The Best Volumes of Selections.--The least expensive volume to cover nearly the entire field with brief selections is Vol. II. of _The Oxford Treasury of English Literature_, entitled _Growth of the Drama_ (Clarendon Press, 412 pp., 90 cents). Pollard's _English Miracle Plays, Moralities, and Interludes_ (Clarendon Press, 250 pp., $1.90) is the best single volume of selections from this branch of the drama. _Everyman and Other Miracle Plays_ (Everyman's Library, 35 cents) is a good inexpensive volume. Manly's' _Specimens of the Pre-Shakespearean Drama_ (three volumes, $1.25 each) covers this field more fully. Morley's _English Plays_ (published as Vol. III. of Cassell's _Library of English Literature_, at eleven and one half shillings) contains good selections from nearly all the plays mentioned below, except those by Shakespeare and Jonson. Williams's _Specimens of the Elizabethan Drama, from Lyly to Shirley_, 1580-1642 (Clarendon Press, 576 pp., $1.90) is excellent for a comprehensive survey of the field covered. Lamb's _Specimens of English Poets Who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare_ (Bohn's Library, 552 pp.) contains a large number of good selections. Miracle Plays.--Read the Chester Play of _Noah's Flood_, Pollard,[32] 8-20, and the Towneley _Play of the Shepherds_, Pollard, 31-43; Manly's _Specimens_, I, 94-119; Morley's _English Plays_, 12-18. These two plays best show the germs of English comedy. Moralities.--The best _Morality_ is that known as _Everyman_, Pollard, 76-96; also in _Everyman's Library_. If _Everyman_ is not accessible, _Hycke-Scorner_ may be substituted, Morley; 12-18; Manly's _Specimens_, I., 386-420. Court Plays, Early Comedies, and Gorboduc.--The best _Interlude_ is _The Four P's_. Adequate selections are given in Morley, 18-20, and in Symonds's Shakespeare's _Predecessors in the English Drama_, 188-201. Pollard and Manly give several good selections from other _Interludes_. _Ralph Royster Doyster_ may be found in Arber's _Reprints_; in Morley's _English Plays_, pp. 22-46; in Manly's _Specimens_, II., 5-92; in _Oxford Treasury_, II., 161-174, and in _Temple Dramatists_ (35 cents). _Gorboduc_ is given in _Oxford Treasury_, II. pp., 40-54 (selections); Morley's _English Plays_, pp. 51-64; and, under the title of _Ferrex and Porrex_, in Dodsley's _Old Plays_. What were some of the purposes for which _Interludes_ were written? How did they aid in the development of the drama? In what different forms are _The Four-P's, Ralph Royster Doyster_, and _Gorboduc_ written? Why would Shakespeare's plays have been impossible if the evolution of the drama had stopped with _Gorboduc_? Pre-Shakespearean Dramatists.--Selections from Lyly, Peele, Green, Lodge, Nashe, and Kyd may be found in Williams's _Specimens_. Morley and _Oxford Treasury_ also contain a number of selections. Peele's _The Arraignment of Paris_ and Kyd's _The Spanish Tragedy_ are in _Temple Dramatists_. Greene's best plays are in _Mermaid Series_.