Collections XVIII brings together the earliest texts of the first and last pre-Civil War plays to deal with Boccaccio's tragic story of the lovers, Gismond and Guiscardo: the Hargrave MS of Inner Temple tragedy, Gismond of Salern (1568), and the first ever printed edition of the 1620s manuscript play, Glausamond and Fidelia.

Siobhan Keenan is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at De Montfort University

Gismond of Salern (MS Hargrave 205), edited by Adam Barker, Ella Hawkins,
Margaret Sharratt, Rachel Stewart, Jan Tasker, Alexander Thom, Jennifer
Waghorn, Sara Marie Westh, and Martin Wiggins
Glausamond and Fidelia (MS CR136 B766), edited by Kirsten Inglis