Ale together by the Ears. These I hope some day to deal with in a separate work. The plays are arranged under authors as far as these can be ascertained with any reasonable degree of certainty, asterisks being prefixed to entries of editions which contain neither author's name nor initials; in cases of joint authorship the play appears under the author whose name appears first on the titlepage or the most important of the authors where the play is anonymous; cross-references from the other authors will be found in the Index of Authors. Under the authors the collected editions are given first, then the editions of separate plays in chronological order of the first dated editions. Plays which it is impossible to assign with any degree of certainty will be found at the end under the heading of Authors Unknown. For convenience of reference the translations from Seneca published in the collected plays of that author in 1581 appear under his name; otherwise translations will be found under the name of the translator with a cross-reference from the author in the Index of Authors. For the same reason the plays added to the 1664 folio of Shakespeare will be found under the heading PseudoShakespearian Plays at the end of the entry Shakespeare. An alphabetical Index of Plays has been added giving the name of the author under which they are to be found, and the date of the first edition.

The following is Mr. Pollard's statement of the plan on which the one-line list was enlarged under his superintendence, so as to give all necessary information while avoiding needless repetition. "Save in a very few cases where a special note has been made of the fact, nothing has been omitted from titles of first editions except mottoes and notes of ornaments and devices. In the case of subsequent editions whose titles differ from that of the first only in spelling or the use of capitals, the words 'Another edition' have been substituted for a repetition of the title. Where the title of a later edition begins in the same way but goes on differently, the title is transcribed after the words 'Another edition' from the point at which it differs. Where the differences could not satisfactorily be shown in this way the title has been reproduced in full.

HAND-LIST of engliSH PLAYS.

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In the case of imprints the following omissions have been made throughout the place of printing, if London (imprints without place of printing are as a rule given in full), the words Printed or Imprinted by, and the address of the publisher or stationer. Thus in such imprints as Thomas Creede for Cuthbert Burby, or I. R. for Edward White, Creede and I. R. are the printers and Burby and White the publishers, according to the well understood rule. Unless some other size is mentioned all books are in quarto. As the great majority of the editions are in the library of the British Museum it was thought convenient to add the Museum pressmarks. Nothing was attempted in the way of collation, or notes as to the writers of prefatory verses, the object of the enlargement being to make the List more useful and interesting without encroaching on a design at which Mr. Greg had hinted, of one day producing a full bibliography of the English drama up to the closing of the theatres during the Civil War."

HAND-LIST OF ENGLISH PLAYS.

ALEXANDER, WILLIAM, Earl of Stirling. (1567?-1640.)

The Monarchick Tragedies. By William Alexander of Menstrie. V. S. for
Edward Blount.

1604.

CONTENTS: The Tragedie of Croesus.

The Tragedie of Darius. G. Elde for Edward Blount. 1604.

Darius has separate titlepage and signatures and may have been issued separately.

B.M. (643. d. 1).

The Monarchicke Tragedies; Croesus, Darius, The Alexandræan, Iulius
Cæsar, Newly enlarged. By William Alexander, Gentleman of the Princes
priuie Chamber. Valentine Simmes for Ed. Blount. 1607.

The sheets of the 1604 edition with a new titlepage and additions. Iulius Casar
has a separate titlepage, with same imprint.

B.M. (1077. k. 2). Bodl. Dyce. T.C.C.

The Monarchicke Tragedies. The third Edition. By S W. Alexander
Knight. William Stansby. 1616. 8vo.

Darius, The Alexandraan Tragedy, and Iulius Cæsar have separate titlepages
with the same imprint.

With a portrait, dated 1616 but unsigned.

Recreations with the Muses. By William Earle of Sterline. Tho. Harper.
1637. fol.

Pt. I. contains the "Foure Monarchicke Tragedies."
A few copies are known with a portrait by Marshall.

B. M. (644. k. 1). Bodl. Dyce. T.C.C.

The Tragedie of Darius. By William Alexander of Menstrie. Edinburgh,
Robert Waldegraue. 1603.

B. M. (643. c. 79). Bodl.