Representative English Comedies, Vol. 1

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Gayley's scholarly anthology of Elizabethan and Jacobean comedies was a standard academic collection that introduced several plays to wider readership. The first volume focuses on the early English comic tradition from Lyly and Peele through the Elizabethan period. Individual plays of genuine quality are embedded in the scholarly apparatus; the value for Scriptaoke is in the less-anthologized individual texts rather than the collection as a whole.