Reconstructing lost plays/Keep the Widow Waking
Keep the Widow Waking is a lost Jacobean play, significant chiefly for the light it throws on the complexities of collaborative authorship in English Renaissance drama.[1]
- Characters (12)
- Anne Grindall, widow
- Toby Audley, suitor to Anne
- Nathaniel Grindall, son to Anne
- Martha Jackson, friend to Anne
- Mary Spenser, friend to Toby
- Margery Spenser, mother to Mary
- Nicholas Cartmell, vicar
- Francis Holiday, curate
- John Audley, lawyer and brother to Toby
- Barless, constable
- Bragg, jailer
- Sarah, abortionist
- Time
- 1624
- Place
- London