George Peele (born1558) graduated A.B.at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1577, and M.A.in 1579 Either he must have made rapid advance as a dramatist during his first years in London, 1580-2, or, during his long career at the university, som nine years, he must have devoloped genuine dramatic ability .Thisis evident because, in July, 1583, he was summoned from London to Oxford to assist William Gager, author of Rivales, in an entertainment whitch the latter was arranging for the reception at Christ Church of Albertus Alasco, Polish prince palatine .Certainly, The Araygnement of Paris, Peele’s “first encrease”,as Thomas Nahse called it shows a writer who would seem to have passed the tiro stage. This play, entered for publication in Apil, 1584, is evidently influenced by the dramatic methods of John Lyly , owing to the fact that, like Lyly’s plays, it was acted befor the queen by children. When we consider that Peel’s activity covred sixteen or eighteen year (he was dead by 1598), at a time when dramatic composition was rapid, his dramatic work remaining to us seems not large in quantity. Nor was he himself a slow workman. Syr Clyomon and Clyamydes, tentatively assigned to him by Dyce, is no longer believed to be his. It is clearly of an earlier date, and, very possibly, was written Thomas Priston. Of Wily Beguiled, sometimes attributed to Peele, Schelling righty says: “There is nothing in this comedy to raise a question of Peele’s authorship exept the simple obviousness with which the plot is developed.” Nor dose it seem possible at present to go beyond Miss Jane Lee’s conclusions as to Peele’s probable share in The First and Second Parts of Henry VI. The best proof as yet advenced for Peele’s authorship of Locrine is, even cumulatively, inconclusive. Besides The Araygnement of Paris, we have, as extent plays assigned to Peele, The Old Wives Tale, Edward I, The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe and The Battle of Alcazar.The last of these plays is attributed to Peele only because a quotation from it in England’s Parnassus (1600) is assigned to him and because of phrase; but the play is usually accepted as his. The Hunting of Cupid, a masque extant only in a slight fragment, and The Turkish Mohamet, which we know only by its title and some references, complete the list of Peele’s plays.