Ward continues to supply the best history of the drama. Henceforth the standard authority for the history of the stage is Genest's _Some Account of the English Stage from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830_, 10 vols., Bath, 1832. This is an invaluable collection of facts in regard to plays and actors, superseding preceding books on the subject and supplying material for subsequent ones. Other histories of the theatre are: Chetwood's _General History of the Stage_ (1749); _The Dramatic Mirror_ (1808); D. E. Baker's _Biographica Dramatica_ (1764, continued by Isaac Reed and Stephen Jones, 3d ed. 1812); Dibdin's _Complete History of the English Stage_ (1800). Lowe's _Bibliographical Account of English Dramatic Literature_ (1888) will guide in their use. More recent histories of the theatre are: P. Fitzgerald's _New History of the Stage_ (1882); Lowe's new edition of Doran's _Their Majesties' Servants_ (1888); and H. B. Baker's _The London Stage_, 1576-1903 (1904). Works of the Restoration period on the drama or theatre include a number of Dryden's essays, notably, _The Essay of Dramatic Poesy_, _The Defence of the Essay_, _The Defence of the Epilogue_, _Of Heroic Plays_, and _The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy_; Wright's _Historia Histrionica_ (1699, reprinted in Dodsley and in Cibber's Life); Edward Phillips's _Theatrum Poetarum_ (1675); Langbaine's _Account of the English Dramatic Poets_ (1691); Rymer's _Tragedies of the Last Age_ (1678) and _A Short View of Tragedy_ (1693); Dennis's _The Impartial Critic_ (1693); and Jeremy Collier's _Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage_ (1698). Downes's _Roscius Anglicanus_ (1708, facsimile reprint, 1886) also contains interesting information on the period. Corneille, Boileau, Saint Evremond, the Abbé D'Aubignac, and Rapin are the French critics of most influence on the drama of this period, especially Rapin, whose _Reflexions sur la poëtique_ was translated by Rymer (1674). J. E. Spingarn's _Seventeenth Century Critical Essays_ (now in press) will contain all the critical work of the period of importance, with a valuable discussion of its relation to French criticism. There are collected editions of the works of most of the Restoration dramatists, but none of Settle or Banks. The Scott-Saintsbury edition is the standard for Dryden. Individual plays are to be found in many collections: _The Modern British Drama_, 5 vols. (1811); Oxberry's _New English Drama_ (1812-25); Mrs. Inchbald's _Modern Theatre_ (1811); Bell's _British Theatre_ (1797) and supplement. _Dramatists of the Restoration_, edited by Maidment and Logan, 14 vols., Edinburgh, 1872-79, includes the plays of Crowne, Davenant, Tatham, and John Wilson. Ward and the _English Drama_ (by K. L. Bates and L. B. Godfrey, _op. cit._) direct to editions and monographs of the individual authors of this period.