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...espeare (2008), member of the editorial board for Sederi, and author or co-author of a number of essays on early modern drama.

...d contributed an essay to the ''Richard Brome Online'' edition. She is the author of numerous theatre reviews for ''Cahiers Elisabethains'', and a contributo

Author's Name (Year)

...itute of English Studies, School of Advanced study, University of London. Author of (most recently) ''Renaissance Literature'' (2007), ''Women and Crime in

...itute of English Studies, School of Advanced study, University of London. Author of (most recently) ''Renaissance Literature'' (2007), ''Women and Crime in

...at the Fountain School of Performing Arts, Dalhousie University. He is the author of ''Middleton and Rowley: Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse

Professor of English and Drama, U of Toronto. Author of ''English Court Theatre'' (CUP, 1999), ''Actors and Acting in Shakespear

...Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Sheffield Hallam University, and the author of Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage (Cambridge: Cambridge Universit

...to multi-authored and repeatedly revised entries that are not conducive to author-focused citations. (NB. All contributors to a given entry are identified wi

...or Emerita of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, is the author of The Repertory of Shakespeare’s Company, 1594-1613 (University of Arkan

...Editor of ''The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson'' (2012), and author of ''Ben Jonson: A Life'' for Oxford University Press.

...' is Principal Lecturer in English at the University of Sheffield, and the author of ''Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage'' (Cambridge: Cambridge Unive

...Editor of ''The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson'' (2012), and author of ''Ben Jonson: A Life'' for Oxford University Press.

Lawrence Manley (William R Kenan Jr Professor of English at Yale) is the author of ''Literature and Culture in Early Modern London'' (1995) and ''Conventio

...or Emerita of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, is the author of ''The Repertory of Shakespeare’s Company, 1594-1613'' (University of A

...ty. He is a native of the state of South Carolina in the U.S. Dabbs is the author of 'Reforming Marlowe: the Nineteenth-Century Canonization of a Renaissance

...rksCited|Greg II]] questioned whether Massey was the author or perhaps the author's agent; he was equally skeptical of the idea (apparently Hazlitt's) that t

...rmance because he represented his company as payee, not because he was the author (Bentley, 5:1024).

(The following transcription is based on Joseph Quincy Adams' in "The Author Plot of an Early Seventeenth Century Play," ''The Library'', 4th ser., 26 (

Langbaine evidently recalled Smith's letter, and assumed the author is "William Smith" rather than Wentworth: An Author that lived in the Reign of King James the First, who publish'd a Play, call

...y culture and politics in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. He is the author of ''The Royalist Republic. Literature, Politics and Religion in the Anglo-

Pp.1-3 contain setting-specific details presumably used to aid the author in composition of a purportedly authentic drama (see the 'Preliminary sketc ...Critical Commentary''']] below). Joseph Quincy Adams refers merely to "the author" in his transcription and discussion of the manuscript fragment. Dering was

...and executed with its ring leaders; and he was named by George Buc as the author of a lost play, "[[Estrild]]," for which Buc claimed to have written dumb s

...so much a "lost play" as an incomplete fragment, left unfinished when the author died.

...t," or Henry Chettle. He adds that the only "Pett" he knows is Peter Pett, author of ''Time's journey to see his daughter Truth'', a verse publication in 159

(The following transcription is based on Joseph Quincy Adams' in "The Author Plot of an Early Seventeenth Century Play," ''The Library'', 4th ser., 26 (

...the payment, and opines that "there is no reason to suppose [Lee] was the author" (p. 191, #128).

...n the ''Edinburgh Magazine'', purporting to describe a printed play in the author's personal collection:

(The following transcription is based on Joseph Quincy Adams' in "The Author Plot of an Early Seventeenth Century Play," ''The Library'', 4th ser., 26 (

:David Nicol (181) notes another English source available to the author of ''Roderick'': ...legend, ''All's Lost by Lust'' (1619-20), might offer clues as to how the author of "Roderick" could have dramatized it.

...t," or Henry Chettle. He adds that the only "Pett" he knows is Peter Pett, author of ''Time's journey to see his daughter Truth'', a verse publication in 159 ...Fleay's Mr. Pett). But Pangallo stops short of urging his selection as the author of ''Strange News'' because Peter of Wapping was avowedly an amateur writer

...y drawing: But be it known vnto you, that ''I'' am so farre from being the Author of that friuolous Pamphlet, as that J hold both it, and another that was th ...Maiestie, in his Highness Tower of London. Seene and allowed.'' 1606. (NB. author entered as "William Hubbock" in ESTC and EEBO following its correction in t

...nuscripts of the early seventeenth century and are undoubtedly those of an author in process of composition. The stanzaic verse of lines 43-80 suggests an oc ...uthor in process of composition" (59), it may instead be the case that the author is in the process of ''translation''.

...gue explains why they are dressed as an Amazon: "marvell not / The present author (having not forgot / How in 's first Play, he met with too much spite) / Sh

...on of Guarini's hugely successful pastoral work, ''Pastor Fido'' - and the author as "Stapilton", which would indicate the dramatist and translator Sir Rober ...4; Wing G2175, an edition with extra material, dated 1648, does reveal the author). In a preface printed in the anonymous 1647 edition, the translator coyly

(The following transcription is based on Joseph Quincy Adams' in "The Author Plot of an Early Seventeenth Century Play," ''The Library'', 4th ser., 26 (

<div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Chambers, E. K. (review author), “''The King’s Office of the Revels, 1610-1622''. Fragments of Documen

Tuke (1580/1-1657) was the vicar of St. Olave Jewry and an author of numerous religious tracts.

...n''', who discovered the speeches, first proposed Lord Henry Howard as the author and a composition date in the 1590s on the basis of paleographic evidence ( ...is heavily marked up with ''currente calamo'' revisions, evidently as the author composed his first draft; by contrast, the present speeches evince basicall

(The following transcription is based on Joseph Quincy Adams' in "The Author Plot of an Early Seventeenth Century Play," ''The Library'', 4th ser., 26 (

...as "Femelanco". He doubts the existence of Henslowe's "Mr Robinson" as co-author: "Robinson was, I think, to Chettle what Mrs. Harris was to Mrs. Gamp" (Har

<div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Chambers, E. K. (review author). “''The King’s Office of the Revels, 1610-1622''. Fragments of Documen

...D'Ambois. It is certainly possible that it was also mined by the anonymous author of this lost play.

...s that referred to by Henslowe in 1600, and whether or not Haughton is its author. If it is the same, ''The Devil and his Dame'' is not a lost play but an ex ...The Devil and his Dame'' dates from around 1600, and that Haughton is its author. Baillie edited the most recent modern edition of the play, in an edition o

<div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Chambers, E. K. (review author), “''The King’s Office of the Revels, 1610-1622''. Fragments of Documen

...s more, it is not categorically certain that Richard Brome was in fact the author of the lost play [[Fault in Friendship, A|''A Fault in Friendship'']] (q.v.

The author is most likely William, not Samuel Rowley, since William was a sharer in th

...rescribing nearly impracticable pyrotechnics (129). On the other hand, the author's selective adaptation of Ovid does reveal a certain awareness about the st

...ows Polonius’s lines with a reference to Caesar Interfectus, and names the author "Gedes" (8). ...rness Jr. gives a brief account of the matter, and identifies Eedes as the author of the play (448).

...lk purchase, does not claim explicitly that Slaughter was the ''original'' author of the "Hercules" pair (or the others), but he attributes authorial activit ...a "right to plays acted before then [sic.?], but he was certainly not the author of them" (2.303, #166). Stepping thus on Collier's supposition, Fleay offer

<div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Chambers, E. K. (review author), “''The King’s Office of the Revels, 1610-1622''. Fragments of Documen

<div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Chambers, E. K. (review author). “''The King’s Office of the Revels, 1610-1622''. Fragments of Documen

...t in Friendship</i>, and can therefore safely be discounted as the missing author.

(The following transcription is based on Joseph Quincy Adams' in "The Author Plot of an Early Seventeenth Century Play," ''The Library'', 4th ser., 26 (

...n an early version of ''Locrine'' somehow revised into and absorbed by the author or reviser of the extant play. Through arguments on the authorship of ''Loc ...is more comfortable considering the lost "Estrild" as a source used by the author of ''Locrine,'' rather than the text revised into the later play.

...comedy set around Stonehenge, which is sometimes ascribed to George Wild, author of other plays in the same collection. However, ''The Converted Robber'' it

...s most likely an abbreviated version of "S ^r Rob. le Green," an author who is listed earlier in the inventory ("Nothing Imposeble to love T. C. S<

[[category:Female author]]

...product—"[[Bristow Tragedy]]"— about which very little is known except its author (John Day) and dates of purchase (May 1602).

...oners in the mid seventeenth century. In one case, Webster is named as the author, although the catalogues disagree in attribution and genre classification. ...ues' references to "Guise" all refer to this play or to one by a different author, such as Marlowe.

...ggins, ''Catalogue'']] toys with the possibility that Henry Porter was the author of "A Woman Hard to Please" (#1056).

...he words 'y<ea t>rust m<e.' in line 1 are in a hand other than that of the author but which, like his, probably dates from the last years of the sixteenth ce ...The History of English dramatic poetry'', 3 vols. (1879), annotated by the author [now in the Folger Library: shelfmark W.a. 189]. ... This leaf was found at

...n''', who discovered the speeches, first proposed Lord Henry Howard as the author and a composition date in the 1590s on the basis of paleographic evidence ( ...t entertainment rather than a masque proper. If the speeches represent the author's attempt to regain royal favor, the occasion may have been the Accession D

...f title must clearly be hazardous, even when they are ascribed to the same author and a change of title is recorded. Moreover, it may be pertinent to ask whe

...esists the identification of the title character with Niccolò Machiavelli, author of ''The Prince,'' observing that the culture of this period "found Machia

...zard even further and suggest that Peele may be considered as the possible author of 'Charlemayn.'" (268). Evans' ascription has not gained acceptance.

(F. Palmer, "To the Author on his Love-Melancholy", in Ferrand, ''Erotomania'').

...assignment of the payment to ''Hoffman'', Fleay turned Heywood into a co-author with Chettle on ''Hoffman'' also.

...di Torquato Tasso ''('''Brand '''207). '''Brand''' (206) writes that the author of ''Tasso's Melancholy'' "could well have had access to several volumes co ...[WorksCited|Fleay, ''BCED'']] states that Dekker was probably the original author ([https://archive.org/stream/abiographicalch00fleagoog#page/n314 2:302]). [

None known to this editor/author. None known to this editor/author.

<div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Chambers, E. K. (review author). “''The King’s Office of the Revels, 1610-1622''. Fragments of Documen

...re to follow sensuality, were sacrificed in the fire; the executioner, the author himself, not that he conceived it to be a contemptible younger brother to t ...ss, together with the quality of the actors in every scene, stirred up the author’s second thoughts to be careful (Gouws, 93). </blockquote>

:it has been stated that Robert Wilson, as early as 1580, was author of a dramatic performance on the subject of the life of Catiline. A history

<td>geo. Peele the Author</td>

...uld not wonder if Greene, who called his son Fortunatus, were the original author. (III.291).

...fashion found in Scotland. One expects to see the players banned, and the author of the play has run off in fear of losing his life, probably because he min ...hat they be punished and especially that a diligent search be made for the author. What is more, he forbade the further performance of any plays whatsoever i

The author is generally, and reasonably, conjectured to have been Joseph Simons, teach

...eater in the late Caroline period, nor are there any published works by an author of that name. If there was an "old Clifton", then, he was possibly neither

The author is given as [[Samuel Rowley]], an experienced actor-playwright who had alre

<div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Chambers, E. K. (review author), “''The King’s Office of the Revels, 1610-1622''. Fragments of Documen

...comic dialogues of the Roman satirist Lucian could also have inspired the author(s) of the lost play. In “Philosophies for Sale,” Zeus and Hermes auctio ...]] names Slaughter as the seller of the play on 16 May 1598 but not as its author (p. 178 #85).

...of the shift from monarchy to republic. If, as seems likely, the anonymous author of <i> Lucretia </i> was inspired by or reacting to Lucrece's popularity on

...its complete form (over 38,000 lines), in 1532. In Cantos 4, 5, and 6, the author relates the story of the knight Ariodante and Scotland’s royal daughter G

...on c. 1624, circumstantial evidence gestures toward Richard Gunnell as its author (or at least its first owner). Gunnell, a player groomed in Edward Alleyn� ...wes : a comedie acted in the yeare, 1625, by His Maiesties seruants by the author, Beniamin Iohnson''. London, 1631. [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home ''EEBO'']

<div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Chambers, E. K. (review author), “''The King’s Office of the Revels, 1610-1622''. Fragments of Documen

.... to discharge Chettle from arrest, Greg suggests that the latter was a co-author for this play, which "would put its identity with ''Agamemnon'' […] pract

[[category:Female author]]

...atches that of the play and his observation that Byrd was friends with the author of the play's fourth act, Christopher Hatton. Fellowes enthusiastically des

...e, Oxford. ''The Converted Robber'' is sometimes ascribed to George Wild, author of other plays in the same collection, but W. W. Greg proposed, and his pro

:: The author, to convey the importance of Hannam as a criminal, opens the news of the ex ...cted, and truth defended ...'' by Philalethes Pasiphilus (1692), where the author observes that "Hind, Hannam, Cutting Dick, and the Golden Farmer were all V

...e play is obvious: the text is almost exclusively episodic, recounting the author’s ostensible journey to the Holy Land and thence beyond to the far East a

...hat “[a]pparently this masque of the court ladies was never performed, the author is unknown, and the text is lost,” and adds that “[a]ccording to Nathan

...clavius: Basel, 1576), as was Ammianus Marcellinus (books 20-25), a common author. These were however not available in English until 1684 and 1609 respective ...gether with a chronologie of those times and an alphabeticall-table by the author.'' 1652.</div>

...arbage''' (503) suggested that John Sansbury (1576–1610) may have been the author of the play and offered other evidence to connect him with ''The Christmas

...One aspect of Arrell's argument is based on authorship. Proposing that the author of "Wise Man" was presumably among those men named by Francis Meres in ''Pa ...the playbook from Edward Alleyn in 1601; in this case, Arrell argues, the author/s of ''The Merry Devil of Edmonton'' (Chamberlain's men, 1603) stole featur

'''Law''' argued that Yarington was the author of ''Two Lamentable Tragedies'' and that Chettle's play on the orphans is n

<br>The most credible likely inspiration for Melbourne’s author is Paolo Giovio’s ''History of His Own Times'' (Latin edition 1550–52): ...hip. The manuscript may have been composed by an otherwise unknown amateur author, albeit one of considerable skill, or one of the professional playwrights w

[[WorksCited|Malone]] names Martin Slaughter as the author of the play (p. 298). [[WorksCited|Collier]] considers Slaughter to be "per ...discouered, and condemned. The second edition in Spanish augmented by the author himselfe, M. Cyprian Valera, and translated into English by Iohn Golburne.

...oulogne," Gurr adds several points: he offers "Heywood, 1594?" as possible author; he raises the possibility that "[[Jerusalem]]" was its first part, he back

...e End'. One wonders who Nashe's 'partener in it' was, presumably the main author as he and not Nashe was expelled for it. Could it possibly be Everard Digb ...s Steven W. May observes, "Doleta" surely takes his name from the supposed author of a pamphlet printed in 1586 and attributed to a "learned man, named maist