Composers and their stage works 


Richard Brome

(ca 1590 - 1652 or 1653). English dramatist.

Plays

All were first performed in London.

  1. The Northern Lass. Comedy, 5 acts; verse. Published 1632 (Stationers' Register, Jan. 2, 1632). Produced Globe Theatre (King's Men), July 29, 1629 (entry in notebook of the Master of the Revels)
  2. The City Wit, or The Woman Wears the Breeches. Comedy, 5 acts; verse. Published 1653. Produced Salisbury Court Theatre (?), ca. 1629?
  3. The Queen's Exchange. Tragicomedy. Published 1657 (Stationers' Register, Nov. 20, 1656); under title The Royal Exchange, 1661. Produced Blackfriars Theatre (King's Men)?, 1631/32?
  4. The Novella. Comedy, 5 acts; verse. Published 1653. Produced Blackfriars Theatre (King's Men), 1632.
  5. The Weeding of the Covent Garden, or The Middlesex Justice of Peace. Comedy, 5 acts; verse. Published 1658 (Stationers' Register, Aug. 4, 1640). Produced 1632.
  6. The Late Lancashire Witches.(With Thomas Heywood). Comedy, 5 acts; verse. Published 1634 (Stationers' Register, Oct. 28, 1634). Produced Globe Theatre (King's Men), 1634
  7. The Sparagus Garden. Comedy, 5 acts; verse. Published 1640 (Stationers' Register, Mar. 19, 1640). Produced Salisbury Court Theatre, 1635.
  8. The English Moor, or The Mock Marriage. Comedy, 5 acts; verse. Published 1658 (Stationers' Register, Aug. 4, 1640). Produced Salisbury Court Theatre (Queen Henriettá s Men), 1637/38?
  9. The Antipodes. Comedy, 5 acts; verse. Published 1640 (Stationers' Register, Mar. 19, 1640). Produced Salisbury Court Theatre (Queen Henrietta's Men), 1638.
  10. The Queen and Concubine. Comedy. Published 1659. Produced Salisbury Court Theatre (King's Revels)?, 1635/39?
  11. A Mad Couple Well Matched. Comedy, 5 acts; verse. Published 1653. (Stationers' Register, June 11, 1659). Produced Cockpit Theatre (Beeston's Boys)?, 1637?/39.
  12. The Lovesick Court, or The Ambitious Politique. Comedy, 5 acts; verse. Published 1658 (Stationers' Register, Aug. 4, 1640). Produced ca. 1632/40.
  13. The Court Beggar. Comedy, 5 acts; verse. Published 1653. Produced Cockpit Theatre (Beeston's Boys), 1639/40.
  14. The New Academy, or The New Exchange. Comedy, 5 acts; verse. Published 1658 (Stationers' Register, Aug. 4, 1640). Produced not later than 1640.
  15. The Jovial Crew, or The Merry Beggars. Comedy, 5 acts; verse. Published 1652. Produced Cockpit Theatre (Beeston's Boys), 1641.