[Vwoolf] really obscure Elizabethan reference

[coruscate818]

But I think Google Books
<https://books.google.com/books?id=CF9SAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA382&lpg=PA382&dq=owl+in+the+ivy+elizabethan+play&source=bl&ots=apbWGROF36&sig=ACfU3U2EfEcNJFk7UiOP-t0Hbuj6nV1wkQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwififyX9bnqAhXxknIEHfIQAoEQ6AEwCXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=ivy&f=false>
has the answer: John Marston's Histriomastix or The Player Whipped.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 8:45 PM coruscate818 <coruscate818 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some of it seems to fit John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi."
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 8:34 PM Elisa Sparks via Vwoolf <
> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear all--
>> I am researching ivy in Virginia Woolf and have discovered a pattern of
>> references to owls in the ivy.  I have not been able to find any literary
>> origins for this association which appears no les than six times in Woolf's
>> writing.  Particularly curious is this allusion in her 1925 essay "Notes on
>> an Elizabethan Play":
>>
>>              and we scarcely recognise any likeness between the knight
>> who imported timber and died of pneumonia at Muswell Hill and the Armenian
>> Duke who fell like a Roman on his sword while the owl shrieked in the ivy
>> and the Duchess gave birth to a still-born babe ‘mongst women howling (E4
>> 67)
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea what minor Elizabethan dramatist Woolf is
>> citing here?  I am at an utter loss.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Elisa
>>
>>
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