HENSLOWE PAPERS: Being Documents Supplementary to Henslowe’s Diary. Edited by W. W. Greg. Crown 4to., 10s. 6d. net. Uniform with the above.
“Students of Elizabethan drama will welcome the appearance of this skilfully edited collection.... The volume forms a contribution singularly valuable in its own way to the learned literature of English social history.”—The Scotsman.
COLLECTANEA: Being Papers on Elizabethan Dramatists. By Charles Crawford. In two Series, super-royal 16mo., 3s. 6d. net each.
Series I.—Barnfield, Marlowe, and Shakespeare—Ben Jonson’s Method of Composing Verse—Webster and Sidney—Spenser, Locrine and Selimus—The Authorship of Arden of Feversham.
Series II.—Montaigne, Webster, and Marston: Donne and Webster—The Bacon-Shakespeare Question.
“They should bring him the reputation of a real discoverer in a well-worked field.”—Athenæum.
“In the latter Mr. Crawford makes good sport with certain Baconians. Of the conclusions at which he arrives, the first is that the Baconians ought to know more about Bacon and his contemporaries than they do, and that if Bacon was any one else than himself, he was Ben Jonson rather than Shakespeare.”—Spectator.
NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE REVELS OFFICE UNDER THE TUDORS. By E. K. Chambers, author of The Mediæval Stage. Demy 8vo., 3s. 6d. net.
A preliminary study for a book dealing with the conditions of the London stage during the lifetime of Shakespeare.
“Mr. Chambers has gathered together a quantity of matter that is not only interesting to the reader but of inestimable value to the ‘student.’”—Daily News.