Drama
- Constable's first registered publication was a drama, the first edition of Samuel Daniel's "pastoral tragicomedy" Hymen's Triumph (January 1615).
He published large numbers of plays,in which he was associated for some years with Humphrey Moseley.
Among Constable's other publications in drama were:
- the first quarto of Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy, in partnership with stationer Richard Higgenbotham (1619);
- the second quarto of the same play (1622);
- Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1630);
- Pathomachia (1630);
- James Shirley's Love Tricks, as The School of Compliment (1631);
- a second edition of the same play (1637);
- Philip Massinger and Nathan Field's The Fatal Dowry (1632);
- William Rowley's A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vexed (1632);
- Richard Brome's The Antipodes (1640);
- Brome's The Sparagus Garden (1640);
- Henry Glapthorne's The Lady's Privilege (1640);
- Glapthorne's Wit in a Constable (1640).
Constable worked with many London printers on these and other projects, including Richard and Thomas Cotes, Nicholas Okes and his son John Okes, and Elizabeth Allde, among others.
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