Dominant work: Poetaster, or The Arraignment · genre mix of this topic (British Drama labels): comedy 58%; tragedy 11%; not in BritDrama 8%
All statistics on this page are on the representative editions (one per work). Including the other editions, placed after the fit: 156 chunks · 80 works · 76,722 words — those 24 chunks are listed at the end of the page and are not part of any figure above.
In the analyses: author comparisons for this topic · this topic by decade.
Amber = capitalised in ≥80 % of occurrences (probable name). Keywords are computed on the unmasked text.
This is the direction topic → genre, on the raw British Drama labels; the share of each genre group's text that falls in this topic is on the Genre page.
Poetaster, or The Arraignment (7), The Antipodes (7), The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled (6), Every Man Out of His Humor (5), Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Sel (5), Histriomastix, or The Player Whipped (5), Bartholomew Fair (5), Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (4), The Isle of Gulls (4), Satiromastix, or The Untrussing of the H (3), What You Will (3), Technogamia, or The Marriages of the Art (3), The Staple of News (3), Summer's Last Will and Testament (2), Antonio and Mellida (2) …
| chunk | play | author | published | genre | words | typicality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83_00000 | Ralph Roister Doister | Udall, Nicholas | 1566 | comedy | 488 | 0.646 |
| 100_00000 | Damon and Pithias | Edwards, Richard | 1571 | comedy | 507 | 0.747 |
| 135_00000 | Sappho and Phao | Lyly, John | 1584 | comedy | 429 | 0.724 |
| 238_00006 | The Cobbler's Prophecy | Wilson, Robert | 1594 | moral | 514 | 0.668 |
| 365_00003 | Every Man Out of His Humor | Jonson, Ben | 1600 | comedy | 458 | 0.831 |
| 365_00038 | Every Man Out of His Humor | Jonson, Ben | 1600 | comedy | 502 | 0.810 |
| 396_00002 | Summer's Last Will and Testament | Nashe, Thomas | 1600 | comedy | 441 | 0.790 |
| 365_00005 | Every Man Out of His Humor | Jonson, Ben | 1600 | comedy | 466 | 0.778 |
| 365_00001 | Every Man Out of His Humor | Jonson, Ben | 1600 | comedy | 480 | 0.746 |
| 365_00004 | Every Man Out of His Humor | Jonson, Ben | 1600 | comedy | 467 | 0.742 |
| 396_00000 | Summer's Last Will and Testament | Nashe, Thomas | 1600 | comedy | 304 | 0.721 |
| 364_00001 | Old Fortunatus | Dekker, Thomas | 1600 | romance | 487 | 0.714 |
| 422_00003 | Poetaster, or The Arraignment | Jonson, Ben | 1602 | comedy | 507 | 0.831 |
| 418_00002 | Antonio and Mellida | Marston, John | 1602 | comedy | 505 | 0.828 |
| 422_00006 | Poetaster, or The Arraignment | Jonson, Ben | 1602 | comedy | 497 | 0.822 |
| 444_00042 | Satiromastix, or The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet | Dekker, Thomas | 1602 | comedy | 510 | 0.795 |
| 422_00001 | Poetaster, or The Arraignment | Jonson, Ben | 1602 | comedy | 493 | 0.785 |
| 418_00000 | Antonio and Mellida | Marston, John | 1602 | comedy | 447 | 0.772 |
| 422_00028 | Poetaster, or The Arraignment | Jonson, Ben | 1602 | comedy | 502 | 0.754 |
| 422_00004 | Poetaster, or The Arraignment | Jonson, Ben | 1602 | comedy | 489 | 0.731 |
| 444_00041 | Satiromastix, or The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet | Dekker, Thomas | 1602 | comedy | 511 | 0.709 |
| 422_00045 | Poetaster, or The Arraignment | Jonson, Ben | 1602 | comedy | 471 | 0.707 |
| 444_00039 | Satiromastix, or The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet | Dekker, Thomas | 1602 | comedy | 486 | 0.674 |
| 422_00002 | Poetaster, or The Arraignment | Jonson, Ben | 1602 | comedy | 506 | 0.666 |
| 518_00000 | All Fools | Chapman, George | 1605 | comedy | 468 | 0.791 |
| 501_00000 | The Dutch Courtesan (Cockle de Moye) | Marston, John | 1605 | comedy | 465 | 0.746 |
| 555_00001 | The Isle of Gulls | Day, John | 1606 | comedy | 509 | 0.847 |
| 555_00002 | The Isle of Gulls | Day, John | 1606 | comedy | 489 | 0.842 |
| 533_00004 | The Gentleman Usher (Vincentio and Margaret) | Chapman, George | 1606 | comedy | 487 | 0.785 |
| 555_00033 | The Isle of Gulls | Day, John | 1606 | comedy | 504 | 0.757 |
| 548_00000 | Wily Beguiled | Anonymous | 1606 | comedy | 460 | 0.747 |
| 555_00000 | The Isle of Gulls | Day, John | 1606 | comedy | 502 | 0.727 |
| 533_00003 | The Gentleman Usher (Vincentio and Margaret) | Chapman, George | 1606 | comedy | 489 | 0.694 |
| 577_00000 | The Woman Hater (The Hungry Courtier) | Beaumont, Francis / Fletcher, John | 1607 | comedy | 473 | 0.797 |
| 592_00001 | What You Will | Marston, John | 1607 | comedy | 454 | 0.765 |
| 592_00000 | What You Will | Marston, John | 1607 | comedy | 456 | 0.751 |
| 562_00000 | Lingua, or The Combat of the Tongue and the Five Senses | Tomkis, Thomas | 1607 | comedy; allegory | 483 | 0.731 |
| 562_00032 | Lingua, or The Combat of the Tongue and the Five Senses | Tomkis, Thomas | 1607 | comedy; allegory | 551 | 0.722 |
| 592_00008 | What You Will | Marston, John | 1607 | comedy | 492 | 0.688 |
| 573_00039 | The Phoenix | Middleton, Thomas | 1607 | comedy | 550 | 0.681 |
| 651_00030 | A Mad World, My Masters | Middleton, Thomas | 1608 | comedy | 516 | 0.720 |
| 651_00032 | A Mad World, My Masters | Middleton, Thomas | 1608 | comedy | 512 | 0.719 |
| 663_00001 | The Case Is Altered | Jonson, Ben | 1609 | comedy | 469 | 0.813 |
| 663_00014 | The Case Is Altered | Jonson, Ben | 1609 | comedy | 478 | 0.763 |
| 681_00012 | Histriomastix, or The Player Whipped | Marston, John | 1610 | moral | 500 | 0.832 |
| 681_00008 | Histriomastix, or The Player Whipped | Marston, John | 1610 | moral | 507 | 0.825 |
| 681_00007 | Histriomastix, or The Player Whipped | Marston, John | 1610 | moral | 507 | 0.780 |
| 681_00005 | Histriomastix, or The Player Whipped | Marston, John | 1610 | moral | 509 | 0.777 |
| 673_00000 | The Turk (Muleasses the Turk) | Mason, John | 1610 | tragedy | 495 | 0.759 |
| 681_00017 | Histriomastix, or The Player Whipped | Marston, John | 1610 | moral | 487 | 0.686 |
| 683_00000 | Ram Alley, or Merry Tricks | Barry, Lording | 1611 | comedy | 445 | 0.834 |
| 696_00000 | The Roaring Girl, or Moll Cutpurse | Dekker, Thomas / Middleton, Thomas | 1611 | comedy | 480 | 0.748 |
| 707_00000 | If It Be Not Good, the Devil Is in It (If This Be Not a | Dekker, Thomas | 1612 | comedy | 483 | 0.710 |
| 724_00000 | The Knight of the Burning Pestle | Beaumont, Francis | 1613 | comedy | 494 | 0.803 |
| 710_00005 | The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois | Chapman, George | 1613 | tragedy | 488 | 0.732 |
| 751_00000 | The Four Prentices of London | Heywood, Thomas | 1615 | romance | 464 | 0.795 |
| 413_00003 | Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | satire | 492 | 0.853 |
| 704_00000 | Epicene, or The Silent Woman | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | comedy | 522 | 0.843 |
| 413_00002 | Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | satire | 518 | 0.827 |
| 413_00012 | Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | satire | 544 | 0.779 |
| 606_00000 | Volpone, or The Fox | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | comedy | 504 | 0.775 |
| 413_00025 | Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | satire | 504 | 0.759 |
| 413_00029 | Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | satire | 518 | 0.671 |
| 704_00013 | Epicene, or The Silent Woman | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | comedy | 518 | 0.590 |
| 794_00000 | Technogamia, or The Marriages of the Arts | Holyday, Barten | 1618 | comedy | 507 | 0.779 |
| 794_00016 | Technogamia, or The Marriages of the Arts | Holyday, Barten | 1618 | comedy | 527 | 0.753 |
| 794_00035 | Technogamia, or The Marriages of the Arts | Holyday, Barten | 1618 | comedy | 496 | 0.658 |
| 453_00026 | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | Shakespeare, William | 1623 | tragedy | 528 | 0.798 |
| 453_00020 | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | Shakespeare, William | 1623 | tragedy | 527 | 0.782 |
| 453_00022 | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | Shakespeare, William | 1623 | tragedy | 515 | 0.771 |
| 453_00019 | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | Shakespeare, William | 1623 | tragedy | 518 | 0.745 |
| 868_00017 | As You Like It | Shakespeare, William | 1623 | comedy | 516 | 0.708 |
| 852_00002 | Time Vindicated to Himself and to His Honors | Jonson, Ben | 1623 | masque | 528 | 0.702 |
| 907_00000 | Apollo Shroving | Hawkins, William | 1627 | comedy | 512 | 0.761 |
| 914_00000 | The Lover's Melancholy | Ford, John | 1629 | tragicomedy | 469 | 0.842 |
| 917_00000 | The Deserving Favorite | Carlell, Lodowick | 1629 | tragicomedy | 513 | 0.758 |
| 957_00040 | Sicelides (The Sicilians) | Fletcher, Phineas | 1631 | pastoral | 480 | 0.823 |
| 971_00002 | Bartholomew Fair | Jonson, Ben | 1631 | comedy | 392 | 0.806 |
| 972_00010 | The Staple of News | Jonson, Ben | 1631 | comedy | 479 | 0.806 |
| 972_00000 | The Staple of News | Jonson, Ben | 1631 | comedy | 480 | 0.798 |
| 971_00000 | Bartholomew Fair | Jonson, Ben | 1631 | comedy | 500 | 0.788 |
| 971_00061 | Bartholomew Fair | Jonson, Ben | 1631 | comedy | 490 | 0.787 |
| 964_00000 | Rhodon and Iris | Knevet, Ralph | 1631 | pastoral | 470 | 0.745 |
| 952_00003 | The Spanish Bawd (Calisto and Meliboea) (Celestina) | Mabbe, James / Rojas, Fernando de | 1631 | tragicomedy; literary | 566 | 0.722 |
| 972_00032 | The Staple of News | Jonson, Ben | 1631 | comedy | 467 | 0.717 |
| 971_00001 | Bartholomew Fair | Jonson, Ben | 1631 | comedy | 481 | 0.706 |
| 971_00003 | Bartholomew Fair | Jonson, Ben | 1631 | comedy | 559 | 0.695 |
| 954_00000 | The School of Compliment (Love Tricks) | Shirley, James | 1631 | comedy | 552 | 0.675 |
| 975_00000 | The Courageous Turk, or Amurath the First | Goffe, Thomas | 1632 | tragedy | 452 | 0.794 |
| 980_00000 | Changes, or Love in a Maze | Shirley, James | 1632 | comedy | 518 | 0.771 |
| 977_00000 | The Emperor of the East | Massinger, Philip | 1632 | tragicomedy | 491 | 0.730 |
| 979_00015 | Holland's Leaguer | Marmion, Shackerley | 1632 | comedy | 482 | 0.703 |
| 987_00032 | The Jealous Lovers | Randolph, Thomas | 1632 | comedy | 505 | 0.702 |
| 1004_00000 | A Fine Companion | Marmion, Shackerley | 1633 | comedy | 531 | 0.836 |
| 1002_00020 | The Bird in a Cage (The Beauties) | Shirley, James | 1633 | comedy | 489 | 0.821 |
| 1007_00000 | The English Traveller | Heywood, Thomas | 1633 | tragicomedy | 505 | 0.808 |
| 993_00000 | All's Lost by Lust | Rowley, William | 1633 | tragedy | 477 | 0.744 |
| 998_00000 | The Jew of Malta | Marlowe, Christopher | 1633 | tragedy | 495 | 0.708 |
| 1018_00000 | The Two Noble Kinsmen | Shakespeare, William / Fletcher, J | 1634 | tragicomedy | 492 | 0.715 |
| 1030_00001 | Adrasta, or The Woman's Spleen and Love's Conquest | Jones, John | 1635 | tragicomedy | 451 | 0.786 |
| 1030_00000 | Adrasta, or The Woman's Spleen and Love's Conquest | Jones, John | 1635 | tragicomedy | 448 | 0.759 |
| 1028_00000 | The Shepherds' Holiday | Rutter, Joseph | 1635 | pastoral | 472 | 0.755 |
| 1039_00000 | The Wonder of A Kingdom | Dekker, Thomas | 1636 | comedy | 511 | 0.776 |
| 1040_00000 | A Challenge for Beauty | Heywood, Thomas | 1636 | tragicomedy | 464 | 0.723 |
| 1041_00000 | The Vow Breaker, or The Fair Maid of Clifton | Sampson, William | 1636 | tragedy | 511 | 0.670 |
| 1054_00000 | The Example | Shirley, James | 1637 | comedy | 491 | 0.786 |
| 1044_00000 | Hannibal and Scipio | Nabbes, Thomas | 1637 | tragedy | 515 | 0.769 |
| 1078_00000 | Aglaura | Suckling, John | 1638 | not in BritDrama | 498 | 0.842 |
| 1073_00002 | The Conspiracy (Pallantus and Eudora) | Killigrew, Henry | 1638 | tragedy | 508 | 0.762 |
| 1087_00033 | The Muses' Looking Glass | Randolph, Thomas | 1638 | moral | 507 | 0.695 |
| 1101_00000 | The Lady's Trial | Ford, John | 1639 | not in BritDrama | 477 | 0.788 |
| 1121_00000 | The Royal Slave | Cartwright, William | 1639 | tragicomedy | 415 | 0.777 |
| 1118_00000 | The City Match | Mayne, Jasper | 1639 | comedy | 501 | 0.756 |
| 1118_00040 | The City Match | Mayne, Jasper | 1639 | comedy | 459 | 0.737 |
| 1172_00019 | The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled | Jonson, Ben | 1640 | comedy | 487 | 0.851 |
| 1172_00002 | The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled | Jonson, Ben | 1640 | comedy | 433 | 0.847 |
| 1172_00000 | The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled | Jonson, Ben | 1640 | comedy | 508 | 0.837 |
| 1140_00012 | The Antipodes | Brome, Richard | 1640 | not in BritDrama | 491 | 0.813 |
| 1172_00010 | The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled | Jonson, Ben | 1640 | comedy | 482 | 0.813 |
| 1140_00006 | The Antipodes | Brome, Richard | 1640 | not in BritDrama | 485 | 0.808 |
| 1140_00000 | The Antipodes | Brome, Richard | 1640 | not in BritDrama | 485 | 0.804 |
| 1147_00000 | 1 Saint Patrick for Ireland | Shirley, James | 1640 | not in BritDrama | 497 | 0.795 |
| 1144_00000 | The Ladies' Privilege (The Lady's Privilege) | Glapthorne, Henry | 1640 | not in BritDrama | 474 | 0.774 |
| 1140_00011 | The Antipodes | Brome, Richard | 1640 | not in BritDrama | 502 | 0.766 |
| 1140_00018 | The Antipodes | Brome, Richard | 1640 | not in BritDrama | 518 | 0.755 |
| 1135_00027 | The Rebellion | Rawlins, Thomas | 1640 | tragedy | 489 | 0.748 |
| 1125_00000 | The Coronation | Shirley, James | 1640 | tragicomedy | 509 | 0.747 |
| 1172_00001 | The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled | Jonson, Ben | 1640 | comedy | 493 | 0.746 |
| 1172_00018 | The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled | Jonson, Ben | 1640 | comedy | 472 | 0.733 |
| 1131_00000 | Messalina, the Roman Empress | Richards, Nathaniel | 1640 | tragedy | 506 | 0.716 |
| 1140_00037 | The Antipodes | Brome, Richard | 1640 | not in BritDrama | 508 | 0.715 |
| 1140_00014 | The Antipodes | Brome, Richard | 1640 | not in BritDrama | 501 | 0.708 |
| chunk | play | author | published | genre | words | typicality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 449_00016 | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | Shakespeare, William | 1603 | tragedy | 501 | 0.794 |
| 449_00014 | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | Shakespeare, William | 1603 | tragedy | 474 | 0.786 |
| 449_00018 | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | Shakespeare, William | 1603 | tragedy | 497 | 0.744 |
| 470_00001 | The Malcontent | Marston, John / Webster, John | 1604 | tragicomedy | 515 | 0.853 |
| 470_00000 | The Malcontent | Marston, John / Webster, John | 1604 | tragicomedy | 514 | 0.776 |
| 423_00001 | Poetaster, or The Arraignment | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | comedy | 490 | 0.844 |
| 405_00000 | Every Man in His Humor | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | comedy | 513 | 0.837 |
| 368_00003 | Every Man Out of His Humor | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | comedy | 458 | 0.837 |
| 702_00000 | The Alchemist | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | comedy | 504 | 0.812 |
| 423_00003 | Poetaster, or The Arraignment | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | comedy | 518 | 0.777 |
| 368_00004 | Every Man Out of His Humor | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | comedy | 469 | 0.765 |
| 423_00056 | Poetaster, or The Arraignment | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | comedy | 465 | 0.746 |
| 368_00001 | Every Man Out of His Humor | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | comedy | 471 | 0.727 |
| 423_00004 | Poetaster, or The Arraignment | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | comedy | 517 | 0.694 |
| 423_00048 | Poetaster, or The Arraignment | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | comedy | 470 | 0.690 |
| 423_00002 | Poetaster, or The Arraignment | Jonson, Ben | 1616 | comedy | 508 | 0.680 |
| 705_00000 | Epicene, or The Silent Woman | Jonson, Ben | 1620 | comedy | 451 | 0.792 |
| 705_00011 | Epicene, or The Silent Woman | Jonson, Ben | 1620 | comedy | 516 | 0.579 |
| 387_00028 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Shakespeare, William | 1623 | comedy | 520 | 0.772 |
| 556_00001 | The Isle of Gulls | Day, John | 1633 | comedy | 510 | 0.859 |
| 556_00002 | The Isle of Gulls | Day, John | 1633 | comedy | 486 | 0.841 |
| 556_00000 | The Isle of Gulls | Day, John | 1633 | comedy | 500 | 0.751 |
| 556_00034 | The Isle of Gulls | Day, John | 1633 | comedy | 504 | 0.718 |
| 853_00002 | Time Vindicated to Himself and to His Honors | Jonson, Ben | 1641 | masque | 521 | 0.702 |