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• English drama -- 17th century
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• Love's mistress; or, The queen's masque (Privately printed [Printed by E. & G. Goldsmid], 1886), by Thomas Heywood and E. M. Goldsmid (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Pleasant conceited comedie : wherein is shewed how a man may chuse a good wife from a bad. (C. Baldwyn, 1824), by Jo. Cooke and Joshua Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Congreve's works. (Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1710), by William Congreve and Jacob Tonson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The combat of love and friendship, a comedy, as it hath formerly been presented by the gentlemen of Ch. Ch. in Oxford. By Robert Mead, sometimes of the same colledge. (London, : Printed for M[ercy] M[eighen] G. Bedell, and T. Collins, at the Middle Temple gate, Fleetstreet., 1654. [i.e. 1653]), by Robert Mead (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Restoration Comedies: The Parsons Wedding; The London Cuckolds; and Sir Courtly Nice, or, It Cannot Be (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1922), ed. by Montague Summers, contrib. by Thomas Killigrew, Edward Ravenscroft, and Mr. Crown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scenes from eighteenth century comedies (University press, 1910), by A. Barter (page images at HathiTrust)
• English comic dramatists (Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883), by Oswald Crawfurd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The commedia dell'arte. a study in Italian popular comedy (The Columbia university press, 1912), by Winifred Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative English comedies, with introductory essays and notes, an historical view of our earlier comedy, and other monographs (The Macmillan Company;, 1903), by Charles Mills Gayley and Alwin Thaler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lesser English comedies of the eighteenth century (Oxford University Press, 1927), by Allardyce Nicoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• The kiss, a comedy, in five acts. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811), by Stephen Clarke and John Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Types of social comedy (Prentice-Hall, inc., 1928), by Robert Metcalf Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Low comedy as a structural element in English drama, from the beginnings to 1642 ... (Folcroft Press, 1969), by Ola Elizabeth Winslow (page images at HathiTrust)
• English plays ... (page images at HathiTrust)
• The magistrate; a farce in three acts. (W.H. Baker, 1892), by Arthur Wing Pinero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Low comedy as a structural element in English drama from the beginning to 1642. (Distributed by the University of Chicago Libraries, 1926), by Ola Elizabeth Winslow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakspeare's plays (Printed by C. Whittingham for Thomas Tegg, Cheapside [et al.], 1823), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• A midsummer night's dream (Clarendon press, 1877), by William Shakespeare and William Aldis Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comedy and conscience after the Restoration (Columbia University Press, 1924), by Joseph Wood Krutch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Low comedy as a structure element in English drama from the beginnings to 1642. ([Menasha, Wis., 1926), by Ola Elizabeth Winslow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative English comedies, with introductory essays and notes, an historical view of our earlier comedy, and other monographs (The Macmillan Company;, 1907), by Charles Mills Gayley and Alwin Thaler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plays : [a collection of thirty 18th century English plays, principally comedies. (London, 1793), by Frederick Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drama, burletta, 1843-1851. (1843), by Robert B. Brough, Shirley Brooks, J. R. Planché, and Albert Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures of the Lady Ursula (S. French; [etc., etc.], 1910), by Anthony Hope (page images at HathiTrust)
• The best eighteenth century comedies (A. A. Knopf, 1929), by John Earle Uhler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wooings and weddings (Samuel French, 1800), by George W. Lovell and Samuel French (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative English comedies : with introductory essays and notes (Macmillan, 1903), by Alwin Thaler and Charles Mills Gayley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on the English poets and the English comedy writers (Bell and Daldy, 1869), by William Hazlitt and William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative English comedies, with introductory essays and notes, an historical view of our earlier comedy (The Macmillan Company; [etc., etc.], 1903), by Charles Mills Gayley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative English comedies : with introductory essays and notes; an historical view of our earlier comedy (The Macmillan company; [etc., etc.], 1912), by Charles Mills Gayley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Man and superman, a comedy and a philosophy. (Brentano's, 1904), by Bernard Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mont Blanc : a comedy in three acts (Printed for private circulation, 1874), by Henry Mayhew, Eugène Labiche, and Athol Mayhew (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tempest (D. C. Heath & Co., 1897), by William Shakespeare and Frederick S. Boas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bergson's theory of the comic in the light of English comedy (Lincoln, 1920), by Louise Mathewson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelfth night. (Ginn, 1897), by William Shakespeare and Henry Norman Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
• As you like it : a comedy in five acts (New York ; London : Samuel French, [1903?], 1903), by William Shakespeare, Robert Gould Shaw, Alfred Young, and Frederick Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The minor drama : a collection of the most popular petit comedies, vaudevilles, burlettas, travesties, etc. ; with critical remarks. (Berford & co., 1847), by Francis Courtney Wemyss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The best eighteenth century comedies; with comments on the drama and the dramatists of the period. (Knopf, 1921), by John E. Uhler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A charming pair : a farce, in one act (New York : Robert M. De Witt, [189-]., in the 1890s), by Thomas J. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative English comedies, with introductory essays and notes; an historical view of our earlier comedy (AMS Press, 1969), by Charles Mills Gayley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A midsummer night's dream (Samuel French, 1900), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The importance of being earnest : a trivial comedy for serious people (S. French, 1893), by Oscar Wilde and Gore Vidal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man of business : a comedy : as acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden (Printed for T. Becket, 1774), by George Colman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why did you die? A petite comedy, in one act. (H. Roorbach, 1870), by Charles Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hay fever : A light comedy in three acts, by Noel Coward (Gutenberg ebook)
• Betsy Baker! or, Too Attentive by Half; A Farce, in One Act, by John Maddison Morton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lady Patricia: A comedy in three acts, by Rudolf Besier (Gutenberg ebook)
• Richard Steele: Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by G. A. Aitken, by Richard Steele, ed. by George Atherton Aitken (Gutenberg ebook)
• William Wycherley [Four Plays], by William Wycherley, ed. by William C. Ward, contrib. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (Gutenberg ebook)
• Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare, ed. by Charles Mills Gayley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Next Door Neighbours: A Comedy; In Three Acts, by Mrs. Inchbald, Néricault Destouches, and Louis-Sébastien Mercier (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Beaux-Stratagem: A comedy in five acts, by George Farquhar, contrib. by Mrs. Inchbald (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Recruiting Officer, by George Farquhar, contrib. by Mrs. Inchbald (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Rivals: A Comedy, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Gutenberg ebook)
• Roister Doister: Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College, by Nicholas Udall, ed. by Edward Arber (Gutenberg ebook)
• A cracker bon-bon for Christmas parties (London: David Bogue, 1852), by Robert B Brough, illust. by Henry George Hine (page images at Florida)
• A cracker bon-bon for Christmas parties (London: W. Kent & Co., 1861), by Robert B Brough, illust. by Henry George Hine (page images at Florida)
• Sir Courtly Nice, or, It cannot be a comedy, as it is acted by His Majesties servants / written by Mr. Crown. (London : Printed by H.H. Jun. for R. Bentley ... and Jos. Hindmarsh ..., 1685), by Mr. Crown (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The marriage-hater match'd a comedy acted at the Theatre Royal by Their Majesties servants / written by Tho. D'Urfey. (London : Printed for Richard Bentley ..., 1692), by Thomas D'Urfey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The mistaken husband a comedie, as it is acted by His Majesties servants at the Theatre-Royall / by a person of quality. (London : Printed for J. Magnes and R. Bentley ..., 1675), by John Dryden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The cheats a comedy : written in the year, M.DC. LXII. (London : Printed for G. Bidell, and T. Collins ... and Cha. Adams ..., 1664), by John Wilson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Woman turn'd bully a comedy, acted at the Duke's Theatre. (London : Printed by J.C. for T. Dring ..., 1675) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The country-wife a comedy acted at the Theatre Royal / written by Mr. Wycherley ... (London : Printed for Thomas Dring ..., 1675), by William Wycherley and Molière (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Women will have their will:: or, Give Christmas his due. In a dialogue betweene Mris Custome, a victuallers wife neere Cripplegate, and Mris New-come, a captains wife, living in Reformation-Alley, neer Destruction-street. When Gillian Turn-tripe, Jack-an-apes his trull, and Cicely Sly-tricks, Gol-magogs great gull, shall once begin to rule and sway this land, oh, to those subjects under their command! (London : printed by E.P. for W.G., 1649) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The macaroni. A comedy: As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in York. (York : printed by A. Ward, in Coney-street, M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]), by Robert Hitchcock (HTML at ECCO TCP)

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