Some Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists (NIVEL AVANZADO)

Some Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists:

This was a rich age for drama. DON'T memorize all these titles! But reading them may give you a wider idea of the drama of the age of Shakespeare. We may mention some of these dramatists in passing, but our choice examples are Kyd, Jonson and Webster.


GEORGE CHAPMAN (1559?-1634?)

(English dramatist and elitist poet, b. Hertfordshire? st. Oxford, l. London)

_____. The Shadow of Night. Poem. London, 1594.
_____. Blind Beggar of Alexandria. Comedy. Acted Feb. 1595.
_____, trans. Seven Books of the Iliad. With a critical introduction. 1598.
_____. Humorous Day's Mirth. Comedy. 1599.
_____. All Fools. Comedy. 1605.
_____. The Gentleman Usher. Comedy. 1606.
_____. Monsieur D'Olive. Comedy. 1606.
_____. Bussy D'Ambois. Tragedy. ¿?1604-1607. (On Henry III of France and the Duke of Guise).
_____. Caesar and Pompey. Tragedy. 1607.
_____. The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron. Drama. 2 parts. 1608.
_____. The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois. Tragedy. 1613.
_____. Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn. 1613.
_____. Prefaces to The Complete Works of Homer. 1616.
_____. Hesiod's Georgics. 1618.
_____. Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany. Tragedy.
_____. Revenge for Honour. Tragedy.

Ben Jonson, John Marston and George Chapman. Eastward Ho. Comedy. 1605.
John Fletcher, George Chapman, Ben Jonson and Philip Massinger (?). Rollo: or the Bloody Brother. Oxford, 1638.
Christopher Marlowe. Hero and Leander. Unfinished poem. Completed by George Chapman. 1598.



THOMAS DEKKER (1570?-1632)

(English playwright and realist prose writer, London; over 40 plays lost)

_____. Phaeton. Drama. Acted 1597.
_____. Orestes Furius. Drama. Acted 1598.
_____. Triplicity of Cuckolds. Drama. Acted 1598.
_____. Bear a Brain. Drama. Acted 1599.
_____. The Gentle Craft. Drama. Acted 1599.
_____. Truth's Supplication to Candle-light. Drama. Acted 1599.
_____. The Shoemaker's Holiday. Comedy. 1600.
_____. Old Fortunatus. Comedy. 1600.
_____. Satiromastix or the Untrussing of the Humorous Poet. Drama. Acted 1602. (vs. Ben Jonson).
_____. Christmas Comes but Once a Year. Drama. Acted 1602.
_____. Medicine for a Curst Wife. Drama. Acted 1602.
_____. The Batchelor's Banquet, wherein is prepared sundry Dainty Dishes, &c. pleasantly discoursing the variable Humours of Women, &c. 1603.
_____. Magnificent Entertainment given to King James, Queen Anne his Wife, and Henry Frederick Prince of Wales, with the Speeches and Songs in the Pageants. Tract. 1604.
_____. The Second Part of the Honest Whore; with the Humours of the Patient Man and the Impatient Wife, &c. Comedy. 1630.
_____. Match Me In London. Tragicomedy. 1631.
_____. The Spanish Soldier. Tragedy. Acted 16 May 1631.
_____. The Jew of Venice.
_____. The Sun's Darling. Masque. With John Ford.

Collaborations:

Ben Jonson, Dekker, and Henry Chettle. Robert the Second, King of Scottes. Drama. c. 1599. (Lost).
Henry Chettle, T. Dekker and William Houghton. Patient Grissel. Drama. Dec. 1599, printed 1603.
Henry Chettle, T. Dekker, T. Heywood, Wentworth Smith, and John Webster. Lady Jane. 2 parts. Nov. 1602.
Thomas Dekker, and John Webster. Westward Hoe. Comedy. 1607.
_____. Northward Hoe. Comedy. 1607.
_____. Wyat's History. 1607.
Thomas Dekker, Michael Drayton, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, and Anthony Munday. The Two Harpies. Drama. Acted May 1602. (Not printed)
Thomas Dekker and John Day. Guy of Warwick. Drama. Acted 15 Jan. 1619.
Philip Massinger and Thomas Dekker. The Virgin Martyr. Tragedy. Printed 1622.
Middleton, Thomas, and Thomas Dekker. The Roaring Girl, or Moll Cutpurse. Comedy. Written 1604-10. Pub. 1611.
_____. The Honest Whore, with the Humours of the Patient Man and the Longing Wife. Comedy. Part 1. Acted as The Converted Courtezan. 1602.
Rowley, William, Thomas Dekker and John Ford. The Witch of Edmonton. Tragicomedy. 1621, printed 1658. (Partly based on Elizabeth Sawyer).



THOMAS HEYWOOD (c. 1574-1641)

(English dramatist, b. Lincolnshire, st. Peterhouse, Cambridge; l. London. Wrote wholly or in part c. 220 plays, most of them lost. No relation of John Heywood or Jasper Heywood)

_____.  The Four Prentices of London. Written c. 1600. Pub. 1615.
_____. A Woman Killed with Kindness. Drama. Acted 1603, printed 1607.
_____. The Rape of Lucrece. Drama.
_____. The Fair Maid of the West. Drama. Acted before 1610, printed 1631.
_____. Edward IV. Drama.
_____. The English Traveller. Drama.
_____. An Apology for Actors. Discourse. 1612.
_____. Gunaikeion. Or. Nine Bookes of Various History. Concerning Women: Inscribed by ye names of the Nine Muses. Written by Thom. Heywoode. London, 1624. Reissued as The Generall History of Women by Edward Phillips. 1657.
_____. Englands Elizabeth. Prose. 1631.
_____. The English Traveller. Drama. Printed 1633.
_____. The Life of Merlin. London, 1641.
_____. Love's Mistress. Drama.
_____. The Wise Woman of Hogsdon. Drama.
_____. The Royal King and Loyal Subject. Drama.
_____. The Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts of Nine the Most Worthy Women of the World. Prose. London, 1640.
_____. The Famovs and Remarkable History of Sir Richard Whittington. Narrative. 1656.
_____, trans. Catiline. By Sallust.

Chettle, Henry, T. Dekker, T. Heywood, Wentworth Smith, and John Webster. Lady Jane. 2 parts. Nov. 1602.
Rowley, William, and Thomas Heywood. Fortune by Land and Sea. Comedy.


THOMAS MIDDLETON (1580-1627)

(English dramatist, b. London; st. Gray's Inn; "Chronologer of the City of London, and Inventor of Its Honourable Entertainments" 1620; d. Newington Butts).

_____.  The Phoenix. Tragedy. 1607.
_____. The Family of Love. Comedy. 1607.
_____. (Anon., attr.). (Middleton or Tourneur). The Revenger's Tragedy. Printed 1607.
_____. A Mad World, My Masters. Comedy. 1608.
_____. The Witch. Tragedy. Written 1609-16; printed 1778.
_____. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. Comedy. c. 1611, pub. 1630.
_____. The Mask of Cupid. Acted Jan. 1613.
_____. The Triumph of Truth. Pageant. 1613.
_____. Women Beware Women. Tragedy. Written 1620-7, pub. 1657.
_____. A Game at Chess. Satirical drama. 1625.

Middleton, Thomas, and William Rowley. The Old Law. Rev. Massinger. Drama. 1599.
_____. A Fair Quarrel. Tragicomedy. 1615-16, printed 1617.
_____. The World's Toss'd at Tennis. Masque.
_____. The Spanish Gipsy. Comedy (based on Cervantes). 1625.
_____. The Changeling. Tragedy. 1622, printed 1653. The plot of The Changeling: http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/10/the-changeling.html

Middleton also collaborated with Shakespeare in Macbeth and in Timon of Athens.



JOHN FORD (c. 1586-c.1640)

(English dramatist; b. Islington, Devonshire; gentry, st. Middle Temple, lawyer)

_____. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Tragedy. Ante 1623, printed 1633. (Incest).
_____. The Lover's Melancholy. Drama. 1629.
_____. The Broken Heart. Drama. Printed 1633.
_____. Love's Sacrifice. Drama. 1633.
_____. The Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck. Drama. 1634.
_____. Fancies, Chaste and Noble. Comedy. Printed 1638.
_____. The Lady's Trial. 1639.

William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford. The Witch of Edmonton. Tragicomedy. 1621, printed 1658.


Para una visión de estos autores que no estudiamos en el programa, podéis ir a la Cambridge History of English Literature (The drama to 1642, Part II). http://www.bartleby.com/216/




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