Specimens of the pre-Shaksperean drama
Subtitle: with an introd., notes, and a glossary
Series: The Athenæum press series
Publisher: Ginn
Published: 1897
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: English drama; Mysteries and miracle-plays, English
Notes: Vol. 3, to contain an introd., notes, and a glossary, was not published.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Volume 1. Dramatic tropes: I. Regularis concordia monachorum. II. Wiinchester troper; title: Easter dramatic office: St. John's, Dublin; title: Fragments of vernacular liturgical plays; title: Part I. Norwich Whitsun plays: Creation and Fall; title: Towneley plays: Noah's flood; title: Hegge plays: Noah and Lamech; title: Brome play: Abraham and Isaac; title: Towneley plays: Isaac. Jacob; title: Chester Whitsun plays: De Mose et Rege Balaak et Balaam propheta (processus prophetarum); title: Hegge plays: The salutation and conception; title: Towneley plays: The second shepherds' play (Secunda pastorum); title: Coventry plays: The pageant of the shearmen and taylors (The nativity and the slaughter of the innocents); title: York corpus Christi plays: The resurrection; title: Chester Whitsun plays: Antichrist (Hengwrt version); title: York corpus Christi plays: The Judgment Day; title: Part II. Digby plays: The conversion of St. Paul; title: The play of the sacrament; title: Part III. Robin Hood plays: Robin Hood and the knight. Robin Hood and the friar. Robin Hood and the potter; title: St. George plays: Oxfordshire play. Lutterworth Christmas play; title: The Revesby sword play; title: Part IV. Mankind; title: Mundus et infans; title: Hyck-scorner; title: Wyt and science / Jhon Redford; title: Nice Wanton; title: Part V. The foure PP / John Heywood; title: Part VI. Kynge Johan / John Bale.; title: Volume 2. Part VII. Roiseter doister / Nicholas Udall; title: Gammer Gurons Nedle / Mr. S., Master of Arts; title: Part VIII. Cambises / Thomas Preston; title: Gorboduc; or, Ferrex and Porrex / Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton; title: Campaspe / John Lyly; title: James the Fourth / Robert Greene; title: David and Bethsabe / George Peele; title: The Spanish tragedie / Thomas Kyd.