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THE MERMAID SERIES.
Edited by Havelock Ellis.
The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists.
Thomas Otway.
In Half-Crown Monthly Volumes uniform with the present Work.
THE MERMAID SERIES.
The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists.
The following Volumes are in preparation:—
BEN JONSON (3 vols.). Edited by Brinsley Nicholson and H. C. Herford.
PATIENT GRISSIL AND OTHER PLAYS. Edited by Ernest Rhys, etc.
THE PARSON'S WEDDING AND OTHER PLAYS. Edited by W. C. Ward and A. W. Verity.
DRYDEN (2 vols.). Edited by R. Garnett.
CHAPMAN (2 vols.). Edited by Brinsley Nicholson and W. G. Stone.
SHADWELL. Edited by George Saintsbury.
ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM, and other Plays attributed to Shakespeare. Edited by Arthur Symons.
VANBRUGH. Edited by W. C. Ward.
FARQUHAR. Edited by A. C. Ewald.
THE SPANISH TRAGEDY AND OTHER PLAYS. Edited by W. H. Dircks, etc.
LEE. Edited by Edmund Gosse and A. W. Verity.
ETHEREGE AND LACY. Edited by Arthur Symons and W. C. Ward.
THOMAS OTWAY.
From a Picture by Riley.
The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists.
THOMAS OTWAY
WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES,
BY
The Hon. Roden Noel.
"I lie and dream of your full Mermaid wine."—Beaumont.
UNEXPURGATED EDITION.
LONDON:
VIZETELLY & CO., 16, HENRIETTA STREET,
COVENT GARDEN.
1888.
Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been
So nimble, and so full of subtle flame,
As if that every one from whence they came
Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,
And had resolved to live a fool the rest
Of his dull life."
Master Francis Beaumont to Ben Jonson.
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?"
Keats.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| Thomas Otway | vii |
| Don Carlos, Prince of Spain | 1 |
| The Orphan | 85 |
| The Soldier's Fortune | 173 |
| Venice Preserved | 287 |
| Appendix | 387 |
THOMAS OTWAY.
It is now a commonplace of criticism that the epoch of Charles II. was an epoch of decline and degradation for the British drama. The complacent self-felicitations of Dryden in his early days on the superior refinement of his own age, and the consequent superiority of his own plays to those of