The origin of the English drama, illustrated in its various species, viz., mystery, morality, tragedy, and comedy, by specimens from our earliest writers:
The origin of the English drama, illustrated in its various species, viz., mystery, morality, tragedy, and comedy, by specimens from our earliest writers:
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v. 1. Preface. -- Candlemas-day. -- Every-man. -- Hycke-scorner. -- Lusty Juventus [by Richard Wever] -- Gammer Gurton's needle. -- A lamentable tragedy ... conteyning the life of Cambises king of Percia, by Thomas Preston. -- v. 2. The Spanish tragedy [by Thomas Kyd] -- The love of King David and fair Bethsabe [by George Peele] -- Soliman and Perseda. -- The tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex [by Thomas Norton] -- v. 3. Supposes: a comedy written in the Italian tongue by Ariosto, Englished by George Gascoigne. -- Satiro-mastix, or, The untrussing of the humorous poet, by Thomas Dekker. -- The return from Parnassus. -- Wily beguiled