Great plays by English dramatists. Contents: Edward the Second/Christopher Marlowe--The alchemist/Ben Jonson--The faithfull shepherdess/John Fletcher--The school for scandal/Richard Brinsley Sheridan--Brutus, or The fall of Tarquin/John Howard Payne--A blot in the 'scutcheon/Robert Browning.

A story written in play form has its origins in a traditional poem and is presented in its original printing which includes twenty-three illustrations from one of the best-loved and most enduring artists of the twentieth century, Maxfield Parrish.

A pageant written and produced by E. W. Hickman and Roy Minet in commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the drilling of the first oil well, Titusville, Pennsylvania, August 27, 1859, fair grounds, August 24th and 25th, 1934, eight p.m. Canadohta Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the General Committee, Diamond Jubilee of Oil, sponsors for the printing of the text of the pageant.