Dekker, Thomas approximately 1572-1632

Overview

Works:	1,059 works in 3,887 publications in 6 languages and 51,935 library holdings
Genres:	Drama Criticism, interpretation, etc History Autographs Biography Dictionaries
Subject Headings:	Dramatists, English--Early modern
Roles:	Author, Bibliographic antecedent, Other, Editor, Creator, Lyricist
Classifications:	PR2243, 822.3

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Thomas Dekker

Thomas Dekker by George R Price( Book )
Thomas Dekker, a study by Mary Leland HUNT( Book )
Thomas Dekker by Thomas Dekker( Book )
The dragon and the dove : the plays of Thomas Dekker by Julia Gasper( Book )
Non-dramatic works by Thomas Dekker( Book )

Thomas Dekker. An analysis of dramatic structure by James H Conover( Book )
The collaboration of Webster and Dekker by F. E Pierce( Book )
Thomas Dekker and the traditions of English drama by Larry S Champion( Book )
Thomas Dekker : a reference guide by Doris Ray Adler( Book )
Introductions, notes, and commentaries to texts in The dramatic works of Thomas Dekker, edited by Fredson Bowers by Cyrus Hoy( Book )
Thomas Dekker's pamphlets, 1603-1609, and Jacobean popular literature by Frederick O Waage( Book )
London dispossessed : literature and social space in the early modern city by John Twyning( Book )
Dekker and Heywood : professional dramatists by Kathleen McLuskie( Book )
Thomas Dekker, c. 1572-1632, a bibliographical catalogue of the early editions (to the end of the 17th century) by A. F Allison( Book )
Thomas Dekker: a study in economic and social backgrounds by Kate L Gregg( Book )
Un peintre de la vie londonienne: Thomas Dekker (circa 1572-1632) by Marie Thérèse Jones-Davies( Book )
Rhetoric in the plays of Thomas Dekker by Suzanne Blow( Book )
Serious and tragic elements in the comedy of Thomas Dekker by Peggy Faye Shirley( Book )
The public theater in golden age Madrid and Tudor-Stuart London : class, gender, and festive community by Ivan Cañadas( Book )
Thomas Dekker and the culture of pamphleteering in early modern London by Anna Bayman( Book )

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Most widely held works by Thomas Dekker

The shoemaker's holiday by Thomas Dekker( Book )

164 editions published between 1600 and 2016 in 4 languages and held by 2,573 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rowland Lacy, a young nobleman in love with Rose Oateley, daughter of Sir Roger, disguises himself as a Dutch shoemaker, Hans, and works in a shop with Simon Eyre, having sent a friend to France in his place. He wins Rose. Through Hans, Eyre gets a fortune, becomes sheriff, and then Lord Mayor of London; as such he declares a shoemakers' holiday, feasting all apprentices. 5 acts, 17 men, 4 women, extras, 6 interiors, 8 exteriors, costumes of the period

The dramatic works of Thomas Dekker by Thomas Dekker( Book )

25 editions published between 1953 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,092 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The roaring girl by Thomas Middleton( Book )

68 editions published between 1611 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 1,028 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Sebastian has a problem. He's in love with a girl but his father won't agree to their marriage. In desperation he turns to the one person who can help him, the fearless and feisty 'roaring girl' Moll Cutpurse. In a London fuelled by greed and desire, the charismatic, cross-dressing heroine Moll has the world wrapped around her little finger, and she has a plan. Cutting a joyously independent path through the underhand scheming and petty vendettas of the London underworld, Moll proves more than a match for any man."--Page 4 of cover

Elizabethan drama by Thomas Dekker( Book )

7 editions published between 1910 and 1938 in English and held by 816 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Although a two-volume work on Elizabethan-era drama, only the first volume is included in this Anthology as it directly relates to Shakespeare and Marlowe. Marlowe's "Edward the Second" is the first piece, followed by four of Shakespeare's greatest works to provide a basis for comparison

The witch of Edmonton by William Rowley( Book )

57 editions published between 1658 and 2017 in English and German and held by 779 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The play, based on a sensational witchcraft trial of 1621, presents Mother Sawyer and her local community in the grip of a witch-mania reflecting popular belief and superstition of the time..."--Back cover

The vvonderfull yeare, 1603 by Thomas Dekker( Book )

15 editions published between 1924 and 1966 in English and held by 624 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The wonderful year [etc] and selected writings by Thomas Dekker( Book )

6 editions published between 1967 and 1968 in English and held by 602 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Thomas Dekker by Thomas Dekker( Book )

66 editions published between 1800 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 559 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The gull's hornbook by Thomas Dekker( Book )

55 editions published between 1804 and 2013 in English and held by 548 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"In the Gull's Handbook ... we can see, when we make due allowance for the exaggeration of the satirist, how Londoners really lived and behaved three hundred years ago." The main character is "a boor posing as a wit, a fool qualifying for a sharper."--Introductory note, p.i, v

Satiro-mastix : or, The vntrussing of the humorous poet. by Thomas Dekker( Book )

57 editions published between 1601 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 439 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Reply to Ben Jonson's Poetaster

Patient Grissill by Thomas Dekker( Book )

53 editions published between 1603 and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 417 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The guls hornbook and the belman of London : in two parts by Thomas Dekker( Book )

19 editions published between 1904 and 1941 in English and held by 383 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The famous history of Sir Thomas Wyat by Thomas Dekker( Book )

41 editions published between 1607 and 2011 in English and held by 348 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The whore of Babylon by Thomas Dekker : a critical edition by Thomas Dekker( Book )

32 editions published between 1607 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 322 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Celebration of Queen Elizabeth I and an attack on the Catholic Church

Westward hoe by Thomas Dekker( Book )

55 editions published between 1605 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 311 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Northward hoe by Thomas Dekker( Book )

50 editions published between 1607 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 288 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The belman of London : bringing to light the most notoriovs villanies that are now practised in the kingdome : profitable for gentlemen, lawyers, merchants, citizens, farmers, masters of housholds, and all sorts of seruants to marke, and delightfull for all men to read by Thomas Dekker( Book )

36 editions published between 1608 and 1640 in English and held by 218 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Anonymous. By Thomas Dekker. With a title-page woodcut. Signatures: A-I4. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. (marc) 99851292. (stc) STC (2nd ed.) 6482. (vid) 16563. (DLPS) A20042.0001.001. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20042.0001.001. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/text/accesspolicy.html. This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions. Crime and criminals -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800. Cant -- Early works to 1800

The magnificent entertainment : with the speeches and songes, delivered in the severall pageants by Thomas Dekker( Book )

41 editions published between 1604 and 1975 in English and held by 200 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

English villanies : eight severall times prest to death by the printers, but (still reviving againe) are now the ninth time (as at first) discovered by Lanthorne and candle-light, and the helpe of a new cryer, called O-Per-Se-O whose lowd voyce proclaimes to all that will heare him, another conspiracie of abuses lately plotting together, to hurt the peace of this kingdome, which the bell-man (because he then went stumbling i'th' darke) could never see till now : and because a companie of rogues, cunning canting Gypsies, and all the scumme of our nation fight here under their owne tottered colours : at the end is a canting dictionarie, to teach their language, with canting songs : a book to make gentlemen merrie, citizens warie, countreymen carefull : fit for all justices to reade over, because it is a pilot, by whom they may make strange discoveries by Thomas Dekker( Book )

19 editions published between 1632 and 1977 in English and Undetermined and held by 143 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Serious and tragic elements in the comedy of Thomas Dekker by Peggy Faye Shirley( Book )

1 edition published in 1975 in English and held by 9 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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