Transcriber's Note:
A few typographical errors have been corrected. They have beenmarked with popups.Conjectural readings have been underlined.
Both original texts labeled the recto (odd) pages of the first leaves ofeach signature.These will appear in the right margin as A, A2, A3...

Series Three:
Essays on the Stage


No. 4

Thomas D'Urfey, Preface to The Campaigners (1698)
and
Anonymous, Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's
Maxims and Reflections upon Plays (1699)


With an Introduction by
Joseph Wood Krutch




The Augustan Reprint Society
March, 1948
Price: $1.00


Editor's Introduction
D'Urfey, Preface to The Campaigners
  Transcriber's Footnote: "Chaucer"
Preface to the Translation of Bossuet'sMaxims...
ARS Publications

GENERAL EDITORS

Richard C. Boys, University ofMichigan
Edward Niles Hooker, University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., Universityof California, Los Angeles


ASSISTANT EDITOR

W. Earl Britton, University ofMichigan


ADVISORY EDITORS

Emmett L. Avery, State College ofWashington
Benjamin Boyce, University ofNebraska
Louis I. Bredvold, University ofMichigan
Cleanth Brooks, YaleUniversity
James L. Clifford, ColumbiaUniversity
Arthur Friedman, University ofChicago
Samuel H. Monk, University ofMinnesota
Ernest Mossner, University ofTexas
James Sutherland, Queen MaryCollege, London



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by
Edwards Brothers, Inc.
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
1948
1
Introduction
The three parts of D'Urfey's "The Comical History of DonQuixote" were performed between 1694 and (probably) the end of1696. Some of the songs included were conspicuously "smutty"--touse a word which D'Urfey ridiculed--but the fact that theplays were fresh in the public mind was probably the most effectivereason for Jeremy Collier's decision to include the notvery highly respected author among the still living playwrightsto be singled out                         
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