Note 646 — Chapter XXV · HUMANISM AND MEDIAEVALISM

A. Wood, Athenae (ed. Bliss), i. 35, s.v. Lilly, says that Ritwise ‘made the Tragedy of Dido out of Virgil; and acted the same with the scholars of his school before cardinal Wolsey with great applause.’ The date of this performance is given in the D. N. B., through a confusion with the anti-Lutheran play at court (cf. p. 196), as 1527. It is often identified with the Dido played before Elizabeth at Cambridge in 1564. But there is no reason to doubt the statement of Hatcher’s sixteenth-century MS. account of King’s College (transcript in Bodl. 11,614) that the author of this was Edward Halliwell, who, like Ritwise, was a fellow of the college.