Fair Maid of the Exchange, a Comedy, 4 to. 1637. wherein are related the pleaſant Paſſages, and merry Humours of the Cripple of Fanchurch. Mr. Kirkman, and others, reckon this Play to our Author; but Mr. Langbain makes a Queſtion thereof, ſince his Name is not prefixt; nor, ſays he, the Stile and Oeconomy does not reſemble the reſt of his Labours.[1]
Fair Maid of the Weſt, or, A Girl worth Gold, a Tragi-Comedy, Part I. 4 to. 1631. Acted before the King and Queen, by her Majeſty’s Servants.
Fair Maid of the Weſt, or, A Girl worth Gold, Part II. 4 to. 1631. Acted likewiſe before the King and Queen, by her Majeſty’s Servants. Both theſe Plays had, in thoſe Times, good Repute; and afterwards ſerv’d for the Subject of a Romance, called, The Engliſh Lover, writ by John Dancer, one of our foregoing Authors.
Fortune by Land and Sea, a Tragi-Comedy, 4 to. 1655. Acted by the Queen’s Majeſty’s Servants, with good Applauſe. Our Author was join’d, in compoſing this Play, by William Rowley, hereafter mentioned.
Four London Prentices, with the Conqueſts of Jeruſalem, Hiſtory, 4 to. 1635. Acted at the Red Bull, by the Queen‘’s Servants. Founded on Godfrey of Bulloign. See Taſſo, Fuller’s Hiſt. of the Holy War, and Dr. Nalſon’s Hiſtory of the Craſaide.
If you know not me, you know no body, or, The Troubles of Queen Elizabeth, in Two Parts, 4 to. 1623. Plot from Cambden’s Hiſtory of Queen Elizabeth, alſo Speed, and other our Engliſh Chronicles in her Reign.
The Lancaſhire Witches, 4 to. London, 1634. See this Story in Verſe, in a large Volume of the ſame Author, called, The Hierarchy of Angels, Fol. lib. 8.
Love’s Miſtriſs, or, The Queen’s Mask, 4 to. 1640. Acted before their Majeſties, and divers Ambaſſadors, at the Phenix in Drury-Lane. Plot from Apuleius’s Golden Aß. 4 to.
Maiden-head, well loſt, A Comedy, 4 to. 1634. Acted by her Majeſty’s Servants in Drury-Lane, with good Applause.
Rape of Lucrece, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1638. Acted at the Red Bull, Plot from Tit. Livius, dec. 1. cap. 58, &c.
Robert, Earl of Huntingdon’s Down-fall, a History, 4 to. 1601. Acted by the Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral of England’s Servants. Plot from Stow, Speed, and Baker’s Chronicles, in the Life of King Richard the Firſt; Fuller’s Worthies in the Account of Nottinghamſhire.
Robert, Earl of Huntingdon’s Death, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1601. This Earl was uſually called, Robin Hood, of merry Sherwood. Plot from the aforeſaid Engliſh Chronicles.
- ↑ Langbain’s Account of Dramatick Poets, p. 263.
