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The Title Page of Eastward Hoe!
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Sequel to the widely popular Westward Hoe, written by Thomas Dekker and John Webster the year before, Eastward Hoe, written by Chapman, Jonson, and Marston, was first licensed, performed and published in 1605. Notorious for its wisecracks about the newly arrived Scots purchasing knighthoods from the lavish and cash-strapped King James, wisecracks probably writen by Marston, it infuriated the King, who sent Chapman and Jonson to prison. (Marston escaped by leaving town.) But the play, an example of the new citizen-comedy genre, really took aim at London's nouveau riche, concluding, in words probably written by Jonson: "Now London, look about / And in this moral see thy glass run out."
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