CONTENTS

LECTURE I.
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Introductory.—General view of the Subject[175]
LECTURE II.
On the Dramatic Writers contemporary with Shakespear, Lyly, Marlow, Heywood, Middleton, and Rowley[192]
LECTURE III.
On Marston, Chapman, Deckar, and Webster[223]
LECTURE IV.
On Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Ford, and Massinger[248]
LECTURE V.
On single Plays, Poems, &c., the Four P’s, the Return from Parnassus, Gammer Gurton’s Needle, and other Works[274]
LECTURE VI.
On Miscellaneous Poems, F. Beaumont, P. Fletcher, Drayton, Daniel, &c., Sir P. Sidney’s Arcadia, and Sonnets[295]
LECTURE VII.
Character of Lord Bacon’s Work—compared as to style with Sir Thomas Brown and Jeremy Taylor[326]
LECTURE VIII.
On the Spirit of Ancient and Modern Literature—on the German Drama, contrasted with that of the Age of Elizabeth[345]