We know precious little about plays written for Shakespeare’s company while he was with them other than by Shakespeare himself. We are almost entirely dependent on the luck of plays being published with this information or titles being preserved when they were played at court. In Shakespeare’s own time with the company (circa 1594–1614) the only other playwrights we can identify are Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, George Wilkins, Barnabe Barnes, John Fletcher (alone or with Francis Beaumont, Nathan Field or Philip Massinger), John Webster, Cyril Tourneur, Richard Niccols, and John Ford. It is a small pool, compared with the many names that crop up in Henslowe’s Diary over a much shorter period. The plays by Tourneur and Niccols have not survived; those by Dekker (Satiromastix) and Marston (The Malcontent) only came to the company through special circumstances. In all twenty‐three such plays up to 1614 are extant; six of those are by Jonson; nine are by Fletcher, with or without collaborators. There are also six anonymous texts associated with the company (seven, if we include Mucedorus, an old play they revived). And nine for which we have titles but no texts.
These lists are inevitably conjectural in places. None of the plays ascribed to Middleton was associated with him at the time. The dating of most Beaumont and Fletcher plays is guesswork, so some may actually be ineligible for this list, while eligible titles may be missing. We do not know to what extent the Globe and Blackfriars repertories were interchangeable; where I have identified post‐1608 texts with one or other it is based on circumstantial evidence (e.g. The Alchemist) or title‐page assertions, but these are often long after the date of composition. And we cannot assume that texts as printed necessarily reflect their earliest staging.