Complete Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker

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by Thomas Dekker


  A poem of Dekker’s, entitled ‘The Artillery Garden,’ was entered in the ‘Stationers’ Register,’ 29 Nov. 1615, but no copy of it has been hitherto traced. Among the plays destroyed by Warburton’s servant were two of Dekker’s works: a comedy entitled ‘Jocondo and Astolfo,’ and an historical play, ‘The King of Swedland.’ They had been entered in the ‘Stationers’ Register,’ 29 June 1660, but were not printed. Another unpublished play of Dekker, ‘The Jew of Venice,’ was entered in the ‘Stationers’ Register,’ 9 Sept. 1653. ‘A French Tragedy of the Bellman of Paris, written by Thomas Dekkirs and John Day, for the Company of the Red Bull,’ was licensed by Sir Henry Herbert, 30 July 1623, but was not printed. Commendatory verses by Dekker are prefixed to ‘The Third and Last Part of Palmerin of England,’ 1602; ‘A True and Admirable Historie of a Mayden of Confolens,’ 1603, 8vo; the ‘Works’ of Taylor the Water-poet, 1630; and Richard Brome’s ‘Northern Lass,’ 1632. A tract entitled ‘Greevous Grones for the Poore,’ 1622, has been assigned without evidence to Dekker. Collier plausibly suggests that Dekker may have been the author of the anonymous ‘Newes from Graves End,’ 1604.

  Dekker’s dramatic works were collected by Mr. R. H. Shepherd in 1873, 4 vols. 8vo. His miscellaneous works, 5 vols., are included in Dr. Grosart’s ‘Huth Library.’ When all deductions have been made on the score of inartistic and reckless workmanship, Dekker’s best plays rank with the masterpieces of the Elizabethan drama; and his numerous tracts, apart from their sterling literary interest, are simply invaluable for the information that they afford concerning the social life of Elizabethan and Jacobean times.

  [Henslowe’s Diary, passim; Langbaine’s Dramatick Poets with Oldys’s manuscript annotations; biographical notice prefixed to Dekker’s Dramatic Works, 1874; Grosart’s Memorial Introduction; Corser’s Collectanea; Hazlitt’s Bibl. Collections; Collier’s Bibl. Cat.; Brit. Mus. Cat.; article by A. C. Swinburne in Nineteenth Century, January 1887.]

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