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William Rowley

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William Rowley (c.1585 – February 1626) was an English Jacobean dramatist, best known for works written in collaboration with more successful writers. [1]

47 relations: A Cure for a Cuckold, A Fair Quarrel, A Game at Chess, A Match at Midnight, A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vexed, A Shoemaker a Gentleman, A Wife for a Month, All's Lost by Lust, Andrew Gurr, Curtain Theatre, E. K. Chambers, England, Fortune by Land and Sea, Francis Beaumont, George Wilkins, Gerald Eades Bentley, Globe Theatre, Hope Theatre, John Day (dramatist), John Fletcher (playwright), John Ford (dramatist), John Webster, Keep the Widow Waking, King's Men (playing company), Philip Massinger, Playwright, Prince Charles's Men, Queen Anne's Men, Red Bull Theatre, Rollo Duke of Normandy, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, St James's Church, Clerkenwell, The Birth of Merlin, The Changeling (play), The Maid in the Mill, The Old Law, The Spanish Gypsy, The Spanish Viceroy, The Thracian Wonder, The Travels of the Three English Brothers, The Witch of Edmonton, The World Tossed at Tennis, Thomas Dekker (writer), Thomas Heywood, Thomas Middleton, William Shakespeare, Wit at Several Weapons.

A Cure for a Cuckold

A Cure for a Cuckold is a late Jacobean era stage play.

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A Fair Quarrel

A Fair Quarrel is a Jacobean tragicomedy, a collaboration between Thomas Middleton and William Rowley that was first published in 1617.

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A Game at Chess

A Game at Chess is a comic satirical play by Thomas Middleton, first staged in August 1624 by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre, notable for its political content.

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A Match at Midnight

A Match at Midnight is a Jacobean era stage play first printed in 1633, a comedy that represents a stubborn and persistent authorship problem in English Renaissance drama.

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A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vexed

A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vexed is a Jacobean era stage play, often classified as a city comedy.

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A Shoemaker a Gentleman

A Shoemaker a Gentleman is a Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by William Rowley.

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A Wife for a Month

A Wife for a Month is a late Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by John Fletcher and originally published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647.

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All's Lost by Lust

All's Lost by Lust is a Jacobean tragedy by William Rowley.

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Andrew Gurr

Andrew John Gurr (born 23 December 1936) is a contemporary literary scholar who specializes in William Shakespeare and English Renaissance theatre.

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Curtain Theatre

The Curtain Theatre was an Elizabethan playhouse located in Hewett Street, Shoreditch (part of the modern London Borough of Hackney), just outside the City of London.

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E. K. Chambers

Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers, (16 March 1866 – 21 January 1954), usually cited as E. K. Chambers, was an English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fortune by Land and Sea

Fortune by Land and Sea is a Jacobean era stage play, a romantic melodrama written by Thomas Heywood and William Rowley.

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Francis Beaumont

Francis Beaumont (1584 – 6 March 1616) was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher.

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George Wilkins

George Wilkins (c.1576-1618) was an English dramatist and pamphleteer best known for his probable collaboration with Shakespeare on the play Pericles, Prince of Tyre.

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Gerald Eades Bentley

Gerald Eades Bentley (September 15, 1901 – July 25, 1994) was an American academic and literary scholar, best remembered for his seven-volume work, The Jacobean and Caroline Stage, published by Oxford University Press between 1941 and 1968.

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Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare.

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Hope Theatre

The Hope Theatre was one of the theatres built in and around London for the presentation of plays in English Renaissance theatre, comparable to the Globe, the Curtain, the Swan, and other famous theatres of the era.

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John Day (dramatist)

John Day (1574–1638?) was an English dramatist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

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John Fletcher (playwright)

John Fletcher (1579–1625) was a Jacobean playwright.

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John Ford (dramatist)

John Ford (1586c. 1639) was an English playwright and poet of the Jacobean and Caroline eras born in Ilsington in Devon, England.

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John Webster

John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage.

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Keep the Widow Waking

Keep the Widow Waking is a lost Jacobean play, significant chiefly for the light it throws on the complexities of collaborative authorship in English Renaissance drama.

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King's Men (playing company)

The King's Men was the acting company to which William Shakespeare (1564–1616) belonged for most of his career.

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Philip Massinger

Philip Massinger (1583 – 17 March 1640) was an English dramatist.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.

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Prince Charles's Men

Prince Charles's Men (known as the Duke of York's Men from 1608 to 1612) was a playing company or troupe of actors in Jacobean and Caroline England.

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Queen Anne's Men

Queen Anne's Men was a playing company, or troupe of actors, in Jacobean era London.

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Red Bull Theatre

The Red Bull was an in-yard conversion erected as a playhouse in Clerkenwell, London operating during the 17th century.

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Rollo Duke of Normandy

Rollo Duke of Normandy, also known as The Bloody Brother, is a play written in collaboration by John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Ben Jonson, and George Chapman.

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Rule a Wife and Have a Wife

Rule a Wife and Have a Wife is a late Jacobean stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher.

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St James's Church, Clerkenwell

St James Church, Clerkenwell, is an Anglican parish church in Clerkenwell, London, England.

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The Birth of Merlin

The Birth of Merlin, or, The Child Hath Found his Father is a Jacobean play, probably written in whole or part by William Rowley.

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The Changeling (play)

The Changeling is a Jacobean tragedy written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.

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The Maid in the Mill

The Maid in the Mill is a late Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher and William Rowley.

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The Old Law

The Old Law, or A New Way to Please You is a seventeenth-century tragicomedy written by Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger.

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The Spanish Gypsy

The Spanish Gypsy is an English Jacobean tragicomedy, dating from 1621-22.

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The Spanish Viceroy

The Spanish Viceroy is a problem play of English Renaissance drama.

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The Thracian Wonder

The Thracian Wonder is a stage play of English Renaissance drama, a work that constitutes a long-standing and persistent problem for scholars and historians of the subject.

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The Travels of the Three English Brothers

The Travels of the Three English Brothers is an early Jacobean era stage play, an adventure drama written in 1607 by John Day, William Rowley, and George Wilkins.

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The Witch of Edmonton

The Witch of Edmonton is an English Jacobean play, written by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford in 1621.

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The World Tossed at Tennis

The World Tossed at Tennis is a Jacobean era masque composed by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, first published in 1620.

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Thomas Dekker (writer)

Thomas Dekker (c. 1572 – 25 August 1632) was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer, whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists.

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Thomas Heywood

Thomas Heywood (early 1570s – 16 August 1641) was an English playwright, actor, and author.

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Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April 1580 – July 1627; also spelled Midleton) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Wit at Several Weapons

Wit at Several Weapons is a seventeenth-century comedy of uncertain date and authorship.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rowley

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