(1919).—Dissertation: R. G. Martin, A New Source for a Woman Killed with Kindness (1911, E. S. xliii. 229). Henslowe, on behalf of Worcester's, paid Heywood £6 for this play in Feb. and March 1603 and also bought properties for it. It is mentioned in T. M., The Black Book of London (1604), sig. E3.
The Wise Woman of Hogsdon. c. 1604 (?) S. R. 1638, Mar. 12 (Wykes). 'A Play called The wise woman of Hogsden by Thomas Haywood.' Henry Sheapard (Arber, iv. 411). 1638. The Wise-woman of Hogsdon. A Comedie. As it hath been sundry times Acted with great Applause. Written by Tho: Heywood. M. P. for Henry Shephard. Fleay, i. 291, suggested a date c. 1604 on the grounds of allusions to other plays of which A Woman Killed with Kindness is the latest (ed. Pearson, v. 316), and a conjectural identification with Heywood's How to Learn of a Woman to Woo, played by the Queen's at Court on 30 Dec. 1604. The approximate date is accepted by Ward, ii. 574, and others. It may be added that there are obvious parallelisms with the anonymous How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad (1602) generally assigned to Heywood.
If You Know not Me, You Know Nobody. 1605
S. R. 1605, July 5 (Hartwell). 'A booke called yf you knowe not me you knowe no body.' Nathaniel Butter (Arber, iii. 295). 1605, Sept. 14 (Hartwell). 'A Booke called the Second parte of Yf you knowe not me you knowe no bodie with the buildinge of the exchange.' Nathaniel Butter (Arber, iii. 301). [Part i] 1605. If you Know not me, You Know no bodie: Or, The troubles of Queene Elizabeth. For Nathaniel Butter.
1606, 1608, 1610, 1613, 1623, 1632, 1639.
[Part ii] 1606. The Second Part of, If you Know not me, you know no bodie. With the building of the Royall Exchange: And the famous Victorie of Queene Elizabeth, in the Yeare 1588. For Nathaniell Butter.
1609. . . . With the Humors of Hobson and Tawny-cote. For Nathaniell Butter.
N.D. [1623?].
1632. For Nathaniel Butter. [With different version of Act V.]
Editions by J. P. Collier (1851, Sh. Soc.) and J. Blew (1876).—Dissertation: B. A. P. van Dam and C. Stoffel, The Fifth Act of Thomas Heywood's Queen Elizabeth: Second Part (1902, Jahrbuch, xxxviii. 153).
Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas, 248, has 'A Prologue to the Play of Queene Elizabeth as it was last revived at the Cock-pit, in which the Author taxeth the most corrupted copy now imprinted, which was published without his consent'. It says:
This: (by what fate I know not) sure no merit,
That it disclaimes, may for the age inherit.
