As with English Verse Drama, the bibliographic basis is the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, CUP 1969-72. Early, and where appropriate, collected editions are generally selected. If a contemporary edition is considered unreliable, a later edition may be used. In certain cases, modern critical editions are included. The entire text of each drama is included with any accompanying text written by the author and forming an integral part of the work.
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As with English Verse Drama, you can search on any word or phrase in the text or title of any drama in the entire database. The detailed encoding of the texts provides you with a wide choice of search criteria, enabling you to select and view, from a vast body of text, just the lines or passages of interest to you.