Author:
Parks, Edd Winfield, 1906-1968, ed.
Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton & company, inc. [c1935]
Descriptionviii, 1495 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:Contains brief biographical sketch of each dramatist.
Note:"First edition."
Note:The quem quaeritis trope. - Abraham and Isaac. - The second shepherd's play. - Robin Hood and the friar. - Shetland sword dance. - Oxfordshire St. George play. - Everyman. - A merry play, by Heywood. - Ralph Roister Doister, by Udall. - Endymion, by Lyly. - The old wives' tale, by Peele. - The Spanish tragedy, by Kyd. - The honorable history of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, by Greene. - The tragical history of Dr. Faustus, by Marlowe. - The Jew of Malta, by Marlowe. - Edward II, by Marlowe. - The Lady of May, by Sidney. - The vision of the twelve Goddesses by Daniel. - Oberon, the Fairy Prince, by Jonson. - Comus, a masque, by Milton. - Every man in his humour, by Jonson. - Sejanus, his fall, by Jonson. - Volpone; or, The fox, by Jonson. - The shoemakers' holiday, by Dekker. - A woman killed with kindness, by Heywood. - Philaster, or Love lies a'bleeding, by Beaumont and Fletcher. - The two noble kinsmen, by Fletcher and Shakespeare. - The white devil, by Webster. - A new way to pay old debts, by Massinger. - 'Tis a pity she's a whore, by Ford. - The cardinal, by Shirley. - Miles Glorioso, by Plautus. - Thyestes, by Seneca.
