This critical edition contains an introductory essay evaluating these plays in terms of both literary history and their own merits as lively works for the stage. It includes the complete text of each play, accompanied by explanatory notes glossing obsolete or dialectal words and phrases, and listing only important substantive variants among the authoritative early editions. Also contains appendices for each play giving brief but thorough essays on authorship, sources, stage history, textual history, and music to one song.

Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer