THOMAS MIDDLETON AND EARLY MODERN TEXTUAL CULTURE A COMPANION TO THE COLLECTED WORKS General Editors GARY TAYLOR AND JOHN LAVAGNINO Associate General Editors MACDONALD P. JACKSON, JOHN JOWETT, VALERIE WAYNE, AND ADRIAN WEISS CLARENDON PRESS • OXFORD TABLE OF CONTENTS ALPHABETICAL CONTENTS V 9 INDEX OF TITLES BY GENRE II LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS r 13 HOW TO USE THIS BOOK, BY GARY TAYLOR 19 PREFACE: TEXTUAL PROXIMITIES, BY GARY TAYLOR 24 Part I: The Culture ''..... Gary Taylor, assisted by Celia R. Daileader and Alexandra G. Bennett, 'The Order of Persons' 31 MacDonald P. Jackson, 'Early Modern Authorship: Canons and Chronologies' 80 Harold Love, 'Thomas Middleton: Oral Culture and the Manuscript Economy' 98 Edward Gieskes, '"From Wronger and Wronged Have I'Fee": Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Legal Culture' no Gary Taylor and Andrew J.Sabol, assisted by John Jowett and Lizz Ketterer, 'Middleton, Music, and Dance' , .- 119 Richard Burt, 'Thomas Middleton, Uncut: Castration, Censorship, and the Regulation of Dramatic Discourse in Early Modern England' 182 Adrian Weiss, 'Casting Compositors, Foul Cases, and Skeletons: Printing in Middleton's Age' 195 John H. Astington, 'Visual Texts: Thomas Middleton and Prints' 226 Cyndia Susan Clegg, ""Twill Much Enrich the Company of Stationers": Thomas Middleton and the London Book Trade, 1580-1627' 247 Maureen Bell,'Booksellers without an Author, 1627-1685' 260 John Jowett, 'For Many of Your Companies: Middleton's Early Readers' 286 Part II: The Author Gary Taylor, 'Introduction: The Middleton Canon' , 331 'Works Included in this Edition: Canon and Chronology' 335 MacDonald P. Jackson and Gary Taylor, 'Works Excluded from this Edition' 444 Part III: The Texts Gary Taylor, 'Thomas Middleton: Lives and Afterlives: Sources' 449 Paul S. Seaver, 'Middleton's London: Sources' 457 Scott McMillin, 'Middleton's Theatres: Sources' 459 The Wisdom of Solomon Paraphrased (1597), edited by G. B. Shand 461 Microcynlcon: Six Snarling Satires (1599), edited by Wendy Wall 465 The Ghost ofhucrece (1600), edited by G. B. Shand 467 'Simon Smellknave' (pseud.), adapted by Thomas Middleton, The Penniless Parliament of Threadbare Poets (I6OI?/I6O4), edited by Swapan Chakravorty 469 Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, News from Gravesend (1604), edited by Gary Taylor 474 The Nightingale and the Ant; and, Father Hubburd's Tales (1604), edited by Adrian Weiss 476 CONTENTS Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinary; or, The Walks in Paul's (1604), edited by Paul Yachnin ' 491 Plato's Cap cast at this year 1604, being leap year (1604), edited by Paul Yachnin 492 The Black Book (1604), edited by G. B. Shand 493 Thomas Dekker, Stephen Harrison, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton, The Whole Royal and Magnificent Entertainment of King James through the City of London, 15 March 1604, with the Arches of Triumph (1604), edited by R. Malcolm Smuts 498 Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, The Patient Man and the Honest Whore (1604), edited by Paul Mulholland 507 The,Phoenix (1607), edited by Lawrence Danson and Ivo Kamps 529 Michaelmas Term (1607), edited by Theodore B. Leinwand 535 The.Puritan Widow; or, The Puritan; or, The Widow ofWatling Street (1607), edited by Donna B. Hamilton 540 The Revenger's Tragedy (1607), edited by MacD. P. Jackson 548 A Trick to Catch the Old One (1608), edited by Valerie Wayne 562 Your Five Gallants (1608), edited by Ralph Alan Cohen with John Jowett 575 A Mad World, My Masters (1608), edited by Peter Saccio 586 A Yorkshire Tragedy (one of the four-plays-in-one, called All's One) (1608), edited by . Stanley Wells 592 Andraeas Loeaechius, translated and adapted by Thomas Middleton, Sir Robert Sherley his Entertainment in Cracovia (1609), edited by Jerzy Limon and Daniel J. Vitkus 598 The Two Gates of Salvation; or, The Marriage of the Old and New Testament; or, God's Parliament House (1609), edited by Paul Mulholland 600 Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl; or, Moll Cutpurse (1611), ; edited by Coppelia Kahn 610 The Lady's Tragedy ['The Second Maiden's Tragedy']: Parallel Texts (1611), edited by Julia Briggs 619 The Triumphs of Truth (1613), edited by David M. Bergeron 627 The Manner of his Lordship's Entertainment (1613), edited by David M. Bergeron 629 Masque of Cupids (1613-59), edited by John Jowett 630 Civitatis Amor (1616), edited by David M. Bergeron 632 William Rowley and Thomas Middleton, A Fair Quarrel (1617), edited by Suzanne Gossett 633 The Owl's Almanac (1618), edited by Neil Rhodes 641 The Triumphs of Honour and Industry (1618), edited by David M. Bergeron 643 Orazio Busino's Eyewitness Account of The Triumphs of Honour and Industry (1618), edited by Kate D. Levin 645 Masque of Heroes; or, The Inner Temple Masque (1619), edited by Jerzy Limon 646 The Peacemaker; or, Great Britain's Blessing (1619), edited by Paul Muholland 648 Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The World Tossed at Tennis [A Courtly Masque] (1620), edited by C. E. McGee 667 The Triumphs of Love and Antiquity (1620), edited by David M. Bergeron 672 Honourable Entertainments (1621), edited by Anthony Parr 673 The Sun in Aries (1621), edited by David M. Bergeron 674 An Invention (1622), edited by Anthony Parr 675 The Triumphs of Honour and Virtue (1622), edited by David M. Bergeron 676 Thomas Middleton, The Triumphs of Integrity (1623), edited by David M. Bergeron 679 Anthony Munday, The Triumphs of the Golden Fleece (1623), edited by David M. Bergeron 680 CONTENTS William Shakespeare, adapted by Thomas Middleton, Measure for'Measure: A Genetic Text (1623), edited by John Jowett 681 William Shakespeare, adapted by Thomas Middleton, The Tragedy of Macbeth: A Genetic Text (1623), edited by Gary Taylor 690 William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton, The Life of Timon of Athens, edited by John Jowett 704 A Game at Chess: General Textual Introduction, by Gary Taylor . 712 A Game at Chesse: An Early Form (1624), edited by Gary Taylor 874 A Game at Chess: A Later Form (1624-5), edited by Gary Taylor 912 Occasional Poems (1625-C.1650), edited by Gary Taylor 992 The Witch (c. 1625), edited by Marion O'Connor 995 The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity (1626), edited by David M. Bergeron 1010 A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1630), edited by Linda Woodbridge ion Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Bloody Banquet (1639), edited by Julia Gasper and Gary Taylor 1020 Hengist, King of Kent; or, The Mayor of Queenborough (c.1645), edited by Grace Ioppolo 1029 William Rowley and Thomas Middleton, Wit at Several Weapons (1647), edited by Michael Dobson 1062 The Nice Valour; or, The Passionate Madman (1647), edited by Gary Taylor 1070 The Widow (1652), edited by Gary Taylor 1084 Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The Changeling (1653), edited by Douglas Bruster 1094 Thomas Dekker, John Ford, Thomas Middleton, and William Rowley, The Spanish Gypsy (1653), edited by Gary Taylor 1105 Lost Plays: A Brief Account, by Doris Feldmann and Kurt Tetzeli von Rosador 1122 Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Thomas Heywood, An/The Old Law (1656), edited by Jeffrey Masten 1123 More Dissemblers Besides Women (1657), edited by John Jowett 1131 Women, Beware Women (1657), edited by John Jowett 1140 No Wit/Help like a Woman's; or, The Almanac (1657), edited by John Jowett 1149 Thomas Middleton and John Webster, Anything for a Quiet Life (1661), edited by Leslie Thomson 1160 Lost Political Prose, 1620-7: A Brief Account [Annals and Farrago (1735)], by Thomas Cogswell 1166 INDEX TO NOTES ON MODERNIZATION, BY TRISH THOMAS HENLEY II67 A SELECTIVE TOPICAL INDEX, BY MOLLY HAND 1175 INDEX OF TITLES BY GENRE Censored A Chaste Maid in Cheapside 145 The Triumphs of Truth 147 Microcynicon (burned) 4.6 5 Wit at Several Weapons 148 The Penniless Parliament of Threadbare Poets (Parliamentary inquiry) 469 Masque of Cupids 149 The lady's Tragedy (censored) 619 More Dissemblers Besides Women 149 A Game at Chess (banned) 712 The Widow 152 The Witch The Witch (banned?) 995 153 Macbeth 153 Masque of Heroes 161 Manuscripts: Autograph An/The Old Law 166 [Annals] (Middleton) 438 Measure for Measure 167 [Farrago] (Middleton) 443 The Nice Valour 169 The Triumphs of Honour and Industry: Eyewitness The Spanish Gypsy 172 Account (Orazio Busino) 645 712 A Game at Chess (Middleton) Patented Occasional Poems (Middleton) 992 The Peacemaker 648 Manuscripts: Licensed Playbook Print: Annotated by Hand The Lady's Tragedy 619 The Patient Man and the Honest Whore 507 The Phoenix Manuscripts: Ralph Crane 529 A Trick to Catch the Old One 562 An Invention 675 A Game at Chess 712 [Measure for Measure] 681 The Widow 1084 A Game at Chess 712 The Changeling 1094 The Witch 995 The Spanish Gypsy 1105 Women, Beware Women 1140 Manuscripts: Unknown Scribes The Lady's Tragedy 619 Print: Engravings The Triumphs of Truth: Eyewitness Account The Whole Magnificent Royal Entertainment 498 . (Aleksei Ziuzin) 627 A Game at Chess 712 A Game at Chess 712 More Dissemblers Besides Women 1131 Occasional Poems 992 Hengist, King of Kent 1029 Print: Folio The Nice Valour 1070 The Whole Royal and Magnificent Entertainment Given to King James through the City of London 498 Music Measure for Measure ' 681 The Patient Man and the Honest Whore 137 Macbeth 690 A Trick to Catch the Old One 140 Timon of Athens , 704 A Mad World, My Masters 142 Wit at Several Weapons 1062 Your Five Gallants 143 The Nice Valour 1070 II CONTENTS BY GENRE Print: Octavo A Fair Quarrel Microcynicon 465 The Owl's Almanac The Ghost of Lucrece . 467 The Triumphs of Honour and Industry The Penniless Parliament