OF

LITERATURE AND LEARNING
IN ENGLAND.

WITH SPECIMENS OF THE PRINCIPAL WRITERS.

By GEO. L. CRAIK, M. A.

SERIES SECOND (IN TWO VOLUMES).

FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH TO
THE REVOLUTION OF 1688.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

CHARLES KNIGHT & Co., LUDGATE STREET.

1845.

Prycaring

146813

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

912

CONTENTS.

C887

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v.3-4

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