Third Folio Period Drama and Printers 1650

	Philip Massinger The City-Madam, A Comedie. As it was acted at the private House in Black Frieres with great applause London: Printed for Andrew Pennycuicke, 1659
	This is the second quarto of The City Madam, first printed by Andrew Pennycuicke in 1658 and here reprinted just a year later. It remained popular and was frequently acted in an adapted version in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Bequest of Mollie Harris Samuels

	William Shakespeare [William D’Avenant] The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island. A Comedy London: Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman, 1670
	In 1667, Dryden helped William D’Avenant revise The Tempest, adding new characters and much bawdy dialogue. It was printed in this edition three years later and was one of the most popular plays of the later 17th Century. After D’Avenant’s death in 1668, Charles II made Dryden poet laureate, a post that he held until 1688. Bequest of Mollie Harris Samuels

William Shakespeare
Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
London: Printed for Philip Chetwinde, 1663

When the third edition of Shakespeare’s plays was published in 1663, it first appeared as a simple reprint of the second edition of 1632, including only the 36 plays found in the first and second folios. However, in the following year it was reissued with seven additional plays, all presented as Shakespeare’s work. This led some libraries, such as the Bodleian, to discard their earlier editions as being incomplete. Today, of the seven added plays, only Pericles has been accepted into the Shakespeare canon. This is a copy of the first issue, without the added seven plays.
Gift of Solton & Julia Engel

John Dryden
The Wild Gallant: A Comedy
[London]: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for H. Herringman, 1669

John Dryden was the dominant dramatist of his generation. He not only wrote twenty-seven plays in a wide variety of genres, but produced the first sustained body of serious dramatic criticism in English. At one point in his early career he lived in the home of the bookseller Henry Herringman, publisher of the Shakespeare fourth folio, who was to become his publisher. As noted in a later attack on his character by Thomas Shadwell, at that time Dryden “Writ Prefaces to Books for Meat and Drink.” The Wild Gallant, produced in 1663 and first published in this edition of 1669 by Herringman, was his first play. It was not a success either in the public theater or at court, but Dryden learned a great deal about playwriting from the experience.
Bequest of Mollie Harris Samuels