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Brome, Richard

▪ English dramatist
born c. 1590
died Sept. 24, 1652, London, Eng.
 English dramatist generally deemed the most considerable of the minor Jacobean playwrights.

      Nothing is known of Brome's origins. As early as 1614, he is known to have been in Ben Jonson (Jonson, Ben)'s service, probably acting as Jonson's secretary and domestic. The relationship developed into friendship, and knowledge of Brome's personal character is chiefly drawn from Jonson's sonnet to “my old faithful servant and by his continued virtue my loving friend . . . Mr. Richard Brome,” prefixed to Brome's Northern Lasse (produced 1629?; published 1632).

      Brome was a prolific and inventive writer, continuing the Elizabethan dramatic tradition until the theatres were closed by order of Parliament in 1642. Filled with pictures of contemporary London and its life, his comedies present a lively and sometimes challenging criticism of their own times.

      The Northern Lasse made Brome's reputation as a dramatist and was the most popular of his plays, although A Joviall Crew (produced 1641, published 1652) is considered to be his best work. There are 15 of his comedies extant, including The City Wit; or The Woman Wears the Breeches (produced 1629; published 1653), The Sparagus Garden (produced 1635; published 1640), The Antipodes (produced 1638; published 1640), and A Mad Couple Well Match'd (produced 1639; published 1653). He was ruined by the closing of the theatres and died in the Charterhouse, a charity institution. Two volumes of his plays were edited by Alexander Brome (no relation) in 1653 and 1659.

Additional Reading
R.J. Kaufmann, Richard Brome, Caroline Playwright (1961); Martin Butler, Theatre and Crisis, 1632–1642 (1984).

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