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A select collection of old English plays. / Originally published by Robert Dodsley in the year 1744.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama.
- Physical Description:
- 15 volumes ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition, now first chronologically arranged, revised and enlarged, with the notes of all the commentators, and new notes by W. Carew Hazlitt ...
- Other Title:
- Old English plays.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reeves and Turner, 1874-76.
- Contents:
- 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.
- II. Interlude of youth. Lusty Juventus. Jack Juggler. Nice wanton. History of Jacob and Esau. Disobedient child. Marriage of wit and science.
- III. New custom. Ralph Roister Doister. Gammer Gurton's needle. The trial of treasure. Like will to like .
- IV. Damon and Pithias. Appius and Virginia. Cambyses. The misfortune of Arthur. Jeronimo.
- V. The Spanish tragedy. Cornelia. Soliman and Perseda. Life and death of Jack Straw.
- VI. The conflict of conscience. Rare triumps of love and fortune. Three ladies of London. Three lords and three ladies of London. A knack to know a knave.
- VII. Tancred and Gismunda. Wounds of Civil War. Mucedorus. The two angry women of Abington. Look about you.
- VIII. Summer's last will and testament. Downfall fo Robert, earl of Huntington. Death of Robert, earl of Huntington. Contention between liberality and prodigality. Grim the collier of Croydon.
- IX. How to choose a good wife from a bad. The return from Parnassus. Wily beguiled. Lingua. Miseries of enforced marriage.
- X. The revenger's tragedy. The dumb knight. The merry devil of Edmonton. Ram-Alley. The second maiden's tragedy. Englishmen for my money.
- XI. A woman is a weathercock. Amends for ladies. Green's Tu quoque. Albumazar. The hog hath lost his pearl. The heir.
- XII. The old couple. A woman never vexed. The ordinary. The London chanticleers. The shepherd's holiday. The true Trojans. The lost lady.
- XIII. A match at midnight. The city nightcap. The city match. The queen of Arragon. The antiquary.
- XIV. The rebellion. Lust's dominion; or, The lascivious queen. Andromana. Lady Alimony. The parson's wedding.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Many plays included in former editions are omitted in this, and replaced by others less accessible; or now first reprinted from the originals "A strictly chronological arrangement has been adopted." cf. Pref.
- "Glossarial index, by Richard Morris, LL. D.": vol. xv, p. [457]-509.
- Local Notes:
- Preserved for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John, Ruth, and Sally Ruth MacCorkell Fund.
- OCLC:
- 848173
- Online:
- The John, Ruth, and Sally Ruth MacCorkell Fund Home Page
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