Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk / The Harness Prize Essay for 1913

by E. Allison Peers

2. DRAMA.

The Works of:

	Shakespeare	Globe Edn. (and others).
	Lyly	edn. 1858.
	Marlowe	Oxford Press.
	Beaumont & Fletcher	ed. Dyce (11 vol.).
	Massinger	ed. Gifford (4 vol.).
	Webster	Mermaid Edn.
	Ford	ed. Gifford (2 vol.).
	Middleton	ed. Bullen (8 vol.).
	Dekker	ed. Pearson (4 vol.).
	Jonson	Mermaid Edn.
	Marston	ed. Bullen.
	Shirley	ed. Dyce; ed. Gifford.
	Brome	edn. 1873.
	Day	ed. Bullen.
Chettle:	Hoffman	ed. 1852.

N.B.—References are to the editions named above. Specific notes are given where possible to all quotations directly bearing on the subject of the essay.

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INDEX OF WORKS DEALT WITH OR QUOTED.

[The letters ff. denote that the work is dealt with in some detail in the pages referred to.]

• “Albertus Wallenstein.” [152].
• “Alchemist, The.” [14], [170].
• “American Journal of Insanity.” [67].
• “Anatomie of the Bodie of Man, The.” [13].
• “Anatomy of Melancholy, The.” [8-9], [27], [126].
• “Antipodes, The.” [92], [134 ff.]
• “As You Like It.” [6], [28], [137], [139], [142-4], [177].
• “Ball, The.” [12].
• “Bartholomew Fair.” [23], [53-4], [113 ff.], [181].
• “Battle of Agincourt, The.” [5].
• “Belman of London, The.” [26].
• “Bird in a Cage, The.” [29].
• “Broken Heart, The.” [51], [87], [128], [181].
• “Bulwark of Defence, A.” [14].
• “Caliban upon Setebos.” [121-2].
• “Changeling, The.” [12], [25], [32 ff.], [48], [50], [58], [124], [168 ff.], [181].
• “City Wit, The.” [12].
• “Comedy of Errors, The.” [15], [20], [52].
• “Compendious Pygment, etc., A.” [27].
• “Coronation, The,” [12].
• “Cymbeline.” [52], [119], [120], [125], [127], [162].
• “Dr. Faustus.” [150].
• “Duchess of Malfi, The.” [18], [21], [25], [41], [46], [51], [103 ff.]
• “Elizabethan Literature” (Saintsbury). [90].
• “Emperor of the East.” [14].
• “English Dramatic Literature” (Ward). [56], [89].
• “English Moor, The.” [11].
• “Epicene.” [19], [23], [25], [52], [167], [182].
• “Færie Queene, The.” [87].
• “Fair Quarrel, A.” [11].
• “Gentleman Usher, The.” [119].
• “Hamlet.” [19], [20], [22], [23], [24], [47], [49], [50], [51], [56], [60], [75 ff.], [81], [82], [87], [88], [89], [91], [97], [107], [129], [144 ff.], [160], [164], [173 ff.], [180], [181].
• “Have with you to Saffron Walden.” [122].
• “Henry VI., Part II.” [14].
• “Hoffman, The Tragedy of.” [96 ff.], [119-20].
• “Honest Whore, The.” [20], [23], [29], [32 ff.], [58], [171].
• “Julius Cæsar.” [52], [149].
• “King John.” [4], [21], [52], [128], [139], [144], [157 ff.], [162].
• “King Lear.” [3], [10-11], [26], [27], [37], [43], [44], [45], [47], [48], [49], [50], [60], [66 ff.], [80], [93], [95], [121], [122 ff.], [151], [160], [172 ff.], [178-9], [180], [181], [183].
• “Knight of the Burning Pestle, The.” [136].
• “Law Tricks.” [16], [167-8].
• “Lover’s Melancholy, The.” [18], [21], [23], [24], [55], [91 ff.], [128], [179], [181].
• “Love’s Labour’s Lost.” [5], [35], [138], [140].
• “Macbeth.” [9], [43], [47], [149], [151 ff.], [162].
• “Mad Folk of Shakespeare, The.” [70], [79], [141], [142], [153], [154-5].
• “Mad Lover, The.” [7], [54-5], [164 ff.], [179].
• “Maid’s Tragedy, The.” [128 ff.], [134], [138], [139], [181].
• “Match me in London.” [16], [55], [56-8], [170].
• “Measure for Measure.” [76], [173].
• “Merchant of Venice, The.” [82], [137], [139], [141], [144].
• “Merry Wives of Windsor, The.” [16].
• “Midsummer Night’s Dream, A.” [6], [177].
• “Mother Bombie.” [120-1].
• “Much Ado about Nothing.” [15], [28].
• “New Way to Pay Old Debts, A.” [53], [102 ff.]
• “Nice Valour, The.” See “[Passionate Madman].”
• “Noble Gentleman, The.” [105], [108 ff.], [116-7], [132], [134], [181].
• “Northern Lass, The.” [30], [127], [132 ff.]
• “Northward Ho!” [32 ff.], [48], [52], [167].
• “Nymphidia,” [17].
• “Old Wives’ Tale, The.” [65].
• “Orlando Furioso.” [61 ff.], [151].
• “Othello.” [12], [44], [85], [149], [177].
• “Passionate Madman, The.” [105 ff.], [134], [181].
• “Philaster.” [5], [19], [129], [131 ff.], [138], [139].
• “Pilgrim, The.” [12], [32 ff.], [48].
• “Politician, The.” [149].
• “Popish Impostures, A Dictionary of.” [11].
• “Renegado, The.” [163-4].
• “Richard II.” [139], [142].
• “Romeo and Juliet.” [6], [14], [28], [177].
• “Shakespeare, his Mind and Art.” [66].
• “Shakespearean Tragedy.” [122-3], [125], [148-9].
• “Silent Woman, The.” See “[Epicene].”
• “Sophy, The.” [152].
• “Spanish Tragedy, The.” [62 ff.]
• “Survey of London, A.” [31].
• “Taming of the Shrew, The.” [17], [128], [167], [182].
• “Tempest, The.” [121], [177].
• “Timon of Athens.” [4], [159 ff.], [161].
• “’Tis pity she’s a Whore.” [119].
• “Troilus and Cressida.” [6], [18], [125], [137], [139], [140-1], [159].
• “Twelfth Night.” [10], [21], [37], [52], [128], [139], [167], [182-3].
• “Two Noble Kinsmen, The.” [7], [49], [81 ff.], [91], [97], [132], [134], [181].
• “Unnatural Combat, The.” [161], [162].
• “Very Woman, A.” [99 ff.], [133 ff.], [139].
• “Vulgar Errors.” [14].
• “What you will” (Marston). [29].
• “Winter’s Tale, The.” [5], [181].
• “Witch, The.” [9].
• “Witch of Edmonton, The.” [151].

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. Words with and without accents appear as in the original.

Ellipses match the original.

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

The Table of Contents’ entry for the Preface was added by the Transcriber.

The following corrections have been made to the original text:

Page 14: “Romeo and Juliet” (iv., 3,[original has a period] 47-8)

On page 19, footnote anchor [19:3] has been added by the Transcriber.

Page 20: Guildenstern’s[original has “Guildernstern’s”] account of Hamlet

Page 31: mad-houses in the Seventeenth[original has “Seventeeth”] Century

Page 35: expressions of an idée[original has “idèe”] fixe

Page 37: “You keep him here to teach him madness.”[quotation mark missing in original]

Page 55: melancholy of Palador, Prince of Cyprus,[comma missing in original]

Page 57: King. When?[original has exclamation point]

Page 95: “[quotation mark missing in original]Sits on my heart so heavy

Page 143: unregenerate days.[143:1][original has “2”]

Page 185: References are to the editions named above.[original has a comma]

Page 187: entry “Epicene.”[original has “Epicure.”]

Page 187: entry “Færie[original has “Faerie”] Queene, The.”

Page 187, entry “Hamlet.”: 173 ff.,[comma missing in original] 180, 181

Page 188, entry “Philaster.”: 5, 19, 129,[original has a semi-colon] 131 ff., 138, 139.

[14:2] Act[original has extraneous period] iii. Sc. iv.

[11:5] Ibid.,[original has two commas], iii., 5, 31.

[74:4] Ibid., v., 3,[original has “.,”] 272-4.

[77:2] Ibid., iv.,[comma missing in original] 5, 23, etc.

[111:1] Ibid., iv.,[comma missing in original] 3.

[141:3] “Merchant of Venice,” iv., 1, 114[original has “1-114”], etc.

[144:1] “Merchant of Venice,” i., 1, 91-2[original has “1-91, 2”].

[151:1] may also be noticed, though[original has “thought”] it is

[159:2] Ibid., iii., 4, 101-2.[period missing in original]

[174:1] “Hamlet,[comma missing in original]” ii., 1, 78, etc.