Best Early Modern Plays Not By Shakespeare

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The Duchess of Malfi

by John Webster

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25 reviews

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The Jew of Malta

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10 reviews

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Volpone, or The Fox

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The Spanish Tragedy

by Thomas Kyd

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14 reviews

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Edward II

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12 reviews

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The Alchemist

The Knight of the Burning Pestle

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8 reviews

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2 reviews

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The Witch of Edmonton

by Thomas Dekker

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1 review

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The Changeling

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The Shoemaker's Holiday

by Thomas Dekker

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The Roaring Girl

197 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

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Bartholomew Fair

Epicoene, or The Silent Woman

197 members

2 reviews

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The malcontent

by John Marston

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4 reviews

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Arden of Faversham

by Anonymous

165 members

3 reviews

3.8

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105 members

1 review

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The maid's tragedy

90 members

3.8

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Philaster

Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay

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by Robert Greene

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3 reviews

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The Dutch Courtesan (New Mermaids)

by John Marston

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1 review

3.2

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Endymion

by John Lyly

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2 reviews

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The Tamer Tamed (RSC Classics)

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Michaelmas Term

Every Man in His Humour (New Mermaids)

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The Revenger's Tragedy

'Tis Pity She's a Whore (New Mermaids)

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3 reviews

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The White Devil

by John Webster

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3 reviews

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by Martin Wiggins

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4 reviews

½ 3.5

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Women Beware Women

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

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1 review

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A Woman Killed With Kindness

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4 reviews

3.2

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by Thomas Heywood

118 members

1 review

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Bussy D'Ambois

by George Chapman

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3.2

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The Second Maiden's Tragedy

by William Shakespeare

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3.1

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A New Way to Pay Old Debts

by Philip Massinger

80 members

2.8

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A Game at Chess

70 members

4

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The Broken Heart

by John Ford

69 members

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A mad world, my masters

A Trick to Catch the Old One

57 members

3.1

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50 members

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A king and no king

The Fair Maid of the West [Part 1 and Part 2]

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by Thomas Heywood

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Antonio's Revenge: John Marston (The Revels Plays)

by John Marston

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3.2

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The Roman Actor

by Philip Massinger

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1 review

3

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Perkin Warbeck

by John Ford

32 members

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The Merry Devil of Edmonton

by William Haughton

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3

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The Widow's Tears

by George Chapman

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The Old Wives' Tale

by George Peele

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1 review

4

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The Antipodes

by Richard Brome

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A Fair Quarrel

Look about you (Malone Society reprints)

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by Henry Chettle

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Eastward Ho! (New Mermaids)

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Fuenteovejuna

by Lope de Vega

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22 reviews

½ 3.6

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Tamburlaine, Parts 1 & 2

A Jovial Crew (Arden Early Modern Drama)

412 members

10 reviews

3.9

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The Atheist's Tragedy

by Cyril Tourneur

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The city madam

by Philip Massinger

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by Richard Brome

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Thomas of Woodstock: or King Richard the Second, Part One

by Samuel Rowley

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All fools

by George Chapman

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A Yorkshire Tragedy

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The Traitor

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The lady of pleasure

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Hyde Park

The Cardinal (Revels Plays)

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The bloody brother: A tragedy

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Love's Sacrifice

by John Ford

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Englishmen For My Money; or, A Woman Will Have Her Will

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by William Haughton

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The Two Angry Women of Abingdon

by Henry Porter

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The Wild-Goose Chase

The First Part of the Life of Sir John Oldcastle

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4

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by Anthony Munday

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Demetrius and Enanthe, being The humorous lieutenant, a play,

Warning for Fair Women: A Critical Edition (Studies in English literature, v. 86)

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by William Haughton

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The Honest Whore, Part II

by Thomas Dekker

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Greene's Tu quoque, or, The cittie gallant

by Jo Cooke

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Law tricks, 1608 (The Malone Society reprints)

by John Daye

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The pleasant and Stately Morall, of the three Lordes and three Ladies of London : with the great Joy and Pompe, Solempnized at their Mariages: Commically interlaced with much honest Mirth, for pleasure and recreation, among many Morall obseruations and other important matters of due Regard.

by Robert Wilson

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Love's Pilgrimage

The Chances (in Great English Plays)

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