Globe Quartos series

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

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.

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

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

A sensational dramatisation of the seventeenth-century witch trials, first performed at the original Globe Theatre in 1634.

A city comedy complete with cross-dressing and disguise, dating from around 1605.

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.

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.

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 Jacobean tragedy narrating the sensational history of the Borgias.

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