The following are the principal collections of English plays--_Ancient
British Drama_, ed. Sir W. Scott (3 vols., London, 1810); _Modern
British Drama_, ed. Sir W. Scott (5 vols., London, 1811); W. Bang,
_Materialien zur Kunde des älteren englischen Dramas_ (Louvain, 1902,
&c.); A. H. Bullen, _Collection of Old English Plays_ (4 vols.,
London, 1882); R. Dodsley, _A Select Collection of Old Plays_, 4th ed.
by W. C. Hazlitt (15 vols., London, 1874-1876); _Dramatists of the
Restoration_ (14 vols., Edinburgh, 1872-1879); _Early English
Dramatists_, ed. J. S. Farmer (London, 1905, &c.); C. M. Gayley,
_Representative English Comedies_ (vol. i., New York, 1903); T.
Hawkins, _Origin of the English Drama_ (3 vols., Oxford, 1773); Mrs
Inchbald, _British Theatre_, new ed. (20 vols., London, 1824), _Modern
Theatre_ (10 vols., London, 1811), _Collection of Farces and
Afterpieces_ (7 vols., London, 1815); Malone Society publications
(London, 1907, &c.); J. M. Manly, _Specimens of the Pre-Shakespearean
Drama_ (3 vols., London, 1897); _Mermaid Series of Old Dramatists_,
ed. Havelock Ellis (London, 1887. &c.); _Old English Drama_ (2 vols.,
London, 1825); _Pearson's Reprints of Elizabethan and Jacobean Plays_
(London, 1871, &c.).
The following deal with the Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in
especial:--W. Creizenach, _Die Schauspiele der englischen Komödianten_
(Berlin, 1895); J. W. Cunliffe, _The Influence of Seneca on
Elizabethan Tragedy_ (London, 1893); F. G. Fleay, _A Chronicle History
of the London Stage, 1559-1642_ (London, 1890), _A Biographical
Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559-1642_ (London, 1891); W. C.
Hazlitt, _The English Drama and Stage under the Tudor and Stuart
Princes, 1543-1664_ (London, 1869); W. Hazlitt, _Dramatic Literature
of the Age of Elizabeth_ (Works, ed. A. R. Waller, vol. v.) (London,
1902); A. F. von Schack, _Die englischen Dramatiker vor, neben, und
nach Shakespeare_ (Stuttgart, 1893); J. A. Symonds, _Shakspere's
Predecessors in the English Drama_ (London, 1884).
As to the Latin academical drama of the Elizabethan age see G. B.
Churchill and W. Keller, "Die latein. Universitäts-Dramen Englands in
der Zeit d. Königin Elizabeth" in _Jahrbuch der deutschen
Shakespeare-Gesellschaft_. For a short bibliography of the Oxford
academical drama, 1547-1663, see the introduction to Miss M. L. Lee's
edition of _Narcissus_ (London, 1893). A list of Oxford plays will
also be found in _Notes and Queries_, ser. vii., vol. ii. For a list
of Cambridge plays from 1534 to 1671, the writer of this article is
indebted to Prof. G. C. Moore-Smith of the university of Sheffield.
For an account of the Mask see R. Brotanek, _Die englischen
Maskenspiele_ (Vienna and Leipzig, 1902); H. A. Evans, _English
Masques_ (London, 1897); W. W. Greg, _A List of Masques, Pageants,
&c._ (Bibliogr. Soc.) (London, 1902).
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