Geschichte
des neueren Dramas.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05
(Modern B.
D.
)
Simpson, R. The School of Shakspere. 2 vols. 1878. (Simpson. )
Six Old Plays on which Shakespeare founded his Measure for Measure.
Comedy of Errors. The Taming of the Shrew. King John. King
Henry IV and King Henry V. King Lear. 2 vols. 1779. (Six Old
Plays. )
Tudor Facsimile Texts. Old Plays and other Printed and MS. Rarities.
Ed. Farmer, J. S. 43 vols. 1907, etc. [In progress. ] (Tudor Fac-
simile Texts. )
Lamb, Charles. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets. Ed. Gollancz, I.
2 vols. 1908. (Lamb's Specimens. )
II. LISTS OF PLAYS AND DRAMATISTS.
Stationers' Company, Register of the, 1554-1560. Transcript by Arber, E.
5 vols. 1875–94. [Indispensable for all independent research. ] (Sta-
tioners' register. )
Henslowe's Diary. Ed. Greg, W. W. Part 1: Text. Part 11: Commentary.
1904. [The standard edition of the book. ] (Henslowe's Diary. )
Vol. I.
Baker, D. E. Biographia Dramatica; or, A Companion to the Playhouse. . . .
Originally compiled, to the year 1764, by David Erskine Baker. Con-
tinued thence, to 1782, by Isaac Reed, and brought down to the end of
November, 1811. . . by Stephen Jones. 3 vols. 1812. (Biographia
Dramatica. )
Davenport-Adams, W. A Dictionary of the Drama.
1904.
(Davenport-Adams. )
Fleay, F. G. A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559–1642.
2 vols. 1891. (Fleay's English Drama. )
A Chronicle History of the London Stage. 1890. [This earlier work
contains lists of performances and authors. ] (Fleay's Chronicle of
Stage. )
(Genest, J. ) Some Account of the English Stage, from the Restoration in
1660 to 1830. 10 vols. Bath, 1832. (Genest. )
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383
Greg, W. W. A List of English Plays written before 1643 and printed
before 1700. Bibliographical Society. 1900. (Greg's List of Plays. )
A List of Masques, Pageants, &c. , supplementary to A List of English
Plays. Bibliographical Society. 1902. (Greg's List of Masques. )
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. A Dictionary of Old English Plays. Being a
revision of Baker's Biographia Dramatica. 1860. (Halliwell's Dict. )
Hazlitt, W. C. Handbook to the Popular and Dramatic Literature of Great
Britain, with Supplements. 1867-90. (Hazlitt's Handbook. )
Langbaine, G. An Account of English Dramatic Poets. 1691. (Lang-
baine. ) Revised by Gildon, C. 1699.
Lowe, R. W. A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature.
1887. (Lowe. )
In addition to the above, the Catalogue of Printed Books in the British
Museum Library will of course be consulted, together with the following
catalogues of special collections :
Capell's Shakespeariana. Catalogue of the Books presented by Edward
Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge. Compiled by
Greg, W. W. Cambridge, 1903.
Chatsworth. A Catalogue of the Library at Chatsworth. With preface by
Lacaita, Sir J. P. ) 4 vols. (Privately printed. ) 1879.
Dyce-Forster Collection. A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts
bequeathed by the Rev. Alexander Dyce and John Forster. 2 vols. 1879.
III. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH DRAMA.
Collier, J. P. History of English Dramatic Poetry. New ed. 3 vols. 1879.
(Largely superseded, especially in its earlier and in its concluding
portions, but still to some extent indispensable. ] (Collier. )
Jusserand, J. J. Le Théâtre en Angleterre jusqu'aux prédécesseurs im-
médiats de Shakespeare. 2nd ed. Paris, 1881. (Jusserand's Th. en A. )
Schelling, F. E. Elizabethan Drama. 2 vols. Boston and New York, 1908.
[Invaluable. ] (Schelling's Elizabethan Drama. )
Ward, A. W. History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of
Queen Anne. 2nd ed. 3 vols. 1899. (Ward. )
For F. G. Fleay's works, which possess an enduring critical as well as
historical value, notwithstanding the excessive amount of conjecture contained
in them, see under sec. II above.
Baker, H. Barton. History of the London Stage and its famous Players. 1904.
Boyer, C. V. The villain as hero in Elizabethan tragedy. 1914.
Chambers, E. K. The Mediæval Stage. 2 vols. Oxford, 1903. (Chambers. )
Coleridge, S. T. Literary Remains. Vols. 1-II. 1836. (Coleridge. )
Courthope, W. J. History of English Poetry. Vols. 1-III. 1895-1903.
(Courthope. )
Creizenach, W.
Geschichte des neueren Dramas. Vols. 1-IV, Part I.
Halle, 1893-1909. (A standard work. ] (Creizenach. )
Du Méril, E. Histoire de la Comédie. Période Primitive. Paris, 1864. [No
more published. ] (Du Méril. )
Hazlitt, W. C. The English Drama and Stage, under the Tudor and Stuart
Princes, 1543–1664. Illustrated by a series of Documents, Treatises and
Poems. Roxburghe Library, 1869. (Hazlitt's English Drama and
Stage. )
Herford, C. H. Studies in the literary Relations of England and Germany
in the 16th century. 1886. (Herford's Literary Relations. )
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Jusserand, J. J. Histoire Littéraire du Peuple Anglais. Vol. 1. Des Origines
à la Renaissance.
Vol. II.
De la Renaissance à la guerre Civile.
Paris, 1894-1904. Eng. trans. New ed. , amplified. 2 vols. 1907-9.
(Jusserand, E. Tr. )
Klein, J. L. Geschichte des Dramas. 13 vols. in 15 with index vol. Leipzig,
1865-86. [Vols. XII and will of this voluminous and wordy book, which
however contains a vast amount of independent research, treat of the
English drama to Marlowe. ] (Klein. )
Körting, G. Grundriss der Gesch, der engl. Litteratur von ihren Anfängen
bis zur Gegenwart. 4th ed. Munster, 1905. (Körting. )
Mantzius, K. A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times.
With an introduction by Archer, W. Authorised trans. by Cassel,
Louise von. 5 vols. 1903 ff.
Morley, H. English Writers. Revised and enlarged ed. 11 vols. 1887-95.
(Morley, H. )
Petit de Julleville, L. Histoire de la Langue et de la Littérature Françaises
des Origines à 1900. 8 vols. Paris, 1896–1900.
Histoire du Théâtre en France au Moyen Âge. 4 vols. Paris, 1880-6.
(Petit de Julleville. )
Prölss, R. Geschichte des neueren Dramas. 3 vols. 1881-3. [Vol. 11. 2 con-
cerns the English drama. ] (Prölss. )
Schlegel, A. W. von. Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst. (Schlegel's
Sämmtliche Werke, vols. V and vi. ) Eng. trans. by Black, J. , revised
by Morrison, A. J. W. 1846. (Schlegel, E. Tr. )
Taine, H. A. Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise. 4 vols. 1863-4 (and sub-
sequent editions). Eng. trans. 2 vols. 1872. (Taine, E. Tr. )
Ten Brink, B. Geschichte der Englischen Literatur. Ed. Brandi, A. Vol. 1.
Strassburg, 1899.
Vol. II.
Strassburg, 1893. Eng. trans. 3 vols.
1883–96. (Ten Brink, E. Tr. )
Warton, T. History of English Poetry. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 4 vols. 1871.
(Warton. )
Apart from English, American and foreign periodical publications devoted
to the discussion of English linguistic and literary subjects in particular
(including the publications of The Early English Text Society), or of subjects
appertaining to Germanio or to Modern Literature generally (including
Anglia, Englische Studien, the Journal of the Modern Languages Asso-
ciation, now The Modern Language Review, Modern Language Notes
(Baltimore)), mention should be made here of the Transactions and
Publications of the Shakespeare Society, 1844-53, and of the New Shak-
spere Society, 1874-96; as well as of the still flourishing Jahrbuch der
deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Weimar, from 1865. These publications,
which alike possess a signal and varied interest for the student of English
dramatic literature, are cited respectively under the headings of Shakesp.
Soc. , New Shakep. Soc. , and Shakesp. Jahrb. See, especially, Mod. Lang.
Rev. , General Index to volumes 1-X, Cambridge, 1915.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
This chapter being introductory in character, the bibliographical
information illustrating its contents will be found in the bibliographies
to chapters II and III, and, incidentally, in those to later chapters.
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Chapter II
385
CHAPTER II
SECULAR INFLUENCES ON THE EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA
A bibliography of this subject is given by Chambers, vol. 1, pp. xiii-xlii,
and the bibliographical notes which appear at the head of nearly every
chapter of his work will be found invaluable. The bibliography that follows
represents an attempt to select only what is essential. Among the Dramatic
and General Literary Histories enumerated above special attention should be
directed to Chambers, the standard authority on this subject; for the relations
with France see, also, Du Méril (Période Primitive) and in vols. I and II
of Petit de Julleville: Les Comédiens en France au Moyen Âge; La
Comédie et les Mours en France au Moyen Âge. Paris, 1885 and 1886.
I. THE MINSTRELS.
Bédier, J. Les Fabliaux: Études de Littérature populaire et d'Histoire
littéraire du Moyen Âge. 2nd ed. Paris, 1895.
Chambers, E. K. and Sidgwick, F. Early English Lyrics. 1907.
Chappell, W. Old English Popular Music. Ed. Wooldridge, H. E. 1893. .
Dill, S. Roman Society in the last Century of the Western Empire. 2nd ed.
1899.
Freymond, E. Jongleurs und Menestrals. Halle, 1883.
Gautier, L. Les Épopées françaises. 4 vols. 2nd ed. Paris, 1872-82.
Gummere, F. B. The Beginnings of Poetry. New York, 1901.
Jusserand, J. J. La Vie Nomade en Angleterre au Moyen Âge. Paris,
1884. E. tr. by Smith, L. T. English Wayfaring Life in the Middle
Ages (xivth century). 4th ed. 1892.
Simpson, R. The School of Shakspere. 2 vols. 1878. (Simpson. )
Six Old Plays on which Shakespeare founded his Measure for Measure.
Comedy of Errors. The Taming of the Shrew. King John. King
Henry IV and King Henry V. King Lear. 2 vols. 1779. (Six Old
Plays. )
Tudor Facsimile Texts. Old Plays and other Printed and MS. Rarities.
Ed. Farmer, J. S. 43 vols. 1907, etc. [In progress. ] (Tudor Fac-
simile Texts. )
Lamb, Charles. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets. Ed. Gollancz, I.
2 vols. 1908. (Lamb's Specimens. )
II. LISTS OF PLAYS AND DRAMATISTS.
Stationers' Company, Register of the, 1554-1560. Transcript by Arber, E.
5 vols. 1875–94. [Indispensable for all independent research. ] (Sta-
tioners' register. )
Henslowe's Diary. Ed. Greg, W. W. Part 1: Text. Part 11: Commentary.
1904. [The standard edition of the book. ] (Henslowe's Diary. )
Vol. I.
Baker, D. E. Biographia Dramatica; or, A Companion to the Playhouse. . . .
Originally compiled, to the year 1764, by David Erskine Baker. Con-
tinued thence, to 1782, by Isaac Reed, and brought down to the end of
November, 1811. . . by Stephen Jones. 3 vols. 1812. (Biographia
Dramatica. )
Davenport-Adams, W. A Dictionary of the Drama.
1904.
(Davenport-Adams. )
Fleay, F. G. A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559–1642.
2 vols. 1891. (Fleay's English Drama. )
A Chronicle History of the London Stage. 1890. [This earlier work
contains lists of performances and authors. ] (Fleay's Chronicle of
Stage. )
(Genest, J. ) Some Account of the English Stage, from the Restoration in
1660 to 1830. 10 vols. Bath, 1832. (Genest. )
## p. 383 (#407) ############################################
General Bibliography
383
Greg, W. W. A List of English Plays written before 1643 and printed
before 1700. Bibliographical Society. 1900. (Greg's List of Plays. )
A List of Masques, Pageants, &c. , supplementary to A List of English
Plays. Bibliographical Society. 1902. (Greg's List of Masques. )
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. A Dictionary of Old English Plays. Being a
revision of Baker's Biographia Dramatica. 1860. (Halliwell's Dict. )
Hazlitt, W. C. Handbook to the Popular and Dramatic Literature of Great
Britain, with Supplements. 1867-90. (Hazlitt's Handbook. )
Langbaine, G. An Account of English Dramatic Poets. 1691. (Lang-
baine. ) Revised by Gildon, C. 1699.
Lowe, R. W. A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature.
1887. (Lowe. )
In addition to the above, the Catalogue of Printed Books in the British
Museum Library will of course be consulted, together with the following
catalogues of special collections :
Capell's Shakespeariana. Catalogue of the Books presented by Edward
Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge. Compiled by
Greg, W. W. Cambridge, 1903.
Chatsworth. A Catalogue of the Library at Chatsworth. With preface by
Lacaita, Sir J. P. ) 4 vols. (Privately printed. ) 1879.
Dyce-Forster Collection. A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts
bequeathed by the Rev. Alexander Dyce and John Forster. 2 vols. 1879.
III. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH DRAMA.
Collier, J. P. History of English Dramatic Poetry. New ed. 3 vols. 1879.
(Largely superseded, especially in its earlier and in its concluding
portions, but still to some extent indispensable. ] (Collier. )
Jusserand, J. J. Le Théâtre en Angleterre jusqu'aux prédécesseurs im-
médiats de Shakespeare. 2nd ed. Paris, 1881. (Jusserand's Th. en A. )
Schelling, F. E. Elizabethan Drama. 2 vols. Boston and New York, 1908.
[Invaluable. ] (Schelling's Elizabethan Drama. )
Ward, A. W. History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of
Queen Anne. 2nd ed. 3 vols. 1899. (Ward. )
For F. G. Fleay's works, which possess an enduring critical as well as
historical value, notwithstanding the excessive amount of conjecture contained
in them, see under sec. II above.
Baker, H. Barton. History of the London Stage and its famous Players. 1904.
Boyer, C. V. The villain as hero in Elizabethan tragedy. 1914.
Chambers, E. K. The Mediæval Stage. 2 vols. Oxford, 1903. (Chambers. )
Coleridge, S. T. Literary Remains. Vols. 1-II. 1836. (Coleridge. )
Courthope, W. J. History of English Poetry. Vols. 1-III. 1895-1903.
(Courthope. )
Creizenach, W.
Geschichte des neueren Dramas. Vols. 1-IV, Part I.
Halle, 1893-1909. (A standard work. ] (Creizenach. )
Du Méril, E. Histoire de la Comédie. Période Primitive. Paris, 1864. [No
more published. ] (Du Méril. )
Hazlitt, W. C. The English Drama and Stage, under the Tudor and Stuart
Princes, 1543–1664. Illustrated by a series of Documents, Treatises and
Poems. Roxburghe Library, 1869. (Hazlitt's English Drama and
Stage. )
Herford, C. H. Studies in the literary Relations of England and Germany
in the 16th century. 1886. (Herford's Literary Relations. )
## p. 384 (#408) ############################################
384
Bibliography
1
Jusserand, J. J. Histoire Littéraire du Peuple Anglais. Vol. 1. Des Origines
à la Renaissance.
Vol. II.
De la Renaissance à la guerre Civile.
Paris, 1894-1904. Eng. trans. New ed. , amplified. 2 vols. 1907-9.
(Jusserand, E. Tr. )
Klein, J. L. Geschichte des Dramas. 13 vols. in 15 with index vol. Leipzig,
1865-86. [Vols. XII and will of this voluminous and wordy book, which
however contains a vast amount of independent research, treat of the
English drama to Marlowe. ] (Klein. )
Körting, G. Grundriss der Gesch, der engl. Litteratur von ihren Anfängen
bis zur Gegenwart. 4th ed. Munster, 1905. (Körting. )
Mantzius, K. A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times.
With an introduction by Archer, W. Authorised trans. by Cassel,
Louise von. 5 vols. 1903 ff.
Morley, H. English Writers. Revised and enlarged ed. 11 vols. 1887-95.
(Morley, H. )
Petit de Julleville, L. Histoire de la Langue et de la Littérature Françaises
des Origines à 1900. 8 vols. Paris, 1896–1900.
Histoire du Théâtre en France au Moyen Âge. 4 vols. Paris, 1880-6.
(Petit de Julleville. )
Prölss, R. Geschichte des neueren Dramas. 3 vols. 1881-3. [Vol. 11. 2 con-
cerns the English drama. ] (Prölss. )
Schlegel, A. W. von. Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst. (Schlegel's
Sämmtliche Werke, vols. V and vi. ) Eng. trans. by Black, J. , revised
by Morrison, A. J. W. 1846. (Schlegel, E. Tr. )
Taine, H. A. Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise. 4 vols. 1863-4 (and sub-
sequent editions). Eng. trans. 2 vols. 1872. (Taine, E. Tr. )
Ten Brink, B. Geschichte der Englischen Literatur. Ed. Brandi, A. Vol. 1.
Strassburg, 1899.
Vol. II.
Strassburg, 1893. Eng. trans. 3 vols.
1883–96. (Ten Brink, E. Tr. )
Warton, T. History of English Poetry. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 4 vols. 1871.
(Warton. )
Apart from English, American and foreign periodical publications devoted
to the discussion of English linguistic and literary subjects in particular
(including the publications of The Early English Text Society), or of subjects
appertaining to Germanio or to Modern Literature generally (including
Anglia, Englische Studien, the Journal of the Modern Languages Asso-
ciation, now The Modern Language Review, Modern Language Notes
(Baltimore)), mention should be made here of the Transactions and
Publications of the Shakespeare Society, 1844-53, and of the New Shak-
spere Society, 1874-96; as well as of the still flourishing Jahrbuch der
deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Weimar, from 1865. These publications,
which alike possess a signal and varied interest for the student of English
dramatic literature, are cited respectively under the headings of Shakesp.
Soc. , New Shakep. Soc. , and Shakesp. Jahrb. See, especially, Mod. Lang.
Rev. , General Index to volumes 1-X, Cambridge, 1915.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
This chapter being introductory in character, the bibliographical
information illustrating its contents will be found in the bibliographies
to chapters II and III, and, incidentally, in those to later chapters.
## p. 385 (#409) ############################################
Chapter II
385
CHAPTER II
SECULAR INFLUENCES ON THE EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA
A bibliography of this subject is given by Chambers, vol. 1, pp. xiii-xlii,
and the bibliographical notes which appear at the head of nearly every
chapter of his work will be found invaluable. The bibliography that follows
represents an attempt to select only what is essential. Among the Dramatic
and General Literary Histories enumerated above special attention should be
directed to Chambers, the standard authority on this subject; for the relations
with France see, also, Du Méril (Période Primitive) and in vols. I and II
of Petit de Julleville: Les Comédiens en France au Moyen Âge; La
Comédie et les Mours en France au Moyen Âge. Paris, 1885 and 1886.
I. THE MINSTRELS.
Bédier, J. Les Fabliaux: Études de Littérature populaire et d'Histoire
littéraire du Moyen Âge. 2nd ed. Paris, 1895.
Chambers, E. K. and Sidgwick, F. Early English Lyrics. 1907.
Chappell, W. Old English Popular Music. Ed. Wooldridge, H. E. 1893. .
Dill, S. Roman Society in the last Century of the Western Empire. 2nd ed.
1899.
Freymond, E. Jongleurs und Menestrals. Halle, 1883.
Gautier, L. Les Épopées françaises. 4 vols. 2nd ed. Paris, 1872-82.
Gummere, F. B. The Beginnings of Poetry. New York, 1901.
Jusserand, J. J. La Vie Nomade en Angleterre au Moyen Âge. Paris,
1884. E. tr. by Smith, L. T. English Wayfaring Life in the Middle
Ages (xivth century). 4th ed. 1892.
