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A Mermaid Series was the major collection of reprints of texts from either English Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration drama. It was published in the years in 1900 per London business firm of T. Fisher Unwin, with many well-known literary figures editing or introducing the texts. A few of a plays published got non been reprinted around recent editions, & virtually all experienced dropped away from the stage repertoire.
A title alludes to the Mermaid Tavern in London. There has been the late New Mermaid Series.
The Best Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher
Notes by John St. Loe Strachey, two volumes
The Maid's Tragedy - Philaster - The Wild-Goose Chase - Thierry and Theodoret - The Knight of the Burning Pestle - King and No King - Bonduca - The Spanish Curate - The Faithful Shepherdess - Valentinian
The Best Plays of George Chapman
Emended by William Lyon Phelps
All Fools - Bussy D'Ambois - The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois - The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron - The Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron
The Complete Plays of William Congreve
Emended by Alexander C. Ewald
The Old Bachelor - The Double-Dealer - Love for Love - The Way of the World - The Mourning Bride
The Best Plays of Thomas Dekker
Notes by Ernest Rhys
The Shoemaker's Holiday - The Honest Whore - Old Fortunatus - The Witch of Edmonton
The Best Plays of John Dryden
Emended by George Saintsbury, two volumes
Almanzor and Almahide - Marriage A La Mode - Aureng-Zebe - All for Love - The Spanish Friar - Albion and Albanius - Don Sebastian
The Best Plays of George Farquhar
Emended by William Archer
The Constant Couple - The Twin-Rivals - The Recruiting Officer - The Beaux' Stratagem
The Best Plays of John Ford
Emended by Havelock Ellis
The Lover's Melancholy - 'Tis Pity She's a Whore - The Broken Heart - Love's Sacrifice - Perkin Warbeck
The Complete Plays of Robert Greene
Emended by Thomas H. Dickinson
The Best Plays of Thomas Heywood
Emended by A. Wilson Verity, introduction by John Addington Symonds
A Woman Killed with Kindness - The Fair Maid of the West - The English Traveller - The Wise Woman of Hogsdon - The Rape of Lucrece
The Best Plays of Ben Jonson
Notes by Brinsley Nicholson and C. H. Herford, three volumes
(Volume I personally) Every Man in His Humour - Every Man out of His Humour - The Poetaster
The Best Plays of Christopher Marlowe
Notes by Havelock Ellis, series introduction by John Addington Symonds
The Best Plays of Philip Massinger
Notes by Arthur Symons, two volumes
The Duke of Milan - A New Way to Pay Old Debts - The Great Duke of Florence - The Maid of Honour - The City Madam - The Roman Actor - The Fatal Dowry - The Guardian - The Virgin-Martyr - Believe As You List
The Best Plays of Thomas Middleton
Introduction by Algernon Charles Swinburne, with Havelock Ellis, two volumes
(Volume We) A Trick to Catch the Old One - The Changeling - A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - Women Beware Women - The Spanish Gypsy
Nero and Other Plays (1888)
Emended by H. P. Horne, A. W. Verity, Arthur Symons and Havelock Ellis
Nero - The Two Angry Women of Abington - The Parliament of Bees (John Day) - Humour Out of Breath - Woman is a Weathercock (Nathaniel Field)- Amends for Ladies
The Best Plays of Thomas Otway
Notes by Roden Noel
Don Carlos, Prince of Spain - The Orphan - The Soldier's Fortune - Venice Preserved
The Best Plays of Thomas Shadwell
Emended by George Saintsbury
The Sullen Lovers - A True Widow - The Squire of Alsatia - Bury Fair
The Best Plays of James Shirley
Introduction by Edmund Gosse
The Witty Fair One - The Traitor - Hyde Park - The Lady of Pleasure - The Cardinal - The Triumph of Peace
The Complete Plays of Richard Steele
Emended by G. A. Aitken
The Funeral - The Lying Lover - The Tender Husband - The Conscious Lovers - The School of Action - The Gentleman
The Select Plays of Sir John Vanbrugh
Emended by A. E. H. Swain
The Relapse - The Provok'd Wife - The Confederacy - A Journey to London
The Best Plays of Webster and Tourneur
Notes by John Addington Symonds
The White Devil - The Duchess of Malfi - The Atheist's Tragedy - The Revenger's Tragedy
The Complete Plays of William Wycherley
Emended by W. C. Ward
Love in a Wood - The Gentleman Dancing Master - The Country Wife - The Plain Dealer
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