BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bentley, Gerald Eades. “Richard Brome.” In The Jacobean and Caroline Stage: Plays and Playwrights, pp. 49-94. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.

Listing of Brome's plays, with a summary of each and an analysis in the light of his life and times.

BIOGRAPHIES

Freehafer, John. “Brome, Suckling, and Davenant's Theater Project of 1639.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language Vol. 10, No. 1 (1968): 367-83.

Discusses The Court Beggarand its role in Brome's feud with two of his fellow dramatists.

Thaler, Alwin. “Was Richard Brome an Actor?” Modern Language Notes 36, No. 2 (February 1921): 88-91.

Presents evidence of Brome's early career which points to the fact that he may have been an actor.

CRITICISM

Davis, Joe Lee. The Sons of Ben: Jonsonian Comedy in Caroline England. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1967, 252 p.

Provides criticism of Brome's plays in relation to his contemporaries' works.

Donaldson, Ian. “‘Living Backward’: The Antipodes.” In The World Upside-Down: Comedy from Jonson to Fielding, pp. 78-98. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.

A study of the historical relevance of The Antipodes and Brome's goal in writing it.

Farley-Hills, David. “Rejoicing in Epidemicall Times: Brome's A Jovial Crew.” In The Comic in Renaissance Comedy, pp. 147-59. London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1981.

Discusses Brome's comedy and his use of mirth as a medicine for melancholy.

Gaby, Rosemary. “Of Vagabonds and Commonwealths: Beggars' Bush, A Jovial Crew, and The Sisters.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 34, No. 2 (Spring 1994): 401-24.

Considers the ways Brome and other playwrights chose to write about crime and society.

Haaker, Ann. “Richard Brome.” In The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, edited by Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, pp. 172-91. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978.

Includes a short biography of Brome, a survey of his plays, and criticism of specific works.

Additional coverage of Brome's life and career is contained in the following source published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 58.