Influence of Seneca on
Elizabethan Tragedy_ (London, 1893); F. G. Fleay, _A Chronicle History
of the London Stage, 1559-1642_ (London, 1890), _A Biographical
Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559-1642_ (London, 1891); W. C.
Hazlitt, _The English Drama and Stage under the Tudor and Stuart
Princes, 1543-1664_ (London, 1869); W. Hazlitt, _Dramatic Literature
of the Age of Elizabeth_ (Works, ed. A. R. Waller, vol. v.) (London,
1902); A. F. von Schack, _Die englischen Dramatiker vor, neben, und
nach Shakespeare_ (Stuttgart, 1893); J. A. Symonds, _Shakspere's
Predecessors in the English Drama_ (London, 1884).
As to the Latin academical drama of the Elizabethan age see G. B.
Churchill and W. Keller, "Die latein. Universitats-Dramen Englands in
der Zeit d. Kunigin Elizabeth" in _Jahrbuch der deutschen
Shakespeare-Gesellschaft_. For a short bibliography of the Oxford
academical drama, 1547-1663, see the introduction to Miss M. L. Lee's
edition of _Narcissus_ (London, 1893). A list of Oxford plays will
also be found in _Notes and Queries_, ser. vii., vol. ii. For a list
of Cambridge plays from 1534 to 1671, the writer of this article is
indebted to Prof. G. C. Moore-Smith of the university of Sheffield.
For an account of the Mask see R. Brotanek, _Die englischen
Maskenspiele_ (Vienna and Leipzig, 1902); H. A. Evans, _English
Masques_ (London, 1897); W. W. Greg, _A List of Masques, Pageants,
&c._ (Bibliogr. Soc.) (London, 1902).
As to early London theatres see T. F. Ordish, _Early London Theatres_
(London, 1894).
Some information as to puppet-plays, &c., will be found in Henry
Morley's _Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair_ (London, 1859).
Among earlier critical essays on the Elizabethan and Stuart drama
should be mentioned those of Sir Philip Sidney, G. Puttenham and W.
Webbe, T. Rymer and Dryden. For recent essays and notes on the
Elizabethan drama in general, see, besides the essays of Coleridge,
Lamb (including the introductory remarks in the _Specimens_), Hazlitt,
&c., and the remarkable series of articles in the _Retrospective
Review_ (1820-1828), the Publications and Transactions of the Old and
New Shakespeare Societies (1841, &c.; 1874, &c.), which also contain
reprints of early works of great importance for the history of the
Elizabethan drama and stage, such as Henslowe's _Diary_, &c., the
_Jahrbuch der deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft_ (1865, &c
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