The chief Elizabethan dramatists, excluding Shakespeare : $b selected plays by Lyly, Peele, Greene, Marlowe, Kyd, Chapman, Jonson, Dekker, Marston, Heywood, Beaumont, Fletcher, Webster, Middleton, Massinger, Ford, Shirley
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"The chief Elizabethan dramatists, excluding Shakespeare" by William Allan Neilson is a collection of plays written in the early 20th century. It assembles selected works by leading Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists (apart from Shakespeare), edited from original quartos and folios and supported by notes, biographies, and bibliographies for students and general readers. The volume aims both to illustrate the development of English drama in its most brilliant era and to present its most distinguished non-Shakespearean plays on their own merits.
The opening of the volume presents a transcriber’s note, a preface outlining the dual aim (historical breadth and intrinsic quality), the editorial principles (modernized spelling and punctuation, cautious emendation, clearly marked stage directions, explanatory notes), and a full contents list. It then begins John Lyly’s Endymion: in the prologue, the players announce a fanciful “Man in the Moon” tale. Early scenes establish Endymion’s unwaver
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