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Lectures on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

by: Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830; Hazlitt, William, 1811-1893, ed

Publication date: 1840

Topics: English drama, English literature

Publisher: London, J. Templeman

Collection: library_of_congress; americana

Contributor: The Library of Congress

Language: English

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