Over the centuries there have been a number of plays written about Lady Jane.
In his article, ‘A Performance of Rowe’s Lady Jane Gray in 1852’, Martin Spies argues that the last performance of Rowe’s play was not at Covent Garden, London in 1774 but at The Theatre Royal, Hull in 1852.
‘Lady Jane Grey and Her Times’ by George Howard quotes from or refers to the following:
The Innocent Usurper or The Death of Lady Jane Grey by John Banks – 1680
The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey by Nicholas Rowe – 1715
‘Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery’ by Eric Ives quotes from or refers to the following:
Philip Henslowe paid for 2 plays about Lady Jane – 1602
The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat by John Webster and Thomas Dekker – 1607
The Innocent Usurper or The Death of Lady Jane Grey by John Banks – 1680
The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey by Nicholas Rowe – 1715
Johanne Gray. Trauerspiel in funf Acten by Edw Sommer- 1832
Jane Grey by Alexandre Soumet & Gabrielle d’Altenheym – 1844
The 1835 novel ‘Jane Grey – Episode de l’histoire d’Angleterre’ – performed on stage in 1857
Historire de Jane Grey en cinq actes by Jean Marie Dargaud – 1863
Queen Mary by Tennyson – 1875
‘Tudors and Stuarts on Film: Historical Perspectives’ quotes from or refers to the following:
The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat by John Webster and Thomas Dekker 1607
‘Mary Tudor: Old and New Perspectives edited by Susan Doran and Thomas S Freeman has a chapter about plays that feature Mary Tudor.
‘Thus like a Nun, Not Like a Princess Born: Dramatic Representatives of Mary Tudor in the Early Years of the Seventeenth Century’ by Teresa Grant quotes from or refers to the following:
Sir Thomas Wyatt by Thomas Dekker and John Webster – composed 1602, printed 1607 and 1612.
Teresa Grant also mentions Arthur Melville Clark’s suggestion in 1931 that ‘both Sir Thomas Wyatt and If you know not me you know nobody, Part 1 (and three scenes in Part 2) were originally part of the two-part Lady Jane.
‘The Birth of a Queen: Essays on the Quincentenary of Mary I’ edited by Sarah Duncan and Valerie Schutte quotes from or refers to the following:
The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat by John Webster and Thomas Dekker 1607
The Lost Kings: Lancaster, York & Tudor by Amy Licence quotes from or refers to the following:
The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat by John Webster and Thomas Dekker – 1607
Innocent Usurper or The Death of Lady Jane Grey by John Banks – 1694
In ‘The Many Faces of Lady Jane Grey’ , Frank Prochaska quotes from or refers to the following:
Lady Jane by John Webster and Thomas Dekker 1607
The Innocent Usurper or The Death of Lady Jane Grey by John Banks – 1680
The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey by Nicholas Rowe – 1715
A Nine Days’ Queen by Robert Buchanan 1850
The Earl’s Revenge or Lady Jane Grey by J W Ross 1882
John Dudley: A Tragedy for Stage and Closet by Scriptor Ignotus 1886
‘Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory: The Making and Re-making of Lady Jane Grey and Mary I’, edited by Valerie Schutte & Jessica S Hower, quotes from or refers to the following:
The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat by John Webster and Thomas Dekker 1607
The Innocent Usurper or The Death of Lady Jane Grey by John Banks – 1680
The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey by Nicholas Rowe – 1715
In ‘A Performance of Rowe’s Lady Jane Gray in 1852’ , Martin Spies refers to the following:
The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat by John Webster and Thomas Dekker 1607
The Innocent Usurper or The Death of Lady Jane Grey by John Banks – 1680
The Tower of London or, the Death Omen and the Fate of Lady Jane Grey by T H Higgie and T H Lacy 1840
Mary Tudor by A de Vere – 1847
In Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey, Nicola Tallis quotes from or refers to the following:
The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat by John Webster and Thomas Dekker 1607
Innocent Usurper or, The Death of Lady Jane Grey by John Banks 1690s
Lady Jane Grey: A Tragedy in Five Acts by Nicholas Rowe 1715
