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Excerpt from Elizabethan Translations From the ItalianDuring the winter of 1891 - 92, I made a list of all English dramas produced between the accession of Edward VI, in 1549, and the closing of the theatres by the Parliamentarians, in 1642. My list showed that some fifteen hundred plays belong to the period of the great drama of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I, of which about one-half are extant. Of extant Eliza bethan dramas it set apart...

Excerpt from Elizabethan Translations From the Italian: The Titles of Such Works Now First Collected and Arranged, With Annotations All readers of the Elizabethan drama must have noticed the profound influence of the Italian literature of the Renaissance upon the poets of that time. Some of the playwrights, like Greene and Munday, were men of travel, "Italianated" Englishmen, who returned home with their heads full of the ideas and culture of...

Excerpt from Elizabethan Translations From the Italian: The Titles of Such Works Now First Collected and Arranged, With Annotations III. Miscellaneous books, including histories, the popular collections of apothegms and proverbs of the time, grammars, dictionaries, and scientific works of various kinds. As to the plays, I discover that about one-third of the extant Elizabethan dramas can be traced to Italian in¿uences in one way or another. ...

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