Lectures on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth
Criticism, interpretation, etc
229 pages ; 19 cm
6675721
Introductory. General view of the subject
On the dramatic writers contemporary with Shakespeare, Lyly, Marlowe, Heywood, Middleton, and Rowley
On Marston, Chapman, Decker and Webster
On Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Ford, and Massinger
On single plays, poems, &c., the four P's, the return from Parnassus, Gammer Gurton's Needle, and other works
On miscellaneous poems, F. Beaumont, P. Fletcher, Drayton, Daniel, &c., Sir P. Sidney's Arcadia, and sonnets
Character of Lord Bacon's works
compared as to style with Sir Thomas Brown and Jeremy Taylor
On the spirit of ancient and modern literature
on the German drama, contrasted with that of the age of Elizabeth