New Mermaids is a series of critical editions of important English plays.
They were published from the early 1960s by Ernest Benn Limited[1] and later by A & C Black.
They feature lengthy introductions and annotated texts in modern spellings.
Originally, the cover art for the volumes featured drawings of theatres of an appropriate era by C. Walter Hodges.
The New Mermaids was the successor to the earlier Mermaid Series, a major collection of reprints of texts from English Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration drama.