Author:Richard Brome

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Richard Brome (1590–1643)

English playwright

Works

Plays

Solo

• The City Wit (c. 1629?, revived 1637, printed 1653)
• The Northern Lass (performed 1629, printed 1632)
• The Queen's Exchange (c. 1629–30?, printed 1657)
• The Novella (performed 1632, printed 1653)
• The Weeding of Covent Garden (performed 1633?, printed 1659)
• The Sparagus Garden (performed 1635, printed 1640)
• The Damoiselle (c. 1638?; printed 1653)
• The English Moor (performed 1637, printed 1659)
• The Antipodes (performed 1638, printed 1640)
• A Mad Couple Well Matched (performed 1639?, printed 1653)
• The Lovesick Court (registered 1640, printed 1659)
• The Court Beggar (1638, printed 1653)
• The New Academy (registered 1640, printed 1659)
• The Queen and Concubine (c. 1635–39?, printed 1659)
• A Jovial Crew (performed 1641, printed 1652)

With Thomas Heywood

• The Late Lancashire Witches (printed 1634)

Lost Plays

• A Lovesick Maid (1629)
• Wit in a Madness (1637)
• The Jewish Gentleman (registered 1640)
• A Fault in Friendship (1623; perhaps with Jonson and another)
• The Life and Death of Sir Martin Skink (c. 1634; with Heywood)
• The Apprentice's Prize (c. 1633–41; with Heywood)
• Christianetta (registered 1640; possibly with Chapman)

Works about Brome

• “Brome, Richard” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Brome, Richard,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.