Author: THORNDIKE, Ashley (introduction)
Title: Minor Elizabethan Drama
Description: London, Dent, 1964. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jackets. xiv, 322pp, 8pp ads, (2pp ads); xv, 312pp, 4pp ads. Decorative endpapers. Fine/near fine. Faintest of sunning to jacket spines (only) and small ownership signature on each front pastedown. Superbly tight and bright later printing of Everyman's Library #491 and #492, first published in this form in 1910. First volume covers "Pre-Shakespearean Tragedies" and includes the full texts of "Gorboduc" by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville, "Arden of Feversham," "David and Bethsabe" by George Peele, "The Spanish Tragedy" by Thomas Kyd and "Cambyses, King of Persia" by Thomas Preston) and the second volume covers "Pre-Shakespearean Comedies" and includes the full texts of "Ralph Roister Doister" by Nicholas Udall, "Endimion" by John Lyly, "The Old Wives' Tale" by George Peele, "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay" by Robert Greene and "James the Fourth" by Robert Greene"). .

Keywords: British Literature Drama


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