A HISTORY

OF

ENGLISH DRAMATIC

LITERATURE

TO THE DEATH OF QUEEN ANNE

BY

ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD, M.A.

Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge

Professor of History and English Literature in Owens College, Manchester

VOL. I

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1875

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OXFORD:

BY E. PICKARD HALL AND J. H. STACY,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY,

BIBLIOTHECA
REGIA

MONACENSIS