Published by D. C. Heath & Co., Lexington
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
1964. (Trade paperback) Very good plus. 315pp. Notes, facsimile title pages. The covers are lightly worn with a minor 3-inch crease to the bottom front cover and the top of the back cover is slightly discolored. "The Englishness of Elizabethan and Jacobean comedy is most apparenty in the plays of Dekker and Greene, who rejoice equally in English cobblers and kings. But it is also evident in the plays of Jonson, Beaumont, and Massinger, who find their comic matter in things, places and personalities familiar to their audiences" - from the General Introduction. Includes The Alchemist, Endymion, Every Man in His Humor, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, The Man in the Moon, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The Shoemakers' Holiday & Supposes. (Drama, Anthologies, Comedy, Drama).