CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

The Place

The Author

Date

Sources

The Play

Ironic Designs

Language

Comic-Satiric

The Play on the Stage

Note on the Text

Further Reading

The Swan Theatre

A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE

The Names of the Principal Persons

Map showing places mentioned in the play

The Play

Appendices

A Thomas Campion, the Eighth Epigram from Observations in the Art of English Poesie Ballad, ‘Who would not be a cuckold’