The play "Northward Ho" is a satirical comedy play.
Briefly, the plot is about the efforts of
Greenshield to seduce
Mistress Maybury, who apparently rejects him.
Greenshield then tries to destroy Mistress Maybury to her husband by convincing him that she is
unfaithful. He produces a ring that he has stolen from her.
Mr Maybury, convinced of her innocence, takes his revenge upon Greenshield by using the help of Bellamont, the old but amiable poet.
Trivia: "Northward Ho" is an early stage satirical play. It was a response to "Eastward Ho", 1605, by George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston, which in its turn was a response to Westward Ho, c. 1604, an earlier play also by Dekker and Webster. Together, the three dramas form a trilogy of what is called "directional plays" that show the condition of social drama during first decade of the 17th century.