“ William Rowley is described as the chief comedian in the Prince of Wales’s company, and it was doubtless during the two years’ union (1614–16) of these players with the Lady Elizabeth’s company that he was brought into contact with Middleton. Rowley joined the King’s Servants in 1623, and retired from the stage about four years later. The fact of his marriage is recorded in 1637, and he is supposed to have died about 1642. Four plays attributed to his sole authorship are extant: A new Wonder, A Woman never Vext (printed, 1632) ”

“ With George Wilkins and John Day he wrote The Travailes of the Three English Brothers (1607) ; with Thomas Heywood he produced the romantic comedy of Fortune by Land and Sea (printed, 1655) ; he was associated with Thomas Dekker and John Ford in The Witch of Edmonton [1] (printed, 1658) ”