele, p. 206); Middleton and Rowley, A World Tost at Tennis (1620), which was conceived as a masque, but apparently presented publicly (Steele, p. 227); and As Merry as May Be (1602–1603).