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==Works== Ward's major work is his standard ''History of English Dramatic Literature to the Age of Queen Anne'' (1875),<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/A_History_of_English_Dramatic_Literature.html?id=S_dFbWNzk-0C books.google.com]</ref> re-edited after a thorough revision in three volumes in 1899. He also wrote ''The House of [[Austria]] in the [[Thirty Years' War]]'' (1869),<ref>[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027842487 ''The House of Austria in the Thirty Years' War'', archive.org]</ref> ''Great Britain and [[Hanover]]: Some Aspects of the Personal Union'' (1899),<ref>[https://archive.org/details/greatbritainhano00warduoft ''Great Britain and Hanover: Some Aspects of the Personal Union'', archive.org]</ref> and ''The [[Sophia of the Palatinate|Electress Sophia]] and the Hanoverian Succession'' (1903) (2nd ed. 1909).<ref>[https://archive.org/details/electresssophiah00wardrich ''The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession'', archive.org]</ref><ref name="EB1911"/> His ''Germany, 1815β1890'' has three volumes. Ward edited [[George Crabbe]]'s ''Poems'' (2 vols., 1905β1906) and [[Alexander Pope]]'s ''Poetical Works'' (1869); he wrote the volumes on [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] and [[Charles Dickens]] in the "[[English Men of Letters]]" series, translated [[Ernst Curtius]]'s ''History of Greece'' (5 vols., 1868β1873); with [[George Walter Prothero|G. W. Prothero]] and [[Stanley Mordaunt Leathes]] he edited the ''[[Cambridge Modern History]]'' between 1901 and 1912,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Leathes |first=Stanley |last2=Gooch |first2=G. P. |date=1924 |title=The Editorial Methods of Sir Adolphus Ward |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3020815 |journal=Cambridge Historical Journal |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=219β224 |issn=1474-6913}}</ref> and with [[Alfred Rayney Waller|A. R. Waller]] edited the ''[[The Cambridge History of English and American Literature|Cambridge History of English Literature]]'' (1907, etc.).<ref name="EB1911"/> Ward's collected papers were published in 5 volumes by Cambridge University Press in 1921.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Hutton, W. H.|author-link=William Holden Hutton|title=The Collected Papers of A. W. Ward|journal=The Quarterly Review|date=October 1922|volume=238|pages=314β326|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044092529312;view=1up;seq=338}}</ref>
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