the same era.) Scholars have studied the 1622 quarto of Othello by comparing it to the other King's Men play quartos issued by Walkley. Walkley also released the first English translation of Pierre Corneille's Le Cid in 1638, just a year after its first French printing. Other works Beyond the confines of drama, Walkley was active in the area of non-dramatic poetry. He published — George Wither's Fidelia (1619); Wither'sWorks (1620); John Barclay's The Mirror of Minds (1638); Thomas Carew's Poems (1640, 1642); Cooper's Hill (1642), the best-known work of Sir John Denham; Edmund Waller's Poems (1645). He also issued a volume titled Britain's Ida, or Venus and Anchises (1628) as the work of Edmund Spenser; it is definitely not Spenserian, and has been attributed to Phineas Fletcher. Walkley published translations by Thomas May, along with pamphlets, Parliamentary speeches, legal documents, and a varied body of general literature, from Aesop's Fables to a history of the Roman Emperor Nero. He was also the publisher for works by the royal favorite George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, a fact crucial in his later prosperity. Walkley's entire output for the year 1627 was devoted to Buckingham's cause. That powerful connection gained Walkley the rights to the Parliamentary List and the Catalogue of Nobility, two highly profitable publications that Walkley released in multiple editions over many years (seventeen and fourteen editions, respectively, from 1625 on). Reputation Walkley was involved in lawsuits and controversies during his career — including one over the rights to some of the works of Ben Jonson that eventually appeared in the second Jonson folio of 1640. One critic has called Walkley a "fascinating rogue." Yet legal troubles and even spells in prison were not unusual for the stationers of the Tudor and Stuart eras. (See Edward Allde, Nathaniel Butter, Nicholas Okes, and William Stansby for pertinent examples.) Walkley does not appear to have been worse (or better) than many of his contemporaries. See also Walter Burre Andrew Crooke and William Cooke John and Richard Marriot John Martyn Humphrey Moseley Humphrey Robinson William Ponsonby References Publishers (people) from London Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown