The Plays and Poems of Henry Glapthorne Author:Henry Glapthorne Title: The Plays and Poems of Henry Glapthorne: Memoir of Henry Glapthorne. Argalus and Parthenia. the Hollander, a Comedy. Wit in a Constable. Notes and Illustrations General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Original Publisher: J. Pearson Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no ill... more »ustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Oxford University ENGLISH FACULTY LIBRARY Manor Road, Oxford 0X1 3UQ Telephone: (0865) 271050 Opening Hours: Full term: Monday to Friday: 9.30 a. m. to 7 p. m. Saturday 9.30 a. m. to 12.30 p. m. Vacation: Monday to Friday 9.30 a. m. to 5 p. m. Saturday closed. The Library is closed for appro, one week at Christmas and at Easter, and during August. This book should be returned on or before the latest date below: Readers are asked to protect Library book from rain, etc. Any volumes which are lost, defaced with notes, or otherwise damaged, may have to be replaced by the Reader responsible. 300076007N Memoir of HENRY GLAPTHORNE Henry Glapthorne (i) is one of the lateft and one of the leaft known of the great fchool of Elizabethan dramatifts. Indeed, ftri£tly fpeaking, he can fcarcely be faid to belong to that company at all, as he only began to write about midway in the reign of the firft Charles, and fully thirty years after Elizabeth's death. But the term has always been ufed with fuch latitude as to include that younger branch or offshoot of it, which wrote before the advent of the Commonwealth, an interregnum during which the drama flumbered for feveral years, and which ferves to create a great and impaffable gulf, feparating the leaft of the Elizabethan dramatifts, whether of the earlier or later branch, (i) His name feems to have been fpelt indifferently with and without the final e:...« less