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Title: A Select Collection of Old English Plays
Volume 14 of 15

Author: Robert Dodsley

Editor: William Carew Hazlitt

Release Date: August 10, 2010 [EBook #33398]

Language: English

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A SELECT COLLECTION

OF

OLD ENGLISH PLAYS.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY ROBERT DODSLEY
IN THE YEAR 1744.

_FOURTH EDITION_,

NOW FIRST CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED, REVISED AND ENLARGED
WITH THE NOTES OF ALL THE COMMENTATORS,
AND NEW NOTES

BY
W. CAREW HAZLITT.

BENJAMIN BLOM, INC.
New York

First published 1874-1876
Reissued 1964 by Benjamin Blom, Inc.
L.C. Catalog Card No.: 64-14702

_Printed in U.S.A. by_
NOBLE OFFSET PRINTERS, INC.
NEW YORK 3, N. Y.

CONTENTS
Page
THE REBELLION 1

LUST'S DOMINION or THE LASCIVIOUS QUEEN 93

ANDROMANA or THE MERCHANT'S WIFE 193

LADY ALIMONY 273

THE PARSON'S WEDDING 369

THE REBELLION.

_EDITION._

_The Rebellion; a Tragedy: As it was acted nine dayes together,
and divers times since, with good applause, by his Majesties
Company of Revells. Written by Thomas Rawlins. London: Printed
by I. Okes, for Daniell Frere, and are to be sold at the Signe
of the Red Bull in Little Brittaine._ 1640, 4^o.[1]

INTRODUCTION.

THOMAS RAWLINS, author