Regarding the Chadwyck-Healey
electronic edition of the anonymous play The Play of the Sacrament on this web
site http://phoenixandturtle.net.
"While we [Chadwyck-Healey] are very keen to encourage use of texts from Literature Online, and
pleased to see access to these rare texts being broadened, we also need to
ensure that access is restricted to authorised users of our databases. This
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publishers of the English Verse Drama database and of Literature Online. In
addition, the Early English Text Society hold the copyright for the original
1970 print edition of the Non-Cycle Plays and Fragments; we have licensed
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