BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

The Quarto, and the various modern editions and translations of The Fatal Dowry have already been recorded in the opening pages of the [Introduction]. In the editions there noted of the collected works of Massinger will be found all the plays which bear his name. (Believe As You List appears only in Cunningham’s edition of Gifford and in the Mermaid Series’ Massinger.) Field’s two independent plays, Woman is a Weathercock (Q. 1612) and Amends for Ladies (Q’s. 1618, 1639), were reprinted by J. P. Collier, London, 1829. They are included in Thomas White’s Old English Dramas, London, 1830; in W. C. Hazlitt’s edition of Dodsley’s Old English Plays, London, Reeves and Turner, 1875; and in the Mermaid Series volume, Nero and Other Plays, with an Introduction by A. W. Verity, London and New York, 1888. All other extant dramas in which either Massinger or Field had a share may be found in any edition of the collected works of Beaumont & Fletcher, with the exception of Sir John van Olden Barnavelt, which appears in vol. II of Bullen’s Old Plays, London, Weyman and Sons, 1883.

The stage version of The Fatal Dowry by Sheil is printed in French’s Acting Edition, vol. 9. Of the related plays, The Lady’s Trial and The Fair Penitent may be found in all editions of the collected works respectively of John Ford and Nicholas Rowe; The Fair Penitent is also published along with Rowe’s Jane Shore in the Belles Lettres Series, 1907. For The Insolvent, see The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq., 2 vols., 1760. DER GRAF VON CHAROLAIS ein Trauerspiel von Richard Beer-Hofmann is printed by S. Fischer, Berlin, 1906.

The following works have bearing upon the play or its authors:

Beck, C.: Phil. Massinger, THE FATALL DOWRY. Einleitung zu einer neuen Ausgabe. Beyreuth, 1906.
Boyle, R.: Beaumont, Fletcher and Massinger. Englische Studien, vol. V.
Cambridge History of English Literature, The,—vol. VI. Cambridge, 1910.
Courthope, W. J.: A History of English Poetry, vol. IV. Macmillan, 1903.
Cumberland: His famous comparison of The Fatal Dowry with The Fair Penitent, which originally appeared in The Observer, Nos. LXXVII–LXXIX, is reprinted in Gifford’s Edition of Massinger.
Dictionary of National Biography—Field, by J. Knight; Massinger, by R. Boyle.
Fleay, F. G.: A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama (1559–1642). 2 vols. London. Reeves and Turner. 1891.
Annals of the Career of Nathaniel Field. Englische Studien, vol. XIII.
Genest, John: Some Account of the English Stage from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830. 10 vols. Bath, 1832.
Gosse, E. W.: The Jacobean Poets. (Univ. Series). Scribner’s, 1894.
Koeppel, E.: Quelenstudien zu den Dramen George Chapman’s, Philip Massinger’s und John Ford’s. Strassburg. 1897.
Murray, John Tucker: English Dramatic Companies (1558–1642). 2 vols. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1910.
Oliphant, E. F.: The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. Englische Studien, vols. XIV–XVI. [This is not concerned with The Fatal Dowry, but contains inquiry into other collaboration work of Massinger and Field in plays of the period, with an analysis of the distinctive characteristics of Massinger (XIV, 71–6) and the same for Field (XV, 330–1).]
Phelan, James: On Philip Massinger. Halle. 1878. Reprinted in Anglia, vol. II, 1879.
Schelling, F. E.: Elizabethan Drama. 2 vols. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1908.
Schwarz, F. H.: Nicholas Rowe’s FAIR PENITENT. A Contribution to Literary Analysis. With a Side-reference to Richard Beer-Hofmann’s Graf von Charolais. Berne. 1907.
Stephens, Sir Leslie: Philip Massinger. The Cornhill Magazine. Reprinted in Hours in a Library, Third Series. 1879.
Swinburne, A. C.: Philip Massinger. The Fortnightly Review. July, 1889.
Thorndike, Ashley H.: Tragedy. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1908.
Ward, A. W.: A History of English Dramatic Literature. 3 vols. Macmillan. 1899.
Wurzbach, W. von: Philip Massinger. Shakesp. Jahrb., vols. XXXV and XXXVI.