Part One

.) By Charles Mills Gayley.

II. BEN JONSON: CRITICAL ESSAY. By Charles H. Herford.

Edition of _Every Man in His Humour_. The same.

III. BEN JONSON: CRITICAL ESSAY. By Charles Mills Gayley.

Edition of _Epicœne, or the Silent Woman_. The same.

IV. BEN JONSON. THE ALCHEMIST: CRITICAL ESSAY. By George A. Smithson.

Edition of _The Alchemist_. The same.

V. CHAPMAN, JONSON, AND MARSTON. EASTWARD HOE: CRITICAL ESSAY. By John W. Cuncliffe.

Edition of _Eastward Hoe_. The same.

VI. THE MERRY DEVILL OF EDMONTON: CRITICAL ESSAY. By John Matthews Manly.

Edition of _The Merry Devill of Edmonton_. The same.

INDEX.

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

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Representative English Comedies, Vol. III

_THE LATER CONTEMPORARIES OF SHAKESPEARE_

FLETCHER AND OTHERS

With introductory essays and notes and a comparative view of the fellows and followers of Shakespeare under the general editorship of

CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY, LITT.D., LL.D.,

Professor of the English Language and Literature in the University of California

_Cloth, 8vo, 663 pages, $2.00_

This volume, like the second one of this series, contains plays of the later contemporaries of Shakespeare. The editors of the different plays are scholars of wide reputation who have made a special study of the period and the various dramatists here represented. In this volume Professor Gayley’s masterly essay on “The Fellows and Followers of Shakespeare” is brought to a close.

CONTENTS

I. A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE FELLOWS AND FOLLOWERS OF SHAKESPEARE IN COMEDY. (