ABSTRACT
Known in his own day as the historian of the Italian Renaissance, John Addington Symonds (1940-93) would later write the introduction to the Mermaid edition of Webster and Tourneur (1888). As his seven volume 'Renaissance in Italy' (1875-86) is marked by the fluent as well as the florid, so is this earlier appreciation of Webster and his colleagues. From The English Drama during the Reigns of Elizabeth and James, 'Cornhill Magazine', XI (May 1965), pp. 604-18.
