A work appears on this list if it contains any reference to a principal citizen. The reference is usually a major one, occurring in the text (as in Browne's Merchant's Avizo, or plays and stories in which citizens have major roles), but occasionally it is not. If the reference to citizens appears only in the dedication (as in Chaderton's Paul's Cross sermon) or in a discussion of estates of the realm (as in Curteys' sermon), or in a minor dramatic scene, I have marked the work with an asterisk (*).

I have listed best-sellers and drama separately. Each play is listed according to the year in which Schoenbaum suggests it was probably first performed, in the revised edition of the Annals of English Drama. The reader who wishes to find the range of dates in which each play was probably first performed should turn to Appendix A, Part II.