Note 596 — BOOK V PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS

M. S. C. i. 364; Variorum, iii. 159. The King’s men played The Malcontent, probably after its first issue in 1604, as a retort for the appropriation of Jeronimo by its owners, the Queen’s Revels. The earliest extant print of 1 Jeronimo is 1605, but the play, which is not in S. R., may have been printed earlier. The Chapel boys seem to have revived one at least of Lyly’s old Paul’s plays in 1601. The Chamberlain’s adopted Titus Andronicus, which had been Sussex’s, and Shakespeare revised for them Taming of A Shrew and The Contention, which had been Pembroke’s, and based plays which were new from the literary, and in the case of the last also from the publisher’s, standpoint on the Troublesome Reign of John and the Famous Victories of Henry V, which had been the Queen’s, and upon King Leir. But of course Sussex’s, Pembroke’s, and the Queen’s had broken.