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.

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

CONTENT S.

BOOK V.

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