Product Description: Pier Paolo Vergerio (c. 1370-1444) was an important humanist of the early Italian Renaissance. His educational treatise, De ingenuis moribus, was the most influential Renaissance work on education before Erasmus. His comic play, the Paulus, written in the 1390s, is the earliest extant Latin humanist comedy, a genre that combined elements of Roman and contemporary comedy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The comedy Susenbrotus is a neo-Latin play, written by the students of Trinity College Cambridge and performed before King James I at Royston in March 1615/16. It has never before been edited or translated. This edition contains the Latin text (prepared from a collation of the two extant manuscript copies), an English translation with annotations to classical and contemporary allusions, and an introduction tracing the development of humanist Latin drama in the universities during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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: Book by Drury, William; Knightley, Robert; Tricomi, Albert H. (ed.)

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