Some Other Note: The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy

Contents

• 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)
• Epicoene, 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)