THE DRAMATIC AND POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT GREENE & GEORGE PEELE WITH MEMOIRS OF THE AUTHORS AND NOTES BY THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, NEW YORK: 416, BROOME STREET. 1874. NOTICE. The Works of George Peele: now first collected. With some account of his writings, A and notes: By the Rev. Alexander Dyce, A.B., 2 vols., were published in 1828. With some The Dramatic Works of Robert Greene, to which are added his Poems. account of the author, and Notes: By the Rev. Alexander Dyce, B.A., 2 vols., were published in 1831. To the latter collection was prefixed a Dedication which I now subjoin, because I am unwilling that it should be forgotten ; "TO SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART., THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED, AS A SLIGHT MARK OF ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, AND RESPECT FOR HIS CHARACTER, BY HIS OBEDIENT SERVANT, ALEXANDER DYCE." At that period I had the honour of occasionally corresponding with Sir Walter : and in his Life by Lockhart (vol. vii. p. 272) is a letter addressed to me which shows that he intended to make my editions of Greene, Webster, &c., the subject of an article for the Quarterly Review; but his kind intentions were frustrated by the fatal malady from which he vainly sought relief in a foreign land. The present volume contains the whole of the above-mentioned editions of Peele and Greene; nor is it a mere reprint, important alterations, corrections, and additions having been made throughout. ALEXANDER DYCE. 1 |