Selections:

Act 4, scene 1, and Act 1, scene 1, are reprinted in Lamb's Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets. 1808. (Ed. Lucas, 4. 101-104).

Translation:

Die Hexen in Lancashire, von Thomas Heywood. Shakespeare's Vorschule III.

wig Tieck. Leipzig, 1823.

Herausgegeben von Lud

THE SPARAGUS GARDEN

The Sparagus Garden: A Comedie. Acted in the yeare 1635, by the then company of Revels, at Salisbury Court. The Author Richard Brome. Hic totus volo rideat Libellus. Mart. London: Printed by J. Okes, for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shops in Kings-street at the signe of the Goat and in Westminster-hall. 1640. Quarto.

Dedicated to William, Earl of Newcastle. Prefatory verses by C. G. and R. W.

Selections from Act 1, scene 3; Act 2, scene 3; and Act 2, scene 5, with various short omissions, are given in Lambs Specimens, 1827. (Ed. Lucas, 4. 468–470).

THE ANTIPODES

The Antipodes: A Comedie. Acted in the yeare 1638, by the Queenes Majesties Servants, at Salisbury Court in Fleet-street. The Author Richard Brome. Hic totus volo rideat Libellus. Mart. London: Printed by J. Okes, for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shops in Kings-street at the sign of the Goat, and in Westminsterhall. 1640.

Quarto.

Dedicated to William, Earl of Hertford. Prefatory verses by C. G. and Rob. Chamberlain.

Selections from Act 2, scenes 1 and 2; Act 1, scene 6; and Act 2, scenes 8 and 9, with various short omissions, are given in Lamb's Specimens (Ed. Lucas, 4. 464 −468). Act 2, scene 9, reprinted in English Verse-Dramatic Scenes and Characters. Edited by W. J. Linton and R. H. Stoddard. London, 1884. p. 193.

A JOVIALL CREW

A Joviall Crew: or the Merry Beggars. Presented in a Comedy at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane in the yeer 1641. Written by Richard Brome. Mart. Hic totus volo rideat Libellus. London: Printed by J. Y. for E. D. and N. E.; and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivy-Lane. 1652.

Quarto.

Dedicated to Thomas Stanley. Prefatory verses by John Hall, J. B., Ja. Shirley, Jo. Tatham, and Alex. Brome.

Other editions:

Second, 1661. Third, 1684.

Another, with songs and a key to the beggar's cant, 1708.

The Beggars' Chorus, or the Jovial Crew. 1670?, 1690 ?, 1700? (all folio).

The Jovial Crew, a Comic Opera, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal, by His Majesty's Servants. With the Musick prefixed to each Song. London: 1731. Price Is. 6d.

Other editions of the opera: 1732, 1760, 1761, 1764, 1767, 1774, 1780, 1781.

A New Book of Songs to the Jovial Crew, 1731.

Airs, Songs and Duettos in the Jovial Crew, selected from the Prompt Book by James Wild. London, 1792. The Jovial Crew, reprinted in Dodsley, 1744, 1780, 1825, but not in 1876. Also in Sir Walter Scott's Ancient British Drama, 1810, Vol. 3.

FIVE NEW PLAYS, 1653

Five New Plays, (viz.) The Madd Couple well matcht. Novella. Court Begger. City Wit. Damoiselle. By Richard Brome. London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, Richard Marriot, and Thomas Dring, and are to be sold at their shops, 1653.

Octavo.

Another title-page:

London, Printed by J.F. and are to be sold by J.Sweeting, at his shop at the Angel in Popeshead-Alley. 1654. Every play except the first is preceded by a separate title-page. All are dated 1653. The second and third are 'Printed for Richard Marriot and Thomas Dring'; the last two are Printed by T. R. for Richard Marriot, and Thomas Dring.' The volume is preceded by an engraved portrait by T. Cross, with verses underneath by A. B. There are prefatory verses by Aston Cokayne and Alex. Brome, who is the editor. There is no dedication. The second title-page of 1654 precedes the copy in the Yale Library. As the separate title-pages to every play are identical with those of the copies with Humphrey Moseley's title-page, this probably represents a transference of publishers, but not a new edition. I find no reference to the title-page of the Yale copy in any bibliographical work. It is not in the British Museum.

THE QUEEN'S EXCHANGE

The Queenes Exchange, a Comedy, Acted with general applause at the Black-Friars by His Majesties Servants. Written by Richard Brome. Regia res amor est. London, Printed for Henry Brome, at the Hand in Pauls Church-yard. 1657.

Quarto.

Another title-page:

The Royal Exchange, 1661. The Biog. Dram., Dict. Nat. Biog., etc., call this another edition of the Queen's Exchange, 1657, with a new title, but Brindsley Nicholson (Notes and Queries, 7th. Ser. No. 7, p. 126) says that he found by examination of copies in his library that the Royal Exchange was undoubtedly the same issue, with the unsold copies prefixed by a new title-page.

FIVE NEW PLAY'S, 1659

Five New Playes, viz. The English Moor, or the Mock-Marriage. The Love-Sick Court, or the Ambitious Politique. Covent Garden Weeded. The New Academy, or the New Exchange. The Queen and Concubine. By Richard Brome. London, Printed for A. Crook at the Green Dragon in Saint Paul's Churchyard, and for H. Brome at the Gunn in Ivy-Lane, 1659. Octavo.

Some copies have Five New Playes' written vertically across the page facing the title. Prefatory verses by T. S. and Alex. Brome, the editor. No dedication. Separate title-pages to every play. The first has two titlepages, one dated 1659, the other 1658; the last play is dated 1659; the other three 1658. The first two are paged continuously, the rest have each a separate pagination.

The catalogue of the British Museum lists an edition of 1669, which, I am informed by A. W. K. Miller, Esq., of the Department of Printed Books, is a misprint.

THE DEBAUCHEE

The Debauchee: or the Credulous Cuckold, A Comedy. Acted at his Highness the Duke of York's Theatre. Licensed, Feb. 23, 1676/7 Roger L'Strange. London: Printed for John Amery, at the Peacock, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street.

1677.

Quarto.

An alteration by Mrs. Aphra Behn (?) of the Mad Couple well Matched (in Five New Plays, 1653).

COLLECTED WORKS

The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome containing fifteen comedies now first collected in three volumes. London. John Pearson. York Street. Covent Garden. 1873.

Octavo.

With portrait from the edition of 1653. A literal reprint, slightly inaccurate. Lancashire Witches omitted.

POEMS

Verses prefixed to Thomas Nabbes's masque, Microcosmus, 1637.

Verses prefixed to Thomas Jordan's Poetical Varieties, 1637.

Verses prefixed to Shakerley Marmion's Cupid and Psyche, 1637.

To John Fletcher [a preface to Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas], 1639.

Verses prefixed to John Tatham's Fancies Theatre, 1640. To John Fletcher [prefixed to the folio of Beaumont and Fletcher], 1647.

To Henry, Lord Hastings, son of the Earl of Huntington, [in Lachrymæ Musarum], 1649.

Upon Aglaura printed in Folio [in Musarum Delicia p. 58], 1656.

Also in Five New Plays, 1659, preceding Weeding of Covent Garden, and in Pearson's edition, 1873.

A Song.

'Away with all grief and give us more sack.' Last two lines quoted in Jovial Crew, 1652.