Representative English Comedies

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Editor

Gayley, Charles Mills, 1858-1932

Title

Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare

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Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Eleni Christofaki and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English drama (Comedy)

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Text

eBook-No.

49710

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49710

Release Date

August 15, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber's Note. — Representative English Comedies FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO SHAKESPEARE
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.An Historical View OF THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH COMEDY — 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:
5. 5.1 John Heywood THE PLAY OF THE WETHER and A MERY PLAY BETWENE JOHAN JOHAN, THE HUSBANDE TYB, HIS WIFE, &c. — CRITICAL ESSAY — FOOTNOTES:
6. 6.The play of the wether — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.JOHAN JOHAN — FOOTNOTES: — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.87 Nicholas Udall ROISTER DOISTER — CRITICAL ESSAY — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.105 ROISTER DOISTER BY NICHOLAS UDALL — [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:
10. 10.APPENDIX — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.195 William Stevenson GAMMER GURTONS NEDLE — CRITICAL ESSAY — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.A Ryght Pithy, Pleasaunt and merie Comedie: Intytuled Gammer gurtons Nedle : Played on Stage, not longe ago in Christes Colledge in Cambridge — 206 The Names of the Speakers in this Comedie — FOOTNOTES: — 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 ii 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:
13. 13.APPENDIX
14. 14.263 John Lyly ALEXANDER AND CAMPASPE — CRITICAL ESSAY — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.277 CAMPASPE — 278 The Persons of the Play [752] — FOOTNOTES: — 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 — FOOTNOTES: — The Epilogue at the Court — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.333 George Peele THE OLD WIVES' TALE — CRITICAL ESSAY — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.THE Old Wiues Tale. — [The Persons of the Play [1017] — FOOTNOTES: — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.APPENDIX
19. 19.385 Robert Greene HIS PLACE IN COMEDY — GREENE'S PLACE IN COMEDY
20. 20.395 Robert Greene THE HONORABLE HISTORIE OF FRIER BACON — CRITICAL ESSAY — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.THE HONORABLE HISTORIE of frier Bacon, and frier Bongay. — 434 The Persons of the Play [1261] — FOOTNOTES: — [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:
22. 22.APPENDIX
23. 23.513 Henry Porter THE PLEASANT HISTORY OF THE TWO ANGRY WOMEN OF ABINGTON — CRITICAL ESSAY — FOOTNOTES:
24. 24.PLEASANT HISTORY OF the two angry women of Abington. — The Names of the Speakers [1615] — FOOTNOTES: — The Prologue — 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:
25. 25.William Shakespeare AS A COMIC DRAMATIST — SHAKESPEARE AS A COMIC DRAMATIST — FOOTNOTES:
26. 26.INDEX OF HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL MATERIALS
27. 27.Transcriber's Note. — Corrections. — Errata.

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