British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue
Volume IV: 1598-1602
British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue Series

This is the fourth volume of a detailed play-by-play catalogue of drama written by English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish authors during the 110 years between the English Reformation to the English Revolution, covering every known play, extant and lost, including some which have never before been identified. It is based on a complete, systematic survey of the whole of this body of work, presented in chronological order. Each entry contains comprehensive information about a single play: its various titles, authorship, and date; a summary of its plot, list of its roles, and details of the human and geographical world in which the fictional action takes place; a list of its sources, narrative and verbal, and a summary of its formal characteristics; details of its staging requirements; and an account of its early stage and textual history. Volume IV covers the period during which dramatic satire emerged, as well as the opening of the original Globe theatre in London.

Martin Wiggins is Senior Scholar of The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon. He won the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize in 1984 and was Junior Research Fellow at Keble College, Oxford from 1987-90. He has been Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute since 1990. Has served as Associate General Editor of Oxford English Drama (1992-2008), and of The Philological Museum (2004 to date). Catherine Richardson is Reader in Renaissance Studies at the University of Kent. Her research focuses on the relationship between texts and the material experience of daily life in early modern England, on- and offstage. Previous publications include Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy (Manchester University Press, 2006), Shakespeare and Material Culture (Oxford University Press, 2011), and she is editor of Clothing Culture 1350-1650 (Ashgate, 2004) and, with Tara Hamling, Everyday Objects: medieval and early modern material culture and its meanings (Ashgate, 2010).