Product Description: This is a critical edition of the complete plays of a very important Elizabethan University playwright, together with introductions, English translations, and textual commentaries. Legge was the father of the Tudor Chronicle play, and his Richardus Tertius was probably employed as a source for Shakespeare's Richard III...read more

Product Description: An entertaining comedy replete with philosophy, alchemy, politics, and human nature from the author of the popular work: The Anatomy of Melancholy. Contents: Chronological Table; Philosophaster (original Latin with an English translation) Notes to Philosophaster; Facsimile of Burton's Autograph; Burton's Preface to Rider's Dictionarie; Burton's Poemata; Robert Burton's Will; Wood's Account of Burton...read more