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  • Companion Marlowe site!
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Tudor Facsimile Texts

John Stephen Farmer (1854-1916)

Farmer's collotype reproductions of rare early English dramatic texts were undertaken in the same spirit that motivated Frederick J. Furnivall, Charlotte Endymion Porter, Sidney Lee, and the giants of bibliography who founded the Malone Society: Pollard, Greg, McKerrow, Chambers, et al. His method was an improvement over Furnivall's and probably impressed the Murderer's Row of original Malone Society editors so that they based their methods of reproduction on Farmer's. 


The Getty Museum's booklet on the collotype process. (large file)

Why bother?

Farmer's interests were in spiritualism, the occult, and erotica, for which there was a bustling market in England and America. Why he interested himself in old plays that most scholars had cashiered from their mental regiments remains mysterious.  However, the texts are mostly well-printed and introduced, and were foundational for later study.


The best biography of Farmer is on a webpage created by Patrick J. Kearney. It is excellent, and thorough.

He created his own catalogues!

Farmer issued two catalogues under the title, A Rough Hand-List of the Tudor Facsimile Texts.  Collectors prowl old bookshops and the internet for copies, which can be quite valuable if they are in good order. Some believe that the texts listed that do not seem to have been issued are merely missing. 


For them, the search continues.


Rough Hand-List 1911


Rough Hand-List 1914

attributions may have changed over the last century

A-B

Thomas Lupton, All for Money (1578)


Apius and Virginia (1575)


Arden of Feversham (1592)


The Beauty and Good Properties of 

Women: Calisto and Melibaea (1530)


William Rowley, The Birth of Merlin (1620)


T. D., The Bloody Banquet (1620)

C-D

Thomas Preston, Cambyses, King of Persia (1584)


Captain Thomas Stukley (1605)


The Castle of Perseverance (1420)


Robert Wilson, The Cobler's Prophecy (1594)


John Bale, A Comedy Concerning Three Laws of Nature, Moses and Christ (1538)


Nathaniel Woodes, The Conflict of Conscience (1581)


The Contention between Liberality and Prodigality (1602)


Richard Edwards, Damon and Pithias (1568)


Anthony Munday, The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington (1601)


Thomas Ingelend, The Disobedient Child (1570)

E-F

George Chapman, Eastward Hoe (1605) 


Thomas Dekker and John Webster, The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat (1607)


Fair Em (1631)


Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton, Ferrex and Porrex or Gorboduc (1570)


William Shakespeare, The First Part of the Contention between the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster, &c. (1594)


John Heywood, The Four P P  (1545)

G-H

Gammer Gurton's Needle (1575)


George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield (1599)


John Heywood, Of Gentleness and Nobility (1535)


Robert Wilmot, Gismond of Salerne (1567)


John Cooke, Greenes Tu-quoque or The City Gallant (1614)


William Haughton and John Tatham, Grim the Collier of Croyden (1662)


Hickscorner (1512)


John Piering, The History of Horestes (1567)


Robert Armin, The History of the Two Maids of More-Clacke (1609)


Histrio-Mastix (1610)


Thomas Heywood, How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad (1602)

I-J

Impatient Poverty (1560)


Jack Drum's Entertainment (1601)


Jacob and Esau (1568)


Jack Juggler (c 1553)


John Heywood, Johan Johan the Husband (1533)


Anthony Munday, John-a-Kent and John-a-Cumber (1595)


John the Evangelist 

K-L

King Darius (1577)


A Knack to Know a Knave (1594)


The Life and Death of Jack Straw (1593)


Ulpian Fulwell, Like Will to Like (1568)


Locrine (1594)


The London Prodigal (1605)


W. Wager, The Longer Thou Livest the More Fool Thou Art (1568)


Look about You (1600)


R. Wever, Lusty Juventus (1540)

M-N

John Skelton, Magnificence 


The Maid's Metamorphosis (1600)


The Marriage of Wit and Science (1570)


Mankind (1475)


Lewis Wager, Mary Magdaline (1566)


The Merry Devil of Edmonton (1608)


George Wilkins, The Miseries of Enforced Marriage (1607)


Thomas Hughes, The Misfortunes of Arthur (1587)


Mucedorus (1598)


Henry Medwall, Nature (1516)


The Nature of the Four Elements (1510)


New Custom (1573)


Nice Wanton (1560)


Nobody and Somebody (1592)

O-P

John Heywood, The Pardoner and the Friar (1533)


Henry Chettle, William Haughton, and Thomas Dekker, Patient Grissill (1603)


Robert Wilson, The Pedler's Prophecy (1595)


The Pilgrimage to Parnassus (1597)


John Heywood, The Play of Love (1533)


John Heywood, The Play of the Wether (1533)


John Redford, The Play of Wit and Science (1550)


George Whetstone, Promos and Cassandra (1578)


Wentworth Smith, The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street (1607)

R

Lodowick Barry, Ram-Alley or Merry Tricks (1611)


The Reign of King Edward III (1589)


Respublica (1553)


Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl (1611)


Robin Hood (c. 1561)

S

Sir Giles Goosecap (1606) 


Sir John Oldcastle (1600)


Solimon and Perseda (1599)


The Story of King Darius (1565)


Swetnam the Woman-Hater (1620)

T

The Taming of a Shrew (1594)


John Bale, The Temptation of Our Lord (1538)


Thersytes [also Jack Jugler] (c. 1550)


Thomas, Lord Cromwell (1602)


R. W., The Three Ladies of London (1584)


George Wapull, The Tide Tarrieth No Man (1576)


Tom Tyler and His Wife (1551)


Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe, The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage (1594)


Robert Wilmot, The Tragedy of Tancred and Gismund (1592)


The Trial of Treasure (1567)


The Trial of Chivalry (1605)


The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England I (1591)


The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England II (1591)


The True Chronicle History of King Leir (1605)


Henry Porter, Two Angry Women of Abingdon (1599)


Robert Yarrington, Two Lamentable Tragedies (1601)


J. C., The Two Merry Milke-Maids (1620)


John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634)


Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fools (1619)

U-V

R. A., The Valiant Welshman (1615)


Samuel Brandon, The Virtuous Octavia (1912)

W

A Warning for Fair Women (1599)


The Wars of Cyrus (1594)


The Weakest Goeth to the Wall (1600)


Wealth and Health (1557)


Samuel Rowley, When You See Me, You Know Me (1605)


Wily Beguild (1606)


The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll (1600)


Wisdom or Mind, Will, and Understanding (1460)


John Heywood, Witty and Witless (1530)


The World and the Child, Mundus et Infans (1522)

XYZ

A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608)


Youth (1528)

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