Abbreviations

The place of publication is London, unless otherwise indicated.

Editions of The Honest Whore, Parts 1 and 2, and Other Works by Dekker

Throughout, 1HW = The Honest Whore, Part 1 (1604); and 2HW = The Honest Whore, Part 2 (c.1605).

Bellman

The Bellman of London (1608), in Grosart, vol. 3.

Bowers

Fredson Bowers, ed., The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker (Cambridge, 1955; rev. 1964). 1HW and 2HW occur in vol. 2. Unless indicated otherwise, references to other plays by Dekker are to this edition.

de Somogyi

Nick de Somogyi, ed., The Honest Whore (1998).

Dodsley 1

R. Dodsley, ed., A Select Collection of Old Plays, vol. 2 (1744). (1HW only.)

Dodsley 2

Isaac Reed, ed., R. Dodsley, A Select Collection of Old Plays, vol. 3 (1780).

Dodsley 3

J.P. Collier, ed., R. Dodsley, A Select Collection of Old Plays, vol. 3 (1825).

Dyce

Alexander Dyce, ed., The Works of Thomas Middleton, vol. 3 (1840).

Four Birds

Four Birds of Noahʼs Ark (1609); in Grosart, vol. 5.

Grosart

A.B. Grosart, ed., The Non-Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, 5 vols. (1884-6, repr. New York, 1963).

Horn-Book

The Gullʼs Horn-Book (1609); in Grosart, vol. 2.

Jests

Jests to Make You Merry (1607); in Grosart, vol. 2.

Lantern

Lantern and Candlelight (1609); in Grosart, vol. 3.

Middleton, Comp.

Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, gen. eds., Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Culture: A Companion to The Collected Works (Oxford, 2007).

Middleton, Works.

Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, gen. eds., Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works (Oxford, 2007).

Mulholland

Paul Mulholland, ed., The Patient Man and the Honest Whore (his preferred title for 1HW), in Middleton, Works (text: 280-327); and in Middleton, Comp. (authorship and date: 351-53; textual introduction and apparatus: 507-28).

Neilson

W.A. Neilson, ed., The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists (Cambridge, Mass., 1911).

Nethercot

Arthur H. Nethercot, Charles R. Baskervill, and Virgil B. Heltzel, eds., Elizabethan Plays (rev. ed., New York, 1971).

News

News from Hell (1606); in Grosart, vol. 2.

Northward Ho

Bowers, vol. 2.

Roaring Girl

The Roaring Girl, ed. Paul Mulholland (Manchester, 1987).

Q

The Second Part of the Honest Whore (1630). (Also used for ‘Quartoʼ generally.)

Q1

The Honest Whore (1604). (The first edition of 1 Honest Whore.)

Q2

The Converted Courtezan (1604). (The second edition of 1 Honest Whore.)

Q3

The Honest Whore (1605).

Q4

The Honest Whore (1615).

Q5

The Honest Whore (1635).

Rhys

Ernest Rhys, ed., Thomas Dekker (1887).

Sev. Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins of London (1606), in Grosart, vol. 2.

Shoe. H.

The Shoemakerʼs Holiday, ed. R.L. Smallwood and Stanley Wells (Manchester, 1979).

Spencer

Hazelton Spencer, ed., Elizabethan Plays (Boston, 1933).

Westward Ho

Bowers, vol. 2.

Wilson

F.P. Wilson, ed., The Plague Pamphlets of Thomas Dekker (Oxford, 1925).

Wonderf. Year

The Wonderful Year (1603), in Grosart, vol. 1.

Other References

Abbott

E.A. Abbott, A Shakespearian Grammar (rev. 1870). (Note: references are to Abbottʼs paragraphs, not the page numbers.)

Burford

E.J. Burford, Bawds and Lodgings: A History of the London Bankside Brothels, c.100-1675 (1976).

C. Anne Wilson

C. Anne Wilson, Food and Drink in Britain from the Stone Age to Recent Times (1973).

Crystal and Crystal

David Crystal and Ben Crystal, Shakespeareʼs Words: A Glossary and Language Companion (2002).

Daalder-Moore

Joost Daalder and Antony Telford Moore, ‘Breaking the Rules: Editorial Problems in Middleton and Dekkerʼs The Honest Whore, Part 1,ʼ Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, Vol. 20, No. 4 (1996), 243-87. Click here to download as Supplementary Material to this edition.

Dent

R.W. Dent, Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare, 1495-1616 (Berkeley, 1984).

Fabricius

Johannes Fabricius, Syphilis in Shakespeareʼs England (1994).

Fausto Cercignani

(author of Shakespeareʼs Works and Elizabethan Pronunciation, Oxford, 1981): personal communications.

Florio

John Florio, A World of Words: Or Most Copious Dictionary in Italian and English (1598).

Griffiths

Paul Griffiths, Lost Londons: Change, Crime and Control in the Capital City 1550-1660 (Cambridge, 2008).

Henke

James T. Henke, Renaissance Dramatic Bawdy (Exclusive of Shakespeare): An Annotated Glossary and Critical Essays, 2 vols. (Salzburg, 1974).

Hirsch

Brett D. Hirsch, private communications.

Hoy

Cyrus Hoy, Introductions, Notes, and Commentaries to texts in ‘The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekkerʼ edited by Fredson Bowers, vol. 2 (Cambridge, 1980).

Judges

A.V. Judges, The Elizabethan Underworld (1930).

Linthicum

M. Channing Linthicum, Costume in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (Oxford, 1936).

Lowe

Eleanor Lowe, private communications.

MacDonald

Michael MacDonald, Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1981).

Nashe

The Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. R.B. McKerrow, rev. F.P. Wilson, 5 vols. (Oxford, 1958).

Nashe, Christ's Tears

‘Christ's Tears Over Jerusalemʼ, in Nashe, vol. 2, 1-175.

N&Q

Notes and Queries

ODEP

The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs, rev. F.P. Wilson (Oxford, 1970).

OED

The Oxford English Dictionary, ed. J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1989).

Onions

C.T. Onions, A Shakespeare Glossary, rev. Robert D. Eagleson (1986).

Partridge, Bawdy

Eric Partridge, Shakespeareʼs Bawdy (rev. 1968).

Partridge, Slang

Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang and Unvonventional English, ed. Paul Beale (1984).

Reed

Robert Rentoul Reed, Bedlam on the Jacobean Stage (Cambridge, Mass., 1952; repr. New York 1970).

Rev. Trag.

The Revengerʼs Tragedy, ed. R.A. Foakes (Manchester, 1966; repr. 1990).

Shakespeareʼs England

Shakespeareʼs England: An Account of the Life & Manners of his Age, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1916).

Stubbes

Philip Stubbes, The Anatomy of Abuses [1583], ed. F.J. Furnivall (2 parts, 1877-82).

Sugden

E.H. Sugden, A Topographical Dictionary to the Works of Shakespeare and his Fellow Dramatists (Manchester, 1925).

The Changeling

The Changeling, ed. Joost Daalder (1990; repr. 2005).

Tillyard

E.M.W. Tillyard, The Elizabethan World Picture (1943).

Williams

Gordon Williams, A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, 3 vols. (1994).

Works of Shakespeare

Wherever possible, references to Shakespeare are to the Internet Shakespeare Editions as they become available and cited by TLN. Otherwise, quotations are taken from David Bevington, ed., The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 4th ed. (New York, 1992).