The Facts About Shakespeare Part 36

1. EDITIONS OF PLAYS

Convenient collections, often with valuable introductions and notes, are: Dodsley's Old English Plays, ed. W. C. Hazlitt, 15 vols., 1874-1876; Manly's Pre-Shaksperean Drama, 2 vols., Boston; Neilson's Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Boston, 1911 (30 plays in one volume); the Mermaid Series of the Old Dramatists (4 or 5 plays by one author in each vol.); the Belles Lettres Edition (with excellent bibliographies), Boston; Masterpieces of the English Drama, New York; Temple Dramatists.

Valuable reprints of old plays and doc.u.ments are found in the following series now in progress: The Tudor Facsimile Texts, ed. J. S. Farmer, 43 vols., 1907; Materialien zur Kunde des alteren englischen Dramas, ed. W.

Bang, Louvain, 1902; Publications of the Malone Society, 1906.

Collected editions of the chief dramatists include those of Greene, Peele, Webster, Ford, Beaumont and Fletcher, and s.h.i.+rley, ed. by Alexander Dyce; of Middleton, Marston, Marlowe, and Webster, by A. H.

Bullen, and the more recent editions from the Clarendon Press,--Greene, ed. J. Churton Collins; Kyd, by F. S. Boas; Lyly, by W. Bond; Nash, by McKerrow; Marlowe, by Tucker Brooke. Ma.s.singer and Jonson exist only in the early nineteenth-century editions of Gifford. There are also recent editions of Beaumont and Fletcher by A. R. Waller, Cambridge, and by A.

H. Bullen _et al._ (in progress), and an edition of Chapman by T.

Parrott.

2. CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL

Die Geschichte des neueren Dramas. W. Creizenach (in progress). Halle, 1893-. This is the standard history of the modern drama, vol. iv dealing in a masterly fas.h.i.+on with the Shakespearean period. There is no English translation.

History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne. A. W.

Ward. 2d ed. 3 vols. 1899.

Elizabethan Drama. F. E. Sch.e.l.ling. 2 vols. Boston, 1902. This contains valuable bibliographies and a finding list for the plays.

The Mediaeval Stage. E. K. Chambers. 2 vols. Oxford, 1903. Authoritative for the pre-Elizabethan drama, with valuable bibliography and appendices.

A Bibliographical Chronicle of the English Drama. F. G. Fleay.

1559-1642. A work of great value to scholars, but not of much service to the general reader.

Other works less comprehensive in scope, but dealing with special aspects or divisions of the drama, are: Tragedy, A. H. Thorndike, Boston, 1908; Shakespeare and his Predecessors, F. S. Boas, 1896; Tudor Drama, C. F. Tucker Brooke, Boston, 1912.

Special treatises which have also been drawn upon for this chapter are: F. E. Sch.e.l.ling's English Chronicle Play, New York, 1902; A. H.

Thorndike's Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Shakspere, Lemcke and Buechner, N. Y., 1901; and Hamlet and the Revenge Plays, Publ. Mod.

Lang. a.s.sn., 1902; E. E. Stoll's John Webster, 1905; F. H. Ristine's English Tragi-Comedy, 1910; Reyher's Les Masques Anglais, Paris, 1909; W. W. Greg's Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama, 1906.

CHAPTER VI

THE ELIZABETHAN THEATER

None of the books here listed gives a comprehensive account of the theater. Greg's admirable edition of Henslowe's Diary, Fleay's researches, and Murray's supplements to them are all valuable for students. The account of the stage and the method of performance given in this chapter are based in part on Albright. During the last ten years there has been much controversy on this subject; and those interested should consult the bibliographies in the Shakespeare Jahrbuch under Albright, Brodmeier, Archer, Chambers, Corbin, Lawrence, Reynolds, Wegener. For contemporary doc.u.ments, see the Bibliography to chap, x, vol. vi, of the Cambridge History of English Literature.

Albright, V. E. The Shakespearian Stage. New York, 1909.

Archer, W. The Elizabethan Stage. Quarterly Review, April, 1908.

Brodmeier, C. Die Shakespeare-Buhne nach der alten Buhnenanweisungen.

Weimar, 1904.

Chambers, E. K. The Stage of the Globe. Stratford Ed. Shakespeare's Works, vol. x.

Collier, J. P. Memoirs of the Princ.i.p.al Actors in the Plays of Shakespeare. Shaks. Soc., 1846.

Feuillerat, A. Doc.u.ments relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Louvain, 1908.

Fleay, F. G. A Chronicle History of the London Stage. 1890.

---- A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559-1642. 2 vols., 1891.

Gildersleeve, V. Government Regulation of the Elizabethan Theater. New York, 1908.

Greg, W. W., ed. Henslowe's Diary, 2 parts. London, 1907-1908.

---- Henslowe Papers. 1907.

Lawrence, W. J. The Elizabethan Playhouse and other studies. Stratford.

1912.

Mantzius, R. A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times.

1904. Cf. vol. iii.

Murray, J. T. English Dramatic Companies, 1558-1642. 1910.

Ordish, T. F. Early London Theaters. 1894.

Rendle, W. Old Southwark and its People. 1878.

Reynolds, G. F. Some Principles of Elizabethan Staging. Reprinted from Modern Philology. Chicago, 1905.

---- What we know of the Elizabethan Stage, Modern Philology, July, 1911. With bibliography of recent discussions.

Wallace, C. W. The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars, 1597-1603.

Univ. of Nebraska, 1908.

---- Evolution of the English drama up to Shakespeare: with a history of the first Blackfriars theatre. Stechert. 1912.

These two volumes contain some newly discovered material, but their discussions of theatrical history are not valuable.

Wegener, R. Die Buhneneinrichtung des Shakespeareschen Theaters nach der zeitgenossischen Dramen. Halle, 1907.

CHAPTER VII

HISTORY OF THE TEXT

1. COMPLETE EDITIONS

_In one volume._

The Globe Edition, ed. W. G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright 1864.