ABSTRACT
This chapter presentsthe study to work with the most important source of lost play details after Henslowe: namely, the Office-Book of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels between 1623 and 1673. The Angel King is unique among play-titles from the early modern English commercial theatre. It is the only known play, extant or lost, with the word "angel" in the title. It is typified by the medieval English poem Robert of Cisyle, which begins with the eponymous king listening to the Magnificent in church. Additionally, The Angel King, in this scenario, was of the large number of Renaissance plays inheriting and remaking the materials of medieval romance. The Angel King, then, assuming that it dramatized the Robert of Sicily story, was certainly a disguised-duke play, of a sort, in a tradition which included Measure for Measure: but it also dramatized a story which arguably lies in the imagination of Measure for Measure itself.
