1044 pages, cloth, formers owner name inside front cover, few annotations in margins of first play (The arraignment of Paris), otherwise very good. Includes facsimile reproduction of the original or early title-pages of twenty-nine of the thirty plays. The remaining play, The Spanish tragedy, is accompanied by a facsimile reproduction of a letter by Thomas Kyd preceded by a transcription on an unnumbered leaf. Brooke was the Sterling Professor of English at Yale University and a leading authority on Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature. Authors include George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood, George Chapman, John Marston, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, Middleton and Rowley, John Ford and James Shirley. From the preface: We have attempted in this volume to illustrate by means of adequate texts, adequately annotated, the main course of English dramatic literature during the sixty years of heyday sometimes termed 'Elizabethan.' The texts rest upon a careful new collation of the original editions, and will be found, we believe, to possess a high degree of accuracy. The actual stage directions and scene divisions of the original texts are given, we believe, with the strict fidelity requisite for any intelligent study of early stage practice.

ENGLISH DRAMA GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND EARLY MODERN ELIZABETHAN TUCKER