ENGLISH DRAMA 1485-1585 (Oxford History of English Literature, Vol IV, Part 1)

New York, NY: Oxford Univ Press, 1969. First Edition, First Thus . Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/Near Fine; Short, tidy side-bars to pgs 52 & 79, else As New & Bright. Black linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/NF; light edge wear & showing faint discoloration. Published w/o ISBN; ISBN subsequently assigned. PO name to lower fEP. Volume IV, Part 1 of an envisioned 12 volume series designed to present a continuous history of English Literature. Author of this volume, Frank Percy Wilson (1889 - 1963) taught at Oxford Univ. & was General Editor of the Oxford History of English Literature series, of which this volume is a part of. Book begins where Volume II, Part 2, The Close of the Middle Ages by Sir Edmund Chambers left off. It is Part 1 of a projected 2 part work on Elizabethan drama that Wilson was working on at the time of his death.The Bibliography is assembled by editor G.K. Hunter. 244 pgs, in 7 parts: I, The Earlier Tudor Morality and Interlude; II, The Late Tudor Morality Play; III, Tudor Masques, Pageants, and Entertainments; IV, Sacred Drama; V, Comedy, c. 1540-c. 1584; VI, Tragedy, c. 1540-c. 1584; and, VII, The Theatre Before 1585, followed by Chronological Table, Bibliography & Index.