Early English Stages, 1300 to 1660: Volume One: 1300 to 1576 ; olume Two 1576 to 1660, Part I and Part II; Early English Stages, 1300 to 1660: Volume Three; Plays and Their Makers to 1576

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vol. 1 (1966 - reprinted with corrections - 0710022859); Volume Two, Part I (1971 - 0710022867) Volume Two, Part II (1972 - 0710071442) Volume 3 (1981 - 07100021281) A clean, unmarked and solid copy. Four volumes of a five volume set. Customers please note this is a multi volume set and will attract additional postage. "Early English Stages is a history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England. The first of two volumes appears after twelve years of research and is the first serious attempt since the publication of Sir Edmund Chambers 'The Mediaeval Stage' in 1903 to trace the indebtedness of the Elizabethan Court and Public Theatres to their antecedents in the Middle Ages. Dr Wickham has ranged far outside the usual limits of Miracle and Morality plays, and has unearthed a variety of fresh source material (much of its pictorial) which is as valuable to students of social history as to students of dramatic and other literature." (Front flap)