Primary Sources: Medieval and Renaissance Periods: Theater

A Selection of Plays Illustrating the History of the English Drama from its Origin down to Shakespeare

I. Marlowe, Shakespeare -- II. Dekker, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster, Massinger.

Specimens of the pre-Elizabethan Drama, edited, with an introduction, notes and glossary, by Alfred W. Pollard ...

Edited by J. Payne Collier from the ms. of the author in the library of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire.

Selections in Latin or Anglo-Norman French have English translations in parallel columns; selections in Middle English have marginal glosses

Translated by Mary Stewart Evans. With a new introd. and notes by Julia Sutton and a new Labanotation section by Mireille Backer and Julia Sutton.

"Aphra Behn, one of the most influential dramatists of the late seventeenth century, was also a celebrated poet and novelist. Her contemporary reputation was founded primarily on her "scandalous" plays, which she claimed would not have been criticized for impropriety had a man written them."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/aphra-behn

Third edition, edited by John Payne Collier.
Four plays included in earlier editions are omitted, and replaced by others.

With other idle pastimes. By John Northbrooke, minister. From the earliest edition, about A.D. 1577. With an introduction and notes

"Prepared for the Columbia College Program of Translations from the Oriental Classics."

The plays performed by the crafts or mysteries of York, on the day of Corpus Christi in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries