FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH TO

THE REVOLUTION OF 1688.

LONDON:
CHARLES KNIGHT & Co., LUDGATE STREET.

1845.

London :-Printed by WILLIAM Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street.

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CONTENTS.

BOOK V.

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The Elizabethan Literature

The Mirror for Magistrates

Origin of the Regular Drama

Interludes of John Heywood

Udall's Ralph Roister Doister

Gammer Gurton's Needle

Misogonus

Chronicle Histories.—Bale's Kynge Johan, etc.

Tragedy of Gorboduc.---Blank Verse

Other early Dramas

Second Stage of the Regular Drama : Peele; Greene .

Marlow

Lyly--Kyd-Lodge.

Earlier Elizabethan Prose :—Lyly-Sidney-Spenser

- Nash-Harvey

English Hexameter Verse

Edmund Spenser

Minor Elizabethan Poetry

Warner

Daniel

Drayton

Sylvester

Chapman

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