Author:Thomas Dekker

Thomas Dekker
(1572–1632)

Thomas Dekker

Works

Dramatic

• The Pleasant Comedy of Old Fortunatus (1600)
• The Shoemaker's Holiday or The Gentle Craft (1600), with Valentine Simmes
  • The First Three-Men's Song or The Merry Month of May
• Satiro-mastix (1602)
• Patient Grissill (1603), with Henry Chettle and William Haughton) (external scan)
• The Honest Whore, Part One (1604)
• Whore of Babylon (1607)
• The Roaring Girl (1611), in conjunction with Middleton
• If It Be Not Good, The Devil is in It (1612)
• The Virgin Martyr (1622), in conjunction with Massinger
• Honest Whore part 2 (1630)
• Match me in London (1631)
• The Wonder of a Kingdom (1636)
• The Sun's Darling (1656)
• The Witch of Edmonton (1658), in conjunction with Rowley and Ford

with John Webster

• Northward Ho (1607)
• Westward Ho (1607)
• Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1607)

Non-Dramatic

• Canaan's Calamity, Jerusalem's Misery, and England's Mirror (1598)
• The Wonderful Year (1603)
• The Bachelers Banquet (1603)
• The Seven Deadly Sins of London (1606)
• News from Hell (1606)
• The Double PP. (1606)
• Jests to Make You Merry (1607)
• The Dead Term (1608)
• The Bellman of London (1608)
• Lanthorn and Candlelight (1609)
• Work for Armorers (1609)
• The Raven's Almanac (1609)
• The Gull's Horn-book (1609), included in Elizabethan & Jacobean Pamphlets
  • 1812 edition with copious notes (external scan)
  • 1904 edition (external scan)
• Four Birds of Noah's Ark (1613)
• A Strange Horse-Race (1613)
• Dekker his Dream (1620)
• A Rod for Runaways (1625)

Lyrics

• O Sweet Content

With John Day

• The Life and Death of Guy Earl of Warwick (1619)

Works about Dekker

• "Thomas Deckar," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (pp. 36−37), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Thomas Dekker," by William Minto in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 7) (1878)
• "Thomas Decker", (1882) a sonnet by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "Dekker, Thomas," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Dekker, Thomas," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Dekker, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)