[v. 1]. From the beginnings to Shakespeare. An historical view of the beginnings of English comedy / Charles Mills Gayley --
John Heywood : critical essay / Alfred W. Pollard --
Play of the wether / John Heywood --
Mery play betweene Johan Johan, Tyb, etc / John Heywood --
Nicholas Udall : critical essay / Ewald Flügel --
Roister Doister / Nicholas Udall --
Appendix on various matters / Ewald Flügel --
William Stevenson : critical essay / Henry Bradley --
Gammer Gurtons nedle / William Stevenson --
Appendix / Henry Bradley --
John Lyly : critical essay / George P. Baker --
Alexander and Campaspe / John Lyly --
George Peele : critical essay / F.B. Gummere --
The old wives' tale / George Peele --
Appendix / F.B. Gummere --
Greene's place in comedy : a monograph / G.E. Woodberry --
Robert Greene : his life and the order of his plays / Charles Mills Gayley --
Honourable historie of Frier Bacon / Robert Greene --
Appendix on Greene's versification / Charles Mills Gayley --
Henry Porter : critical essay / Charles Mills Gayley --
The two angry women of Abington / Henry Porter --
Shakespeare as a comic dramatist / Edward Dowden.
v. 2. The later contemporaries of Shakespeare : Ben Jonson and others. A comparative view of the fellows and followers of Shakespeare (part one) / Charles Mills Gayley --
Ben Jonson : critical essay / Charles H. Herford --
Every man in his humour / Ben Jonson --
Ben Jonson : Epicoene : critical essay / Charles Mills Gayley --
Epicoene, or, The silent woman / Ben Jonson --
Ben Jonson : The alchemist : critical essay / George A. Smithson --
The alchemist / Ben Jonson --
Chapman, Jonson, and Marston : Eastward hoe : critical essay / John W. Cuncliffe --
Eastward Hoe / George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston --
The merry devill of Edmonton : critical essay / John Matthews Manly --
The merry devill of Edmonton / anonymous.
v. 3. The later contemporaries of Shakespeare : Fletcher and others. A comparative view of the fellows and followers of Shakespeare (part two) / Charles Mills Gayley --
Thomas Dekker : critical essay / Alexis F. Lange --
The shoemakers holiday / Thomas Dekker --
Middleton and Rowley : The Spanish Gipsie : critical essay / The late H. Butler Clarke --
The Spanish Gipsie / Thomas Middleton and William Rowley --
John Fletcher : Rule a wife and have a wife : critical essay / George Saintsbury --
Rule a wife and have a wife / John Fletcher --
Philip Massinger : critical essay / Brander Matthews --
A new way to pay old debts / Philip Massinger --
Richard Brome : critical essay / G.P. Baker --
The antipodes / Richard Brome --
James Shirley : critical essay / Sir A.W. Ward --
The royall master / James Shirley.
v. 4. Dryden and his contemporaries : Cowley to Farquhar. Abraham Cowley : Cutter of Coleman-Street : critical essay / the late Henry A. Beers --
Cutter of Coleman-Street / Abraham Cowley --
John Dryden : The Spanish fryar : critical essay / the late Sir. A.W. Ward --
The Spanish fryar / John Dryden --
[John] Crowne's place in Restoration comedy : a monograph / the late Sir. A.W. Ward --
William Wycherley : The plain-dealer : critical essay / Herbert Ellsworth Cory --
The plain-dealer / William Wycherley --
Sir John Vanbrugh : The provok'd wife : critical essay / Alwin Thaler --
The provok'd wife / Sir John Vanbrugh --
William Congreve : The way of the world : critical essay / George Rapall Noyes --
The way of the world / William Congreve --
George Farquhar : The recruiting officer : critical essay / Tucker Brooke --
The recruiting officer / George Farquhar.