1654. Appius and Virginia. A Tragedy. By Iohn Webster. [No imprint.]
1659. For Humphrey Moseley. [A reissue.]
1679.
Edition by C. W. Dilke (1814–15, O. E. P. v).—Dissertations: J. Lauschke, John Webster’s Tragödie A. und V. Eine Quellenstudie (1899, Leipzig diss.); H. D. Sykes, An Attempt to determine the Date of Webster’s A. and V. (1913, 11 N. Q. vii. 401, 422, 466; viii. 63); R. Brooke, The Authorship of the Later A. and V. (1913, M. L. R. viii. 433), more fully in John Webster (1916); A. M. Clark, A. and V. (1921, M. L. R. xvi. 1).
The play is in Beeston’s list of Cockpit plays in 1639 (Var. iii. 159), Webster’s authorship has generally been accepted, but Stoll, 197, who put the play 1623–39, because of resemblances to Julius Caesar and Coriolanus which he thought implied a knowledge of F1, traced a dependence upon the comic manner of Heywood. Similarly, Sykes is puzzled by words which he thinks borrowed from Heywood and first used by Heywood in works written after Webster’s death. He comes to the conclusion that Heywood may have revised a late work by Webster. There is much to be said for the view taken by Brooke and Clark, after a thorough-going analysis of the problem, that the play is Heywood’s own, possibly with a few touches from Webster’s hand, and may have been written, at any date not long after the production of Coriolanus on the stage (c. 1608), for Queen Anne’s men, from whom it would naturally pass into the Cockpit repertory.
The White Devil. 1609 < > 12
1612. The White Divel; Or, The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano, With The Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous Venetian Curtizan. Acted by the Queenes Maiesties Seruants. Written by Iohn Webster. N. O. for Thomas Archer. (Epistle to the Reader; after text, a note.)
1631.... Acted, by the Queenes Maiesties seruants, at the Phœnix, in Drury Lane. I. N. for Hugh Perry.
1665; 1672.
Editions in Dodsley1–3 (1744–1825) and by W. Scott (1810, A. B. D. iii) and M. W. Sampson (1904, B. L.).—Dissertations: B. Nicholson, Thomas Adams’ Sermon on The W. D. (1881, 6 N. Q. iii. 166); W. W. Greg, W.’s W. D. (1900, M. L. Q. iii. 112); M. Landau, Vittoria Accorambona in der Dichtung im Verhältniss zu ihrer wahren Geschichte (1902, Euphorion, ix. 310); E. M. Cesaresco, Vittoria Accoramboni (1902, Lombard Studies, 131); P. Simpson, An Allusion in W. (1907, M. L. R. ii. 162); L. MacCracken, A Page of Forgotten History (1911); H. D. Sykes, The Date of W.’s Play, the W. D. (1913, 11 N. Q. vii. 342).