bow.) Yes; Lady Windermere, Mrs. Erlynne has done me the honor of accepting brutally to her. She is just the woman Lord A. (Advancing towards her with a 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 demmed everything! my hand. KE Sick of it all. Lord W. Well, you are certainly marry- Lady W. (Taking her husband's hand.) Lady W. (Frightened.) Has Mrs. Er lynne -? CURTAIN. woman. very good GENERAL WORKS BIBLIOGRAPHY Cambridge History of English Literature. Chambers, E. K. The Mediaval Stage. 2 vols. 1903. Clarence, R. Stage Cyclopædia. 1909 (on stage history and performances of plays). Collier, J. P. History of English Dramatic Poetry. New ed. 3 vols. 1879. Dictionary of National Biography (for biography and bibliography). Fleay, F. G. A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559-1642. 2 vols. 1891. Fleay, F. G. A Chronicle History of the Murray, J. T. English Dramatic Companies, 1558-1642. 1910. Neilson, W. A. The Chief Elizabethan E. Elizabethan Drama. 2 vols. 1908. Sharp, R. F. lish Stage. Swinburne, A. C. The Age of Shakespeare. A Short History of the Eng1909. 1908. Symonds, J. A. Shakespeare's Predecessors Thorndike, A. H. Tragedy. 1908. lish 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. 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. THE MORALITY F. 1914. Mackenzie, W. R. The Origin of the English Morality. Washington Univ. Studies. Vol. II. Pt. ii. No. 2. 1915. Everyman. Ed. W. W. Greg. Bang's Materialen zur kunde des älteren eng. lischen Dramas. Vol. IV. 1904 (the source of the present text). Ed. in Sidgwick. 1902. Also the Everyman's Library, vol. 381. Modernized by C. G. Child in Early Plays (see above). For the relations between Everyman and the Dutch play Elckerlijc, see two articles by J. M. Manly and F. A. Wood Elckerlijc-Everyman: The Question of Priority, in Modern Philology, Oct. 1900, Vol. VIII. Other works are mentioned under the preceding heading. on Other good moralities may be found in Manly; also other short early plays ("Interludes") of a more secular character. 1884-5. Brooke, C. F. T. 1910. Ellis, 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 Gorboduc (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. Collected Editions: Pearson, J. 6 vols. 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. BEN JONSON Collected Editions: Gifford, W. 9 vols. 1816. Cunningham, F. 9 vols. 1871-5. Nicholson, B. Mermaid ed. 3 vols. 1893-4. Rhys, E. Masterpieces of The English Drama. Everyman's Library, vols. 489, 490. Several of the plays have been edited in Yale Studies in English. The Alchemist. Ed. Hathaway, C. H. Yale Studies in English. 1903. Ed. with Eastward Ho! by Schelling, F. E Belles Lettres Series. 1903. Castelain, M. Ben Jonson: L'Homme et l'Oeuvre. 1907. Koeppel, E. Ben Jonson's Wirkung auf zeitgenössische Dramatiker. Anglistische Forschungen. 1906. Koeppel, E. Quellenstudien zu den Dramen Ben Jonson's. 1895. Swinburne, A. C. A Study of Ben Jonson. 1889. Symonds, J. A. Ben Jonson. 1886. Woodbridge, E. Studies in Jonson's Comedy. 1898. (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 Li brary, 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 Beaumont 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 Spanish 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 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, 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. H. Nettleton, 1906. Everyman's Library, Vol. 95. The School for Scandal. Temple Dramatists. 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 Smith, Works. Riverside ed., 6 vols., 1888. 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. Her ford, 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. 1917 |