Principal Works
Gascoigne's Memories, Written Upon This Occasion (poetry) 1565
Jocasta [adaptor, with Francis Kinwelmershe; from Lodovico Dolce's play Giocasta] (play) 1566
The Supposes [adaptor; from Lodovico Ariosto's play I Suppositi] (play) 1566
*A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres, Bounde Vp in One Small Poesie. Gathered Partely (by Translation) and Partly by Inuention (poetry) 1573; revised and enlarged as The Posies of George Gascoigne Esquire, 1575
The Glasse of Gouernement. A Tragicall Comedie (play) 1575
The Droomme of Doomes Day. Wherein the Frailties of Mans Lyfe, Are Portrayed, Translated by Gascoigne [translator; from Pope Innocent III's De Contemptu Mundi sive de Miseria Humanae Conditionis] (poetry) 1576
The Grief of Joy (poetry) 1576
The Spoyle of Antwerpe. Faithfully Reported, by a True Englishman, Who Was Present (pamphlet) 1576
The Steele Glas. A Satyre. Together with the Complainte of Phylomene (poetry and play) 1576
The Complete Works of George Gascoigne. 2 vols. [edited by John W. Cunliffe] (poetry, plays, novel, and criticism) 1907-10
*This work includes the plays The Supposes and Jocasta, the novel The Adventures of Master F. J., the long poem Dan Bartholomew of Bath, and the poem “Gascoigne's De Profundis,” as well as the masque Gascoigne's Device of a Masque for the Right Honourable Viscount Montague and sundry verse. The revised version also includes the critical treatise Certain Notes of Instruction Concerning the Making of Verse or Ryme in English, and revises The Adventures of Master F. J. as The Pleasant Fable of Ferdinando Jeronimi and Leonora de Valasco, Translated Out of the Italian Riding Tales of Bartello.
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