or Poetry, by Warton, Taine, ten
Brinck, Courthope, Saintsbury, &c.

The following works contain the most complete lists of English
plays:--W. W. Greg, _A List of English Plays written before 1643 and
published before 1700_ (Bibliogr. Soc.) (London, 1900); J. O.
Halliwell (-Phillipps), _Dictionary of Old English Plays_ (London,
1860); W. C. Hazlitt, _A Manual for the Collector and Amateur of Old
English Plays_ (London, 1892); R. W. Lowe, _Bibliographical Account of
English Dramatic Literature_ (London, 1888) is a valuable handbook for
the whole of English theatrical literature and matters connected with
it. The unique work of Genest, _Some Account of the English Stage from
1660-1830_ (10 vols., Bath, 1832), includes, with a chronological
series of plays acted on the English stage, notices of unacted plays,
and critical remarks on plays and actors. "A Compleat List" of English
dramatic poets and plays to 1747 was published with T. Whincop's
_Scanderbeg_ in that year.

The following are the principal collections of English plays--_Ancient
British Drama_, ed. Sir W. Scott (3 vols., London, 1810); _Modern
British Drama_, ed. Sir W. Scott (5 vols., London, 1811); W. Bang,
_Materialien zur Kunde des alteren englischen Dramas_ (Louvain, 1902,
&c.); A. H. Bullen, _Collection of Old English Plays_ (4 vols.,
London, 1882); R. Dodsley, _A Select Collection of Old Plays_, 4th ed.
by W. C. Hazlitt (15 vols., London, 1874-1876); _Dramatists of the
Restoration_ (14 vols., Edinburgh, 1872-1879); _Early English
Dramatists_, ed. J. S. Farmer (London, 1905, &c.); C. M. Gayley,
_Representative English Comedies_ (vol. i., New York, 1903); T.
Hawkins, _Origin of the English Drama_ (3 vols., Oxford, 1773); Mrs
Inchbald, _British Theatre_, new ed. (20 vols., London, 1824), _Modern
Theatre_ (10 vols., London, 1811), _Collection of Farces and
Afterpieces_ (7 vols., London, 1815); Malone Society publications
(London, 1907, &c.); J. M. Manly, _Specimens of the Pre-Shakespearean
Drama_ (3 vols., London, 1897); _Mermaid Series of Old Dramatists_,
ed. Havelock Ellis (London, 1887. &c.); _Old English Drama_ (2 vols.,
London, 1825); _Pearson's Reprints of Elizabethan and Jacobean Plays_
(London, 1871, &c.).

The following deal with the Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in
especial:--W. Creizenach, _Die Schauspiele der englischen Komudianten_
(Berlin, 1895); J. W. Cunliffe, _The