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...men acquired several plays along with ''Brunhild'' that required "striking women's costumes" (for example, "[[Black Joan|Black Joan]]" #1108 and "[[Alice Pi

| More dissemblers beside women||||

...e British Shakespeare Association); and the collection of essays <em>Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries</em> (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute P

| [[Two Angry Women of Abington, Part 2]]||[[1599]]||[[Porter, Henry|Porter]]||[[:category:Admi | [[Two Merry Women of Abington]]||[[1599]]||[[Porter, Henry|Porter]]||[[:category:Admiral's|Ad

::the turckes head & ij women's gowns

| ''The Spanish Viceroy or the honor of women''||}|| | ''The Honour of Women'', a comedy||}||

| [[Masque of Italian Women]]||[[1560]]||[[Anon.]]||[[:category:Whitehall|Whitehall]] | [[Masque of Women]]||[[1567]]||[[Anon.]]||[[:category:Whitehall|Whitehall]]

...this seems to have been a marriage comedy. It featured at least two witty women, who had to adopt desperate measures to obtain husbands. ...he title suggests a (possibly somewhat bawdy) comedy featuring one or more women willing to take the initiative in marriage-matters.

|themes=Captivity; Spain; Women

| [[Way to Content All Women, or How a Man May Please His Wife]]||[[1624]]||[[Gunnell, Richard|Gunnell]]

...eak well of Englishmen, even though he has committed this crime. Ten young women in the crowd then step forward, citing a local law that allows his death se

...owever, the event was also recounted in the anonymous ''A Warning for Fair Women'' (1599) (see [[#References to the Play|"References to the Play"]] below), A similar account exists in the anonymous ''A Warning for Fair Women'' (1599):

...what'' ('''tis long since I beheld'')<br>''The Sun and Day; what have wee women done,<br>That any one who was a mothers sonne<br>Should thus affront our se

...d in this offyce whereon was ymployed for scarfes garters head Attyers for women & Lynynges for hatt''es'' vj ells of Sarcenett A cytie a towne & vj payre o

...notes that John Marston wrote a play with a similar title (''The Wonder of Women, or Sophonisba her Tragedy'', 1605) and that William Rowley wrote an even l

...Goddesses'' (1604) and Jonson’s ''Masque of Queenes'' (1669) which feature women as the masquers: “Lawrence is too much influenced by the spurious ‘marg ...er that it was sometimes heavy going." It reportedly opens with two Amazon women discussing divorce:

::The Spanish Viceroy or the honor of women … } by Phill. Massinger. ...eparate entries. Although a viceroy does feature in the extant ''Honour of Women'', he is a minor character.

| [[Honor of Women]]||[[1628]]||[[Massinger, Philip|Massinger]]||[[:category:unknown|Unknown]]

...ay in the title of John Fletcher's ''Woman Pleased'' (printed in 1647 as ''Women Pleased'').

...r the lost play. In Painter’s account, Zenobia is “one of the most famous Women of the worlde,” a paragon who “hadde the heart of <i>Alexander</i> the ...n of a Christian Woman'' (Juan Luis Vives, 1529) and ''The Defence of Good Women'' (Thomas Elyot, 1545) as sources (148). Observing that the play would have