Elizabethan tales
By: edited with an introduction by Edward J. O'Brien
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin company
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Boston and; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: English Short stories; English fiction; Social life and customs; Fiction
Table of contents: title: Titus and Gisippus  -- Sir Thomas Elyot (1531); title: Three companions  -- Sir Thomas Hoby (1561); title: Belerophon's tale  -- William Adlington (1566); title: Giletta of Narbona  -- William Painter (1566); title: Two rogues  -- Thomas Harman (1567); title: Tale of Mistress Frances  -- George Gascoigne (1572); title: Tereus and Progne  -- George Pettie (1576); title: Lazaro and the priest  -- David Rouland (1576?); title: Apolonius and Silla  -- Barnabe Rich (1581); title: Promos and Cassandra  -- George Whetstone (1582); title: Paphlagonian unkind king  -- Sir Philip Sidney (1590); title: Two lovers of Pisa  -- Anonymous (1590); title: Fortune-teller  -- Henry Chettle (1592); title: Pleasant tale of an usurer --; title: Roberto's tale  -- Robert Greene (1592); title: Friar Bacon and the brazen head  -- Anonymous (1594); title: Heraclide and Estras  -- Thomas Nashe (1594); title: Jack of Newbury and the widow  -- Thomas Deloney (1597); title: Hero and Leander (before 1600?)  -- Thomas Nashe (1599); title: Shoemakers of Merry Bradstead  -- Anonymous; title: Pranks of Doctor Pinchback  -- Samuel Rowlands (1602); title: Old Cole's end  -- Thomas Deloney (1602); title: Tinker's bargain  -- Thomas Dekker (1603?); title: Fishwife's tale  -- Anonymous (1603?); title: Eel and the magpie -- Nicholas Breton (1604).