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RR 99/258 An Index of Characters In Early Modern English Drama: Printed Plays 1500-1660 (revised edition) Thomas L. Berger, William C. Bradford and Sidney L. Sondergard Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1998 iv + 170 pp. ISBN 0 521 62149 6 L40.00 ($59.95) Keywords Dramatisation, England, Literature, Theatre
Thomas L. Berger and Sidney L. Sondergard explain in the introduction to the revised edition of a work first published in microcard format in 1975 that the new edition "includes all of the characters who appear in the English printed drama of the Tudor, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Caroline, and Commonwealth 'periods': in short, Early Modern English printed drama". Their primary sources are the listings of Latin and English drama in WW Greg's seminal Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration (4 vols., 1939-1957). At the conclusion of the opening of the Introduction Berger and Sondergard "hope this index will continue to have a variety...