Early English classical tragedies

ICENTREforREFORMATIONi o i UL»IC:> "L VICTORIA M^k UNIVERSITY ^flTORONTOTEARLY ENGLISHCLASSICAL TRAGEDIESEDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTESBVJOHN W. CUNLIFFE, M.A., D.LIT.PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITYIN THE CITY OF NEW YORKAND ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISMOXFORDAT THE CLARENDON PRESS1912\& REN.HENRY FROWDE, M.A.PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORDLONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORKTORONTO AND MELBOURNEPREFACETHIS little book includes the results of studies I beganas Shakespeare Scholar and Berkeley Fellow at theOwens College, Manchester, resumed in the comparativeleisure of a lectureship at McGill University, Montreal,continued in a busy quinquennium as Chairman of theDepartment of English in the University of Wisconsin,and completed as Professor of English at ColumbiaUniversity in the City of New York. In the meantimeI have printed some of my conclusions in the Publica-tions of the Modern Language Association and elsewhere,and the writing of the Introduction was encouraged byan invitation to give a course of lectures on RenascenceTragedy at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Forcourtesies from gentlemen connected with all the organi-zations mentioned I am too extensively indebted forit to be possible to mention each by name; but myobligations to a former colleague and fellow student,Dr. H. A. Watt, who has kindly contributed the noteson Gorboduc-a play of ...