Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Early Plays From the Italian, Edited: With Essay, Introductions and Notes
What I have endeavoured to do in this little book is something wider than an edition of three plays, and something closer than can well be done in a literary history. I started with the wish to Show how ancient Greek and Roman Comedy finds representation in our own, not only in subject and spirit, but in matters of form and technique; and to show this not only by statement and discussion, but by giving therewith actual plays to which the reader might instantly turn for verification of indicated parallelism or imitation. I wished to bring under the purely English reader's notice some facts about ancient comedy for its own sake, facts usually too cursorily dismissed in histories of the modern drama to leave a very distinct impression on the mind and at the same time I wished to show the great impor tance of Italian Renaissance Comedy in handing on the classical form and substance to modern Europe, while introducing considerable modifications of it.
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