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Excerpt from The Two Angry Women of Abingdon
The second of these was reprinted by Dyce in 1841 for the Percy Society; the first was used by Professor Gayley of the University of California as the basis of his text of the play in Representative English Comedies Dr. Gayley's intro duction is the most important study of Porter that has yet appeared; student can afiord to neglect this critical essay, embracing as it does, all the discovered facts of Porter's life a conjectural attempt at the identity of the man, his place dramatic activities of his day, together with a discussion vexed question of the lost parts of the Abingdon triad.
Mr. J. A. Herbert, of the M anuscript Department of the British Museum after comparing this facsimile with the original copy, says that for the most part excellent: slightly too heavily printed pages are B 1 verso, B 2 recto, B 4 recto, and C 2 recto.
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