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Patient Grissell, Munday's John a Kent and John a Cumber, Legge's Richardus Tertius, Norton and Sackville's Gorboduc, Merbury's Marriage between Wit and Wisdom, and Sir Thomas More, True Tragedy of Richard III, 1 Contention, True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, Taming of A Shrew, Timon, by various editors. Some copies of these plays, not including Heywood's, were bound up in 4 vols., with the general date 1853, as a Supplement to Dodsley.]

1848. F. J. Child, Four Old Plays.

1851. J. P. Collier, Five Old Plays (Roxburghe Club).

1870. J. S. Keltie, The Works of the British Dramatists.

[Many of the collections enumerated above are obsolete, and I have not usually thought it worth while to record here the plays included in them. Lists of the contents of most of them are given in Hazlitt; Manual, 267.]

1874-6. A Select Collection of Old English Plays: Fourth Edition, now first Chronologically Arranged, Revised and Enlarged; with the notes of all the Commentators, and New Notes, by W. C. Hazlitt. Vols. i-ix (1874), x-xiv (1875), xv (1876). [Cited as Dodsley, or Dodsley^4; incorporates with Collier's edition of Dodsley the collections of 1833, 1848, 1851, and 1853.]

1875. W. C. Hazlitt, Shakespeare's Library. Second Edition. Part i, 4 vols.; Part ii, 2 vols. [Part i is based on Collier's Shakespeare's Library (1844). Part ii, based on the collections of 1779 and 1841-53, adds the dramatic sources, Warner's Menaechmi, True Tragedie of Richard III, Legge's Richardus Tertius, Troublesome Raigne of John, Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, 1 Contention of York and Lancaster, True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor (Q_{1}), Whetstone's Promos and Cassandra, King Leire, Timon, Taming of A Shrew.]

1878. R. Simpson, The School of Shakspere. 2 vols. [Captain Thomas Stukeley, Nobody and Somebody, Histriomastix, Jack Drum's Entertainment, Warning for Fair Women, Fair Em, with A Larum for London (1872) separately printed.]

1882-5. A. H. Bullen, A Collection of Old English Plays. 4 vols. [Cited as Bullen, O. E. P. Maid's Metamorphosis, Noble Soldier, Sir Giles Goosecap, Wisdom of Doctor Dodipoll, Charlemagne or The Distracted Emperor, Trial of Chivalry, Yarington's Two Lamentable Tragedies, Costly Whore, Every Woman in her Humour, with later plays.]

[1885]-91. 43 Shakspere Quarto Facsimiles. Issued under the superintendence of F. J. Furnivall. [Photographic facsimiles by W. Griggs and C. Praetorius, with introductions by various editors, including, besides accepted Shakespearian plays, Pericles (Q_{1}, Q_{2}), 1 Contention (Q_{1}), True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York (Q_{1}, Whole Contention (Q_{3}), Famous Victories of Henry V (Q_{1}), Troublesome Raigne of John (Q_{1}), Taming of A Shrew (Q_{1}).]

1888. Nero and other Plays (Mermaid Series). [Nero (1624), Porter's Two Angry Women of Abingdon, Day's Parliament of Bees and Humour Out of Breath, Field's Woman is a Weathercock and Amends for Ladies, by various editors.]

1896-1905. The Temple Dramatists. [Cited as T. D. Single plays by various editors, including, besides plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, Dekker, Heywood, Jonson, Kyd, Marlowe, Peele, Udall, Webster (q.v.), Arden of Feversham, Edward III, Merry Devil of Edmonton, Selimus, T. N. K., Return from Parnassus.]

1897. J. M. Manly, Specimens of the Pre-Shakspearean Drama. 2 vols. issued. [Udall's Roister-Doister, Gammer Gurton's Needle, Preston's Cambyses, Norton and Sackville's Gorboduc, Lyly's Campaspe, Greene's James IV, Peele's David and Bethsabe, Kyd's Spanish Tragedy in vol. ii; earlier plays in vol. i.]