Sidelights on Elizabethan Drama A series of studies dealing with the authorship of Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Plays

First Published in 1966. This volume is a series of studies dealing with the authorship of sixteenth and seventeenth century plays. Many of the articles were initially published as part of 'Notes and Queries' and others by the Shakespeare Association and The Modern Language Review. The articles cover works by playwrights such as Shakespeare, Marlow, Peele, Webster, John Ford and Nathaniel Field. It includes an index of notes on the authorship of various Elizabethan and Jacobean Plays.

Chapter 1 The Problem of ‘Timon of Athens’; Chapter 2 The Authorship of ‘The Taming of a Shrew’, ‘The Famous Victories of Henry V’, and the Additions to Marlowe's ‘Faustus’.; Chapter 3 Peele's ‘Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany’; Chapter 4 ‘The Spanish Moor's Tragedy’; or ‘Lust's Dominion’; Chapter 5 Webster's ‘Appius and Virginia’ A Vindication; Chapter 6 A Webster-Massinger Play: ‘The Fair Maid of the Inn’; Chapter 7 A Webster-Middleton Play: ‘Anything for a Quiet Life’; Chapter 8 John Ford'S Posthumous Play ‘The Queen’; Chapter 9 John Ford the Author of ‘The Spanish Gipsy’; Chapter 10 Nathaniel Field's Work in the ‘Beaumont and Fletcher’ Plays;

H. Dugdale Sykes