Transcriber's Note.

A list of the [changes] made can be found at the end of the book.



Representative English Comedies
FROM THE BEGINNINGS
TO
SHAKESPEARE



REPRESENTATIVE ENGLISH
COMEDIES

WITH INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS AND NOTES

AN HISTORICAL VIEW OF OUR EARLIER COMEDY
AND OTHER MONOGRAPHS
BY VARIOUS WRITERS

UNDER THE GENERAL EDITORSHIP OF

CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY, Litt.D., LL.D.
Professor of the English Language and Literature
in the University of California

FROM THE BEGINNINGS
TO
SHAKESPEARE

New York:
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1926

All rights reserved.


Copyright, 1903,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.


Set up, electrotyped, and published March, 1903.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
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