Zbc nDetmaib Series. 



THE BEST PLAYS OF THE OLD DRAMATISTS. 



Literal Reproductions of the Old Text. 



Prlnteil on tUzi Paper. Small Orown 8to, eacb Volume containing about 

 fiOO Pages and an Btcbed Frontispiece. 



Clotb, 2s. 6d. net. Leather, 3s. 6d. net. 



The Best Plays of Christopher Marlowe. Edited, with Critical 

 Memoir and Notes, by Havelock Ellis ; and containing a 

 General Introduction to the Series by John Addington Symonds. 



The Best Plays of Thomas Otway. Introduction and Notes by the 



Hon. RODEN NOBL. 



The Complete Pbys of William Congreve. Edited by Alex. C 



EWALD. 



The Complete Plays of Richard Steele. Edited, with Introduction 



and Notes, by G. A. Aitken. 

 The Best Plays of Ben Jonson. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, 



by Brjnsley Nicholson and C. H. Herford. 3 vols. 

 The Best Plays of James Shirley. With Introduction by Edmund 



GossE. 

 The Best Plays of Thomas Shadwell. Edited by George Saintsbury. 

 The Complete Plays of William Wycherley. Edited, with Intro- 

 duction and Notes, by W. C. Ward. 

 The Best Plays of John Ford. Edited by Havelock Ellis. 

 The Best Plays of Webster and Tourneur. With an Introduction 



and Notes, by John Addington Symonds. 

 The Best Plays of Thomas Heywood. Edited by A. W. Verity. 



With Introduction by J. A. Symonds. 

 The Best Plays of John Dryden. Edited by George Saintsbury. 



2 vols. 

 The Best Plays of Thomas Middleton. With an Introduction by 



Algernon Charles Swinburne. 2 vols. 

 Nero and other Plays. Edited by H. P. Hornb, Arthur Symons, 



A. W. Verity, and H. Ellis. 

 The Best Plays of Thomas Dekker. Notes by Ernest Rhys. 

 The Best Plays of Philip Massinger. With Critical and Biographical 



Essays and Notes by Arthur Symons. 2 vols. 

 The Best Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher. With Introduction and 



Notes by T. St LoE Strachey. 2 vols. 

 The Best Plays of George Chapman. Edited by William Lyon 



Phelps. 

 The Select Plays of Sir John Vanbrugh. Edited, with an Introduc- 

 tion and Notes, by A. E. H. Swain. 



THE TIMES, 2.0th November 1903, in a Review of a column and 



a quarter, says — 



" Mr Fisher Unwin is re-issuing his ' Mermaid Series ' of Old Dramatists m a very 



ittractive form. The volumes are light in the hand and will go easily into the poclcet; 



they are printed in clear type on thin paper; ideal companions ^for the student who 



seeks his pleasure where the Saint found it, ' in angulo cum libello.'" 



THE PALL MALL GAZETTE says— 

 "It is impossible to let the completion , of this re-issue go by without congratulating 

 every one concerned, including the reader, on the possibility of obtaining the cream of 

 England's dramatic literature in this convenient form." 



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