Lectures on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth.

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 Johson, Ford, and Massinger.--On single plays, poems, &c., The four P's, The return from Parnassus, Grammer 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.Mode of access: Internet