Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: May 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9781432622268
Subjects: Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: THE age of Elizabeth was distinguished, beyond, perhaps, any other in our history, by a number of great men, famous in different ways, and whose names have come down to us with unblemished honours; statesmen, warriors, divines, scholars, poets, and philosophers, Raleigh, Drake, Coke, Hooker, and higher and more sounding still, and still more frequent in our mouths, Shakspeare, Spenser, Sidney, Bacon, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, men whom fame has eternized in her long and lasting scroll, and who by their words and acts were benefactors of their country, and ornaments of human nature.