Authority Cited: Middleton's Blurt Master-Constable
Author name and dates: Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) and Thomas Dekker (c.1572-1632)
BKG Bio-tweet: TM (poet) & TD (pamphleteer) prolific playwrights; TD imprisoned 7 years for debt; SJ quotes under poking-stick in 4th ed
(Middleton portrait; Dekker portrait below)
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Middleton cite in 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
Blurt Master-Constable, A Comedy, 1602: Blurt. master-constable. Or The Spaniards night-walke, As it hath bin sundry times priuately acted by the Children of Paules, [Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, attributed name]. 1602 London: Printed by Edward Allde for Henry Rockytt; poking-stick (new head word), [BKG Note: from 18th Century Collections Online re the 1750 Dublin edition: "The author's name given in the preface as Thomas Middleton, but authorship is disputed. Variously attributed to Middleton and Thomas Dekker, and likely Dekker's work. Also issued as part of: 'A select collection of old plays .. the editor W.R. Chetwood' Dublin, 1750.”]
Author name and dates: Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) and Thomas Dekker (c.1572-1632)
BKG Bio-tweet: TM (poet) & TD (pamphleteer) prolific playwrights; TD imprisoned 7 years for debt; SJ quotes under poking-stick in 4th ed
(Middleton portrait; Dekker portrait below)
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Middleton cite in 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
Blurt Master-Constable, A Comedy, 1602: Blurt. master-constable. Or The Spaniards night-walke, As it hath bin sundry times priuately acted by the Children of Paules, [Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, attributed name]. 1602 London: Printed by Edward Allde for Henry Rockytt; poking-stick (new head word), [BKG Note: from 18th Century Collections Online re the 1750 Dublin edition: "The author's name given in the preface as Thomas Middleton, but authorship is disputed. Variously attributed to Middleton and Thomas Dekker, and likely Dekker's work. Also issued as part of: 'A select collection of old plays .. the editor W.R. Chetwood' Dublin, 1750.”]
