Other Drama
Simmes also printed a range of other significant texts in English Renaissance theatre, including:
- Day's An Humorous Day's Mirth (15999)
- Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday (1600)
- Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (1604), for publisher Thomas Bushell
- Jonson's The Coronation Triumph (1604), for Edward Blount
- The Entertainment at Althorp (1604), for Edward Blount
- Marston's The Malcontent (1604), for William Aspley
- Jonson's Hymenaei (1606), for Thomas Thorpe
- The Troublesome Reign of King John (Q2, 1611), for John Helme
— among other works. In Simmes's era, the specialties of printer and bookseller/publisher were usually practiced separately, though some individuals, like William Jaggard, functioned in both. Simmes normally kept to the printshop side of the business, though he did occasionally publish too, as with the first quartos of George Chapman's Humorous Day's Mirth and Thomas Dekker's Shoemaker's Holiday.
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