ABSTRACT
William Rowley's name first appears in 1607, as collaborator with Day and George Wilkins on The Travels of the Three English Brothers. Of Rowley's works, only The Travels of the Three English Brothers, A Fair Quarrel, A Search for Money and The World Tossed at Tennis were published in his life-time. The play was written for Queen Anne's Men, a company for which Rowley wrote two other plays: A Shoemaker, A Gentleman in 1608 and, with Thomas Heywood, Fortune by Land and Sea in 1609. By March 1610 Rowley was associated with the Duke of York's Men with whom he worked until 1623. Rowley was also collaborating with other playwrights; in 1621 he worked with Thomas Dekker and John Ford on The Witch of Edmonton and, following his move to the King's Men in 1623, he and John Fletcher wrote The Maid in the Mill. A Cure for a Cuckold, with John Webster.
