Ward, Fleay, Schelling, and the bibliographies in the Shakespeare _Jahrbuch_ continue to be the best guides. Dyce's admirable edition of Beaumont and Fletcher (11 vols., 1843-46) has long been the standard, but two new complete editions of their works are now in progress, one under the general editorship of A. H. Bullen (London, 1904-), the other edited by A. Glover and A. R. Waller (Cambridge, 1905-). The discussion in this chapter is in part based on my _Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Shakespeare_ (1901) and my edition of _The Maid's Tragedy_ and _Philaster_ in the _Belles-Lettres Series_ (Boston, 1906). I must refer to the latter for a full bibliography of both texts and critical works. Miss Hatcher's _John Fletcher_ (Chicago, 1905) should be added. Webster has been well edited by Dyce and Hazlitt; and his two principal tragedies by M. W. Sampson in the _Belles-Lettres Series_, with full bibliography. E. E. Stoll's monograph, _John Webster_, referred to in chapter v, has been drawn upon in the discussion in this chapter. Tourneur has been edited by J. Churton Collins (1878); Middleton by A. H. Bullen; Massinger very poorly by Gifford (2d ed., 1815); Ford by Gifford (1827, revised by Dyce, 1869); and Shirley by Dyce (1833). Editions of selections from all these dramatists will also be found in the _Mermaid Series of Old Dramatists_, with introductions of varying value. Bibliographical references to all dramatists of this period will be found in Ward and Schelling, and in general more comprehensive discussion of their plays than are to be found elsewhere. Of especial value in the study of sources are E. Koeppel's two volumes, _Quellen Studien zu den Dramen Ben Jonson's, John Marston's und Beaumont und Fletcher's_ (1895) and _Quellen Studien zu den Dramen George Chapman's, Philip Massinger's und John Ford's_ (1897). Among the critical appreciations of the dramatists of this and the preceding chapters are: Lamb's _Specimens of English Dramatic Poets_, Hazlitt's _Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth_, Jeffrey's _Essay on Ford_, Lowell's _Old English Dramatists_, G. C. Macaulay's _Francis Beaumont_ (1883), Swinburne's _Ben Jonson_ (1889), and his essays on other dramatists. FOOTNOTES: [22] Elizabethan has been used to designate the whole period of the drama from 1559 to 1642. [23] For a somewhat different view of the play, emphasizing its crudity as a drama, see Mr. William Archer's "Webster, Lamb, and Swinburne," _New Review_, January, 1893. [24] See Coleridge, _Notes on Beaumont and Fletcher_, for a characteristic and valuable criticism of the play. CHAPTER VIII THE RESTORATION