Edited by Brander Matthews, Columbia University, Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
This volume contains one typical play from each of the master dramatists of Europe, with the exception of the English writers.
A STUDY OF THE DRAMA
By Brander Matthews.
Devoted mainly to an examination of the structural framework which the great dramatists of various epochs have given to their plays; it discusses only incidentally the psychology, the philosophy, and the poetry of these pieces.
THE CHIEF ELIZABETHAN DRAMATISTS
Edited by W. A. Neilson, President of Smith College, formerly Professor of English Literature in Harvard University.
This volume presents typical examples of the work of the most important of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, so that, taken with Shakespeare’s own works, it affords a view of the development of the English drama through its most brilliant period.
A HISTORY OF THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA
By Felix E. Schelling, University of Pennsylvania. 2 vols.