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PLAYS AND PURITANS.'

THE British isles have been ringing for the last few

years, with the word 'Art,' in its German sense; with High Art,' 'Symbolic Art,' 'Ecclesiastical Art,' 'Dramatic Art,' 'Tragic Art,' and so forth; and every

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-3. 'Massinger's Plays.'

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son.' London, 1692. Gifford, Esq. London, 1813. - 4. Works of John Webster.' Edited, &c., by Rev. Alexander Dyce. Pickering, London, 1830.5. Works of James Shirley.' Edited by Rev. A. Dyce. Murray, 1833.6. Works of T. Middleton.' Edited by the Rev. A. Dyce. Lumley, 1840. - 7. 'Comedies,' &c. By Mr. William Cartwright. London, 1651.-8. 'Specimens of English Dramatic Poets.' By Charles Lamb. Longmans and Co., 1808.-9. 'Histriomastix.' By W. Prynne, Utter-Barrister of Lincoln's Inn. London. 1633.-10. 'Northbrooke's Treatise against Plays,' &c. (Shakspeare Soc.) 1843. -11. 'The Works of Bishop Hall.' Oxford, 1839. 12. Marston's Satires.' London, 1600. — 13 'Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Profaneness, &c., of the English Stage.' London, 1730.-14. 'Langbaine's English Dramatists.' Oxford, 1691. - 15. 'Companion to the Playhouse.' London, 1764. 16. Riccoboni's Account of the Theatres in Europe.' 1741.

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