First works, 1577-1580 : facts, contexts, and speculation -- Patronage networks in a changing political religious context, 1577-79 -- Munday's writing before the trip to Rome, 1577-1578 -- Munday's writing after the trip to Rome, 1579 -- Writing in the year of Campion's return, 1580 -- Munday and the English response to the Jesuit mission, 1581-1588 -- Catholic print in 1581 : shifting allegiances and changing alliances -- Munday in 1581 -- Trials, executions, and books in 1582 -- Mocking Leicester and courting Elizabeth, 1584-85 -- The queen's servant and messenger, 1586-1588 -- The translation of Iberian chivalric romances, 1581-1619 -- Overview -- Palmerin of England, part 1 -- Political pamphlets, 1589-92 -- Palmendos and the first book of Amadis de Gaule, 1588-1592 -- Years of transition, 1596-1602 -- The Munday romances and the Spanish match, 1615-1619 -- Poet for the theater, 1590-1602 -- John, a Kent and John, a Cumber -- Sir Thomas More -- Writing for the admiral's men -- The downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon -- The death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon -- The first part of Sir John Oldcastle -- Writing for the city, 1602-1633 -- City entertainments, 1602-1623 -- A brief chronicle of the success of times, 1611 -- The first revision of the survey of London, 1618 -- The second revision of the survey of London, 1633