brutally to her. She is just the woman for me. Suits me down to the ground. All the condition she makes is that we live out of England-a very good thing, too!-Demmed clubs, demmed climate, demmed cooks, demmed everything! Sick of it all.

Lady W. (Frightened.) Has Mrs. Erlynne- ?

Lord A. (Advancing towards her with a bow.) Yes; Lady Windermere, Mrs. Erlynne has done me the honor of accepting my hand.

Lord W. Well, you are certainly marrying a very clever woman.

Lady W. (Taking her husband's hand.) Ah! you're marrying a very good

woman.

GENERAL WORKS

A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559-1642. 2 vols. 1891.

Fleay, F. G. A Chronicle History of the English Stage, 1559-1642.

1890.

Gayley, C. M. Representative English Comedies. 3 vols. 1903 (a collection of plays; in progress).

Murray, J. T. English Dramatic Companies, 1558-1642. 1910.

Neilson, W. A. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists. 1911 (a collection). Nettleton, G. H. English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. 1914.

Schelling, F. vols. 1908. Sharp, R. F. A Short History of the English Stage. 1909. Swinburne, A. C. The Age of Shakespeare.

E. Elizabethan Drama. 2

1908.

Symonds, J. A. Shakespeare's Predecessors in the English Drama. 1881. Thorndike, A. H. Shakespeare's Theatre. 1916.

Thorndike, A. H. Tragedy. 1908.

Tupper, F. and J. W. Representative English Dramas from Dryden to Sheridan. 1914 (a collection).

Ward, A. W. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne. Second ed. 3 vols. 1899.

I

THE MIRACLE PLAY

Bates, K. L. The English Religious Drama. 1893.

Deimling, G. Chester Plays (first 13). Early English Text Society. Ex. Ser. LXXII. 1893.

England, G. Towneley Plays. E. E. T. S. Ex. Ser. LXXI. 1897.

Gayley, C. M. Plays of Our Forefathers. 1907.

Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. Ludus Coventriæ.

Shakespeare Society Publications. 1841.

Manly, J. M. Specimens of Pre-Shakespearean Drama. 2 vols. 1897 (the source of the present texts). Pollard, A. W. English Miracle Plays. Moralities, and Interludes. Fifth ed. 1909.

Smith, L. T. York Mystery Plays. 1885. Wright, T. Chester Plays, Shakespeare Soc. Publ. 2 vols. 1843-7.

Interesting examples of the miracle play, other than the three herein printed, may be found in Manly. Modernized versions of Abraham and Isaac and The Second Shepherds' Play may be found in No. 191 of the Riverside Literature Series (Houghton, Mifflin), edited by C. G. Child, with a good introduction.

Ellis,

1884-5. Brooke, C. F. T. 1910. H. Mermaid ed. 1887. Phelps, W. L. Masterpieces of the English Drama. 1912. Plays and Poems in the Everyman's Library, vol. 383.

Edward II. Ed. Verity, A. W. Temple Dramatists. 1896. McLaughlin, E. T. 1894. Ingram, J. H. Christopher Marlowe and his Associates. 1904.

Baker, G. P. Dramatic Technique in Marlowe, in Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association, Vol. IV. 1913. Schelling, F. E. The English Chronicle Play. 1902.

(Present text based on Neilson's, collated with Brooke's.)

Other chronicle-plays are Bale's Kyng Johan and Sackville and Norton's Gorboduo (forerunners of the type), the anonymous Troublesome Reign of King John, Heywood's Edward IV and If You Know not Me You know Nobody, Ford's Perkin Warbeck.

THOMAS DEKKER

Collected Editions: Pearson, J. 4 vols. 1873. Rhys, E. Mermaid ed. 1895. The Shoemakers' Holiday. Lange, A. F. (in Gayley's Representative English Comedies. Vol. III. 1914). Grosart, A. B. The Non-Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. 5 vols. 1884-6. Hunt, Mary L. Thomas Dekker: A Study.

1911.

(Present text based on Neilson's, collated with Lange's.)

Other comedies of London life are Eastward Ho! by Jonson, Chapman and Marston, Middleton's A Mad World My Masters, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, A Trick to Catch the Old One, Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas and Wit Without Money.

THOMAS HEYWOOD

vols.

Collected Editions: Pearson, J. 6
1874. Verity, A. W. Mermaid ed. 1888.
The Captives. In Bullen's Old Plays. Vol.
IV. 1883.

A Woman Killed with Kindness. Ed. A. W. Ward, Temple Dramatists. 1897. (Present text based on Neilson's, collated with Pearson's and Verity's.)

Other examples of domestic drama are: Arden of Feversham, How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad, Heywood's The English Traveller and Fortune by Land and Sea, Middleton and Rowley's A Fair Quarrel.

(Present text based on Neilson's, collated with Schelling's.)

A reading of The Alchemist may be supplemented by that of others of Jonson's plays: Every Man in His Humor, Sejanus, Volpone, Epicene, Bartholomew Fair. Massinger's New Way to Pay Old Debts shows his influence.

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER Collected Editions. Bullen, A. H. Variorum ed. (4 vols. published; in progress). 1904, etc. Glover, A. and Waller, A. R. 10 vols. 1905-12. Schelling, F. E. Masterpieces of the English Drama. 1912. Select Plays, in Everyman's Library, vol. 506. Strachey, J. St. L. Mermaid ed. 2 vols. 1887.

Philaster. Ed. Boas, F. S. Temple Dramatists. 1898. Thorndike, A. H. Belles Lettres Series. 1906.

Gayley, C. M. Beaumont the Dramatist. 1914.

Hatcher, O. L. John Fletcher, a Study in
Dramatic Method. 1905.
Macaulay, G. C. Francis

Beaumont, a

Critical Study. 1883. Thorndike, A. H. The Influence of Beau mont and Fletcher on Shakespeare. 1901.

(Both present texts are based on Neilson's, collated with Thorndike's for Philaster, and Glover and Waller's for Wild Goose Chase.)

Other good examples of tragi-comedy are: The Two Noble Kinsmen, attributed to Shakespeare and Fletcher, Beaumont and Fletcher's King and No King, Fletcher's The Chances and The Loyal Subject, Heywood's A Challenge for Beauty, Massinger's The Maid of Honor and The Great Duke of Florence, Middleton and Rowley's The Spanisk Gipsy, Shirley's The Coronation and The Royal Master, D'Avenant's Love and Honor.

Other good examples of high comedy, pointing toward Restoration comedy, are Shirley's Lady of Pleasure and Hyde Park.

Belles Lettres Se

Mermaid H. Master

1912.

ries. 1904. Symonds, J. A. ed. 1888. Thorndike, A. pieces of the English Drama. Gosse, E. John Webster, in Seventeenth Century Studies. 1883.

Stoll, E. E. John Webster, the Periods of His Work. 1905.

(Present text based on Neilson's, collated with Sampson's and Thorndike's.) The most important early tragedy of blood or revenge is Kyd's Spanish Tragedy. Other examples of romantic tragedy are the following: Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy, Fletcher's Bonduca and Valentinian, Marston's The Insatiate Countess, Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy, Middleton's Women Beware Women, Webster's The White Devil, Massinger's The Virgin Martyr and The Bondman, Ford's The Broken Heart, Shirley's The Traitor and The Cardinal.

Collected editions: Scott and Saintsbury. 18 vols. 1882-1893. Selected Dramas, ed. G. R. Noyes, 1910 (the source of the present text). Ed. G. Saintsbury (Mermaid ed.), 2 vols.

Dryden's Essay on Heroic Plays, in ScottSaintsbury, Vol. IV. and in Noyes. Chase, L. N. The English Heroic Play. 1903. Sherwood, M. Dryden's Dramatic Theory and Practice (Yale Stud. in Engl. No. 4). Verrall, A. W. Lectures on Dryden, 1914. Saintsbury, G. Dryden (Engl. Men of Letters Ser.), 1881.

The other play of Dryden's best to read is All for Love, regularized" from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.

THOMAS OTWAY

Collected editions: T. Thornton, 3 vols., 1813. Roden Noel. Mermaid ed.

Venice Preserved. Ed. C. F. McClumpha (with The Orphan and the essential parts of St. Réal's narrative). Belles Lettres Ser. 1908 (the source of the present text). Ed. I. Gollancz, Temple Dramatists.

G. S. Street, 1895. W. Archer, 1912. A. C. Ewald (Mermaid ed.).

Lamb, Charles. Essay On the Artificial
Comedy of the Last Century.
Thackeray, W. M. English Humorists.
Macaulay, T. B. Essay on Leigh Hunt's
Comic Dramatists of the Restoration.
Gosse, E. W. Life of Congreve. 1888.

The present text is founded on the first edition, 1700. Other similar comedies are Congreve's Love for Love, Wycherley's Country Wife, Farquhar's Beaux Stratagem, and The Recruiting Officer.

IV

JOSEPH ADDISON

Works, ed. G. W. Greene, 6 vols., 1858.
Life, Lucy Aikin, 2 vols., 1843.

Life, W. J. Courthope (English Men of Letters Ser.), 1886.

Oliphant, M. Historical Characters of the Reign of Queen Anne, 1894.

The present text is founded on the edition of 1721. Another celebrated 18thcentury tragedy, in verse, but romantic in character, is John Home's Douglas; influential bourgeois tragedies in prose are George Lillo's London Merchant, or George Barnwell, and Edward Moore's Gamester.

SIR RICHARD STEELE Plays. 4 vols. London, 1734-40. Ed. G. A Aitken (Mermaid ed., Unwin, London, and Scribner's, New York).

Life. Aitken, G. A. 2 vols. 1889.

Life. Dobson, A. (English Men of Letters Ser.) 1888.

Waterhouse, O. The Development of English Sentimental Comedy in the Eighteenth Century. Anglia, XXX. 137-172, 269

305.

The present text is founded on Aitken's, but with collations (badly needed) from the edition of Edinburgh, 1755.

Later sentimental comedies are Sir Richard Cumberland's West Indian, and Hugh Kelly's False Delicacy.

Collected editions: Sheridan's Plays now Printed as he Wrote them, W. F. Rae, 1902 (the source of the present text). The Major Dramas of Sheridan, G. II. Nettleton, 1906.

Everyman's Library, Vol. 95.

The School for Scandal. Temple Dramatists. Sichel, W. S. Sheridan, from New and Original Material, 2 vols. 1909.

Rae, W. F. Biography, 2 vols., 1896. Oliphant, M. Life (Engl. Men of Letters Ser.), 1898.

The Rivals may also be mentioned.

V

P. B. SHELLEY

Works. Ed. H. B. Forman, 8 vols., 1880. Ed. G. E. Woodberry, 1901. Everyman's Library, Vols. 257, 258.

The Cenci. Ed. G. E. Woodberry (Belles Lettres Ser.), 1909.

Crawford, F. Marion. Beatrice Cenci; the True Story of a Misunderstood Tragedy. The Century Magazine, LXXV. 449-466 (Jan. 1908).

A Study of The Cenci, E. S. Bates (Colum bia dissertation). 1908. Dowden, E. Life, 2 vols., 1886.

The present text is founded on A. and H. B. Forman's edition, published by the Shelley Society, 1886.

Another fine poetic tragedy of the early part of the century is Sir T. N. Talfourd's Ion.

Works.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

1840, 1848, 1850. Dramatic Works, now First Collected, 1841 (the source of the present text). The Lady of Lyons.

1st ed. 1838. Ed. with others of Bulwer's plays, by K. F. Sharp, 1904.

Life. By his son, 2 vols. 1883. By his grandson, the Earl of Lytton. 2 vols. 1913.

Bulwer's best other play is Richelieu. Later influential sentimental prose comedies, "realistic" and moralistic rather than romantic, are T. W. Robertson's Caste and Society.

ROBERT BROWNING Works. Riverside ed., 6 vols., 1888. Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1888-9, 17 vols. (the source of the present text). Ed. H. E. Scudder (Cambridge ed.) 1895. Everyman's Library, Vols. 41, 42. Bells and Pomegranates, 1st Ser.

Reissued

in an exact reprint (Ward, Lock and Co., London).

Life and Letters, Mrs. Sutherland Orr, 2 vols, 1891.

Biography, Edward Dowden, 1904; C. H. Herford, 1905.

E. C. Mayne, Browning's Heroines, 1913. Tennyson's Becket may be mentioned

also.

OSCAR WILDE Works (Sunflower ed.), 1909.

Lady Windermere's Fan (Ariel Booklets), Putnam's, New York.

Life, R. H. Sherard, 1906.

Oscar Wilde (a study), L. C. Ingleby, 1907. Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study, A. Ransome, 1912.

The English Stage of To-day, Mario Borsa (English translation by Brinton), 1908.

Others of Wilde's comedies are The Importance of Being Earnest, A Wor an of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband. For the best plays of contemporary dramatists the reader is referred to those printed in Professor T. H. Dickinson's Chief Contemporary Dramatists (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1915). Of Mr. Percy MacKaye's poetic dramas the chief are The Canterbury Pilgrims, Jeanne d'Arc, and Sapho and Phaon: of his prose plays, The Scarecrow and Anti-Matrimony.