Most of the books in the list for the last chapter are useful in connection with the matter of this. Creizenach and Ward are the chief authorities; Collier, Symonds, and Jusserand deal with the period. Spingarn, Cunliffe, and Fischer are valuable for their special fields. Texts are to be found in Manly, Dodsley, Brandl, and discussions in the latter. For the stage history of the Elizabethan drama, the works of F. G. Fleay are very valuable, though marred by much unsupported conjecture: _A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama_, 1559-1642, 2 vols. (1891); _A Chronicle History of the London Stage_, 1559-1642 (1890); _A Chronicle History of the Life and Work of William Shakespeare_ (1886). The first-named is the most reliable and useful of the three. Original documents and records are printed in part in Collier and Fleay; and in Halliwell-Phillipps's _Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare_ (6th ed., 1886); Malone's _Variorum_ ed. of Shakespeare, 1821; Cunningham's _Extracts from the Annals of the Revels at Court_, Shakespeare Society, 1842; Nichols's _The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth_, 3 vols., 1823; _Aussere Geschichte der englischen Theatertruppen_, 1559-1642, by Hermann Maas (Materialien zur Kunde des älteren Englischen Dramas, 1907); Hazlitt's _English Drama and Stage_ (1869); Chamber's _Notes on the Revels Office_ (1906). The essays of Gosson, Sidney, Webbe, Puttenham, which supply most of the dramatic criticism of the period, are in Arber's Reprints; selections from these and other critical works with an introduction are collected in _Elizabethan Critical Essays_, G. Gregory Smith (1904). J. W. Cunliffe's edition of Gascoigne's _Posies_ (1907) contains the plays, which he has also edited with an introduction in _The Belles-Lettres Series_ (1906). A study of Legge's _Richardus Tertius_ is found in G. B. Churchill's _Richard III up to Shakespeare_ (Berlin, 1906); and an account of the Latin university plays in the article cited, by G. B. Churchill and W. Keller (_Shakspere Jahrbuch_, 1898). W. W. Greg's _A List of English Plays written before 1643 and printed before 1700_ (London Bibliographical Society) is based on the title-pages of the original copies. Fleay's _Biographical Chronicle_ includes all plays known, extant or not. Greg, Fleay, and Schelling supersede Halliwell-Phillipps's _Dictionary of Old English Plays_ (1860), and W. C. Hazlitt's _Manual of Old English Plays_ (1892). _English Drama, a Working Basis_, by K. L. Bates and L. B. Godfrey, Wellesley College (1895), is the only attempt at a directory to modern editions, and though very incomplete, is the most serviceable guide to the whole field of English drama. FOOTNOTES: