Lectures on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth
By: William Hazlitt
Publisher: Derby & Jackson
Published: 1859
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: English drama; History and criticism; English literature
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Table of contents: title: Introductory. General view of the subject.; title: On the dramatic writers contemporary with Shakespeare, Lyly, Marlowe, Heywood, Middleton, and Rowley.; title: On Marston, Chapman, Decker and Webster.; title: On Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Ford, and Massinger.; title: On single plays, poems, &c., the four P's, the return from Parnassus, Gammer Gurton's Needle, and other works.; title: On miscellaneous poems, F. Beaumont, P. Fletcher, Drayton, Daniel, &c., Sir P. Sidney's Arcadia, and sonnets.; title: Character of Lord Bacon's works - compared as to style with Sir Thomas Brown and Jeremy Taylor.; title: On the spirit of ancient and modern literature - on the German drama, contrasted with that of the age of Elizabeth.