plaied by the Queens Maiesties Seruants. Written by Thomas Dickers and Iohn Webster. E. A. for Thomas Archer.
1612. For Thomas Archer.
Editions by J. Blew (1876), and J. S. Farmer (1914, S. F. T.) and with Works of Webster (q.v.). Henslowe, on behalf of Worcester's men, paid Chettle, Dekker, Heywood, Smith, and Webster, for 1 Lady Jane in Oct. 1602. He then bought properties for The Overthrow of Rebels, almost certainly the same play, and began to pay Dekker for a 2 Lady Jane, which apparently remained unfinished, at any rate at the time. One or both of these plays, or possibly only the shares of Dekker and Webster in one or both of them, may reasonably be taken to survive in Sir Thomas Wyatt. Stoll, 49, thinks the play, as we have it, is practically Dekker's and that there is 'no one thing' that can be claimed 'with any degree of assurance' for Webster. But this is not the general view. Fleay, ii. 269, followed in the main by Hunt, 76, gives Webster scc. i-ix, Greg (Henslowe, ii. 233) scc. i-x and xvi (with hesitation as to iii-v), Pierce, after a careful application of a number of 'tests' bearing both on style and on matter, scc. ii, v, vi, x, xiv, xvi; but he thinks that some or all of these were retouched by Dekker. Brooke inclines to trace Webster in scc. ii, xvi, Heywood in scc. vi, x, and a good deal of Dekker. Hunt thinks the planning due to Chettle.
The Honest Whore. 1604, c. 1605
With Middleton.
S. R. 1604, Nov. 9 (Pasfield). 'A Booke called The humors of the patient man, The longinge wyfe and the honest whore.' Thomas Man the younger (Arber, iii. 275).
1608, April 29 (Buck). 'A booke called the second parte of the conuerted Courtisan or honest Whore.' Thomas Man Junior (Arber, iii. 376). [No fee entered.]
1630, June 29 (Herbert). 'The second parte of the Honest Hoore by Thomas Dekker.' Butter (Arber, iv. 238).
1604. The Honest Whore, With, The Humours of the Patient Man, and the Longing Wife. Tho: Dekker. V. S. for John Hodgets. [Part i.]
1605, 1615, 1616, N.D. [All Part i.]
1630. The Second Part of the Honest Whore, With the Humors of the Patient Man, the Impatient Wife: the Honest Whore, perswaded by strong Arguments to turne Curtizan againe: her braue refuting those Arguments. And lastly, the Comicall Passages of an Italian Bridewell, where the Scaene ends. Written by Thomas Dekker. Elizabeth Allde for Nathaniel Butter. [Part ii.]
1635. The Honest Whore, With, The Humours of the Patient Man, and the Longing Wife, Written by Thomas Dekker, As it hath beene Acted by her Maiesties Servants with great Applause. N. Okes, sold by Richard Collins. [Part i.]
Editions by W. Scott (1810, A. B. D. i) and W. A. Neilson (1911, C. E. D.).
