Globe Quartos series

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.

A 17th-century play tracing the fortunes of two brothers shipwrecked in a foreign land.

A Jacobean tragedy narrating the sensational history of the Borgias.

A bawdy, satiric and theatrically allusive comedy that was extremely popular with seventeenth-century readers.

A passionate tale of paternal disapproval and sexual deceit, following the lives of a princess and a whore.

An anonymous Elizabethan play about the ancient king of Britain, a prime source for Shakespeare's version of the story.

A masterly satire of London society at the turn of the 17th century, abounding with Middleton's craft and wit.

Middleton's only surviving historical play, published in the Nick Hern Books Globe Quartos series.

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.

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.

A Jacobean tragicomedy from 1617, about a shepherd who seeks redress for a miscarriage of justice.

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.