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The origin of the English drama, illustrated in its various species, viz., mystery, morality, tragedy, and comedy, by specimens from our earliest writers: with explanatory notes

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The origin of the English drama, illustrated in its various species, viz., mystery, morality, tragedy, and comedy, by specimens from our earliest writers: with explanatory notes by Thomas Hawkins ...
Author
Hawkins, Thomas, 1729 or 1730-1772
Publication
Oxford, Printed at the Clarendon-press, for S. Leacroft, London; [etc., etc.] 1773.

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3 v. plates.; 19 cm.
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v.1. Preface. Candlemas-day. Every-man. Hycke-scorner. Lusty Juventus [by Richard Wever] Gammer Gurton's needle. A lamentable tragedy ... conteyning the life of Cambises king of Percia, by Thomas Preston.--v. 2. The Spanish tragedy [by Thomas Kyd] The love of King David and fair Bethsabe [by George Peele] Soliman and Perseda. The tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex [by Thomas Norton]--v. 3. Supposes: a comedy written in the Italian tongue by Ariosto, Englished by George Gascoigne. Satiro-mastix, or, The untrussing of the humorous poet, by Thomas Dekker. The return from Parnassus. Wily beguiled.
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NCO (Hawkins, T. Origin of the English Drama)
LCCN
24010151
OCLC
2008850
Author
Hawkins, Thomas, 1729 or 1730-1772, ed.
Title
The origin of the English drama, illustrated in its various species, viz., mystery, morality, tragedy, and comedy, by specimens from our earliest writers: with explanatory notes by Thomas Hawkins ...
Imprint
Oxford, Printed at the Clarendon-press, for S. Leacroft, London; [etc., etc.] 1773.
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