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XI.—Tom Tyler and his Wife

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Felix E. Schelling
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Extract

The comedy which appears in the following pages is reprinted from “the second impression,” as it is called on the title page, made by Francis Kirkman in the year 1661: the first edition is apparently no longer extant. Francis Kirkman occupies an interesting position in the history of the English drama as the first man to interest himself in the collection and preservation of old English plays. To him we owe the reprint of Lust's Dominion, which has been attributed to Marlowe, of The Thracian Wonder, of Gammer Gurton's Nedle, and of other plays; and from Kirkman we have the first attempt at a catalogue of English dramas, the foundation on which Langbaine, Baker, Reed, and others were later to build. The earlier form of Kirkman's “an exact Catalogue of all the playes that were ever yet printed” appeared as a supplement to the present play, and included six hundred and ninety items. A few years later Kirkman had increased his list to eight hundred and six. He tells us that he had seen and read all these plays and that he possesses most of them, which he is willing to sell or lend upon reasonable consideration.

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Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , 1900 , pp. 253 - 289
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1900

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References

Note 1 in page 253 See the article on Kirkman in the Dictionary of National Biography and a passage from his, “The Unlucky Citizen,” reprinted by Collier, History of Dramatic Poetry, 2, 354.

Note 1 in page 254 Ed. 1749, p. 508.

Note 2 in page 254 Ancient Songs, ed. 1790, p. 130.

Note 3 in page 254 Biographia Dramatica, first edition, 1764, s. v.

Note 4 in page 254 P. 249.

Note 5 in page 254 P. 230.

Note 1 in page 255 P. 130. It is to be noted that Collier, Dyce, Beaumont and Fletcher, American ed., 1854, 2, 194, and Ward, History, ed. 1899, 1, 142, all accept this date.

Note 2 in page 255 History of Dramatic Poetry, 1831, 2, 353.

Note 3 in page 255 Ibid., p. 332.

Note 1 in page 258 I can not agree with Ward's statement that Strife is “half an abstraction, half a type.”—English Dramatic Literature, ed. 1899, 1, 142. Collier's estimate of this play is altogether fair.—History of English Dramatic Poetry, ed. 1831, 2, 353 ff.

Note 1 in page 268 Not.

Note 1 in page 269 qu? jolly.

Note 1 in page 270 hop o' my thumb.

Note 1 in page 276 good.

Note 1 in page 277 wounded.

Note 2 in page 277 matched.

Note 1 in page 278 much.

Note 1 in page 279 abie.

Note 1 in page 280 to.

Note 2 in page 280 you.

Note 1 in page 281 Strife.

Note 1 in page 282 godlige = god'ild ye.

Note 2 in page 282 merrie.

Note 3 in page 282 yea.

Note 4 in page 283 qu ? denay.

Note 1 in page 284 ere.

Note 1 in page 285 Possibly these two lines should be spoken by Taylor.

Note 2 in page 285 longs.

Note 3 in page 285 Yea.

Note 1 in page 286 qu ? mander = maunder.

Note 2 in page 286 out.

Note 3 in page 286 bide.