Lectures on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth.
By: By William Hazlitt.
Contributors: Hazlitt, William, 1811-1893, ed.
Edition: 3d ed. Ed. by his son.
Publisher: J. Templeman
Published: 1840
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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 Johson, Ford, and Massinger.; title: On single plays, poems, &c., The four P's, The return from Parnassus, Grammer 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; title: 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.