English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
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Five Anonymous Plays (Fourth Series): Comprising Appius and Virginia; The Marriage of Wit and Science; Grim the Collier of Croydon; Common Conditions; The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom; Note-Book and Word-List (facsimile reprint of Early English Drama Society edition; London: C. W. Traylen, 1966), ed. by John Stephen Farmer- Six Anonymous Plays, First Series (c. 1510-1537): Comprising Four Elements; The Beauty and Good Properties of Women (Usually Known as Calisto and Melibaea); Every Man; Hickscorner; The World and the Child; Thersites; Note-Book and Word-List (facsimile reprint of Early English Drama Society edition; London: C. W. Traylen, 1966), ed. by John Stephen Farmer (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays, With Some Others: Comprising Mankind; Nature; Wit and Science; Respublica; Wealth and Health; Impatient Poverty; John the Evangelist; Note-Book and Word-List (facsimile reprint of Early English Drama Society edition; London: C. W. Traylen, 1966), ed. by John Stephen Farmer (Gutenberg text)
- Anonymous Plays, Third Series: Comprising Jack Juggler; King Darius; Gammer Gurton's Needle; New Custom; Trial of Treasure; Note-Book and Word-List (London: Priv. print. for subscribers by the Early English Drama Society, 1906), ed. by John Stephen Farmer (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Collection of Old English Plays (4 volumes), ed. by A. H. Bullen
- The Dramatic Writings of John Heywood: Comprising The Pardoner and the Friar; The Four P.P.; John the Husband, Tyb His Wife, and Sir John the Priest; Play of the Weather; Play of Love; Dialogue Concerning Witty and Witless; Note-Book and Word-List (London: Early English Drama Society, 1905), by John Heywood, ed. by John Stephen Farmer (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Five Old Plays, Illustrating the Early Progress of the English Drama (London: W. Nicol, 1851), ed. by John Payne Collier
- Old Plays: Being a Continuation of Dodsley's Collection, With Notes, Critical and Explanatory (6 volumes; London: Rodwell and Martin, 1816), ed. by Charles Wentworth Dilke, contrib. by Christopher Marlowe, John Lyly, John Marston, Thomas Dekker, George Chapman, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, John Webster, and Thomas Heywood
- Six Anonymous Plays (Second Series): Comprising Jacob and Esau; Youth; Albion, Knight; Misogonus; Godly Queen Hester; Tom Tyler and His Wife; Note-Book and Word-List (London: Priv. print. for subscribers by the Early English Drama Society, 1906), ed. by John Stephen Farmer (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Old English Drama: A Selection of Plays From the Old English Dramatists (2 volumes; London: Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1825), contrib. by George Chapman, James Shirley, Thomas Heywood, Henry Glapthorne, Christopher Marlowe, and Thomas Nash
- Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays, With Some Others: Comprising Mankind; Nature; Wit and Science; Respublica; Wealth and Health; Impatient Poverty; John the Evangelist; Note-Book and Word-List (London: Priv. print. for subscribers by the Early English Drama Society, 1907), ed. by John Stephen Farmer (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Rosary of Mystery Plays: Fifteen Plays Selected from the York Cycle of Mysteries Performed by the Crafts on the Day of Corpus Christi in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries (Albany, NY: Press of F. H. Evory, 1915), trans. by Margaret S. Mooney (page images at HathiTrust)
- Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2013), by Chloe Porter
- The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Mary Beth Rose (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by Phoebe S. Spinrad (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- Internal Evidence and Elizabethan Dramatic Authorship: An Essay in Literary History and Method (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1966), by S. Schoenbaum (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Dramatic Publication in England, 1580-1640: A Study of Conditions Affecting Content and Form of Drama (Modern Language Association of America monograph #2; New York: D.C. Heath; London : Oxford University Press, 1927), by Evelyn May Albright (page images at HathiTrust)
- On Editing Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Dramatists (Philadelphia: Pub. for the Philip H. and A. S. W. Rosenbach Foundation by the University of Pennsylvania Library, 1955), by Fredson Bowers (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Age of Shakespeare, by Algernon Charles Swinburne (HTML at Indiana)
- Contemporaries of Shakespeare, by Algernon Charles Swinburne, ed. by Edmund Gosse and Thomas James Wise (HTML at Indiana)
- Literary Criticism From the Elizabethan Dramatists: Repertory and Synthesis (New York: Sturgis and Walton Co., 1910), by David Klein (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Shakespeare Symphony: An Introduction to the Ethics of the Elizabethan Drama (London: Chapman and Hall, 1906), by Harold Bayley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Medieval in the Renaissance (2 volumes), by Vernon Lee
- The Relations of Shirley's Plays to Elizabethan Drama (Columbia PhD thesis; New York: Columbia University Press, 1914), by Robert S. Forsythe
- A Sketch of the Pre-Shakspearian Drama (O. U. Miscellanies #7; London: C. W. H. Wyman, 1885), by Frank Ireson
- The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare, and Annals of the Stage to the Restoration (3 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1831), by John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, With Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England (Oxford, UK: Horace Hart, printer to the University, 1906), by W. W. Greg (Gutenberg text)
- Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, With Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England (London: A. H. Bullen, 1906), by W. W. Greg (multiple formats at archive.org)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: English drama- The Plays and Poems of Cyril Tourneur (2 volumes; London: Chatto and Windus, 1878), by Cyril Tourneur, ed. by John Churton Collins
- Two Lamentable Tragedies (1913 reprint of 1601 publication), by Robert Yarington, contrib. by John Day, William Haughton, and Henry Chettle (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Old English Drama: A Selection of Plays From the Old English Dramatists (2 volumes; London: Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1825), contrib. by George Chapman, James Shirley, Thomas Heywood, Henry Glapthorne, Christopher Marlowe, and Thomas Nash
- Old Plays: Being a Continuation of Dodsley's Collection, With Notes, Critical and Explanatory (6 volumes; London: Rodwell and Martin, 1816), ed. by Charles Wentworth Dilke, contrib. by Christopher Marlowe, John Lyly, John Marston, Thomas Dekker, George Chapman, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, John Webster, and Thomas Heywood
- Double Demon, and Other One-Act Plays (also includes St. Simeon Stylites, Thirty Minutes in a Street, and Pan in Pimlico; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1924), contrib. by A. P. Herbert, F. Sladen-Smith, Beatrice Mayor, and Helen Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
- After Brecht: British Epic Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Janelle G. Reinelt (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, by Colley Cibber
- Plays and Controversies (London: Macmillan and Co., 1923), by W. B. Yeats
- The Literary Lounger (full serial archives)
- 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)
- Restoration Plays from Dryden to Farquhar (London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.; New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1912) (searchable HTML at Bibliomania)
- Virgil and the Tempest: The Politics of Imitation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Donna B. Hamilton (PDF at Ohio State)
- The N-Town Plays, A Modernization (c1999), ed. by Stanley J. Kahrl and Alexandra F. Johnston (HTML at chass.utoronto.ca)
- York Plays: The Plays Performed by the Crafts or Mysteries of York, on the Day of Corpus Christi, in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries (reprint, originally published 1883; New York: Russell and Russell, 1963), ed. by Lucy Toulmin Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Towneley Plays (EETS extra series #71; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, 1897, reprinted 1952), ed. by George England, contrib. by Alfred W. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Second Shepherds' Play, Everyman, and Other Early Plays (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1910), ed. by Clarence Griffin Child (page images at HathiTrust)
- Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plays: 1. The Shearmen and Taylor's Pageant, Re-edited from the Edition of Thomas Sharp, 1825; and 2. The Weavers' Pageant, Re-edited from the Manuscript of Robert Croo, 1534; With a Plan of Coventry, and Appendixes Containing the Chief Records of the Coventry Plays (EETS extra series #87; London: Pub. for the Early English text society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1902), ed. by Hardin Craig
- Ludus Coventriae: or, The Plaie Called Corpus Christi, Cotton Ms. Vespasian D. VIII (EETS extra series #120; London et al.: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, c1922), ed. by K. S. Block
- The Chester Plays: A Collection of Mysteries Founded Upon Scriptural Subjects, and Formerly Represented by the Trades of Chester at Whitsuntide (2 volumes; London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1843-1847), ed. by Thomas Wright
- A Collection of English Miracle-Plays or Mysteries: Containing Ten Dramas from the Chester, Coventry, and Towneley series, With Two of Latter Date; To Which is Prefixed, An Historical View of This Description of Plays (Basel: Schweighauser and Co., 1838), ed. by William Marriott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Digby Plays; With an Incomplete "Morality" of Wisdom, Who is Christ (EETS extra series #70; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, N. Trübner and Co., 1896), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall
- "Everyman," With Other Interludes, Including Eight Miracle Plays (London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., reprinted 1914), contrib. by Ernest Rhys (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Ludus Coventriae: A Collection of Mysteries, Formerly Represented at Coventry on the Feast of Corpus Christi (London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1841), ed. by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The N-Town Cycle, ed. by Gerard NeCastro (HTML at Maine)
- The Old Miracle Plays of England, by Netta Syrett, illust. by Helen Thorp (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Three Chester Whitsun Plays (Chester: Phillipson and Golder, 1906), ed. by Joseph Cox Bridge (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Towneley Plays, ed. by George England (HTML at Michigan)
- English Miracle Plays, Moralities, and Interludes: Specimens of the Pre-Elizabethan Drama (fifth edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1909), ed. by Alfred W. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Macro Plays: 1. Mankind (Ab. 1475); 2. Wisdom (Ab. 1460); 3. The Castle of Perseverance (Ab. 1425) (EETS extra series #91; London: Early English Text Society, 1904), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall and Alfred W. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The York Plays, ed. by Richard Beadle (HTML at Michigan)
- Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales, ed. by Stephen Knight and Thomas H. Ohlgren (HTML at Rochester)
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