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

by E. Allison Peers

1. HISTORY AND CRITICISM.

• The Cambridge History of English Literature.
• English Dramatic Literature—A. W. Ward.
• History of English Poetry—W. J. Courthope.
• The Mad Folk of Shakespeare—Dr. Bucknill.
• Notes on Shakespeare in various editions—notably the Variorum.
• Shakespearean Tragedy—A. C. Bradley.
• Shakespeare, his mind and art—Ed. Dowden.
• Introductions to the various editions mentioned below under
• “Drama.”
• Notes and Lectures—S. T. Coleridge.
• Francis Beaumont—G. C. Macaulay.
• The Oxford Dictionary—passim.
• Encyclopædia Britannica—s.v. Insanity.
• History of the Insane in the British Isles—Tuke.
• The Psychology of Insanity—B. Hart.
• Survey of London—Stow, ed. Kingsford.
• “Have with you to Saffron Walden”—Nash.
• “The Belman of London”—Dekker.
• “Anatomie of the Bodie of Man”—Vicary.
• “Nymphidia”—Drayton.
• “The Battle of Agincourt”—Drayton.

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.]