The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/William Rowley
William Rowley, vide Webster, &c.
He studied once at Pembrook-Hall, Cambridge, and was in writing Associate with Shakespear, Fletcher, Massinger, Heywood, &c.
All’s lost by Lust, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1633. acted at the Phænix in Drury-Lane, by the Lady Elizabeth’s Servants. Plot, Lipsii Monita, Lib. 1. Cap. 5. &c. Turquet, Lib. 5. Cap. 30. Unfortunate Lovers, Nov. 3.
A Match at Midnight, a pleasant Comedy, 4 to. 1633. Plot of Bloodhound’s being hid under the Widow’s Bed, taken from an old Story, you may also find in The English Rogue, part 4. chap. 19.
A Shoemaker’s a Gentleman, a Comedy, 4 to. 1638, styled, A merry and Pleasant Comedy, as it has been sundry times acted at the Red Bull. Plot from The History of the Gentle Craft, 4 to.
A new Wonder, a Woman never vext, a Comedy, 1632. The Widow’s finding her Wedding Ring in a Fishes Belly, founded on the Story of Polycrates, in Thalia of Herodotus.
The Spanish Gipsies, a Comedy, 4 to. See Middleton, who joined with him in this.
The Witch of Edmonton, a Tragi-Comedy, 4 to. 1658. acted by the Prince’s Servants at the Cock-pit in Drury-Lane, as also once at Court, with great Applause.