Globe Quartos

2 total works

Antipodes

by Richard Brome

Published 12 December 1966

Written in 1636, this is a city comedy in the style of Ben Jonson. The story centres around Peregrine, who is obsessed with traveller's tales, to cure him his friends trick him into believing he is in the Antipodes, where he encounters such adventures that he never wants to travel again.

The Witches of Lancashire

by Thomas Heywood and Richard Brome

Published 29 November 2002

Part of the Nick Hern Books Globe Quartos series, co-published with Shakespeare's Globe, marking their rediscoveries of forgotten plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries.

Thomas Heywood and Richard Brome's play The Witches of Lancashire is a sensational dramatisation of the seventeenth-century witch trials, first performed at the original Globe in 1634.

When everything goes wrong at a wedding, everyone starts to believe that a local coven is to blame. The play mocks the naïveté of those who cannot see what is under their noses, i.e. organised witchcraft and its double, Roman Catholicism.

This edition of The Witches of Lancashire is edited by Gabriel Egan.