Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare
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- PREFACESample
- I. Liturgical Fragments, Early Saints' Plays and Parodies
- 2. The Miracle Cycles in their Relation to Comedy
- 3. The Dramatic Value of the English Miracle Plays
- 4. The Contribution of Later "Marvels" and Early Secular Plays
- 5. The Devil and the Vice
- 6. The Relation between Miracle, Moral, and Interlude
- 7. The Older Morals in their Relation to Comedy
- 8. The Dramatic Contribution of the Older Morals
- 9. The Period of Transition: Farce and Romantic Interlude
- 10. The Period of Transition: School Interlude and Controversial Moral
- 11. Polytypic, or Fusion, Plays
- 12. Survivals of the Moral Interlude
- 13. The Movement towards Romantic Comedy
- 14. Conclusion
- FOOTNOTES:
- CRITICAL ESSAY
- FOOTNOTES:
- The play of the wether
- FOOTNOTES:
- JOHAN JOHAN
- FOOTNOTES:
- FOOTNOTES:
- CRITICAL ESSAY
- FOOTNOTES:
- [The Persons of the Play
- FOOTNOTES:
- Actus. i. Scæna. i.
- Actus. i. Scæna. ii.
- Actus. i. Scæna iii.
- Actus. i. Scæna. iiii.
- Actus. i. Scæna. v.
- Actus. ii. Scæna i.[445] C [iii]
- Actus ii. Scæna ii.
- Actus. ii. Scæna. iii.
- Actus. ii. Scæna. iiii. D i b
- Actus. [i]ii. Scæna. i.
- Actus. iii. Scæna. ii. D ii b
- Actus. iii. Scæna. iii.
- Actus. iii. Scæna. iiii.
- Actus iii. Scæna v.
- Actus iiii. Scæna i.
- Actus iiii. Scæna ii.
- Actus. iiii. Scæna. iii.
- Actus. iiii. Scæna. iiii.
- Actus. iiii. Scæna. v.
- Actus. iiii. Scæna. vi. G ii b
- Actus. iiii. Scæna. vii.
- Actus. iiii. Scæna. viii.[576]
- Actus. v. Scæna. i.
- Actus. v. Scæna. ii.
- Actus. v. Scæna. iii.
- Actus. v. Scæna. iiii.
- Actus. v. Scæna. v.[603]
- Actus. v. Scæna. vi.
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX
- FOOTNOTES:
- CRITICAL ESSAY
- FOOTNOTES:
- A Ryght Pithy, Pleasaunt and merie Comedie: Intytuled Gammer gurtons Nedle: Played on Stage, not longe ago in Christes Colledge in Cambridge
- The Names of the Speakers in this Comedie
- The fyrst Acte. The fyrst Sceane.
- The fyrst Acte. The second Sceane.
- The fyrst Acte. The thyrd Sceane.
- The fyrst Acte. The iiii. Sceane.
- The i Acte. The v Sceane.
- The Second Acte.
- [The Second Acte.] The Fyrst Sceane.
- The ii Acte. The ii Sceane.
- The ii Acte. The iii Sceane. C
- The ii Acte. The iiii Sceane.
- The ii Acte. The v Sceane.
- The iii. Acte. The i Sceane.
- The iii. Acte. The iii. Sceane.
- The iii Acte. The iiii Sceane.
- The iiii Acte. The i Sceane.[716] D
- The iiii. Acte. The ii Sceane.[718]
- The v. Acte. The i. Sceane.
- The v. Acte. The ii Sceane.
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX
- CRITICAL ESSAY
- The Persons of the Play[752]
- THE PROLOGUE AT the blacke Friers[753]
- FOOTNOTES:
- The Prologue at the Court.
- FOOTNOTES:
- Actus primus. Scæna prima[767]
- Actus primus. Scæna secunda[785]
- Actus primus. Scæna tertia[810]
- Actus secundus.[841] Scæna prima.[842]
- Actus tertius. Scæna prima.[856]
- Actus tertius. Scæna secunda.[869]
- Actus tertius. Scæna tertia.[875]
- Actus tertius. Scæna quarta.[900]
- Actus quartus. Scæna prima.[908]
- Actus quartus. Scæna secunda.[922]
- Actus quartus. Scæna tertia.[926]
- Actus quartus. Scæna quarta.[934]
- Actus quintus. Scæna prima.[939]
- Actus quintus. Scæna secunda.[951]
- Actus quintus. Scæna tertia.[955]
- Actus quintus. Scæna quarta.[964]
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE EPILOGUE AT THE BLACKE FRIERS
- The Epilogue at the Court
- FOOTNOTES:
- CRITICAL ESSAY
- FOOTNOTES:
- [The Persons of the Play[1017]
- FOOTNOTES:
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX
- GREENE'S PLACE IN COMEDY
- CRITICAL ESSAY
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE HONORABLE HISTORIE of frier Bacon, and frier Bongay.
- The Persons of the Play[1261]
- [Scene First.[1262] In, or near, Fremingham]
- [Scene Second. Frier Bacons cell at Brazennose]
- [Scene Third. Harlston Faire.]
- [Scene Fourth. The Court at Hampton House.]
- [Scene Fifth. A Street in Oxford.]
- [Scene Sixth. Frier Bacons cell in Brazennose.]
- [Scene Seventh. The Regenthouse at Oxford.]
- [Scene Eighth. The countrie-side; Fresingfield.]
- [Scene Ninth. Oxford.]
- [Scene Tenth. Near the Keepers lodge in Fresingfield.]
- [Scene Eleventh. Frier Bacons cell.]
- [Scene Twelfth. At Court.]
- [Scene Thirteenth. Frier Bacons cell.]
- [Scene Fourteenth. A Meadow near the Keepers lodge.]
- [Scene Fifteenth. Frier Bacons cell.]
- [Scene Sixteenth. At Court.]
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX
- CRITICAL ESSAY
- FOOTNOTES:
- [Scene First. Abington. Near Master Barneses House: The Orchard[1618]]
- [Scene Second. In front of Barneses House.]
- [Scene Third.[1669] Barneses Garden.]
- [Scene Fourth. The Court-yard of Master Gourseys House at Milton.]
- [Scene Fifth. In front of Gourseys House.]
- [Scene Sixth. A Room in Gourseys House.]
- [Scene Seventh.[1755] The Forest near Sir Raphs House.]
- [Scene Eighth. In front of Barneses House.]
- [Scene Ninth.[1818] The Cunny Greene.]
- [Scene Tenth. A Grove in the Fields between the Cunny Greene and the Forest.]
- [Scene Eleventh. The Fields between the Grove and the Forest.]
- [Scene Twelfth. The Grove.]
- [Scene Thirteenth. The Same.[1900]]
- [Scene Fourteenth. A Hillside in the Fields.[1912]]
- FOOTNOTES:
- SHAKESPEARE AS A COMIC DRAMATIST
- INDEX OF HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL MATERIALS