This is the third and final volume of the Cambridge edition of the works of John Webster. It contains the final complete play in the edition, the City comedy Anything for a Quiet Life, as well as Webster’s spectacular Lord Mayor’s pageant Monuments of Honour and his Induction and additions to John Marston’s The Malcontent. Webster’s non-dramatic work is also included: the deeply-felt verse elegy to Prince Henry entitled A Monumental Column, his various shorter poems, including verses for the engraving of The Progeny of … Prince James, and the thirty-two New Characters added to the sixth edition of Sir Thomas Overbury’s Characters. This Cambridge critical edition preserves the original spelling of all the plays, poetry, and prose, and incorporates the most recent editorial scholarship, including valuable information on Webster’s share in the collaborative plays, and new critical methods and textual theory.

This is the third and final volume of The Works of John Webster, a critical original-spelling edition that replaces the 1927 Lucas edition as the standard edition of the drama and other writing of one of Shakespeare’s major contemporaries. The textual, critical and theatrical introductions and commentary notes constitute a major contribution to editorial scholarship in the field, especially in establishing Webster’s canon, and in integrating theatrical criticism with textual and critical scholarship. The edition will be of interest to scholars and students, and to theatre practitioners and historians.

The Webster canon: a reassessment; The Webster canon: a revised chronological listing; Anything for a Quiet Life; Monuments of Honour; Webster's Induction and Additions to The Malcontent; A Monumental Column; Shorter Poems; New Characters.