Introduction Only two autograph manuscripts by George Peele are known. One is the important but unfortunately damaged autograph of Anglorum Ferriae (*PlG 1). The other is a letter to Lord Burghley (*PlG 25).
In addition to the important playhouse plot
of The Battle of Alcazar (PlG 22), only a few early copies of poems by Peele and extracts from his works in miscellanies can be recorded. The extracts include a few from Peele's lost Pastoral
The Hunting of Cupid (PlG 3-7).
The canon here is based on the Prouty edition. It includes the well-known Sonet
beginning His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd (PlG 10-21), which was appended to the first edition of Polyhymnia, although evidence tends to support Sir Henry Lee's authorship.
For a list of miscellaneous documents relating to Peele's life and works, see Prouty, I, 283-6.
Peter Beal