Joseph Quincy Adams Jr. (March 23, 1880 - November 10, 1946) was a prominent Shakespeare scholar and the first officially appointed director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Adams, a scion of the famous Adams family ...

A selection of plays illustrating the history of the English Drama from its origin down to Shakespeare.

This book, however, though good for its time, was written a quarter of a century ago, before most of the documents relating to early theatrical history were discovered, and it discusses only six playhouses.