CHAPTER III-RELIGION AND LETTERS FROM

THE AGE OF CHAUCER DOWN TO 1611

John Wyclif—Piers Plowman-William Langland-

William Tyndale John Foxe The English Prayer

Book The Metrical Psalms-The Authorised Ver-

sion of the Bible

CHAPTER IV-THE RISE OF THE DRAMA

Religion and the drama-Church festivals and morali-

ties-The church, the market-place, the banquet-

hall-Heywood's interludes-Gorboduc-Senecan

CHAPTER V-PRE-SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA

Actors and theatres-Lyly-Greene-Peele-Kyd-

Marlowe Tamburlaine-Faustus-Edward II.-Ar-

den of Feversham

CHAPTER VI-SPENSER AND HIS SCHOOL

Rhyme or clssical metres-Gabriel Harvey-Edward

Dyer Two great metrical innovations-Edmund

Spenser-The Shepheards Calendar-The Faerie

Queene-Giles and Phineas Fletcher-Daniel-

Drayton .

CHAPTER VII-SONNETEERS,

SONG-WRITERS,

AND MINOR VERSIFIERS

Sir Philip Sidney-The fashion of sonneteering-Eliza-

bethan lyrics and music-Lyly, Nash, Greene, Lodge,

and Breton-Campion-Barnfield-Browne-Wotton

CHAPTER VIII-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Life at Stratford-The player-Early poems-First-

fruits-The flowering period-Shakespeare and

Scott-Пamlet and the great tragedies-Later years

-Bibliographical summaries

PAGE

109

131

144

171

198

211

CHAPTER IX-THE LATER CONTEMPORARIES

AND SUCCESSORS OF SHAKESPEARE

Beaumont and Fletcher-Ben Jonson-Volpone-The

Alchemist-Jonson's later comedies-Chapman-

Marston-Dekker-Middleton-Heywood-Webster-

Tourneur-Ford-Massinger-Shirley.

CHAPTER

CHAPTER

PROSE.-I

John Lyly-Sidney's Arcadia-Greene-Dekker-Nash

-Nicholas Breton-Hall-Overbury—Earle-James

I.-Bacon

X-ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN

PROSE.-II

Timber

XI-ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN

Raleigh-Stow-Holinshed-Speed-Camden-Knolles

-Memoirs and Diaries-Manningham-Sir Symonds

D'Ewes-Naunton-Moryson-Hakluyt-Elizabethan

criticism-Gosson-Sidney's Defense and Jonson's

BOOK III

THE COUNTER-RENAISSANCE

CHAPTER I-FOUR GREAT PROSE WRITERS

Robert Burton-Thomas Fuller-Sir Thomas Browne

-Jeremy Taylor

CHAPTER II-JACOBEAN AND CAROLINE POETS

Donne and Drummond-The Caroline Lyrists: Carew,

Lovelace, Herrick, Sir John Suckling

CHAPTER III-RELIGIOUS POETRY

Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan-Wither and Quarles

-Habington, Pordage, and Traherne

PAGE

257

297

322

342

357

377

CHAPTER IV-DIVINITY AND LEARNING FROM

HOOKER TO SELDEN

An age of ecclesiastical controversy-Richard Hooker

-The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity-Archbishop

Ussher-Sir Henry Savile John Selden-Sir Henry

Wotton-The " ever-memorable" John Hales-Wil-

liam Chillingworth-Francis Godwin

CHAPTER V—IZAAK WALTON: OCCASIONAL AND

MINOR PROSE OF THE AGE OF MILTON

James Howell-Harrington-Wilkins-Digby-Heylyn

-Dugdale-Sir Thomas Herbert

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386

399

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

CAXTON'S PRESS IN THE ALMONRY, WESTMINSTER

THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS

From the Painting by T. Stothart, R. A.

Stothart,

EDMUND SPENSER

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Chandos Portrait

MALVOLIO AND THE COUNTESS .

From the Painting by Daniel Maclise, R. A.

66

THE PLAY SCENE IN HAMLET

From the Painting by Daniel Maclise, R. A.

FRANCIS BACON