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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX Author: Various Release Date: December 31, 2003 [EBook #10550] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD ENGLISH PLAYS *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Tapio Riikonen and PG Distributed Proofreaders A SELECT COLLECTION OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS, VOL. IX 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. 1874-76. CONTENTS: How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad The Return from Parnassus Wily Beguiled Lingua The Miseries of Enforced Marriage HOW A MAN MAY CHOOSE A GOOD WIFE FROM A BAD. _EDITION A Pleasant conceited Comedie, Wherein is shewed how a man may chuse a good Wife from a bad. As it hath bene sundry times Acted by the Earle of Worcesters Seruants. London Printed for Mathew Lawe, and are to be solde at his shop in Paules Church-yard, neare unto S. Augustines gate, at the signe of the Foxe_. 1602. 4to. [There were editions in 1605, 1608, 1614, 1621, 1630, 1634, all in 4to. It is not improbable that the author was Joshua Cooke, to whom, in an old hand on the title of edit. 1602 in the Museum, it is attributed.] [PREFACE TO THE FORMER EDITION.[1]] This play agrees perfectly with the description given of it in the title; it is certainly a most pleasant conceited comedy, rich in humour, and written altogether in a right merry vein. The humour is broad and strongly marked, and at the same time of the most diverting kind; the characters are excellent, and admirably discriminated; the comic parts of the play are written with most exquisite drollery, and the serious with great truth and feeling. Of the present piece there were seven editions, within a short period, with all of which the present reprint has been carefully collated, and is now, for the first time, divided into acts and scenes. PERSONS REPRESENTED. OLD
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