Globe Quartos series
Accessible editions of plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries, published in association with Shakespeare's Globe.
The Antipodes
An ingenious satirical comedy, often considered playwright Richard Brome's masterpiece and one of the greatest comedies of the Caroline era, presenting a farcically topsy-turvey view of London in the 1630s.
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The Custom of the Country
A 17th-century play tracing the fortunes of two brothers shipwrecked in a foreign land.
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The Devil's Charter
A Jacobean tragedy narrating the sensational history of the Borgias.
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The Fleer
A bawdy, satiric and theatrically allusive comedy that was extremely popular with seventeenth-century readers.
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The Honest Whore
A passionate tale of paternal disapproval and sexual deceit, following the lives of a princess and a whore.
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King Leir
An anonymous Elizabethan play about the ancient king of Britain, a prime source for Shakespeare's version of the story.
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A Mad World, My Masters
A masterly satire of London society at the turn of the 17th century, abounding with Middleton's craft and wit.
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The Mayor of Queenborough, or Hengist, King of Kent
Middleton's only surviving historical play, published in the Nick Hern Books Globe Quartos series.
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The Merry Devil of Edmonton
A popular comedy from the early-17th century, combining romance, magic, deer poaching and abduction from a nunnery. Part of the Nick Hern Books Globe Quartos series.
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The Noble Spanish Soldier
A revenge tragedy set in the Spanish court, filled with powerful dramatic moments of violence, pathos, satire and humour. Part of the Globe Quartos series, co-published with Shakespeare's Globe.
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The Poor Man's Comfort
A Jacobean tragicomedy from 1617, about a shepherd who seeks redress for a miscarriage of justice.
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A Shoemaker, A Gentleman
In this entertainingly far-fetched play, Rowley combines mythical tales of the origin of St Alban's with folklore about the craft of shoemaking to produce a comic history which draws together the foundations of British nationhood.
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The Wise Woman of Hoxton
A city comedy complete with cross-dressing and disguise, dating from around 1605.
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The Witches of Lancashire
A sensational dramatisation of the seventeenth-century witch trials, first performed at the original Globe Theatre in 1634.
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