The Mirror for Magistrates

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THE MIRROR for MAGISTRATES. Originally published in New York 1873. INTRODUCTION: SINCE the publication of Wartons History of English Poetry, 1 some account of the Mirror for Magistrates has been included in almost every history of English literature. 2 Bibliographers have recognized as intriguing the complex history of its printing. 3 Sackvilles induction has been decreed the best poem in English between Chaucer and Spenser and is duly incorporated in anthologies of the period. Historians of the drama have from time to time noted that the work contains tragedies which in the reign of Elizabeth were remade in dramatic form...