[_General Bibliographical Note._ I mention here only a few works of wide range, which may be taken as authorities throughout these two volumes. Others, more limited in their scope, are named in the preliminary notes to the sections of the book on whose subject-matter they bear.--An admirable general history of the modern drama is W. Creizenach’s still incomplete _Geschichte des neueren Dramas_ (Band i, _Mittelalter und Frührenaissance_, 1893; Bände ii, iii, _Renaissance und Reformation_, 1901-3). R. Prölss, _Geschichte des neueren Dramas_ (1881-3), is slighter. The earlier work of J. L. Klein, _Geschichte des Dramas_ (13 vols. 1865-76), is diffuse, inconvenient, and now partly obsolete. A valuable study is expected from J. M. Manly in vol. iii of his _Specimens of the Pre-Shakespearean Drama_, of which two volumes, containing selected texts, appeared in 1897. C. Hastings, _Le Théâtre français et anglais_ (1900, Eng. trans. 1901), is a compilation of little merit.--Prof. Creizenach may be supplemented for Germany by R. Froning, _Das Drama des Mittelalters_ (1891). For France there are the exhaustive and excellent volumes of L. Petit de Julleville’s _Histoire du Théâtre en France au Moyen Âge_ (_Les Mystères_, 1880; _Les Comédiens en France au Moyen Âge_, 1885; _La Comédie et les Mœurs en France au Moyen Âge_, 1886; _Répertoire du Théâtre comique au Moyen Âge_, 1886). G. Bapst, _Essai sur l’Histoire du Théâtre_ (1893), adds some useful material on the history of the stage. For Italy A. d’Ancona, _Origini del Teatro italiano_ (2nd ed., 1891), is also excellent.--The best English book is A. W. Ward’s _History of English Dramatic Literature to the death of Queen Anne_ (2nd ed., 1899). J. P. Collier, _History of English Dramatic Poetry_ (new ed., 1879), is full of matter, but, for various reasons, not wholly trustworthy. J. J. Jusserand, _Le Théâtre en Angleterre_ (2nd ed., 1881), J. A. Symonds, _Shakespeare’s Predecessors in the English Drama_ (1884), and G. M. Gayley, _Representative English Comedies_ (1903), are of value. Texts will be found in Manly’s and Gayley’s books, and in A. W. Pollard, _English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes_ (3rd ed., 1898); W. C. Hazlitt, _Dodsley’s Old Plays_ (15 vols. 1874-6); A. Brandl, _Quellen des weltlichen Dramas in England_ (1898). F. H. Stoddard, _References for Students of Miracle Plays and Mysteries_ (1887), and K. L. Bates and L. B. Godfrey, _English Drama; a Working Basis_ (1896), are rough attempts at bibliographies.--In addition the drama of course finds treatment in the general histories of literature. The best are: for Germany, R. Kögel, _Geschichte der deutschen Literatur bis zum Ausgange des Mittelalters_ (1894-7, a fragment); K. Gödeke, _Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung aus den Quellen_ (2nd ed., 1884-1900); W. Scherer, _Geschichte der deutschen Litteratur_ (8th ed., 1899): for France, L. Petit de Julleville (editor), _Histoire