SAMUEL ROWLEY (?-1624).
For Rowley's career as an Admiral's and Prince's man, cf. ch. xv.
Dr. Faustus
For the additions by Rowley and Bird in 1602, cf. s.v. Marlowe.
When You See Me, You Know Me. 1603 < > 5
S. R. 1605, Feb. 12, 'Yf he gett good alowance for the enterlude of King Henry the 8th before he begyn to print it. And then procure the wardens handes to yt for the entrance of yt: He is to haue the same for his copy.' Nathanaell Butter (Arber, iii. 283). [No fee recorded.] 1605. When you see me, You know me. Or the famous Chronicle Historie of King Henry the eight, with the birth and vertuous life of Edward Prince of Wales. As it was playd by the high and mightie Prince of Wales his seruants. By Samuell Rowly, seruant to the Prince. For Nathaniel Butter.
1613; 1621; 1632.
Editions by K. Elze (1874) and J. S. Farmer (1912, S. F. T.).—Dissertation: W. Zeitlin, Shakespeare's King Henry the Eighth and R.'s When You See Me (1881, Anglia, iv. 73).
The Noble Soldier
Probably with Day and Dekker (q.v.).
Lost Plays
(a) Plays for the Admiral's, noted in Henslowe's diary.
Judas. With W. Bird, Dec. 1601, possibly a completion of the play of the same name left unfinished by Haughton (q.v.) in 1600. Joshua. Sept. 1602. (b) Plays for the Palsgrave's, licensed by Sir Henry Herbert
(Chalmers, S. A. 214-17; Herbert, 24, 26, 27). 27 July 1623, Richard III. 29 Oct. 1623, Hardshifte for Husbands. 6 Apr. 1624, A Match or No Match.
Doubtful Plays
H. D. Sykes, The Authorship of The Taming of A Shrew, etc. (1920, Sh. Association), argues, on the basis of a comparison of phraseology with When You See Me, You Know Me and some of the additions to Dr. Faustus, for Rowley's authorship of (a) The Famous Victories, (b) the prose scenes of A Shrew, (c) the clowning passages in Greene's Orlando Furioso, (d) the prose scenes of Wily Beguiled. He suggests that the same collaborator, borrowing first from Marlowe and then from Kyd, may have supplied the verse scenes both of A Shrew and of Wily Beguiled. There is no external evidence to connect Rowley with the Queen's, and he only becomes clearly traceable with the Admiral's in 1598, but Mr. Sykes has certainly made out a stylistic case which deserves consideration.
