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II.—GENERAL

Albumazar, 427.

Alexander, Sir William. See Stirling.

Andrewes, Bishop Lancelot (1555-1626), 444.

Arden of Feversham, 425.

Ascham, Roger (1515-1568), 30-33.


Bacon, Francis, Lord (1561-1626), 207-212.

Barnabee's Journal, 444.

Barnes, Barnabe (1569?-1609), 108, 109.

Barnfield, Richard (1584-1627), his Poems, 117, 118.

Basse, William (d. 1653?), 301.

Baxter, Richard (1615-1691), 440.

Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616), his Poems, 312.
See also Beaumont and Fletcher.

Beaumont, Sir John (1583-1627), his Poems, 312.

Beaumont, Joseph (1616-1699), 378.

Beaumont and Fletcher, 255-266.

Benlowes, Edward (1603?-1676), 381.

Bible, The English, Authorised and Revised versions, 215-218.

Breton, Nicholas (1545?-1626?), his verse, 128;
his prose pamphlets, 238-240.

Brome, Richard (    ?-1652?), 415, 416.

Brooke, Fulke Greville, Lord (1554-1628), 98-100.

Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682), 336-343;
his Life, 336, 337;
his Works and Style, 338-343.

Browne, William (1591-1643?), his Life and Poems, 299-302.

Bruno, Giordano, his influence, 102, 459.

Burton, Robert (1577-1640), 428-433.


Cambyses, 62, 249, note.

Campion, Thomas (    ?-1619), 34, 120 sq., 156, note.

Carew, Thomas (1598?-1639), 359-364.

Carey, Patrick (    ?-   ?), 384.

Caroline Poetry, A Discussion of the Merits and Defects of, 386-393.

Cartwright, William (1611-1643), his Poems, 383;
his Plays, 427.

Chalkhill, John (    ?-   ?), 380.

Chamberlayne, William (1619-1689), 381.

Chapman, George (1559?-1634), his Life, Poems, and Translations, 184-195.

Chillingworth, William (1602-1644), 440.

Churchyard, Thomas (1520?-1604), 17-18, 27, note.

Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of (1609-1674), his Life, Works, and Style, 343-348.

Cleveland, John (1613-1658), 385.

Cokain, Sir Aston (1608-1684), 416, 417.

Constable, Henry (1562-1613), 113.

Corbet, Bishop (1582-1635), his Poems, 382-384.

Coryat, Thomas (1577?-1617), 444.

Cosin, Bishop (1594-1672), 444.

Cotton, Charles (1630-1687), his Poems, 383, 384.

Cowley's Prose, 440.

Crashaw, Richard (1613?-1649), his Life and Poems, 364-370.

Critics, Elizabethan, 33-35.


Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619), his Sonnets, 113, 114;
his other Poems, 135-139;
his Prose, 220-222.

Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668), 419, 420.

Davenport, Robert (    ?-1655?), 422.

Davies, John, of Hereford (1565?-1618), 291-293.

Davies, Sir John (1569-1626), his Life and Poems, 293-295.

Day, John (    ?-   ?), his Plays, 286-288.

"Decadence," 391, 394, 455-457.

Dekker, Thomas (1570?-1641?), his Plays and Songs, 201-206;
his Pamphlets, 235-238.

Distracted Emperor, The, 425.

Donne, John (1573-1631), his Satires and other Poems, 144-150.

Drama, Elizabethan, general characteristics, 50-53.

Dramatic Periods, Division of, 50, 51.

Drayton, Michael (1563-1631), his Sonnets, 114, 115;
his other Poems, 139-144.

Drummond, William, of Hawthornden (1585-1649), 306-308.


Earle, Bishop (1601?-1665), 442.

Ecclesiastical Polity, the, 46 sq.

Eden, Richard (1521?-1576), his geographical work, 33.

Edward III., 424.

Edwards, Richard (1523?-1566), dramatist and miscellanist, 25, 26, 62.

Eikon Basilike, 442.

Euphues and Euphuism, 37-40.


Fair Em, 73, 424.

Felltham, Owen (1602?-1668?), 442, 443.

Field, Nathaniel (1587-1633), his Plays, 426.

Fitz-Geoffrey, Charles (1575-1638), his Poem on Drake, 131.

Fletcher, Giles, the elder (1549-1611), 109.

Fletcher, Giles and Phineas, Poems of, 295-298.

Fletcher, John (1579-1625). See Beaumont and Fletcher.

Ford, John (1586?-    ?), his Plays, 401-409.

Fuller, Thomas (1608-1661), 433-438.


Gammer Gurton's Needle, 55-57.

Gascoigne, George (1525?-1577), 16-18.

Gifford, Humphrey (    ?-   ?), his Posy of Gillyflowers, 129.

Gilpin or Guilpin, Edward (    ?-   ?), his Skialetheia, 155.

Glapthorne, Henry (    ?-   ?), 417, 418.

Godolphin, Sidney (1610-1643), 384.

Goff, Thomas (1591-1629), 427, note.

Googe, Barnabe (1540?-1594), 18-20.

Gosson, Stephen (1554-1624), 34.

Greene, Robert (1560-1592), Life and Plays, 72-74;
Prose, 224-228.

Griffin, Bartholomew (    ?-1602?), his Fidessa, 116.

Grimald or Grimoald, Nicholas (1519?-1562?), 3-8.

Grove, Matthew (    ?-   ?), his Poems, 130.


Habington, William (1605-1654), his Castara, 378-380;
his Queen of Aragon, 425.

Hakluyt, Richard (1552?-1616), his Voyages, 220-222.

Hales, John (1584-1656), 444.

Hall, John (1627-1656), 384.

Hall, Joseph (1574?-1650), his Satires, 151-153.

Herbert, George (1593-1633), 371-373.

Herbert, Lord, of Cherbury (1583-1648), 438-440.

Heroic Poem, the, 380.

Herrick, Robert (1591-1674), his Life and Poems, 354-359.

Heywood, Thomas (    ?-1650?), his Life and Works, 270-284.

Historical Poems, 131.

Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679), his Life, Works, and Style, 348-353.

Hooker. Richard (1554?-1600), 44-49;
his Life, 44;
his Prose Style, 46-48.

Howell, James (1594?-1666), 441, 442.

Howell, Thomas (    ?-   ?), his Poems, 130.


J. C., his Alcilia, 115.

Jeronimo, and The Spanish Tragedy, 74, 75.

Jonson, Ben (1573-1637), his Life, Poems, and Plays, 174-184;
his Prose, 216.


Kyd, Thomas (1557?-1595?), 74, 75, 81, note.

Kynaston, Sir Francis (1587-1642), 380, 381.


Lodge, Thomas (1558?-1625), his Plays, 70;
his Poems, 109-111;
his Satires, 145;
his Prose Pamphlets, 228-230.

Lovelace, Richard (1618-1658), his Poems, 374-376.

Lyly, John (1554?-1606?), 36-40, 65-68;
his Life, 36;
Euphues and Euphuism, 37-40;
his Plays, 65-68.

Lynch, Richard (    ?-   ?), his Diella, 116.


Manuscript, habit of keeping Poems in, 2.

Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637), his Poem on The Revenge, 131.

Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593), his Life and Plays, 76-79.

Marmion, Shakerley (1603-1639), his Poems and Plays, 380, 423.

Marston, John (1575?-1634), his Life and Satires, 153-155;
his Plays, 195-199.

Martin Marprelate, sketch of the Controversy and account of the principal tracts, 241-252.

Massinger, Philip (1583-1640), his Plays, 395-401.

Merry Devil of Edmonton, The, 426.

Metre, Classical, the fancy for, and its reasons, 22, 25.

Metre, English, must be scanned by Classical Rules, 14.

Middleton, Thomas (1570?-1627), his Life and Works, 266-273.

Milton, John (1608-1674), 316-330;
his Life and Character, 316, 317;
Divisions of his Work, 318;
his early Poems, 318-322;
his Prose, 322-326;
his later Poems, 326-329.

Mirror for Magistrates, The, 11-15.

Miscellany, Tottel's, 1-10;
a starting-point, 2;
its Authorship and Composition, 3;
Wyatt's and Surrey's Contributions to it, 4-8;
Grimald and minor authors, 8-9;
Metrical and Material Characteristics, 9, 10.

Miscellanies, the early Elizabethan, subsequent to Tottel's, 25-27.

Miscellanies, Caroline and later, 370.

Miseries of Enforced Marriage, The, 423.

More, Henry (1614-1687), his Song of the Soul, 377, 378.


Nabbes, Thomas (    ?-   ?), his Plays, 422.

Nash, Thomas (1567-1601), his Plays, 70;
his Prose Works, 232-235.

Nero, 425.

North's Plutarch, 33.


Oxford, Edward, Earl of (1550-1604), his Poems, 127-128.


Pearson, Bishop (1613-1686), 440.

Peele, George (1558?-1597), his Life and Plays, 70-72.

Percy, William (1575-1648), his Cœlia, 111.

Pharonnida, 381.

Plays, early nondescript, 62.

Poetry, 95-96.

Prose, the Beginnings of Modern English, 28-30.

Prosody, Weakness of the Early Elizabethans in, 9.

Pseudo-Shakesperian Plays, 424, 425.

Puttenham, George (1532?-1590), 34.


Quarles, Francis (1592-1644), 376, 377.


Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?-1618), his Verse, 125-127;
his Prose, 212-215.

Ralph Roister Doister, 54, 55.

Randolph, Thomas (1605-1635), his Poems, 382;
his Plays, 413-415.

Return from Parnassus, The, 81, 426.

Rowlands, Samuel (1570?-1630?), 238, 240.

Rowley, Samuel (    ?-   ?), 423.

Rowley, William (1585?-1642?), his Plays, 422.


Sackville, Thomas, Lord Buckhurst (1536-1608), his Life and Works, 11-15;
the Induction and Complaint of Buckingham, 12-15;
Gorboduc, 57-60.

Sanderson, Bishop (1587-1663), 440.

Sandys, George (1578-1644), 373.

Satirists, the Elizabethan, 144-156.

Second Maiden's Tragedy, The, 425.

Senecan Drama, the, 58-61.

Shakespere, William (1564-1616), 157-173;
his Life, 158;
his Works and their Reputation, 159, 160;
their divisions, 160, 161 (1573-1636);
the Early Poems, 161;
the Sonnets, 161-164;
the Plays, 164-173;
the "Doubtful" Plays, 424-425.

Sherburne, Sir Edward (1618-1702), his Poems,