Note on the Citation of Dramatic Texts

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Quotations

Unless otherwise indicated, early modern dramatic texts are quoted from the facsimiles of their earliest printed editions in the Early Eng- lish Books Online database. Exceptions to this rule include a number of plays that exist in multiple early texts or in manuscript. A Fair Quarrel is quoted from the second 1617 edition (STC 17911a); A Game at Chess is quoted from the Malone Society edition, edited by T.H. Howard-Hill (1990), which is based on the Trinity Manuscript; Hamlet is quoted from the 1623 First Folio; Hengist, King of Kent is quoted from the Malone Society edition, edited by Grace Ioppolo (2003), which is based on the Portland Manuscript; and The Second Maiden’s Tragedy (rechristened The Lady’s Tragedy in Taylor and Lavagnino, Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works) is quoted from the Malone Society edition, edited by W.W. Greg (1910). Other exceptions are speciﬁed in the endnotes. For the sake of readability, features such as ‘v’ for ‘u,’ ‘i’ for ‘j,’ and the long ‘s’ are modernized. Language, punctuation, and lineation have occasionally been corrected or modernized to aid clarity; such changes are indicated in endnotes or with square brackets. When adjustments to punctuation or lineation have been made, capitalization has been altered silently.

Act, Scene, and Line References

Act, scene, and line references to standard modern editions are pro- vided where possible. All plays by Thomas Middleton are keyed to Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works (2007); non-Middletonian plays by Thomas Dekker to Fredson Bowers, xii Note on the Citation of Dramatic Texts

The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker (1953–61); non-Middletonian plays by John Webster to Anthony Hammond, David Gunby, David Carnegie, and MacDonald P. Jackson, The Works of John Webster (1995–2008); plays by John Fletcher to Fredson Bowers, The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (1966–96); plays by Philip Massinger to Philip Ed- wards and Colin Gibson, The Plays and Poems of Philip Massinger (1976); and plays by Shakespeare to G. Blakemore Evans, The River side Shake- speare (1974). Plays by William Rowley not included in the texts above are keyed to the following editions:

• Charles Wharton Stork, William Rowley: His ‘All’s Lost by Lust’ and ‘A Shoemaker a Gentleman,’ with an Introduction on Rowley’s Place in the Drama (1910) • Herman Doh, A Critical Edition of ‘Fortune by Land and Sea,’ by Tho- mas Heywood and William Rowley (1980) • Trudi L. Darby, A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of William Rowley’s ‘A New Wonder, A Woman Never Vexed’ (1988) • Michael Nolan, ‘The Thracian Wonder’ by William Rowley and Thomas Heywood: A Critical Edition (1997) • Anthony Parr, ‘The Travels of the Three English Brothers,’ in Three Renaissance Travel Plays (1995)