Lectures on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth. By William Hazlitt.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781425519308
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; History - U.S.; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; United States - General; History / United States / General; History : United States - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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.