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Chronology of the Middleton Canon

Excerpted from Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

I have bracketed lost works, and put short individual poems in quotation marks. I have also given lost plays and lost political works by their separate individual dates. - G.T.

  1. Wisdom of Solomon, 1597
  2. Microcynicon, 1599
  3. Ghost of Lucrece, 1600
  4. Penniless Parliament, 1601
  5. [Caesar's Fall], May 1602
  6. [Chester Tragedy], Oct-Nov 1602
  7. ["Friar Bacon"], Dec 1602
  8. Phoenix, 1603-4
  9. News from Gravesend, late 1603
  10. Nightingale and Ant, early Jan 1604
  11. Meeting of Gallants, Jan-Feb 1604
  12. Magnificent Entertainment, 1603-4
  13. Plato's Cap, Mar 1604
  14. Black Book, Mar 1604
  15. Honest Whore, Mar-Sep 1604
  16. Michaelmas Term, Nov-Dec 1604
  17. Trick to Catch, spring 1605
  18. Mad World, summer 1605
  19. Yorkshire Tragedy, 1605
  20. Timon of Athens, 1605-6
  21. [Viper and her Brood], spring 1606
  22. Puritan Widow, mid-1606
  23. Revenger's Tragedy, late 1606
  24. Five Gallants, 1607
  25. Bloody Banquet, 1608-9
  26. Robert Sherley, spring 1609
  27. Two Gates, later 1609
  28. Roaring Girl, spring 1611
  29. No Wit, summer 1611
  30. Lady's Tragedy, fall 1611
  31. Chaste Maid, spring 1613
  32. New River, Sep 1613
  33. Triumphs of Truth, Oct 1613
  34. Weapons, late 1613
  35. [Masque of Cupids], Jan 1614
  36. Dissemblers, 1614
  37. Widow, winter 1615-16
  38. Witch, mid-1616
  39. Macbeth (adaptation), autumn 1616
  40. Civitatis Amor, Nov 1616
  41. Fair Quarrel, late 1616
  42. Honour and Industry, Oct 1617
  43. Owl's Almanac, Jan 1618
  44. Peacemaker, July 1618
  45. Masque of Heroes, Jan 1619
  46. "Burbage," Mar 1619
  47. Old Law, 1618-19
  48. Love and Antiquity, Oct 1619
  49. Tennis, Feb-Apr 1620
  50. Honourable Entertainments, Apr 1620-Apr 1621
  51. Hengist, June-December 1620
  52. Women Beware Women, summer 1621
  53. "George Bolles," Sep 1621
  54. Measure for Measure (adaptation), Oct 1621
  55. Sun in Aries, Oct 1621
  56. Quiet Life, winter 1621-22
  57. "St James," Jan 1622
  58. Invention, Apr 1622
  59. Changeling, May 1622
  60. Nice Valour, Sep 1622
  61. Honour and Virtue, Oct 1622
  62. Spanish Gypsy, Jul 1623
  63. "Malfi," 1623
  64. Triumphs of Integrity, Oct 1623
  65. Game at Chess, May-Aug 1624
  66. "King James," autumn 1624
  67. "Picture," spring 1625
  68. [Coronation Pageants], Dec 1625-Apr 1626
  69. Health and Prosperity, Oct 1626
  70. Farrago, 1625-27

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Companies and theaters for the plays

Excerpted from The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

  1. Anything for a Quiet Life
    for the King's Men at The Blackfriars
  2. The Bloody Banquet
    adapted for Beeston's Boys at The Phoenix
  3. The Changeling
    for Lady Elizabeth's Men at The Phoenix
  4. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
    for Lady Elizabeth's Men and the Children of the Queen's Revels at The Swan
  5. A Fair Quarrel
    for Prince Charles's Men
  6. A Game at Chess
    for the King's Men at The Globe
  7. Hengist, King of Kent
    for the King's Men
  8. The Lady's Tragedy
    for the King's Men
  9. Macbeth
    for the King's Men
  10. A Mad World, My Masters
    for the Children of Paul's
  11. Measure for Measure
    for the King's Men
  12. Michaelmas Term
    for the Children of Paul's
  13. More Dissemblers Besides Women
    for the King's Men
  14. The Nice Valour
  15. No Wit/Help like a Woman's
    for Prince Henry's Men at the Fortune
  16. Old Law
    for Prince Charles's Men (at the Red Bull?)
  17. The Patient Man and the Honest Whore
    for Prince Henry's Men at The Fortune
  18. The Phoenix
    for the Children of Paul's
  19. The Puritan Widow
    for the Children of Paul's
  20. The Revenger's Tragedy
    for the King's Men at The Globe
  21. The Roaring Girl
    for Prince Henry's Men at The Fortune
  22. The Spanish Gypsy
    for Lady Elizabeth's Men at The Phoenix
  23. Timon of Athens
    for the King's Men at The Globe
  24. A Trick to Catch the Old One
    for the Children of Paul's
  25. The Widow
    for the King's Men at The Blackfriars
  26. Wit at Several Weapons
    for Prince Charles's Men
  27. The Witch
    for the King's Men at The Blackfriars
  28. Women Beware Women
  29. The World Tossed at Tennis
    for Prince Charles's Men at The Swan
  30. A Yorkshire Tragedy
    for the King's Men at The Globe
  31. Your Five Gallants
    for the Children of the Chapel at The Blackfriars

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This article on Middleton appears in The New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).  All text © 2002 Gary Taylor.