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.


 * 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

Acts

 * /Act 1/
 * /Act 2/
 * /Act 3/
 * /Act 4/
 * /Act 5/