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APPENDIX
The 46 works by Shakespeare’s contemporaries used in this analysis
Listed here are 18 comedies or tragi-comedies (vs 18 by Shakespeare), 24 histories or tragedies (vs 21 by Shakespeare) and 4 narrative works (vs 3 by Shakespeare), each with its likely date of composition, its best-fit genre, and a reference to the edition used. Genre attributions are often controversial. However, in a preliminary analysis bodily stress reactions were found to be equally frequent in the plays of Shakespeare which are traditionally called Histories and those which are called Tragedies, and half as frequent in Comedies, including Tragi-comedies or Romances. Therefore, the main consideration was a balance between Histories plus Tragedies on the one hand and Comedies including Tragi-comedies on the other.
The slightly greater number of non-Shakespearean works, especially Tragedies, makes for a bias against my findings.
Marlowe is regarded by many scholars as the contemporary who had the strongest and most long-lasting influence on Shakespeare, so it was deemed appropriate to include all the works in his small canon.
Anonymous
Arden of Faversham (1592) – TRAGEDY [1]
Thomas of Woodstock or Richard the Second Part One (1591-5) - HISTORY [2]
Beaumont F
The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607) – COMEDY [3]
Beaumont F, Fletcher J
Philaster or Love Lies A-Bleeding (1610) – TRAGI-COMEDY [4]
The Maid’s Tragedy (1610-11) – TRAGEDY [5]
Chapman G
The Tragedy of Bussy d’Ambois (1603-4) – TRAGEDY [6]
Chapman G, Jonson B, Marston J.
Eastward Ho (1604) - COMEDY [7]
Daniel S
The Complaint of Rosamond (1592) - NARRATIVE POEM [8]
Dekker T
The Shoemaker’s Holiday (1599) - COMEDY [9]
Fletcher J
The Woman’s Prize or The Tamer Tamed (1611) – COMEDY [10]
Greene R
Pandosto: The Triumph of Time (1588) - NARRATIVE PROSE WORK [11]
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (c.1589) - COMEDY [12]
James the Fourth (1590) - HISTORY [13]
Heywood T
The First Part of King Edward IV (1599) - HISTORY [14]
The Second Part of King Edward IV (1599) - HISTORY [14]
A Woman Killed With Kindness (1603) - TRAGEDY [5]
The Rape of Lucrece (1608) - TRAGEDY [16]
Jonson B
Every Man in His Humour (1598) – COMEDY [17]
Sejanus – His Fall (1603) – TRAGEDY [18]
Volpone (1606) – COMEDY [19]
Epicene or The Silent Woman (1609) – COMEDY [20]
The Alchemist (1610) - COMEDY [21]
Kyd T
The Spanish Tragedy (1585-7) – TRAGEDY [22]
Lodge T
The Wounds of Civil War: the Most Lamentable and True Tragedies of Marius and Scilla (?1584) - HISTORY [23]
Rosalynd: Euphues’ Golden Legacy (1590) - NARRATIVE PROSE WORK [24]
Lyly J
Gallathea (1585-8) – COMEDY [25]
Midas (1585-8) - COMEDY [26]
Endymion, the Man in the Moon (1588) – COMEDY [27]
MarloweC
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 (1587-8) - TRAGEDY [28]
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 2 (1587-8) – TRAGEDY [28]
Doctor Faustus (?late 1580s) - TRAGEDY [29]
The Jew of Malta (?1592) – COMEDY [30]
Edward II (?1593) – HISTORY [31]
The Massacre at Paris (?1593) - HISTORY [32]
Dido, Queen of Carthage (early 1580s) – TRAGEDY [33]
Hero and Leander (1593) - NARRATIVE POEM [34]
Marston J
Antonio and Mellida (1600-01) – TRAGEDY [35]
Antonio’s Revenge (1601) – TRAGEDY [36]
The Malcontent (1604) – TRAGI-COMEDY [37]
Middleton T
A Mad World, My Masters (1604-6) - COMEDY [38]
A Trick to Catch the Old One (1605) – COMEDY [39]
The Revenger’s Tragedy (1607) - TRAGEDY [40]
A Yorkshire Tragedy (?1606, prob 1608) - TRAGEDY [41]
Middleton T and Dekker T
The Roaring Girl (1611) – COMEDY [42]
Webster J
The White Devil (1612) – TRAGEDY [43]
The Duchess of Malfi (1613-4) – TRAGEDY [44]
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38. Thomas Middleton: A Mad World, My Masters. In Frost DL, ed. The Selected Plays of Thomas Middleton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1978:1-88
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