Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, who Lived about the Time of Shakspeare:

TABLE OF REFERENCE

TO THE EXTRACTS

. THOMAS SACKVILLE AND THOMAS Norton.

Gorboduc . i . i . . . . . . . . . 1

Thomas Kyd.
Spanish Tragedy ...........

GEORGE PEELE.
David and Bethsabe . . . . . . . . . . 13

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE.
Lust's Dominion
First Part of Tamburlaine · · · · · · ·
Edward II. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jew of Malta . . i . . . . . . . .
Doctor Faustus . . . . . . . . . . . .

ROBERT TAILOR.
Hog hath lost his Pearl . . . . . . ..

ANTHONY BREWER.
Lingua ..............

AUTHORS UNCERTAIN.
Nero
Merry Devil of Edmonton ...,

JOSEPH COOKE.
Green's Tu Quoque ........... 55

THOMAS

Nero

THOMAS DECKER.

. Page Old Fortunatus

. . : . . . . . . . . 56 First part of the Honest Whore . . . . . . 63 Second part of the Honest Whore . . . . . 64 Satiro-mastix i . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Thomas DeckER AND JOHN WEBSTER.
Westward Hoe . . . . . . . . . . . .

JOHN MARSTON..
Antonio and Mellida . . . . . . . . . .
Antonio's Revenge . . . . . . . . . . .
Malcontent . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Wonder of Women .
Insatiate Countess . . . . . . . . . . .
What You Will . . . . . . . . . .

GEORGE CHAPMAN.
Cæsar and Pompeye '....... .
Bussy D'Ambois : i . . . . . . . .
Byron's Conspiracy · · · · · · · · · ·
Byron's Tragedy ...........

- Thomas HEYWOOD.
Challenge for Beauty . . . . . . . . .
Royal King and Loyal Subject ....... 104
Woman Killed with Kindness . . . . . . . 105
English Traveller . . . . . . . . . . . 113

THOMAS HEYWOOD AND RICHARD BROOME. Late Lancashire Witches . ..... 120

Thomas MIDDLETON AND WILLIAM ROWLEY. Fair Quarrel ............. 124

WILLIAM ROWLEY. All's Lost by Lust . . . . . . . . . . 137 Woman never Vext . . . . . . . . . . 143

THOMAS

Thomas Middleton.

Page Women beware Women ........ 152 More Dissemblers besides Women . . . . . 158 No Wit Help like a Woman's . . . . . . . 161 Witch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

WILLIAM Rowley, Thomas Decker, John FORD, &c. Witch of Edmonton . . . . . . . . . . 175

Cyril Tourneur. Atheist's Tragedy ........... 179 Revenger's Tragedy . . . . . . . . . . 183

' John WEBSTER. Devil's Law Case . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Appius and Virginia . . . . . . . ... 201 Duchess of Malfy . . . . . . . . . . . 205 White Devil . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

John FORD. Lover's Melancholy . . . . . . . . . . 235 Ladies' Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237 Love's Sacrifice . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Perkin Warbeck . . . . . . . . . . . 241. Tis pity She's a Whore . . . . . . . . . 245 Broken Heart . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Samuel DANIEL. Hymen's Triumph .......... 266

FULKE GREVILLE. Alaham . . . . . . . . . . .

272 Mustapha . . . . . . . . . . .

284 BENJAMIN Jonson. Case is Altered . . . . . . . . . . . .

297 Poetaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 Sad Shepherd . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 Sejanus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 Catiline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

317 New Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 Alchemist . . . . . . . . . . .

.327

. . Volpone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

FRANCIS