The origin of the English drama
Subtitle: illustrated in its various species, viz., mystery, morality, tragedy, and comedy, by specimens from our earliest writers : with explanatory notes
By: by Thomas Hawkins.
Publisher: Printed at the Clarendon-press, for S. Leacroft, London; [etc., etc.]
Published: 1773
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; Moralities, English
Notes: Gilt tops.

Bookplate of William Gray.
Table of contents: title: v.1 Preface. Candlemas-day. Every-man. Hycke-scorner. Lusty Juventus / [R. Wever]. Gammer Gurton's needle. A lamentable tragedy ... conteyning the life of Cambises king of Percia / T. Preston; title: v.2 The Spanish tragedy / [T. Kyd]. The love of King David and fair Bethsabe / [G. Peele]. Soliman and Perseda. The tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex / [T. Norton]; title: v.3. Supposes: a comedy written in the Italian tongue / Ariosto; Englished by George Gascoigne. Satiro-mastix, or, The untrussing of the humorous poet / T.Dekker. The return from Parnassus. Wily beguiled.