"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 3 of 3)Doran, Dr. (John)
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"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 3 of 3)
Doran, Dr. (John)
Actors -- Great Britain; Theater -- Great Britain -- History
province in the poetic empire of England. And yet, since Charles Lamb
threw open its gates to all comers in the ninth year of the present
century, it cannot but seem strange that comparatively so few should
have availed themselves of the entry to so rich and royal an estate.
Mr. Bullen has taken up a task than which none more arduous and
important, none worthier of thanks and praise, can be undertaken by
any English scholar."
Volumes now Ready of the _new Edited_ and _Complete_ Editions of the
Elizabethan Dramatists.
Post 8vo, cloth. Published price, _7s. 6d. per volume net_; also
large fine-paper edition, medium 8vo, cloth.
_The following are Edited by_ A. H. BULLEN, B.A.:--
=THE WORKS OF GEORGE PEELE.= Two Volumes.
=THE WORKS OF JOHN MARSTON.= Three Volumes.
=THE WORKS OF THOMAS MIDDLETON.= Eight Volumes.
=THE WORKS OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE.= Three Volumes.
_Others in active preparation._
SOME PRESS NOTICES.
=Athenæum.=--"Mr. Bullen's edition deserves warm recognition. It
is intelligent, scholarly, adequate. His preface is judicious. The
elegant edition of the Dramatists of which these volumes are the
first is likely to stand high in public estimation.... The completion
of the series will be a boon to bibliographers and scholars alike."
=Saturday Review.=--"Mr. Bullen has discharged his task as editor
in all important points satisfactorily, his introduction is well
informed and well written, and his notes are well chosen and
sufficient.... We hope it may be his good fortune to give and ours
to receive every Dramatist, from Peele to Shirley, in this handsome,
convenient, and well-edited form."
=The Spectator.=--"Probably one of the boldest literary undertakings
of our time, on the part of publisher as well as editor, is the fine
edition of the Dramatists which has been placed in Mr. Bullen's
careful hands; considering the comprehensiveness of the subject, and
the variety of knowledge it demands, the courage of the editor is
remarkable."
=Notes and Queries.=--" ... Appropriately, then, the series Mr.
Bullen edits and Mr. Nimmo issues in most attractive guise is headed
by Marlowe, the leader, and in some respects all but the mightiest
spirit, of the great army of English Dramatists."
=The Academy.=--"Mr. Bullen is known to all those interested in such
things as an authority on most matters connected with old plays.
We are not surprised, therefore, to find these volumes well edited
throughout. They are not overburdened with notes."
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