The Belles-Tettres Series

SECTION III

THE ENGLISH DRAMA

FROM ITS BEGINNING TO THE PRESENT DAY

GENERAL EDITOR

GEORGE PIERCE BAKER

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

AND

JANE SHORE

BY NICHOLAS ROWE

EDITED BY

SOPHIE CHANTAL HART, M.A.

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION IN
WELLESLEY COLLEGE

BOSTON, U. S. A., AND LONDON

D. C. HEATH AND CO., PUBLISHERS

1907