The life

Backgrounds

Christ's hospital

Oxford

The court, the pageant sate, and the playhouse

Peele the jester

The sad pyre

Appendix a. Peele family origins

Appendix b. Peele and Lyly

Appendix c. the St James garlickhithe entry

The minor works

Introductions to the minor works

The tale of Troy

Lines to Watson

The hunting of Cupid

The device of the pageant borne before Wolstan Dixi

Descensus Astraeae

A farewell

An eclogue gratulatory

Polyhymnia

The honour of the garter

The praise of chastity

Anglorum Feriae.