Representative English Comedies, Vol. IFROM THE BEGINNINGS TO SHAKESPEAREWith introductory essays and notes. An historical view of our earlier comedy and other monographs by various writers under the general editorship ofCHARLES MILLS GAYLEY, Litt.D., LL.D.,Professor of the English Language and Literature in the University of CaliforniaCloth, 8vo, 686 pages, $2.00The aim of this volume and those which will follow is to indicate the development of a literary type by a selection of its representative specimens, arranged in the order of their production and accompanied by critical and historical studies. So little has been scientifically determined concerning evolution or permutation in literature that the more specific the field of inquiry, the more trustworthy are the results attained,—hence the limitation of this research not merely to a genus like the drama, but to one of its species. What is here presented to the public differs from histories of the drama in that it is more restricted in scope and that it substantiates the narrative of a literary growth by reproducing the data necessary to an induction; it differs from editions of individual plays and dramatists, on the other hand, because it attempts to concatenate its text by a running commentary upon the characteristics of the species under consideration as they successively appear. It is an illustrated, if not certified, history of English comedy.CONTENTSI.An Historical View of the Beginnings of the English Comedy.By Charles Mills Gayley.II.John Heywood: Critical Essay.By Alfred W. Pollard.Edition of thePlay of the Wether. The same.Edition of aMery Play between Johan Johan, Tyb.The same.III.Nicholas Udall: Critical Essay.By Ewald Flügel.Edition ofRoister Doister. The same.Appendix on Various Matters. The same.IV.William Stevenson: Critical Essay.By Henry Bradley.Edition ofGammer Gurton’s Needle. The same.Appendix. The same.V.John Lyly: Critical Essay.By George P. Baker.Edition ofAlexander and Campaspe. The same.VI.George Peele: Critical Essay.By F. B. Gummere.Edition ofThe Old Wives’ Tale. The same.Appendix. The same.VII.Greene’s Place in Comedy: A Monograph.By G. E. Woodberry.VIII.Robert Greene: His Life, and the Order of His Plays.By Charles Mills Gayley.Edition of theHonourable Historie of Frier Bacon. The same.Appendix on Greene’s Versification. The same.IX.Henry Porter: Critical Essay.By Charles Mills Gayley.Edition of TheTwo Angry Women of Abington. The same.X.Shakespeare as a Comic Dramatist.By Edward Dowden.Index.THE MACMILLAN COMPANYPublishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York
Representative English Comedies, Vol. I
FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO SHAKESPEARE
With introductory essays and notes. An historical view of our earlier comedy and other monographs by various writers under the general editorship of
CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY, Litt.D., LL.D.,
Professor of the English Language and Literature in the University of California
Cloth, 8vo, 686 pages, $2.00
The aim of this volume and those which will follow is to indicate the development of a literary type by a selection of its representative specimens, arranged in the order of their production and accompanied by critical and historical studies. So little has been scientifically determined concerning evolution or permutation in literature that the more specific the field of inquiry, the more trustworthy are the results attained,—hence the limitation of this research not merely to a genus like the drama, but to one of its species. What is here presented to the public differs from histories of the drama in that it is more restricted in scope and that it substantiates the narrative of a literary growth by reproducing the data necessary to an induction; it differs from editions of individual plays and dramatists, on the other hand, because it attempts to concatenate its text by a running commentary upon the characteristics of the species under consideration as they successively appear. It is an illustrated, if not certified, history of English comedy.
CONTENTS
Edition of thePlay of the Wether. The same.
Edition of aMery Play between Johan Johan, Tyb.The same.
Edition ofRoister Doister. The same.
Appendix on Various Matters. The same.
Edition ofGammer Gurton’s Needle. The same.
Appendix. The same.
Edition ofAlexander and Campaspe. The same.
Edition ofThe Old Wives’ Tale. The same.
Appendix. The same.
Edition of theHonourable Historie of Frier Bacon. The same.
Appendix on Greene’s Versification. The same.
Edition of TheTwo Angry Women of Abington. The same.
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