Contenuto
- Glossary
- Foreword, by Tiffany Stern
- Prologue - Editorial Note
- Acknowledgments (not yet included)
- Part 1. Background of the 15th and 16th Centuries
- 1. Mystery/Morality Plays
- The Shepherds Plays
- Mankind
- 2. Court Enterludes
- William Cornysh (d.1523)
- John Skelton (ca.1463-1529)
- John Heywood (ca.1497-ca.1580)
- Nicholas Udall (1504-1556)
- 3. St Paul's Enterludes
- John Redford (fl.1534-47)
- Sebastian Westcott (fl.1545-82)
- 4. Chapels Royal Enterludes
- William Crane (d.1545)
- Richard Bower (fl.1524-61): Apius & Virginia
- Richard Edwards (1525-1566): Damon & Pythias
- Richard Farrant (fl.1553-1580)
- William Hunnis (fl.1550-97)
- John Lyly (ca.1553-1606): Woman in the Moon
- George Peele (1556-96): Arraignment of Paris
- 5. University and Inns of Court Enterludes
- Gammer Gurton's Needle (1553)
- Bugbears (1564-66)
- Horestes (1567)
- Like will to Like (1568)
- Misogonus (1570)
- 6. Continental Influences
- France
- Rome
- Germany
- Italy
- Part 2. London Comedy to 1625
- 7. Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
- The Case is altered (ca.1597, pr. 1609)
- Every man in his humour (1598, pr. 1601)
- Every man out of his humour (1599, pr. 1600)
- Cynthia's Revels (1600, pr. 1601)
- The Poetaster (1601, pr. 1602)
- Eastward Ho (1605) with Marston and Chapman
- Volpone, or the Fox (ca.1605-06, pr. 1607)
- Epicne, or the Silent woman (1609, pr. 1616)
- Bartholomew Fair (1614, pr. 1631)
- The Divel is an Asse (1616, pr. 1631)
- The Staple of News (1625/6, pr. 1631)
- 8. George Chapman (1559-1634)
- The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1595/6, pr. 1598)
- An Humorous Day's Mirth (1597, pr. 1599)
- Sir Gyles Goosecap (1606)
- The Gentleman Usher (pr. 1606)
- May-Day (pr. 1611)
- The Widow's Tears (pr. 1612)
- 9. John Marston (1576-1634)
- Histrio-mastix (1599, pr. 1610)
- Antonio and Mellida (1599-1600, pr. 1602)
- Jack Drum's Entertainment (1599-1600, pr. 1601)
- What you will (1601, pr. 1607)
- The Malcontent (1603-04, pr. 1604)
- Parasitaster, or the Fawn (1604, pr. 1606)
- The Dutch Courtesan (1605)
- 10. Thomas Dekker (1572-1632)
- The Shoemaker's Holiday, or the Gentle Craft (1599?, pr. 1600)
- Old Fortunatus (1600)
- Blurt, Master Constable (1602)
- Satiro-mastix (1602)
- Patient Grissell (1603)
- The Honest Whore (1604, pr. 1605) with Middleton
- Westward Ho (1607) with Webster
- Northward Ho (1607) with Webster
- The Merry Devil of Edmonton (1608) attr.
- The Roaring Girl (1611) with Middleton
- If it be not good, the Devil is in it (1612)
- 11. John Fletcher (1579-1625)
- The Faithful Shepherdess (1608?, pr. 1609?)
- Monsieur Thomas (ca.1610, pr. 1639)
- The Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed (ca.1611, pr. 1647)
- Wit without Money (ca.1614, pr. 1639)
- The Mad Lover (1617, pr. 1647)
- The Chances (ca.1617, pr. 1647)
- The Loyal Subject (lic. 1618, pr. 1647)
- The Humorous Lieutenant (ca.1619, pr. 1647)
- Women Pleased (ca.1619-23, pr. 1647)
- The Wild Goose Chase (ca.1621, pr. 1652)
- The Pilgrim (ca.1621, pr. 1647)
- The Maid in the Mill (lic. 1623, pr. 1647)
- 12. Thomas Middleton (1580-1627)
- Michaelmas Term (1604, pr. 1607)
- A Trick to Catch the Old One (1605, pr. 1608)
- A Mad World, my Masters (1605, pr. 1608)
- Your Five Gallants (1607, pr. 1608)
- Wit at Several Weapons (1613, pr. 1647)
- A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (ca.1613, pr. 1630)
- More Dissemblers besides Women (1615, pr. 1657)
- The Widow (1615-16, pr. 1652)
- The Witch (1616)
- The Old Law (ca.1615-18, pr. 1656) with Massinger and Rowley
- A Game at Chess (1624, pr. 1625)
- 13. Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)
- The Woman Hater (1606, pr. 1607) with Fletcher
- The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607, pr. 1613)
- The Coxcomb (1608-10, pr. 1647) with Fletcher and Massinger
- The Captain (1609-12, pr. 1647) with Fletcher
- Beggars' Bush (ca.1612-15, pr. 1647) with Fletcher and Massinger
- Love's Cure (ca.1612-15, pr. 1647) with Fletcher and Massinger
- 14. Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
- The Queen of Corinth (ca.1616-18, pr. 1647) with Field
- The Knight of Malta (ca.1616-18, pr, 1647) with Field
- The Little French Lawyer (ca.1619-22, pr. 1647) with Fletcher
- The Spanish Curate (lic. 1622, pr. 1647) with Fletcher
- The Lovers' Progress (lic. 1623, pr. 1647) with Fletcher
- 15. Other Playwrights:
- George Whetstone (1550-1587)
- Promos and Cassandra (1578)
- Thomas Nash (1567-ca.1601)
- Summer's Last Will (1592, pr. 1600)
- William Haughton (d.1605)
- Englishmen for my Money (1598, pr. 1616)
- Thomas Heywood (1570s-1641)
- Edward IV (1599)
- Fair Maid of the Exchange (pr. 1607)
- A Woman Killed with Kindness (pr. 1607)
- William Percy (1570-1648)
- Arabia Sitiens (1601)
- Cuckqueanes and Cuckolds Errants (1601)
- The Aphrodysial (1602)
- The Faery Pastoral (1603)
- Edward Sharpham (1576-1608)
- The Fleire (1606, pr. 1607)
- Cupid's Whirligig (1607)
- 16. Anonymous Plays ca.1600
- Mucedorus (ca.1590, pr. 1598)
- Old Wives Tale (1595)
- Dr. Dodypoll (1600)
- The Maid's Metamorphosis (1600)
- 17. Jigs
- The Central Repertory
- Frauncis new Jigge (reg. 1595, pr. 1617)
- The Wooing of Nan
- Singing Simpkin (reg. 1595, pr. 1656)
- The Black Man (pr. 1673)
- The Jig of St. Denys' Ghost
- The Libel of Michael Steele (1601)
- The Cheaters Cheated (pr. ca.1660)
- Fools Fortune (ca.1620)
- Shorter Jigs
- A Spanish Gentleman and an English Gentlewoman (ca.1570)
- A Iigge for the Ballad-mongers (pr. 1595)
- A New Northeren Iigge, called Daintie come thou to me (reg. 1591, pr. ca.1619)
- The Souldiers Farewel to his love (reg. 1624, pr. ca.1663)
- A Country new Iigge betweene Simon and Susan (pr. ca.1620)
- A mery new Iigge. Or the pleasant wooing betwixt Kit and Pegge (pr. ca.1630)
- Clods Carroll (pr. ca.1615)
- Fragments and Discoveries
- The souldier & his knapsack bearer (ca.1649)
- Put up thy dagger Jamie (pr. 1641)
- Country Jigge from Thomas of Reading (pr. 1612)
- Bonny Nell (ca.1600)
- Appendix:
- Lyly's added songs (1632)