1. An early collaboration, A Fault in Friendship was licensed in 1623 for Prince Charles's Men; a 1629 solo Richard Brome effort, The Lovesick Maid, was a success for the King's Men.
10 Facts About Richard Brome
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Richard Brome was unable to produce dramas at the promised pace; and the stipulated payments to Richard Brome were not kept up.
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In need of money, Richard Brome resorted to Christopher Beeston, actor, impresario, and owner of the Cockpit Theatre as well as the Red Bull.
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Richard Brome wrote commendatory verses for the Beaumont and Fletcher First Folio.
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The plays Richard Brome wrote were certainly, and strongly, influenced by Jonsonian comedy.
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Richard Brome was, admittedly and unambiguously, one of the Sons of Ben.
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Richard Brome collaborated with Thomas Heywood in The Late Lancashire Witches, which was acted by the King's Men and printed in 1634.
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Alfred Harbage has argued that two of John Dryden's plays, The Wild Gallant and The Mistaken Husband, are adaptations of otherwise-lost plays by Richard Brome, based on the plays' internal evidence of plot and style.
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The 1659 volume, published by Andrew Crooke and Henry Richard Brome, contains The English Moor, The Lovesick Court, The Weeding of Covent Garden, The New Academy, and The Queen and Concubine.
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The 1653 edition featured a portrait with a poem by Alexander Richard Brome written in imitation of Jonson's poem on Shakespeare's First Folio portrait:.