Swetnam the woman-hater arraigned by women. (1620).
By: Ed., with introduction, notes and illustrations, and fac-similes. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart.
Contributors: Grosart, Alexander Balloch, 1827-1899.; Flores, Juan de, 16th cent.
Publisher: Printed for the subscribers [by C.E. Simms, Manchester]
Published: 1880
Place of publication: [Blackburn,Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Swetnam, Joseph, fl. 1617; Women
Notes: "Limited to sixty-two copies--fifty distributed ... [to subscribers] and twelve editor's copies. This is no. 20. Proof-sheets and waste pages have been destroyed."
Pages 91-95 were issued in 1883 with no. 38 of the series ("Fly-leaves, or Additional notes and illustrations").
With reproductions of original title-pages.
Pages 91-95 bound in v. 38 of the Univ. of Cincinnati set.
An answer to Swetnam's "Arraignment of lewd, idle, froward, and inconstant women," extracts from which and from other answers are quoted in the introduction. The polt of the play is based on the history of Aurelio and Isabella, a version of Juan de Flores' Historia de Grisel y Mirabella. cf. Pref. p. xxxvii; Cejedor y Frauca; Thomas. Spanish & Port. romances, p. 184; Fitzmaurice-Kelly.