ABBREVIATIONS

I have followed the standard practice of referring to the first edition of Women Beware Women – the 1657 octavo – as O. Modern editions are referred to as follows:

Dyce	The Works of Thomas Middleton, edited by Alexander Dyce (1840)
Bullen	The Works of Thomas Middleton, edited by A. H. Bullen (1885–6)
Gill	Women Beware Women, edited by Roma Gill (New Mermaid, London, 1968)
Barber	Women Beware Women, edited by Charles Barber (Fountainwell Drama Texts, Berkeley, 1969)
Mulryne	Women Beware Women, edited by J. R. Mulryne (Revels, Manchester, 1975)
Frost	The Selected Plays of Thomas Middleton, edited by David L. Frost (Cambridge, 1978)
Loughrey and Taylor	Thomas Middleton: Five Plays, edited by Bryan Loughrey and Neil Taylor (London, 1988)

Other works frequently referred to are abbreviated as:

Holdsworth	R. V. Holdsworth, ‘Thomas Middleton: Women Beware Women’, RES, n.s. 29 (1978), 88–93
Jonson	Ben Jonson, edited by C. H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson (Oxford, 1925–52)
Tilley	M. P. Tilley, A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England (Ann Arbor, 1950)

Names of periodicals are abbreviated as:

CE	Cahiers Elisabéthains
ELR	English Literary Renaissance
JEGP	Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Lib	The Library
MLN	Modern Language Notes
MLR	Modern Language Review
MP	Modern Philology
PLL	Papers on Language and Literature
PQ	Philological Quarterly
RES	Review of English Studies
RMS	Renaissance and Modern Studies (University of Nottingham)
RORD	Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama
SEL	Studies in English Literature
SIcon	Studies in Iconography
SP	Studies in Philology
TSE	Tulane Studies in English
YES	Yearbook of English Studies

Quotations from Shakespeare are from The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Fourth Edition), edited by David Bevington (New York, 1992). Quotations from other plays (except those of Jonson) are from the New Mermaid editions.