it was
left to the village wits and playwrights to produce it, without any
co-operation from the trained eye and hand of a parson or a learned
clerk. Of some other forms of our earlier drama, not omitting the Welsh
interludes of Twm o'r Nant, it may be possible to give illustrations in
a later book, companion to this. Only so much is given here as may
interest the reader, who is a playgoer first of all, and asks for
entertainment and a light in these darker passages of the old British
drama.

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Finally the amplest acknowledgments are due to those who have worked
upon these present plays, including Mrs. C. Richardson, M.A., Mr.
O'Brien, Mr. Roberts, Miss Hawkins, G. R., and Mr. Ezra Pound; and to
the various editors of the "Early English Text Society," who have made
this book possible. Especially should tribute be paid to Dr. Furnivall
for his permission to make use of the Society's texts, and his interest
in this uncertain attempt to capture the outer public too, and attract
it to that ever-living literature to which he has devoted so many days
of his young old-age.

E. R.

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Everyman: a moral play otherwise called: A Treatyse how the hye fader of
heven sendeth dethe to somon every creature to come and gyve a counte of
theyr lyves in this worlde], translated from the Dutch play, Elckerlijk,
1520 (?); published in Dodsley's Select Collection of Old English Plays,
etc., vol. I., 1874; reprint of one of Skot's editions, collated with
his other edition and those of Pynson, Ed. H. Logeman, 1892; with an
introduction by F. Sidgwick, 1902; reprinted by W. W. Greg from the
Edition by John Skot preserved at Britwell Court, 1904; set to music by
H. Walford Davies, etc. (with historical and analytical notes), 1904; J.
S. Farmer, Six Anonymous Plays (Early English Dramatists), 1905; with
designs by Ambrose Dudley, 1906; in Broadway Booklets, 1906; with
introduction, note-book, and word list, J. S. Farmer (Museum
Dramatists), 1906.

Miracle Plays: Towneley Mysteries, ed. by Surtees Society, 1836;
Pollard, Early English Text Society, 1897. York Mysteries, ed. Lucy
Toulmin Smith, 1885. Chester Mysteries, ed. Th. Wright, Shakespeare
Society, 1843-47; Deimling, Early English Text Society, 1893, etc.; T.
H. Markland (two plays), Roxburghe Club, 1818. Coventry Mysteries, ed.
Halliwell, Shakespeare Society, 1841. See also Sharp, Dissertation on
the Co