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Nerwen
It's not easy wading through Elizabethan literature. I have read Match me in London several times – and I still don't understand many colloquialisms and nuances. Nevertheless – I do see some kind of 'skeleton plot', as Ms. Seth puts it, that someone as intelligent as Tolkien could have extracted.
The bigger question for me, as Huinesoron, has asked - is where and when did Tolkien take a fancy to dig into non-Shakespearean Elizabethan/Jacobean plays? It must have been pre-1930 if Ms. Seth's assertion is true. But exactly when is a mystery.
I don't see anything in his known personal library (as listed on the Tolkien Gateway site) as relevant. Any ideas from you (or anyone else) would be of interest.
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