publication of such a volume as _World Literature_ is an event not to
be overlooked. Professor Moulton has presented a conception of world
literature as a clear unity, the literary field seen in perspective
from the English point of view. He has supplemented the theoretic
treatment by valuable expositions of masterpieces. To the general
reader the work will suggest a rational scheme or philosophy which
should be at the back of any attempt to make a selection of the “best
books.” To the student it will illustrate a treatment of the subject
unhampered by the divisions between particular literatures expressed
in different languages which is too often a great weakness in literary
study. Professor Moulton’s idea is that World Literature belongs to
every stage of general culture from the most elementary to the most
advanced.
“Full of the vital quality of its subject.”
--_New York Sun._
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Representative English Comedies, Vol. I
_FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO SHAKESPEARE_
With introductory essays and notes. An historical view of our earlier
comedy and other monographs by various writers under the general
editorship of
CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY, LITT.D., LL.D.,
Professor of the English Language and Literature in the University of
California
_Cloth, 8vo, 686 pages, $2.00_
The aim of this volume and those which will follow is to indicate the
development of a literary type by a selection of its representative
specimens, arranged in the order of their production and accompanied
by critical and historical studies. So little has been scientifically
determined concerning evolution or permutation in literature that
the more specific the field of inquiry, the more trustworthy are the
results attained,--hence the limitation of this research not merely
to a genus like the drama, but to one of its species. What is here
presented to the public differs from histories of the drama in that it
is more restricted in scope and that it substantiates the narrative of
a literary growth by reproducing the data necessary to an induction;
it differs from editions of individual plays and dramatists, on the
other hand, because it attempts to concatenate its text by a running
commentary upon the characteristics of the species under consideration
as they successively appear. It is an illustrated, if not certified,
history of English comedy.
CONTENTS
I. AN HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ENGLISH COMEDY. By
Charles Mills Gayley.
II. JOHN HEYWOOD: CRITICAL ESSAY. By Alfred W. Pollard.
Edition of the _Play of the Wether_. The same.
Edition of a _Mery Play between Johan Johan, Tyb._ The same.
III. NICHOLAS UDALL: CRITICAL ESSAY. By Ewald Flügel.
Edition of _Roister Doister_. The same.
Appendix on Various Matters. The same.
IV. WILLIAM STEVENSON: CRITICAL ESSAY. By Henry Bradley.
Edition of _Gammer Gurton’s Needle_. The same.
Appendix. The same.
V. JOHN LYLY: CRITICAL ESSAY. By George P. Baker.
Edition of _Alexander and Campaspe_. The same.
VI. GEORGE PEELE: CRITICAL ESSAY. By F. B. Gummere.
Edition of _The Old Wives’ Tale_. The same.
Appendix. The same.
VII. GREENE’S PLACE IN COMEDY: A MONOGRAPH. By G. E. Woodberry.
VIII. ROBERT GREENE: HIS LIFE, AND THE ORDER OF HIS PLAYS. By Charles
Mills Gayley.
Edition of the _Honourable Historie of Frier Bacon_. The same.
Appendix on Greene’s Versification. The same.
IX. HENRY PORTER: CRITICAL ESSAY. By Charles Mills Gayley.
Edition of The _Two Angry Women of Abington_. The same.
X. _Shakespeare as a Comic Dramatist._ By Edward Dowden.
INDEX.
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Representative English Comedies, Vol. II
_THE LATER CONTEMPORARIES OF SHAKESPEARE_
BEN JONSON AND OTHERS
With introductory essays and notes and a comparative view of the
fellows and followers of Shakespeare under the general editorship of
CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY, LITT.D., LL.D.,
Professor of the English Language and Literature in the University of
California
_Cloth, 8vo, 586 pages, $2.00_
In this volume are included a number of the plays of Ben Jonson and
the best play of several of his contemporaries. Each of these has been
edited by a scholar of unquestioned standing, and is accompanied by
an introductory critical and historical essay. Furthermore, Professor
Gayley, the general editor, has included a most scholarly introduction
in the form of an essay entitled “A Comparative View of the Fellows and
Followers of Shakespeare in Comedy.”
CONTENTS
I. A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE FELLOWS AND FOLLOWERS OF SHAKESPEARE.
(Part One.) By Charles Mills Gayley.
II. BEN JONSON: CRITICAL ESSAY. By Charles H. Herford.
Edition of _Every Man in His Humour_. The same.
III. BEN JONSON: CRITICAL ESSAY. By Charles Mills Gayley.
Edition of _Epicœne, or the Silent Woman_. The same.
IV. BEN JONSON. THE ALCHEMIST: CRITICAL ESSAY. By George A. Smithson.
Edition of _The Alchemist_. The same.
V. CHAPMAN, JONSON, AND MARSTON. EASTWARD HOE: CRITICAL ESSAY. By
John W. Cuncliffe.
Edition of _Eastward Hoe_. The same.
VI. THE MERRY DEVILL OF EDMONTON: CRITICAL ESSAY. By John Matthews
Manly.
Edition of _The Merry Devill of Edmonton_. The same.
INDEX.
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Representative English Comedies, Vol. III
_THE LATER CONTEMPORARIES OF SHAKESPEARE_
FLETCHER AND OTHERS
With introductory essays and notes and a comparative view of the
fellows and followers of Shakespeare under the general editorship of
CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY, LITT.D., LL.D.,
Professor of the English Language and Literature in the University of
California
_Cloth, 8vo, 663 pages, $2.00_
This volume, like the second one of this series, contains plays of
the later contemporaries of Shakespeare. The editors of the different
plays are scholars of wide reputation who have made a special study of
the period and the various dramatists here represented. In this volume
Professor Gayley’s masterly essay on “The Fellows and Followers of
Shakespeare” is brought to a close.
CONTENTS
I. A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE FELLOWS AND FOLLOWERS OF SHAKESPEARE IN
COMEDY. (Part Two.) By Charles Mills Gayley.
II. THOMAS DEKKER: CRITICAL ESSAY. By Alexis F. Lange.
Edition of _The Shomakers Holiday_. The same.
III. MIDDLETON AND ROWLEY. THE SPANISH GIPSIE: CRITICAL ESSAY. The
late H. Butler Clarke.
Edition of _The Spanish Gipsie_. The same.
IV. JOHN FLETCHER. RULE A WIFE AND HAVE A WIFE: CRITICAL ESSAY. George
Saintsbury.
Edition of _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_. The same.
V. PHILIP MASSINGER: CRITICAL ESSAY. Brander Matthews.
Edition of _A New Way to Pay Old Debts_. The same.
VI. RICHARD BROME: CRITICAL ESSAY. G. P. Baker.
Edition of _The Antipodes_. The same.
VII. JAMES SHIRLEY: CRITICAL ESSAY. Sir A. W. Ward.
Edition of _The Royall Master_. The same.
INDEX.
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Transcriber’s note
Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Other spelling
has also been retained as originally published except for the
corrections below.
Page 24: “fearlesss mildness of” “fearless mildness of”
Page 34: “of an hill and commands” “of a hill and commands”
Page 34: “near an hundred” “near a hundred”
Page 34: “stately appartments lie” “stately apartments lie”
Page 118: “and solemn occasion” “and solemn occasions”
Page 118: “At all other time” “At all other times”
Page 324: “Duke of Omniun.” “Duke of Omnium.”
Page 343: “Gammer Gurton’s Nedle” “Gammer Gurton’s Needle”
Page 345: “followers of Skakespeare” “followers of Shakespeare”