Early English classical tragedies

1912·25.6 MB·English

by  Cunliffe, John William, 1865-1946

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EARLY ENGLISH(cid:13)
CLASSICAL TRAGEDIES(cid:13)
EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES(cid:13)
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JOHN W. CUNLIFFE, M.A., D.LIT.(cid:13)
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY(cid:13)
IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK(cid:13)
AND ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM(cid:13)
OXFORD(cid:13)
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS(cid:13)
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HENRY FROWDE, M.A.(cid:13)
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD(cid:13)
LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK(cid:13)
TORONTO AND MELBOURNE(cid:13)
PREFACE(cid:13)
THIS little book includes the results of studies I began(cid:13)
as Shakespeare Scholar and Berkeley Fellow at the(cid:13)
Owens College, Manchester, resumed in the comparative(cid:13)
leisure of a lectureship at McGill University, Montreal,(cid:13)
continued in a busy quinquennium as Chairman of the(cid:13)
Department of English in the University of Wisconsin,(cid:13)
and completed as Professor of English at Columbia(cid:13)
University in the City of New York. In the meantime(cid:13)
I have printed some of my conclusions in the Publica-
tions of the Modern Language Association and elsewhere,(cid:13)
and the writing of the Introduction was encouraged by(cid:13)
an invitation to give a course of lectures on Renascence(cid:13)
Tragedy at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. For(cid:13)
courtesies from gentlemen connected with all the organi-
zations mentioned I am too extensively indebted for(cid:13)
it to be possible to mention each by name; but my(cid:13)
obligations to a former colleague and fellow student,(cid:13)
Dr. H. A. Watt, who has kindly contributed the notes(cid:13)
on Gorboduc-a play of which he has made a very(cid:13)
thorough study-are so considerable that I cannot let(cid:13)
them pass without due acknowledgement. I wish also(cid:13)
to thank the Earl of Ellesmere and his Librarian,(cid:13)
Mr, Strachan Holme, for giving me accesst o the unique(cid:13)
Bridgewater copy of Gorboduc (1565).(cid:13)

CONTENTS(cid:13)
PAGE(cid:13)
INTRODUCTION . . vii(cid:13)
I. GORBODUC(cid:13)
Text . . 4(cid:13)
Notes 297(cid:13)
II. JOCASTA(cid:13)
Text . . . .67(cid:13)
Notes ........ 307(cid:13)
III. GISMOND OF SALERNE(cid:13)
Text . . . . . . . .163(cid:13)
Notes ....... 314(cid:13)
IV. THE MISFORTUNES OF ARTHUR(cid:13)
Text . . . . .220(cid:13)
Notes 326(cid:13)
GLOSSARY .... .... 343(cid:13)
INDEX TO INTRODUCTION . . . . . 351(cid:13)