GEORGE BELL AND SONS LONDON: YORK ST. COVENT GARDEN

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SHAKESPEARE

(1579-1631)

BY

THOMAS SECCOMBE AND J. W. ALLEN

VOL. II

DRAMA

LONDON

GEORGE BELL AND SONS

8442 V. 2

cop. 2

CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.

TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

CONTENTS.

CHIEF PLAYS OF THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE, SHOWING
RESPECTIVE DATES OF ACTING AND PUBLICATION

PAGE

xi

BOOK III.-DRAMA.

CHAPTER I.

PRE-SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA.

§ 1. INTRODUCTORY

The Moral Interludes - Development - The Theatres

and their appurtenances-The Drama in 1579.

John Lyly-Robert Greene-George Peele.

§ 3. KYD; MARLOWE

Thomas Kyd-Christopher Marlowe--The introduction

of Blank Verse-Tamburlaine-Dr. Faustus-The Jew

of Malta-Edward II.-Domestic Tragedy-Arden of

Feversham.

CHAPTER II.

18

30

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

54

§ 1. LIFE.

Outline of Shakespeare's life.

§ 2. EXPERIMENTAL PLAYS

Love's Labour's Lost - The Comedy of Errors - Tuo

Gentlemen of Verona-Richard III.—Richard II.—Titus

Andronicus.

§ 3. HISTORY AND COMEDY

Romeo and Juliet-King John-Merchant of Venice—

Midsummer Night's Dream-Taming of the Shrew—
1 Henry IV.-2 Henry IV.-Henry V.-Merry Wives of
Windsor-As You Like It-Much Ado About Nothing-
Twelfth Night-All's Well that Ends Well.

§ 4. TRAGEDY.

Julius Caesar-Hamlet-Troilus and Cressida-Measure

for Measure-Othello-Macbeth-King Lear-Timon of
Athens-Antony and Cleopatra-Coriolanus.

PAGE

61

68

84

100

The Tempest - Henry

The First Folio Textual Emendation Editions -

Chronology-Bibliography.

CHAPTER III.

THE POST-SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA- -SHAKESPEARE'S LATER

CONTEMPORARIES AND SUCCESSORS.

§ 1. INTRODUCTORY

143

$2. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER

150

Beaumont and Fletcher-John Fletcher-Francis Beau-
mont-Philaster-Table of Plays.