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The Shakespeare Glossary
Below is a glossary of old and unusual words used in Shakespeare's plays. I am currently working on a glossary and annotations for each play. The glossary for Macbeth can be found here.
Below is a list of a few of the words Shakespeare coined, hyperlinked to the play and scene from which it comes. When the word appears in multiple plays, the link will take you to the play in which it first appears.
Absolute Shakespeare, the essential resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre.
William Shakespeare: Shakespeare is renowned as the English playwright and poet whose body of works is considered the greatest in history of English literature.
Shakespeare Plays: All the plays from 'All's Well That Ends Well' to 'Twelfth Night' in the complete original texts with summaries. Divided into comedies, histories and tragedies.
Sonnets: All of the Bard's 154 sonnets including the much acclaimed sonnet 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day..."
Pictures: Engraving of paintings of William Shakespeare and those inspired by his famous plays. Indexed by play and accompanied by the text inspiring the painting.
Bard Facts: Trivia about the world's most famous bard from words coined by the bard to his marriage.
Biography: Everything you would ever want to know about the immortal Bard's life and more.
Authorship Debate: The controversial debate on who really wrote the complete works continues to rages unabated to this very day.
Quiz: Test your knowledge of the bard by taking our gruelling quiz, answers included.
Summaries: Shakespeare summaries provide a quick and easy guide to Shakespeare's most famous plays. Divided by act, the summaries make an ideal introduction.
Poems: The complete collection of the Bard's poetry in the original text including A lover's complaint and Venus and Adonis.
Quotes: Over 130 of the most famous quotes from the Bard's complete works indexed by play.
Globe Theatre: The story of how the Bard created one of the greatest theatres of all time, the playhouse is also where he first performed many of his greatest plays.
Films: The ultimate list of all film adaptations of the complete works, there are well over 250 movies to date.
Bibliography: The complete list of the plays, poems and sonnets attributed as written by the Bard.
Timeline: Describes the many chapters in the immortal Bard's colorful life from birth, his disappearance, marriage, his death and ending in the printing of the First Folio in 1623.
Study Guides: Hamlet | Julius Caesar | King Henry IV | King Lear | Macbeth | Merchant of Venice | Othello | Romeo and Juliet | The Tempest | Twelfth Night
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"Alice in Wonderland syndrome" ("AIWS"), or "micropsia", is a disorienting neurological condition which affects perception by the human eye.
Sufferers perceive objects (including animals and other humans, or parts of humans, animals, or objects) as appearing substantially smaller than in reality. Generally, the object appears far away at the same time. For example, a family pet, such as a dog, may appear the size of a mouse, or a normal car may look shrunk to scale.
This leads to another name for the condition, namely, "Lilliput sight". The condition is in terms of perception only; the mechanics of the eye are not affected, only the brain's interpretation of information passed from the eyes.
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The disorder is named after Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", where the title character experiences many situations similar to those of micropsia and macropsia. Since it is known that Carroll suffered from migraines, there is some speculation that he might have written that work from direct experience.
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The 1914 Oxford edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare ranks among the most authoritative published this century. The 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse constitute the literary cornerstone of Western civilization.
CONTENTS
Bibliographic Record
LONDON: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1914
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2000
Plays
The Tempest
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Measure for Measure
The Comedy of Errors
Much Ado about Nothing
Love’s Labour’s Lost
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream
The Merchant of Venice
As You Like It
The Taming of the Shrew
All’s Well that Ends Well
Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will
The Winter’s Tale
The Life and Death of King John
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth
The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
The Life of King Henry the Fifth
First Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
Chapter I. The Beginnings - By A. R. WALLER, M.A., Peterhouse
Characteristics of the earliest Poetry | The Gleemen | Theodore and Hadrian | National Strife | BIBLIOGRAPHY
II. Runes and Manuscripts - By A. C. PAUES, Ph.D., Upsala, Newnham College
The National Germanic Alphabet | Runes in Scandinavian and Old English Literature | The Ruthwell Cross | The Franks Casket | The Roman Alphabet | The Irish School of Writing | Tablets, parchment, vellum, paper, pens, ink, and binding | Scribes and scriptoria | BIBLIOGRAPHY
III. Early National Poetry - By H. MUNRO CHADWICK, M.A., Fellow of Clare College
Early National Poems the work of Minstrels | Teutonic Epic Poetry | Beowulf: Scandinavian Traditions; Personality of the Hero; Origin and Antiquity of the Poem; the Religious Element | Finnsburh | The Waldhere Fragments | Widsith | Deor | The Wanderer | The Seafarer | The Wife’s Complaint | The Husband’s Message | The Ruin | Religious Poetry of Heathen Times | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IV. Old English Christian Poetry - By M. BENTINCK SMITH, M.A., Headmistress of St. Leonard’s School, St. Andrews
Celtic Christianity | Changes wrought by the New Spirit | Caedmon’s Hymn | Genesis, Exodus, Daniel | Crist and Satan | Cynewulf: His Personality | Crist, Juliana, The Fates of the Apostles, Elene | Andreas | The Dream of the Rood | Guthlac, The Phoenix, Physiologus, Riddles | Minor Christian Poems | The Riming Poem, Proverbs, The Runic Poem, Salomon and Saturn | The Schools of Caedmon and Cynewulf | BIBLIOGRAPHY
V. Latin Writings in England to the Time of Alfred - By MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES, Litt.D., Provost of King’s College
Gildas and The History of the Britons | “Hisperic” Latin | Nennius and Historia Brittonum | The Roman Mission to Kent and its results | Aldhelm and his School | Bede’s Ecclesiastical History | Bede’s Letter to Egbert of York | Alcuin | Lives of Saints; Visions; Minor writings | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VI. Alfred and the Old English Prose of his Reign - By P. G. THOMAS, M.A., Professor of English Language and Literature at Bedford College, University of London
Asser’s Life of Alfred | The Handbook and Pastoral Care | Translations of Orosius and Bede | Codes of Law | De Consolatione Philosophiae | The metres in Alfred’s Boethius | Augustine’s Soliloquies | The Chronicle | Gregory’s Dialogues | Works attributed to Alfred | His Literary Achievement | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VII. From Alfred to the Conquest - By JOHN S. WESTLAKE, M.A., Trinity College
The Chronicle | The Monastic Reform | Blickling Homilies | The Works of Aelfric | Wulfstan | Byrhtferth | Lindisfarne, Rushworth, and West Saxon Glosses | Legends of the Holy Rood | Legends of the East | Quasi-scientific works | The Ballads and Poems in The Chronicle | Judith | The Battle of Maldon or Byrhtnoth’s Death | Menologium | Be Domes Daege | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VIII. The Norman Conquest - By A. R. WALLER
Dunstan | The Coming Change | The Wisdom of the East | Lanfranc | Anselm | Norman Gifts | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IX. Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries - By W. LEWIS JONES, M.A., Professor of English Language and Literature at the University College of North Wales
England and Normandy | Characteristics of the Chroniclers | The Northumbrian School of English Medieval History; Simeon of Durham | Florence of Worcester | Eadmer and Ordericus Vitalis | William of Malmesbury | Henry of Huntingdon | Gesta Stephani | Geoffrey of Monmouth | William of Newburgh | Benedict of Peterborough | Richard Fitz-Neale | Roger of Hoveden | Ralph of Diceto | Richard of Devizes | Jocelin of Brakelond | Giraldus Cambrensis | Walter Map | Matthew Paris | Minor Chroniclers | BIBLIOGRAPHY
X. English Scholars of Paris and Franciscans of Oxford - LATIN LITERATURE OF ENGLAND FROM JOHN OF SALISBURY TO RICHARD OF BURY - By J. E. SANDYS, Litt.D., Fellow of St. John’s College and Public Orator of the University of Cambridge
The University of Paris | English Scholars of Paris: John of Salisbury | Peter of Blois | Walter Map | Other Writers of Latin | Gervase | Nigel Wireker | Jean de Hauteville; Alain de Lille | Geoffrey de Vinsauf; Alexander Neckam | Joannes de Garlandia | Giraldus Cambrensis | Michael Scot | Franciscans and Dominicans | Franciscans of Oxford | Alexander of Hales | Robert Grosseteste and the Franciscans | Adam Marsh | Roger Bacon | Duns Scotus | William of Ockham | Walter Burleigh | Scholars of Oxford: John Baconthorpe | Thomas Bradwardine | Richard of Bury | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XI. Early Transition English - By J. W. H. ATKINS, M.A., Professor of English Language and Literature at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Fellow of St. John’s College
The Proverbs of Alfred | Poema Morale | Literary Revolt of the 13th Century | Ormulum | Genesis and Exodus | Hortatory Verse and Prose | The Bestiary; An Bispel; Sawles Warde | Hali Meidenhad; Lives of the Saints | Ancren Riwle | The Virgin Cult and Erotic Mysticism | The Luve Ron | Layamon’s Brut | The Owl and Nightingale | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XII. The Arthurian Legend - By W. LEWIS JONES, M.A., Professor of English Language and Literature at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, formerly Scholar of Queens’ College
Early Welsh Tradition | Nennius and Gildas | Early Welsh Poetry | The Mabinogion | Kulhwch and Olwen | Geoffrey of Monmouth | Caradoc of Llancarvan | The French Romances | Wace | Layamon | Subsidiary Legends | Merlin | Gawain | Lancelot and Guinevere | The Holy Grail | Tristram and Iseult | Celtic Literature | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIII. Metrical Romances, 1200–1500: I - By W. P. KER, M.A., Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Professor of English Literature, University College, London
French Influences | Benoit de Ste. More and Chrétien de Troyes | Translators’ difficulties | History of the English Romances | Matter and Form | The “matter of France,” “of Britain,” and “of Rome” | Sources and Subjects | Forms of Verse | Traditional Plots | Breton Lays | Fairy Tales | Sir Gawayne and Sir Tristrem | The Tale of Gamelyn and The Tale of Beryn | Relation of Romances to Ballads | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIV. Metrical Romances, 1200–1500: II - By J. W. H. ATKINS
The Carolingian Element | English Romances: Havelok, Horn, Guy of Warwick, Beves of Hamtoun | The literature of Antiquity: Troy, King Alisaunder, Richard Cœur de Lion | Oriental Fable: Flores and Blancheflour, The Seven Sages of Rome | Celtic Romances | The Gawain Cycle | Ipomedon, Amis and Amiloun, Sir Cleges, Sir Isumbras, The Squire of Low Degree | William of Palerne, etc. | Anonymity of the work embodied in the Romances | Qualities and Defects | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XV. “Pearl,” “Cleanness,” “Patience” and “Sir Gawayne” - By I. GOLLANCZ, Litt.D., Christ’s College, Professor of English Language and Literature, King’s College, London, Secretary of the British Academy
Sources and Metre of Pearl | Cleanness and Patience | Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight | Sources of Sir Gawayne | The Question of Authorship | Hypothetical Biography of the Poet | Ralph Strode | Huchoun of the Awle Ryale | Erkenwald, etc. | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XVI. Later Transition English - LEGENDARIES AND CHRONICLERS - By CLARA L. THOMSON
Robert of Gloucester | Thomas Bek | The South English Legendary | Northern Homilies and Legends | The Northern Psalter | Cursor Mundi | Robert Mannyng of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne | Characteristics of Mannyng’s style | Mannyng’s Debt to Wadington | Mannyng’s Chronicle | The Medytacyuns | William of Shoreham | The Ayenbite of Inwyt | Adam Davy | Laurence Minot | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XVII. Later Transition English - SECULAR LYRICS; TALES; SOCIAL SATIRE (Further chapters on Fugitive Social Literature of the 14th and 15th centuries will be found in Vol. II.) - By A. R. WALLER
Middle English Lyrics | The Proverbs of Hendyng | The Deeds of Hereward | The Land of Cokaygne | Dame Siriz | The Fox and the Wolf | The Turnament of Totenham | The Tale of Gamelyn | Gesta Romanorum; John de Bromyarde; The Childhood of Jesus | Political verses | Songs of the Soil | John Ball | The Black Death | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XVIII. The Prosody of Old and Middle English - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
Old English Verse | The Transition | Foreign Influence | The Alliterative Revival | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIX. Changes in the Language to the Days of Chaucer - By HENRY BRADLEY, M.A., (Oxon.)
Continuity of the English Language | “English” and “Saxon”; Periods of English | Changes in Grammar | Old English Grammar; Changes in Declension | Conjugation in Middle English | Influence of the Norman Conquest | Pronunciation and Spelling | Middle English Spelling | Development of Sounds | Changes in Vocabulary | Words adopted from French | Scandinavian Words in English | Loss of Native Words | The Poetical Vocabulary | English Dialects in the Fourteenth Century | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XX. The Anglo-French Law Language - By the late F. W. MAITLAND, LL.D., Downing Professor of the Laws of England. (By permission of the Council of the Selden Society.)
Retention of French in the Courts and the Making of Legal Terms
Chapter I. “Piers the Plowman” and its Sequence - By JOHN MATTHEWS MANLY, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of English Literature in the University of Chicago
The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman | Form of the Poems | Theories concerning Authorship; The Three Texts | The Crowd in the Valley | The Tower of Truth | Holy Church | The Court at Westminster | Meed | Reason | The First Vision | The Second Vision | The Way to Truth | Piers and his Pilgrims at Work | Piers’s Pardon | The Scene in the Ale-house | The Third Vision | The Search for Do-well, Do-better and Do-best | John But | B-text | B’s Continuation of the Poems | The Merits of B’s Work | The Author of the C-text | Conclusion assumed that the Poems are Not the Work of a Single Author; Differences in the Three Texts | Parallel Passages | William Langland | John But | Mum, Sothsegger | Wynnere and Wastoure; The Parlement of the Thre Ages | Letters of the Insurgents of 1381 | Peres the Ploughmans Crede | The Ploughman’s Tale | Jacke Upland | The Crowned King | Death and Liffe | The Scotish Feilde | The Fourteenth Century | BIBLIOGRAPHY
II. Religious Movements in the Fourteenth Century - RICHARD ROLLE. WYCLIF. THE LOLLARDS - By the Rev. J. P. WHITNEY, B.D., King’s College
Richard Rolle of Hamploe | Rolle’s Mysticism | William Nassyngton; Rolle and Religion | The Pricke of Conscience | Wyclif’s Early Life | Wyclif and Scholasticism | Wyclif’s Earlier Writings | Attack on Wyclif | The Papal Schism | The Poor Priests | The Bible in English | Nicholas Hereford and John Purvey | Wyclif and Popular Movements | Wyclif’s Views on the Eucharist | Wyclif’s Later Works | Wyclif’s Later Life | The Lollards; Wyclif’s Personality | BIBLIOGRAPHY
III. The Beginnings of English Prose - TREVISA. THE MANDEVILLE TRANSLATORS - By ALICE D. GREENWOOD
Early English Prose | Early Translations | John Trevisa | Polychronicon | Bartholomaeus | The Travels of Sir John Mandeville | Jean d’Outremeuse | Mandeville Manuscripts | Mandeville’s Style | Mandeville’s Detail | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IV. The Scottish Language - EARLY AND MIDDLE SCOTS - By G. GREGORY SMITH, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford, Professor of English Literature in Queen’s College, Belfast
“Scots” and “Ynglis” | Early Scots | Middle Scots | Southern Influence on Middle Scots | Latin and French Elements in Middle Scots | Alleged Celtic Contribution | BIBLIOGRAPHY
V. The Earliest Scottish Literature - BARBOUR, BLIND HARRY, HUCHOUN, WYNTOUN, HOLLAND - By PETER GILES, M.A., Hon. LL.D., Aberdeen, Follow of Emmanuel College and Reader in Comparative Philology
Early Fragments | John Barbour; The Bruce | Blind Harry’s Wallace | Holland’s Howlat | Huchoun of the Awle Ryale | Morte Arthure | The Epistill of Suete Susane | The Awntyrs of Arthure | Golagros and Gawane | Rauf Coil\??\ear | Colkelbie’s Sow | Lives of the Saints | Gray’s Scalacronica | Fordun and Bower’s Scotichronicon | Andrew of Wyntoun’s Orygynale Cronykil | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VI. John Gower - By G. C. MACAULAY, M.A., Trinity College, Lecturer in English
His Life | His Political Opinions | His Literary Work | The French Speculum Meditantis (Mirour de l’Omme) | The Latin Vox Clamantis | The English Confessio Amantis | His Latest Works | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VII. Chaucer - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
Chaucer’s Life | Canon of Works | Early Editions | Tyrwhitt’s Recension | Later Rearrangements | The Romaunt of the Rose | Early Poems | Troilus and Criseyde | The House of Fame | The Legend of Good Women | The Canterbury Tales | Prose; The Astrolabe | Boethius | Minor Verse | Chaucer’s Learning | His Humour | His Poetical Quality | The Tale of Gamelyn | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VIII. The English Chaucerians - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A.
Lydgate | Occleve | Burgh | George Ashby | Henry Bradshaw | George Ripley | Thomas Norton | Osbern Bokenam | The Chaucerian Apocrypha | The Tale of Beryn or The Second Merchant’s Tale | La Belle Dame sans Merci | The Cuckoo and the Nightingale | The Assembly of Ladies | The Flower and Leaf | The Court of Love | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IX. Stephen Hawes - By WILLIAM MURISON, M.A., Aberdeen
The Passetyme of Pleasure | The Conversion of Swearers | A Joyful Meditation to all England of the Coronation of Henry the Eighth | The Example of Virtue | Hawes’s Learning and Models | His Medievalism | His Relation to Spenser | His Metre | BIBLIOGRAPHY
X. The Scottish Chaucerians - By G. GREGORY SMITH, M.A.
James I | The Kingis Quair | The Influence of Chaucer | Robert Henryson | The Morall Fabillis of Esope | The Testament of Cresseid | Henryson’s Shorter Poems | William Dunbar | His Allegories | The Grotesque in Dunbar | His Prosodic Range | Gavin Douglas | The Palice of Honour | King Hart | The Aenied | Douglas’s Medievalism | Walter Kennedy | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XI. The Middle Scots Anthologies: Anonymous Verse and Early Prose - By G. GREGORY SMITH, M.A.
Early Anthologists | The Native Elements | Peblis to the Play; Christis Kirk on the Greene | Sym and his Brudir | The Wyf of Auchtirmuchty | The Wowing of Jok and Jynny | Gyre Carling | King Berdok | Burlesque Poems | Convivial Verse | Fabliaux | Historical and Patriotic Verse | Love Poetry; Tayis Bank | The Murning Maiden | Didactic and Religious Verse | Early Scottish Prose | Sir Gilbert Hay | Nisbet’s Version of Purvey | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XII. English Prose in the Fifteenth Century, I - PECOCK. FORTESCUE. THE PASTON LETTERS - By ALICE D. GREENWOOD
The Master of Game | John Capgrave | Reginald Pecock | The Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of Clergy; The Repressor and the Lollards | Pecock’s Minor Works | His Style and Vocabulary | Sir John Fortescue | Walter Hylton | Juliana of Norwich | Gesta Romanorum | Secreta Secretorum | William Gregory’s Note-book | The Paston Letters | Copyists and Booksellers | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIII. The Introduction of Printing into England and the Early Work of the Press - By E. GORDON DUFF, M.A., Oxon., sometime Sandars Reader in Bibliography in the University of Cambridge
The First Products of the New Art | William Caxton | The First Book printed in English—The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy | The First Dated Book issued in England—The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers | The Golden Legend | Malory’s Morte d’Arthur | Caxton’s Views on the English Language | Provincial Presses | The Book of St. Albans | William de Machlinia | English Books printed Abroad | Arnold’s Chronicle | Richard Pynson | Berners’s Froissart | Wynkyn de Worde | Minor Printers | Antoine Verard and John of Doesborch | The Book Trade | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIV. English Prose in the Fifteenth Century, II - CAXTON. MALORY. BERNERS - By ALICE D. GREENWOOD
Caxton as Editor | The Golden Legend | Malory’s Morte d’Arthur | Style of the Morte d’Arthur | Sir John Bourchier, Lord Berners | The Chronicles of Froissart | Huon of Bordeaux | The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XV. English and Scottish Education. Universities and Public Schools to the Time of Colet - By the Rev. T. A. WALKER, M.A., LL.D., Fellow of Peterhouse
Paris and Oxford | Beginnings of Oxford and Cambridge | Town and Gown | University and Bishop | The Coming of the Friars | The Schoolmen | The Fall of the Friars | Poor Students | Walter de Merton | Hugo de Balsham | The Beginnings of the Colleges; The Black Death | William of Wykeham, Winchester and New College | Henry VI, Eton and King’s College | Queen Margaret | Medieval Studies; The Grammer School | University Studies; The Higher Faculties | Peterhouse Library and Catalogue; The Library of the Medieval Student | The Education of a Young Scholar in the Middle Ages | The Hour before the Renascence | St. Andrews University | Glasgow and Aberdeen | Scottish University Studies | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XVI. Transition English Song Collections - By FREDERICK MORGAN PADELFORD, Ph.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature in the University of Washington
Characteristics of Folk-poetry | Minstrels’ Songs | Carols, Sacred and Secular | Spiritual Lullabies | Didactic Songs | Satires against Women | Drinking Songs | Love Songs | Pre-Christian Festivals and May Poems | Miscellaneous Songs | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XVII. Ballads - By FRANCIS B. GUMMERE, Ph.D., Professor of English in Haverford College
Definition of the Subject | The Canute Song | Outlaw Ballads and Political Songs | The Ballad Question | Tradition | Robin Hood | Babylon | The Maid Freed from the Gallows; The Making of Ballads; General Outlines of Ballad Progress | Sources of Ballads | Riddle Ballads | The Epic Tendency | Balladry in Rags | Ballads of Domestic Tragedy; Child Waters | Funeral ballads | The Historical Ballad | The Greenwood | Sources and Aesthetic Values of Ballads as a Whole | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XVIII. Political and Religious Verse to the Close of the Fifteenth Century—Final Words - By A. R. WALLER, M.A., Peterhouse
Anglo-Norman Writings | L’Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal | The Vows of the Heron | The Lollards | The Libel of English Policy | Jack Napes’ Soul | Lyrics and Carols; The Religious Plays | Didactic Literature | Robin Hood | The Fifteenth Century | BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chapter I. Englishmen and the Classical Renascence - By the Rev. T. M. LINDSAY, D.D., Principal of the Glasgow College of the United Free Church of Scotland
The birth of the classical renascence | Erasmus | His first visit to England | Thomas Linacre | William Grocyn | English students at Paris | John Colet | William Lily | John Fisher | Sir Thomas More | The spread of the classical renascence | Sir Thomas Elyot | Thomas Wilson | BIBLIOGRAPHY
II. Reformation Literature in England - By the Rev. J. P. WHITNEY, B.D., King’s College, Cambridge; Professor of Ecclesiastical History, King’s College, London
Simon Fish | Erasmus and Cambridge | Aspects of the reformation | The Book of Common Prayer | Evolution of the prayer-book | Thomas Cranmer | His influence | The Homilies | Hugh Latimer | His sermons | William Tindale | The Bible in English | Miles Coverdale | The Great Bible | The Scots New Testament | Hymns | Sternhold and Hopkins | Results of the reformation period | BIBLIOGRAPHY
III. The Dissolution of the Religious Houses - By the Rev. R. H. BENSON, M.A., Trinity College
Destruction of books and of opportunities for study | Decrease of scholarship | New methods of thought | New channels of intercourse | Antiquarian study | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IV. Barclay and Skelton - EARLY GERMAN IINFLUENCES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE - By ARTHUR KOELBING, Ph.D., Freiburg im Breisgau
Alexander Barclay | Sebastian Brant’s Narrenschiff | Barclay’s additions to Brant | The influence of The Ship of Fools | Barclay’s Eclogues | John Skelton | Phyllyp Sparowe | The Bowge of Courte | Colyn Clout | Speke, Parrot | Why come ye nat to courte? | Magnyfycence | Characteristics of Skelton | German influence on English literature | English protestant dialogues | Grobianus | BIBLIOGRAPHY
V. The Progress of Social Literature in Tudor Times - By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M.A., Peterhouse, Professor of Latin in Trinity College, Toronto
Cocke Lorell’s bote | Mock testaments | Fraternities, orders and dances of death | The boke of Mayd Emlyn | Widow Edith | Satires and disquisitions on women | The Schole-house of women | The Proude Wyves Paternoster | Jest-books | Transition of society | The Complaynt of Roderyck Mors | Robert Crowley | The Hye Way to the Spyttel Hous | Awdeley’s Fraternitye of vacabones | Harman’s Caveat | Cosmopolitanism | Andrew Boorde | William Bullein | A Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence | Superstition in the sixteenth century | Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VI. Sir David Lyndsay (and the Later Scottish “Makaris”) - By T. F. HENDERSON
The Dreme | The Testament and Complaynt of our Soverane Lordis Papyngo | Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis | Minor poets | Sir Richard Maitland | Alexander Scott | Alexander Montgomerie | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VII. Reformation and Renascence in Scotland - By P. HUME BROWN, M.A., LL.D., Scottish Historiographer Royal; Professor of Ancient (Scottish) History and Palaeography in the University of Edinburgh
The reformation in Scotland | Patrick Hamilton | Alexander Alane | Plays | The Gude and Godlie Ballatis | John Knox | Historie of the reformation in Scotland | Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie | The Diary of Mr. James Melville | Historians | Political ballads | John Major | The Complaynt of Scotland | Ninian Winzet | John Leslie | Hector Boece | George Buchanan | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VIII. The New English Poetry - By HAROLD H. CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
Tottel’s Miscellany | Sir Thomas Wyatt | Wyatt’s sonnets | Wyatt’s treatment of love | Wyatt’s epigrams, satires and devotional pieces | Henry Howard, earl of Surrey | “Poulter’s measure” | Surrey’s translations from Vergil and blank verse | Thomas lord Vaux | Nicholas Grimald | “Uncertain” authors in Tottel’s Miscellany | Thomas Churchyard | Thomas Tusser | Barnabe Googe | George Tubervile | Thomas Howell | Humfrey Gifford | Miscellanies: The Paradyse of Daynty Devises | A Gorgious Gallery of Gallant Inventions | A Handefull of pleasant delites | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IX. “A Mirror for Magistrates” - By JOHN W. CUNLIFFE, D.Lit. (London), Professor of English in the University of Wisconsin, U. S. A.
The original design | Contents of the parts | Its popularity and influence | Sackville
X. George Gascoigne - By JOHN W. CUNLIFFE
His life | The Posies | His later works | His achievements | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XI. The Poetry of Spenser - By W. J. COURTHOPE, C.B., D.Litt., LL.D., New College, Oxford
Spenser’s family | Gabriel Harvey | Platonism in Spenser’s love poems | Spenser and Ficino | Spenser and Harvey | The Shepheards Calender | Spenser’s literary obligations to Mantuan, Vergil and Marot | Vocabulary of The Shepheards Calender | The Faerie Queene | Its design | Orlando Furioso | Allegory in The Faerie Queene | The knight in the social organism | Spenser as a word-painter and as a metrical musician | His Complaints | Colin Clout’s Come Home Again | The later Hymnes | Summary view of Spenser’s genius | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XII. The Elizabethan Sonnet - By SIDNEY LEE, D.Litt., Oxford
The model of construction | French influences: Marot, Ronsard, Du Bellay | Spenser and his French masters | The influence of Petrarch | Thomas Watson | Sir Philip Sidney’s Astorphel and Stella | Spenser’s Amoretti | The sonneteering conceit of immorality | Constable’s Diana | Daniel | Lodge | Drayton | Richard Barnfield | Barnabe Barnes | Giles Fletcher | Sir William Alexander; Drummond of Hawthornden | Elizabethan critics of the sonnet | The sonnet of compliment | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIII. Prosody from Chaucer to Spenser - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
The prosody of the fourteenth century | Piers Plowman | The staple of English poetry | Chaucer and his successors | “Doggerel” | The influence of music | Wyatt and Surrey | Sackville | The drama | The Shepheards Calender | Spenser’s mission | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIV. Elizabethan Criticism - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY
Caxton’s prefaces | Ascham | The Spenser and Harvey letters | Stanyhurst | Gascoigne’s Notes of Instruction | Sir Philip Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie | William Webbe’s Discourse of English Poetrie | The Arte of English Poesie | Sir John Harington | The Harvey Nashe controversy | Campion | Daniel | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XV. Chroniclers and Antiquaries - By CHARLES WHIBLEY, Jesus College
Edward Hall | Raphael Holinshed | Harrison’s Description of England | John Stow | John Speed | William Camden | John Leland | Sir Thomas Smith | John Foxe | The history of King Richard the thirde | George Cavendish | Sir John Hayward | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XVI. Elizabethan Prose Fiction - By J. W. H. ATKINS, M.A., Fellow of St. John’s College, Professor of English Language and Literature, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
Earlier native types | The influence of translators | John Lyly | Euphues | Euphuism | Lyly’s influence | Robert Greene | Sir Philip Sidney | Arcadia | Its style and influence | Greene’s romances | Thomas Lodge | Rosalynde | Emanuel Ford | Nicholas Breton | Anthony Munday | Greene’s autobiographical and realistic work | Thomas Nashe | The Unfortunate Traveller | Its literary qualities | Characteristics of Nashe’s prose | Thomas Deloney | Thomas of Reading | Jack of Newbury | The Gentle Craft | Delaney’s literary characteristics | General summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XVII. The Marprelate Controversy - By J. DOVER WILSON, M.A., Gonville and Caius College, Lector in English in the University of Helsingsfors, Finland
The origin of the controversy | Penry’s Aequity and Udall’s Diotrephes | The story of the press | The style and character of the tracts | The Epistle and The Epitome | The Minerall Conclusions | Hay any worke for Cooper? | Martin Junior | Martin Senior | The Protestation | The authorship of the tracts | The theological reply to Martin | The dramatic and literary replies | The pamphlets of the Harveys | The Harvey Nashe Greene controversy | Martin’s literary influence | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XVIII. “Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity” - By the Rev. F. J. FOAKES-JACKSON, D.D., Fellow and Assistant Tutor of Jesus College
The Elizabethan settlement | Calvin | The Admonition to Parliament | The puritan position | Richard Hooker | The preface to the Polity | Varieties of law | Hooker’s literary power | His place in the reformation | The position of his book in literature | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIX. English Universities, Schools and Scholarship in the Sixteenth Century - By W. H. WOODWARD, Christ Church, Oxford, sometime Professor of Education in the University of Liverpool
Universities under Edward VI and Mary | The accession of Elizabeth | Civil law at the universities | English learning in the sixteenth century | Edinburgh University, Trinity College, Dublin, and Gresham College | English schools under Elizabeth | The school curriculum | John Cheke | Thomas Wilson | The Arte of Rhetorique | Roger Ascham | Richard Mulcaster | Il Cortegiano of Castiglione | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XX. The Language from Chaucer to Shakespeare - By J. W. H. ATKINS
Fifteenth century changes in vocabulary | Elizabethan English | Growing importance of the vernacular | Conservation and reform | Classical influence | Influence of Romance languages | Literary influence on the vocabulary | Results of loss of inflections | Influences on Elizabethan idiom | Elizabethan pronunciation | Elizabethan English as a literary medium | Its musical resources | Elizabethan and modern English | BIBLIOGRAPHY
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IV. Prose and Poetry from Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton
Chapter I. Translators - By CHARLES WHIBLEY, Jesus College
The Craft of Translation | Translations of the Classics | Painter and Fenton | Machiavelli’s Prince | The Diall of Princes | Sir Thomas North’s Plutarch | Philemon Holland | Florio’s Montaigne | Stanyhurst’s Vergil | Phaer’s Vergil | Golding’s Ovid | Chapman’s Homer | Sylvester, Fairfax, Harington | The Charge of Plagiarism | BIBLIOGRAPHY
II. The “Authorised Version” and its Influence - By ALBERT S. COOK, L.H.D., LL.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature in Yale University
The Authorised Version the first English classic | Character of the Bible, its constitution and qualities | The Nature of the Hebrew language, poetry and prose | Jerome, of the Latin Vulgate | Old English Versions | The Wyclifite versions | Tindale and the Authorised Version | Coverdale’s Version | The position of the Bible in English Literature | The English of the Bible | The Influence of the Authorised Version upon English Literature | BIBLIOGRAPHY
III. Sir Walter Ralegh - By LOUISE CREIGHTON
Cynthia and other poems | Prose Writings | The story of The Revenge | Guiana | The History of the World | Political Writings | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IV. The Literature of the Sea - FROM THE ORIGINS TO HAKLUYT - By Commander CHARLES N. ROBINSON, R.N., and JOHN LEYLAND
Early Writers | John Cabot | The Impulse from Abroad | Richard Eden | Sir Hugh Willoughby; Sebastian Cabot | Sir John Hawkins | Sir Humphrey Gilbert | Martin Frobisher | Richard Willes | John Davys | Sir Richard Hawkins | The Spirit of Travel in English Literature | Richard Hakluyt | BIBLIOGRAPHY
V. Seafaring and Travel - THE GROWTH OF PROFESSIONAL TEXT-BOOKS AND GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE - By Commander CHARLES N. ROBINSON, R.N., and JOHN LEYLAND
Richard Knolles’s Compilations | Coryats Crudities | Samuel Purchas | Captain John Smith | The Spirit of Imperialism | Lancaster’s Expedition | William Adams in Japan | Australia and Madagascar | Sir William Monson | Books for the use of Seamen; Smith’s Accidence | Thomas James and Luke Fox | Theory and Practice | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VI. The Song-Books and Miscellanies - By HAROLD H. CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
Music and Poetry | William Byrd; Musical Composers | Lyric Poetry in the Drama | The Phoenix Nest; Nicholas Breton; Thomas Lodge | England’s Helicon; “Ignoto” | Anthony Munday | John Wotton; Richard Barnfield | Pastoral Poems | A Poetical Rapsody; Francis Davison; “A.W.”; Sir Edward Dyer | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VII. Robert Southwell. Samuel Daniel - By HAROLD H. CHILD
Robert Southwell | John Davies of Hereford | Abraham Fraunce | Samuel Daniel | Delia; The Complaynt of Rosamond; Musophilus | Warner’s Albion’s England | Daniel’s Civil Wars | His Diction | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VIII. Thomas Campion - By S. PERCIVAL VIVIAN, sometime Scholar of St. John’s College, Oxford
His Life | His Works | His Prosody | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IX. The Successors of Spenser - By HUGH DE SÉLINCOURT, University College, Oxford
Drummond of Hawthornden | George Wither | William Browne | Fulke Greville | Sir John Davies | Sir Henry Wotton | Giles and Phineas Fletcher | BIBLIOGRAPHY
X. Michael Drayton - By HAROLD H. CHILD
Drayton’s Boyhood | The Harmonie of the Church | Idea | The Identity of “Idea” | Legends | Ideas Mirrour | Endimion and Phœbe | Mortimeriados | Englands Heroicall Epistles | His Satires and Odes | Poly-Olbion | Nimphidia | The Muses Elizium | His “divine” poems | His Achievement | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XI. John Donne - By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M.A., Chalmers Professor of English Literature in the University of Aberdeen
Donne’s Relation to Petrarch | His Life | The History of his Poems | His Satires | Songs and Sonets | Elegies | His Love Poetry | His “Wit” | The Progresse of the Soule | Letters and Funerall Elegies | Religious Verses | Paradoxes, Problems and other Prose Writings | Sermons | Letters | His Position and Influence | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XII. The English Pulpit from Fisher to Donne - By the Rev. F. E. HUTCHINSON, M.A., Trinity College, Oxford; Chaplain of King’s College, Cambridge
Revival of Preaching in the Sixteenth Century | The Printing of Sermons in the Vernacular | Fisher’s Sense of Style | Colet and Longland | Latimer’s directness, story-telling and denunciation of social wrongs | The second generation of Reformation Preachers: Lever, Bradford and Gilpin | Literary Preaching: Jewel, Sandys; Hooker | “The Silver-tongued preacher” | Roman Catholic devotional literature | Puritan exaltation of the Sermon | Andrewes and Donne compared | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIII. Robert Burton, John Barclay and John Owen - By EDWARD BENSLY, M.A., Trinity College; Professor of Latin, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
Robert Burton | The Anatomy of Melancholy | His Reading and Methods of Quotation | Influence of The Anatomy | John Barclay | Euphormionis Satyricon | Argenis | Medieval and Modern Latin Verse | John Owen’s Epigrams | His Influence | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIV. The Beginnings of English Philosophy - By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., LL.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, and Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
The Language of Philosophy | English Contributions to Medieval Philosophy | Johannes Scotus Erigena | The Attitude to Scholasticism of Duns Scotus and of Ockham | Roger Bacon and the Method of Science | Philosophy in English universities; Revival of Aristotelianism in the 16th Century; Everard Digby | William Temple and the Ramists | William Gilbert and Experimental Science | Francis Bacon | The Great Instauration | The Interpretation of Nature and the New Method | The Value of the Method | Herbert of Cherbury | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XV. Early Writings on Politics and Economics - By the Ven. Archdeacon CUNNINGHAM, D.D., F.B.A., Fellow of Trinity College
National Life as Reflected in Literature | Elements in the Rise of Nationalities—Patriotic Sentiment, Democratic Self-Government, National Resources as the means of gratifying National Ambitions | Patriotic Pride in a well-ordered monarchy as reflected in English Literature; suspicion of the pursuit of private interests, as inimical to public welfare | Ecclesiastical Character of the demand for Individual Independence in Scotland, and for Democratic Institutions | English Constitutionalism | Medieval Works on Estates Management | Descriptions of the Realm | Prescriptions for improving its resources | Writings on the administration of particular offices, and on Companies for Commerce and for Colonisation | Treatises on Usury | The Problem of Pauperism | The Mercantile System | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XVI. London and the Development of Popular Literature - CHARACTER WRITING. SATIRE. THE ESSAY - By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M.A., Peterhouse; Professor of Latin in Trinity College, Toronto
London in the times of Elizabeth and James | Lodge on Usury | Nashe’s Anatomie of Absurditie | Robert Greene’s Social Pamphlets | Nashe | Rise of Formal Satire | Joseph Hall: Virgidemiarum | Marston’s Satires | “Humours” | Epigrams and Character Sketch | Theophrastus | Hall’s Characters | The Man in the Moone | Sir Thomas Overbury | John Stephens | John Earle | Origins of the Essay | Sir William Cornwallis | Robert Johnson | Bacon’s Essays | Ben Jonson’s Timber | Tobacco-pamphlets | Discoverie of the Knights of the Poste | Thomas Dekker | Grobianism | Samuel Rowlands | Burlesques | Jest Books | Wagering Journeys | Pimlyco | Broadsides and Street Ballads | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XVII. Writers on Country Pursuits and Pastimes - GERVASE MARKHAM - By H. G. ALDIS, M.A., Peterhouse; Secretary of the University Library
Gervase Markham | His Predecessors | Leonard Mascall | Barnabe Googe | Sir Hugh Plat | Topsell | Herbals | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XVIII. The Book-Trade, 1557–1625 - By H. G. ALDIS
The Incorporation of the Stationers’ Company | Star Chamber Decrees; The Stationers’ Registers | Censors | Trade Discipline | Printing Monopolies | Apprentices | The Beginnings of a Business | Compilers, “Readers” and Translators | Ballad Writers | Patrons | Copyright | John Taylor, the Thames waterman | Pirates; The Shakespeare Stationers | Edward Blount | George Wither’s evidence | Richard Grafton | William Copland | John Day | William Ponsonby; Christopher and Robert Barker | St. Paul’s Churchyard | London Bridge | English Printing | Illustrations | Foreign presses | Book Fairs | Early Catalogues | Bookbindings | Prices | Provincial Stationers | Cambridge University Press | Oxford University Press | The Scottish Press: Chepman and Myllar | Gourlaw’s Inventory | Printing in Ireland | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIX. The Foundation of Libraries - By J. BASS MULLINGER, M.A., Formerly Librarian of St. John’s College
A retrospect | Monastic libraries | Cathedral libraries | Cambridge College libraries | Oxford College libraries | Thomas Bodley | Cambridge University Library | The Chetham Library, Manchester | Sion College, London | Trinity College, Dublin | Drummond’s books, Edinburgh | BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY - The Origins of English Drama - By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
Earliest traces of English drama | Estrifs | The Normans and their Minstrels | Faint influence of the Classical Drama | The English Monastic Literary Drama | Popular survivals | Festival Plays | Ridings and Mummings | Liturgical Drama | Opposition of the Clergy to secular entertainments | Importance of the Corpus Christi Festival | Cornish Miracle-plays | Variety in dialect and metre in the English Mysteries and Miracle-plays | Origin of the Moralities | English love of Allegory | Evolution of Tragedy and Comedy | BIBLIOGRAPHY
II. Secular Influences on the Early English Drama - MINSTRELS. VILLAGE FESTIVALS. FOLK-PLAYS - By HAROLD H. CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
Strolling Performers: the Latin mimus and the Teutonic scop | Influence of English Minstrels on Religious Plays | Beginnings of the Interlude | The Minstrels’ Guild | Influence of Folk-lore | Cantilenae | Folk-dance and play | The Hock-Tuesday Play | Sword-dance | Plough Monday performances | Development of the Mummers’ Play | Transformation of the May-game into the Robin Hood Plays | BIBLIOGRAPHY
III. The Early Religious Drama - MIRACLE-PLAYS AND MORALITIES - By W. CREIZENACH, Professor of German Language and Literature in the University of Cracow
Concordia Regularis | School Dramas of Hilarius | Religious Plays in London | The vernacular in Medieval Drama | Jacob and Esau | Miracles of Mary | Evidence of the popularity of the Religious Drama | The Harrowing of Hell | Mysteries and their sources: traditional and original elements; mingling of comic with tragic incidents | Costliness of production | Corpus Christi Plays | York Mysteries | Towneley Mysteries | Chester Plays | Ludus Coventriae | Saints’ Plays | Object and value of the production of Mysteries | Early Moralities | The Castle of Perseverance | Mankynd | Mind, Will and Understanding | Everyman | Tendency towards the introduction of comic elements | Progress in aim and treatment | Distinctive character of the Moralities | Effects of Humanism on Mysteries and Moralities | Interlude of the Nature of the Four Elements | Treatment of educational, political, and ecclesiastical questions in the Morality | Vicissitudes in the reigns of the Tudor sovereigns | The last of the Moralities | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IV. Early English Tragedy - By JOHN W. CUNLIFFE, D.Lit. (London), Professor of English in the University of Wisconsin, U. S. A.
Study, imitation and reproduction of Senecan tragedy | Classical influence in the Italian Drammi Mescidati | Giraldi Cinthio’s Orbecche | Early English Tragicomedies | Historic importance of stage directions | Horestes | Kynge Johan | Gorboduc and its political significance: its advance on Senecan Tragedy and early Tragicomedy | Introduction of intermedii | Jocasta | Gismond of Salerne and its sources: motives of its authors | Advance in the treatment of Romance | The Gray’s inn Entertainment; The Misfortunes of Arthur: extent of its debt to Seneca | Popular translation of the Ten Tragedies of Seneca | Renewed interest in English history and the beginnings of English Historical Drama | The Chronicle Histories: The Famous Victories of Henry the fifth | The Troublesome Raigne of King John | The True Chronicle History of King Leir | The relations between Locrine and Selimus | Diminishing attention paid to classical models and increasing appeal to popular sentiment and national tradition; the legacy of the Classics in Tragedy | BIBLIOGRAPHY
V. Early English Comedy - By F. S. BOAS, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford, LL.D. (St. Andrews), late Professor of English Literature in Queen’s College, Belfast, and late Clark Lecturer in Trinity College
John Heywood | His relationship to Sir Thomas More | Period of his dramatic activity | Probability of French influence | His interludes: Witty and Witless; Love; Wether; The Foure P. P. | His narrative power | Doubtful plays: The Pardoner and the Frere and Johan Johan | The collision of romantic and didactic tendencies in Tudor Drama | Calisto and Melebea | Lucrece | Continental Humanist Drama | Performances of Latin plays in the schools and at the Universities | Nicholas Udall | Ralph Roister Doister | Jacke Jugeler | English adaptations of Textor’s Neo-classic Plays | Prodigal son plays | Misogonus | Jacob and Esau | The Glasse of Governement | Supposes | The Bugbears | Influence of the Southern Stage | Strength of the native dramatic instinct | Tom Tyler | Damon and Pithias | Promos and Cassandra | Edwards’s and Whetstone’s theory of the function of Comedy | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VI. The Plays of the University Wits - By G. P. BAKER, Professor of English in Harvard University, U. S. A.
The University standard of judgment | John Lyly | His position in the group of University Wits | His material, method and style | His models | Authorship of the songs in Lyly’s plays | Introduction to the English stage of High Comedy: its essential features | Lyly’s refining and intellectual influence on English Literature and Drama | George Peele | Variety in theme and treatment | Beginnings of dramatic criticism | Peele’s poetry | Robert Greene | His literary career; his Novels and Pamphlets | His Repentance | Early dramatic work | Plays attributed to Greene | His sources and handling of plot | Development of the Love story | Thomas Lodge: sequence of his work | His ill-success and retirement from Drama | Thomas Nashe: popular form of his work | Characteristics of the group of University Wits | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VII. Marlowe and Kyd - CHRONICLE HISTORIES - By G. GREGORY SMITH, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford, Professor of English Literature in the University of Belfast
The forerunners of Shakespeare | Marlowe’s life and early literary work | Tamburlaine the Great | Dr. Faustus | The Jew of Malta | Edward II, the Massacre at Paris and Dido Queene of Carthage | Marlowe’s share in other Plays | Association with Shakespeare | Marlowe’s non-dramatic writings | Poetic quality of his work | Characteristics of his style | His treatment of the Chronicle Play | His forerunners | Edward II | Creation of Blank Verse as a dramatic instrument | Thomas Kyd’s early work | The Spanish Tragedie | Kyd and the early Hamlet | Doubtful authorship of The First Part of Jeronimo and of Solimon and Perseda | Criticism of Kyd’s work and comparison with Marlowe; Kyd’s place in English Drama | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VIII. Shakespeare: Life and Plays - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
Character of our knowledge about Shakespeare | His Family and Education | His Marriage and relations with his Wife | His Company | Biographical aspects of the Sonnets | Evidence as to Order of Plays | Value of the Meres list | Earliest group: The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Titus Andronicus | Second group: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, All’s Well that Ends Well and The Taming of the Shrew | Remaining Meres Plays: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merchant of Venice | Early Chronicle Plays: Richard II, King John, Richard III | Shakespeare’s share in Henry VI, Henry IV | Plays not mentioned by Meres: Pericles, The Merry Wives, Measure for Measure, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It and Twelfth Night | Remaining Historical Plays: Henry V and Henry VIII | Classical Plays: Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra | Tragicomedies: Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear | Last group: Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest | Shakespeare’s Censors | His special gifts: poetic phrasing, dramatic construction and character-drawing | His justice and tolerance | Universality of his style | His progress in versification | Shakespearean Blank Verse: management of metre, pause, trisyllabic substitution and the redundant syllable | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IX. Shakespeare: Poems - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., LL.D.
Dates of Composition and First Editions | Dedication of the Sonnets | Venus and Adonis | Lucrece | The Sonnets: the problem of their interpretation | Futility of attempts to find biographical details in them | Dramatic elements | Peculiarities of versification | Lesser Poems: A Lover’s Complaint, The Passionate Pilgrim, The Phoenix and the Turtle | Shakespeare’s metrical mastery in the Lyric | BIBLIOGRAPHY
X. Plays of Uncertain Authorship Attributed to Shakespeare - By F. W. MOORMAN, B.A. (London), Ph.D. (Strassburg), Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Leeds
Classification of extant Plays | Locrine: points of resemblance to The Spanish Tragedie | Arden of Feversham: deliberate bluntness of the story and unattractiveness of the hero | A Yorkshire Tragedy | Edward III | Cromwell | Sir Thomas More: its scholarly character and political tone | The Birth of Merlin: its probable authors | Faire Em | The Merry Devill of Edmonton | Mucedorus | The London Prodigall | The Puritane | The Two Noble Kinsmen: wealth of its sources and qualities | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XI. The Text of Shakespeare - By the Rev. ERNEST WALDER, M.A., Gonville and Caius College, Headmaster of Ockbrook School, Derby
Reasons for reluctance of authors and companies to publish | Origin of the Quartos | Duplicate, Variant and Doublet Quartos | Discrepancies in Texts: curtailment or omission for stage purposes or for want of actors; political expediency | Carelessness of Players and Printers | Lack of evidence making Shakespeare responsible for Corrections or Additions | Value of the first Folio | The later Folios | Subsequent history of the Text of Shakespeare | Rowe’s edition | Conjectures and restorations of Pope | His controversy with Theobald, and its effects on Theobald’s edition | Hanmer’s edition | Warburton’s ignorance of the old Text and of Shakespeare’s language | Johnson’s edition | Scientific criticism of Capell | Johnson and Steevens’s Text | Malone’s edition | Nineteenth century Editors: Singer; Hudson; Collier; Halliwell-Phillipps; Delius; Staunton; Grant White; Dyce | The Cambridge Shakespeare | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XII. Shakespeare on the Continent - 1660–1700 - By J. G. ROBERTSON, M.A., B.Sc. (Glasgow), Ph.D. (Leipzig), Professor of German Language and Literature in the University of London
Channels by which Shakespeare reached the Continent | His influence on German and Dutch Seventeenth Century Drama | Awakening of interest in the man | Literary importance of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes | Voltaire’s attitude towards Shakespeare | His adaptations from Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth | Abbé Prévost and contemporary French admirers of Shakespeare | Influence of Voltaire’s opinions in Italy | Early Seventeenth Century indications of appreciation of Shakespeare in Germany | Strength of Classicism | The Translations of La Place, and their effect on Voltaire and French Criticism | Sébastien Mercier | Le Tourneur | Voltaire’s last Attacks | Popularity of the Adaptations of Ducis | German interest in Shakespeare aroused by Lessing | Wieland’s Prose Translation | The new attitude of the Sturm und Drang; Gerstenberg’s and Herder’s Criticism | Shakespeare included in the répertoire of the German stage; Schröder | The Romantic School: A. W. Schlegel and his Fellow Workers | Shakespeare’s influence on German Eighteenth Century Literature: on the French Romantic School | German Shakespearean Scholarship in the Nineteenth Century | Influence of Hegelianism | Shakespeare and the Modern German Theatre | The Meiningen Reforms | Introduction of Shakespeare into other lands, chiefly through French or German Translations | Value of recent American Criticism | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIII. Lesser Elizabethan Dramatists - By the Rev. RONALD BAYNE, M.A., University College, Oxford
General characteristics of Lesser Elizabethan Dramatists | Their names according to Henslowe’s Diary and Meres’s list | Antony Munday’s career (1553–1633) and industry as a writer | Translations of Fedele and Fortunio: The Weakest goeth to the Wall | His extant Plays founded on Ballads and Folk-lore | Henry Chettle’s early life: his Tragedies: The Tragedy of Hoffman | Haughton’s Comedies: Girm the Collier of Croyden and English-Men For my Money | Porter’s Two angry women of Abington | Hathwaye; Robert Wilson; Wentworth Smith | Michael Drayton’s dramatic work | John Day’s early work | Samuel Rowley’s When you see me, You know me | English imitation of French Senecan Drama | Fulke Greville’s Mustapha and Alaham | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIV. Some Political and Social Aspects of the Later Elizabethan and Earlier Stewart Period - By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A.
Main features of the English Renascence at its height | Contrast between the beginning and the end of the age | Literary significance of the later years of Elizabeth’s reign | Strength of the Tudor Monarchy and Popular Sentiment | Dramatists and the Divine Right of Kings | Question of the Queen’s Marriage | Her attitude towards the Religious Problem | Struggle for the English Throne | Elizabeth’s Ministers before and after the crisis | Vigour and activity of the New Generation | Elizabeth’s Court | Education of the Courtier | Contrast between Court and Country | Gradual change in social conditions; amalgamation of New and Old Nobility | Rise of Prices and advance of Trade and Industry | Increased luxury in Diet and Dress | Horticulture | Drinking | Tobacco | The Army and Navy in Elizabeth’s time | Position of the Clergy and causes of their disrepute | Changes in the Universities, jobbery in Schools and Universities and in the Church | Puritanism and the Dramatists | Growth of London and its causes | Increase of Litigation and its effects on the Legal Profession | The Medical Profession | Authors and their troubles | Attention paid to the Fine Arts | Social conditions of the Trading and Yeoman Classes | Depression of the Labouring Class | Servingmen | Treatment of the Poor, Vagabonds and Criminals | General unrest and high spirit | The Women of the age | BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chapter I. Ben Jonson - By ASHLEY H. THORNDIKE, M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard), Professor of English in Columbia University, New York
Ben Jonson’s character and friendships | Early life | Production of Every Man in His Humour | Maturity; Prosperity | Later years | Eminence in letters | Epigrams; The Forest | Underwoods | The Sad Shepherd | Early Plays | His Programme of Reform; Every Man in His Humour | Every Man out of His Humour | His Tragedies | Volpone; Epicoene | The Alchemist | Bartholomew Fayre | His later Comedies | His place in Literature | BIBLIOGRAPHY
II. Chapman, Marston, Dekker - By W. MACNEILE DIXON, M.A. (Dublin), Litt.D. (Glasgow), Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Glasgow
Chapman’s life | Shakespeare and the “Rival Poet” | Didactic nature of Chapman’s Poetry | His Comedies | His Historic Tragedies; Bussy D’Ambois; The Revenge | Chapman’s Homer | Marston’s life | His prominence in the War of the Theatres | Quarrel with Jonson: Assaults and Counter-assaults | End of the quarrel | Marston’s Tragedies; Antonio and Mellida | The Malcontent | Eastward Hoe | The Fawne | His other Plays; Withdrawal from theatrical life | Dekker’s early activities; Value of his work; His Comedies: The Shomakers Holiday; Old Fortunatus; The Honest Whore | His Collaborators | His place as a Dramatist | Importance of his prose work | BIBLIOGRAPHY
III. Middleton and Rowley - By ARTHUR SYMONS
Biographical details | Middleton’s non-dramatic work | His first Plays: The Mayor of Quinborough | The Old Law | Blurt Master-Constable | His farcical Comedies: their character and material | His realism | Fluency and naturalness of his work | His Collaborators | Plays by Rowley alone; their sincerity and nobility of aim | Rowley’s influence on Middleton | A Faire Quarrell | The World tost at Tennis | The Changeling | Later Plays by Middleton | His dramatic genius | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IV. Thomas Heywood - By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
Thomas Heywood as the servant of public taste | His special work in Domestic Drama | His life: London and Court associations | His point of view as a Playwright | His non-dramatic works | The Apology for Actors | His Plays | A Woman Kilde with Kindnesse | Elizabethan Domestic Drama | Early attempts at realistic treatment | The Murder Plays | Changes in the social system and their effect on the Drama | Heywood’s picture of English country life | The Royall King, and The Loyall Subject | The Fair Maid Of The West | Other Plays | His work in collaboration with others | His qualities as a Dramatist | BIBLIOGRAPHY
V. Beaumont and Fletcher - By G. C. MACAULAY, M.A., late Fellow of Trinity College, University Lecturer in English
New influences on the Drama | Abandonment of Tragedy for Tragi-comedy; Lowering of moral standards | Contemporary appreciation of Beaumont and Fletcher’s work | Biographies and early intimacy of the two Dramatists; Individual characteristics | Evidence as to authorship | Fletcher’s Metrical Style: comparison with that of Shakespeare | Features assignable to Beaumont | Massinger’s collaboration with Fletcher | Excellence of Fletcher’s stage effects | His weakness in characterisation | Sources of his plays | Rapidity of production; Classification of the Plays | Tragedies; Romantic Dramas | Comedies | Qualities of language and style in Beaumont and Fletcher’s plays | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VI. Philip Massinger - By EMIL KOEPPEL, Professor of English Philology in the University of Strassburg
Massinger’s life | Biographical value of his Dedications | His relations with the Herberts | Literary friends | Joint workmanship with Fletcher and others | His independent Dramas | Some Political Dramas of the time | Massinger’s political opinions | His religious sympathies | His literary models: Shakespeare, Fletcher, Jonson | His constructive art | Typical situations | His women | His lovers | His villains | His comical figures | His style: preponderance of the rhetorical element | His repetitions | Contemporary and posthumous reputation | Massinger in Germany | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VII. Tourneur and Webster - By C. E. VAUGHAN, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford, Professor of English Literature in the University of Leeds
Meagreness of biographical details | Tourneur’s two Tragedies | John Webster: periods of his literary activity | Collaboration with Dekker and Marston | West-Ward Hoe and North-Ward Hoe | Webster’s original work | The White Divel: question of its sources; possibility of originality in the plot | Advance on his earlier work | The theme of Revenge as handled by Elizabethan Dramatists | The Dutchesse Of Malfy: its source and date; advance in representation and motif | The last period | Appius and Virginia | The Devils Law-case: influence of Fletcher | Secret of Webster’s genius: his profound knowledge of human character and sense of tragic issues | His imagination and poetic power | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VIII. Ford and Shirley - By W. A. NEILSON, M.A. (Edinburgh), Ph.D. (Harvard), Professor of English in Harvard University
Commencement of the literary period of English Drama | Ford’s life and early work | Romantic character of his non-dramatic work | His collaboration with Dekker | His independent Dramas | His lost Plays | Ford as typical of the period of decadence | His merits | Shirley’s life and career | His Poems | His Tragedies | His Comedies of Manners and Romantic Comedies | His Entertainments | Originality of his plots | Conventionality of his style | Comparison of Shirley with Ford | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IX. Lesser Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists - By the Rev. RONALD BAYNE, M.A., University College, Oxford
General characteristics of the Jacobean and Caroline Drama; the central position of Jonson | Belated Elizabethans: John Day’s later comedies; The Ile of Guls; evolution of The Parliament of Bees; its merits and characteristics | Armin’s Two Maids of More-clacke | Sharpham’s two Plays; The single Plays of Barry, Cooke and Tailor | The Pupils of Jonson: Nathaniel Field: his life and training | A Woman is a Weather-cocke | Field’s debt to Jonson; his romantic tendency and collaboration with Massinger | Richard Brome’s life and training: his fifteen extant Plays | The Northern Lasse | Brome’s debt to Dekker; The Sparagus Garden | The City Witt; its briskness and humour | A Joviall Crew, Brome’s best Play | His romantic experiments; partial success of The Queen and Concubine | Thomas Randolph’s University training; His Aristippus and The Conceited Pedler | Aristotle’s Ethics dramatised in The Muses Looking-Glasse | Originality of Randolph | May’s Comedies; The anonymous Nero | Davenport’s Revisions of older Plays | Thomas Nabbes’s virtuous heroines | Comedies of Cartwright, and Mayne | Sir John Suckling’s Plays: Aglaura, The Goblins, Brennoralt | Marmion’s The Antiquary | Tragicomedy as exemplified in the Plays of Lodowick Carlell, Henry Glapthorne and Sir William D’Avenant | BIBLIOGRAPHY
X. The Elizabethan Theatre - By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
Early Companies of Players | Triumph of the Professional Actor and Patronised Company over the Stroller | Grounds of objection to the Drama | Royal patronage and its effect | Increasing control of the production of Plays by the Master of the Revels | The Chamberlain’s Company | The Queen’s and Admiral’s Companies | Places of performance | Site and architectural features of the Theater | The Curtain | The Newington Butts Playhouse | The Rose | The Globe | The Blackfriars | The Swan | Other Playhouses | Differences between the Elizabethan and the Modern Stage | Value of John de Witt’s drawing of the Swan | The Alternation Theory | Differences in Construction | Stage Appliances and Properties | Performances at private Playhouses and at Court | Costumes | The Audience | The Author and his Company | Financial arrangements | Social position of the Actor | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XI. The Children of the Chapel Royal and their Masters - By J. M. MANLY, M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard), Professor of English in the University of Chicago
Early history of the Chapel Children | Early Masters: John Plummer, Henry Abyndon, William Newark, William Cornish and others | Histrionic activity of the Children; Dramatic work of the Masters | Plays of the University Wits acted by the Children | The Children at the Blackfriars: profitable nature of the undertaking | The Child-actors | Causes of their success | Royal patronage | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XII. University Plays - By F. S. BOAS, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford, LL.D. (St. Andrews), late Professor of English Literature in Queen’s College, Belfast, and late Clark Lecturer, Trinity College
Medieval Drama at the Universities | The Senecan School of dramatists; Grimald’s Christus Redivivus and Archipropheta | Kirchmayer’s Pammachius | Gammer Gurtons Nedle | Effect of Queen Elizabeth’s visits to the Universities | Halliwell’s Dido and Udall’s Ezechias | Edwards’s Palamon and Arcyte | Rickets’s Byrsa Basilica; Legge’s Richardus Tertius | Perfidus Hetruscus | Gager’s Meleager and Dido | Fraunce’s Victoria; Academic Comedies | Hymenaeus; Laelia | Pedantius | Attack on Academic Personages and on the Civic Authorities | Club-Law | The Parnassus Trilogy | Tomkin’s Lingua | Narcissus | King James at Oxford | Daniel’s The Queenes Arcadia | Thomas Tucker, the Christmas Prince | King James at Cambridge; Ruggle’s Ignoramus | Barten Holiday’s Technogamia; Allegorical and satirical character of the later Plays | King Charles at Cambridge and Oxford | Influence of the University Drama | BIBLIOGRAPHY |
XIII. Masque and Pastoral - By the Rev. RONALD BAYNE, M.A.
Popularity of the Masque in the age of Elizabeth | Its early history | Mummings and Disguisings: development of these into the Masque | The Masque in Spenser | Ben Jonson’s Masques | Introduction of the Antimasque | Development of the Presenter | Campion’s Masques | Chapman and Beaumont as Masque-writers | Rapid increase of dramatic elements in Jonson’s Masques | Jonson’s later work in this field | Pastoral Poetry: its history and development | Pastoral drama of the University Wits | Daniel’s Pastorals | Fletcher’s The Faithful Shepheardesse | Ben Jonson’s The Sad Shepherd | Randolph’s Amyntas | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIV. The Puritan Attack upon the Stage - By J. DOVER WILSON, M.A., Gonville and Caius College, Lecturer in English Literature at the Goldsmiths’ College, University of London
The attitude of the Reformers towards the Stage | Theological and moral objections | Beginnings of Puritan opposition in England | Attitude of the Civic Authorities in London | Systematic persecution of Actors | Royal Patronage | Attacks on the Stage from the Pulpit | Work of Pamphleteers | Gosson’s Schoole of Abuse | Lodge’s Defence | Stubbes’s Anatomie of Abuses | Waning interest in the struggle | The Controversy at the Universities | Effects of changes introduced under the Stewarts | Heywood’s Apology for Actors | Prynne’s Histriomastix | General aspects of the Controversy | BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chapter I. Cavalier Lyrists - By F. W. MOORMAN, B.A. (Lond.), Ph.D. (Strassburg), Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Leeds
The Caroline lyric | Decline of the sonnet | The classical lyric | Influence of Jonson | Robert Herrick | Hesperides | Herrick’s epigrams | Noble Numbers | Thomas Carew | Sir John Suckling | Richard Lovelace | BIBLIOGRAPHY
II. The Sacred Poets - By the REV. F. E. HUTCHINSON, M.A., Trinity College, Oxford, Chaplain of King’s College
The sacred poets a group with personal links, not a new school of poetry | George Herbert’s personality and divided aims reflected in his poems | His constructive ability | The metaphysical fashion | Crashaw’s relation to Herbert | His knowledge of Spanish and Italian literature | A large proportion of his work translation | The secular and the sacred poems compared | His defective powers of self-criticism | Henry Vaughan’s secular poetry | His conversion | His debt to Herbert, spiritual and literary | His links with Wordsworth | The re-discovery of Traherne’s poetry and prose-writings | Habington’s Castara | Quarles and emblem poetry | BIBLIOGRAPHY
III. Writers of the Couplet - By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M.A., St. John’s College, Cambridge
The revolution in English verse | Sir John Beaumont | George Sandys | Edmund Waller | Sir John Denham | Cooper’s Hill | Abraham Cowley | The Mistress | Pindarique Odes | Davideis | Cowley’s influence | Sir William D’Avenant; Gondibert | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IV. Lesser Caroline Poets - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, LL.D., D.Litt., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
William Chamberlayne; Pharonnida | “Jo. Chalkhill”; Thealma and Clearchus | Shakerley Marmion; Cupid and Psyche | Sir Francis Kynaston; Leoline and Sydanis | Patrick Hannay; Sheretine and Mariana | William Bosworth or Boxworth; The Chaste and Lost Lovers or Arcadius and Sepha | Nathaniel Whiting; Albino and Bellama | Leonard Lawrence; Arnalte and Lucenda | Henry King | Thomas Stanley | John Hall | Sidney Godolphin | Sir Edward Sherborne | Katherine Philips | Patrick Cary; William Hammond; Robert Heath; Thomas Beedome; Richard Flecknoe; Henry Hawkins; Thomas Flatman; Philip Ayres; Robert Baron | Edward Benlowes | Theophila or Love’s Sacrifice | John Cleiveland | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
V. Milton - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A.
Milton’s life at Cambridge and Horton | His continental tour | His first marriage; Mary Powell | His life during the commonwealth | His second marriage; Catherine Woodcock | His third marriage; Elizabeth Minshull | His later years | His temperament | The growth of his reputation | The early poems | On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity | L’Allegro; Il Penseroso; Arcades; Comus | Lycidas | Sonnets | Paradise Lost | Milton’s “plagiarism” | Paradise Regained | Samson Agonistes | Milton’s prose works | His Latin writings | Milton’s literary form | His versification and style | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VI. Caroline Divines - By the REV. W. H. HUTTON, B.D., St. John’s College, Oxford
Augustin Baker; Sancta Sophia | Thomas Traherne; Centuries of Meditations | Puritan literature of the days of Charles I | Richard Baxter | The Saints’ Everlasting Rest | The sermons at Paul’s cross | Henry Hammond | James Ussher | Robert Sanderson | Gilbert Sheldon | William Chillingworth | John Hales | The Ferrars and Little Gidding | Lettice (Morison), lady Falkland | George Herbert | A Priest to the Temple | William Laud | Richard Mountague | Joseph Hall | William Juxon; William Sancroft | Lesser Laudians | John Gauden | Eikon Basilike | Jeremy Taylor | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VII. John Bunyan. Andrew Marvell - By the REV. JOHN BROWN, D.D.
John Bunyan | The influence which moulded him | Grace Abounding | Bunyan’s language | The Pilgrim’s Progress | Its influence | The Holy War | The Life and Death of Mr. Badman | Andrew Marvell | His poems, satires and prose works | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VIII. Historical and Political Writings, I - STATE PAPERS AND LETTERS - By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
Rushworth’s Collections | Thurloe’s State Papers | Letters of Henrietta Maria and of Oliver Cromwell | Sir Dudley Digges; The Compleat Ambassador | Sir Henry Wotton | “Intelligencers”; Private letters | The Earl of Strafford’s Letters | The Fairfax Correspondence | The Verney Letters | Correspondence of the Family of Hatton | James Howell’s Epistolae Ho-Elianae | Howell’s other writings | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IX. Historical and Political Writings, II - HISTORIES AND MEMOIRS - By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A.
Bacon’s Henry the Seventh | Lord Herbert of Cherbury | Edmund Bolton | Sir Edward Walker | William Lilly | Peter Heylyn | Scottish records | Archbishop Spottiswoode | David Calderwood | Irish history | Spenser’s Veue of the Present State of Ireland | Pacata Hibernia | Other works | Clarendon | The History of the Rebellion | Clarendon’s skill in character drawing | Robert Carey’s Memoirs; Sir Robert Naunton’s Fragmata Regalia; John Manningham’s Diary | Sir Kenelm Digby’s Private Memoirs | Nehemiah Wallington | Sir Simonds d’Ewes’s Autobiography and Correspondence | John Rous’s Diary | Edmund Ludlow’s Memoirs | The Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson | The Life of William Cavendish, duke of Newcastle | Bulstrode Whitelocke | Robert Munro | BIBLIOGRAPHY
X. Antiquaries - SIR THOMAS BROWNE. THOMAS FULLER. IZAAK WALTON. SIR THOMAS URQUHART - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A.
Sir Thomas Browne | Religio Medici | Browne’s style and vocabulary | Pseudodoxia Epidemica | Browne’s “scepticism” | Hydriotaphia; The Garden of Cyrus | A Letter to a Friend | Christian Morals | Browne’s letters | Thomas Fuller | His “wit” and style | Izaak Walton | The Compleat Angler | Sir Thomas Urquhart | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XI. Jacobean and Caroline Criticism - By J. E. SPINGARN, Professor of Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York
Bacon | Ben Jonson | Minor forms of criticism | The new theory of translation | Reynolds’s Mythomystes | Milton | The aesthetics of Hobbes | D’Avenant and Cowley | The growth of literary characterisation and “appreciation” | The Elizabethan “roll-call” | Jonson’s literary “portraits” | The commendatory verses | The framework of Boccalini | The final stage in Dryden | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XII. Hobbes and Contemporary Philosophy - By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., LL.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
Logical writings | Religious philosophy | Robert Greville, lord Brooke | Culverwel | The Casuists | Selden | Thomas Hobbes; His life and character | Fundamental conception, system of philosophy and controversies | Literary style and method of work | Leviathan | Theory of human nature and of sovereignty | Imaginary commonwealths: More’s Utopia and Harrington’s Oceana | Filmer | The critics of Hobbes | Joseph Glanvill | Richard Cumberland | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIII. Scholars and Scholarship, 1600–60 - By FOSTER WATSON, M.A., Professor of Education in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
English scholarship and learning in the seventeenth century | Close relations between English and continental scholars | Influence of French and Dutch scholars | Roman Catholic scholarship | Baronius’s Annales | Isaac Casaubon | The spread of patristic learning in England | Latin and Greek scholarship | Hebrew scholarship | University studies | Biblical culture | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIV. English Grammar Schools - By J. BASS MULLINGER, M.A., formerly librarian of St. John’s College
The transition from the scholastic to the humanistic theory of education | Winchester | Eton | Henry Savile | Sedbergh | The Edwardian grammar schools | St. Paul’s school | Westminster | The Merchant Taylor’s school | Harrow | Rugby | Shrewsbury | Christ’s Hospital | Charterhouse | John Harvard | Oakham and Uppingham | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XV. The Beginnings of English Journalism - By J. B. WILLIAMS
Gainsford and the Corantos | Samuel Pecke, patriarch of the Press | Berkenhead, Dillingham, Audley, Nedham, Smith, Rushworth and Border | Walker, the ironmonger, and his literary frauds | Martin Parker, Sheppard, Wharton, Hall, Frost, Harris and Mabbott | John Crouch, Oliver Williams and Canne | Henry Muddiman and The Gazette | Muddiman’s newsletters | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XVI. The Advent of Modern Thought in Popular Literature - THE WITCH CONTROVERSY, PAMPHLETEERS - By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M.A., Peterhouse, Professor of Latin, Trinity College, Toronto
Demonology in the Middle Ages | Belief in witchcraft | George Gifford’s Dialogues of Witches | King James’s Daemonologie | William Perkin’s Art of Witch craft | Witch-hunting | Astrological treatises | Rosicrucianism | The history of the broadside | The street ballad and other forms of popular literature | Cavalier and Roundhead satires | Social pamphlets | Coffee-houses | Letter writing | Romances of chivalry | The essay | Humanists | John Wagstaffe’s Question of Witchcraft | BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chapter I. Dryden - By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., P.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
Dryden and his Age | His Parentage and Education | Heroick Stanzas on Cromwell | Astraea Redux and other Panegyrics | Annus Mirabilis | Dryden’s Productivity as a Dramatist | Influence of French Tragicomedy and Romance | The Wild Gallant and other Comedies: The Spanish Fryar | The Heroic Couplet in Drama | Dryden and the Heroic Play: The Conquest of Granada | The Satire of The Rehearsal | Essay Of Heroick Plays | Aureng-Zebe | Dryden’s Adaptation of Shakespearean Plays and Themes | The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy | His Later Plays: Don Sebastian and Cleomenes | Dryden’s Work as a Dramatist | Prologues and Epilogues | Dryden Poet Laureate | The “Rose-alley ambuscade” | Political Satire: Absalom and Achitophel, Part I | The Medal | Mac Flecknoe | Absalom and Achitophel, Part II | Didactic Poetry: Religio Laici | Death of Charles II and Accession of James II: Threnodia Augustalis and Britannia Rediviva | Conversion to the Church of Rome | The Hind and the Panther | Various Later Work in Verse and Prose: Miscellanies | Translations: Fables Ancient and Modern | Preface to the Fables | Odes, Songs and Hymns | Dryden’s Enemies and Younger Literary Friends | His Great Qualities as a Writer of Verse and Prose | His Excellence in Various Literary Species | His Originality that of Treatment | The Eminence of his Genius | BIBLIOGRAPHY
II. Samuel Butler - By WILLIAM FRANCIS SMITH, M.A., Fellow of St. John’s College
Ancient and Modern Satire | Influence of Le Roman de la Rose, The Ship of Fools, Erasmus and Rabelais | Butler’s Life before and after the Restoration | Butler in the Employ of Sir Samuel Luke and the Earl of Carbery | Penury of his Later Days | His Learning in Letters and Law | Imitations of his Prose and Verse: The Posthumous Works | Contents of The Genuine Remains: Characters | Hudibras and its Models | Course of Part I | Course of Part II | Difference of Treatment in Part III | The Methods in the Composition of the Work | Metre of Hudibras | Main Purpose of the Satire | Butler’s Gifts and Powers | BIBLIOGRAPHY
III. Political and Ecclesiastical Satire - By C. W. PREVITÉ-ORTON, M.A., Fellow of St. John’s College
Causes of the New Development of Satirical Literature on Political Subjects in the Period following the Restoration | Denham and Marvell | The Popish Plot Panic: Oldham | His Satyrs Upon the Jesuits | His Powers and Influence as a Satirist | Lesser Satires of this and the Following Period: Poems on Affairs of State | Advices to a Painter | The Ghost and Last Will Motives | Dialogues | Ballads | Litanies | D’Urfey | Lilliburlero | Prose Satires: The Rehearsal Transpros’d | Satirical Narratives and Dialogues | Low Literary Quality of these Satires as a Whole | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IV. The Early Quakers - By EDWARD GRUBB, M.A.
George Fox and the Rise of the Quaker Movement in England | The Purpose of Early Quaker Writings not Literary | George Fox’s Journal | Thomas Ellwood’s History of his Life | Other Quaker Journals and Memoirs | William Penn, and his No Cross No Crown | Isaac and Mary Penington | James Nayler | Early Attacks upon the Quakers, and their Replies | Samuel Fisher | Barclay’s Apology | More purely Literary Efforts: Penn’s Some Fruits of Solitude | Ellwood’s Collection of Poems on Various Subjects | Mary Mollineux’s Fruits of Retirement | BIBLIOGRAPHY
V. The Restoration Drama, I - By Professor FELIX E. SCHELLING, University of Pennsylvania
Players and Plays after the Closing of the Theatres | Drolls | Relaxation of the Laws against Dramatic Entertainments towards the Close of Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate; Sir William D’Avenant’s Entertainments: The Siege of Rhodes | Dramatic Companies Formed immediately before the Restoration | The King’s and the Duke of York’s Companies “Created” after it | Thomas Killigrew’s and Sir William D’Avenant’s Later Plays | Old Masterpieces Revived | Comedies reflecting the Political Reaction: The Rump and Cutter of Coleman Street | Tatham | John Wilson | Stapylton | The Duke of Newcastle | Early Spanish Influences in English Drama | Spanish Personages in English Plays | The Indebtedness of Beaumont and Fletcher, and of other Dramatists, before and after the Restoration, to Spanish Novels, and to Spanish Plays, Examined and Summarised | Influence of French Literature on the Restoration Drama | Molière and Restoration Comedy | Influence of French Opera | Etherege and his Place in the History of Restoration Drama | Sir Charles Sedley | Lacy | Aphra Behn | Wycherley | The Plain Dealer | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VI. The Restoration Drama, II. - CONGREVE, VANBRUGH, FARQUHAR, ETC. - By CHARLES WHIBLEY, Jesus College
Congreve | The Old Bachelor | The Double-Dealer | Love for Love | The Mourning Bride | The Way of the World | Congreve and the Comedy of Manners | His Comic Art | His Diction | His Friends and Way of Life | Vanbrugh’s Life and Character | The Relapse | The Provok’d Wife | The Confederacy | Vanbrugh and Perrault | Earlier Attacks in this Period on the Stage: Rymer’s Short View of Tragedy | Jeremy Collier’s Short View | Its Invective and its Fallacies | Replies to Collier by Vanbrugh, Farquhar, Dryden, D’Urfey and Dennis | Farquhar as a Comic Dramatist | Love and a Bottle; The Constant Couple; The Recruiting Officer; the Beaux’ Stratagem | Shadwell | D’Urfey | Colley Cibber’s Earlier Plays | His Apology for his Life | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VII. The Restoration Drama, III. - TRAGIC POETS - By A. T. BARTHOLOMEW, M. A., Peterhouse, and of the University Library
Characteristics of Lesser Restoration Tragedy | Public Interest in Acting | The Operatic Element | The Heroic Play | French Influence on Restoration Tragedy | Translations of Corneille | Influence of Racine | Revived Influence of Earlier English Work | Otway and his Career as a Dramatist | The Orphan and Venice Preserv’d | Their Enduring Popularity | Nathaniel Lee | Characteristics of his Plays | The Rival Queens | Crowne | Sir Courtly Nice | His Tragedies | Southerne | The Fatal Marriage and Oroonoko | Settle | Dennis | Banks | Hughes | Lansdowne | Ravenscroft | Nicholas Rowe as a Link between the Later Restoration Drama and that of the Augustan Age | The Fair Penitent | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VIII. The Court Poets - By CHARLES WHIBLEY
The Lives and Writings of the Court Poets as a Protest against the Puritan Domination | The Circle of Whitehall | The Pranks of the Wits | The Court Poets as Men of Action: Rochester, Buckhurst and Mulgrave | The Mark of the Amateur on their Writings | Dryden’s Flattery of them | Rochester’s Life and Character | His Quarrel with Mulgrave and Dryden | Rochester as a Satirist: The Satire against Mankind | Sir Charles Sedley | His Songs | Buckhurst: To all you Ladies now at Land | Mulgrave’s Essay upon Poetry | Roscommon’s Essay on Translated Verse | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IX. The Prosody of the Seventeenth Century - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., F.B.A., LL.D., D.Litt., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
The Spenserian Era of English Versification | Loss of Elasticity and Diversity | Variations of the Iambic Line | Insufficient Understanding as to Equivalence in Feet | Decline of Blank Verse; the Redundant Syllable and other Means of Varying the Measure | “The Battle of the Couplets”: Waller and Cowley | Miscellaneous Metric: Jonson and Others | Milton’s Metrical Development | The Anapaest as the Chief Base-foot of Metre | The Octosyllabic Couplet | The “Pindaric” of Cowley and his Followers | Dryden and the Heroic Couplet | Perceptive Prosody: Jonson and Dryden | BIBLIOGRAPHY
X. Memoir and Letter Writers - By HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F.S.A.
EVELYN AND PEPYS | Diaries of Evelyn and Pepys Published as Written | Narcissus Luttrell’s Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs | Evelyn’s and Pepys’s Diaries Compared | Evelyn’s Father, Younger Days, Travels and Marriage | His Later Life and Activities | Evelyn and the Royal Society | His Love of Planting: Sylva | His Public Services | His Life of Mrs. Godolphin | Pepys’s Early Life and Marriage | Pepys on the Naseby | His Service in the Navy Office | His Blindness and the Closing of the Diary | Pepys and the Popish Plot | His Later Years | Character and Charm of the Diary
OTHER WRITERS OF MEMOIRS AND LETTERS
Anthony Hamilton’s Mémoires de la Vie du Comte de Gramont | Question of the trustworthiness of these Memoirs | The writer and his work | Memoirs of Sir John Reresby
By A. W. WARD, Litt.D.
Letters and Memoirs of Sir Richard Bulstrode | Diary of Henry Sidney (Earl of Romney) | Diary of Lady Warwick | Her Occasional Meditations | Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe | Letters of Rachel Lady Russell | Memoirs of Queen Mary II | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XI. Platonists and Latitudinarians - By J. BASS MULLINGER, M.A., formerly librarian of St. John’s College
Distinction between the Cambridge Platonists and the Latitudinarians | Benjamin Whichcote | His Position as Defined by Himself | His Aphorisms and Sermons | Whichcote not a Platonist | Henry More | His Life and Habits | Cudworth and his Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality | More’s Song of the Soul | Joseph Beaumont’s Psyche | More’s Immortality of the Soul, Grand Mystery of Godliness and Mystery of Iniquity | His Divine Dialogues | Cudworth’s True Intellectual Systems of the Universe; More and Cudworth Compared | John Smith’s Select Discourses | John Smith and Henry More Contrasted | Culverwel’s Light of Nature | George Rust (Bishop of Dromore) | Glanvill’s Lux Orientalis | His Controversy with Henry Stubbs | Richard Cumberland (Bishop of Peterborough) and other Contributors to the Latitudinarian Movement | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XII. Divines of the Church of England - 1660–1700 - By the Ven. W. H. HUTTON, B.D., Archdeacon of Northampton, Canon of Peterborough and Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford
Old and New Influences on the Style of the English Pulpit in the Period Following the Restoration | Gradual Transition | Herbert Thorndike, John Cosin and George Morley | Isaac Barrow: his Sermons and his Treatise On the Pope’s Supremacy | Pearson’s Exposition of the Creed | John Wilkins as a Link with the Later Generation | Robert Leighton and his Preaching | Burnet as a Theologian | His Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles and Pastoral Care | Stillingfleet and Patrick | Fashionable Preachers of the Age | Extempore Preaching begins to be Popular | Tillotson | South and the Controversial Style | Sherlock | Samuel Parker’s Discourse of Ecclesiastical Polity | Henry Compton’s Episcopalia | George Bull | Sancroft’s Fur Praedestinatus | Henry Wharton | Non-jurors: Ken, Kettlewell, Dodwell and Hickes | Robert Nelson’s Companion for the Festivals and Fasts | Influence of Foreign, and especially of French, Culture upon English Divines | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIII. Legal Literature - By F. J. C. HEARNSHAW, M.A., LL.D., formerly scholar of Peterhouse, Professor of Modern History in Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, University of Durham
The Beginnings of English Legal Literature | The Laws of Ethelbert of Kent and other Early Kings | The Era of the Capitularies | Complications Introduced by the Norman Conquest | English Common Law in the Twelfth Century | New Type of Legal Writings: Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus R. Angliae, called by the Name of Ranulf de Glanvil | Bracton’s Treatise Bearing the Same Title | Fleta and Britton | The Year Books and their Value | Fortescue’s De Laudibus Legum Angliae and Littleton’s Tenures | Early Printed Law Books | Law Reports | Equity and Common Law: Bacon and Cowell; Coke | Selden and his Legal Works | English as the Language of the Law | Sir Matthew Hale | Revival of the Common Law, and of the Use of Latin and French | Sir William Dugdale and William Prynne | Hobbes and the Advent of a New Era
SELDEN’S Table-Talk - By A. W. WARD, Litt.D.
Predecessors of Selden’s Table-Talk | Authenticity of the Book | Scanty References to Personal Experiences | Chief Political and Religious Topics | Selden’s Wit and Wisdom | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIV. John Locke - By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
Locke the Most Important Figure in English Philosophy | His Personal and Literary Life | Controversy with Stillingfleet | The “New Way of Ideas” Opened by Locke | Plan of An Essay concerning Human Understanding | Locke’s Doctrine of Knowledge | Its Nature and Extent | “The Twilight of Probability.” Two Treatises of Government | Economic Writings | Economists Contemporary with Locke: Sir William Petty | Letters concerning Toleration | Earlier Pleas | Locke’s Views on Church and State | Thoughts concerning Education; Locke’s Theory | His Critics and Followers | Richard Burthogge | John Norris and his Ideal World | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XV. The Progress of Science - By A. E. SHIPLEY, Sc.D., F.R.S., Master of Christ’s College
Lateness of the Scientific Reawakening | Outburst of Scientific Enquiry in the Seventeenth Century and its Causes | The Heritage of Bacon | Milton and Scientific Enquiry | Lord Herbert of Cherbury | His Knowledge of Medicine and Allied Subjects | Evelyn and Pepys | Witches, Astrologers and Alchemists | Intelligence of the Stewarts in Matters Scientific: Charles II and Prince Rupert | The Marquis of Worcester | Sir Kenelm Digby | Mathematics: John Wallis and Seth Ward; Newton | Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood | Other Great Physiologists and Physicians: Sir Theodore de Mayerne; John Mayow; Thomas Sydenham; Francis Glisson | Robert Boyle | Origin and Beginnings of the Royal Society | Contemporary Poets and Scientific Research: Cowley, Donne, Butler | Political Economists of the Seventeenth Century: Sir William Petty and Locke | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XVI. The Essay and the Beginning of Modern English Prose - By A. A. TILLEY, M.A., Fellow of King’s College
The New Prose and its Causes | Interest in Science and Demand for Clearness of Style | Growing Plainness and Simplicity of Pulpit Oratory | The Style of Dryden and its Conversational Character | Early Beginnings of French Influence on English Literature; its Increase under Charles I; English Exiles in France: D’Avenant, Cowley and Others | French Influence through Translations; Heroic Romances | Urquhart’s Rabelais; Pascal; Descartes; Corneille, Racine and Molière | Boileau | Influence of French Criticism: Chapelain, Le Bossu and Dacier | Evidence of Dryden, Rapin and Rymer | Saint-Evremond and the Renewal of the Popularity of Montaigne in England | Francis Osborne | Cowley’s Essays | Sir William Temple, Dorothy Osborne and Lady Giffard | Temple’s Letters and Memoirs | His Miscellaneous Works: Essays | Influence of Montaigne | Halifax’s Miscellanies: The Character of a Trimmer; A Letter to a Dissenter | Clarendon’s Essays | Dryden’s Influence on English Style; the Preface to the Fables | BIBLIOGRAPHY
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IX. From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift
Chapter I. Defoe—The Newspaper and the Novel - By W. P. TRENT, LL.D., D.C.L., Professor of English Literature in Columbia University, New York
Beginnings of the English Newspaper | The Oxford, afterwards The London, Gazette | Roger L’Estrange | His activity as a pamphleteer before and after the Restoration | The Observator | L’Estrange’s late troubles and literary work | Henry Care | John Dunton | The Flying Post and The Post Boy | John Tutchin | Defoe’s early and business life | An Essay upon Projects | The True-Born Englishman | The Shortest Way with the Dissenters | Defoe in the pillory | The Review | Defoe and Harley | Mercator and commercial pamphlets | The Secret History of the White Staff and An Appeal to Honour and Justice | Discreditable later tracts | Defoe’s evolution as a Novelist | Robinson Crusoe and its sequel | Miscellaneous later writings: Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell, A Journal of the Plague Year, Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jacque, Roxana, Memoirs of Captain George Carleton, The Complete English Tradesman | Defoe’s last years | His posthumous reputation | BIBLIOGRAPHY
II. Steele and Addison - By HAROLD ROUTH, M.A., Peterhouse, Lecturer in English Literature in the Goldsmith’s College, University of London
The New Civilisation in England and London | Steele’s Christian Hero | His Comedies | Influence of the Coffeehouses | Literature and Clubland | Beginnings of The Tattler | The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff | The Tatler on Middle-class Life and Women | The “Short Story” in germ | Varied topics | Collaboration of Addison | His early Classical Training | The Campaign | Character of his contributions to The Tatler | His style as an Essay-writer | The Spectator and its Character-types | The Coverly Group | The Spectator and The Tatler compared | The Spectator’s Correspondence | Its Literary Criticism: Addison on Paradise Lost, and On the Pleasures of the Imagination | Addison on Religion | Cato | The Guardian; Steele’s last Comedy | Steele, Addison and the Essay | BIBLIOGRAPHY
III. Pope - By EDWARD BENSLY, M.A., Trinity College, Professor of Latin, University College of Wales, Aberstwyth
Pope’s Literary Consciousness, and his attitude towards Contemporary Literature | His early Life and Studies | His literary beginnings | Pastorals | Windsor Forest | Messiah | An Essay on Criticism | The Rape of the Lock | Eliosa to Abelard and Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady | Epistles | Pope’s Workmanship and Style | His Homer | His edition of Shakespeare | Pope’s literary success and quarrels | The Dunciad | Influence of Bolingbroke | Moral Essays | An Essay on Man | Imitations of Horace | Other Satires | The new Dunciad and Colley Cibber | Influence of Warburton | Pope’s Genius and Influence upon Literature | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IV. Swift - By GEORGE ATHERTON AITKEN, M.V.O.
Swift’s parentage and descent | Residences with Sir William Temple | Esther Johnson (Stella) | The Phalaris Controversy | Swift Vicar of Laracor | Swift in London; Association with Addison and the Whigs | Intimacy with Harley and St. John | Swift and The Examiner; The Conduct of the Allies and Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty | The Brothers’ Club | Swift retires to Dublin | Stella and Vanessa | Irish Politics | Swift’s Irish popularity | His despondency and death | His chief Satires: A Tale of a Tub; The Battle of the Books; Gulliver’s Travels | Inception, contributory sources and original features of Gulliver | Genteel Conversation, Directions to Servants, Argument against abolishing Christianity, and other Pamphlets | Swift’s Religious and Political Writings | Pamphlets on Irish affairs: Drapier’s Letters | Swift’s Verse | Baucis and Philemon; The Grand Question Debated; Cadenus and Vanessa; Later savage Satirical Verse: The Legion Club | Swift On the Death of Dr. Swift | The Journal to Stella | Character of Swift’s life and work | Swift a Master of Style and of Satire | What he lacks | BIBLIOGRAPHY
V. Arbuthnot and Lesser Prose Writers - By G. A. AITKEN, M.V.O.
Arbuthnot’s early life and scientific work | His association with Harley and the Court of Queen Anne | His Tory pamphlets: The History of John Bull series; The Art of Political Lying | Arbuthnot, the Tory Wits, and The Memoirs of Scriblerus | His pamphlets after the crisis | William King | Literary criticism of the age: Rymer; Langbaine; Gildon | John Dennis | Colley Cibber’s Apology | Hughes; Rowe; Edwards; Heath; Upton; Zachary Grey | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VI. Lesser Verse Writers, I - By THOMAS SECCOMBE, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford
Prior’s personal and literary beginnings | The Country and the City Mouse | His early official Life and Verse: Carmen Seculare | Prior under Queen Anne | His last years | His lyrical verse: Henry and Emma | Alma and Solomon | His light Satirical Verse and its excellence | His Versification | His productions in Prose: Essays, and Dialogues of the Dead | John Gay and his early literary efforts; Rural Sports; The Shepherd’s Week; The What D’ ye Call it; Trivia; Gay and the Queensberrys | The Beggar’s Opera and Polly | Gay’s love of ease; His Friends | Ambrose Philips and his Pastorals; His “Namby-Pamby” poems | Thomas Parnell | His Homeric Scholarship; The Hermit | Lady Winchilsea | John Pomfret | Thomas Tickell | His attachment to Addison
Lesser Verse Writers, II - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, LL.D., D.Litt., F.B.A., Merton College, Oxford, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
Minor Versifiers of the Age | Younger Contemporaries of Dryden: George Granville (Lord Lansdowne); William Walsh | Duke, Stepney Yalden and William King | Older contemporaries of Pope: Isaac Watts and his “Hymns.” Sir Samuel Garth | The Dispensary: Significance of its Versification and Diction | Sir Richard Blackmore: Creation | The Spectator Group: John Philips; Broome and Fenton; Edmund (“Rag”) Smith; Hughes | Henry Brooke’s poetry | David Mallet | Richard Savage | Stephen Duck; Aaron Hill | Other Lesser Verse Writers of the Age | Robert Dodsley and his Collection | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VII. Historical and Political Writers, I - BURNET - By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., P.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
Burnet’s Historical and Political Writings during his residence in Scotland | Thoughts on Education | Memoires of the Hamiltons | Burnet in London | The History of the Reformation of the Church of England | Attacks upon it and Replies | The Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale | Burnet in Exile | Beginnings of Memoirs; and various Political Pamphlets | A Memorial for the Electress Sophia | The History of My Own Time and its genesis | Characteristics of the Work | Its pervading Purpose | Historians Contemporary with Burnet: Strype | Jeremy Collier | His Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain | Neal’s History of the Puritans | Letters to Sir Joseph Williamson | Memoirs of James II | Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun; His Political Career and Discourses | BIBLIOGRAPHY
VIII. Historical and Political Writers, II - BOLINGBROKE - By A. W. WARD, Litt. D., P.B.A.
Henry St. John’s Earlier Life and Letters | His Contributions to The Examiner | A Letter to Sir William Wyndham | Bolingbroke in France | His political activity after his return home | The Craftsman and its Contributors | Bolingbroke’s Remarks upon the History of England | Dissertation upon Parties | Letters on the Study and Use of History | Letter on the Spirit of Patriotism | Idea of a Patriot King | His last Political Pamphlets | Qualities of his Style | Historical and Political Writers contemporary with Bolingbroke: White Kennett; Echard; Rapin; Lediard; Tindal; Boyer; Oldmixon | Roger North’s Lives of the Norths | Merits of these Biographies | BIBLIOGRAPHY
IX. Memoir-Writers, 1715–60 - By THOMAS SECCOMBE, M.A.
English Society under the First Two Georges | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; The Story of her Life | Her Turkish Letters | Her other writings in Verse and Prose | Lady Cowper’s Diary; Correspondence of Lady Suffolk | Lord Hervey and Lady Mary | His Political Career | His Memoirs and their Character | Memoirs of Lord Waldegrave and Melcombe (George Bubb Dodington) | BIBLIOGRAPHY
X. Writers of Burlesque and Translators - By CHARLES WHIBLEY, M.A., Hon. Fellow of Jesus College
The Underworld of Letters and its Vagabond Inhabitants | Their love of Burlesque and Indebtedness to Scarron | His Imitators in France and in England | Charles Cotton’s, Monsey’s and John Phillips’s Travesties of Vergil, Scudamore’s of Homer and Alexander Radcliffe’s of Ovid | Hudibras and Hudibrastic Verse | Ned Ward’s Hudibras Redivivus, Vulgus Britannicus and London Spy | Tom Brown’s Amusements for the Meridian of London | The New Art of Translation | Versions of Petronius | John Phillips’s Literary Career | His Don Quixote | Motteux and his Translation of Rabelais | Roger L’Estrange as a Translator | His Selection of Originals | His Aesop | Charles Cotton and his Montaigne | John Stevens and his Services to English knowledge of Spanish Literature | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XI. Berkeley and Contemporary Philosophy - By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
English Thought in the Period after the Death of Locke | METAPHYSICIANS | Berkeley’s Life and Authorship before and after his sojourn in America | Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher; Essay towards a New Theory of Vision | The Merits of the Essay as a work of Psychological Analysis | Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge | Berkeley’s Idealism | His place in the History of Thought | His Common-place Book | Arthur Collier
DEISTS
The Deistical Controversy in English Theology; Charles Blount; Charles Leslie as Champion of Orthodoxy | Toland’s Christianity not Mysterious; His Literary Career and Philosophical Development: Letters to Serena; Pantheisticon | Anthony Collins’s Discourse of Free-thinking | Tindal’s Christianity as Old as the Creation | Other Deistical Writers: Woolston; Chubb; Morgan; Henry Dodwell the younger | Influence of Deism; Bolingbroke; Whiston’s Primitive Christianity Revived | Opponents of the Deists: William Warburton
MORALISTS
Samuel Clarke and Rational Ethics | Shaftesbury; his Characteristics of Men and Manners | Hutcheson | Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees | Bishop Butler’s Fifteen Sermons and Analogy; Exhaustiveness of Butler’s Reasonings | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XII. William Law and the Mystics - By CAROLINE F. E. SPURGEON, Dr. of the University of Paris, Fellow of King’s College for Women and Lecturer in English Literature at Bedford College, University of London
Undercurrent of Mystical Thought in England in the Earlier Half of the Eighteenth Century | Mysticism in the Seventeenth Century; “Children of Light” in Holland | The “Behmenites” and the Founders of the Society of Friends | Life and Writings of William Law | Law’s Controversial Writings against Hoadly, Mandeville and Tindal | Christian Perfection and A Serious Call | Influence of Malebranche, the earlier German Mystics and the Seventeenth Century Quietists upon Law | Jacob Boehme and the Essence of his Mysticism | Boehme and Law | An Appeal to all who Doubt and The Way to Divine Knowledge | Character of Law’s Prose: Law and Mandeville; The Spirit of Prayer; A Serious Call | Law’s Followers: John Byrom; Henry Brooke | Later influence of Boehme on English Thought | BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIII. Scholars and Antiquaries - I. BENTLEY AND CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP - By JAMES DUFF DUFF, M.A., Fellow and Lecturer in Classics of Trinity College
Learning in England at the Time of Bentley’s Birth: Pearson; Fell; William Lloyd; Henry Dodwell; John Moore | Bentley’s Earlier Life and Labours | Epistola ad Millium | His Lectures against Atheism | The Phalaris Controversy: Bentley and his Adversaries | Bentley Master of Trinity; The Troubles of his Mastership | His Reforms at Cambridge | Phileleutherus Lipsiensis | Bentley’s Horace | Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free-Thinking | Editions of Terence and Manilius | Bentley and Paradise Lost | His Death | Joseph Wasse; Conyers Middleton; Jeremiah Markland; John Taylor; Richard Dawes
II. ANTIQUARIES - By H. G. ALDIS, M.A., Peterhouse; Secretary of the University Library
Oxford and the Bodleian | Dugdale and Dodsworth; The Antiquities of Warwickshire and Monasticon Anglicanum | Dugdale’s Other Labours | Anthony Wood and Athenae Oxonienses | Thomas Hearne | John Tanner | John Aubrey | Local History and Topog