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

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Contents

1. Representative English Comedies from the Beginnings to Shakespeare
2. Preface
3. An Historical View of the Beginnings of English Comedy
4. John Heywood the Play of the Wether and A Mery Play Betwene Johan Johan, the Husbande Tyb, His Wife, &c
5. Johan Johan
6. Nicholas Udall Roister Doister
7. Roister Doister by Nicholas Udall
8. Appendix
9. William Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle
10. A Ryght Pithy, Pleasaunt and merie Comedie: Intytuled Gammer gurtons Nedle : Played on Stage, not longe ago in Christes Colledge in Cambridge
11. Appendix
12. John Lyly Alexander and Campaspe
13. Campaspe
14. George Peele the Old Wives' Tale
15. THE Old Wiues Tale
16. Appendix
17. Robert Greene His Place in Comedy
18. Robert Greene the Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon
19. The Honorable Historie of frier Bacon, and frier Bongay
20. Appendix
21. Henry Porter the Pleasant History of the Two Angry Women of Abington
22. Pleasant History of the two angry women of Abington
23. The Prologue
24. Scene First. Abington. Near Master Barneses House: The Orchard
25. Scene Second. In front of Barneses House
26. Scene Third. Barneses Garden
27. Scene Fourth. The Court-yard of Master Gourseys House at Milton
28. Scene Fifth. In front of Gourseys House
29. Scene Sixth. A Room in Gourseys House
30. Scene Seventh. The Forest near Sir Raphs House
31. Scene Eighth. In front of Barneses House
32. Scene Ninth. The Cunny Greene
33. Scene Tenth. A Grove in the Fields between the Cunny Greene and the Forest
34. Scene Eleventh. The Fields between the Grove and the Forest
35. Scene Twelfth. The Grove
36. Scene Thirteenth. The Same
37. Scene Fourteenth. A Hillside in the Fields
38. William Shakespeare as A Comic Dramatist
39. Index of Historical and Critical Materials

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