Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Early Prose and Poetical Tracts, Vol. 1 of 2: Illustrative of the Drama and Literature of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; Rich's "Farewell to Military Profession"; Nash's "Pierce Pennyless"; Armin's "Nest of Ninnies"
It will not be disputed that the present volume con tains a very amusing assemblage of early novels, inde pendently of their claims from intimate connection with Shakespeare and other Old dramatists. The author, Barnaby Riche, in the Conclusion of his work, in forms us that some of the stories had, even then, been applied to the purposes of the stage, and we shall pre sently more fully advert to this interesting point.
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