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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15

Chapter 88: TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
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An edited anthology gathers seventeenth-century and earlier English plays, presented chronologically with introductions, dramatis personae, stage directions, and explanatory notes by various commentators with added annotations. The selection includes comedies of intrigue and Restoration-era dramas that explore mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, honour, and social satire; several pieces derive from or adapt Spanish originals and feature complex plots, servants' subplots, and courtroom or domestic scenes. Scholarly apparatus includes a prefatory history of the theatre, glossarial and errata indices, and editorial commentary that contextualizes authorship, editions, and performance history for readers seeking both dramatic texts and critical notes.


A SELECT COLLECTION OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS.
CONTENTS.

Vol. I.

  • Interlude of the Four Elements.
  • The Tragic-Comedy of Calisto and Melibæa.
  • Everyman: A Moral Play.
  • Hickscorner.
  • The Pardoner and the Friar.
  • The World and the Child.
  • God's Promises.
  • The Four P.P.
  • A New Interlude, called Thersites.

Vol. II.

  • Interlude of Youth.
  • Lusty Juventus.
  • Jack Juggler.
  • Nice Wanton.
  • History of Jacob and Esau.
  • Disobedient Child.
  • Marriage of Wit and Science.

Vol. III.

  • New Custom.
  • Ralph Roister Doister.
  • Gammer Gurton's Needle.
  • The Trial of Treasure.
  • Like Will to Like.

Vol. IV.

  • Damon and Pithias.
  • Appius and Virginia.
  • Cambyses.
  • The Misfortunes of Arthur.
  • Jeronimo.

Vol. V.

  • The Spanish Tragedy.
  • Cornelia.
  • Soliman and Perseda.
  • Life and Death of Jack Straw.

Vol. VI.

  • The Conflict of Conscience.
  • Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune.
  • The Three Ladies of London.
  • Three Lords and Three Ladies of London.
  • A Knack to Know a Knave.

Vol. VII.

  • Tancred and Gismunda.
  • Wounds of Civil War.
  • Mucedorus.
  • The Two Angry Women of Abington.
  • Look about you.

VOL. VIII.

  • Summer's Last Will and Testament.
  • Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon.
  • Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon.
  • Contention between Liberality and Prodigality.
  • Grim the Collier of Croydon.

Vol. IX.

  • How to Choose a Good Wife from a Bad.
  • The Return from Parnassus.
  • Wily Beguiled.
  • Lingua.
  • Miseries of Enforced Marriage.

Vol. X.

  • The Revenger's Tragedy.
  • The Dumb Knight.
  • The Merry Devil of Edmonton.
  • Ram-Alley.
  • The Second Maiden's Tragedy.
  • Englishmen for My Money.

Vol. XI.

  • A Woman is a Weathercock.
  • Amends for Ladies.
  • Green's Tu Quoque.
  • Albumazar.
  • The Hog hath Lost his Pearl.
  • The Heir.

Vol. XII.

  • The Old Couple.
  • A Woman Never Vexed.
  • The Ordinary.
  • The London Chanticleers.
  • The Shepherd's Holiday.
  • The True Trojans.
  • The Lost Lady.

Vol. XIII.

  • A Match at Midnight.
  • The City Nightcap.
  • The City Match.
  • The Queen of Arragon.
  • The Antiquary.

VOL. XIV.

  • The Rebellion.
  • Lust's Dominion; or, The Lascivious Queen.
  • Andromana.
  • Lady Alimony.
  • The Parson's Wedding.

VOL. XV.

  • Elvira; or, The Worst not always True.
  • The Marriage Night.
  • The Adventures of Five Hours.
  • All Mistaken; or, The Mad Couple.
  • Historia Histrionica.
  • Index and Glossary.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

Added table of contents.

The volume number of the entry "Moped, moping, xv. 521" on p. 489 is incorrect.

Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors.

Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.