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Five pre-Shakespearean comedies (early Tudor period) / edited with an introduction by Frederick S. Boas.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600.
- English drama.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
- English drama (Comedy).
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1986, c1934.
- Summary:
- The five plays included in this volume range over a period of more than sixty years, from about the close of the fifteenth century to the opening decade of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. They represent distinctive dramatic types in the formative earlier Tudor period which preceded and led up to the unparalleled achievement of Shakespeare and his fellow playwrights.
- Contents:
- Fulgens and Lucrece / by Henry Medwall
- The four PP / by John Heywood
- Ralph Roister Doister / by Nicholas Udall
- Gammer Gurton's needle / by "Mr. S. Mr. of Art"
- Supposes / by George Gascoigne.
- ISBN:
- 0313252033
- OCLC:
- 13268845
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