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Elizabethanauthors.Org Pt 1 Elizabethan Authors, Shakespeare, Nashe, Greene, Elizabeth I, Arthur Golding, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Thomas Kyd, John Lyly, Edward de Vere, Anonymous Plays, George Chapman, Authorship Controversy, Hekatompathia, King Leir In Memory of Robert Sean Brazil Original Research Papers on Elizabethan Authorship Dedicated to the memory of Ruth L. Miller Featuring works by R. Detobel, K.C. Ligon, and more... Elizabethan Drama NEW: Anonymous No-body and Some-body Original spelling transcription of the 1606 quarto Anonymous The True Tragedie of Richard the third Modern spelling transcription of the 1594 quarto Anonymous King Leir and his three daughters Modern spelling transcription of the 1605 quarto Sources of King Lear - Geoffrey of Monmouth (Book II) King Leir Appendices - Language Studies By George Chapman Monsieur D'Olive A modern spelling transcription of the 1606 first edition Glossary and Appendices to Monsieur D'Olive By Richard Edwardes Damon and Pithias A modern spellingtranscription of the 1571 first edition Glossary and Appendices to Damon and Pithias By John Fletcher, with William Shakespeare The Two Noble Kinsmen - Modern Spelling Glossary and Appendices to The Two Noble Kinsmen !1 By Arthur Golding - Translations A Tragedie of Abraham's Sacrifice Original Spelling transcription of the 1577 first edition A Tragedie of Abraham's Sacrifice Modern Spelling Glossary and Appendices to Abraham's Sacrifice Biography and Bibliography of Arthur Golding By Robert Greene Alphonsus, King of Aragon Amodern spelling transcription of the 1599 first edition Glossary and Appendices to Alphonsus By Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy A modern spellingtranscription of the 1594-1602 editions Glossary and Appendices to The Spanish Tragedy The Tragedy of Soliman and Perseda A modern spelling transcription of the 1599 first edition Glossary and Appendices to Soliman By John Lyly Endimion - The Man in the Moone A modern spellingtranscription of the 1591 first edition Glossary and Appendices to Endimion Sapho and Phao A modern spellingtranscription of the 1584 first edition Glossary and Appendices to Sapho and Phao By Thomas Nashe Summer's Last Will and Testament A modern spelling transcription of the 1600 first edition Glossary and Appendices to Summer's Last Will By John Pikeryng HORESTES (A Newe Enterlude of Vice) Original Spelling transcription of the 1567 first edition Horestes Glossary & Appendices Anonymous Plays The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth Original Spelling transcription of the 1598 1st edition !2 Glossary and Appendices to Famous Victories The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll Original Spelling transcription of the 1600 1st edition Glossary and Appendices to Doctor Dodypoll Edmund Ironside A modern spellingtranscription of the undated manuscript A Guide to Elizabethan Drama Satire By Thomas Nashe Strange Newes - Epistle Dedicatorie - Original Spelling & Format A transcription of the 1592 first edition. 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